Elite Dangerous Review Xbox One - CramG

Cram Gaming writes: "After spending plenty of hours in Frontier Developments' open ended and far reaching space sim Elite Dangerous and biting the bullet several times amongst some relatively minor successes, I can only conclude the game is a load of w***."

[gamer1138]

Sounds like he just wasn't any good at the game.

[OpieWinston]

Games like Elite are very skill based and there's a patience barrier.

Space Sims usually have a steep learning curve.

[Cernunnos]

Having played Elite since PC beta, I pretty much agree with the 6.5 score at most. The main problem is the lack of content, there really is nothing to do in this game.

[S2Killinit]

Not the score i was looking for. Hope its an outlyer score.

[FlexLuger]

Its certainly lower than the average score this game is getting. I seen mostly 8/10s and a few 4/5s though mostly 3/5s

speaking as somebody who plays this...I love it.But Ill warn you that its VERY steep. at first ;)

[S2Killinit]

Cool i like a challenge. Thank you.

[FlexLuger]

You might be getting a bit more challenge than you asked for! ;)

Did I tell you about the time I ran out of fuel near a sun...turned off the game for a bit to play something else..came back and my fuelless ship was orbiting same sun? It gets pretty intense! Luckily I had some freinds to help get me out of that one but it took em 20 minuteds to get to me! lol. Sombody else could have came along and robbed me in space, and I would have been defensless! I was shitting bricks, because I had cargo! lol

EDIT: And the silence and darkness in space just makes it feel scary at those times...I was constantly looking around incase some not so freindly players happened to jump to my location by coincidence and happen to see me their...floating..like lifeless prey...with valuable stuff....that they can take without a fight. that didnt happebn...space is really big in this game...I may be understating that a bit.....

Oh...one more thing...we will soon be able to land on and explore planets in a future update. soon after we will be able to walk around on space stations...

[user9950279]

@flex

*STAR

unless you were at Sol =]

that always bugs me.

[ThanatosDMC]

Always get a fuel scoop. Even the base fuel scooper is worth it.

Terrible review. He might like Rebel Galaxy instead which is slightly more casual.

[Pintheshadows]

It sounds like Elite was not for this reviewer at all. It happens.

It is a very specific type of game.

[Black0ut]

Definitely isn't for everyone, that's for sure. I love it though and I still have to get back into it. Lots of stuff to do in the game.

[Antifan]

From the sounds of it, he was expecting a casual experience lol.
One does not just "jump in" to a Space Sim game.

[Sir_Simba]

Panetery landing are coming this year. It'll push this to a 9/10. Thats whe I'll buy it.
I'm a sucker for planetery landings.

[parentsbasement]

so , people review games now based on how good they are AT them ???

[Perjoss]

Really, really good game. Perfect for people that like sandbox type gameplay and are capable of going around exploring and generally making their own fun, as the game does not have a main story line. The tutorials were pretty broken when I played them but that might have been fixed now.

Sometimes the space travel can take quite some time, going from a warp in point to the nearest station can take anything from 20 secs to 10 mins, in 1 case it takes 1 hour and a half (yes, real time) to reach the station (hutton orbital, alpha centurai system) but this is an extremely rare case. Planet landings are arriving in December, should be really good stuff, looking forward to it.

BTW here is a cool space game the reviewer might get on better with: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[PreAtaric]

Between this, No Man's Sky, and Rebel Galaxy I'll be getting a lot of space travel.

[spdarksky]

I really loved this game. I've been playing Freelancer for far too long and no game made me stop playing it until Elite Dangerous came along. Before Star Citizen coming in, I'll be playing Elite Dangerous for countless hours.

The learning curve for this game is really really steep, not for the faint of hearts. I myself destroyed my ship 3 times (stranded on a lonely system twice for the lack of fuel) and reset my account twice before getting used to play this game. Hack after more than 50 hours i'm still adjusting myself with the interface and understanding the whole game. Exhausting but really really satisfying.

[xxRuffDogXX]

Why review a game so niche when you have no interest in the genre?