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Old October 18th, 2006, 08:22 AM
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Default Re: Did anyone see this from Stardock?

Interesting, I just saw that on Gamespot few minutes before you guys posted it here.

Sounds very interesting and promising.
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Old October 18th, 2006, 08:29 AM
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Default Re: Did anyone see this from Stardock?

I'd have more to say if the games link worked, still I seem to recall the name. I might have seen some of it awhile ago. I wasn't very impressed.

Edit: got around to it. Certainly wasn't the one I had in mind. The screenshots DO look impressive enough.
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Old October 18th, 2006, 09:17 AM
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Links fixed. Thanks for the heads up, Randallw.
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Old October 18th, 2006, 10:26 AM
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This game has been on the periphery of my radar for a few weeks. Some of the screenshots look pretty fun.

EDIT: But at a release of August 2007, that's quite a ways off.
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Old October 18th, 2006, 10:29 AM
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Default Re: Did anyone see this from Stardock?

The screenshots all look like Empires at war combat (which is a good thing, the only thing I liked about that game) but if it is real time per their statment it won't be for me. I'm too much of a slow thinker when it comes to what ships to build and such. I'd be playing the game feeling rushed not rushing to play the game. I'll have to see a demo to see how they pull off the RT part, simplify rest way too much?
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Old October 18th, 2006, 11:00 AM
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Indeed.
The sample game story on that main page includes a point about breaking away from a critical underdog battle to deal with an enemy invasion elsewhere before returning to it and hoping things went well in your absense
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I think it's a bit too much to say that it's the "birth" of the RT4X genre, considering that, while might it not be major, it has existed for sometime (IG1/2, Homeworld 1/2, etc).
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The screen shots look ok but nothing “new”ish. I hope they plan for more than three generic races and give it some originality; like the Eee for example. The ship set examples look good but two sets are to dark for my tastes. At least that would fit the theme. I certainly wouldn’t call it genre-defining, or most any other high powered description for that matter. Nope; I think I’ll wait for the discounted version at my local PX.
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I think it's a bit too much to say that it's the "birth" of the RT4X genre, considering that, while might it not be major, it has existed for sometime (IG1/2, Homeworld 1/2, etc).
It is being made by former HW programmers....
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