Sid Meier's Starships

Gusington · January 28, 2015, 08:21:43 PM

Pirates in space is a great idea.

mirth · January 28, 2015, 08:32:35 PM

Quote from: Gusington on January 28, 2015, 08:21:43 PM
Pirates in space is a great idea.

Not necessarily

Gusington · January 28, 2015, 08:34:29 PM

Not homoerotic ice pirates. Sid Meier-ish Pirates. Buzzkiller.

Staggerwing · January 28, 2015, 09:04:05 PM

"Ice Pirates", Mary Crosby... as in Cross-eyed Mary?

BanzaiCat · January 29, 2015, 07:12:07 AM

Come on, Gus...admit it. Space Herpies wouldadd significantly to ANY game.

Gusington · January 29, 2015, 08:27:07 AM

Sounds more painful than the usual space maladies discussed here.

mikeck · January 29, 2015, 12:34:19 PM

Best. Movie. Ever.

BanzaiCat · January 29, 2015, 05:51:39 PM

"Why'd you paint them black?"

"Because I wanted them to be perfect!"

Barthheart · January 30, 2015, 08:47:39 AM

More video about the game and interview with Sid et al. (Found at Civfanatics)

Haven't watched the whole thing yet but there is some great game play stuff near the end... O0

Gusington · January 30, 2015, 08:56:28 AM

Cool, thanks for posting! Gotta find time to watch it this weekend.

Cyrano · February 01, 2015, 10:38:34 PM

Very interesting stuff...my own initial thoughts:

1: Certainly glad to hear of Sid's level of involvement...still one creative bastard, he...

2: Definitely not nuts about what, based on this short pair of clips, looks like a cheat with the asteroids. I respect the fact that Sid loves maps and sees them as the heart of games...he might well be right in most instances...but answering the question of "how do we do maps in space" with "asteroid belts as terrain" makes me sad. I'll ignore the astrophysics of it...really more the proportional size-to-space ratio issue...and just say it doesn't make me thing of space fleets.

3: The campaign game is shaping up interestingly although, and I listened twice and am still not sure, do I take that you only get one fleet? That would be weird too...

In the end, I guess I'm still looking for a reboot of the old Interplay interpretation of SFB, but will stipulate the market there might be a mite narrow.

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

Barthheart · February 06, 2015, 12:10:30 PM

Barthheart · February 06, 2015, 12:13:30 PM

Nevermind it's already posted to youtube....

jomni · February 06, 2015, 08:04:26 PM

Not bad. The gameplay is different enough to make it worth trying. But Homeworld is really sweet.

W8taminute · February 07, 2015, 12:58:14 PM

So to me this new game looks like a turn based RPG where you level up your ships and go on quests instead of a proper 4x strategy game where you manage a galactic economy while building up a military?