Is Elite: Dangerous any good?

I don't know it sounds kinda dangerous

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It looks nice but I have no idea :O

My friends are playing and they told a great things about this game.

Just wanted to tell you, good luck, we're all counting on you.

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It is a nice game, though eventually it gets boring to farm for money and better ships. It took me over 300 hours to get bored though :) so it was definitely worth my $15 when it was on sale. I recommend buying the base game only for now though, and see if you like it. If you really like it, you can get the expansion later.

i gave up after 84 minutes, control is really sensitive with a mouse and keyboard and i was all over the place, kinda made me feel sick which is a gaming first for me. im sure if id stuck with i would have improved but other games came along so i kinda forgot all about it. this is a new genre for me, never having played anything like it before, and ill probly come back to it some time in the future?

Only if there space cat in this game.
Thanks for the Skyrim :)

Havent played it, but reviews on Steam are mixed.

It looks like they half baked it, wait for the expansion maybe.

sounds so elitist!

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I was a huge fan of the older Elite games and I was really excited about Dangerous and bought it shortly after release and although it isn't terrible I was rather disappointed. Graphics, combat mechanics, etc are all good but the elements of the franchise I really wanted to see improved seem worse than ever - grinding, repetitive generic missions, atrocious NPC AI, etc. The lack of true single player was a big negative for me - multiplayer can be a terrible experience due to trolls, instancing, etc and the 'shared universe' in the solo mode has major drawbacks as other players can affect your game without you being able to affect them. The devs seemed entirely focused on adding gimmicky crap like driving around on empty planets rather than fixing core mechanics and I had major issues with their pricing structure when they released the DLC as a standalone game (but in the same shared universe with an increasingly broken economy for older players who didn't want to shell out on the new version after paying full price for what turned out to be an early access game that wouldn't be complete without extra expense). The devs U-turned on a bunch of crap after a player uprising including their pricing policy and I should probably update my review - but I still regard them as untrustworthy following a string of abandoned promises and U-turns.

I'll just add that my playtime on Steam isn't representative due to playing the game in its own client without Steam, and I will admit that I haven't played the game in a few updates due to becoming utterly disillusioned.

It´s a nice game if you like scifi space stuff, graphics are quite good,the sound is sooooooo amazing, and there are many things to explore.
But there is no real story to follow, you get a little ship and have to earn money for upgrades or the next ship.
There are many possible ways to earn money,for example: bounty hunting, mining minerals from asteroid belts, smuggeling goods, trading goods on spacestations exploring systems etc.
I play it with a flightstick cause controls are bit complex ;-)
On one hand the price/dlc policy doesn´t favour older players but they are constantly updating this game and in my opinion this game has a good price/quality,playtime performance.
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