Author Topic: NEXUS 2, when was it cancelled ? (Read 6041 times)

Colonol Dekker · **on:** August 29, 2009, 06:17:31 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZQEvg1V0Y

That engine is sexy as hell...

Why would they not go with it?

Pred the Penguin · **Reply #1 on:** August 29, 2009, 08:10:26 pm

Looks extremely interesting...

Then again game companies barely even know what's good anymore. =/

NGTM-1R · **Reply #2 on:** August 29, 2009, 08:32:48 pm

Because Nexus was a marvelous pile of horse dung.

Akalabeth Angel · **Reply #3 on:** August 29, 2009, 08:35:13 pm

those shield effects look awesome. Too bad we can't get that in FS2

or can we . . .

Flipside · **Reply #4 on:** August 29, 2009, 09:28:39 pm

Nexus 1 was incomplete, a great game, but limited in certain ways, it's a pity 2 never got made.

Edit: Ironic that video was made a considerable amount of time before BSG and yet definitely has an atmosphere that reminds me of it.

SpardaSon21 · **Reply #5 on:** August 29, 2009, 09:53:16 pm

Maybe because it has giant spaceships sitting there duking it out while tiny fighters fly around them?

Flipside · **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2009, 11:55:39 pm

Well, that is hardly a new event, to be honest B5 was doing that years ago, but it doesn't feel like B5 to watch.

I'd say it's more along the lines of both the video techniques used and the atmosphere projected.

Ashrak · **Reply #7 on:** August 30, 2009, 12:05:57 am

yeh i liked nexus, still replay it from time to time, nexus 2 woulda rocked.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #8 on:** August 30, 2009, 07:00:53 am

The companies still going isn't it? What i mean is, no chance of the engine being open source at all?

Vidmaster · **Reply #9 on:** August 30, 2009, 10:13:34 am

Quote from: Flipside on August 29, 2009, 09:28:39 pm

Nexus 1 was incomplete, a great game, but limited in certain ways, it's a pity 2 never got made.

a great game AND to me, not incomplete at all. Multiplayer wasn't good but WHO CARES? Story was good, it demanded tactic and it was and still is awesome, not to mention good looking. It's not a pity the sequel never got made, it's a crime against humanity!

Commander Zane · **Reply #10 on:** August 30, 2009, 10:56:13 am

Quote from: Vidmaster on August 30, 2009, 10:13:34 am

a crime against humanity!

So's turducken.

Nexus 2's teaser is plain sexy.

Flipside · **Reply #11 on:** August 30, 2009, 11:03:14 am

Quote from: Vidmaster on August 30, 2009, 10:13:34 am

Quote from: Flipside on August 29, 2009, 09:28:39 pm
Nexus 1 was incomplete, a great game, but limited in certain ways, it's a pity 2 never got made.

a great game AND to me, not incomplete at all. Multiplayer wasn't good but WHO CARES? Story was good, it demanded tactic and it was and still is awesome, not to mention good looking. It's not a pity the sequel never got made, it's a crime against humanity!

It is a great game, I'll agree, but even the people who released it said that they would have liked to do a lot more with it, including editable fields of engagement, improved Multiplayer and various other improvements. The game as released was excellent, but time limits took their toll on it.

Kind of like Hostile Waters, I have no complaints whatsoever about the game, but the original intent was to have a much larger game, there's even rumors that a Multiplayer patch for it exists, but was never released.

Edit: More than rumour...

http://www.julianwiddows.com/?s=Hostile+Waters+Multiplayer

TESLA · **Reply #12 on:** August 30, 2009, 03:35:54 pm

it was a great game.

The BSG mod was pretty good too.

Very difficult though, basestars were nearly impossible to kill.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #13 on:** August 30, 2009, 03:56:48 pm

I've got the Stargate one and one of the star-trek ones. But the skirmish-maker gets boring after a while.

blackhole · **Reply #14 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:49:48 am

Quote from: Akalabeth Angel on August 29, 2009, 08:35:13 pm

those shield effects look awesome. Too bad we can't get that in FS2

or can we . . .

We could with a working post process system. The problem is (once again) getting the depth sorting right when doing the distortion.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #15 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:09:50 pm

Hexagonal plate sexiness.

asyikarea51 · **Reply #16 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:30:41 pm

Cool, one of my favourite game trailers of all time, I just keep coming back to it once in a while.

I really like the way the combat scene plays out... the fighter shooting at a target behind it made me go "whoa" and "WTF" at the same time though... that is some high-tech off-boresight lock-on?

And the use of beams, pulsed beams, those energy bombs and missiles/torpedoes too... Really half-FS (beam) and half-(whatever sci-fi universe uses missiles and torps as heavy weapons as opposed to beams) in my opinion. (I quietly yearn for a time when FSO can have weapons like that XD)

Then there's the fighters shooting each other down with machinegun pulse lasers... I like!!! Compare that to the game where it's all just flickering beams... it felt very "meh"...

The only thing I couldn't get used to in both the first game and the trailer is the music with that voice... like something out of a horror film, (as in truly scary and not those cheesy flicks) but it really captures the mood of space I guess...

General Battuta · **Reply #17 on:** September 05, 2009, 02:41:25 pm

What do you mean 'quietly yearn for a time'? Missile and torps are very practical heavy weapons in FSO right now.

Commander Zane · **Reply #18 on:** September 05, 2009, 02:44:38 pm

Too many people ***** about them too much because "THEY CAN BE SHOT DOWN BAWWWWWWWWW."

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #19 on:** September 05, 2009, 02:44:54 pm

Super graphical heavy capital missiles

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