Title: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on July 06, 2010, 03:14:36 am i was wondering if you guys knew of any "4x" or rts space games (not my first post had different accounts) i played the master of Orion seres
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Animzor on July 08, 2010, 01:17:37 am This is a pretty weird topic; I'm not sure what you're talking about. But if you want a strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire is probably what you're looking for.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: ziper1221 on July 08, 2010, 08:00:32 am free space 1 & 2 ? and 4x is explore expand exterminate and something else that must not be very important cause I cant remember it
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Novus on July 08, 2010, 10:03:41 am free space 1 & 2 ? I'd describe the FreeSpace series as "space combat simulations".Quote and 4x is explore expand exterminate and something else that must not be very important cause I cant remember it Apparently, it's "explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X).Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Death 999 on July 08, 2010, 03:54:29 pm I liked Pax Imperia. It's old, and some mechanics are abusable, but the strategic-layer AI is pretty decent (not so for the combat layer) and the ship designing was fun. And did I say abusable?
So maybe not. Spaceward Ho! is older still, simple, and addictive. And you can negotiate meaningfully with the AI players through kinagrams. Customizable scenarios. And if you want something even older and simpler, with ridiculous levels of customizability, try Galactic Frontiers. Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: RTyp06 on July 08, 2010, 08:16:57 pm Check out Space Empires III, IV and V. Starships Unlimited is pretty cool too.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on July 08, 2010, 08:56:17 pm I liked Pax Imperia. It's old, and some mechanics are abusable, but the strategic-layer AI is pretty decent (not so for the combat layer) and the ship designing was fun. And did I say abusable? So maybe not. Spaceward Ho! is older still, simple, and addictive. And you can negotiate meaningfully with the AI players through kinagrams. Customizable scenarios. And if you want something even older and simpler, with ridiculous levels of customizability, try Galactic Frontiers. where would i get those i (.abandonia ecc?) Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: ziper1221 on July 08, 2010, 08:59:54 pm oops, sorry ???
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on July 08, 2010, 09:06:00 pm oops, sorry ??? it's OK and freespace is kind of a strategy game especially before you can tell where the shivans are in fs1 Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Death 999 on July 08, 2010, 09:28:41 pm Galactic Frontiers
http://www.brothersoft.com/games/galactic-frontier.html Freeware. Note, Galactic Frontiers is a mac game originally made for System 4 or so, and due to its simplicity, continued to function until system 10.3 (!), but not on intel macs. Lacking a mac, you may need to get a mac emulator. At least 2 free mac emulators exist. Not sure where you're going to get system 5 or 6 without multifinder (those would be my recommended versions for something as simple as this, as they'll let the program completely take over the virtual machine) ~~~ Spaceward Ho! http://www.deltatao.com/ho/ apparently, this has been maintained, and is available for modern mac, windows, and palm systems. Shareware. ~~~ Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain can be downloaded from cnet (just google it, they're the first download result). They're not an abandonware site so far as I know, which suggests that it's legit to at least try the game. Way back when, the biggest problem I had with it was how slow it ran while designing ships, due to the continuous 3D renders. That... shouldn't be a problem now. Interesting trivia tidbit - PI:ED was a Blizzard project that they dropped so that they wouldn't be making their own competition for Starcraft, which they hadn't finished yet. It was assigned to another developer to finish. Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on July 08, 2010, 10:06:32 pm Galactic Frontiers http://www.brothersoft.com/games/galactic-frontier.html Freeware. Note, Galactic Frontiers is a mac game originally made for System 4 or so, and due to its simplicity, continued to function until system 10.3 (!), but not on intel macs. Lacking a mac, you may need to get a mac emulator. At least 2 free mac emulators exist. Not sure where you're going to get system 5 or 6 without multifinder (those would be my recommended versions for something as simple as this, as they'll let the program completely take over the virtual machine) ~~~ Spaceward Ho! http://www.deltatao.com/ho/ apparently, this has been maintained, and is available for modern mac, windows, and palm systems. Shareware. ~~~ Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain can be downloaded from cnet (just google it, they're the first download result). They're not an abandonware site so far as I know, which suggests that it's legit to at least try the game. Way back when, the biggest problem I had with it was how slow it ran while designing ships, due to the continuous 3D renders. That... shouldn't be a problem now. Interesting trivia tidbit - PI:ED was a Blizzard project that they dropped so that they wouldn't be making their own competition for Starcraft, which they hadn't finished yet. It was assigned to another developer to finish. thanks for the info :) Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: oldlaptop on July 14, 2010, 12:13:55 am Hey, don't forget Star Control 1! Pretty primitive compared to Master of Orion et al., but loads of fun all the same.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on July 16, 2010, 02:20:22 am Hey, don't forget Star Control 1! Pretty primitive compared to Master of Orion et al., but loads of fun all the same. true and i did almost over look that one thanks for pointing that out to me :) Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on August 08, 2010, 03:28:31 am Check out Space Empires III, IV and V. Starships Unlimited is pretty cool too. is there a first one? Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: RTyp06 on August 08, 2010, 04:29:16 am There was back in the early 90's. I did a search but couldn't find it. It was pretty weak . You are better off with the newer versions.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Draxas on August 09, 2010, 05:53:23 am I played a bit of Space Empires years ago. I know that 4 was leagues better than 3, though I never tried 5. So at the very least, I can recommend SE4 as well.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Dragon on August 09, 2010, 02:37:07 pm One day, hopefully, there will be FreeOrion (http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Screenshots). Last time I tried it the tech tree was pretty unbalanced so play it at your own risk.
It's not a 4x but there's also Homeworld 2 Complex - a mod for Homeworld 2. As of fairly recently someone is camping on the homepage so you'll need to do a bit of googling. Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Arne on August 10, 2010, 05:43:14 am Distant Worlds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Worlds) is fairly recent. I don't know much about it. Videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/CodeForceLtd).
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: ziper1221 on August 10, 2010, 05:46:15 pm Star wars: empire at war
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Dabir on August 11, 2010, 08:07:43 pm If we're on the subject of Homeworld 2 mods, R.E.A.R.M is a pretty good one. The main thing it does that interests me is it brings in the Imperial Taiidan from the first game as a playable race in multiplayer, for people who're getting tired of the squad system. Actually, having the two systems side-by-side really shows off the advantages of both - shame they couldn't import the HW1 formations into HW2.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Razorback on September 29, 2010, 06:28:28 am Believe it or not, there's a good one on Facebook. It's called Galaxy Legion (http://galaxylegion.com/). Try to imagine a game that combines aspects of Master of Orion and Spacewar (old BBS door game). I run a guild there named Stormfront, if anyone here would like to know more or give it a try, feel free to let me know.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on September 30, 2010, 12:14:14 am I played a bit of Space Empires years ago. I know that 4 was leagues better than 3, though I never tried 5. So at the very least, I can recommend SE4 as well. i picked up a "deluxe" version(4&5) and 5 is completely off balance but has cool artwork although i like 4's raw 3D and did you hear about the ascendancy iphone game? Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Valos Cor on October 04, 2010, 07:11:23 pm I'm not sure if this counts at all but it is a very good game. Its probably nothing like the other games mentioned - then again, looking at screenshots of Free Space, I guess so.
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ You trade, explore, you can expand your fleet, ship, and exterminate different races, I suppose. Its fun :) Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on November 24, 2010, 12:01:36 am has anybody else heard of a game called "armada 2526" and it looks pretty bad however looks can be deceiving has anyone played it? do the aliens speak like in moo 3?
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Arne on December 04, 2010, 05:23:32 pm I just stumbled on Armada 2526. Hard to find much info about it. This video review doesn't say much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8iLEvTu27c --- I'm just going to go ahead and link a whole bunch of games here that I've stumbled upon here (I'm not recommending anything). Some of them might have been mentioned before: AI war looks interesting. http://www.youtube.com/user/x4ooo http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_features.php I keep hearing good stuff about an older game called Ascendancy. It has nice music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-iB90PY7TM I haven't played the PC version of Utopia K240, called Fragile Allegiance. It looks a bit different from the Amiga version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVmh3Afkh8 Star Lords: Imperial Order (not the MoO1 prototype). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlXKOhc-HWs Lost Empire: Immortals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwLQ35Tu3uc Gratuitous Space Battles: Galactic Conquest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0fFpcjQ8yw Emperor of the Fading Suns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbEj_fpPdY Conquest: Frontier Wars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCdvN8h0MQ Colonial conquest (http://androidarts.com/spaceconquest/colonial_%20conquest_screens.gif) is an old "indie" game for the Amiga. Well, we didn't say indie back then. Star Wars: Rebellion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQOORCO-sU Overlord, a NES game which looks very nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8-ecIUwpg --- Some more well known and newer games: Galactic Civilizations (2) Space Empires (5) Sins of a Solar Empire Sword of the Stars Homeworld (2) Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Angelfish on December 05, 2010, 04:14:31 pm I just stumbled on Armada 2526. Hard to find much info about it. This video review doesn't say much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8iLEvTu27c --- Lost Empire: Immortals Weltraumstrategiespiel! Such a beautiful word. Anyway, I see that it's made by Paradox interactive. So I guess it's quite deep as a stategy game. Let's give it a try ;). Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Angelfish on December 06, 2010, 09:02:42 am hmm, galactic civilizations talks about the Precursors, who left many technology, and suddenly vanished :P.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Death 999 on December 06, 2010, 05:00:39 pm Gratuitous Space Battles? Awesome name.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Arne on December 06, 2010, 07:13:30 pm The strictly topdown view of the ships in Gratious Space Battles works pretty well, despite the baked in light. I think the ships are 'pre rendered'. In SC2 the specular and shadows move across the ships as they rotate.
Some more links: Star Ruler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDWkbVBcIa4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjH8qAbiLzI Star Trek: Birth Of The Federation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6nHo8xg5HQ Star Trek: Armada 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa798lV8foU The Outforce. I can't find much info about this game. It reminds me of the naval battle aspect of Total Annihilation. http://www.mobygames.com/game/outforce --- These games seems to be more 3D realtime combat focused (with less/no base building stuff). Nexus - The Jupiter incident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhnRXdNXCw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46G7-9BdNmM O.R.B. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qwouh9EVYQ Star Wars: Empire at War - You can do some base building stuff in the Galactic Conquest mode, if I understood it correctly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiScCs9QMk8 Then we have Battleships Forever, in which you build ships out of vector shapes and pit them against each other. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vKvlx6YFe8 --- Also, if you're into these kind of space-battle settings, you might want to watch Legend of Galactic Heroes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Galactic_Heroes). Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Lukipela on December 06, 2010, 07:35:38 pm Possibly one of the coolest space games out there right now, utilizing a brilliant melee system and an involved story can be found here. (http://www.star-control.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=230) Most of the diplomatic chatter and action goes into a members only system though, though that may be about to change.
:P Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Arne on December 07, 2010, 03:35:48 am I've put my lists on my MoO page (http://androidarts.com/spaceconquest/gamedesign.htm#othergames). I've missed a bunch of games though, like Light of Altair, Haegemonia... and hey what is this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_4X_video_games)?
Title: Master of Star Control Post by: Vasaka on December 26, 2010, 12:31:50 pm About six months ago, we started the game, working title is "Master of Star Control". Unfortunately we are at the very beginning and the site has no English version. Only Russian.
But if anyone is interested, you can look through Google translator at: mosc.bursa.ru (http://mosc.bursa.ru) Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Angelfish on December 30, 2010, 08:04:17 pm I wonder, have you guys ever played imperium galactica, or star reach? Those were the space strat games that I used to play 10 to 15 years ago..
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Vasaka on January 02, 2011, 08:49:04 pm I think in the beginning there was Master of Orion & Reunion. Imperium Galactica came later.
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Alvarin on January 03, 2011, 05:03:19 am Yeah, Reunion was a great fun game!
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Cronos on January 08, 2011, 01:24:55 pm **unlurk**
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri) This game is so unbelievably deep at times you'll find yourself drowning in it. One-More-Turn-Itis is extremely frequent. Infinite replayability, moreso if you spring for the expansion pack. You may need to apply a few fixes and grab D3DWindower to get it running since it's about 11... 12 years old now. The fact that I haven't seen it mentioned before now shames you all if you consider yourself a strategy gamer :P The only problem is that this game pretty much ruined 4X games for me. Nothing else compares to it. Civ 3 onwards felt like pale imitations. GalCiv could never hold my interest. Whenever I get my 4X itch, this is the game I wind up playing. For sixteen hours straight. I'm now off to play on Transcend difficulty from scratch. See you in a few months. **relurk** Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Death 999 on January 08, 2011, 06:15:57 pm Quote he fact that I haven't seen it mentioned before now shames you all if you consider yourself a strategy gamer No, it proves we're paying attention to the topic. Alpha Centauri is set on a planet, not in space. Every single other game mentioned, so far as I know, is interplanetary at the least and usually interstellar.Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Angelfish on January 10, 2011, 01:43:25 am Cronos, looks like you forgot starcraft 1 and 2, the command & conquer series, dune2 & 2000 etc etc ;)
Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: up turned crafish on January 26, 2011, 11:11:30 pm Quote Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri I'm now off to play on Transcend difficulty from scratch. See you in a few months. ok where can i find it i've been looking for it a while but cant afford to pay some of the prices on ebay/ amazon Title: Re: space strategy games recommendations Post by: Salabasama on January 27, 2011, 01:56:57 am Should give http://www.hazeron.com/ (http://www.hazeron.com/) a try. I was about to make a topic about it, and then get labeled as a bot probably because I just joined and it'd be my first post. Hazeron is an in-development small scale MMO space colonization/war/diplomacy/empire building game, set in first person perspective primarily. You can found your own empires or join other player's empires, and build starships and search for particularly high quality resources and such. It's possible to command any of your ships carrying NPC officers using the comm as well, and you can design the ships in a tile/deck fashion, which looks a bit chunky at the moment, but is nevertheless continually improving. There's not really much to fight wars over at the moment beyond proving who is better, but then again it's still a work in progress. The developers have so far made no mention of ever charging for it, and when I asked how it's paid for, the lead developer shared the story of how the game is funded by the software company he founded in 1995. Also if you get a motorcycle onto a ship, you can drive it into the sun. I hope that's a decent persuasive blurb. Here's some screen shots too.
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