Best 4 X Game To Date

[Captain Kwok]

Ah, someone has betrayed us all and voted for a non-SE4 title!

[Pax]

I voted "other".

First off, I kind of disqualified Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri / Alien Crossfire -- it's SF themed, but not truly a Space 4X game per se -- or it would have won out, hands down.

...

So instead, IMO it's currently a tie between SE4 (v1.49 only so far, ordering SE4/Gold soon!) ... and MOO2. Stars! comes in a close second to that tie.

I won't vote clearly for SE4 just yet, since it's (for me) still got hte blush of newness on it, and I mgiht tire of the sheer length of an SE4 game in the next year or so.

MOO2 (barring current video card conflicts) regularly returns to my HD for a month or three at a time.

SMAC/SMAX (the SF-but-not-space game I mentioned above) makes repeated visits to my HD, sometimes staying resident for a year or more.

Hopefully, SE4 will do likewise, having a space essentially reserved for it on the HD near-perpetually.

[Atrocities]

Suicide Junkie haven't seen you around in quite some time. Glad you posted.

OMG! someone actually posted a vote for "what is 4X" Please tell me you were just joking....

[ July 11, 2002, 06:20: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Fyron]

Ah, someone has betrayed us all and voted for a non-SE4 title!

I was the first to do that.

[Puke]

i almost voted 'other' for vga planets, but while that was a more detailed game with many vastly superior features, it lacked a certain playability. and when it comes down to it, ive been playing this cursed se4 thing for about two years now, and posting on this forum to boot. so se4 got my vote.

[sparhawk]

Yes sorry, I did.

Allthough SeIV is beter than any game in the list, I still have a weak spot for MOO.

Sparhawk

[Nebraskan]

I used to play a totally far out 4X game called Ultimate Universe. I d/l'd it again recently but it will not work on XP because XP does not have the dos kernel, bummer. It was an interesting game concept.