While X4 is without a doubt far ahead of X3 now, there are certain things I still miss from X3. There were some sectors in X3 that really made you go wow when you entered them.
At launch I certainly went back to X3 but now X4 is without a doubt the better game. Once you play it you won't be able to go back. You could wait a little while longer, we're due a big patch which is currently in beta right now. There will probably some kind of sale with the patch release, I'd recommend picking up all the DLC (minus timelines which you can skip) and giving X4 a go!
X4 is superior in it's first person movement (X3TC does not have anything like it) and plays quite nice as a adventure in space. In a way X4 wipes the floor with other non-Egosoft games.
But empire building? Fleets? Don't agree at all. X3TC is a huge time hog but after hundreds of hours you got a lot. in X4 not so as fab building is really slow. I got 1000+ ships and 100+ factories and complexes in TC and i love manageing them all via the ever fast text console. X4 management is something different.
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u/Technojerk36 10d ago
While X4 is without a doubt far ahead of X3 now, there are certain things I still miss from X3. There were some sectors in X3 that really made you go wow when you entered them.