7.4 IGN!!! Too much space....

+DreamOfTitans And then no mans sky would be a 10. smh.

hahah omg indeed. also this game has the best sound effects I have ever heard among other space sims. Elite Dangerous is a masterpiece for what it is. Star Citizen needs to study the way Elite Dangerous is highly optimized.

+DreamOfTitans In a real space sim you would maybe be able to go max as far from earth as to mars....

+DreamOfTitans "Just another COD clone" 9. 1 "Something new and exciting" 7.4 Never change IGN

marc joseph He probably never read the 'Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.

svp on peut l avoir sur pc?

Axel N'safou oui

+D4K44R1 :3

+marc joseph I don't think you've played this game.

ZeroImpactNext it's also not a call of duty game

Nash -osu! iGN always overrated CoD

Uhhh not quite "only at ign" this is pretty much what it's metacritic score is and the same complaints from other reviews

Well not relaxing all the time, the game consists of long relaxing stretches of peace and calmness interspersed with moments of tense action. It's definitely the kind of game that benefits from an iTunes playlist full of jamming music in the background.

+Char Aznable Yes, but that isn't necessarily a good thing.

And the reviewer articulates that in his review.

TheCasualGamer I'm looking forward to it. It's a game from my teen years. Played the crap out of Elite on the Commodore 64.

The problem for me its that its not uknown... theres more or less nothing out there. After a short while the gameplay loop kicks in and it really becomes just flying from one end to the other with cargo. Some fight or do something else... but exploration wise its why I sort of left the game and only play it every third or so month to do some space trucking. Story and lore is hidden in UI and theres no real dynamic events, things to really find and be amazed by but a few things that you might never see. And frankly thats my problem... very expensive and little content for that price plus f2p cosmetic stuff. Maybe the additions coming to exploration can help me come back however.

"revolutionary" is not what a game is about. It also has to be fun and gets to the point. This is why CoD excels and these indie titles don't. This was created for a niche group who liked space. CoD appeals to the masses and brings fun quick. Most people are too impatient to wait, they bought the game for immediate please. If I wanted a tedious, long space sim I'll go play EVE Online, at least that game has an established playerbase and a ton more content.

Illier1 I'll agree, it's a shame though. Recycled garbage get's higher opinions from the mainstream. CoD was great, no, amazing at first. It just kept getting recycled after mw2, blops was the last good one.....blops 2 was also decent.

Illier1 indie?!! this is not an indie title

TheKSH991 yes, it totally is. Frontier Developments has always been an indie company, no big publisher owns them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Developments

***** I thought he was referring to the quality of indie games I didn't think he was being literal about it

Seems like a common issue in the game journalism industry. Games have gotten to the point where you can't judge them based on the ammount of time they are given to play.

No you can't the game is pure boredom

Wow this dude is super mad and about a game that is boring as hell, convoluted and and makes the thing you want to do the most as hard as possible, pure frustration.

@@philliph.p.1985 you are completely correct times a million

@@philliph.p.1985 if I had money it wouldn't be boring

my friend once told me they reduced the score of the game for having too much water.

the hook blade Think it was for the Wii U version of Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. Oh and they knocked the score down for Gears of War: Remastered Edition for too much A button ???

II DIRECTx II damn

the hook blade IGN is a joke

www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/18/pokemon-alpha-sapphire-and-omega-ruby-review

Lol I didn't even pick a fight with a conda in my python

Just dont pick a fight with a conda without a specialised Combat ship thats gonna Cost at least 10mil

doesn't manage his pips while actively using two lazer weapons

You really think IGN has the iq to figure that out?

Just because you don't like their opinion doesn't mean that it's wrong.

Cons: No personality Boring Stretches Lol what does IGN think space is? A colorful LSD trip?

Games can be grounded and realistic as long as the realism doesn't come at the cost of enjoyment. Travelling through a vast amount of nothing, while realistic, wouldn't be the most enjoying thing. I think the con is warranted.

it still sucks

IGN doenst know what they're talking about, just like their fake graphics comparisons.

Let's not forget that the original Elite game actually came out BEFORE Freespace or Privateer... Hell, it came out before Wing Commander.

Zephyrnix I did kinda just say that...

MrSquishedsquashed You did lol. I'm sowwy :(

Zephyrnix Lol I wasn't even born when it came out but I've been playing Elite Dangerous since Beta!

My brain stuttered a little when he said that.

Plus planets landings

Most of these things have been tweaked and he doesnt understand how this game works.

What were you honestly expecting from IGN?

7/10 too much space

+sfs2040. ikr

Lmfao

😂

geordiegamerad honestly it looks boring

@@marcar9marcar972 the game is actually really fun when you learn it

This Comment aged very well.

Josh Simpson no it isn't cod or bf1 which is why they don't like it

Josh Simpson well if there is nothing to do, whats the point of all the star systems? That is not my problem with the game but it is critisism I can understand. I've liked elite so far and I recently got myself an HTC Vive which makes the experience even better. I am simply waiting for more content, not more ships (already have most of then). More diversity in SRV's would be nice too.

No mans sky, should i say more?

400 billion

@Fulvic Yes please

well it is rocket science when you really think about it

gamingdevil800 the problem with simulating and making 400 billion star systems, is that players can get spread out. the only thing to bring players together are good trade routes or story lines, and even then its rare to see other players. that's a serious problem.

Paul Prithu Let fanboys have their game! No idea how and when did E:D community became so toxic! It wasn't like there at all during alpha/beta. I backed E:D and I stop playing in gamma exactly because all the reasons this IGN reviewer mentioned. There were a TON of people worried about the fact that this vast universe was empty and with no personality. People were getting credits to buy better ships and that was basicaly it! There were/are no interesting and complex mechanics or dynamics behind every role or even every action. I believe that was the time where fanboys started to emerge and fill the reddit and forums with the usualt troll remarks towards those that wanted E:D to be a better game. Now the game is out and it's suffering the exact problem we said it would. So there you have it.

An online space sim in which there is nothing to do. Thats the criticism, and it seems rightly placed. Just because space is big, doesn't mean there has to be nothing to do in it. The fact that getting an interaction with the environment is something to cheer about is worrisome. Whats the point of taking to the stars and seeing what it would be like to be a pilot if you can't do anything?

movmakerNeo There are densely popualted areas around "Rare" Trade routes and conflict zone, but the fact you can fly out and be all but a lone is an awesome bit of gameplay. I agree this reviewer just didn't like that the game requires a bit of dedication. It isn't for the casual gamer, its for the kind of gamers who love space sims (eve online for example).

yes but you can also kill other people and be killed, so you can play like a pirate of een bountyhunter and you can mine.

no it's more like skyrim in space

It's like skyrim with plasmas.

***** Your comment doesn't translate into English properly.

I like euro truck simulator

renato muu Hundreds of hours of play... still in a Python.

96 hours played.... I have 2 anacondas

that is exactly what i think, well said man. p.s. there's actually 400 billion star systems

Yeah but can you land on any planet?

Why do you need to land on a planet? It has 400 billion star systems and you expect them to add all the buildings,trees,and life to every planet?! They don't have a city full of employees working constantly on the game. The game is good the way it is already and they are still updating it to make it better. It is a nearly 1:1 scale of the Galaxy and a space sim where you stay in space and fly spaceships. Anyway I think frontier developments hopes to eventually add planet landing in. Just be patient.

Haven Gaming Yeah, but that's so repetitive...

Haven Gaming Check out No Man's Sky, It is all procedurally generated and would take nearly 5 billion years to visit every planet. No Man's Sky has planets that are to scale with life, etc,. Also not this company only has 4 people working on the game.Having said that I do think Elite: Dangerous could offer more, but what it does offer is most likely the most realistic space simulator compared to No Man's Sky or Star Citizen. I can't wait to play Elite: Dangerous on Xbox One that is for sure.

Hey. It wasn't "Call of duty" enough for them. There was, luckily no water yet.

XxSpiKeDxX no a.i. for fish 3/10

Hey if anyone needs people to play E:D with on xb1 hmu. gt is same as my name here. btw its two lower case Ls at front and back.

+Rajat Acharya ikr, shoulda gotten 5/10

***** Tru dat

They're still adding to the game? It's already a year old. That's amazing!

Ashwath Nair I'm a game design student and some of the devs are alumni of my Uni and former students of one of my tutors. They came down 2 or 3 months back for a meet and greet, basically having the current students meet and drink with successful former students and be inspired is what they were aiming for. Basically they were saying that the game was bloody hard to make, I was talking to the guy in charge of the planet textures and he must have spent the better half of an hour talking about how making the animated textures for the gas giants was so hard because it was an animation built on code rather than a hand made animation, making the storm on Jupiter look realistic and never ending and stuff like that. Somewhere in there they were saying there's still more the studio wants to add to the game and they were aiming to do it in upcoming updates.

+Lazy Spark can you tell me, will elite dangerous be similar to EVE Online in the ecosystem aspect?

BlitzBandit I honestly don't know. They only teased changes, they never said what they were doing.

Lazy Spark dude that's amazing. I'm a game designer myself :)

ImaGuest Once you're on a planet... you're no longer in space? ... And two people voted your comment up?! I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

ForeverRepublic thats the one thing i desire in a space sim is to land on a planet get out and find some supplies i guess i will wait for no mans sky

Viatac Nasser Yeah, No Man's Sky looks awesome.

Tom Voke I don't have an interest in this game until they do, I'm just waiting for No Man's Sky.

Tom Voke All good

IMPOSSIBLE

*IMPOSSIBRU

A game that teaches challenge to care bears..

Unlike the *other* space game that's supposed to let you randomly encounter other players in space.

:^)

On specific star systems, and during community goals, you'll find A LOT of players. Any ship with a "CMDR" prefix is a real person.

The space is really huge, so if you go out exploring the Galaxy, the odds of meeting a player (unless you wing up with a friend) are close to zero, BUT there are many community events that change each week, and you sure as hell will meet lots of players there. If you're in big or famous locations, those are also always very population heavy.

+MakoRuu I doubt it. SC at least has fun dog fights and a cool hangar to walk around ships.

It's also going to have First Person Shooter combat.

ED CQC

+MakoRuu Games with that much hype surrounding them usually crash and burn. I'm not getting my hopes up for a game made by like 4 guys. Elite is here now, and it is proven.

You say that now, but where will you be when Star Citizen is released?

Marco Polo I hate how they block planets behind a paywall but I hate engineering even more, it make me someone who doesn’t have horizons almost useless in pvp against horizons players

Ahhh... the DCS reference. Good one, chap! Virtual pilots all the way! S!

HoneyBadger Always nice when somebody else knows what we're on about, we will stop everybody else missing out eventually... Tally-ho my friend! ;)

bowser515 enlighten me on DCS

R1ch4rd W4lk3r Digital combat simulator made by Eagle dynamics. Head over to their website (or steam if you prefer) The base program is completely free. Essentially is the best flight sim on the market. But it is a full on sim with all systems modeled and accurate flight models etc so it does take some learning, but it's worth it! This guy makes some excellent videos that may give you an idea of what to expect.. kzfaq.infovideos

thanks man, i'll take a look and give it a try :D

Филип Пешић how conceded do you need to be to think that just because someone doesn’t share your view that they literally become a parody?

Lol

400.000.000.000 stars is not enough for you? :) than jump in ''andromeda'' galaxy where is 1 trillion stars

Jack Sparrow me 2

NMS is an arcade game and Elite Dangerous is a sim. It's good to be able to love and enjoy both :)

Not after today ;)

I have been trying to get more out of no man's sky since I found this video. I literally sold no man's sky to get this game. It was worth losing 254 hours of gameplay.

@@scott_itall8638 i was here on reply to say that lol

What about now

can you explore on foot?

droopy562 you can go down on all of the 400 billion planets but idk if you can leave your car there

just read a review on steam saying the same exact thing lmao. "Buy No Man's Sky Play 2 hours Ask for refund Buy Elite Dangerous Thank me "

Adam Warren yes i did it after reading that comment xD

Adam Warren hmm well the controls are quite complicated i must say yes... but tell me what else you get if you decide

It's compatible. Same with Star Citizen.

It is. I have one right next to me JUST for this game. It's one of the best experiences I've had in gaming.

RiverEagles999 did you puke?

Hijynx87 Nope. Not at all. Didn't even feel nauseous. Only game that made me feel slightly sick was Half Life 2 VR

Elite Dangerous fully supports Occulus Rift and the reviewer didn't bother to test that.

COD is a good game in terms of mechanics. But its a yearly rehash, so the magic has worn off.

luneth spark and keep seeing what's next pony!!!

+pausa831 just started playing. Addictive.

I think you're actually too smart ;)

+Der Krazy Kraut why ? I want to buy

Buy the super cool amazing deer sim. You play a deer that needs to get some "mon mon"(money) because he wants to be Deer Gates. To get mon mon you need a job. Get the new deer sim.

Honestly , maybe. I dont know you but this game is very technical! not for everyone.

Yeah, I usually like to hope TotalBiscuit does a video on things I like :') His points are usually far more objective xD

Need a modern rig to play it though.ED runs on my grey bearded PC just fine.Track Ir and CH hotas,it really is immersive.

4 Years later: How did Star Citizen turn out for you? Having fun playing it? I mean not playing it?

Uk Gamer because the generic games are probably better

So you want no mans sky to be just like this game?

+Valtämjaren No, he wanted NMS to be what Sean said it would.

Adam Warren I know, right?

Bare with me.. QUITE a few years ago My father and I went to a TV store to get a new television (This was in the mid 90's). When we got there we spoke to the store manager who showed us a number of TV's including this one Sony TV. The quality was AMAZING! He then went on to tell us all these 'amazing' features it had. Three scart sockets, two headphone jacks a separate RCA and god knows what else. We ended up buying it (£800) only to get home and find it had one scart socket, one headphone jack and NONE of these other amazing features built in....Oh and it wasn't the same model he'd been showing us in store but rather a cheaper one. We took it back and said we think he gave us the wrong TV. "Oh I didn't say it had ANY of those. I said you could buy adaptors to give it 3 scarts. That was the TV I'd shown you" etc. We had to take him to small claims court to get our money back. The judge said "You've not only supplied these people with false information about the product in an attempt to get them to buy the product but also gave them a product that they'd never seen before hoping they wouldn't notice." The judge then went on to say they were in contempt of the trades description act and could get in serious trouble. Two years later the guy was in court again for doing the same thing to another customer but this time he was heavily fined and also lost his business over it. Now, what Shaun has done is exactly the same damn thing but on a MUCH larger scale.. Only two months before release he ran of a list of features this game has... and it has not and would have known these features were not in the game at the time of his interviews. This is basically fraud and he was attempting to sell us (Thankfully I didn't buy it) based on features that are not in the game. He needs to get a job at E.A. He's a damn good liar. Sorry for the essay xD

Adam Warren Yeah, something like that happened to me.

cuz they dont know Eve Valkyrie :^)

Sif The Sun Praiser gg

Cacyademonenom you’re defending the game for being ‘boring’? I get you don’t like IGN but are you really going to defend boring gameplay?

StringStorm ‌ oh hey stringstorm! You play elite?

paid dlc is for AAA multiplat games. expansion pack maybe, but most likely mods or a free update.

They've confirmed both free and paid expansions, whether planetary landing is gonna be part of the free or the paid expansions has not been confirmed yet

Rabbid You can buy all of their paid expansions for £30 on their website

Dawid Sopata I'm not finding it anywhere. Anyway I don't see how that's relevant to my comment.

Paul Prithu store.elitedangerous.com/elite-dangerous-expansion-pass.html

He also only flew the hauler

However, I think Yahtzee had the best review in Zero Punctuation ;) www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9991-Elite-Dangerous-Review

Ah mate :(

IGN are a bunch of casuals that dont even know the basics of "gaming".Dont care about their opinion.

but its a multiplayer game

+srba filipovic lol

more of a hands on eve online with more player input required for flight and combat

Elite is an MMO, you can play it solo but the galaxy is still connected, which means stuff changes, such as prices for trade goods and which factions run the systems. Also, it's to a much, much smaller scale to EVE, the biggest playable ship is 290 meters long.

Haven Gaming Stor Cityzin 4 dayz m9

I was thinking that! (:

Luke Paul, we can only hope for ED to come up with standalone version when they earn enough cash out of the current ED sales.

:D Definitely! I'm more of an single player kind of guy, I'll happily play it multi, but as you've said, hopefully we'll get lucky :D

Luke Paul, me too. Internet usage here has much limitation and single player is the only ideal way. ED is serious in doing business, they would 1 day. The current ED was launched in a rush because they needed larger fundings from worlwide off the shelves sale

Unless they have changed things since earlier builds, they do have an offline mode, where space is filled with just NPC craft. It does however use the online markets, and missions etc, but at least you can fly about without potential trollers to ruin your day.

Save your money this game is not worth buying!

Bob Green Oh trust me it is. It's great fun. This reviewer has no idea what he is on about, reviewing a genre he clearly dislikes. It does what it does extremely well. It is a niche genre; however, that some may dislike. That doesn't make it a bad game.

TheSixthSense No ands, buts, or ifs... This game is not worth buying!!! This is coming from 1984 Elite fan who supported this game on Kickstarter. Elite Dangerous is a buggy, incomplete mess, and multiplayer is a total waste of time! I have no reason to lie... Do not make the same mistake I did. Cheers,

Bob Green I never played the older elite games, so I had no expectations of this game coming into it. From that perspective, I thought that this game was brilliant, but obviously you may be comparing it to the older games, and I know that previous game is always better, no matter the series, from elite, to Counter Strike, even to Call of bloody Duty (probably due to nostalgia). Either way, this game does a lot of things right, and as I said, is a bit of a niche game, where if you dislike the genre you will most likely dislike the game. Why don't you like it?

TheSixthSense Hell, I'm an '84 Eliter and I think they've done a great job so far. It'll only get better as they add things in, too.

ImaGuest It was a JOKE

Its not for everyone. For me its the best game ive ever played

+Loaf Bloke oops wrong guy

+Maria Landeros with the steam summer sale I'm thinking about getting elite dangerous, do you think its still worth it?

Fab. Gabriel I would buy it. Might as well, but be prepared for countless hours of grinding like Guest said.

Baited

It would make a great screensaver! XD

Lolnicetrytroll

You're all pleasantly oblivious. I feel bad for someone never knowing what a simulator was, or being so ADHD that they could never be appreciated.

David Plentl Ok.

***** What is there to do, run the same generic missions over and over? Maby bounty hunting in Resource collection sites, over and over. No, if you want to progress to lets say Python (don't care if you want to or not, I do), you will have to make some serious credit (through Hauling) otherwise you will grind those meaningless tasks over and over. Conflict zones are content, more diverse and meaningful than killing the same vipers over and over at a resource site. The problem being, it ends there, that's the real content the game has to offer and nothing more, after hours of fighting there to try and make a difference it also becomes stale really quickly.Now, you tell me what else is there to do that won't be a repeatable event over and over that is credits viable, diverse and meaningful? Here's comes the, "Explore the galaxy, same stars and systems visually with randomly generated names", "Kill pirates, same pirates visually with predefined randomly generated names, for no reason", "Mine asteroids, just no", "Haul goods, arrgghh". No, if you want to get somewhere in this game, you need to Haul goods and do it alot, once again, over and over. Ive done it all and there is nothing more than a handful of things to do, then the repetition starts, which would have been ok with me if it was more than a handful of things, hence the "More Content".If you don't see this then your opinion is biased and based off of an artificial connection to the development team and your trying to convince yourself you did not waste your money with this game in it's CURRENT STATE. Im disappointed, the hype was massive but they fell short, in my opinion (see what I did there).

Some people enjoy hauling goods, trading and exploring space. For some people the fun comes from the hours of space travel and discovery, not the dog fighting. When I used to play Freelancer I spent most of my time finding the best trade routes, and repeatedly docking with trade lanes, travelling up and down the same routes making tons of money. I enjoyed it. If you don't enjoy the game, don't play it. Leave people to enjoy it how they want to rather than accusing them of being biased and creating an "artificial connection to the development team".

Steven Lewis Maby im coming off wrong, I love space sims, I was VERY excited about elite due to pre launch info etc. The idea that was sold is not what I got, "watch trailer", even if they embellish alot, that's still the basic idea of what I expected. There's nothing wrong with hauling when you know your hauling towards something and currently there's nothing. As it stands, there isn't much versatility in this game, just alot of repetition with no goals to repeat towards. Oh, and those that say set your own goals, please, we all do, but when my goals don't aligned with exploring 400 Bil star systems there's not much beyond that. My point being, the focus of this game is it's size, not the content in the given space. I'm sure they will add more content ass time goes on and that's fine, then ill pick the game up again, with that being said, I get the feeling this game should still be in beta until it adds more stuff, it was rushed out the door and the devs know that.

Lol