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October 3rd, 2007, 06:30 AM
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Re: [OT] 4X games?
Hmm, I've having trouble coming up with any titles that fit all three of "great, old, and not talked about".
Closest thing that comes to mind is Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire, but I tend to think of Civilization-type games as a separate genre, rather than part of 4X.
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October 3rd, 2007, 10:19 AM
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Re: [OT] 4X games?
Hmm, there's Ascendancy, although I suppose it's not all that 'unknown'. There's also slightly different games, like Reunion and Fragile Allegiance. |
October 3rd, 2007, 10:50 AM
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Re: [OT] 4X games?
http://neurohack.com/anacreon/
Anacreon - an ancient 4X game (originally in ASCII!) which had artificial world construction, "spice worlds", and lots of other cool stuff, probably long before the genre was even called 4X 
edit: oh, and let's not forget Star Lords, a prototype for Master of Orion! This game was actually released as freeware a while back...
http://moo3.quicksilver.com/game/starlords.html
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October 3rd, 2007, 08:39 PM
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Re: [OT] 4X games?
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October 4th, 2007, 07:49 PM
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Re: [OT] 4X games?
The reason the genre is called 4X is quite simply because when you pronounce the words Expand, Explore, Exploit and Exterminate the 'E' is silent and therefor was coined 4X.
End of the mystery,.. next!
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October 26th, 2007, 12:12 PM
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Re: [OT] 4X games?
Quote:
David E. Gervais said:
...the 'E' is silent...
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 ROTFL! That's quite an xtraordinary accent you must have. How xactly does anyone understand you? It must be xciting! 
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