Official SE5 release date announced - September 12

[Artaud]

Baron Munchausen said:
They hired some commercial outfit that does game soundtracks.

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...

[Raapys]

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.

[leo1434]

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!

[Phoenix-D]

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.

[Captain Kwok]

255 is the max.

[dogscoff]

Captain Kwok said:
255 is the max.

Boo! I want stupidly-giant uber galaxies with hundreds of AIs milling about. After all, we'll all still be playing se5 4 or 5 years from now, and PC tech will have advanced to make that more than manageable by then.

I thought giant galaxies had already been announced as a feature of se5..?

[Captain Kwok]

There was talk of, but for some reason or another it never happened.