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I can't wait for my kids' kids' kids to finally be able to play Star Citizen on Early Access.

Do another video in 30 years. Which is better? X-8, Elite Dangerous 5 or Star Citizen pre-release?

Just FYI: Elite Dangerous does have multi-crew ships. Other players, or even NPC crew can operate systems in your ship that you designate. You can even allow human pilots/NPCs to launch in fighters from your ships and fly around if you want. I haven't tried ground SRV control, but I suppose that's possible as well for human pilots.

No man's sky: Spore in space Elite: Microsoft flight simulator in space X4: Railroad tycoon in space Star citizen: Wing commander with too much money. Also in space. Stupid jokes aside, I'm happy that first-person-flight-space games (wow, is that even a word?) are back. Not so long ago it seemed they would never return.

Of all the games the ship handling is by far the best in Elite. In standard space Elite has near perfect space physics with seemless transitions between F/A off and on. The ships all handle differently based on their mass, their equipped modules, the engineering on those modules, the weight they add to the ship, and incoming weapons fire can even knock your around. In supercruise (FTL) Elite uses "real" Alcubierre principles for faster than light speed, taking into account the mass and proximity of stellar objects on your warp field. None of the other games even bother with accurate or even scientifically approximate FTL. Elite treats FTL as a physical part of the game whereas in the others its mostly just a form of generic fast travel. As for the story. Elite has lore going back nearly 40 years. It also has an in game galactic history going back millions of in game years. While a lot of that isn't in the game per se (or has yet to be uncovered/solved) it can be researched and applied to ongoing events in the game. To this day we're still working on in game mysteries that date back to the original 1984 game. What makes Elite seem shallow is just how little of a dent has been put into solving the various mysteries of the game and how little the game does to steer you into the story. While that does little to satisfy a true story mode, it opens up the back story to anyone willing to do the research and then seek out their hypotheses in game. You don't have to progress a story or line of missions to find the alien sites and begin working out what they are. Elite has a deep story and vast amounts of lore, it's just handled far differently than most other games. Instead of telling a story, the story is preexisting and we're meant to piece it together through a variety of methods both in game and outside of the game lore research. Elite has various forms of media outside the game that can be used as bread crumbs to figure out what's going on in game. In this aspect none of the other games mentioned come close to Elite's story. Ship interiors do look alike in Elite if you're only looking at the HUD. When you put on a VR headset the differences between the ships, the details put into the interior construction, and the sheet scale of the ships really comes through. When you start out in the Sidewinder it feels small, cramped, and vulnerable... when you get in the Asp Explorer you are surrounded by the glass canopy that juts you out into space, surrounding you with the views of space. Then there's the Anaconda; you can look around a see a full spacious bridge, the multi crew seats, and all the details that went into creating a bridge that is at least 500 sqr/ft. Obviously I'm a bit biased toward Elite but as someone who has been playing Dangerous since launch and the franchise since the 80s, I have to point out where certain features have only been judged on what seems like a surface level viewing of the game.

If SC does finally get released, I hope they dedicate a station in my name "To the guy that waited"

My Favorite so far is X4. However, that might change if they do not keep up with the other games.

Star Citizen isnt really a game yet, one day but not yet.

On the features of Elite Dangerous you missed out on Faction Politics which becomes a large part of the game for an interactive multiplayer experience. IE sabotaging other factions to gain power in a system

EMPYRION is like a mix of no mans sky for the survival and star citizen and elite dangerous for the ships, you can make crazy ships with a lot of complex features like x4,but is old asf and feels lonely and death,but it still interesting to add

If you like to play with whales play Star Citizen, in X4 i can save and exit any time i want to, no forced online play.

Hmm might want to note X4 may soon have multiplayer ( with a disclaimer )

I love this type of video, great!

Early Game No Man's Sky is more about survival. Once you get late game, you focus on other things. Base Building is one of them but, there's piracy, bounty hunting, trading, long voyages across the galaxy (Its really fun,) ship hunting, ship scrapping, space battles, learning languages, smuggling, pets, derelict freighters, crashed freighters, freighter customization, fleet building, fleet expeditions, cooking, ship upgrades, vehicle upgrades. Currently, I'm on a voyage to a planet that I've found which has the deepest ocean. Its been 2 real life days since I've started, and I've upgraded my exocrafts, upgraded my storage, improved weapons on my ship, sent fleets out on expeditions and I've made units and nanites. No Man's Sky is practically limitless, I would recommend anyone to pick it up. Especially now as there's a new update coming in maybe a month (Date not revealed) and it will go on sale.

Elite dangerous And x4 are the best. Star citizen has great graphics but that's it.

As a *Star Citizen* player I have to disagree on a few things: - Ships and Combat should get separate ratings, because combat can be done not just with ships, and ships can be used for other things, which I personally find extremely important for depth and variety. For example I spend most of my time in SC playing personal transport and medical rescue. - Visuals are too subjective to rank IMO. Some prefer the more realistic look of SC, others the more colorful look of NMS for example. I personally like the X4 visuals the most. - There should be an extra section for "experience" as in how nice and smooth the gameplay experience is, with obviously SC still being in development making the last place with all the bugs and server crashes.

The ships & combat category contains too much information in one category in my opinion. It could easily be 5 categories: Ship combat, Ground combat, Ship Variety, Flight Physics, and Flight controls. I feel SC’s flight physics and flight combat is not as fleshed out as Elite’s. As a pilot, ED’s are the best I’ve ever experienced. That goes for ship combat too. If you’re wearing a VR Headset or head tracking, looking in various directions will open certain menus and options. You can truly seamlessly operate an ED ship like no other title on this list with the proper peripherals. Unfortunately, everything else in ED is just shallow. In regards to the feature rich SC, I played about 20 hours and experienced hundreds of bugs. You can walk around your ship? I guess, but I got spaced almost every time I tried to do so while in flight. In fact, almost every feature is bugged. TBF, I only tested X4: Foundations because I want VR. However, the title seems to offer so much, it’s worthwhile. Even so, I hear there’s a good VR mod for it. Thanks for the insight and perspective into X4. This is turning into a “must buy” for me. My plan was to wait until Starfield released to play a space game but X4 looks like it could very easily become my main.

nice talk) thank you for explain

Is Elite Dangerous still good on XBox? I heard that they abandoned the support. But do people still play it and is it playable on XSX?

I feel like no man's sky has so many things and less survival.. it is an exploring type game it has so much content. There are two main paths you can choose Artemis and atlas Different categories of Star ship 1.Normal ships [fighter, haular, explorere and shuttle ] 2. Exotic ships [looks cool] 3.Solar ship 4. Sentinel ships 5. Living ships Two types of freighter Dreadnoughts and capital ships Four types of space stations Normal Outlaw/pirates Anomaly Atlas 3 types of currency Units Nanites Quick silver There are two main ways to take missions Nexus missions and outlaw missions additionally you can by map from cartographer and the map trigger a mission. You can trigger missions by doing certain actions.

Elite Dangerous has no features? In Odyssey there is surface missions to deliver items, download and steal data, assassinat people, assassinate entire settlements, sabotage production at settlements, power up settlements, power up settlements that were captured by thargoids while avoiding alien probes called Revenants, protect cargo missions, salvage missions, and even covert heist missions. There is also ground conflict zones, Exobiology, thin planetary atmospheres on planets you can land on that are very beautiful (I did not see any of these in your video so I'm guessing you may not have played Odyssey). There are 38 different ships and 6 different ship launched fighters that bigger ships can launch from a fighter hanger. There are multiple manufactures of ships that look and fly different from each other. You can purchase a fleet carrier if you have the wealth to do so, then you have your very own mobile space station that you can transport 40 of your ships with. The scorpion SRV has 2 seats and can be shared by 2 commanders (one driver and 1 gunner). Most of the ships can have multiple commanders fly along in person or via telepresence and operate turreted weapons or even use ship launched fighter to help fight in space battles. Elite also has a war with an alien race with AX combat to fight off the alien invasion. There are huge Thargoid mother ships called Titians that preside surrounded by huge corrosive clouds, just getting to the center is an ordeal in itself, and this is where millions of captured humans are being held. There are also player made factions that can expand from their home system to take control of nearby systems. Im not sure what game or maybe when you played, but something seems off with your conclusions. o7

No Man's Sky was the biggest game release flop in video game history. But honestly, the devs recovered from it extremely well. It's actually a really good game to play. Nothing says I have a big space weiner and love swinging it around that getting a massive freightor with a massive fleet with home-created space stations connected via teleportation all throughout the universe.

Hey bro, i liked your review, can you do a review of Star atlas, i know its still in development but id like to know your opinion.

How does Spacebourne 2 stack up to these?

Well compared. Would you ever do a similar comparison between classic space games like Freespace/Starlancer/Tachyon/Independence War and the like?

You forgot about a major influence on the Genre that is still popular and seeing a resurgence with it coming to Xbox Live recently. Space Engineers.

Makes me glad I got EverSpace2. I like RPG’s and real time combat. Plus I don’t need a college degree on how to land my ship like Elite Dangerous.

What are the odds that, despite having more money than any other video game in history, Star Citizen will go bust prior to development being completed (whether or not it's released)?

Thanks for making this. I'm interested in all of these games.

Sorry but Star Citizen beats them all. Arriving in a cloud city is truly awe-inspiring and unforgettable... no other game has given me that kind of jaw drop in years.

One thing I dislike about *_ALL_* these games is that the stars are all connected in a maze of "wormholes." I want to be like in Star Trek where I can point my ship at any star in any direction and fly there!

Since you asked for game suggestions on the genre, how about THE space MMO? EVE of course!

Great overview. I prefer X4 for the features. I like how you can just play it as a guy with one ship doing quests and trading, or you can build space stations and a huge fleet. My favorite thing is landing my fighter on a cruiser and then landing the cruiser on a carrier - the immersion of being able to fly between and land on multiple ships that you own is great. Star Citizen sounds good but I can’t afford to play it - I hate games with micro transactions (and they’re not very micro, often being 100s of $$. ). You sold me on Everspace 2 though: that sounds like a game I would like. I mostly like ship combat, so something more casual than X4 would be good.

Fair comparison

I'm so glad Star Citizen is my introduction to starships and sci-fi stuff I played elite:dangerous before and got a viper, but man, my mercury star runner is so much satisfying to fly around and it looks so much better

Might have to add Space Engineers. As a crafting and building sandbox. Quite fun. Basically minecraft in space. 🤣

Elite is better

Before Everspace 2 came out I discovered and really got into Avorion.ES2 is satisfactory but there’s nothing much in the endgame in terms of variety. I tried getting into X4 but looks jank but in a very weird way, also it’s controls is objectively one of the worst I’ve ever played in a video game, let alone a space game. I’ve got back into Avorion with a bit more patience and I’m really enjoying it, my much preferred space game. Still does need some bugs ironed out and it’s my #1 fav space game.

I’m very curious about Stellaris, but I was never a grand strategy type of player. I feel overwhelmed just thinking about playing the game, even though part of me wants to do it. I also need to come back to No Man’s Sky, I need to start a new character and just either have a guide to just follow the story and/or do the expeditions.

Is SC actually out yet? If not, I personally remove it from the list. I am not getting bogged down in semantics but its not out. Literally all of these other games came out YEARS after the SC KS with ED being the closest to the KS launch. Looking forward to seeing how Starfield shakes things up.

I agree with your list, rankings, and evaluations. My only complaint is that bit near the begging where the PC Gamer review claims that Everspace 2 is somehow "better" than Freelancer. Having played both, that review is completely wrong.

sc ship feel like boat. combat ship physic in ed is the best, you acrobatic on some ship, with fa off.

I'd be interested to see what you think of Spaceborne 2

X4 has multi-player or is beginning to have multi-player. Also X4 has the ability to build space stations with the ability to manufacture resources and even ships. Which I feel like was never mentioned in the features.

Nice video. Thank you. I appreciate your conclusion and how you highlight the pros of all titles (except Elite Dangerous - there are no pros... Ha!). Aside: The majority of "multiplayer" games come with a price - Gameplay and experience. This applies to almost all (if not all) games with the word "massively" in it's description. Multiplayer components often dilute the experience. We haven't even addressed the monetization aspect of many multiplayer titles. The only games in which the multiplayer component enhances the experience are those like WatchDogs 2.

Just to be clear : You dont Beat Starfield : You begin the first scenario in Game 1 . In each Starfield play through , every quest scenario is opened up from a totally different perspective . Example : Game 1 , your quest is to hunt down a villain in space and eliminate him . Game 2 , you are given the opportunity with many variables to disable his ship and question him . Game 3 you are able to engage him , or offering variables to sway him to join your side after an extensive hunt for him in deep space ... Each Game playthrough unfolds in such a way for all quests , adding diversity and depth to the real story surrounding each playthrough . That's the complexity of Starfield , and it has endless playthroughs .

Elite dangerous was just wrong for multiply you can literaly have multi crew ships

One Space game i always seem to go back to is EVE Online. Its like X4 but you are the commander of ships rather than ever truly controlling them. I have using my rather powerful PC and 2 screens to play eve online on one screen and X4 on the other. LOL

What about Spacebourne 2? Story :yes Sim: yes, Land on planets:Yes, Beautiful graphics: Yes, Constant updates: Yes, Ground combat and boarding: yes. Different ships: yes, Multi player: not yet, Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive: One person developer! Yes Price!: £16 Beat that!

Now it's almost a year after this video was done, and there is a major space game that didn't exist yet when this video came out. Since I'm not a video maker and don't have to be afraid of jealous PS fanboys, I'll mention the elephant in the room. If this video were done today, I think the first category, story, would be won by none of these, but Starfield with its RPG focus, nice selection of companions with their own detailed stories, hundreds of unique NPCs, over 250,000 lines of unique dialog, and several different major roles with long storylines you can experience during the game like corporate spy, military hero, space ranger, and others. The universe in Starfield is more interesting to me than the one in NMS; it is more than big enough for more than 1000 hours of play, and after several hundred hours I still discover new unique places, people, and weapons in the beautiful, photorealistic systems that don't seem to be covered with neon fluorescent plants and animals as in NMS. The techniques Bethesda has of getting just the right balance of hand-designed and procedural content sufficient to make a thousand realistic-looking planets while making something interesting and fun happen anywhere in the galaxy you choose to go requires skills apparently unknown to Star Citizen and NMS developers. Choices of starships would also be won by Starfield with its hundreds of different configurations that you can build in a modular build-it-yourself system that no other game comes close to having. Contrast the endless different ships you can have in Starfield, with no DLC or additional purchases required, with Star Citizen, which dupes people into paying ridiculous amounts on video game ships and rewards the developer for all kinds of unfulfilled promises for decades. No Man's Sky also started out by scamming people, taking their money and describing a game that didn't really exist when it came out, but at least after years it has fulfilled most of its promises, while from what I can see, SC is still mostly promises mixed with tedium mistaken for realism. Starfield kept all of its promises on day 1. Starfield doesn't really have fleet combat like X4's amazing system, but as in X4, ship combat includes even being able to board enemy ships and take them for your own. That one is more fun the Starfield way with its first-person face-to-face combat on the ships. Being able to target individual parts of ships to keep them from getting away before boarding shows how detailed the ship combat is, as is adjusting power to where it's needed for emergencies like they did on old Star Trek episodes. To me, NMS would be last in the "looks" department with all its comic book gaudy colors vomited all over the screen all the time. In contrast to NMS, Starfield should rate very high in looks with its efforts to model everything possible on known science and technology, an important part of good science fiction. Soon Starfield players will get the ground vehicle many have been wanting to see more of the beautiful planet surfaces better. Star Citizen players think it has a lot of detail in the ships, but a look inside a real spacecraft like the space shuttle shows me that it's not realistic detail; making a game complicated and tedious does not necessarily make it realistic or more fun. Ground combat adds a lot to the fun, but is a category that wasn't even considered, probably because it's either not very good or doesn't even exist in the games mentioned. Starfield has very developed and fun ground combat with a good variety of very configurable and upgradeable weapons and even tactical use of gravity.

Nyxson will you be playing starfield?

I like that you mention all those games above! another two I hear that are good is eve online and stellaris

Star citizen is not a game yet

What's your take on Eve Online?

I left Elite for X4. Elite just got so repetitive after 5000 hours. I know they are updating but I won't be going back

If you're looking for nothing in particular - Elite Dangerous is it.

what about EVE :D

Kinda feels weird that you weren't including EVE Online.

@13:04 - Each game is the best at something...yet ED isn't mentioned what it's the best at ;).

In summary: a unicorn is superior to a horse, a zebra, or a donkey.

I can't disagree with your rankings, but can we talk about the 30ks in Star Citizen...only reason I stopped playing was because of constant DCs but past that great game!!

The flight model/physics in ED feels A LOT better in than X4 or NMS. It's also not true what you said about ED's ships. They feel extremely different from one another in terms of how they handle and what they can do. However what I dislike in ED is that every ship uses the same HUD, that's really the largest downside for me (though the physical layout and feel is still very different and unique from ship to ship). That's the main reason I never really got into X4 even though I really want to like it, it doesn't have enough plasticity somehow to me. Maybe one day I'll get into X4 - or SC if it matures a but more.

Why do you praise a game that’s taken in more money than almost every AAA game ever made & simply doesn’t bother to optimize it? Alpha or not, it’s been in development for 10+ YEARS! Then turns around & charges people $100’s of dollars in optional micro transactions? .. That’s worse than most hated AAA publishers. I mean the game looks great, fair enough.. but, there isn’t any excuse for performance.

Everspace 2 is really great SiFi game!

No Spacebourne 2? That game deserves some attention.

Well I'm bout to go play NMS 🎮

a text summary chart of your findings would be nice ....... or I can view this video ...... ten more times

love no mans sky the rest are great to but no mans sky man just has alittle of everything to do

Star Citizen has never been published.. why it is on this list?

Multiplayer is a bug, not a feature.

I’ll be honest No Man’s Sky has pissed all over the competition it’s never stopped evolving and improving rapidly it’s just put all the competition to shame really. Elite has been my most played but I’m honest enough to admit that about NMS.

But Freelancer is in more FUN category!

What about Chorus? Is it even comparable to these 4? I really want to know your opinion because it's on 70% sale right now! and yes, I watched your video about it, and also finished its demo, it was really fun and I'm about to buy it... also thank you very much for this video, soon Starfield will join this group as well, and hope it will be a really good one, not just hype

I hope starfield delivers. Been waiting for years

"Last [and actually] least."

Imho Elite ship combat is by far superior to SC. The depth, physic and immersion. SC have cool multicrew mechanics but shield system, heat and stealth gameplay sucks. Whats worst in sc u can barely see enemy ship from 1km, in ed from 1km u can aim in enemy pilot eye.

If Star Citizen is involved, its the best. Period. MAYBE 5-15yrs down the line Frontier pulls off a miracle and turns ED into that but on a galactic scale or maybe even ED 2, but that is a very very humongously sized maybe. I doubt anyone else will ever come close to what CIG has and will achieve. Other than Frontier themselves. Btw, NMS is barely the size of a system in ED. It pales in comparison lol

everyone is entitle to there opinion even if there wrong.

It's a shame that there's still not a "space game" that does it all.

Putting ships & combat together was a stupid move. ED has MUCH better combat than X4...

No mention of VR :(

Why does it feel like no man's sky was treated unfairly in this comparison?

And No Man Sky compared to Star Citizen is basically free

No mans sky is just space without the survival and the game. 🤣

Star citizen will release by the time nintendo releases a console powerful enough to run it 💀

Games that require you to use real money to buy ships should be excluded from this list

I feel you either just played star citizen and read some random stuff online or you are just super biased! ED and many other titles have better features than SC as well as other characteristics that you forgot to mention! ED, for example, is by far the best game for space combat and exploration with Exobiology, space phenomena like black holes and Neutron Stars and a hole milky way galaxy with plenty to see like Sagitarius A. Also ED offers plenty of features like the political side of the game with all the factions inside the bubble and engineers, the ruins, guardians and thargoids and how it all influences the galaxy. Also NMS is one of the strongest tittles for space survavilism with plenty to see and explore too. I see you have plenty of good points but you should try all these games out extensively to give us a better opinion on many points that are missing out

No man sky 💯

elite dangerous and an excellent simulation game with varying missions, combat against pirate or alien, trade, exploration. with the release of the odyssey dlc a little missed we can now leave the srv combaty on foot or against alien this prolongs the game a little but it really lacks a little content X4 foundation beautiful graphics a variety of impressive ships possibility of creating your base to attack enemies to direct the png games at the top, just a shame missing the ground bases and combat on foot and mission on foot if he adds this it will be the n° 1 Star Citizen is really horribly poorly optimized it's still in beta too many bugs the game and very magnificent but sorely lacking in content the multiplayer and not bad but then the piloting of the ships and horrible to see in 2034 if it comes out No Man's Sky too arcade but cross platform huge content and free multi very average graphics too cartoon Everspace 2 how to say I challenged I played 2 hours I uninstalled this game completely and horribly lousy compared to the other

Star Citizen? That scam game postponed since 2014? Lol 😂

Best to worst: Elite Dangerous > Star Citizen > NMS NMS was absolute dog water.

everything is better than Star Citizen, unless you hate your bank account. 100% pay 2 win game. hope you are rich before attempting to play that joke of a game.

Spending hundreds of dollars and coping for SC does not a good game make

Where Spaceborne 2

Should you have waited to do this video after Starfield came out?

No Man's Sky is my jam. Always will be. Not against the other titles, I just know me. EDIT: LOVE the Stellaris music in the background BTW 🤔👍

Really great video. Love the breakdown. Also, can you please dress as Vladimir Zelenskyy? Your the spitting imagine of him!!

This is a Star Citizen FanBoy video. Star Citizen promises a lot of features, but the reality is they are not there or they are badly implemented. Game runs badly, it looks nice but only if you want to take pictures, as far as combat goes ship combat is a jousting match cause not much else happens there, on foot combat is retarded to say the least, barely functional, ships look nice and all, but after an hour or so it gets quite annoying to run around the station to go talk to an npc and back again, open and close doors and carry boxes around. List can go on but i would much rather play Elite or X4 than the other titles. With the exception of Everspace 2, I own and played all of these titles, and these two have the most content, most actual to do things in the game. X4 has no multiplayer or that would be the definitive go to space game in my opinion.

to compare a scam game with real games men how deep are you in Robert!