Did anyone see this from Stardock?

[Moriarty]

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

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! ).


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]

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]

Realtime multiplayer?!?

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

[AstralWanderer]

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.

[Moriarty]

It's simple because it's multiplayer friendly. I couldnt imagine playing SE in realtime multiplayer

I imagine that sucks for the people who brought SOTS solely for the single-player.

[Atrocities]

Oh I am a bit angry about something.

Over three years ago I designed a set of ships for the tournament. I posted images of a few of the ships here and there and even one or two were chosen by David Gervais, Malfador, and SFI for use with some of their fine art work for their games.

Now I look through the game images for this game and I see something that just angers me to no end. (Screen shot from gamespot.com)

You compare and tell me what you think.

[Fyron]

I think there isn't really any similarity, other than both ships using a really generic style. Both of them are just as similar to human destroyers from Babylon 5 (at least, the ones with artificial gravity and no rotating bit) as they are to each other; just general shape.

[Mephisto]

They remind me of the destroyers used in "Homeworld". One of their early games IIRC...