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Grand Dragon
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Depends on your autism level.Speaking of other space games, is X4 good?
All the X games have the bizarre idea that what you really want to do in a space game is build giant factories that are dependent on other factories, all of which mine resources and churn out ships. Why? Because numbers. Numbers go up, feels good.
And that's the game. The story is usually crap, the space battles are like a cheap copy of Freelancer.
For me, it's pure boredom and completely misses the point of a space game, which is exploration, combat and building yourself up from whatever cheap ship to an ace pilot - something the X series treats like the early game, before you get to the autistic factory building that's the core of the game.
Wing Commander, Freelancer, Freespace, Frontier. None of these games had absurd, menu-driven factory boredom.