THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo It's going to be weird making videos without Elite Dangerous in the back of my brain like it's been for these years.

@fragsinus2076

4 жыл бұрын

"Fear and Hunger" to the list, pretty please.

@cachotognax3600

4 жыл бұрын

I know it's already pretty big, but mind me suggesting adding "Scavenger-SV4" to the list? It's a very unknown game but it's also a game that knew what it wanted to be and became that: send your rover to a radioactive planet to try and get some alien technology without being sure about what you might find on the planet.

@Ma_ksi

4 жыл бұрын

Hi

@SpecShadow

4 жыл бұрын

I know that feeling, plowing through backlog while "that one particular game" is still haunting you no more.... as usual - Anachronox, Planet Alcatraz (removed from the list?), Boiling Point, aaaaand rest of the STALKER family (Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat) in general - more obscure the better and since you removed Brigade E5-New Jagged Union I think 762High Calibre will be way better

@MagnusInsomnia

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Mandalore, so glad you got round to reviewing Elite. I wanted to ask before this comment gets lost in the tidal wave, but do you still reckon EVE is worth getting in to? I played for about 4 months after watching your review of it but stopped after i had some money trouble and never really picked it up again. I really enjoyed the time i had with it, i'm just not sure if it's still worth the investment as it seems to have quietened down alot lately.

Honestly I like the idea of aliens that are genuinely alien. You don't really have a means of communicating with them, they don't attempt to communicate with you. Instead, you're both just curious and fascinated by one another because as mysterious as you are to them, they find you equally mysterious. It honestly feels like that interception at the end wasn't about attacking you, but warning you off, like saying "We've decided that you've overstayed your welcome. Don't come back. Now scram."

@alexbrown7708

Жыл бұрын

We really need more media with these kinds of aliens. Especially video games. They tend to be either humans that are blue or always evil space monsters. Or they just skip over the whole first contact entirely.

@vinobi3199

Жыл бұрын

Then we start a war with them

@taan1424

8 ай бұрын

You may try "Children of time", the aliens (actually, evolved Earth spiders) are not quite lovecraftian unknowable entities, but they are different enough to not be just humans, but with blue skin.

@Loy_Otterton

Ай бұрын

I'm from the future. Those fuckers were studying us to better plan their attack. Fuckers will burn for the millions killed in the war...

"set 1300 years in the future" so right after Star Citizen got released?

@discoooooooo

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, still 3 more years.

@StrikeWarlock

4 жыл бұрын

Oof

@6StimuL84

4 жыл бұрын

lmao.....

@CheemsofRegret

4 жыл бұрын

@@discoooooooo it'll be 3 more years in 3 more years

@noctemcat_

4 жыл бұрын

We will get actual space travel earlier than Star Citizen

10:10 SSTATION: Permission granted, to come inside me. I instantly knew that was Sseth.

@dont_taze_a_bloody_gas_main

3 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@dorklymorkly3290

3 жыл бұрын

That actually makes me not want to buy the game.

@voidgaming199

3 жыл бұрын

@@dorklymorkly3290 You know that was edited in right?

@dorklymorkly3290

3 жыл бұрын

@@voidgaming199 No, I don't. I consider it 100% possible that it's real, or I wouldn't have written that. In fact, I still consider it more plausible than not, that "Hey, hey, people!" Sseth has the kind of 'influence' to pull that off. Synthetic for example, the devs themselves put that quote in for a while after the review. So, yeah.

@voidgaming199

3 жыл бұрын

@@dorklymorkly3290 Good point, but I doubt you’d need to worry.

"Permission to come inside me." Damn Elite Dangerous, calm down.

@demonreturns4336

3 жыл бұрын

Proper response would be Which hole we talking bout here

@bobdick5609

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I remember when ssethtzeentach voice acted in this hmmm

@blitzbot937

2 жыл бұрын

if u think thats bad subnautica is even worse, the seamoth says "i love it when you come inside me" but its a very rare occurrence

"This is the U.S.S Thundercock, requesting permission to dock" LMFAO

@jacobwild2858

4 жыл бұрын

"Permission granted to come inside me."

@bakersmileyface

3 жыл бұрын

"Ejecting payload to storage"

@DragonWinter36

3 жыл бұрын

“This is Big Dick One, we are crossing the Rubicon”

@sivvinod3187

3 жыл бұрын

USS thundercock Requesting to dock You see a pirate, you're out of luck All you have left to say is "oh fuck" -the dude who went straight into public mode without any playtime (probably)

@Catafracta230588

3 жыл бұрын

> Sstatio > That voice > You can come inside me My sides

Damn that moment when your ship got intercepted by the aliens is genuinely terrifying

@Draliseth

3 жыл бұрын

That's what you get for venturing into the Pleiades. I pooped a little when it happened in game for me.

@Sir_Bucket

3 жыл бұрын

You can't smuggle anything on the alien boarders, they're ready to kick your ass

@RicCrouch

3 жыл бұрын

I saw someone online call it the “Thargoid stop-and-frisk.” :)

@Eric-uy7ee

3 жыл бұрын

@@RicCrouch don't give the TSA any ideas...

@lxjoe96

5 ай бұрын

Gives me the same cold feeling of terror that I get from being in a vast expanse of water, no land in sight, and seeing some kind of giant sea creature moving slowly toward me

I still remember the day that I got bored of constant cargo runs so I bought a tough ship with good fuel range and started exploring. For the most part I found nothing except cool sights. It was certainly worth the trip. But then I found this... thing floating in space. It looked like some kind of alien space station or something. Then it unfurled some parts and I realized it was a living creature. I did not get any video. I did not get any screen shots. What I DID get was right the fuck outta there. I've been doing cargo runs and courier missions ever since.

@mandeadd

3 жыл бұрын

If it looked like a flower then that was prolly a Thargoid. Running outta there is your best option

@ZonsoAvalune

3 жыл бұрын

I got killed by a Thargoid on my second ever out of bubble expedition... I still haven't come back to the game. Probably will soon, though.

@mysticalknight1004

3 жыл бұрын

Bet

@mysticalknight1004

3 жыл бұрын

Okay so I though you were capping, so I looked up what thargoids were. Scary stuff my guy

@tarrker

3 жыл бұрын

@@mysticalknight1004 for me it was just that it was so unexpected. I thought maybe I'd find an interesting series of stars or some other benign, celestial phenomenon. Nope! Giant space terror from my nightmares is what I found. O_O

It may be because I was watching this at 5 AM, but those Thargoids scared me on a primal level. Just imagine being all alone on your ship, on a slow burn across systems, then suddenly getting violently intercepted, everything going dark, and then out of the viewport you see some kind of fucking Cthonian elder god approach as it unfurls like a starfish and starts pulling your ship towards it, glowing like it's the last thing you'll see.. only to stop and leave you with a wail that sounds like the death of the universe. I'd never fly again.

@Earthstar_Review

2 жыл бұрын

I can't play this game in VR near the Pliedes Nebula for fear of cardiac arrest.

For a guy who talks about 40k pretty often, Mandalore had a surprisingly Star Trek approach to the whole alien thing.

@Mrkabrat

4 жыл бұрын

A Rouge Trader mentality; "Hey, maybe it can make me money"

@bloodraven7237

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and it is heretical

@bloodraven7237

4 жыл бұрын

@TomeOfBattle but they have our artifacts on them

@pkawesome6230

4 жыл бұрын

Heresy!!! Death to the xenos!!

@bobbm1

3 жыл бұрын

Probably likes the tau

Really the two big problems for me are: 1. Unbalanced reward-to-effort ratio for the various things you can do 2. 99.9% of game time is spent supercruising

@T0rrente18

4 жыл бұрын

i can make 4 to 5 mil an hour bounty hunting with my fully engineered, a rated anaconda, while engaging in brutal fights that leave my ship badly wounded or just ferry some passengers to one destination and get up to 100 mil an hour

@MandaloreGaming

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Break into dangerous alien bases for their corrosive loot is a few million for hours of work, cruising out to the void opals hotspot in a slapped together ship for it could be 300m an hour on a good find. That's what happens when we get to play in a command economy decided by algorithm nonsense.

@AkThatFiresCats

4 жыл бұрын

@@MandaloreGaming You can also do painite mining which is worth about the same if not more but that's surface mining so it's even easier

@avocadopictures9706

4 жыл бұрын

@@MandaloreGaming That's quite lucky. I guess this is where the scope of the game kicks in, i can find my cargo bay almost empty after scanning two hours worth of systems - sometimes even on pristine planets with void opal hotspots there's just nothing in those asteroids. At the same time you can be turning in a 300m worth of rocks from literally the next nebula.

@NTGoten

4 жыл бұрын

​@@T0rrente18 how many hundred hours did it take you to get that anaconda? Superstar Banana Mix is completely right. The game is a f2p-tier grinding where 99.9% is just jumping from system to system.

One year later and the Star Citizen joke still tracks.

@npc6817

3 жыл бұрын

my man it won't be going down until 2026 minimum

@alwaysdisputin9930

2 жыл бұрын

vapourware like Duke Nukem Forever. sadge (this is a twitch word it means sad or something)

@memesistolefromifunny9165

2 жыл бұрын

@@alwaysdisputin9930 that gave me second hand embarrassment to read, and I didn't even type it.

@AdamantLightLP

2 жыл бұрын

@@alwaysdisputin9930 Why would you use it I'd you don't know what it meeeeeans. Why even use twitch words, a lot of people never use twitch.

@Absoluuttinen_Totuus

2 жыл бұрын

@@npc6817 No shit. I mean, what did you expect from such a huge game? They are not just making another space sim, they are trying to make the best space game.

Holy hell. Getting pulled out of warp between systems and checked out by aliens was so amazing looking! That looked so great!

10:09 Sseth Here Permission granted, To come inside me.

@kentardi

4 жыл бұрын

Was just about to comment it myself haha! Awesome edit by Mandalore

@MadAtreides1

4 жыл бұрын

I can't unhear that

@williamverhagen5210

4 жыл бұрын

Why would he need to aks permission to himself though?

@papac1706

4 жыл бұрын

Classic Seth

@balintnemes6774

4 жыл бұрын

hey hey

"Permission granted...to come inside me" Oh mandalore, doing your other voice in your own videos now, silly goose.

@Czarewich

4 жыл бұрын

Wait wait wait... Mandalore is Sexbad?!

@IrenMasot

4 жыл бұрын

SsethTzeentach? 🤔

@kopicat2429

4 жыл бұрын

@@IrenMasot Yes, it was he. Mandalores second personality.

@fz7788

4 жыл бұрын

Hey hey people

@goodguydaniel8320

4 жыл бұрын

Sseth here

"this is U.S.S Thundercock we are requesting to dock" "permission granted to come inside me" Wait What?...

18:05 "Pan-galactic gargle blasting", shit like this is why i turn captions on

Mandalore put it into words perfectly. I want to play it. I want to like it. From the box it looks perfect for me. Yet I have no real impact on the world space.

@kitsunelegend7976

4 жыл бұрын

Lets also not forgot the age old adage of "A mile wide, but an inch deep". Still cannot figure out how they can justify a freaking $60 price tag for a game with seemingly so little content and things to actually do...

@FiresideBoomer

4 жыл бұрын

@@kitsunelegend7976 Well there is a lot of content and things to do, its just that the same content and things to do repeated over and over again

@ix8750

4 жыл бұрын

@@kitsunelegend7976 60 dollars? What are you buying it on the black market from the mob? Lol I can find you a copy for like 10$ right now 100%

@kitsunelegend7976

4 жыл бұрын

@@ix8750 The normal price for E:D with Horizons (because they literally are selling you half the fucking game for the same price as the base game) is $60. $30 for the base, $30 for horizons. So yeah... $60

@dntzonis

4 жыл бұрын

@@kitsunelegend7976 Its literally on steam right now.. for 5.99 each.. making it 12 bucks......

Sad the Thargoid thing just turned into “Xeno Hunting” It was truly magical and you demonstrate why perfectly. Great video

@danilooliveira6580

4 жыл бұрын

I think the war is pretty interesting, the problem is as he said everything happens in the background. at most we have some events where the players decide the outcome, but its still all there happening in the background. also its kinda boring how the only thing you get from killing targoids is acid weapons/ammo.

@Knoby1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@danilooliveira6580 No the issue is that players were given the choice between fighting Thargoids and interacting with them. And most people went full US second amendment BS on them, they didn't even took the time to think. I think that's what wonderguardstalker tried to say.

@juergen4ever

4 жыл бұрын

"US second amendment BS on them" I think the 40k "suffer not the xenos" meme was more of an influence than the politics of some random country.

@Anubis1101

4 жыл бұрын

@@Knoby1000 2nd amendment BS would be a response to an alien invasion, which isnt whats happening here. american/capitalist imperialism is more what youre thinking of, but i agree with Jurgen, "Suffer not the xenos" is probably the most appropriate summary. no way the players wouldve passed up the opportunity to shoot some aliens.

@farsalor2627

4 жыл бұрын

@@juergen4ever Ah yes, they totally wiped out the Guardians which were a greater civilization than man and have no concept of peace in their language alongside their thought process with the drones and queens due to the territorial nature of their hives but, it's too 2A or 40k. Totally ignoring the entire lore behind the game. Imagine being this much of a brainlet.

There's something so fitting about Mandalore being dead to rights, only for the aliens to go "eh" because he kept chucking their own stuff at them.

9:21 - "This is USS Thundercock, we are requesting permission to dock" - "Permission granted to enter me!"

10:10 I see Sseth's empire hasn't completely collapsed yet.

@StrikeWarlock

4 жыл бұрын

The Merchant's Guild is eternal

@tomdylan2074

4 жыл бұрын

organ harvesting is good business.

@Venislovas

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomdylan2074 And drug bussiness too.

@EricToTheScionti

4 жыл бұрын

Slinging that space dope.

@WhiskeyPatriot

3 жыл бұрын

Going from naruto running Hash to selling organs in space

"Excuse me boy, but you violated the NAP" Everyone's gangsta until the Libertarians start letting loose

@sylonogwailou

4 жыл бұрын

Where is that sound bite even from? I've been trying to track it down.

@CallanElliott

4 жыл бұрын

*Angry NAP noises*

@magmat0585

4 жыл бұрын

@@sylonogwailou no idea. I'd say its maybe from a game, but honestly I'm surprised by how many people here even know what the NAP is.

@magmat0585

4 жыл бұрын

@K Korona Amen brother.

@tyranids4ever

4 жыл бұрын

@@sylonogwailou EYE review towards the end.

Great review.This should be a major warning for any Developers in love with procedural generation. While it might be cool tech, as a game making tool it is extremely shallow. There is absolutely NO point in having a sandbox with 400 billion star systems, if every star system is practically the same!

@nisnast

2 жыл бұрын

The ME3 ending conundrum but procedurally generated

@PowerofRock24

Жыл бұрын

I disagree. Space games are probably THE BEST use of procedural generation, especially when done right. There are probably a lot of similar empty systems out there in the real galaxy, but in games like Elite, there can be narrative stuff and secrets hidden among those systems, such as generation ships, abandoned outposts, and other things.

@hachijospaniard5643

Жыл бұрын

Considering that the current competition is making "galaxies" of very limited size, the creators of Elite chose this decision well.

@dipps1649

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather have 399 billion star systems all looking similar with rare outliers to the generations, than 10 unique, hand crafted systems. It is a much better experience to find your first game-breakingly fast neutron star compared to the others, and finding alien life on planetary rings near the center of the galaxy. The game is better for explorers, not hand holders.

@fosstera

Жыл бұрын

@@dipps1649 found one such neutron star spinning terrifyingly fast as a red giant flew right into the path of the ejection Scariest fsd boost ever lol

"I know that they're adding carriers in the near future, and that could be a start of something great." And of course they turned out to be a big timesink with barely any reason to own. Because with Fdev you have to always hope into one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.

10:09 So that's where the merchants guild hang out? That looks expensive.

@dsandoval9396

4 жыл бұрын

The guild is everywhere.

7:43 Man I thought these were real ads. Well played mandy, well played.

@inqntrol2047

4 жыл бұрын

They certainly look more interesting than the usual ads we get.

@pegasus_2137

4 жыл бұрын

0:42 Here too.

@katanatsunami

4 жыл бұрын

"This XCOM rookie is hitting all his fucking shots, and basically you're a fucking idiot..." "HOW?" "JUST WATCH THE FREE VIDEO"

@PuddingXXL

4 жыл бұрын

The Xcom one got me good xD

@Faramik2000

4 жыл бұрын

lol the one on the left bottom is his hentai pic

This game with a VR headset and throttle/joystick is a religious experience

@JayRacer

3 жыл бұрын

The apex of gaming experiences.

@tylerschoen5643

3 жыл бұрын

I’m about to buy a PC so I can finally satisfy my space exploration needs and this is the comment I’ve been looking for

@OkuriLucy

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@tylerschoen5643

3 жыл бұрын

@@contrapasso1539 unfortunately I have yet to acquire a PC

@marcusborderlands6177

3 жыл бұрын

@@tylerschoen5643 oof. Well it ain't happening soon. The silicon shortages are keeping on coming

"When you see the control menu is as long as a CVS receipt..." Aaaaand subbed.

"there is so much, nothing" So basically space

@czarkusa2018

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but also all the players are in solo mode and even if they weren't each system makes a new shard for every 8 (I think it might be more or less) players in it.

@LoneWolf-vu6qy

4 жыл бұрын

@@czarkusa2018 I wouldn't say all. I have a group that plays mainly in open. Tho I stay in open ATM, cause I'm like 30k Ly from Sol. So I don't see a point in being in open.

@a_lethe_ion

4 жыл бұрын

ye. its my zen game

@BitterCynical

4 жыл бұрын

Enter any space station. A whole lot of nothing. Visit any garden planet. A whole lot of nothing (can't even land on them). There's nothing because players don't get to meaningfully interact with the game world, not because muh SPACE.

@yonakatsu4878

4 жыл бұрын

Space that could have a lot more to it ;P

I knew Seth would become a merchant overlord in the future

@517342

4 жыл бұрын

Until the Alpha Core went rogue

@robbierootbeer8056

4 жыл бұрын

Hey hey people, corrupt corporate entity here

''Improve aim - Learn How!'' this is the shit I miss out on by listening to these videos like a podcast

Whenever I played Elite, I think at least a third of every session was me trying to improve my control scheme.

Shouldn't you be playing Raid: Shadow Legends right now Mandalore?

@gregorycomey

4 жыл бұрын

He should because it's a pretty obscure little game that needs some more attention. I think they should start some sort of sponsorship with some KZreadrs to spread the game around.

@patch-fm

4 жыл бұрын

It's vErY uNdErAtEd

@annabella1650

4 жыл бұрын

Please keep your heresy to yourself.

@ry4nmaster

4 жыл бұрын

600 milLiOn dOWnLoaD

@diptyapinakaherringcandrad2930

4 жыл бұрын

Herro, Im Mike Mirrar

7:44 hey mandalore, what's up with that ad? you naughty, naughty boy ..

@Space_Reptile

4 жыл бұрын

blame sseth

@BBukeeB

4 жыл бұрын

I'm more fond of the personal appeal of the founder of VersaLife: Bob Page

@smithno-mates2341

4 жыл бұрын

I'll bite, what's the sauce?

@Space_Reptile

4 жыл бұрын

@@smithno-mates2341 [very nsfw] twitter.com/yinyue_art/status/1199885734309744640

@sofija1996

4 жыл бұрын

@@smithno-mates2341 A very, VERY NSFW artwork commisioned by SsethTzeench. Be careful looking it up.

From watching this video alone it seems that there is great potential for a ‘war’ of sorts that could, in theory, involve the entire player base individually contributing through different means(as each would choose) to the war effort. Seeing as there is a potentially hostile species that may or may not decide to kill everything else. This game does really intrigue me, I do love to explore!

@nickfinch8182

Жыл бұрын

Boy do I have news for you. Humanity done fucked around and pissed off the aliens in July-August, and we’re currently in the “finding out” phase. Systems are under alien control and every part of the game can be used to help clear systems of their influence. The Anti-Xeno Initiative (AXI) has more info if you’re interested.

@trevelyandovah8479

8 ай бұрын

I delivered mail for the namlvy and now I'm a rear admiral

"I wonder what year that joke will age in." By the time that game gets an actual release, it'll be an alternate-history game instead of futuristic sci-fi.

As a Brit, I can testify that we do love a good queue.

@StrikeWarlock

4 жыл бұрын

What exactly defines a good queue?

@wolfedya1

4 жыл бұрын

@@StrikeWarlock An orderly one

@StrikeWarlock

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfedya1 sounds boring

@Ignozi

4 жыл бұрын

@Anne Isopod Disorderly queues are basically the sign of the apocalypse.

@wolfedya1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ignozi It's worse than cats and dogs living together

We just gonna ignore that "improve aim" advert at 7:42?

@jashiwashi

4 жыл бұрын

xcom accuracy issues

@EricToTheScionti

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@CPTNDDPL

4 жыл бұрын

Came to the comments to say this 😂

@ov3rdrive966

4 жыл бұрын

don't forget mandalore rule 34 on the bottom left

@Become-Eggplant

4 жыл бұрын

Theres also an Advert of Mandaloregaming? Elves hate him! and we still love fwking with the elves.

The sound of a ship going into light speed will never ever get old and it’s my favourite sound in the game so far

From what I've played of it I think I'd love it if they introduced slightly larger ships up to small capital ships or bordering on capital ships for instance corvettes or frigates. I'd like to be able to have a ship where I can designate multiple targets from a weapons station and watch my guns go hog wild. I reckon it'd also be cool to use a ship like this for launching a shuttle for landing on asteroids and with the rover making the rover a bit larger and more powerful. Being able to be entirely on foot would also be good.

@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange

2 жыл бұрын

Even better, you get to have crew inside of it and the rewards for its usage are insanely lucrative. Defending stations, planets, VIPs all while you have half a dozen crew (player or ai) getting paid to control weapons and power plants as you pilot, making the size an actual drawback for once

Man I've sunk so many hours into Elite.. and while I'll always have enjoyed my time with it the adage "wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle" has never felt so apt.

@czarkusa2018

4 жыл бұрын

200 hours here, if the multiplayer aspects were real it'd be a nice game.

@moistjohn

4 жыл бұрын

hutton orbital starts a big deep story arc, go to that station for a free anaconda and the real story missions

@greenthunder1000

4 жыл бұрын

MoistJohn don’t listen to him, it’s not free. You have to trade a type 7 and the anaconda is bare bones

@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange

4 жыл бұрын

I truly couldn’t care less for the lack of a story and any true depth, that feeling of exploring and slowly growing into something far stronger than anything else in the galaxy is my favorite thing ever, and it’s easily my favorite game for its gameplay because of those aspects being perfected. Of course, a couple updates couldn’t hurt...

@colboy1fish

4 жыл бұрын

@@greenthunder1000 Nevermind it takes easily an hour and a half to get there.

"After many years of playing it on and off and not knowing what to make of it." Ah, so I'm not the only one then. Minus the years and years.

17:44 god damn the sound design in this game is so good

Its been 3 years the star citizen joke still hasnt aged.

@dallesamllhals9161

10 ай бұрын

Heh! ..been 11 years since I wasted $100 bucks.

10:10 That got me. Hearing Setth say that

Sorry Mandalore, but where's the part where you reply to all contacts for Raid: Shadow Legends "sponsorship" email? xD

@StrikeWarlock

4 жыл бұрын

What I love about that moment is that Mandy just doesnt say and show his contempt for Raid Shadow Legends marketers, he acts on it too Truly a man of ethics and morals

@ujjwalmishra8962

4 жыл бұрын

i know the lore

@roadent217

4 жыл бұрын

HERRO! MIKE MIRRER HERE! DEEP STRIKE INTO ENEMY TERRITORY!

@potatoeseeds6462

4 жыл бұрын

Mousazz thank you for this rice bowr that you have generously donated. I will forever be thankful.

@themlgdinosaur1296

4 жыл бұрын

Context?

I have been struggling to put exactly this into place in my own mind for so long. I got really into the game for a time, joined a faction (There are communities for each - I joined Sirius, nd that seemed promising) and did a ton of exploration. Joined in on Distant Worlds 2. But quickly burned out on the return journey. I think it might have been exploring itself that hammered home just how procedural, painfully procedural the galaxy is. Even the center of the galaxy was underwhelming. The thing that broke it for me though, was visiting Colonia, the furthest colony from the bubble. It should be interesting, with factions and missions reflecting the lack of control by powers from the bubble, but instead, this pinnacle of human achievement was nothing but the same stars I had seen thousands of times, with the same stations, factions that were as bland and empty, and even the player community around Colonia seemed directionless (But not for lack of effort, to give them credit. I was excited by the carriers, but once they came out, they honestly seem like more maintenance and busywork than anything meaningful right now. The announcement of the next piece of content expanding on planets is promising, but honestly I won't get my hopes up. Great video, really summed up my experience, really.

Four years later, and that Star Citizen joke still hasn't aged a day.

@generalbennet1554

2 ай бұрын

I know I’m late to reply but Mandy’s video on star citizen is 7 years old and that video STILL HOLDS TRUE so yeh star citizen is such a joke.

Yeah whoever is the sound designer needs a freaking raise because it is so freaking amazing

That part with the aliens made me feel like I was in subnautica again. The dark of the hidden world deep deep beneath the game. The ghost Levis scare the shit out of me still. I’ve lost power with a Cyclopes in the place of the ‘tree of life’ thing

watching this in march of 2022, the star citizen jokes continues to age pretty well

I love your videos man. I was always curious about these space games. The scale of them makes the most mundane shit seem triumphant. The second story with the aliens was captivating for me as well just watching it!

The last time I was this early Elite wasn't Dangerous.

@igorthelight

4 жыл бұрын

A good one!

@kektuss

4 жыл бұрын

Orlando Rotundo I own the cassette copy for C64

@Malikyte13

4 жыл бұрын

@Evilmike42 Since when? Because I bought E:D and Horizons on Steam ages ago and received no such thing.

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

Man I'm just around ~5 minutes in, but as soon as I heard Earthworm Jim's 'Use Your Head' track kicking in, I already knew this would become one of my favorite reviews of yours. Excellent stuff!

Touched on an important point: It's also a Great Britain SIM, where the penalty for loitering is death. It's one of my favorite games despite the infernal nagging and fines, which are usually quite small.

I sunk almost 2000 hours into Elite and my life hasn't improved at all. I'm sure I had a wife when I started.

@gestaltengine6369

4 жыл бұрын

F

@David-ys4ud

4 жыл бұрын

Well if you dont have a wife anymore.... I'd say your life improved

@Deliverygirl

4 жыл бұрын

FINALLY NO MORE NAGGING WIFE, TIME TO TRADE IMPERIAL SLAVES WOHOOO

"Permission granted to come inside me"

@nenjea648

4 жыл бұрын

I think you spelled that wrong. Idk, the "come" part just doesn't look right.

@NoriMori1992

4 жыл бұрын

@@nenjea648 You know that the verb can be spelled either way, right?

@DarkOmegaMK2

4 жыл бұрын

^u^

@narrowstone5363

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoriMori1992 idk man. "Comeblast me and make it snappy" looks less vulgar than "cumblast me and make it snappy"

It's 2023 and that joke still hasn't aged.

"So much potential" and "YOU are the background" are unfortunately two phrases i still very much recognise

"melty blood tournament" Mandalore, you're even more cultured than I thought!

@krodmandoon3479

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know, he clearly wasn't in a bathroom when he said that.

@spade4acer

3 жыл бұрын

@@krodmandoon3479 POVERTY

@lc9245

3 жыл бұрын

Gave me a jolt. Very unexpected. I do remember the "tournament" which took place on the street, in some random neighbourhood, with a CRT TV and some plastic chairs. The crowd includes the participants and one or two curious teen. The experience of those things to me were very ethereal, like a long, vivid dream, yet I was unable to recall the details.

"Excuse me, boy, you violated the NAP!" - Stefan Molyneux in Space

@JohnSmith-ox3gy

4 жыл бұрын

Also molymeme believes in crossing an imaginary line to be white genocide. What is consistency?

@benkai343434

4 жыл бұрын

​@@JohnSmith-ox3gy I wonder if you apply the same logic about borders to Israel lol.

@morumcadi

4 жыл бұрын

What are you referring to?

@SorchaSublime

4 жыл бұрын

ah yes stefan molyneux. that special class of idiot which exclusively attracts idiots.

@Alloftheanwsers

4 жыл бұрын

@@SorchaSublime Says the guy who likes contrapoints lmao

Man, this must be a collective thought. I've got VR and a HOTAS flight stick and it's awesome to play. But I can't motivate myself to continue playing. It's a pain in the arse

Man, I'm getting this game just for those sound effects on losing your canopy.

@boiledelephant

3 жыл бұрын

It's supposed to be one of the worst things that can happen but I get genuinely excited when it does, just because it's so cool. Your HUD elements stop working across the canopy hole but still work on the broken shards, so it becomes a really tense minigame of trying to corner-of-your-eye your way to a space station before you suffocate.

7:44, bottom left... I recognize this from somewhere.... oh god...

@Pvsn08

4 жыл бұрын

Ellis H It’s all Sseth’s fault

@mustafao09008

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pvsn08 what is it?

@Pvsn08

4 жыл бұрын

Mustafa Naeem Sseth commissioned a porn artist to make an r34 image of Mandy fucking a futa elf, you can see part of it in the bottom left corner during the timestamp of the og comment

I don't even care for some of the games you review, I'm just here because you make these videos so damn interesting and entertaining

@baykutTr

4 жыл бұрын

I watch him while eating breakfast

@alphads2000

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Seth never dissapoints

Star Citizen jokes will still be fresh when humans have colonized the moons of Neptune.

Three years later and the joke from 2:34 still holds.

no one else is going to mention the voice acting of an African-warlord, no okay

@ollyhilt

4 жыл бұрын

@@RaTcHeT302 african warlord.

@bw6188

4 жыл бұрын

*echoes of hey hey people*

@koolcid9710

4 жыл бұрын

@@RaTcHeT302 hey people

@jalomcurameng530

4 жыл бұрын

@@koolcid9710 SSETH here

@MichaelS-vy1ku

4 жыл бұрын

10:10

"there'll be some alien shooting games to make up for the lack of it here" Hoping he means Perimeter but that's a bit of a stretch

@ElDragoon

4 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping for Halo, reach comes to PC in 3 days

@adenowirus

4 жыл бұрын

Looking at THE LIST, Aliens vs Predator Extinction seems most likely, maybe Chapter Master.

@awhatnow9861

4 жыл бұрын

@@adenowirus yeah I saw it, that's why it's a stretch

@adenowirus

4 жыл бұрын

@@awhatnow9861 Hopefully he will get to it at some point.

@awhatnow9861

4 жыл бұрын

@@adenowirus hopefully

The Vigilante 8: Second Offense music at the start was a nice touch. Greatly appreciated.

Using Vigilante 2nd Offense OST as background music is beautiful. Thanks for the review!

Everybody gangsta til' the ceiling fan growls at you.

Hi, I've just come across your channel and watched this review. All I can say is "this is how you review a game". Honestly, a big part of gaming in my opinion is the audio and you covered it which is very rare in a game review. Also the way you explain the issues and the way they could be improved is brilliant. I've not played Elite Dangerous but after your review I feel I need to, thanks. Effing brilliant.

@Wylie288

4 жыл бұрын

So his video is completely lacking in opinion and instead focuses on pointing out what the target audience is and what is required to be enjoyed in order for someone to enjoy this game? Otherwise no. Its not how a game should be reviewed.

@SmokeJam

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wylie288 Obviously you haven't watched the video. It is full of his personal opinion which he based on facts everybody can find for themselves. As a review should consider positive and negative aspects he fullfilled every criteria a serious review should have. The nice part about this video is the point that he tries to stay as relevant as possible in his arguments, shows something of is personal experience but still doesn't force his opinion on you. A review is always subjective but should stay open for the viewer to build his own opinion. You clearly don't want a review, you want someone to tell you what to think and do.

@Wylie288

3 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeJam Personal opinion is IRRELEVANT to anyone but him. With 2 exceptions. 1. If you are his clone. 2. If you are some moronic sheep that has dedicated thier lives to sharing his same opinion. Opinion being based on facts means nothing. Its still going to be over subjective matters. A review, a true review, is never subjective but focuses on actually reviewing the game. Aka explaining what it is, identifying the audience, and going over the strengths and weaknesses it has for that audience. This doesn't stay open for anyone to build any opinions. He is in the video, feeding his right to you the sheep you are.

2:35 That joke is immortal.

18:05 [pan-galactic gargle blasting] is the greatest description of a sound I have ever read

16:30 See me in Melty Mandalore

@kingvelard

4 жыл бұрын

i think thats a c-nanaya mirror on the screen. the future really is bleak. edit: oh it's h-nanaya vs c-ciel i'm still disgusted

@BelayOurFantasy

4 жыл бұрын

H-ries boiis in dat house

I remember being so engrossed by this game when it first came out excited to get to the point where I could get involved in pvp and involved in serious trading and exploration and setting up bases in systems I had explored... only to find out that the developers actively discourage and design around player interaction and any level of real depth. Elite looks so pretty and feels at first like it has an ocean of content... until you realize it's as deep as a puddle and all you're going to see out there is more waves, water, and maybe the occasional island. Never have I been more let down by a game with so much potential.

@0ptimal

4 жыл бұрын

Damn. Was really interested in this, but looks like it's not what I was hoping for. Thanks 4 the review.

@seeibe

4 жыл бұрын

Luckily I couldn't play it when it came out. Picked it up several years later and had some fun with it. I think the most enjoyment I got out of it was learning how to dock.

@DRUMnBLESSed

4 жыл бұрын

@@seeibe Docking Comment Upvoted

2:31 *Pshhht* Captain , the joke is still fresh, I repeat, the joke fresh *pshht*

All I want is an updated review from Mandy about odyssey and everything that’s been added since this

This is exactly how I play Elite Dangerous myself. My short review on Steam was something along this: It's like drugs. It's fun at times, but don't do it too often!

It is sad when this game has immense potential yet all the positives of the game get old really quick.

@SEPK09

4 жыл бұрын

Lost cause it had so much potential but frontier failed big time.

@Jimothyjohns

3 жыл бұрын

There's more stuff coming soon supposedly

@JoseGonzalez-cy6rm

3 жыл бұрын

Should I buy this game it’s looks fun

@shinski8114

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoseGonzalez-cy6rm yes

@JayRacer

3 жыл бұрын

Surprised the forum dads aren’t spamming your comment voicing your genuine opinion.

Thanks for the vid. I hope you cover Odyssey once it releases next year!

Thanks for the video! I really appreciate your work!

For me, this just feels like "Grinding: The game" As in, you gain money, for the sake of buying stuff that will allow you to gather money better and faster, it feels like there is no goal, it feels like I'm grinding up to fight the final boss but there is no final boss.

@JD96893

4 жыл бұрын

Couldn't put it better

@nigelwarner8398

4 жыл бұрын

That seems to be the way a lot of open world games are lately. They make a really impressive world but they forget to put a story in it.

@mikeyforester6221

4 жыл бұрын

That's why I couldn't play more than 20 hours its all about credits to buy a bigger ship to earn more credits, gets boring fast. visually a brilliant game but it just feels empty off things to do.

@Bob3D2000

4 жыл бұрын

The other big problem with that is that the universe doesn't care what you do. At least if you're in a corp in Eve you're grinding to support a cause.

@Loetmichel

4 жыл бұрын

Thats because there IS no final boss. This game is a trade simulation with attached combat and exploration. Always was since the beginning. The player is a small cog in a milky way sized machine, you are not meant to be "The hero that saves the universe".I blame fortnite and similar games for people not knowing what to do with an open world game like this any more.

I noticed you gushed about the sound design without spoiling the surprise when they use their Discovery Scanner. 🤩

This game was honestly frustrating to me at its core and you've listed exactly why. The core gameplay is fun but there's no interesting context to _do_ anything beyond getting bigger and better starship to do better at the thing you're already doing. Procedurally generating infinite content is the same as having no content at all. And the long point of genuine interest, the Thargoids, really just petered on until all interest faded. It was the kind of content which should have picked up the playerbase and just kept sweeping them along with it, a constant evolving story that was integrated with the player's experience and not played out in textdumps on their site feed. Seeing the initial encounters and exploration of the Thargoids play out in various Elit communities was onna the most hype things I've ever seen, and in the end all that potential just petered out like an overly long fart.

@brmorde8754

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly a tip i can give you is finding a player group, something to help give context, add to that learning the background lore of who is doing what. for example there is a princess in the empire who wants to outlaw slavery, every system she controls has it outlawed while the rest of the empire has it as legal. some go to that to try and end slavery by helping her.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

3 жыл бұрын

@@thelongestchannelnameever Modeling the interior of two dozen 100 meter long ships in any appreciable detail is a ridiculous amount of work for no return whataoever. Space legs are superfluous, unless you also add boarding and infantry combat. Look at X, Space engineers or Empyrion. You CAN walk around on all the ships but why would you.

@JayRacer

3 жыл бұрын

@@thelongestchannelnameever I think adding a more meaningful and organic economy and creating story/meta that promotes and enhances cooperation would do a lot more for the game than space legs.

@zergrush9748

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayRacer But devs don't know how to make living economics... They're making tycoons for like twenty years. They're not interested in something complex - only hype, microtransactions, paid dlc and time/money sinks. Interesting game with deep mechanics is an alien concept for frontiers today, IMO.

@JayRacer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 I agree totally. I can care less about space legs. It’s a cool feature but adding more depth to existing content makes more sense and I’d imagine it would sell more copies of the game.

I love this game maybe more than I should. Probably because this is the closest I could get to actually exploring our galaxy. My favorite thing to do in the game is just explore, enjoy the sights, the sounds.... if they update it even more, with more player impact, i would absolutely cream. I discovered this game back when it first got released and have loved it ever since. I havent played for about 2 years now, however im going to jump back in and just enjoy the vast empty black.

The problem with this game is that when you 'land' on a planet you still feel like you are 8 miles high

@vladasss

4 жыл бұрын

Lot's of problems with scale in this game. Even stars looks like oranges to me.

@borgkingerei6993

4 жыл бұрын

TBH those ships are huge, but you don't really feel that outside of VR

@kpbendeguz

4 жыл бұрын

Play it in VR then you'll really feel the scale properly.

@MapleLeafAce

4 жыл бұрын

@@vladasss it's a problem on space. There's no frame of reference in the empty vacuum of space. Hard to imply scale in space.

@JayRacer

3 жыл бұрын

@@kpbendeguz you aren’t kidding. VR in this game may be the best VR Experience in gaming.

That vigilante 8 second offense intro sent me on a wild nostalgia trip. Good shit Mandy.

Man. Hearing that intro song brung back so many memories on 64.

Ahh I see Seth has uploaded. Welcome merchants guild

@Brotrooper

4 жыл бұрын

Comstar: Space AT&T in a recent streaming video by Sseth(on BItChute), we got to see people from Raid: Shadow Legends emailed Mandalore. I think its safe to say they’re the same person.

@TheMrNomadus

4 жыл бұрын

@Comstar: Space AT&T It is a running joke that they are same people.

@TheMrNomadus

4 жыл бұрын

Comstar: Space AT&T l was on Sseth’s livestream where he played an audio of him speaking to Mandalore on Skype. I don’t think that they would do that if they were living together. Also I’m pretty sure that Sseth lives in UK or Europe. I think they both come from the same videogame community something like SS13 or so.

"As long as a CVS receipt" nice one. LOL

@UnauthorizedExpression

4 жыл бұрын

LOL I thought that too. Every time I go to CVS I'm offended by the 6 foot receipt.

A Really REALLY mixed game. I was obsessed with it for quite a while and then suddenly all my enthusiasm just....evaporated. When the mystery of how everything works just disappears, common in gaming but this happening in Elite Dangerous hit very hard. I still venture in occasionally today and the recent Maelstrom Incursion into the Bubble certainly brought those old feelings back for a while. The VR experience is simply unmatched and provides one of the best gaming experiences of all time. On the other hand the horrific engineer GRIND elements are still alive and well and the money making system is flat broken. It's RIDICULOUSLY easy to progress from starter ship to end game craft.

That Kreal cameo was top quality 👌

As a British person, I appreciate the joke about English people and queues xD.

@crouchingotter

3 жыл бұрын

I wait patiently behind you to give my appreciation in the same polite manner.

@Sir_Bucket

3 жыл бұрын

@@crouchingotter And just after that I will be off my merry way to enslave an entire continent, just like every tuesday

@billbyfield5985

3 жыл бұрын

Same. We love waiting around for things. That's why No Mans Sky, Star Citizen AND Elite are ALL made by British game developers :p

@Dark_Mishra

3 жыл бұрын

I have no problem with British video games. Too bad they all seem to get closed after one bad game. 😢 RIP Lionhead. Btw, when is Codemasters going to release another Overlord game?!

@billbyfield5985

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dark_Mishra that does seem to happen more frequently here (RIP some of my favourite games), but theres stories of hope too. Rare (Sea of Thieves) and Creative Assembly (Total War/Alien Isolation) are two examples.... Two of my favourite games!

4 years on and that joke is yet to age. If anything, it's just matured into an even more impressive joke.

3 years later still one of the best reviews/experience videos

Seein you make more than I have in literal weeks of cargo hauling in a single mining run made me nearly choke

@MapleLeafAce

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry they nerfed mining payouts into the ground.

@weberman173

4 жыл бұрын

@@MapleLeafAce ~~laughts in Tripple diamond hotspots~~

@Legoldos

3 жыл бұрын

@@MapleLeafAce i play game for a month, did 10-15 asteroid core mining rounds and made over 400 million (got 150 million on account), got mamba, anaconda, asp explorer all decently equipped mining is so profitable i dont do anything except pirate hunting which i do for fun not for profit last mining trip i made 90 million alone because i just looked where to sell musgravite for 1 million adn rest of stuff for 500k....