Star Citizen looks undeniably beautiful and I'll think about picking it up when it comes out, but it's not Elite...
I've got 30 years invested in this game. 30 years. First played it on a friends Acorn Electron in 84/85 and it probably changed my DNA in some way. Without Elite I doubt I would have ever bothered playing any of the sims I got into later.
It's still a beta, obviously. But,man, Solar systems - not one planet and a distant star but contact binaries, multiple planets, multiple moons.....asteroids fields....the first time I saw a beam laser flare across the discs of a gas giant I was sold for good. I don't even want to fight, I just want to explore. Stars with solar flares spilling out into space....
Still got to sort out my HOTAS and Track IR and pedals. Having fun enough with KB+Mouse but looking forward to getting everything set up properly. It's so good I'm seriously thinking about getting Occulus Rift just for this, and OR has never once appealed to me before now.
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