Ouch. Well, I personally had a blast with it. Only played the original a few years ago so there wasn’t any ingrained nostalgia or fan-level expectation to get in the way. But yeah, it’ll definitely go down as a flawed experience even for the people who enjoyed it, especially come GOTY time.

Also, much to everyone’s relief, I’m putting an end to the space trading. I got to a line of missions where the game wanted me to stockpile astronomical amounts of resources that would take RL months (months!!!) to complete. If there’s anything I hate about video games, it’s grinding. So yeah, that about wraps it up for X3.