Anyone here played Starshatter?

iceboy · #1 July 24th, 2004, 10:40 PM

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I edited the title as it was WAY to long. Please keep it short.

Atrocities

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Gandalf Parker · #2 July 24th, 2004, 11:35 PM

This seems to be your only post here. Have you tried the game Space Empires IV from Shrapnel Games?
What did you think about it?

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Phoenix-D · #3 July 25th, 2004, 12:42 AM

Would be more appropriate in the SF forum anyway; Space Empires IV and Starshatter have very little in common. Only played the Starshatter demo, but:

SS is full 3d, SF is on a 2d plane. That means SS has more depth (heh) that way but is harder to control. Actually SF is much easier to control all around, and also easier to mod. You pay for that with less flexibility, though.

Starshatter doesn't have trading, but it -does- have dynamic campaigns; the best you can manage with SF is semi dynamic.

SS does have a air-to-ground component but frankly it looks like ***. In space I think the graphics are about even..not 100% sure. SS has a more realistic scale, it seems, especially as planet sizes go. SF doesn't have a fighter combat component, really.

IMHO the two games are in similar but not quite identical genera; you'd be better off comparing Starshatter to Freespace 2 (it fares poorly, but then again ANYTHING fares poorly when you set it against Freespace)

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JLS · #4 July 25th, 2004, 12:58 AM

A gamer on a budget point of view.

I like and enjoy the flexibility and depth in most - if not all the Shrapnel games.

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No offense Iceboy: I was not that impressed with the depth in some of the Matrix Games and wish I never spent the money

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Cyclop · #5 July 26th, 2004, 12:10 PM

I too have purchased a handful of Matrix games and liked them but never to the point of playing one for 4+ years.
Best money (time spent and value) I've spent was on every purchase of SEIV. Who needs another cheesy (sorry Narf) 3D sim in another overcrowded genre.

Gandalf Parker · #6 July 26th, 2004, 04:33 PM

Yeah I ended up here because of Dominions (1 and 2) but thinking along the same lines. I was in a very regular 1-new-game-a-month cycle and was surprised to find a game that just would not die!

It went from machine to machine as I upgraded.

Now I have SEIV which is obviously another game-of-the-undead. I enjoyed playing M.U.L.E. again in the Space HoRSE remake. And Im beginning to get good vibes about TWE. All from Shrapnel.

OK there are a few games I miss that I think should be everliving. And I see efforts going on for remakes of them. Im going to contact the developers and try to connect them up with Shrapnel. MUHAHAHahahahaa! more More MORE!

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