• Wahots@pawb.social
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    5 hours ago

    If you are the simmy type or like space, Elite Dangerous is insanely good, but has a learning curve up front. It’s the only game I’ve put over 1,100 hours in and still haven’t explored everything.

    Subnautica is another game I can highly recommend.

    If you wanna play games with friends (Elite is also MP), The Forest is a great game to bond over.

    Black mesa is another banger.

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      4 hours ago

      How does Elite Dangerous compared to starfield? I’m 20 hours into starfield but finding it quite fun.

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        Different genres. Starfield is mostly you running around on foot, having shootouts, and interacting with people and human-sized environments. The space combat is basically an elaborate mini-game.

        Elite Dangerous is mostly about flying space ships around.

        Personally, I liked Starfield, though I think that it’s weaker than most prior Bethesda offerings. I stopped playing Elite Dangerous, though I have enjoyed some past space-combat-and-trading games, like Escape Velocity. Just never really hooked me. I didn’t like the Elite Dangerous “faux online multiplayer” thing at all — multiplayer breaking immersion in crafted environments is one thing that I’m not a fan of, and unnecessarily adding that just seemed obnoxious to me. The cockpit UI felt like it was more-oriented towards VR use to me, which may be good if you have a VR headset.