Space games and space sims thread

Have you played the original trilogy? If not, then go check them out. Like right now.

Be warned that the gameplay in the first one famously sucked. Play it for the story.

Space sims are life 
The two I mainly play are Elite Dangerous and the Star Citizen Alpha.

I love Elite's ship designs. Most of them are just simple shapes (reminiscent of Elite 1984) they still all look stunning.
Especially the Imperial Courier, my favorite ship.

I don't really like the fact that they are absolutely huge, though. The starter Sidewinder is as big as a modern fighter jet and the Anaconda frigate is nearly as large as an aircraft carrier. Even "light" fighters like the Eagle are basically flying office buildings.
I haven't been playing a lot, though, as Elite is a "grindy" game. After a certain point, it's just grinding. And too much RNG, as well, with the new Engineers update. An ocean miles wide but an inch deep, some say.

Star Citizen I am really hopeful for. I love the concept of it, the dogfighting, ship repair, exploration, bounty hunting, FPS combat, etc. The Alpha is fun enough, already! The developers put a lot of thought into the ship designs. I love the fact that you can walk through the interior of the ships.

Example: this is the MISC Starfarer, the largest ship flyable right now. The entire interior is modeled and is able to be walked through!

It's basically a flying level. In fact, its so large that owners use maps to navigate around its many rooms!

And to think that there are even larger ships to be released!

The Starfarer is dwarfed by the Idris-class frigates, Bengal-class carriers, Javelin-class destroyers, and the Retribution-class capital ship!

It isn't just warships, as well. There are several civilian ships that can be flown.

Research vessels like the MISC Endeavor can be used to conduct research in uncharted space.


If Avril Lavigne was alive in the 30th century, she would probably fly between venues in the Origin 890 Jump, a space yacht. I like to call it the flying shopping mall. Maybe the music video of the 2944 re-release of Complicated will be shot inside a 890 Jump shopping mall...


The Drake Interplanetary Caterpillar, a large modular freighter. It can be refitted with weapons and missiles and used for piracy, instead. Prepare to run when you see one of these.


The ship I will ultimately be working towards, the Anvil Carrack. A large exploration vessel that is reasonably well armed, as well.
I have really high hopes for this game.

@t1spork Might as well add this to your collection:-

i.imgur.com/qASdbHI.jpg

I think that No Man's Sky looks great!

I love the tons of research and things that have No Man's Sky. I Like the "VocAlien" technology for makings voices procedurally.

I bought it. Ran like crap, looked like crap. I swear Oblivion had better textures. Hooray for Steam refunds.

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