OT: SE4 players thoughts on OTHER games

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by Puke:


X:beyond the frontier (with/without x-tension): sounded cool, never really looked at it. how much strategy and economics were there? or was owning space stations simply a way to make money, and the economics were not really developed?

I have played both of them for a long time, but the concept was more or less boring at the end. Most of it is economics, buying stations or remote mining of asteroids, producing different stuff and move/sell it around the galaxy either by remote control of transport ships which can be programmed with buy/sell price thresholds. The most fun of it was capturing pirate ships and sell or use them. Elite-like missions from time to time, pirate bases to destroy or to make deals with. You can live as a pirate also, every ship can be captured, best in lonely quadrants. Graphics and handling are really great! I have heard about the next generation, should be multiplayer as far as I know, but you still can not land on planets. I am not sure yet if it is worth a try.

[Lemmy]

I have heard about the next generation, should be multiplayer as far as I know, but you still can not land on planets. I am not sure yet if it is worth a try.

Well, there is X-Online, which is a massive multiplayer game in a persistent universe, and X2, which is a sequel to the original X, and a singleplayer game.

[Tenryu]

Awaiting MOO3 impatiently.

GalCon, bought the beta. Looks pretty good.

Stars Super Nova, sigh, {gets out old copy of Stars!, lovingly dusts it off, and hopes for the best for them}

The rest of the lot not really to my liking.

[Puke]

regarding linear political progression in galciv:

i mean, from what i read, that you go from imperal to republic to democracy to federation. each one is better than the Last, and harder to maintain. there are no choices, you cant get different benefits from a democracy or a republic or a oligarchy. you cant choose a socialist or capitalist economy.

you dont decide anything or make any tradeoffs, you just progress from one to the next. or, in theory, move backwards if you were having a better time maintaining party power in a previous form of government.

[Atrocities]

GALCIV:
I not really interested.

MOO3:
I wish people who do not yet have the game, would stop reviewing it. (It's not even out!)

S!SNG:
What is it?

X2:The Threat:
What is it?

Freelancer:
More of the same.

Elite4:
Release date: "When Hell Freezes Over"

Imperium Galactica 3:
Looks interesting, nice looking graphics, ? on game play.

Star Peace (name has changed):
Not at all interested.

Your foregot:

Stars Super Nova Genisis:
Looks like it will be a great game, but they can't publish it. That means the likely hood of it ever being released are remote.

Space Empires V
Now your talkin

"and on the shorter list, games currently out that I am aware of:"

Starships Unlimited: seems to be very limited. the focus was supposed to be ship design and combat, but i found this to be less detailed than in SE4. If there was more to it than what was in the demo, no one ever let on.

Agreed

X:beyond the frontier (with/without x-tension):
Not my thing

Battlecruiser Millenium:
Lame

Homeworld and sequel:
Fun game for about the first five minutes. Anyone wanna by my disk?

Hegimonia:
Never heard of it.

Lets face it, there are many games out there that promis what SEIV already dilivers, but when it comes time to put their money where their mouth is, they push back there release date in order to "steal" the good ideas of SEIV and code them into their games. (Moo3??)

In the eight years that I have been playing games, 4x games have been really limited. I can only remember about five or six games that actually dilivered on addictive game play. Moo, Moo2, Rebellion, BOTF, *Stars and *SEIII (*I never did play them as I did not know about them. )

[Desdinova]

i have been waiting for a good sequal to the wing commander privateer series so freelancer sounds good to me.
getting back into arcanum, moo2, stars, and mechwarrior series.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

S!SNG:
What is it?

....

Your foregot:

Stars Super Nova Genisis:
Looks like it will be a great game, but they can't publish it. That means the likely hood of it ever being released are remote.

[/QB]

I think you answered your question