For now.

I have been waiting for this since its announcement. Really looking forward to what theyve cooked up this time. Its just as whacky as I would expect.

Its realistic, as opposed to Star Citizen which leans more on “rule of cool, not rule of real.” Real life space is boring. 99% of all planets that arent big gas balls are just big ice rocks. Ships are big, slow, heavy objects that take time to maneuver. Elite has a simulated galactic economy, which can be directly influenced by just a single dedicated player. It contains fantasy political turf scuffles, colony expansion, and all sort of other stuff. You can be pretty much anything, a bounty hunter, a miner, a merchant, a taxi, they even added first person shooter parts with the Odyssey DLC (like what Star Citizen already had).

Personally I think what people think about Elite Dangerous is also why so many people complain about Starfield. I like Starfield. While not perfect, it does a good job of mostly “realistic” space portrayal, even if it does contain some fantasy elements. Problem is, people were disappointed with Starfield because they expected Star Wars Skyrim, but got Elite Dangerous Skyrim instead. They wanted even more fantasy where Starfield leaned more into realism. If you like Elite Dangerous, there is a pretty good chance you will like Starfield. But if you don’t like Elite, you probably won’t like Starfield.

Heavy Armor wasn’t FromSoftware’s fault, it was Capcom’s for forcing the Kinect as a controller. If they had made another controller for it like the first game, it definitely would have been better.

Well since they asked… here is my list of 50 Best Vide Games of All Time, unranked, in no particular order:

1. The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

2. Steel Battalion

3. Super Mario World

4. Metroid Prime

5. Halo Combat Evolved

6. Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour

7. The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind

8. Panzer Dragoon Orta

9. Elden Ring

10. Resident Evil (1996)

11. Silent Hill 2

12. Project Zomboid

13. NieR Gestalt

14. Dark Souls

15. Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

16. Metal Gear Solid 3

17. A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound of This World YUNO (the 90s PC98 release or Windows releases, or the Saturn release)

18. Panzer Dragoon Saga

19. Need for Speed Underground 2

20. Phantasy Star Online V2 (Dreamcast)

21. Dino Crisis

22. Brightis

23. Policenauts (SEGA Saturn release)

24. Yakuza 0

25. XCOM 2

26. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

27. The Coma Recut

28. Super Metroid

29. No Man’s Sky

30. The Forest

31. Shenmue

32. Hollow Knight

33. Star Wars Tie Fighter

34. Crimson Skies

35. Factorio

36. Age of Empires II (Definitive Edition is actually better than the original for once)

37. Metal Wolf Chaos

38. Minecraft

39. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

40. Battlefield 4

41. Deep Rock Galactic

42. King’s Field II (Japan, aka King’s Field globally)

43. Half Life

44. Quake II

45. Splinter Cell

46. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Rogue Spear

47. Elite Dangerous

48. MechAssault

49. The Operative No One Lives Forever

50. Gauntlet Dark Legacy

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Lunacid was an okay game, but ultimately I was disappointed.

It was sold as a King’s Field-like game when I bought it (which was in Early Access, before version 0.6 was released), and it shares almost nothing with King’s Field. Like, its a first person game and it has RPG elements, and thats pretty much where the similarities end. In actuality, it has more in common with Shadow Tower than King’s Field.

The weird slime ERP side quest really did not need to be in the game. I think it involved Patchouli ,(which IIRC is intentionlly a Touhou character name reference) but I could be wrong. Also, the anime character art clashed with the environment art style. I love anime, but honestly the anime characters didn’t fit. Should have been a bit more realistically stylized, more similar to the characters from King’s Field 4 or Shadow Tower.

Plus, the developer and I don’t get along. I won’t get into any details, because honestly I don’t care enough about it to explain it all, but they were pretty rude. I choose not to contact them, nor would I play any of their future games. This was before the Early Access update 0.7, in case anyone who has followed the game’s development is curious.

It amazes me that the developers and executives really thought they were cooking with this one.

Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour.

I mean, obviously play the Red Alert games too. But Generals: Zero Hour was BIG fun in the day. A bit hard to get it to play nice with modern computers, but it was recently added to Steam so its at least legally acquirable again.

Age of Empires 2, obviously. Still the GOAT of Age. Its latest released still gets updates, which is great.

IDK about it being a “must play,” but I actually quite enjoyed the strategic/tactical RPG Tuned Hearts, for the Japanese PC98 series of home computers. Im not much of a fan of turn based games in general, but something about Tuned Hearts kept me playing. IDK if it was the battle art or the hilarious enemy characters, but either way I enjoyed my time with the game.

The PSP had Joan De’Arc, which I think is based on an anime, but I could be wrong. It plays similar to Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem, I think. Not a bad little game.

For 4X, I like playing Stellaris. Granted, every time I play my saves get massively bloated and end game lag is unbearable sometimes due to fleet sizes, and the developers update the game so often that either my save breaks or the systems are vastly different from whenever I played last, but aside from that the game is a lot of fun. If a real time 4X strategy space civilization game sounds interesting to you, I’d give it a shot. Otherwise for turn-based, Galactic Civilizations III from Stardock was my go-to.