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by arielweisberg
1032 days ago
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Elite is kind of tragic in that there are serious steps backwards in performance, VR, and visuals that they just don’t fix things. A lot of great gameplay mechanics have been added over the years, but it hasn’t all been forward progress. No Man’s Sky is the total opposite and I really want to come back to that at some point and get lost in it the way Elite was in VR. Truly transported you elsewhere and gave you presence in an empty uncaring galaxy that made the tedium and grind still feel like something. |
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On the other hand, over the years they've left so many things broken/unfinished or just in general avoided certain things, makes me wonder if maybe the foundation itself was unstable. Eg powerplay being ignored even when it wasn't working right, many years between the addition of new ships and the lack of creativity in terms of the ship's capabilities, similarly with SRVs, weapons bugs, completely failing to capitalize on the excellent PvP mechanics they have, the relative standstill of the Thargoid plot until people largely lost interest, the stagnation/disconnect of Colonia from everything else etc.