I'm so buying this. I was hooked on X3 and its many mods

Looks like this iteration of the series will require an upgrade of my hardware, so I suppose Rebirth is quite a good fit as a name.

That'll be the end of the longest stretch without an upgrade since 1991. The current setup did its job since shortly after the release of Age of Conan in May of 2008. That's 64 months at 10+ hours a day, slaving away as a gaming rig and HTPC. It was the 8th CPU since '91, the 12th video card -- and they're still running just as smooth as ever.

Maybe I'll get some more Cat 5 and use this box as a dedicated HTPC...

Single player EVE?

Except it does the thing that keeps me from being able to get into EVE.. you actually *fly* the ship.

Ship at 1:48 had NO INFLUENCES from B.S.G. at all. No sir.

I just realized I haven't really played a space sim since the days of X-Wing and Wing Commander, might be time to remedy that. My first gen USB Saitek X36 flightstick and throttle have been in mothballs for so long I wonder if they'll still work.

Despite Egosoft and/or their publishers being borderline contemptuous towards fans wanting the merest smidgeon of information about the game's progress over the past few years, and the fact it'll be buggy as crap for a good year after launch... I can't wait! It's going to be awesome.

I really hope they've made it a little more user friendly this time. I adore x3 and 4 but playing them feels disturbingly like having a job, everything is always 2 or 3 menu's/clicks further away than it could be and the technicalities of trading, expansion etc. are really hard to penetrate.

Don't get me wrong I do like my games to make me work for a living and have a healthy learning curve but X I always found frequently strayed slightly to the wrong side of the fun/work line.

@Chairman_woo, they claim it's easier to use - they would. It's certainly different and is based around context-sensitive commands. I've seen some of the UI in another video (edit: Trading and Mining, I think, I don't remember when but it's worth watching the whole video anyway) and I believe it works something like when you've selected (by pressing the 'target' key when aiming at it) one of your mining ships and you aim at an asteroid, the 'use' button will tell the captain to mine that.

As I recall, doing this in previous X games was something like going through a menu to select the mining ship, going through a menu to select 'mine', then going through a menu to select an asteroid, then quitting that menu to check the name again because you forgot, and then going through a menu to select an asteroid.

I was very dubious about only being to fly a single spacecraft (yes, literally one ship the whole game - I didn't believe it when I first read it either) but I've been impressed by it's implementation. I wouldn't say I'm 100% convinced, but I'm prepared to hear them out as it were. One very good ship is better than 10,000 crap ones but this rather breaks down if it's not a very good ship.