X3: Reunion, Guide Dang It: The Game Options

[Tanegar]

I really feel like I should have given this game more of a chance. On paper, it sounds awesome: an open-world space sim, where you can trade, fight, and explore to your heart's content, and oh yeah there's also a story if you want to pursue it. It's kind of like EVE Online, only minus the aggravation of dealing with other human beings. The problem is that after the tutorial mission, it drops you in the middle of this gigantic universe, tells you absolutely nothing more, and says, "Go to it." It's so bad, you need a guide to tell you where the exits from your current zone are! Your starter ship's sensors are inexplicably short-ranged (this being, you know, space and all), and in spite of the starter area being ostensibly inhabited and presumably well-mapped, you don't have anything resembling a navigational chart. It's like the developers went out of their way to provide the player with as little information as possible. I'll probably reinstall it at some point and have another go, but it's just so damned frustrating having to alt-tab to GameFAQs every thirty seconds, not to find out what I'm supposed to be doing, but just to know what I can do.