I feel very neutral about X4, and can go one way or the other in a Good/bad review, but I'm choosing No, that it shouldn't be recommended. Mostly..... just disappointed in more areas, than I'm excited about in continuing to play.

So for the "NO" side.... Missions in game for story-line type are decent, but a lot of the missions you need to stop... research online how to do things... then hope you can do them in game. Even reading the briefing on missions doesn't tell you a whole lot when you get to your destination, and then what you need to do. have to constantly get into a different screen for maps, missions, searching for ships... not very intuitive and doesn't flow nicely with Keyboard commands or a Xbox controller. Oh and no multiplayer, which I knew when I purchased… but seriously? A game with so much design for missions, markets, purchasing, combat, exploring…. And no multiplayer? Was very turned-off by character voice-overs, animation, missions scenes with NPCs.... just very laughable for a game that was released in 2018. Just overall from these "NO" items, doesn't make the game very entertaining for me to play. Very frustrating overall, and can’t see myself pouring similar hours in other space sims I’ve played.

For the "YES" side... Ship upgrade and market is very nicely done. Some great loop-holes if you can figure it out to make money. Love the ship designs, love ship upgrading, flight simulation I think is great. Some people have a hard time on landing, but I think it was nicely done by devs. Mods are out there to make things easier for search modes, market's, etc, which makes good improvements to the game in some of those areas. Lots of videos out there to help people perform actions, demo's starting out for users.

So again, I can go either way on this, and would really really really like someone to change my mind. I’m a huge fan of flight sims and space sims, which you can see the number of hours I poured into them on my profile. With that in mind, I'll allow comments to my post here, so people can try to bring me back in, and would if the comments were constructive.

I feel very neutral about X4, and can go one way or the other in a Good/bad review, but I'm choosing No, that it shouldn't be recommended. Mostly..... just disappointed in more areas, than I'm excited about in continuing to play. So for the "NO" side.... Missions in game for story-line type are decent, but a lot of the missions you need to stop... research online how to do things... then hope you can do them in game. Even reading the briefing on missions doesn't tell you a whole lot when you get to your destination, and then what you need to do. have to constantly get into a different screen for maps, missions, searching for ships... not very intuitive and doesn't flow nicely with Keyboard commands or a Xbox controller. Oh and no multiplayer, which I knew when I purchased… but seriously? A game with so much design for missions, markets, purchasing, combat, exploring…. And no multiplayer? Was very turned-off by character voice-overs, animation, missions scenes with NPCs.... just very laughable for a game that was released in 2018. Just overall from these "NO" items, doesn't make the game very entertaining for me to play. Very frustrating overall, and can’t see myself pouring similar hours in other space sims I’ve played. For the "YES" side... Ship upgrade and market is very nicely done. Some great loop-holes if you can figure it out to make money. Love the ship designs, love ship upgrading, flight simulation I think is great. Some people have a hard time on landing, but I think it was nicely done by devs. Mods are out there to make things easier for search modes, market's, etc, which makes good improvements to the game in some of those areas. Lots of videos out there to help people perform actions, demo's starting out for users. So again, I can go either way on this, and would really really really like someone to change my mind. I’m a huge fan of flight sims and space sims, which you can see the number of hours I poured into them on my profile. With that in mind, I'll allow comments to my post here, so people can try to bring me back in, and would if the comments were constructive.