Re: Official SE5 release date announced
 

True is we don't know either. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

Re: Official SE5 release date announced
 

Any spoilers on the music? Would be great if they took after MoO2 in terms of soundtrack quality.

Re: Official SE5 release date announced
 

They hired some commercial outfit that does game soundtracks. It's not as impressive as that rumbling intro to SE III http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif but it's reasonable. I don't find it particularly distinctive, though.

Re: Official SE5 release date announced - Septembe
 

No, actually.

But we've still got a few weeks before the Gold disc hits the shelves so the 1.0x patch that will (hopefully) fix the worst problems still has time to get ready.

Re: Official SE5 release date announced - Septembe
 

MUST HAVE SOME INFORMATION PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Official SE5 release date announced
 

Oh no! I'll be playing with the sound off then. I'm one of the few people who really likes the music with SE4. I think more of the same would have been great for SE5. Something dark and swirling. Robert Rich, Aphex Twin, one of the artists distributed by Manifold Records...that sort of thing.

I dark ambient music so maybe I'll just play some of my own stuff during SE5.

Most computer game music is pretty bad...unless you're between the ages of 14 and 20, which I have not been for a very, VERY long time...

Re: Official SE5 release date announced
 

I'd say game music 10'ish years ago was pure excellence, in many cases. Wacraft 2, Diablo 1, Daggerfall, Dune 1/2, Transport Tycoon, HoM&M2, etc. Some later games like Homeworld and Medieval TW have done a nice job as well.
Can't remember any new games with outstanding soundtracks, though.

Official SE5 release date announced
 

The Strategy First says in the features section:

"Huge Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each"????

What about SEIV 255 star Systems??

Please tell me there can be at least 1000 solar systems!

Re: Official SE5 release date announced
 

Around 100 systems was the default for SE:IV as well, so I wouldn't worry too much on that account.

1000 systems would..not work. That isn't micromanagement hell, that's kicked OUT of hell micromanagement.

Re: Official SE5 release date announced
 

255 is the max.