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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: nubbles526 on June 16, 2008, 02:11:12 pm
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Besides FreeSpace, anything else to job that entertainment of your brain throgh space themed games?
Mine:
- Homeworld
- Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
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iw2, freelancer, x2, x3
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Besides FreeSpace, anything else to job that entertainment of your brain throgh space themed games?
Mine:
- Homeworld
- Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Hmmn, I just bought the UFO: Trilogy . . . sort of a, more recent sequel of sorts to Xcom. It's not in space persay, but it does have aliens. And the third game's on Mars. I also have homeworld and Starcraft on my computer, neither of which I've yet to finish. I'll finish them one day. (SC:BW that is).
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Homeworld 2
Freelancer
Hegemonia: Legions of Iron
HomePlanet
HomePlanet: Playing With Fire
That's all, I think ;)
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X3 and Freelancer. Used to play Homeworld 2, but got fed up with its dislike of multiple cores.
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Homeworlds 1 and 2, Galactic Civilizations 2, and occasionally Privateer, X-Wing and TIE-Fighter on DosBox.
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Freelancer
TIE Fighter (when it works)
GalCiv 2 (sometimes)
EVE Online
Recently started up Star Wars: Rebellion again...
Should probably get EV: Nova one more time. :P
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Starcraft, Freelancer, Homeworld 2 (currently uninstalled), X3 (currently uninstalled), and Pax Imperia.
Edit: What happened to the fuzzy kittenz ngt? :(
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It complained of being described as plural when there was only one of it.
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I've been intending to play Tachyon: The Fringe ever since I found out it was on GameTap, since I rather enjoyed the demo, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I might give whichever one of His PhD-ness's games is on there a shot too, just to see if they holds up to their near-mythic status. :p
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I'm still playing descent II.
thinking of buying x3.
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I can't seem to get Imperium Galactica 2 to run on my pc :(
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I've been playing past four days Sins of a Solar Empire. It's a decent game for an RTS. I really dislike the lack of depth though. It has three races but they play almost exactly the same and their ships are nearly identical save looks and special abilities. The game has managed to keep me entertained for a while. Not worth the full price tag though, but get it if you find it from a bargain bin.
- Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Oh man, this game is golden. It's almost sad how overlooked this game has been. I love it to bits and played through it several times. Unfortunately it seems like there is almost zero change for it to receive a sequel due to poor sales. :( I wish there were more games like this, besides of Homeworld series.
Here is a tech demo by Nexus devs of what Nexus 2 would have been like: http://sargoth.spymac.com/space_techdemo_HD.rar
HomePlanet
HomePlanet: Playing With Fire
How is HomePlanet, is it any good?
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How is HomePlanet, is it any good?
To be honest, I didn't enjoy it that much, it's extremely unforgiving, which is ok if you like that kind of thing, but I just found that it was too close to the line to be fun.
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Oh man, this game is golden. It's almost sad how overlooked this game has been. I love it to bits and played through it several times. Unfortunately it seems like there is almost zero change for it to receive a sequel due to poor sales. :( I wish there were more games like this, besides of Homeworld series.
How is HomePlanet, is it any good?
Yeah...there are hardly any Real-time strategy games which are space themed. I was so happy the HW wasn't the only one.
By the way, any of you play games of Derek Smart?
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How is HomePlanet, is it any good?
To be honest, I didn't enjoy it that much, it's extremely unforgiving, which is ok if you like that kind of thing, but I just found that it was too close to the line to be fun.
I found it very good actually. And that I'm playing the semi-english version makes it better.
By the way, any of you play games of Derek Smart?
DO NOT MENTION HIS GAMES ! I had a nightmare involving a mono-textured DeathStar which is a quarter of a monotextured planet, 10-15 stars in the background, and the whole HLP in that deathstar... And everything was in HIS games. Battlecruiser Millenium I think...
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I found it very good actually. And that I'm playing the semi-english version makes it better.
I can see how some people would enjoy it to be honest, it is a very challenging game, but it just didn't click with me :)
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WingCommander Games, X-Wing Games, Nexus, Homeworld, StarWolves, EV Nova, StarTrek Games, ...
always playing something in outer space :)
Currently Kotor1 :)
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I found it very good actually. And that I'm playing the semi-english version makes it better.
I can see how some people would enjoy it to be honest, it is a very challenging game, but it just didn't click with me :)
That's because FreeSpace and all it's mods spoiled the people here, so they can't keep up with something as challenging as HomePlanet. :P
When the english patch is released, then you'll all be more interested I think.
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I still fire up Rouge Squadron every once and a while! And there are numerous Sci-Fi FPS's I still play with, most set in space or a spacehip/station/planet! Have played X:Beyond the Frontier, keep meaning to get into X2 but FSOpen keeps distracting me! :P
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.....now I have wanted to have a go of that since I saw that techdemo of Nexus2, pity it will never be released!
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Allegiance.. and its Free!
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Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.....now I have wanted to have a go of that since I saw that techdemo of Nexus2, pity it will never be released!
*Sigh* Thank god we have SCP. If Sierra gives out the source code, then that is another SCP project.
For Shadowgorath:
A screenshot for you :P
http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo065.jpg
By the way, if you type Derek Smart in Wikipedia, look at the top and note the following:
This page is semi-protected.
Editing of this article by new or unregistered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.
I can imagine that a lot of HLPers got pissed after Smart's attempt to buy liscence.
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For Shadowgorath:
A screenshot for you :P
http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo065.jpg
By the way, if you type Derek Smart in Wikipedia, look at the top and note the following:
This page is semi-protected.
Editing of this article by new or unregistered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.
*dies*
If seriously, what would need to be done to make Derek Smart's games... good ? ( sorry, but having words 'good' and 'Derek Smart' in the same sentence sounds weird ).
Also, does anyone know any good mods for Hegemonia ?
AND, if anyone's interested in trying HomePlanet FULL game with it's expansion too, contact starlord.
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http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo065.jpg
:wtf: Borg cubes on psychedelic trip? :wtf:
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http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo065.jpg
:wtf: Borg cubes on psychedelic trip? :wtf:
The colors, dude. Whoa...
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Played Mass Effect from beginning to end nine times, played UFO: AI as far as it would let me (it's a work in progress), and currently playing UFO: Extraterrestrials. Yeah, I'm on a sci-fi squad level binge right now. :-)
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TAZ
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http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo065.jpg
Looks like a box of Shreddies on Acid....
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*dies*[/color]
If seriously, what would need to be done to make Derek Smart's games... good ? ( sorry, but having words 'good' and 'Derek Smart' in the same sentence sounds weird ).
Also, does anyone know any good mods for Hegemonia ?
AND, if anyone's interested in trying HomePlanet FULL game with it's expansion too, contact starlord.
After searching in google for Hegemonia and Homeplanet....I found out I am the worst gamer in the world.
Take a look at 3000AD werbsite. It looks more like a fansite rather than an official website.
How to improve it? Well, a better storyline. According to this http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo045.jpg, he focuses 3000AD within Solar System and some outside. I have read the original storyline, and it was crap. Total bull****.
Second thing: Graphics suck ass. Although I have to admit that he did improve a little after his new game Galatic Command Echo Squad came out two weeks ago. You can tel that he is trying to copy from FS SCP here http://www.3000ad.com/pics/gcES/07-12-17/PHOTO009.PNG. But ultimatly, he is not very successful in it
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*dies*[/color]
If seriously, what would need to be done to make Derek Smart's games... good ? ( sorry, but having words 'good' and 'Derek Smart' in the same sentence sounds weird ).
Also, does anyone know any good mods for Hegemonia ?
AND, if anyone's interested in trying HomePlanet FULL game with it's expansion too, contact starlord.
After searching in google for Hegemonia and Homeplanet....I found out I am the worst gamer in the world.
Take a look at 3000AD werbsite. It looks more like a fansite rather than an official website.
How to improve it? Well, a better storyline. According to this http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo045.jpg, he focuses 3000AD within Solar System and some outside. I have read the original storyline, and it was crap. Total bull****.
Second thing: Graphics suck ass. Although I have to admit that he did improve a little after his new game Galatic Command Echo Squad came out two weeks ago. You can tel that he is trying to copy from FS SCP here http://www.3000ad.com/pics/gcES/07-12-17/PHOTO009.PNG. But ultimatly, he is not very successful in it
It's too good to even be called "copying of SCP". . . But oh well. I wonder where he gets the budget to make his games and publish them . . .
And why are you the worst gamer in the world ? :p
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Although I have to admit that he did improve a little after his new game Galatic Command Echo Squad came out two weeks ago. You can tel that he is trying to copy from FS SCP here http://www.3000ad.com/pics/gcES/07-12-17/PHOTO009.PNG. But ultimatly, he is not very successful in it
I lol @ Derek trying to copy things from SCP (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/FunkyFreeSpaceStuff/echosquadlol.png).
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:lol:
Ooohhh....Lobo....so true :D
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http://www.3000ad.com/pics/bcm/photo065.jpg
Looks like a box of Shreddies on Acid....
hahaha, that was Awesome.
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Nope, don't play any, but I don't play many games anyway these days. About Nexus, well, that is indeed a good game, but it had some major flaws that held it back - for instance, the pacing was probably it's biggest. Ships simply didn't turn fast enough, and I've had a couple instances where I had my big ship (the Archangel or whatever) fighting against a small cruiser. The cruiser couldn't kill my ship, but it was fast enough (fast being a relative term) to stay out of it's turn radius so that they would end up in an infinite loop, neither being able to kill each other. But the pacing otherwise was simply too slow...it would take ages for ships to traverse long distances, and the lack of any definite order feedback (such as lines leading from the ship to it's destination/target) or precise movement controls really hampered it for me.
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I still play Tachyon.. as do other people...
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Me? I play Tyrian 2000, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Descent II, Descent 3, XOP, XOP Black, DemonStar, DemonStar: Secret Missions 1, DemonStar: Secret Missions 2, and Freelancer.
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There is also Oolite: oolite.aegidian.org (http://oolite.aegidian.org). Continuous development, currently at version 1.71.2, which seems to be in many ways better than the official 1.65 stable. Being a member of its development team, I would prefer to say no more and leave further comments to whomever gives it a try.
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Although I have to admit that he did improve a little after his new game Galatic Command Echo Squad came out two weeks ago. You can tel that he is trying to copy from FS SCP here http://www.3000ad.com/pics/gcES/07-12-17/PHOTO009.PNG. But ultimatly, he is not very successful in it
I lol @ Derek trying to copy things from SCP (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/FunkyFreeSpaceStuff/echosquadlol.png).
There is a problem with that "copy cat" theory.
Those are thrusters, not beam cannons.
There is also Oolite: oolite.aegidian.org (http://oolite.aegidian.org). Continuous development, currently at version 1.71.2, which seems to be in many ways better than the official 1.65 stable. Being a member of its development team, I would prefer to say no more and leave further comments to whomever gives it a try.
That's a coincidence, I've been trying to get started on it the past few days. While I'm at it, is there a faster way to get money than trade between rich industrial and poor agricultural planets?
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There is also Oolite: oolite.aegidian.org (http://oolite.aegidian.org). Continuous development, currently at version 1.71.2, which seems to be in many ways better than the official 1.65 stable. Being a member of its development team, I would prefer to say no more and leave further comments to whomever gives it a try.
I might actually give this a try, I've been playing Elite+ a bit lately, and was thinking it might be nice to have 'Elite' in every sense but a cleaner interface :)
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Then D Smart is not very smart. How the hell would you give off green engine trails?
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While I'm at it, is there a faster way to get money than trade between rich industrial and poor agricultural planets?
There are quite a few, actually. For example, you could trade your Cobra MkIII for a less capable ship and use the trade-in value to equip the ship fast. Or play at the Hoopy Casinos and be lucky. But I am afraid I am derailing the thread here. Why don't you drop by www.aegidian.org/bb and ask? I'm sure you will find many forum members willing to give you hints to get started.
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Although I have to admit that he did improve a little after his new game Galatic Command Echo Squad came out two weeks ago. You can tel that he is trying to copy from FS SCP here http://www.3000ad.com/pics/gcES/07-12-17/PHOTO009.PNG. But ultimatly, he is not very successful in it
I lol @ Derek trying to copy things from SCP (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/FunkyFreeSpaceStuff/echosquadlol.png).
There is a problem with that "copy cat" theory.
Those are thrusters, not beam cannons.
But that is mostly Derek Smart Ph.D.'s fault if he can't even copy the right things to the right places.
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Not trying to defend that particular hack, or anything like that. But Freespace didn't invent the idea of the beam cannon.
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Of course it didn't. Evil beamzors have been around for quite some time. But there are certain cases where it does seem that dsmart's been ripping off stuff from FreeSpace, or the MediaVPs in particular. Those thrusters look a lot like the funky green beams of FreeSpace, and if you've watched that epilepsy-causing promotional video of Echo Squad, you have certainly noticed that the explosions in it look awfully familiar as well.
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Well, technically, he can steal the mediavps stuff and get away with it.
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No, he can't, the stuff is the property of the people who created it, and cannot be used without permission. What is given is a kind of 'community license', which means that you can use them in the context they are provided at no cost, but you don't have the right to do whatever you choose with them, and you certainly cannot include them in a game in which you yourself profit.
Now, personally, I think Derek has imitated, not plagiarised, and that's almost flattering, and without doing a comparison at a binary level of the effects used, I think it's really not a good idea to start suggesting he took stuff out of the VP's without a bit more evidence, that can lead to trouble.
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Those thrusters existed before the SCP.
And I'd also wager they existed before FS too.
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But if FS was the one who used them he still can't rip them off of it because he is selling his games no? And wouldn't that be sort of like pirating? Because even if the game developers release the source code for fans to use you cannot sell anything in the game or anything in the upgrades that the fans make.
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To the topic question, Fraxy... :nervous:
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Anyone here plays Tyrian 2000, apart from me and (possibly) Tyrian? :nervous:
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Opentyrian is better
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Just started on Mass Effect (PC) yesterday, I like the movieish feel but combat was a bit awkward at first.
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BTRL, TBP and sometimes Homeworld 1 with B5 mod.
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Started Mass Effect a few days ago. I've still Freespace 2, X-Tension, X-Wing/TIE-Fighter (Win95 Version), I-War (with Defiance), I-War 2, Tarr Chronicles, ST: Starfleet- and Klingon Academy and Wing Commander 1-5 installed.
But at the Moment i play only Mass Effect and Starfleet Academy. Sometimes i play FS2, too, of course.
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Not counting FS2, I play lots of Homeworld 2. Trying to buff the Hiigarans like mad so they become overpowered. I already gave the mothership 4 ion cannons, 20 rapid fire point defense guns, and 6 torpedos. The poor Vagyr carrier never knew what hit it. :drevil:
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All the usuals, not so much at the moment though. Im actively playing Stalker (and still trying to slog through a full Juli campaign in Rome TW) but Freespace and I-War (unplayed as yet, seems pretty buggy due to compatibility) are installed.
@ ngtmr1
I do like StarWars Rebellion/Supremacy. It's got alot of shortcomings but for some reason I kept playing it for a good while. Pity about the crudeness of fleet battles.
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That's pretty much what I think about it, as well.
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Is there some sort of eula for the SCP? Just in line with the whole ds .ani topic a few posts above. Because aside from retail which i paid for. I don't think i ever saw one.
<legal cover> Karajorma i know DS is a member so this is said in jest and not a personal attack :nervous: </legal cover>
Derek Smart. . . I always imagined he would be identical to the Baxter Stockman from the new turtles cartoon. When he has the flashback to childhood. Don't s'pose anyone knows who i'm on about? :D
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<legal cover> Karajorma i know DS is a member so this is said in jest and not a personal attack :nervous: </legal cover>
Umm... yeah, same here. All of my dsmart-related posts in this thread are meant as comical interludes and should not be concidered as personal and insulting assaults against any HLP members.
Right? :nervous:
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Who plays Jets'n'Guns? Side-scrolling goodness, that game is.
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Ascendancy
Master of Orion 1,2 & 3
Starships Unlimited
Elite (well technically its FFE, and the windoze enhanced version at that...)
Tachyon
Pax Imperia
Haegemonia
Imperium Galactica 2
Total Annihilation: Final Frontier :cool:
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Adding Argonaut 2149 to my list. If you own a Mac, go search for it on the Apple website.
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WingCommander Games, Nexus, Homeworld 2, StarWolves, EV Nova, StarTrek Games, StarWars Games (there are dozens), Sins of a Solar Empire, Haegemonia, I-War, Halo Games, Mass Effect...
always playing something in outer space :)
not to mention all these mods for those games :lol:
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Wing Commander I - did this a couple of years ago, took a little bit of creative use with DOS 6 bootdisk, RAMDRIVE.SYS and editing the CONFIG.SYS... But I got it working with 1200 MHz Pentium in DOS 6.22 and it was still playable! Nevermind that I had to save the progress manually to 1.44" disk from RAMDRIVE each time I stopped playing... and saving it to the RAMDRIVE each time I booted up... The best thing being that I don't even recall the reason why I didn't use DOSBOX, maybe it had something to with sound or overall speed.
Wing Commander II - I haven't even tried to bring it here from home. Played enough of it during those years.
Freespace I and II
It is a couple of years of since I last played Freespace. I'm still waiting the motivition to create the campaign, that literally disappered in the binary space a couple of years ago when I lost all the missions I had created thus so far.
Then there are a couple of less known games like:
Darklight Conflict and Flying Saucer, both of them quite good, though former somewhat lacking in the graphics department. Flying Saucer you can find from Home of the Underdogs. It was an amusing game, which was never shipped, unfortunately.
Mika
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Homeworld 1 and 2, Homeworld Cataclysm, Sins of a Solar Empire, EV Nova, Freespace 1 and 2, Halo 1, and Battleships Forever.