GameSpot Review Posted Online

Phoenix-D · #1 November 4th, 2006, 08:41 PM

Its been reported, but not fixed (he did some changes to happyness, but not THAT part of happyness..)

AAshbery76 · #2 November 4th, 2006, 10:53 PM

Why the hell SFI didn't wait another few months before releasing the game is beyond belief.The game would have got 8+/10 reviews and sold a lot more.

thorfrog · #3 November 4th, 2006, 11:26 PM

Since when is a score of 6.6 ever good? A good number would be 7.5 or 8.0. Anything less is real bad. That is like the death sentence. I think gamespot was being polite considering this was developed by one person. When you release a game it needs to play out of the box. You may have a few bugs but the game play should be solid. In it's current relase it just sux.

This game really needed a larger staff to help develope. Not to mention features added that have been requested for a very long time. I honestly feel very let down by this release. I've been looking forward to this for some time and at this point I think GalCiv2 is probably calling now. (I've been holding off for a while) There are so many items wrong with this release I just don't know where to begin. Well my gripes with the game are with bad ground combat concept, problems with weapon design/balance, lack of unique ruin tech, no roaming monsters/pirates, etc. I know the "mods will correct this responce".

By the way Master of Orion 3 beats out SEV by a score of 6.7 Feb 2003 Gamespot. This has to be the worst release of this type of game ever. Even Birth of the Federation beats it by a score of 7.9. I hope Aaron is taking notes on this. I really would like this game to succeed.

Atrocities · #4 November 4th, 2006, 11:27 PM

The bugs were the main reason for the 6.6 fair review that GS gave the game. They were VERY fair to the game in the review.

Azselendor · #5 November 4th, 2006, 11:32 PM

It boils down to money most of the time. Aaron needs to pay his bills and SE4, DO, and Starfury are both at the end of their product lives.

thorfrog · #6 November 4th, 2006, 11:40 PM

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Azselendor said:
It boils down to money most of the time. Aaron needs to pay his bills and SE4, DO, and Starfury are both at the end of their product lives.

Sadly you are right. But like always when a product like this is rushed out the door you lose more future sales. Just review the MOO3 saga as a good example of lack of forsite. That game could have made big bucks but they dropped the ball with bugs.

Suicide Junkie · #7 November 4th, 2006, 11:59 PM

I totally think they should have let the fanatics buy it early online, and do the full retail push once it had been patched up.

Atrocities · #8 November 5th, 2006, 12:50 AM

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Suicide Junkie said:
I totally think they should have let the fanatics buy it early online, and do the full retail push once it had been patched up.

That would have been the ideal thing to have done. That way the total fan boys could report the bugs so that the official retail version was shipped in a far better state than the it was.

Hindsight.... is always 20/20.

Atrocities · #9 November 5th, 2006, 12:54 AM

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Sadly you are right. But like always when a product like this is rushed out the door you lose more future sales. Just review the MOO3 saga as a good example of lack of forsite. That game could have made big bucks but they dropped the ball with bugs.

However unlike MOO3, SE V won't go down in history as the largest POS game ever released. Unlike Moo3, SE V will continue to be improved by its developer and publisher. And unlike MOO3, it wasn't released as an as is alpha version after the development team had been fired just so the publisher could recoup some of the development costs at the expense of the fans.

MOO3 was indeed the best example of screwing the fans that I have ever seen, even more so than what VUG did to the Tribes fans.

AgentZero · #10 November 5th, 2006, 12:58 AM

I think 6.6 is a pretty good review for the game in it's current state. It would have been nice if they hadn't noticed the game for a couple more weeks so that the most glaring bugs could have been ironed out, but on the other hand, Aaron does have to eat.
Still, at least they mentioned Aaron's fantastic track record for patching, and given that 4X games are still a niche market, I wouldn't be surprised if that review ended up generating a few sales. After all, if you're starved for turn based 4X games, and someone tells you, "It ain't great now, but it will be soon," aren't you likely to if not buy it right away, put it on your wishlist for a few months time?
In my experience, those who whine endlessly about bugs ruining a game tend to be FPS twitch-kiddies. TBS grongards have a bit more patience by definition.