The earlier X games are about as good as it gets. It's a shame Egosoft ****** all their fan loyalty and respect up the wall with that nasty Rebirth money grab.
Elite still feels very sterile. I'm finding it hard to love.
Rebirth isn't exactly packed with content, 20 systems? can't even remember tbh, one flyable ship? copy/paste stations.. NPCs who seem to date from the 1990s games..
It's the NPC's that cracked me up most of all. In previous games, especially the early ones, Egosofts
unusual NPC art style only featured in those dreadful, but strangely charming (sort of
) cutscenes. In Rebirth they were placed front and centre for all the world to admire, all the time!
I can only hope they've dumped most of that nonsense in the umpteen updates they've desperately been knocking out since.