Gemini Wars - June 8th

[Jarhead0331]

Anybody else pre-ordered?

[Martok]

I believe Anguille has.  He was a beta-tester too. 



I've been tempted to pre-order, but I decided to wait until the skirmish mode is actually added on, which the devs said would happen after release.  Purely mission-based campaigns usually don't grab me (C&C: Red Alert 2 and Homeworld being notable exceptions).  Still looking forward to it, though. 

[Anguille]

As i'll be leaving for a business trip the next 3 weeks, i'll get the boxed version when i come back (the beta did run on my netbook but it's clearly not powerful enough).

[Tpek]

I've pre-ordered through Gamersgate.
Just wondering why on Earth they wouldn't let us preload or at least get anything for now, as it seems they already have the keys for it assigned
to our accounts.

Why do so many game companies got to release their games at the exact same timeframe btw?!
I mean Focus/Cyanide/Atlus decided that all non-Americans must wait for the 7th of June until we can download our copies of Game of Thrones RPG, without
even a pre-load option.

The paradigms ruling the release dates of video games have been utterly silly in the last couple of years. :(

[Jarhead0331]

Well, its out, and while I've only played through the two tutorials so far, I must say I'm not impressed.  So far, it feels like a poor man's Sins of a Solar Empire.  It definitely has tossed some nice ideas into the mix, but it definitely hasn't grabbed me yet.

...and really, there is no reason for it not to be z-dimensional.

[son_of_montfort]

^ Strategy Informer had a review recently and gave it 6.5 out of 10. They seemed to echo your sentiments almost exactly.

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/geminiwars/1908/review.html

[Martok]

Well, its out, and while I've only played through the two tutorials so far, I must say I'm not impressed.  So far, it feels like a poor man's Sins of a Solar Empire.  It definitely has tossed some nice ideas into the mix, but it definitely hasn't grabbed me yet.

...and really, there is no reason for it not to be z-dimensional.

Thanks for the impressions, Jarhead.  Please let us know if/when your opinion of it improves. 


I still don't understand the decision to release the game sans skirmish and multiplayer modes.  That's gonna kill most of the replayability factor right there, and replayability is the lifeblood of most strategy titles. 

[Tpek]

Wow, this game is just plain 'meh'.

I don't think there was any other game that had me just "rage"-quit in the midst of the first tutorial.
Now I know most tutorials are sometimes a little too trivial and boring, but this beats them all.
Such a slow pacing along with a very annoying music and voice acting, and 30 minutes in which you pretty much just learn 1/50th of the basics of every generic RTS out there.

Not to mention how freakishly boring space battles are.
Here I have a "mighty" Destroyer fighting 2 Assault Frigates, just standing in place and shooting a weak pathetic elongated yellow thingie at them one at a time, which barely
even manages to scrape their hull. All the while they, the 2 smaller ships, just stand in place right infront of my DD, shooting small spherical yellow thingies at it, doing pretty much
no damage at all.
This goes on for over 10 minutes before I am victorious.

If that's how space battles go in that universe, then I again people there regularly die of old age or suicide in every military campaign.  :P

It's also really kind of the game to constantly forget the settings I give it (such as resolution).

[mikeck]

Wow, this game is just plain 'meh'.

I don't think there was any other game that had me just "rage"-quit in the midst of the first tutorial.
Now I know most tutorials are sometimes a little too trivial and boring, but this beats them all.
Such a slow pacing along with a very annoying music and voice acting, and 30 minutes in which you pretty much just learn 1/50th of the basics of every generic RTS out there.

Not to mention how freakishly boring space battles are.
Here I have a "mighty" Destroyer fighting 2 Assault Frigates, just standing in placeo and shooting a weak pathetic elongated yellow thingie at them one at a time, which barely
even manages to scrape their hull. All the while they, the 2 smaller ships, just stand in place right infront of my DD, shooting small spherical yellow thingies at it, doing pretty much
no damage at all.
This goes on for over 10 minutes before I am victorious.

If that's how space battles go in that universe, then I again people there regularly die of old age or suicide in every military campaign.  :P

It's also really kind of the game to constantly forget the settings I give it (such as resolution).

So......you really like it??

[Tpek]

Wow, this game is just plain 'meh'.

I don't think there was any other game that had me just "rage"-quit in the midst of the first tutorial.
Now I know most tutorials are sometimes a little too trivial and boring, but this beats them all.
Such a slow pacing along with a very annoying music and voice acting, and 30 minutes in which you pretty much just learn 1/50th of the basics of every generic RTS out there.

Not to mention how freakishly boring space battles are.
Here I have a "mighty" Destroyer fighting 2 Assault Frigates, just standing in placeo and shooting a weak pathetic elongated yellow thingie at them one at a time, which barely
even manages to scrape their hull. All the while they, the 2 smaller ships, just stand in place right infront of my DD, shooting small spherical yellow thingies at it, doing pretty much
no damage at all.
This goes on for over 10 minutes before I am victorious.

If that's how space battles go in that universe, then I again people there regularly die of old age or suicide in every military campaign.  :P

It's also really kind of the game to constantly forget the settings I give it (such as resolution).

So......you really like it??

YES!
Wait....
What's the opposite word....
NO!!!!!!!!!

[Anguille]

skirmish and multiplayer will come with a patch (soon i think). It was the publishers choice as far as i know. The game gets more interesting in the 3d and 4th missions. Beta didn't go much further than this.