Much better alternative games out there, I recommend the X series personally if you like management/strategy. X4 is good and X3 is a classic with a slightly worse learning curve.
And if you don't want that there is Elite Dangerous.
You could even make an argument that No Man Sky is also a good alternative.
Star Citizen was a product of the rush for "realism", most of the promise was AAA graphics in a space game which was rare up to that point.
But now the world moved on AAA graphics are everywhere now, we are about to see Unreal Engine 5 release push that further. Heck even Unity can look great in certain ways(nature rendering, large scale RTS stuff).
Disregard the development hell and scams, the premise was that Star Citizen would be THE definitive AAA realistic graphics reference and well that is a failure now. That shitty Amazon engine is a huge burden too.
Maybe if they moved everything to UE5 and set a 3 year release date(2025) no matter what the game would be salvageable but that wont happen.
Much better alternative games out there, I recommend the X series personally if you like management/strategy. X4 is good and X3 is a classic with a slightly worse learning curve. And if you don't want that there is Elite Dangerous. You could even make an argument that No Man Sky is also a good alternative.
Star Citizen was a product of the rush for "realism", most of the promise was AAA graphics in a space game which was rare up to that point. But now the world moved on AAA graphics are everywhere now, we are about to see Unreal Engine 5 release push that further. Heck even Unity can look great in certain ways(nature rendering, large scale RTS stuff).
Disregard the development hell and scams, the premise was that Star Citizen would be THE definitive AAA realistic graphics reference and well that is a failure now. That shitty Amazon engine is a huge burden too.
Maybe if they moved everything to UE5 and set a 3 year release date(2025) no matter what the game would be salvageable but that wont happen.
Ahhh the hours put into X3 bring back fond memories. Setting up a space trucking empire delivering solar cells. Good times.