[VIDEO REVIEW] Elite: Dangerous Honest Review by Sim Gamer TV

EtherDragon

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Ok commanders,

Here it is! My strait forward honest review of Elite: Dangerous. Now, anyone who has seen my posting history will quickly recognize that I am a huge Elite: Dangerous "fanboi" and have been an Elite fan for 30 years (yes, that's thirty). I will stand by a decent product, and am willing to point out areas of improvement.

Your questions are probably simple:

"What's the score"
I gave it an 86 out of 100

and "Should I buy it?"
Yes, if you like Open-World-Space-Combat-Simulation-Trading-Mercenary games.

So here is my review of Elite: Dangerous:
[video=youtube;N146FvVSV5w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N146FvVSV5w[/video]
 

EtherDragon

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A few people have checked out this review - and I have a comment from YouTube:

Blue Coat7 said:
"Abit too much of a fanboi to give an honest review. Try again"
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Watch the review and decide for yourself. What points did you agree or disagree with? What would you mention that I missed? Please discuss!
 

adoredtv

adoredtv
I haven't watched this yet as I'm busy with my own videos but I'll try later.

What I will say is that I had intended to do my own review but found it quite difficult.

I was going to give the game a score of
81
- so not much different to your score.
 

WeirdWizard

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freehotdawgs said:
Opinions =/= facts
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That maybe so but there is no way that an honest impartial reviewer rating ED on what it is TODAY could give it anywhere near 86%. But love is blind and there are a lot of folks in love with ED, or at least in love with the idea of ED. Thats fine for your average fan but when someone claims to be giving an honest review I feel compelled to call biowaste.
 

WeirdWizard

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Caiburn said:
That statement is not automatically true. Source: I was a games journalist ~20 years ago.
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Obviously I meant with regard to ED, clearly there are games that can be honestly rated as 86% (or higher) but ED isn't one of them. I wish it wasn't the case and I accept that there may be a time at some point in the future when it will be worth that sort of score but its not even close today.
 

adoredtv

adoredtv
WeirdWizard said:
Obviously I meant with regard to ED, clearly there are games that can be honestly rated as 86% (or higher) but ED isn't one of them. I wish it wasn't the case and I accept that there may be a time at some point in the future when it will be worth that sort of score but its not even close today.
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I thought long and hard over 79 or 81 for me but in the end I can't ignore the fact that I've put in around 100 hours into this game in the past 6 weeks. We know it's lacking in content but it normally still manages to be fun most of the time too. Low to mid 80's is a reasonable score for a game like that I feel.
 

TheEponymousBob

TheEponymousBob
WeirdWizard said:
Obviously I meant with regard to ED, clearly there are games that can be honestly rated as 86% (or higher) but ED isn't one of them. I wish it wasn't the case and I accept that there may be a time at some point in the future when it will be worth that sort of score but its not even close today.
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That's your opinion. Which is not enough to call someone's honesty into question.
 

Caiburn

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WeirdWizard said:
Obviously I meant with regard to ED, clearly there are games that can be honestly rated as 86% (or higher) but ED isn't one of them. I wish it wasn't the case and I accept that there may be a time at some point in the future when it will be worth that sort of score but its not even close today.
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With regards to what was originally planned during the kickstarter phase you are right. But when you look at how it feels to someone that liked previous Elite games, I'd say it is even a bit on the low side. Now if you take the median of "meh" and "wow" you get..."quite good", I think. :)

My main gripes with reviews are objectivity (you need multiple reviewers with different genre preferences to get that) and a 1-100 rating system that is never ever fully used (show me a review with a 4% rating?). In the end you only need three ratings: Buy, buy if fan of genre, don't buy. But that's just my opinion :)
 

mikael

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I thought the review was very good - especially with the "if you like space/trading/mercenary etc." to position it. Cause if you do like that type of game, what is on the market that is better?

Also gave a lot of pertinent information on the different game issues so audience could weigh it on their own as well.
 

tagos

tagos
Caiburn said:
With regards to what was originally planned during the kickstarter phase you are right. But when you look at how it feels to someone that liked previous Elite games, I'd say it is even a bit on the low side. Now if you take the median of "meh" and "wow" you get..."quite good", I think. :)

My main gripes with reviews are objectivity (you need multiple reviewers with different genre preferences to get that) and a 1-100 rating system that is never ever fully used (show me a review with a 4% rating?). In the end you only need three ratings: Buy, buy if fan of genre, don't buy. But that's just my opinion :)
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I'm an original Elite fan and kickstarter and at the moment I'd struggle to give ED as it is today, 60%. It looks good but its actual game-play is less than what Frontier contained at the moment. It's a 1987-8 Elite with 2014 graphics. I'm having some fun but I originally expected a lot more. It feels to me it's 3-6 months short of release. No doubt it'll get better but in my opinion etc 86% is an overly generous score.
 

Araviel

Araviel
to show that you are "unbiased" and "honest" nowadays you have to give games a score of 5/10 or lower, otherwise you are a fanboi.

/end sarcasm
 

EtherDragon

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Araviel said:
to show that you are "unbiased" and "honest" nowadays you have to give games a score of 5/10 or lower, otherwise you are a fanboi.

/end sarcasm
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Yea, I've noticed that trend too.

I'm not reviewing Elite based on any brochure or kickstarter promise or anything, because at the end of the day what we have is what is delivered. I'm reviewing what is delivered. If your opinion differs - good; Let us know why. But questioning my honesty based on hyperbole is... well... hyperbolic.

Here are some FACTS to consider whether or not you think my review is honest:
My YT channel is not monetized, nor do I recieve any sort of sponsorships or other perks. (It may be some-day, if my channel gets large enough, but not right now).
Reviewing a game based on what's not there doesn't make any sense - it's like trying to give a car a bad review because it failed to be a truck.
All this discussion about how honest or not my review is - is actually driving more traffic toward the review so, in my opinion, people can see for themselves - which I think, in my opinion, is deliciously ironic.
 

adoredtv

adoredtv
You need slightly thicker skin while doing this stuff, that's for sure lol. Try not to worry about the odd stray negative comment - so long as they are uncommon you're probably doing it right.
 

zorianarki

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+rep, very good review imo. I might have ended up on a slightly lower score with potential for reaching a higher one down the road but good review!
 

Cmdr Sharky

Cmdr Sharky
I love this game. I can't stop playing it. Does that mean that I'm a fanboi, or that it's a great game? Maybe it means "opinions are subjective". EtherDragon clearly also loves the game, but does that disqualify him from giving it a high rating just because he thinks it's great? If you think a game is great, does that disqualify you from posting a review of it? That makes no sense. With any reviewer, you have to work out what their tastes are in order to figure out whether their review score is meaningful to you.
 
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