Forum Overview :: Elite FUCKING 4 :: You misunderstand.

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]What I called was the weakness of the whole "Elite-clone" genre. It's the same reason Starpoint Gemini was a letdown, it's as predictable as the tides. For some reason, the powers that be in gaming decided that playing through 20 gorgeously choreographed space battles in a mission-based space sim like Freespace was inferior to doing the same 4 or 5 low-key missions over and over and over again in Freelancer. Grind trumps challenge in this brave new cloud-addled world of gaming. There is only one space game I've ever played where the "customize your spaceship" feature was actually <I>worth</I> the fucking grind, and that's <A HREF="http://ringrunner.net/">Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages</A> because every part you put in your ship has a noticeable effect on gameplay and there isn't any (Laser +1, Laser +3, etc) redundancy.[/quote]