Elite: Dangerous

 PlayStation 4
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6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 150 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 83 out of 150
  2. Mixed: 31 out of 150
  3. Negative: 36 out of 150

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  1. jeffkren
    Sep 20, 2022
    0
    This game is just waiting to be replaced by anything, clearly anyone who knows how to code has been fired years ago, in two years its gotten worse. None of the bugs you run into literally constantly have been fixed and all the changes you get from version 3.8 to 4.0 are a giant unknown, buy used copy's so you don't feed these retards anymore money if you must. Edit: PC version, consolesThis game is just waiting to be replaced by anything, clearly anyone who knows how to code has been fired years ago, in two years its gotten worse. None of the bugs you run into literally constantly have been fixed and all the changes you get from version 3.8 to 4.0 are a giant unknown, buy used copy's so you don't feed these retards anymore money if you must. Edit: PC version, consoles have been discontinued no one on console should buy it.… Expand
  2. Ilmu011
    Feb 13, 2021
    4
    Basically:

    +Amazing space simulator +Huge potential -Devs kinda neglect this game -HUUUUUUGE grind in every gameplay aspect -"mile wide inch deep" - huge galaxy, but there is very little ways to interact with it in a meaningful or fun way -Personally, I don't like the combat, BF3 dogfighting was way more fun than this Odyssey is on the horizon, but I doubt, this game will ever    Basically:

    +Amazing space simulator
    +Huge potential

    -Devs kinda neglect this game
    -HUUUUUUGE grind in every gameplay aspect
    -"mile wide inch deep" - huge galaxy, but there is very little ways to interact with it in a meaningful or fun way
    -Personally, I don't like the combat, BF3 dogfighting was way more fun than this

    Odyssey is on the horizon, but I doubt, this game will ever get into 8/10 territory.

    fdev, please dont screw up the next Elite game in 20 years as much as you screwed up Elite Dangerous.

    Playtime at point of review: 300 hours    … Expand
  3. Shellshok
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    This games is awful. The controls are poor, the graphics are crappy.

    You can spend 10minutes flying through blank space to get to a planet (so boring) the closer you get, the slower you can fly. Then get wiped out by a ship that you cannot compete with. Start again. The good reviews i have read all mention 'doesnt hold your hand' which i suspect are put there by the developer. This    This games is awful. The controls are poor, the graphics are crappy.

    You can spend 10minutes flying through blank space to get to a planet (so boring) the closer you get, the slower you can fly.

    Then get wiped out by a ship that you cannot compete with. Start again.

    The good reviews i have read all mention 'doesnt hold your hand' which i suspect are put there by the developer. This actually means that the game is so horrible, you wont want to play it. How did they manage to butcher the great game that used to be Elite? Frontier should be embarrassed , i will never buy another piece of software from them. AVOID! Get No Mans Sky instead. It is superiour in every way.    … Expand
  4. Hatwox
    Feb 13, 2021
    0
    Look its beautiful. it is...
    Its **** amazing... in its beauty...

    Oh im sorry is this supposed to be a game? OH YEA ITS NOT A GAME ITS A BUNCH OF CHORES GLUED TOGETHER WITH DUCT TAPE AND SPIT
  5. 998817268
    Sep 22, 2017
    0
    something like 50 hours of gameplay culminated in this one moment for me: I was flying my anaconda - one of the most expensive ships in the game - and I was leaving a hostile space station. As I was leaving, I flew too close to another ship and got a ticket that I wouldn't even have to pay it mattered so little. On receiving the ticket, the space station and about a half dozen systemsomething like 50 hours of gameplay culminated in this one moment for me: I was flying my anaconda - one of the most expensive ships in the game - and I was leaving a hostile space station. As I was leaving, I flew too close to another ship and got a ticket that I wouldn't even have to pay it mattered so little. On receiving the ticket, the space station and about a half dozen system security ships all converged on me and destroyed in an instant. The ship cost millions of credits to rebuy, and I feel I lost it unfairly; but that's not all! At the rebuy screen, the game crashed. I lost my ship for good, and hundreds of millions of credits with it. I've since deleted this game, and I would only recommend it to the most deeply masochistic people.… Expand
  6. Crakehauer
    Jul 19, 2017
    1
    So much potential but so outdated game play mechanics. Specially for consoles they should´ve changed the concept of endless grinding. Everything takes ages and the way to finally do something is always really boring. It´s like the mechanics are stuck in the 80s. And also the balance between what you get out of a mission and what you could lose is really frustrating. It has everything youSo much potential but so outdated game play mechanics. Specially for consoles they should´ve changed the concept of endless grinding. Everything takes ages and the way to finally do something is always really boring. It´s like the mechanics are stuck in the 80s. And also the balance between what you get out of a mission and what you could lose is really frustrating. It has everything you wish for in a space game but it fails dramatically to entertain me as a video game because only a few boring things pay off in the end. For me it feels it is a game for the unemployed or people with plenty of time don´t know what to do with it. It is not an excuse to hide behind the 'SIMULATION' curtain. It is just time consuming and really repetitive in some key areas of the game.… Expand
  7. vtaireslpdlc
    Aug 18, 2017
    0
    I wish I could give it an even lower score. Broken, glitchy, extremely technical and completely impossible to play. Played for hours and never did anything but float around aimlessly in silence. It felt like punishment

    I literally created an account here just to leave this review because unless you're obsessed with flight simulators and want to spend months honing a new skill just to    I wish I could give it an even lower score. Broken, glitchy, extremely technical and completely impossible to play. Played for hours and never did anything but float around aimlessly in silence. It felt like punishment

    I literally created an account here just to leave this review because unless you're obsessed with flight simulators and want to spend months honing a new skill just to play a boring video game, you will hate this

    Worst game I've ever played I rented it on gamefly and still feel ripped off for the time I wasted    … Expand
  8. Glued
    Jul 15, 2017
    0
    Constantly crashes on the PS4 and loses Internet connection. Read the forums to see a lot of unhappy PS4 players. Potential to be a great game, but for a lot of players, completely unplayable. Total waste of money as it stands. Hope a patch will fix it some day.
  9. symmetriebruch
    May 6, 2019
    0
    unplayable. the controls are god awful. even if you get used to this horrible mess and customized it it´s still sooo painfully slow. i was expecting something like the x series or freelancer but this is quite the opposite. boring and tedious
  10. Dehelix
    Jun 29, 2017
    0
    Thirty three years ago I first played Elite on the BBC Micro. After a fruitless few hours or so being unable to dock, let alone do anything else, I gave up and wrote my first ever (damming) gaming review and sent it off.

    Now, today, I actually managed to launch from a space station. I did it at a very strange angle and probably removed most of the paintwork from the port side of my    Thirty three years ago I first played Elite on the BBC Micro. After a fruitless few hours or so being unable to dock, let alone do anything else, I gave up and wrote my first ever (damming) gaming review and sent it off.

    Now, today, I actually managed to launch from a space station. I did it at a very strange angle and probably removed most of the paintwork from the port side of my ship. Echoes of the film Galaxy Quest came strongly to mind! I then engaged my whatchamacallit drive and spent a good ten minutes stuck in a side view being unable to look effing straight forward. I did eventually find the right button.

    I approached the space station which, as usual, was revolving alarmingly. I did manage to get my landing gear down but of course I was facing the wrong facet on the station, you know the one with the stupid narrow letterbox opening. After a few bumps and crashes and overshoots I did get inside the dam thing. I actually lined myself up nicely for docking bay 43. Everything went **** up in the closing seconds when I hit the forward button too much. I lurched forward and bounced off numerous surfaces eventually ramming myself into what looked like some kind of virtual park. It was then I turned the whole thing off in disgust. This, dear reader, was THE TRAINING MISSION!

    Admittedly I got a tad further than did some decades ago and I put this down to using a controller rather than a keyboard. So, I will never become even become 'Vaguely Competent' let alone 'Elite' more like 'Totally Useless'. I wonder if I can get it made into a badge? One I shall wear with pride. On a positive note it will free up a load of space on my hard drive when I delete it.

    Nothing whatsoever has changed in 33 years its still as awful a game as it ever was. So there.    … Expand
  11. Kismet101
    Oct 24, 2020
    4
    A painfully mediocre space "simulator" created by developers who obviously didn't even get as far as the 6th grade.

    The second that I saw that kinetic weapons had damage fall-off I literally laughed out loud. Newton's 1st law anyone? There is nothing acting against the projectiles in the vacuum of space, therefore there is no slowdown/fall-off. Maybe if these developers would stop    A painfully mediocre space "simulator" created by developers who obviously didn't even get as far as the 6th grade.

    The second that I saw that kinetic weapons had damage fall-off I literally laughed out loud. Newton's 1st law anyone? There is nothing acting against the projectiles in the vacuum of space, therefore there is no slowdown/fall-off.

    Maybe if these developers would stop smelling their own farts long enough to actually make it to junior high they could come up with a game that doesn't constantly jerk the player around with:

    Enemy ships who constantly can out turn the player despite being in bigger and less maneuverable craft
    Enemy ships who can instantly FSD away when at low health, only to miraculously re-appear with full health/shields
    An economy that is so horribly skewed towards mining even after the developers said time and again that they didn't want the best source of income to be a single aspect of the game.
    A game that STILL doesn't let you do something as simple as changing the HUD colors away from that urine colored yellow/orange.

    These are just a few of the problems with this game that should've been dealt with on day 1. The fact that it's 3+ years into this game's life and this crap is still going just goes to show that Frontier Developments are too stupid and/or lazy to actually make a coherent game.

    And with the arrival of the latest DLC in 2021 stating that players still will not be able to walk around in their ships, as well as removing the ability to move the camera through your ship through VR it's pretty apparent that this company couldn't care one bit for the problems/wants of its playerbase.

    Do not support Frontier Developments.    … Expand
  12. Hurrikhan
    Dec 19, 2017
    1
    Elite for PS4 is a very difficult game. On PC you can have very complex joysticks, a keyboard, a mouse etc. Here everything has to be done with combinations of buttons or going through menus.
    Naturally one would expect such a complicated game would require a tutorial worthy of its complexity.
    Alas the tutorial is really bad. It gives you partial information of what to do, sometimes    Elite for PS4 is a very difficult game. On PC you can have very complex joysticks, a keyboard, a mouse etc. Here everything has to be done with combinations of buttons or going through menus.
    Naturally one would expect such a complicated game would require a tutorial worthy of its complexity.

    Alas the tutorial is really bad. It gives you partial information of what to do, sometimes in a hurry and you are left at it. Sometimes it stops working. If you don't do exactly what it wants in the order it wants, you most likely will have to retry as it also blocks commands that it did not suggest yet for the current sequence of operations (or the game is as horribly bugged as I've seen in other reviews. I'll never know.)

    On the first mission, everything was more or less fine.

    On the system jump mission, that I had to retry multiple times, would have it be so difficult to tell WHERE the hell was the entrance of the station (shaped like a isocahedron and spinning)?
    Why, on each retry, was the tutorial complaining when I selected the station like it just told me to ? Why do I have to ask permission for landing several times ?
    Could it explain to me why I was unable to deploy the landing gear using the commands I learned and had to go to the right panel menu to do so ?
    Why after finally landing I was left to myself, not knowing the next step, and had to restart the mission all over again? (To see I actually did finish the mission, it just did not tell me nor proposed me to finish that training. The tutorial broke (again) from the point I found the entrance of the station)
    Why, at some point when I was still trying to understand how to approach, a base was I getting contradictory messages between the voice telling me to wait (so I missed the target) then complaining, and the system telling me I was going too fast (and the voice telling me I still stopped too fast)
    Would have it be difficult for the tutorial helping me when I was unable to super-speed with a cryptic message and had to self-destruct and retry (with the next mission I finally got it was because I pressed square alone which put weapons out, which is what is meant by "hard-point", gee thanks for nothing)
    On the fight mission, could it explain BEFOREHAND how to have good maneuverability to follow a target or escape being one instead of expecting me to shoot ?
    Would have it be difficult to pause and tell me that I would have to switch weapon systems BEFORE I was almost destroyed by the second ship ? (My ship was destroyed by the time I entered the command)
    On the advanced fight mission, the same comments as before are applying with the added twist that I would have liked to know what to do before being swarmed by these two or three ships (that stupid voice did not finish its next tutorial part sentence : I was already dead).

    I bought that game for about $30 on the PlayStation Store, and it seems cannot get a refund. No matter : I still feel I've been cheated of $230. The price of that junk plus the minimum rate I take for the time I lost on it.    … Expand
  13. Mnobody
    May 16, 2021
    0
    I dont understand the positive reviews on this game or what kind of people pick this up and decide to throw away hours learning basic controls - not playing a game or having any fun - on an offchance they may like this. It's easier to get into an IVY league school than learn to play this overly complicated POS. The brief experience I had: UI is a nightmare and pukeworthy, travel is tedium,I dont understand the positive reviews on this game or what kind of people pick this up and decide to throw away hours learning basic controls - not playing a game or having any fun - on an offchance they may like this. It's easier to get into an IVY league school than learn to play this overly complicated POS. The brief experience I had: UI is a nightmare and pukeworthy, travel is tedium, basic controls arent explained and/or are counterintuitive as fk. Its open world, great, but after getting through the overly brief and not-so-helpful tutorial, 20 minutes into a mission with no clue how to do anything, the only "fun" is just writing this review.

    Proponents of this game will talk about an online flight manual or similar bs. However, I bought a game to play rather than sign up for a weekend reading project. Is it reasonable to ask a new player to invest hours learning controls and how to navigate the retarded navigation and cockpit mechanics before they know if they even want to play this flaming turd of a game? If a game needs a manual to get through a BEGINNER MISSION, there is an obvious design flaw imo. I'd rather watch bread mold in real-time than spend another minute on this POS.    … Expand
  14. brachypelma44
    Sep 8, 2019
    1
    So, I was really looking forward to this game. I love astronomy, so I figured it would be right up my alley. When I put the game in, the patch required was 21GB. Even though it took me about a month to download (I live in the boonies where the fastest internet is not much better than dialup) I was willing to wait, because after all, it's a game about space stuff, which I love.

    The patch    So, I was really looking forward to this game. I love astronomy, so I figured it would be right up my alley. When I put the game in, the patch required was 21GB. Even though it took me about a month to download (I live in the boonies where the fastest internet is not much better than dialup) I was willing to wait, because after all, it's a game about space stuff, which I love.

    The patch finally finished downloading, I fired the game up, and went into the tutorial missions, which seemed like a good idea since I was a new player, and this might be a somewhat complex game if it's really a space sim. The first tutorial was about basic flight stuff, very easy. Then I went into the second tutorial (landing inside a space station) and...that's it. I was never able to land. As instructed, I put down my landing gear, I aligned my ship so that it was facing away from the entrance, I took the ship down onto the center of the landing pad and BOING! I bounced right off. That's weird. Maybe I missed doing something in the left console? No, there's nothing else in there. Is my landing gear down? Yes. Am I aligned the right way? Yes. Am I at the right landing pad? Yeah, it's pretty hard to miss with the big orange box around it. For another 20 minutes, I tried to land. Bounce, bounce, bounce. Then, I shut the game off. I value my time.

    Here's a free tip for any of you present or future game developers: If players are getting stuck in your tutorial, you're absolutely terrible at your job. I am not someone who needs much hand-holding in video games. I generally figure things out very quickly. If *I* can't get past the tutorial, then there are tons of other people who can't either. Either I was missing a crucial piece of information (bad design) or the tutorial was bugged (which would be even worse...incompetence.)

    I gave the game a 1 because it did boot up properly, and the flight tutorial worked fine. Otherwise, epic fail, guys.    … Expand
  15. kostokc
    Sep 16, 2022
    1
    Terrible, worlds slowest turning and aiming of any game ever. Preselected buttos are hideous and custom settings doesnt accept to set tilting to square and x. There is also million different button actions and none of them shows on controller settings if u forget them. Unplayable bad joke of a game.
  16. Rablefin81
    Oct 12, 2022
    1
    U grind forever or u suk. Open play is empty af and no further updates for console. Rip Elite Hurry tf up Star Citizen
  17. Marker89
    Dec 16, 2020
    2
    The game is super slow on playstation 4 slim. No VR support. Pc version is awesome.
  18. togrind
    May 31, 2023
    0
    Специально зашел с впн. Чтобы сказать как я вам на лицо срал за разделение серверов. Чтобы ваша жадность и пидарство из жопы полезло. Ебливые твари, пидары, шлюхины дети, жадные куски говна, мрази. Срал вам в рот разработчики. Играйте сами ебучие дети шлюх. Сколько уже просили отвязать от онлайна, чтобы можно было играть без подключения к интернету. Ну нет же , зачем слушать игроков. ЛучшеСпециально зашел с впн. Чтобы сказать как я вам на лицо срал за разделение серверов. Чтобы ваша жадность и пидарство из жопы полезло. Ебливые твари, пидары, шлюхины дети, жадные куски говна, мрази. Срал вам в рот разработчики. Играйте сами ебучие дети шлюх. Сколько уже просили отвязать от онлайна, чтобы можно было играть без подключения к интернету. Ну нет же , зачем слушать игроков. Лучше поступим как переваренное трижды. говно и разделим прогресс. Жрите мое говно жадные свиньи . Создам 100 аккаунтов, чтобы утопить нахуй ваш рейтинг дети обоссаных шлюх… Expand
  19. ChaoticChaotix
    Mar 27, 2022
    3
    Whilst this started as a decent space sim with huge potential, it seems a series of possibly bad choices in coding followed by recent bad decisions by it's developer has left this game in quite the sorry state, it has held some great memories for me but has become either stale and stagnant or has been left riddled with bugs after yet another failed launch of a DLC which at this late pointWhilst this started as a decent space sim with huge potential, it seems a series of possibly bad choices in coding followed by recent bad decisions by it's developer has left this game in quite the sorry state, it has held some great memories for me but has become either stale and stagnant or has been left riddled with bugs after yet another failed launch of a DLC which at this late point have left the newer parts of the game feeling almost unplayable, I truly hope this once great game avoids the graveyard.… Expand
  20. MickeyFinn
    Jul 14, 2022
    0
    Not finished. Any space game since Privateer is better and less tortured. Combat is the worst ever. Looong minutes doing nothing during travels. That's the spirit in a game right ? Large ships are bugged af. I lost my first one 3 times in an hour to autodocking bugs.On ps4 just to make $$$, not thinked for the controller. Not thinked at all actually.Ffs the old Frontier games had timeNot finished. Any space game since Privateer is better and less tortured. Combat is the worst ever. Looong minutes doing nothing during travels. That's the spirit in a game right ? Large ships are bugged af. I lost my first one 3 times in an hour to autodocking bugs.On ps4 just to make $$$, not thinked for the controller. Not thinked at all actually.Ffs the old Frontier games had time acceleration and pause to lock the enemies . 90% of what seems good comes from the old games. The rest is just absence of talent with the will to scam.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#97 Best PS4 Game of 2017
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#62 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2017
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#70 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2017

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Feb 8, 2018
    60
    For every moment awed in the presence of a monumental celestial body, there are ten in which you’re lonely, humbled, and really quite bored. [October 2017, p79]
  2. Cubed3
    Dec 12, 2017
    60
    Elite: Dangerous feels a bit like a lifestyle choice, honestly. Getting good at piloting and traversing this universe takes almost as long as a full length game in and of itself. For those who endure, there's some exciting things happening in space, but for the rest, the price might be too high. This is clearly an example of a niche game, a remarkably thorough space sim that requires patience and tenacity to unearth its many secrets. It also requires caring about the universe you're in, and that can often be difficult to do after extended periods of time fighting with the game itself, whether it be through the controls or long stretches of nothing happening. As Carl Sagan once said, though: "The universe seems neither benign nor hostile; merely indifferent."
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  3. CD-Action
    Sep 25, 2017
    85
    If the PS4 edition is you first contact with Elite, you’re in for a treat, as you receive a game that has been evolving for almost 3 years (but hasn’t aged a bit!) along with Horizons expansion. [09/2017, p.30]
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