Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
by RhodesianHunter on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:25PM
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In this same vein, I want a modern remake of Escape Velocity with the high quality choose-your-own story arcs, but multiplayer. The graphics could be absolute garbage and I'd still play it daily.
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I think Mount & Blade: Warband is a bit like that, but in a medieval setting, of course.
Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
by moffkalast on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:14PM
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Fwiw Endless Sky is a pretty good remake of EV, though it's fairly linear and single player.
Unfortunately development has been paused for over two years now. But yes, outside of Arpia + some other total conversions for older EVs, this is really the only thing out there that directly scratches the EV itch.
The closest contenders IMO are StarSector, the X series, Free Space 2 with extensive modding. Then many games that are similar to those 3.
I have still yet to find a space game holistically more enjoyable than EVN though.
Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
by moffkalast on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:09AM
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Hmm, paused by the main dev? Probably yeah, but community continues to develop it if you check the discord group and git commits. There's some model/sprite rework and the coalition campaign that they were working on the last I checked.