Red_Avatar: I'm not going to make any friends with this topic I'm sure but I thought I'd get it off my chest anyway: I don't think Elite is much fun as a modern game. I'm a retro gamer and have gotten to know scores of oldies that I never played at the time and still fell in love with them because they still had a lot going for them but ... Elite? No, I'm sorry. It left me cold.
And not because of a lack of trying either - I pumped many hours into it trying to get hooked but after
dozens of hours of Privateer 2, X1 X2 and X3 and other Elite-like games, the game just feels incredibly primitive and pointless.
And I think I'd agree, as pretty much everyone else it seems. Even much more recent examples, I played Wolf3D a bit the other day, and I couldn't understand how I could have played it so much back then. Maybe I just like to shoot dogs. Pretty much the same goes to Doom 1-2, they have very little to offer today IMHO.
But think of it this way: without Elite, you probably wouldn't have played those newer "Elite-like games" either, because they wouldn't have existed.
