Those of you who are (rightfully) bemoaning the downfall of space sims should grab your old Freespace 2 discs and head over here [http://hard-light.net/], where good-quality new campaigns and total conversions based on the Freespace 2 engine are still being turned out regularly.
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Economic Management, like Tropico or Pharaoh. It's not dead yet, but it's going that way. Shame, because Pharaoh is FREAKING EPIC.
God games, like Black and White, seem to be pretty much dead, which is a shame because they were fun!
Like many others, I mourn the passing of the space sim genre, particulary those made by Lucasarts. I would gladly pay full price for a Tie Fighter remake with modernized graphics.
-Real Tactical Shooters.
-Space Flight Combat
-GOOD Mecha combat games (after having watched From Software piss its Armored Core talent away, the genre has been looking more sparse than ever. Front Missoin Evolved looked like shit to boot...)
And of course, Starsiege Tribes.
Which should really be in a genre of its own; the flight/skiing mechanic is heavily emphasized and it plays VERY differently compared to any other shooter out there; the 3rd dimension actually matters for once.
-Space Flight Combat
-GOOD Mecha combat games (after having watched From Software piss its Armored Core talent away, the genre has been looking more sparse than ever. Front Missoin Evolved looked like shit to boot...)
And of course, Starsiege Tribes.
Which should really be in a genre of its own; the flight/skiing mechanic is heavily emphasized and it plays VERY differently compared to any other shooter out there; the 3rd dimension actually matters for once.
Hell yes. Never played Starsiege, but Tribes 2 was the only pure-multiplayer game I ever got into. 64 player games, giant maps with bases, vehicles and remote turrets. It was superb until all the classic-rules servers disappeared and any given game might let you carry a full-sized plasma turret on your back...or not.Atmos Duality said:
And I second the guy who brought up Freespace 2. Timeless.
I'm a huge fan of Majesty, Evil Genius and dungeon keeper. Games where...I guess they are a cousin of the RTS but you cant really control what your NPC's really did you just hoped that their archetype pulled off and they did their jobs.
Ahh. I miss Freespace.Yellowbeard said:
It's cool to see how a cash-in game became one of the greatest space combat games ever made.
Freespace was built on the X-Wing Alliance engine.
The last one to come out was Spore and I found that to be a bit of a disappointment. The dungeon keeper concept has been picked up by another studio now, I forget which, but we can only hope...Veterinari said:
I too mourn the space sims...
I WANTS MAH SPACE SIMS BACK!
It's like after Freespace 2 came out everyone else just threw up their hands and went 'well this genre's been perfected, time to move on!' which while sort of true, Freespace 2 *is* nearly perfect as a space sim, that doesn't mean other devs can't try.
It's like after Freespace 2 came out everyone else just threw up their hands and went 'well this genre's been perfected, time to move on!' which while sort of true, Freespace 2 *is* nearly perfect as a space sim, that doesn't mean other devs can't try.
How the hell did I manage to get ninja'd on this?lacktheknack said:
But yes, city-builders (hasn't been a proper one since SimCity 4, and that was in 2003), trading sims (Patrician 4 was the first one of any note to come out since Port Royale 2 in 2004), and other economic sim type games (Tropico 3 was practically a straight remake of the original, though...which was good.)
