SubJeff on 13/8/2013 at 10:37
I must have this. If it works okay on a windows 8 PC. Where do I get it?
Starker on 13/8/2013 at 10:45
Quote Posted by Sulphur
The dating sim with the shooter parts, yes. You might be amazed, but the Mako sequences were pretty much a poor 3D extrapolation of the lander bits from SC2.
Nah, I didn't mean the planetary landings, I meant the parts where you drive along a <s>road</s> linear corridor.
Also, the direct influence for ME were the Starflight games/Protostar, iirc.
ZylonBane on 13/8/2013 at 16:43
Quote Posted by Sulphur
'Remake' is poor wording. It's a source port that takes the best parts from the 3DO version and makes it digestible for current-generation PC consumption.
Last time I played it, it took
all the parts from the 3DO version (since it essentially is the 3DO version), with various audio/visual options provided for players to make it more like the original DOS version if they wanted.
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Not to encroach on your status as King Pedant Motherfucker The 1st, but Star Wars-style genre-blending aside, claiming that, say, Dark Souls is the same thing as, let's go with System Shock 2, is absolute lunacy.
Congratulations, your conversational tone-deafness has exceeded my capacity to sufficiently mock.
june gloom on 13/8/2013 at 19:02
Good, because you've been phoning it in for years.
Sulphur on 13/8/2013 at 20:27
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Last time I played it, it took
all the parts from the 3DO version (since it essentially is the 3DO version), with various audio/visual options provided for players to make it more like the original DOS version if they wanted.
Yeah, I misremembered that. Been long enough since I last booted it that my memory on what/if there were 3DO/DOS options fuzzy.
Quote Posted by Starker
Nah, I didn't mean the planetary landings, I meant the parts where you drive along a <s>road</s> linear corridor.
Also, the direct influence for ME were the Starflight games/Protostar, iirc.
In the same way that SC was pretty much directly influenced by Starflight, and even had a member or two of the Starflight team on hand for a bit. I guess if you really want to get nitpicky, Starflight did everything first, but SC2 is as well-revered as SF, if not more so, and a larger touchpoint for many.
Starker on 13/8/2013 at 21:32
Quote Posted by Sulphur
In the same way that SC was pretty much directly influenced by Starflight, and even had a member or two of the Starflight team on hand for a bit. I guess if you really want to get nitpicky, Starflight did everything first, but SC2 is as well-revered as SF, if not more so, and a larger touchpoint for many.
I am not picking any nits. I remember that a dev stated flat out that Starflight was a direct influence for ME in an interview somewhere.
Sulphur on 13/8/2013 at 21:33
Okay-o.
demagogue on 14/8/2013 at 04:49
Ok, my recommendations, for 4X/RTS like strategy games -- Sins of a Solar Empire (Trinity) if you like good balance & color with the factions (& get the Distant Stars mod because I've read the vanilla game has some issues it fixes), or Star Ruler if you want a really sandbox kind of 4X game (no factions, but you can customize every ship). Both of them can be long, although with Star Ruler you can set your universe to be rather small & delegate a lot of things to the computer to do for you for quickish games (and once you've made ship-designs you can use them for later games), which is one reason why I tend to keep going back to playing it.
If you want a game like Freespace, I'd recommend X3 Albion Prelude, which is also very sandboxy, you can explore the universe at your leisure, take whatever quests you want, build your empire, and get into absolutely massive, lavish battles... Some people complain that it's like playing an excel spreadsheet though and the learning curve is big, so YMMV, but just the ability to cruise freely and space and do whatever I want and try to build my empire -- plus it can be beautiful and present the mystery and awe of space that you want from a scifi game -- all that goes a long way with me. And I don't mind fumbling around with it, taking my time not doing too much. I've heard it's more or less like a single player EVE (though I haven't played the latter).
