Ascendancy

[Gamecube64]

364 votes, 9.5 rating.

http://www.gamingbliss.com/ascendancypc.html

Ascendancy, a game of well... space... and ... uhhh... planets.

http://www.logicfactory.com/games_ascendancy.htm

Ascendancy, perhaps one of the best games I have ever play, from what I remember.

http://www.csoon.com/issue10/ascend.htm

Ascendancy, the game I want but do not have.

In Ascendancy, you develop your home planet, research new technologies, build ships to traverse the stars, encounter aliens, and colonize new worlds as you expand your presence throughout the galaxy.

Ascendancy, a game made in '95 for dos on floppy or CD, which is insanely hard to find.

It was great, a friend and I used to play it alot years ago. You got to build ships of different hull sizes, put stuff in em, colonize places, zap alien scum... travel across the galaxy. Once I found a secret starlane that had one huge planet in it, HUGE, with all good tiles. There was this alien race which kept giving us technology, constantly, and another which faught us viciously. Our alien worshippers helped us alot, of course.

The bad thing, after a week or two his older brother gave it away. Now I ask you good people of Apolyton, anyone here ever play it?

[Fake Boris]

I don't play it, but I've got a copy of it.

I take it that you want it? It's the French version though.

[Fake Boris]

I actually got it back in the time because of the good reviews, but I never really tried it because I was still hooked on Civ1 and SimCity 2000.

[ravagon]

The underdogs site has it up for download.

I was extremely interested as soon as I heard about it several years ago - at least until I found a review that meantioned the near non-existent AI.

[Gamecube64]

http://www.logicfactory.com/games_ascendancy_ai.htm

This might help that AI.

Where would this underdogs download be... and is it English?

[Spaced Cowboy]

Very cool game with very cool concepts, but AI is brain dead, and the end game dragggggsssssss.

[DRoseDARs]

Ascendancy

[vmxa1]

This was a game I played after Moo1 that I really enjoyed. It does have a brain dead AI, even with the Antag mod.

I just remember the first time I saw the graphics and then heard the sounds. My first space battle in that game was so cool. It still stands up for sound.

It was also my first spac game that let you refit your ships. The bad news is that it was micromanagement hell. Terraforming massive dead planets and planning paths for your ships to get where you needed them.

It used to owrk on my XP system, but now the screen gets hozed. I still fire up my Win98SE once in a while to play it.

[Tuberski]

I hate this game. I have never finished a game.

ACK!

[Vince278]

Enjoyed it. Can't find the CD anymore, though.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Tuberski
I hate this game. I have never finished a game.

ACK!

[child of Thor]

Re: Ascendancy

Originally posted by Gamecube64
edit.......

The bad thing, after a week or two his older brother gave it away. Now I ask you good people of Apolyton, anyone here ever play it?

I can repay the Harvest Moon advice you gave me



Yes i got it ages ago and really liked it in the begining, but after a while i found the Ai and some of the gameplay mechanisms a bit poor. But for its age its still a beautiful game, i last had a go a few months back after finding the latest patch which made it much more challanging. I'll PM you where you can get the patch etc

Its an oldie and a goodie, but almost impossible to find.

[Gamecube64]

I already know where the patch is, I linked to it up a few posts.

[child of Thor]

ah....

but you got the pm anyway?.........it was the 'etc' bit i was meaning in your case

[The diplomat]

I remember playing Ascendancy. The space battles were my favorite part. it was just so cool to see her ship zap another ship. I also loved the animation when your ship entered or exited a wormhole, how the bubble would oscillate and the ship would pop out. The tech tree was pretty good too. You got to customize your ships and you could put some cool stuff on them.