>>717778692 (OP)I tried playing X4. I played all of the tutorials which took about 2+ hours. Then I played the first storyline
1) The ship controls and jetpack controls in this game are bad somehow. All they had to do was copy any space game to get it right, and yet did their own scheme and it's bad. Especially the Up/Down (W/S) decision to go up down instead of Space and Ctrl.
2) The menu system is insane. It feels like an Eastern European game because there's menus inside of menus inside of menus and there's buttons with unicolored indistinct iconography everywhere.
3) The controls in general are trash. The same way that microsoft excel has shortcuts that were created in 1985, this game feels like it's carrying X1 controls from 1998. A menu system that you open with Enter? Whose buttons don't move with WASD?? Additional menus on the right side of the keyboard??? An overmenu through Esc? Freelancer figured out space controls in 2001 and WoW figured out larger world menu systems in 2004. There's no reason for this game to have a UI and UX this cluttered. Scam Citizen does MORE than X4 and has a much cleaner UI.
4) The story and voice acting is pretty bad, but that's okay. These are hard to get right.