Elite: Dangerous

[maximmm]

So what exactly does this game do better then other space sims. X3: Reunion still looks like a far better game.

I don't see anything distinguishing this game from the others already available.

Like he and other reviewers said, you must think of how awesome this game will be in 2 years.  The best sim ever!

All the developer needs is a few more million dollars, which they surely will get after people buy a game with 20% of the promised features available and realize how awesome it will be.   

Err.... or so they say

From what I gather though, what we've got is a game engine - a flight sim that looks great and has decent mechanics, but with no substance (though a promise of a lot of substance in the future - and given that they haven't kept a lot of their promises thus far, I wouldn't hold my breath). 

It's amazing how much people these days focus on graphics and much less on anything else.  It's one reason why movies these days are almost always utter crap. 

[Soranor]

Sure, you can look at it like this, but I see a difference to all the graphics > gameplay games out there.

Elite 4 is David Braben's dream and he wants to make it as ambitious and groundbreaking as the first game was. Unfortunately today you can't make them with 2 people in 2 years at home like 30 years ago, so they're planning for an ongoing development for maybe 10+ years. Pretty much like WoW, except you can play it solo and it hopefully gets better with expansions.

At the moment it does better than other space sims: graphics, the flight model and realism (including the galaxy size). Like I said, if you like that, support it, if not, maybe later.

[TheNewSebos]

Anybody's still playing the game?

In case you missed it, Frontier announced the next expansion season will include planetary landings, ground vehicles, crafting and more stuff
https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/horizons