Ok granted it never really left but with the big names of Star citizen and elite:dangerous they are back in a much bigger way.
When i was a kid i played a little bit of elite but a lot of elite 2 for the amiga it was one of those mind blowing games with a real sense of the scale of space and even landing on planets and all on one floppy disk.
They did disappear for while and the only space games was more focused with levels and missions rather then a open world like with freespace. But there have been a fair few the past 14 years such as Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos, Terminus and the X series
Now the only one that really got me addicted was the X series mostly X-2 and X-3 (give X-rebirth a wide miss for the moment).They got alot right with ships upgrades and trading but just did not get the open space feel as it felt like a series of sectors and they needed a lot of hours put in.
With star citizen and elite coming out they look really promising (And really hoping to try the Elite beta soon) what i really really hope though is they give you plenty to do.Having a open universe is great but not if there is very little to do
Also if they do well hopefully will mean we will get a lot more of that type of game.
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