Medival total war with lasers..in space.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Looks pretty cool if they can pull it off.

http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/index.html

Eyeball the trailer if you have the time.

[General Ludd]

meh. 3d space always turns out to be a management/interface nightmare or just plain crappy.

[DrSpike]

And thus it always shall be?

[General Ludd]

Quite likely, unless the control of the units is abstracted to some extent. But any strategy game that attempts to give a player direct control over large numbers of units that have the freedom to move in every direction of three dimensional space is going to end up being confusing and hard to control.

[Spaced Cowboy]

So Homeworld sucked?

[DrSpike]

Don't poke Ludd's opinions too hard. If you do a whole mess of goo will come out, and then you'll be sorry.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
So Homeworld sucked?

[Spaced Cowboy]

So then what is your idea of a good 4x space game?

[DrSpike]

I warned you.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Well obviously I'm not very knowledgeable in this area.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
So then what is your idea of a good 4x space game?

MOO2 and Space Empires IV are the only two that come to mind.

[ajbera]

Galactic Civilizations 1 & 2 were also excellent.

I'm trying out the Space Empires 4 demo now, since it's available for just $9.95. See if it's worth it.

[Spaced Cowboy]

So you are more looking forward to SEV

[General Ludd]

Not really, no. I don't play much computer games anymore.

[Snotty]

werent moo2 and se4 2d combat ? Im not sure. at the end of the day space is in 3d, and until the make a game where you can pincer from all angles then its not real space fleet battle