Comment on I Wonder What Star Citizen Is Up To - Aftermath
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Reminder that Elite:Dangerous is a game that has all that star citizen has ever promised, today. You can get it on steam.
I like to dunk on SC as much as the next guy but how can you say this at all with a straight face? For starters, can I walk around my ship? Is there a story-based campaign I can play through? Are there capital ships with dozens of players with different roles working on them?
SC will never get finished or live up to the promises it made but ED barely even tries to do anything beyond being a space truck simulator.
Yes (since the latest DLC), yes (the thargoids mystery), and yes (carriers have been here for a few years).
Of course it’s not exactly what you would get in SC because they’re ultimately different games. But you do have all of that and more, E:D has massively improved since it came out.
DId you ever actually play ED Odyssey or SC?
You can walk around your fleet carrier, which is a ship you can travel in. I’m pretty sure that’s what they meant.
Eeeeehhhhh… Not really. I stopped playing Elite because it’s the perfect example of what “wasted potential” means.
all that star citizen has ever promised
not before the heat death of the universe
Elite was the reason I stopped buying early access. $150 for beta that was over hyped.
Cypher@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Elite: Dangerous doesn’t hold a candle to Star Citizen in depth, immersion and fidelity.
The only thing Elite: Dangerous has Star Citizen beat on is sound design which is absolutely phenomenal.
Avigrace@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Strongly disagree, except the sound design which is incredible.
My dreams of exploring the galaxy were fully realised in Elite: Dangerous.
daddybutter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I had more awe inspiring and mind blowing moments in ~100 hours of SC than in my 2000+ hours of ED. The role playing and shenanigans with other players, the diverse locations, the scale of everything… It’s just so much more interesting and immersive compared to ED and continuing to get better. ED is what I expect to actually be out in our galaxy, a whole lot of nothing. 400 billion star systems with the depth of a puddle.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
You’re both nuts…that’s too much.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Elite dangerous exists as a playable released game.
Case closed.
johnlobo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
the day before is also playable released game 🤷🏻♂️
Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
A playable game is always better than one that is not playable.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Star Citizen doesn’t have as much content as you guys like to pretend it does lol
Oh another package mission to the same outpost! Oh another group of braindead AI that I have to fight!
On top of that you only have like four planets and one solar system.
dEpTh. IMmeRsIoN.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That depends on what you want from a game like E:D or SC. But E:D has one giant “feature”: It is a finished game and you don’t have to spend (incredible amounts (I know you don’t have to) of) money on a promise of a final release done time in the future.