TehGherkin
Sergeant Knight
Mm, can I play Freespace 2 WITHOUT a joystick? Since I haven't bought one yet.
I take it it's pretty good?
I take it it's pretty good?
Good Space Based Games?
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Sergeant Knight
Its absolutely brilliant.
A new 4x has just come out, looks like fun. Sword of the Stars.
http://www.swordofthestars.com/
I've played the demo and it's good fun to me, playing as the two available races. I'll be buying the game I think.
It follows the formula of making your own ship designs from available researched components which I certainly enjoy. Has the usual exploring, colonizing other systems, and fully 3D Homeworld-lite type battles.
http://www.swordofthestars.com/
I've played the demo and it's good fun to me, playing as the two available races. I'll be buying the game I think.
It follows the formula of making your own ship designs from available researched components which I certainly enjoy. Has the usual exploring, colonizing other systems, and fully 3D Homeworld-lite type battles.
thesneakster
Grandmaster Knight
Archonsod said:
As long as they still make money and make good games.
Just wanted to say, I bought the download version of Sword of the Stars early yesterday and have been quite enjoying it. I ended up playing it for about 8 hours straight. 
Took a little getting into at first as the demo tutorial is kind of weak, but I'm glad I persevered.
The technology tree is mostly the same for each of the 4 races and is slightly randomized for each player in each game (some side techs will be available, others won't), but each race has enough other differences (the main thing being methods of travel) to make things interesting as each race.
As a side note, I got it from GamersGate, whose downloader program seems a bit crude and underdeveloped. Still, considering the other download version is from Direct2Drive which apparently has to connect to the internet to check your registration every single time you play the game
(from what I could gather from reading their FAQs), I'd still have gone with GamersGate.
Also GamersGate was the latest purchasing option made available for M&B, so it seemed more fitting to go with them.
Took a little getting into at first as the demo tutorial is kind of weak, but I'm glad I persevered.
The technology tree is mostly the same for each of the 4 races and is slightly randomized for each player in each game (some side techs will be available, others won't), but each race has enough other differences (the main thing being methods of travel) to make things interesting as each race.
As a side note, I got it from GamersGate, whose downloader program seems a bit crude and underdeveloped. Still, considering the other download version is from Direct2Drive which apparently has to connect to the internet to check your registration every single time you play the game
(from what I could gather from reading their FAQs), I'd still have gone with GamersGate.Also GamersGate was the latest purchasing option made available for M&B, so it seemed more fitting to go with them.
TehGherkin
Sergeant Knight
Freespace 2 = <3.
It's a bit fiddly without a joystick, but I got used to it.
It's a bit fiddly without a joystick, but I got used to it.
