By all accounts, I should be all over Elite Dangerous. I love space trading games, well I used to anyway. ED looks like the pinnacle of that type of game. The graphics look amazing and the scope is just crazy ( 400 billion stars!). It also supports a solo mode, which is right up my alley. So why aren't I playing it right now?
Honestly, I start to get excited about it, then I think of the actual gameplay. The act of trading just looks so tedious. Docking and flying place to place looks like it will get old real fast. Sure, you can buy a docking computer, but you still have to fly from point A to point B. I'm just not sure I want to spend my precious free time doing that.
They are adding mining in Beta 3, but that looks pretty tedious too. I like making decisions and planning, not doing menial labor. So that is the main reason I haven't jumped on the Elite Dangerous bandwagon. It is still tempting though, and I am always just one good story away from jumping in.
Day Twenty-Two - Nice
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