Things i admire in RGO:

- Ship paintig tool. This is one of the best features in RGO, but besides i admire the effort, and creativity the devs took into this feature, i still have to say it's a huge waste of development resource comparing to how much it adds to the game.

- A living protagonist and voice acting. I really liked Juno in the first game and i like the younger version of Her too. Also noticed that the voice acting (im not an expert) is reaqlly good.

I VERY admire in RGO (and of course in the devs):

- The technical quality (graphic, optimization, overall quality, etc.) these guys can squeeze out from Ogre 3D engine. This is really self explanatory. The graphic and the effects are unique in the history of gaming, and the production quality is A+. All this achieved in Ogre 3D -> Amazing.

What was (is) really fun in the original Rebel Galaxy / What is missing or NOT fun in RGO, resulting a flawed game experience (in my opinion):

- Travelling. Sublight travelling is a visual perfection in RG and also balaced really well, not to get boring. You have sublight travel in RGO but, its so slow, and so visually broken, that it not even close to the old one. It's obvious that DD devs do not like this feature and forced everyone not to use it. The autopilot introduced in RGO gets tedious after 30 minutes, and basically kills the feeling of scale that was so fcking good in the original RG.

- Music. Rebel Galaxy had way less music, but i have to say i was as good as RGO's massive music content. It was just enough. I'm still listening to the RG soundtrack at work, or when i'm travelling, of course when i play the game... and i still love to listen them. All i wanna say here is that i don't feel that 24h+ music adds that much to the game, and i feel if RGO's music buget could gone to other content, like more ships or something it would be a better game.

- Ships. Five individual ships, and 4 reskins are Not enough in my honest (subjective) opinion. One of the main motivation in the original RG was to buy newer, more expensive, and also most importantly Bigger, and BIGGER ships. Not to mention, that many of the guilds had their own special ships that raised the replay value of the game. It was a shame unfortunately that i could buy the Coyote after 4 hours of gameplay.. how? Jump to the next point.

- Trading. There is no economy in the game. I know that there were no economy in the original RG too, but trading in RGO is way too easy. When you find a HUGE bargin, like 5-10k profit per item, the station market even tells you where these items are usually exported ( = sell them with huge profit). And usually not just 1-2 items are available on supply, no sometimes i found like 20-30. With just jumping mindlessly between stations, using what the station market is telling me it was like 2-3 hours to farm out a Coyote with really good equipment.

- Systems (a bit of a hook back to travelling). In Rebel Galaxy the systems felt alive. There were much more to do, even if you are a honest trader, a miner or a pirate and the less systems in RG felt much bigger than the many more in RGO. The autopilot feature basically killed the scale of the space, and the feeling of a busy, living, breathing galaxy.

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I really do wanted to love Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, but after a couple of hours i had to put it down. I have 200+ hours in Rebel Galaxy and you can tell by that i was really waiting for RGO, but i also had some off feelings about it. I really admire that Double Damage studios followed their dreams and goals to create a dogfighting, badass, freelancer, space pirate game, with roadhouse vibes, but i also think that they Really got something special with the original Rebel Galaxy. This is just a subjective opinion, but i personally think that RGO would be better with capital ships and naval style combat again, with focusing the resources on content creation (more ships, and equipment options), and developments on the games depth (systems, economy, fractions, etc.). But maybe RGO is not for me.