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Originally posted by Shyrka:
There was a game called Ascendancy. The most remarkable thing was the races, with very elaborated concepts, and the shipsets. There was also very logic and advanced technologies. A good game 4X game, i think.
What do you think?
Ascendancy. I spent one night, form 9pm to 8 am, playing Ascendancy non-stop. My wife was quite mad
The game had its charm, there really was something about it
But, one night was enough to figure out that the AI sucked and the game had major bugs that were never fixed.
That game had great potential. But the attitude of the developers was just opposite to MM's. It's a real pity.
Still, that game had lots of fresh ideas and I don't resent buying it. You may laugh, but one of the things I enjoy is comparing ideas of different 4x games and the ways they are executed.
I even buy games sometimes just to "analyze" them and to figure out what they invented and how they applied the old ideas to their game. One remarkable game in that respect was SF: Birth Of the Federation. Lots of great ideas, but the implrmrntation sucked. Oh well.
Aub