Elite Dangerous

I bought this game 5 years ago and tried it for the first time, gave up after about 3 hours because the game was too complex for me. Luckily I had a few friends who played elite and they tought me some basics, which is why I fired it up again and oh boy... Let's start with the "negative" sides of the game: - the learning curve is so steep, it will most likely crush many casual players and make you feel frustrated for a long time until things start getting interesting. - Elite tends to crash sometimes, it might be a hardware thing on my side, my PC specs are above average (7900 X3D, RTX 4070 Super) since I don't use SMT and from what I heard Intel Processors have less problems with the game - the game can feel repetitive and is very grindy if you want to achieve some big things like high federal rank, ranking up in Powerplay, getting those engineering materials to really squeeze out the best out of your ship, etc. - playing without 3rd party tools or websites like Inara makes trading, finding stations / traders and ship outfitting very hard, which is annoying, given that otherwise you would spend hours searching for those things and finding profitable trade routes which really hit the sweetspot between time consumption and profit Now, let's get to the point why I sank almost 400 hours in the last 5 months as a full time worker into this game: - This game can be incredibly relaxing. I was never a space-sim fan but always interested in astronomy. The feeling you get flying past that big blazing ball of a star or looking at your first neutron star is something you need to experience for yourself. Landing on a moon thousands of lightyears away from habitated systems, looking at a huge ringed Gas giant whilst the light of a Blue-White star shines through the rings... - despite the steep learning curve, upgrading and buying ships feels like a huge milestone achieved and opens up so many possibilities that make you want to try out new things and activities all of a sudden start making a lot of fun. - most of the galaxy is still unexplored. Even though people play this game for around 10 years, with a big active player base the biggest part still remains unexplored for anyone to go and find new stuff out there. The amount of star systems in unimaginable. - There is no "main quest", just do whatever you prefer. Be a space-trucker and haul goods for money, mine asteroid rings and fill up your cargo racks with high value gems or metals, go for a bounty hunt on pirates or earn your credits exploring planets in the distance. You can even choose to be a pirate yourself and assault mining ships to steal their goods and sell them on a black market. With Odyssey you can even do anything on foot from delivering special items in settlements, reactivating attacked surface stations or wipe the entire population of a plant and flee from the system authorities with your goods. Once things start rolling there is no turning back, it makes you want to go out there and reach the dark edges of our galaxy nobody else has seen before and maybe uncover misteries that were never meant to be uncovered. 9,5/10 for me

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I've finaled the frontier

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not as much of a learning clift like Space engineers.

Euro truck simulator but in space, Best game for playing while drinking, or getting high, If you are planning to getting high and playing, VR is highly recommended.

Very interesting game, it scratches my Sci-Fi Space itch while also providing a decent game loop So far i travelled roughly 50-90 ly from where i started to the Carenar system, after paying a visit to AU Mic of course, was sort of disappointing though since it wasn't accurate to the real AU Mic, as it was instead a Trinary system However this game has a lot of P2W elements, i haven't dived into it nor do i plan to, but i primarily do Solo so it won't affect me

Gorgeous, this game is beautiful and amazing! A must if you love adventures!