Its pretty good but you cant leave your seat so it is a game with quite different scope compared to SC or Hellion.
[12:11.49] <Caiaphas> walking around is the most important feature in any game about spaceships
[12:12.52] <Caiaphas> how can i possibly enjoy a spaceship game in space if i can't go take a **** in my ship's toilet?
It's also the only thing SC has that ED doesn't. And spacelegs is something Frontier is working on (and unlike CIG, they've been pretty good about delivering that sort of content regularly). What happens when it's added and ED has everything SC has + a whole actual game?
its important for muh immersion, like it or not it is a MAJOR selling point of SC (and Hellion).
I hope ED adds it too but hopefully it wont end up like their implementation of procedural planets, with very little gameplay depth and little stuff to do
which is actually a problem with Elite Dangerous in general
Elite is not a bad game at all but it is not some kind of a shining gem either
Actually this whole space sim renaissance has yet to deliver a game that could be considered above average. Even when it comes to Hellion alpha, as much as I love the concept, I expect it to suffer from serious lack of content.
I remain positive though, between SC working on 3.0, ED slowly but surely moving towards space legs, and now Hellion, we may yet get something actually good to play in time.