MEA vs Star Citizen vs Elite Dangerous

I have seen a lot of videos of Elite Dangerous, and frankly it bored me.

And this is from someone who has enjoyed No Man's Sky, so take that with a grain of salt I guess if you will.

I don't know honestly, different games, different styles between them, could be an apple/orange comparison, could be simply which game you prefer the most. I don't see Andromeda in the same vein as Elite: Dangerous at all, and Star Citizen I know so little about other than it seems to be turning into a big money pit thats getting super bloated.

Dogfighting is always a fun little sidebar.

I guess that's why it looks cool in space sim games because it's more about coordination vs smoothness in that regard. Although that said, dogfighting in a lot of games is never realy the focus, unless we talk about some Star Wars titles here that I am quite fond of.

Good reason to enjoy one over the other though. 

Freelancer was another I found boring though.

Privateer was ok, but has not aged well. Wing Commander same thing...not as good as I remember. 

Check out Crimson Skies if you never played it. It's somewhat of a cult classic at this point but it's basically as close as you get to being an air pirate in an alternative 1930s. 

It's actually a PC game, the first version is at least. 

There was an original Xbox Game though that was released in 2003. As far as I know it wasn't released again...I could be wrong though. 

I never liked how the ME3 ending's destroyed the whole galaxy in the sense that you would never be able ot return to it in another game without heavily cannonising the ending.... Also, the invasion of earth feelt kind of dissapointing and the war assets you gathered wern't given enough importance and recognition.

I think SC and SQ42 is a very cool project and I've backed the project. It's still in alpha meaning there is a limited amount of content to play with atm. They still got a lot of work to do but it seems to be well on the way and they are making progress.
Do we know what the end result will be, no we do not, but I hope for something good. There is also a lot of crazy anti-SC claims and missinformation floating about about SC.
Also, it won't be a shitting simulator, even if a few out of the million+ backers wanted it, the bathrooms and toilets etz are there for immersion, why not? It's not like it will hurt anyone that the areas exist, it's just another place to check out in FPS shoot outs and boardings....
Backer requests don't equal production goals except in the few instances where devs have stated, we're already working on that mechanic for this and that.

I backed ED aswell, just a small starter package, I played it a little bit, but I don't think it's the game for me, I need more content and life to it, it was just a PG generated something with more of the same. I'm sure it had some cool stuff. But I don't feel compelled to go back in-game.

Mass effect is quite different from MMO games, I guess the SQ42 singleplayer campaign will be the closest thing to the mass effect experience, but they're not exactly going for the same thing. There will deffinately be more space combat in SQ42 but there will also be fighting on the ground, on space station, in ships, and in Zero-g etz.. There will be Voice actors for the different characters you meet. Like Mark Hamil and Garry Oldman etz...


SQ42 will be a Wingcommander game with some more to it. They are still working on the lighting there so the morrowtour isn't getting the lighting and colours right and they're still working on some of the details and characters. But there will be some singleplayer interaction and storytelling in SQ42.


Now... where was I... I think they will be different but each can be good for the right audience.

Seems to me those are vastly different games.

I expect a strong story out of ME:A. It's why I play Bioware games. I'm looking forward to well-written dialogue and in-depth characters, especially squadmates.

Star Citizen is something of a phenomenon. I backed it way back in 2013, but pretty much left it at that. I follow it from time to time, but they're still way out from release. I think they've made some big mistakes, but what they've accomplished already is incredible. They're trying to do the impossible, and it's a long way to go yet.

I don't expect Squadron 42 (Star Citizen's single-player) to have as strong a story as ME:A, but who knows? I'm more in it for the all-encompassing gameplay.

As for Elite Dangerous, I've never tried it. Not sure why that is, but I just never got hyped for it and it has kind of passed me by.

Immersion people in games reminds me of those weird old guys who play too much with train sets.


I want games, damnit.



I'm almost afraid MEA is emphasizing more of this than I'd like too, what with all the talk on exploration. With Bioware, I already get more and more cinematics, now they revert back to exploration and think #space is still a novel enough idea to sell me. Coupling that with their socio-political commentary and I'm starting to wonder what the game even is.

Would you really care if NPC's reacted to you for not taking regular showers? Then again, I guess that depends on how how regular regular is  Either you do it or you don't... He didn't say you couldn't play if you didn't shower. Some snob NPC might refuse to do business with you but that's probably the exceptions. Also, I doubt they got smell simulators on the comlink jobs where you get missions and accept jobs over a terminal. If you rob people or steal their ship, then you will likely care even less what they think about you smell It's not like it would be hard to add, (Check, did you click the shower thing for the last 24h? Or whatever). Noone is forced to do it, no one is forced to eat they wont die from not eating, noone is forced to go shit etz.. No need to worry imo.
In the end, I think it will be more of a thing when you take on the more RP like missions where you ferry NPC's or play as a flight attendant or something.
I know he said it would be cool when he got the question abotu showers, but I'm not sure if it's a confirmed feature. Maybe it's a later thing for added content. Like you and others have said, I think it's pretty far down on the list and might be added for post release content.
Just guessing here.

I think Star Citizen sounds ambitious maybe too ambitious, and it feels like what was supposed to be the "spiritual successor" to Wing Commander now sounds like a weird mix of Wing Commander, Halo, No Man's Sky, EVE Online, and Mass Effect. Maybe it'll work but I think that it should have stayed as a "spiritual successor" to Wing Commander and not trying to be a mix of dozens of other games in other genres.

They're not even great writers at that. At least who I know is left. So what do they really have..

And if they're not gamers, then it's no better than some of these indie games. Where people think a game is merely "having graphics on a screen" and has "movement".

I know Christina Norman was a gamer.. but she isn't there either anymore (think she's on League of Legends team now). But apparently everyone is nostalgic about ME1's gameplay instead of 2 and 3 (which she designed).

And now we have Aaryn Flynn gushing about No Man's Sky and wanting Mass Effect in VR. WTF are they thinking?

I bought Dragonspear, but haven't played it yet.. my list of unplayed Steam things is starting to stack up now