James Kelley

What a hoot! The large learning curve is negated by a rich community of players who are eager to help you succeed. Well, most of them anyway, be careful in open play. The VR in Elite is incredible, and the interface with your ships is just fantastically done, aside from the ancient, 32 button controller limit that requires some working around. Fortunately, you can do just about everything you need within the limit and have a wonderful time, almost like they designed it that way...LOL The Milky Way is immense and the sense of scale that Elite imparts to pilots is soul shaking. You come away from your discoveries like a little kid, full of wonder and excitement. And then there is the combat! Oh the combat mechanics push your dogfighting skills to new levels with the nuances and physics of spaceship combat. Then there are the markets, and aliens, and signals, and MINING! Hands down the most fun playing/flying that I have experienced on the computer to date.