I want nothing more than to be a space explorer. Get out there and find strange creatures, new planets, and get rich doing it. But it probably ain’t all that in reality. A recent gameplay video for Elite: Dangerous (beta?) shows what space exploration would probably be: a whole lot of black and silence.
But Elite: Dangerous promises more. Much more. Trades, battles, co-op, and even big-game hunting on strange new worlds. The Kickstarter-funded game will have both single-player, as well as MMO. I’m looking forward to it as much as No Man’s Sky.
Space exploration will probably be extremely boring, even with warp-drive, lightspeed, space-fold, et al. But I expect Elite: Dangerous to be dangerously elite. It’s hopefully out this year sometime.