{"id":2486,"date":"2012-01-15T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2012-01-15T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T16:46:38","slug":"x3-and-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"X3 and Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2487\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2487\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/x3AP_vs_elite-150x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"X3: Albion Prelude (2011) vs. Elite (1986\/1988)\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/x3AP_vs_elite-150x93.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/x3AP_vs_elite-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/x3AP_vs_elite-1024x640.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/x3AP_vs_elite.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>probably doesn&#8217;t surprise anybody that I&#8217;ve added &#8220;X3: Albion Prelude&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egosoft.com\/games\/x3ap\/info_en.php\">Egosoft<\/a>) to my collection of playable games. This is supposed to be an expansion to &#8220;X3:Terran Conflict&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=X3&#038;searchsubmit=Search\">earlier on xsamplex<\/a>), but to be honest, it doesn&#8217;t feel like that: from what I can tell is that some of the X3:TC features aren&#8217;t there. It feels more like a stand-alone game than an expansion, which makes the $9.99 price it sold at initially a very reasonable price. Alright: this is not supposed to be a review of sorts, so,\n<\/p>\n<p>The reason I bring up X3 is that the joy playing this game stems from the initial skirmishes I had in the MSX version of Elite, like, way back in the late 80s (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2212\">earlier<\/a>). At one time I showed someone some X3 gameplay, and I was asked what &#8216;the point is of travelling for hours without doing anything at all&#8217;. Which is true: the game doesn&#8217;t have real goals (besides the missions). The only goal in the game is whatever the player wants to make out of it. On your own pace.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is also what set Elite apart, 25 or so years ago, and it was indeed one of the most successful games ever made. I wish X3 would get the same attention as I believe Egosoft is doing something remarkable here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It probably doesn&#8217;t surprise anybody that I&#8217;ve added &#8220;X3: Albion Prelude&#8221; (Egosoft) to my collection of playable games. This is supposed to be an expansion to &#8220;X3:Terran Conflict&#8221; (earlier on xsamplex), but to be honest, it doesn&#8217;t feel like that: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,39],"tags":[400,248,240,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}