I agree with whoever said Elite Dangerous is like Flight Simulator in space, with guns.

It surely has it's slow moments, and a steep learning curve but if you always wanted to feel like it would be to explore space and believe will be dead before Space X to get us there this is the game for you. At it's core the game wants to give you a reasonably realistic experience of what is to fly a nice spaceship and how much you'll enjoy the game is based on how much you like this idea.

It's a nice VR experience too I heard but I can't confirm this since I don't own any VR myself.

It's on sale right now by the way.

No, this is not sponsored. :P