Did anyone see this from Stardock?

StarShadow · #1 October 19th, 2006, 03:22 AM

I second that.

Yimboli · #2 October 19th, 2006, 10:12 AM

one of the reasons I love this forum and keep coming back! even though malfador engrages me on occasion

Astax · #3 October 28th, 2006, 12:30 AM

God this explains the ****ty review one of Brad's buddies gave to SOTS. SOTS is entirely identical game only it is already out :/

Moriarty · #4 October 28th, 2006, 08:03 AM

Anyone else notice the way the stardock representative slipped a mention of galciv2 in to the PR?

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God this explains the ****ty review one of Brad's buddies gave to SOTS. SOTS is entirely identical game only it is already out :/

Maybe. But SOTS really isn't that good of a game (IMHO).
Outside of the pretty combat there is very little to do. Where the Space Empires games are about as complex a game as I've ever found, SOTS is so simple I suspect my mum wouldn't take more than a week to learn it well (that's damn quick for her!

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I'll be interested to see Sins of a solar empire and compare it with the other offerings in the 4x realm this year.

Come to think of it. - Four 4x games in one year (gc2, se5, SOTS, now this) is a LOT. I suspect the average is less than 1. Enjoy them while you can folks, the sequals won't be out for years yet.

Astax · #5 October 29th, 2006, 09:38 AM

It's simple because it's multiplayer friendly. I couldnt imagine playing SE in realtime multiplayer. But there is plenty of strategy to be learned.

Suicide Junkie · #6 October 29th, 2006, 10:51 AM

Realtime multiplayer?!?

Space Empires games are turn based strategy. Most definitely not an RTS, thank Xintis.

AstralWanderer · #7 October 30th, 2006, 11:22 AM

This looked interesting - but given that Stardock now require online activation for their software, I'll give it a miss. Having been "burnt" with GalCiv2 (bought it for the lack of CD-checks and now cannot run it with the 1.3 update - still waiting for an activation code from Stardock since applying on the 19th Oct) I'll be giving all their products a miss in future.

Their online activation may be more lenient than most (the key can be stored to allow future installs but is machine/software specific so a new machine needs re-activation) but it still has the ability to cause problems - especially if Stardock ever stop supplying keys at any point in the future.