[B]I've got Freelancer and X3:Reunion[/B]
I need something with a breath of fresh air, because I played the everliving crap out of Freelancer and I had trouble getting into Reunion.
Anyone have any good suggestions?
Have you tried EVE Online?
I want something where the combat isn't me clicking on it and waiting and hoping I get it first.
Then you don't want a space sim
ah shit whats that realistic space sim. you could fly the space shuttle n shit, forgot the name though
orbiter, thats it. very realistic game.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;22425380]Then you don't want a space sim[/QUOTE]
I mean, something where you use the joystick, fly, manage shields and shit like that.
Combat and economics.
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[QUOTE=frankie penis;22425421]ah shit whats that realistic space sim. you could fly the space shuttle n shit, forgot the name though
orbiter, thats it. very realistic game.[/QUOTE]
I'll give that a try.
Anyone know the best X3 game out of the series?
[QUOTE=frankie penis;22425421]ah shit whats that realistic space sim. you could fly the space shuttle n shit, forgot the name though
orbiter, thats it. very realistic game.[/QUOTE]
Orbiter?
Try [URL="http://www.a-astra.com/index.htm"]Ad Astra[/URL], [URL="http://www.starwraith.com/evochronlegends/index.htm"]Evochron Legends[/URL], [URL="http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/darkstar_one"]Darkstar One[/URL], or [URL="http://www.oolite.org/"]Oolite[/URL] (a free remake of the original Elite). Ad Astra and Oolite are free. All are in the same vein of flying around in a spaceship and doing what you like.
So Johnny, between Ad Astra or Oolite, which would you start first with?
space simulator my ass, orbiter is more like a simulator than any of those sci-fi fantasy games
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Anyone know the best X3 game out of the series?[/QUOTE]
If you had trouble getting into Reunion then you'll find Terran Conflict is easier to get into with easy-to-access plentiful missions (no more trawling through the BBS) with nice rewards and a plot with some [I]very[/I] nice rewards. As in [sp]a free M6[/sp]. And it has the usual more sectors, more ships, more weapons, as you'd expect in a new expansion.
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[QUOTE=Lebowski;22425644]So Johnny, between Ad Astra or Oolite, which would you start first with?[/QUOTE]
I've played Ad Astra more. They're both quite hard to get into, but the interesting thing about Ad Astra is that you've got seamless planet transitions. You want to land at a city on the other side of the solar system, so you select the planet, press A for autopilot and wait a few moments. Then you quite simply keep flying until you're in the atmosphere and when you're in range, press the dock button, and your ship will extend the landing gear and sit down on the pad.
Also there's an interesting damage model. Shields are there but they only block the lasers, which are beam weapons. The other two types of weapon, railguns and plasma cannons, go straight through to damage the hull. You've got the component based damage stuff, where you can blow off wings, fins, weapons, engines (so they can't move), turning engines (so they can't turn), and very interestingly by blowing the cockpit up you can tractor the dead wreckage into the station and sell it for scrap.
Parkan 2
It's a bit eastern european (eg, low production values, bad english at times), but it's good fun and you can explore planets and shit on foot.
You want a Space Simulator yet X3 Reunion was too hard for you to get into... Gooooooood Luck
Orbiter is *The* Space Simulator. Anything else is an Arcade/Simulator, and X3 Terran Conflict, Freelancer and Freespace are the best ones
[url]http://www.starshatter.com/[/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRmBfQk_mls&feature=related[/media]
The demo is so big it might aswell be the game.
theres always shattered horizon but the community is bad, this video is case and point [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzhG5BtxNJ0[/url] also its hard to run and pretty expensive its like 20 dollars on steam i think
woops, i forgot its a shooter. but the game would've been sooo much better with a story mode and the trailer for it looked like it was a open space rpg but nope
Oblivion.
[QUOTE=HellBring;22437537][URL]http://www.starshatter.com/[/URL]
[URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]View YouTUBE video[/URL]
[URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=CRmBfQk_mls[/URL]
The demo is so big it might aswell be the game.[/QUOTE]
That game looks pretty good, where can I buy it? The only place that has any copies is Amazon and they want more than $100 like it's one of those retro artifact games or something.
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[QUOTE=TheTalon;22436982]You want a Space Simulator yet X3 Reunion was too hard for you to get into... Gooooooood Luck
Orbiter is *The* Space Simulator. Anything else is an Arcade/Simulator, and X3 Terran Conflict, Freelancer and Freespace are the best ones[/QUOTE]
I've always wondered why they're most commonly called simulators. That's a bit like calling Oblivion a medieval world simulator. I'd rather call them space freeroamers.
How come nobody's mentioned Freespace 1 and 2 yet? They are over 10 years old, but they're still amazing games, especially the second one.
There's a [URL="http://scp.indiegames.us/downloads.php"]Freespace 2 Source Code Project[/URL] that enhances the engine, and you can also get Freespace 1 included with it, so you actually only need to get Freespace 2 to play them both.
The combat in these games is awesome, you have many targeting controls that help you keep track of enemies. There's also countermeasures, shield and energy management, you can even give orders to your teammates. There's loads of controls to learn, but it's totally worth it because it gives you an amazing level of control over your ship. You can choose your ship and weapons loadout before the start of nearly every mission. There's everything from small stealth fighters to multiple kilometers long capital ships (you can only fly the fighters and bombers).
If Infinity turns out to not be vaporware, then that'll be the end all be all for space games.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5toQqcxcNc[/media]
There are over 300 billion stars in the galaxy for this game, the galaxy is at a 1:1 scale, as are many of the planets. Vast, player built cities populated by tax-paying NPC's will dot many of the inhabitable planets, either paying taxes to the player him/herself (unlikely) or will be payed to the organization that rules over the city (organization since they could become de jure governments, rather then corporations like EVE.)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-lsyo28SU&feature=related[/media]
You can be, and do, whatever you want in this game. From mining, prospecting, exploration (sell your star maps) warfare, construction, designing, and technology (yes, there is a researchable tech tree.)
Also, the storyline evolves as the game evolves, with players not only observing the canon, storyline events, but actually initiating, participating, or concluding them (a huge element for beta is finding Earth, and it's up to a player/player fleet to find it, making them a permanent part of the storyline.)
Can't wait for Infinity, been following it since the start. I'm just hoping it doesn't turn out to be a big over hyped flop like many other games.
Best X3 is X3: Reunion. Best X game is X - Beyond the Frontier.
When you are playing X3 are you doing all of the piloting yourself or are you just using combat upgrades and letting the computer do all the flying. You could also turn off the automatic fire leading so you have to adjust it all by yourself.
try orbiter, that was pretty realistic.
great space game but not really a simulator, Nexus the jupiter incident. Worth a look though.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Elite II Frontier and Frontier II First Encounters.
Immersive as heck, realistic (built on real astronomical data with size and so forth), HUGE, and seamless planetary landings. In both of them. Only drawback is that they're from 1995 so they're not very good-looking.
There are OpenGL versions of them if you prefer to have nicer graphics, but I like to run them via DOSBox, so that they look like they did originally.
Oh, and none of this "jumpgate" crap, just pure hyperdrive. The problem there is that you often end up about eight AUs from the nearest planet, and there are quite a bit of pirates there. Thank god that you can speed up time to about x1000, or the journeys would take weeks.
[QUOTE=LemONPLaNE;22447163]I can't believe nobody's mentioned Elite II Frontier and Frontier II First Encounters.
Immersive as heck, realistic (built on real astronomical data with size and so forth), HUGE, and seamless planetary landings. In both of them. Only drawback is that they're from 1995 so they're not very good-looking.
There are OpenGL versions of them if you prefer to have nicer graphics, but I like to run them via DOSBox, so that they look like they did originally.
Oh, and none of this "jumpgate" crap, just pure hyperdrive. The problem there is that you often end up about eight AUs from the nearest planet, and there are quite a bit of pirates there. Thank god that you can speed up time to about x1000, or the journeys would take weeks.[/QUOTE]
Oh yes, apparently you can [URL="http://www.eliteclub.org.uk/shareware.htm"]download a shareware version of both games[/URL]. You can play it for as long as you like, but after 30 days you have to send £5 to some guy in Cambridge. I don't think this is enforced electronically.
Apparently the fancy graphics updates are illegal, even if you own a copy of the original game.
[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;22448809]
Apparently the fancy graphics updates are illegal, even if you own a copy of the original game.[/QUOTE]
Meh, it's technically abandonware anyway.
[QUOTE=LemONPLaNE;22449281]Meh, it's technically abandonware anyway.[/QUOTE]
[I]technically[/I] abandonware?
AFAIK, that doesn't exist. Either they openly published it as abandonware, or it's not abandonware.
I know that the definition is a bit soggy, but since they released it for free and dropped the support for it I'd say they've pretty much abandoned it.
Let's not waste time getting worked up over it when you can try the game instead :keke:
Well actually Abandonware is not a 100% thing. Taking something that is "abandonware" is still illegal, it's just that no one cares.
It's practically like Jaywalking, only the asshole cops get you for it.
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