Re:Origin Sells Out
by theandrewbailey on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:48PM
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Same here. The only Chris Roberts game I've played was his last, Freelancer. I liked it enough to give him $60 for Star Citizen.
The only other space games I've tried are in the X series, but they focus heavily on economics instead of flight and combat.
Re:Origin Sells Out
by wlesieutre on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:41PM
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If you're interested in checking out more recent space games, Everspace and No Man's Sky are the two I've played in the last few years. Everspace is more on the dogfighting and equipment progression side of things, while NMS is exploration, survival, and base building with a heavy dose of retro sci-fi visuals.
Got my start on Mac games, so Escape Velocity: Nova was my jam. Loving the variety of space games these days.
Re:Origin Sells Out
by theandrewbailey on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:02PM
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I heard about No Man's Sky. The launch disappointed lots of people, but I heard the updates have made it into what it was supposed to be.
I have some broad gaming tastes, and about 500 unplayed Steam games, so I'm not exactly looking into acquiring more right now.
Re:Origin Sells Out
by wlesieutre on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:14PM
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I didn't play it until the recent Beyond update. Definitely a rough start but they've more than made up for it. Cherry-picking some screenshots from reddit:
https://i.redd.it/bdbu308b61h31.jpg https://i.redd.it/or8x426qq0j31.jpg https://i.redd.it/3gq1x76165h31.jpg https://i.redd.it/ufdqd5digij31.jpg https://i.redd.it/7meco1wufzj31.jpg https://i.redd.it/7120n20i00h31.jpg https://i.redd.it/jowjsxd9qfi31.jpg https://i.redd.it/4aimsghw5mj31.jpg
Related tidbits for Chris Roberts' current project, the long in development and hopefully finished some day Star Citizen. They've referenced both Origin and EA as companies in the Star Citizen universe, it's a cute little easter egg of industry history.
"Origin Jumpworks" as one of the ship manufacturers, and "Electronic Access" as makers of the Star Marine (first person shooter) and Arena Commander (ship combat arena) modes which are positioned as in-universe video games.
I missed out on a lot of the older spaceship games, I ought to pick those up on GoG and give them a try sometime.