I feel like it’s not impossible for them to be fun, for example the Everspace series does focus on action gameplay, but yeah, tons of titles try to go for realism and showing off the scale correctly, which is neat for space nerds, but quite contrary to actual fun.
tons of titles try to go for realism and showing off the scale correctly, which is neat for space nerd
As one of those space nerds, I’m glad we have games like Elite: Dangerous, Starfield, X series, Independence War etc. Choice is good and I, along with many others, love 1:1 scale sandboxes to fly a virtual spaceship in, fight , trade and explore. There are plenty of fast action games including space shooters like Star Wars Squadrons for those who don’t appreciate the emptiness and loneliness of space and don’t want the travel-and-life-in-space part in a space game.
Starfield is the only new game from past 5 years I’m excited about and going to buy once I upgrade my GPU. It’s a life-in-space sandbox that complements E:D well by doing things the latter does not.
I’d reccomend trying it out on gamepass, or via piracy, before buying. It’s not a bad game by any means, and as you said it does a lot of things, but most of the things feel half baked.
The ship combat in particular takes influence from E:D, but is nowhere near as good.
I’m an Elder Scrolls veteran (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim), I know quite well what Bethesda games do well and what not. And they have always clicked for me, even though all of them are flawed in different ways.
As for ship combat, as long as it’s comparable to X3, it’s fine. I’m not expecting Children of a Dead Earth or Independence War🙂
I feel like it’s not impossible for them to be fun, for example the Everspace series does focus on action gameplay, but yeah, tons of titles try to go for realism and showing off the scale correctly, which is neat for space nerds, but quite contrary to actual fun.
As one of those space nerds, I’m glad we have games like Elite: Dangerous, Starfield, X series, Independence War etc. Choice is good and I, along with many others, love 1:1 scale sandboxes to fly a virtual spaceship in, fight , trade and explore. There are plenty of fast action games including space shooters like Star Wars Squadrons for those who don’t appreciate the emptiness and loneliness of space and don’t want the travel-and-life-in-space part in a space game.
Starfield is the only new game from past 5 years I’m excited about and going to buy once I upgrade my GPU. It’s a life-in-space sandbox that complements E:D well by doing things the latter does not.
I’d reccomend trying it out on gamepass, or via piracy, before buying. It’s not a bad game by any means, and as you said it does a lot of things, but most of the things feel half baked.
The ship combat in particular takes influence from E:D, but is nowhere near as good.
This is good advice.
I’m an Elder Scrolls veteran (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim), I know quite well what Bethesda games do well and what not. And they have always clicked for me, even though all of them are flawed in different ways.
As for ship combat, as long as it’s comparable to X3, it’s fine. I’m not expecting Children of a Dead Earth or Independence War🙂