*nudges out Spiffor* I need a great Space STRATEGY game!

[Boris Godunov]

It's like a quest for a holy grail.

Yesterday I went to the Hayden Planetarium here in NYC and saw the space show which gives the scope of the universe. It was rather awe-inspiring, and filled me once again with the desire to experience an atmospheric space strategy game.

Ok, here's what I own:

Imperium Galactica II
Master of Orion II
Ascendancy
Galactic Civilizations
Space Empires IV Gold
Star Wars: Rebellion

Now, Ascendancy has a special place in my heart because its atmosphere was so damn good. Unfortunately, the AI was braindead and method of ship movement tedious. I did love the battles, though.

IG2 also had good atmosphere and interface, and I liked the somewhat random events in the campaigns. But the late-game overrunning-the-galaxy-with-one-huge-fleet thing got tiresome.

MoO2 was good, but I am looking for something different. Plus the late-game battles were impossibly huge and tediously slow.

GalCiv...meh. Initially it was good, but the poor presentation and genericness of it wore thin quickly.

SEIV: Some great ideas, but B-level graphics and such = snooze.

SW: Rebellion: Stank. 'Nough said.

is Moo3 with patches now worth it? Is there anything esle? I need to experience the vastness of the cosmos from my desktop!!!

[Spaced Cowboy]

Fellow 4x'er, I'm afraid that there is nothing to fill the void. There is an indie project (Free Orion), but we all know how those turn out.

SEV is on the horizon as well.

BTW I have all of those plus many, many others.

[Boris Godunov]

Woe unto us. Weep ye, weep ye, sons of men...

[Boris Godunov]

And name those many, many other, plz. Just so they're taken care of.

[Father Beast]

I picked up a shareware game called Stars! a while back and paid for the full version within a month. It's like Master Of Orion (the original) with a bunch of improvements.

Of course, if B level graphics bothers you, it's not for you.

But it was fantastic for me. makes the original MOO look broken.


Other stuff...

Reach For The Stars is some fun, but not much depth.

[Jamski]

MoO3 with patches = teh suxx0rs
However... I must admit I played a game the other day with some fan-made-fixes and it was pleasant. Not wonderful, but pleasant.

But the genre is looking empty at the moment

MoO2 is still the champ, and that really is pretty poor after nearly 10 years or something

-Jam

[Skanky Burns]

MoO 3?

[Jamski]

I realised it had been on my shelf for nearly a year, and I felt I had to justify the 55 euros I spent on it.

It was an ok way to wait for Eventis to come back on.

-Jam

[Spaced Cowboy]

The first Imperium Galactium on the C64 (well, all my C64 went dumpster)

MoO
IG1 and 3 (IBM/modern)
BotF
Reach for the Stars
Stars!

And a couple of early stupid ones that I cannot remember.

[Verto]

SW: Rebellion: Stank. 'Nough said.

Blasphemy!

[Sandman]

I also recommend Stars! Minimalist graphics, but plenty of depth. It's one of those games where learning to play is like taking a degree.

[Spaced Cowboy]

I agree, if you haven't played Stars! Then it is worth the DL. It'll run on any windows os. Perfect for my old work NT laptop (not that i have a new one mind you).

[Dis]

Eve

okay I say that all the time. There is some strategy to the combat. Although not that much. There are 2 main ways to go about it. Go with faster ships and longer range guns. Or go with slower ships, and more guns. But it's not that simple, there are jammers and many other things you can use in combat.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
The first Imperium Galactium on the C64 (well, all my C64 went dumpster)

I loved that game. Three friends and I used to multiplayer one night a week.

There's nothing like the feeling you get sending 255 (the limit) Large ships to purge your enemy's home planet.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Agathon


I loved that game. Three friends and I used to multiplayer one night a week.

There's nothing like the feeling you get sending 255 (the limit) Large ships to purge your enemy's home planet.

I loved the screen goes blank during a battle, and all you would hear is a boom, boom in the background (kinda letting you know that the program did not crash).