Why you play ED?

[Alieri]

First of all I can't create a poll so... please anserw 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 + add yours few words

Really, why you play ED?

1 - beaufiful views and I like explore, take shoots etc.
2 - kill everything what moves(fly), im bad
3 - trader, thats what I love
4 - i'm passion miner
5 - just doing everything above
6 - missions, missions, $$$ - i want to be rich and have all
7 - (sorry for this) - there is no better game now, and i'm waiting for better spece sim


ME:

1 and 5 + a little bit 6 but mostly 1. I'm rather explorer with some max 4grade engineering. I didn't meet Thargoind ever (and I'm happy about it)! and didn't been at guardian spots (but I will in future), for sure I do not gank, kill on site or I'm not interested with combat rank.

 

[xxThe_Dice_manxx]

1/3/4

Trying to catch the feeling in my childhood of playing the original on my Com 64.

 

[EISENHORN01]

8:reminds me of my childhood and playing ELITE

 

[LeoBartlet]

8. Im not right now just here on the forum for the lolz.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

I've always wanted to fly a spaceship and travel the galaxy. Elite is as close to that as I'll ever get.

 

[Dutchman141]

5 except for mining.
Elite 1984 stole my heart when it comes to gaming, ED did that again after many years of playing lookalikes and wannabes.

 

[Sysmon]

Loved it in 1984 -1985. Loving it again. Can change up whatever I am doing, so when bounty hunting and mission running gets old, I can go salvage around the bubble. When that gets old I can set off into the black and go exploring. Good times!

S

 

[Tiny_Rick]

Umm.... Leo's #8

 

[schizrade]

I like the freedom to do whatever and go in any direction I want to.

 

[Vedmo]

I've got to do something to justify 3 throttles and 5 flight sticks.

 

[Old Duck]

In a parallel universe where ED is not bugged to brokenness, I play because of the amazing Stellar Forge and the very real, immersive sense that I'm in an actual spaceship exploring my little neighborhood in the Milky Way galaxy. That's not to say official exploration is all I do, but even when I'm running missions or hauling passengers, I'm experiencing a realistic facsimile (minus the ugly brown galactic core) of our actual galaxy, and there just isn't any other game that comes close to this.

I'll also add that Frontier's implementation of the Playstation DS4 controller is miles ahead of any other space game I've tried - Star Wars Battlefront, NMS, whatever. It's absolutely brilliant.

 

[60mm]

2 + 7

ED has killer graphics, audio and vision. The game design department however . . .

 

[Speedcuffs]

9. I'm playing Ace Combat. I shall return.

 

[Freelancer Knux]

Space combat rules

 

[House0fDerp]

2 mostly, that and for power acquisition to do 2 better.

 

[BlackSpaceCowboy]

8: It's the only decent space game in VR.

Since chapter 4 this is finally at least a decent game because of mining. Before that, I was just waiting for a better game to come along that supported VR.

 

[aRJay]

1, 2, 3, 4 so 5, almost never 6.

10 to chill out and de-stress after reading the forums.

 

[dm0815]

5 and sadly 7. This game could have been so much more after all these years.

 

[Ouberos]

You forgot Piracy.

 

[TopCat160]

I like its non-linearity.

I've been playing through Half-Life 2 again recently, despite the fact that I'm fairly rubbish at FPS. Its atmosphere, action, and themes are excellent; it's one of the best, possibly the best game I've ever played.

Apart from Elite. At the end of the day, you go through Half Life 2 and get to the end. I probably get many more hours of fun from it than most, ironically because I'm so rubbish.

Elite has no end, no route through, no goal except what you set yourself. I like that.

There's another, subtler thing too...

I also play Elite because of what I'm hoping it will become.

Fixed (as in, bug-fixed), balanced, believable, deep.

It's a game for the eternal optimist.