NMS vs Elite Dangerous vs Star Citizen

[Captain n00by]

Those of you who played them all - which did you like best and why?

The thing they all have in common is that they are all space games with planetary landings, but there are many differences otherwise.

My experience with Elite was "it's interesing but a bit dull and I don't like the combat" while SC had some weird graphical glitches and peformance problems and generally didn't feel all that "next generation" to me.

I'm speaking about the free trial versions, I have not yet played the "full" games yet and I have not played NMS yet, but I have been eyeing the game for a while now so I'm trying to form a view of what would suit me best.

Opinions?

[Survival Gamer]

Read reviews of the games, watch game play and then decide which game you would like.

I think Star Citizen is a ridiculous scam with a pay to win strategy. Pay packages go into the tens of thousands of dollars for that game.

[john_jet_au]

My mate has Star Citizen and he recently said that it is starting to look less like NMS or Elite Dangerous and more like Mass Effect. Ouch.

[TBdog]

Not true. Star citizen is looking epic. It's in open development and they showing every step of the way and there is a long ways to go. There is no pay to win dlc here. Ignore the hate.

[pmcollectorboy]

Elite Dangerous: Better ship controls. Better trading simulation. Sucky planets.
No Man's Sky: Better exploration. Better planets. Better space legs. Sucky ship controls and trading simulation.

[Survival Gamer]

TBdog původně napsal:

Not true. Star citizen is looking epic. It's in open development and they showing every step of the way and there is a long ways to go. There is no pay to win dlc here. Ignore the hate.

Why are they charging tens of thousands of dollars for packages? What game does that? If they want financing then let me buy shares in the company and get a percentage of the profit back later.

[HairballHacker]

Survival Gamer původně napsal:

TBdog původně napsal:

Not true. Star citizen is looking epic. It's in open development and they showing every step of the way and there is a long ways to go. There is no pay to win dlc here. Ignore the hate.

Why are they charging tens of thousands of dollars for packages? What game does that? If they want financing then let me buy shares in the company and get a percentage of the profit back later.

Shroud of the Avatar

[pmcollectorboy]

Those packages are no longer available. The basic starter packages are all that's left.

[Survival Gamer]

pmcollectorboy původně napsal:

Those packages are no longer available. The basic starter packages are all that's left.

That is not true at all.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/game-packages

Scroll down

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/

[Assyb]

pmcollectorboy původně napsal:

Elite Dangerous: Better ship controls. Better trading simulation. Sucky planets.
No Man's Sky: Better exploration. Better planets. Better space legs. Sucky ship controls and trading simulation.

That's pretty close. lol ED has some decent stuff, but I still don't like it as good as NMS right now. The ability in NMS to get out of your ship and walk around and interact with things/buildings is really nice.

I'm loving NMS since 1.3, but also actually waiting for the pre-alpha of Dual Universe next month. Signed up as a gold member already so I could test the game play out. Kinda looks like a combo of Eve, Space Engineers and NMS all rolled into one.

[HairballHacker]

Survival Gamer původně napsal:

pmcollectorboy původně napsal:

Those packages are no longer available. The basic starter packages are all that's left.

That is not true at all.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/game-packages

Scroll down

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/

That article is 2 years, 5 months old if I am reading it right.

[PCGamesRule]

For what it's worth, I've played NMS, ED, but not SC because it's not done, and won't be for years(?). NMS has redeemed themselves. The universe feels alive, at no point do I feel like I'm by myself as I have in other games. Exploration, base building, the new vehicles in NMS are awesome. I'm not so good at fighing in space but maybe I'll get better with practice/updates.

In ED I sucked even harder in space fighting than NMS so I have some hope in NMS for that.

NMS is so fun, I play it 5 or more hours at a time, I'm forcing myself off because it's 1:21 AM, it's that good.

[HairballHacker]

Assyb původně napsal:

pmcollectorboy původně napsal:

Elite Dangerous: Better ship controls. Better trading simulation. Sucky planets.
No Man's Sky: Better exploration. Better planets. Better space legs. Sucky ship controls and trading simulation.

That's pretty close. lol ED has some decent stuff, but I still don't like it as good as NMS right now. The ability in NMS to get out of your ship and walk around and interact with things/buildings is really nice.

I'm loving NMS since 1.3, but also actually waiting for the pre-alpha of Dual Universe next month. Signed up as a gold member already so I could test the game play out. Kinda looks like a combo of Eve, Space Engineers and NMS all rolled into one.

I also am waiting for Dual Universe. But if NMS taught me anything it is not to drop money on an unfinished game nor on games before the community has had a chance to check them out first.

[Wardiaper]

pmcollectorboy původně napsal:

Elite Dangerous: Better ship controls. Better trading simulation. Sucky planets.
No Man's Sky: Better exploration. Better planets. Better space legs. Sucky ship controls and trading simulation.

^ that.

I have a Star Citizen package. Downloaded it when all you could do was walk around your hangar and look at your ship. Not really interested until there is a game. Too much excitement when they added a towel hanging on the wall. The celebrating over that is still reverberating in my head.

Games should be fun. NMS is fun.

[Survival Gamer]

HairballHack3r původně napsal:

Survival Gamer původně napsal:

That is not true at all.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/game-packages

Scroll down

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/

That article is 2 years, 5 months old if I am reading it right.

The article was for people interested in the games background. The first link shows you they are still selling stuff for tens of thousands of dollars and the game is bare bone still.

[Befitzero]

I like elites flight better, but their plantery landings are dull... just one barren rock after the other. Elite has a better economy but the game at time can fell like space trucker because that seems to be the fastest was to earn enough credits for the better ships.

I remeber running rares and loops for hours and days on elite just to get to an Anaconda.

For SC its still too early for me to tell if its going to be all that it is hyped up to be. I mean I really like what they have given us but I am not sure if everyone is going to be happy with the final product.