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Captain's Log, Stardate 43125.8. We have entered a new subforum in the SomethingAwful forums on a most critical mission of astronomical research. Our eminent guests will attempt to study the simulation technology of a primitive species that hasn't yet left their gravity well in any considerable fashion. We will accomplish this by playing as many of their space games as possible. PYF space games in this thread! For me, I'm currently having a blast with Mars Horizon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/765810/Mars_Horizon/. Mars Horizon is a management simulator where you control one of Earth's premier space agencies at the beginning of the Space Race, with the goal of being the first to colonize Mars. It's quite fun and surprisingly difficult. I recommend everyone give it a try if they like similar management type games.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:23
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Anyone remember that piece of poo poo game Outpost?
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Feb 23, 2021 03:24
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Mine is definitely Kerbal Space Program. Nothing feels better than that first time you get a rocket into stable orbit. And then you work and work until you land one on the Moon. Next thing you know you are building a badass space station around Kerbal.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:25
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Even after 22 years, no one has ever topped Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. (It's like Civ, but caters to a slightly different flavor of nerd.)
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Feb 23, 2021 03:29
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X Wing v TIE Fighter, and Starfox 64. Everything else cheapens the melancholy. Though if I was independently wealthy I could have bad-with-money level fun with Elite Dangerous.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:29
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Lawman 0 posted:Anyone remember that piece of poo poo game Outpost? i remember playing it a long long time ago and it took me forever to figure out 'digging' mechanics and your poor outpost didn't last long on the surface. So many doomed attempts at colonization. speaking of being doomed, ive always had a softspot for being punished by FTL, one of the meanest rngs ive dealt with, probably right up there with xcom. Fluffdaddy posted:Mine is definitely Kerbal Space Program. Nothing feels better than that first time you get a rocket into stable orbit. And then you work and work until you land one on the Moon. Next thing you know you are building a badass space station around Kerbal. I thought KSP had one of the better paced sandbox games, you just naturally keep building bigger and bigger things with bigger and bigger goals, although i'm sure it really appeals to certain types of people more than others.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:30
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Fluffdaddy posted:Mine is definitely Kerbal Space Program. Nothing feels better than that first time you get a rocket into stable orbit. And then you work and work until you land one on the Moon. Next thing you know you are building a badass space station around Kerbal. I love Kerbal so much even though the most I've ever been able to do is reach Mun and return to Kerbal most of the time. Every once in awhile I'll watch a space movie like The Martian or Interstellar and that fuels a 2-3 day binge in which I'll do the same thing all over again  My only hope is the sequel they're working on is actually good and not just a cash grab/annual monetization type deal.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:30
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The top game is Kerbal, but there is a new game called Dyson Sphere Program where you factory your way up to building a Dyson Sphere. Flying planet to planet, gathering resources, setting up solar power on a tidally-locked planet, checking out blackholes. It's fantastic and fun. Games thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3956868
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Feb 23, 2021 03:30
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Eve Echoes, mobile version of Eve Online
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Feb 23, 2021 03:33
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I've been replaying Escape Velocity - Nova from Ambrosia software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_Nova It has a weird storyline(s) but is a fun space trading/pirate fighting/ship upgrading type game if you like that kind of thing, there are lots of mods available as well. Endless sky is a modern game with very similar features which I haven't played. 
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Feb 23, 2021 03:35
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Athanatos posted:The top game is Kerbal, but there is a new game called Dyson Sphere Program where you factory your way up to building a Dyson Sphere. I really need to try that but someone got me hooked onto Factorio recently sooooo, welp. Can anyone recommend a good game that has a similar vibe/feel to The Expanse? I bought Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and was greatly disappointed by how bland it was.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:35
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My first space game, aside from Gyruss (lol) was Star Raiders for the Atari 800. poo poo owned.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:37
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yaffle posted:I've been replaying Escape Velocity - Nova from Ambrosia software Escape Velocity and it's sequels are among my favorite games of all times. Have you tried the plugins for EV:N that convert it to EV or EV:O? I recommend them as well.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:38
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Handsome Ralph posted:I really need to try that but someone got me hooked onto Factorio recently sooooo, welp. It's factorio...in SPACE. Drop the greys of factorio and get with the program. Handsome Ralph posted:Can anyone recommend a good game that has a similar vibe/feel to The Expanse? I bought Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and was greatly disappointed by how bland it was. Elite Dangerous. You can be a small time belter miner and some jerk Earther comes along and frags your ship.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:38
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Do Not Fear Jazz posted:Escape Velocity and it's sequels are among my favorite games of all times. Not yet, although I played them obsessively when they first came out, gently caress you Captain Hector.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:41
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Powered Descent posted:Even after 22 years, no one has ever topped Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. (It's like Civ, but caters to a slightly different flavor of nerd.)  First civ, where the leaders had real personalities. Miriam was a judgmental rear end in a top hat, and I always eliminated her first. The quotes were really good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUcvswVJ58 "It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people." - Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
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Feb 23, 2021 03:42
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i am a fan of Spore, a 2008 video game from Maxis. okay but actually I love Outer Wilds, an extremely awesome space game
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Feb 23, 2021 03:44
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Guest2553 posted:X Wing v TIE Fighter I never liked X-Wing v. TIE Fighter as much, but I played the poo poo out of TIE Fighter and its expansions. It used to occasionally crash our dainty little PC by trying to use so much memory that QEMM couldn't keep up, and I played it so much I learned to look away from the screen when the crashes were most likely to happen.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:46
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For old games X-Wing and Tie Fighter. And Descent: Freespace. Currently, yeah Elite Dangerous is spiffy and also Outer Wilds. I accidentally played most of Outer Worlds thinking it was Outer Wilds but there is absolutely no user controlled space flight in Worlds. Games in my queue I'll catch up with eventually are XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Alien: Isolation. And finishing Prey which may be a space game.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:47
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yaffle posted:Not yet, although I played them obsessively when they first came out, gently caress you Captain Hector. Likewise, gently caress Captain Hector, gently caress Krestels, and gently caress Confeds til I die.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:50
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Jen X posted:i am a fan of Spore, a 2008 video game from Maxis. My kids both played Spore for hours and hours, I should re-install it somewhere for them. They found the logistics of the space game a little hard to manage. They much preferred making velociraptors and wiping out the neighboring tribes, the problem was that the game would re-use your our creatures as NPC's in later games so they would often be eaten by the appalling things they had made earlier.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:52
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I like Starsector but I haven't played it in a while. It's still in early access but it's pretty complete feature wise and there's supposed to be a big new patch coming out in the near future
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Feb 23, 2021 04:26
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yaffle posted:I've been replaying Escape Velocity - Nova from Ambrosia software Escape Velocity: Nova is the only thing that made Quicktime worth installing. EV:N, then Transcendence, then Starsector, space is best enjoyed in 2D
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Feb 23, 2021 05:02
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Fluffdaddy posted:Mine is definitely Kerbal Space Program. Nothing feels better than that first time you get a rocket into stable orbit. And then you work and work until you land one on the Moon. Next thing you know you are building a badass space station around Kerbal. KSP owns hard and I'm sad that KSP 2 won't be out until 2022
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Feb 23, 2021 05:03
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qnqnx posted:space is best enjoyed in 2D Forum subtitle
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Feb 23, 2021 05:04
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I've been playing a bit of KSP lately since the recent Rover got my excited about space. I've "visited" all the planets with probes and rovers before, but I never do manned missions outside Kerbal's two moons because I hate feeling like I'm dooming them. I always kinda burn out there since once you figure out the basics of building effective rockets, it's not that hard to figure out transfers, descents, etc. This time I decided I'd actually do a round trip to Duna including landing. I've never felt as accomplished in a game as when I finally docked the lander up with the return rocket and realized that I had enough delta-v to make it back. A++++ game.
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Feb 23, 2021 05:11
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I always get hosed up by eventually having to do orbital rendezvous. I'm so godamned bad at orbital rendezvous.
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Feb 23, 2021 05:17
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Honky Dong Country posted:I always get hosed up by eventually having to do orbital rendezvous. I'm so godamned bad at orbital rendezvous. So am I. I had to do 3 practice ones over kerbin, and even then I sorta hosed it up where my lander had to do way way too many orbits to rendezvous with the return stage.
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Feb 23, 2021 05:20
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Iron Helix was pretty awesome
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Feb 23, 2021 05:20
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wilderthanmild posted:So am I. One of these days I'm gonna cave and start heavily using MechJeb since everybody says it owns.
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Feb 23, 2021 05:22
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if every game takes place on a planet that is in space, does that make every game ever a space game 
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Feb 23, 2021 06:31
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Elite: Dangerous is in many ways a bad video game, I have 850 hours logged so far and have no plans to stop playing. For all its flaws that 1:1 scale recreation of the galaxy is just a spectacular way to try to grasp the bigness of space.
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Feb 23, 2021 07:07
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I have yet to find a game that captured my imagination as much as Space Rangers 2.
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Feb 23, 2021 07:15
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FBS posted:Elite: Dangerous is in many ways a bad video game, I have 850 hours logged so far and have no plans to stop playing. This perfectly encapsulates Elite:Dangerous I'm 430 hours into it and I can't wait for the new expansion that gives you space legs! There's some really cool stuff out there and jumping out thousands of lightyears from Earth and discovering new solar systems and planets is amazing. I highly recommend it - join up with the goon squadron (Diamond Frogs) and let them guide you through the impressively-convoluted learning curve. Edit: If Eve Online is best represented by spreadsheets, Elite: Dangerous is best represented by a 1000-page operations manual translated from Russian by the British Hakarne fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Feb 23, 2021 08:15
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Lawman 0 posted:Anyone remember that piece of poo poo game Outpost? i remember playing it as a kid and feeling like it wasn't quite all there. i didn't realize until years later that it literally was unfinished. but for some bizarre reason i have this perverse nostalgia about it; it's been so long that i don't trust my memory, but for some reason from what i do remember i feel like it could have been a good game if it had been done right/completed Fluffdaddy posted:Mine is definitely Kerbal Space Program. Nothing feels better than that first time you get a rocket into stable orbit. And then you work and work until you land one on the Moon. Next thing you know you are building a badass space station around Kerbal. I remember playing way back in the beta stages, before maneuver nodes, before docking was even a thing (though from some people's perspective I still was a Johnny-come-lately, at least I had symmetry and a Mun to start with!), and I still remember that feeling of utter triumph when I managed to pull off orbital rendezvous. That said, I'm happy to have the interface assist me with maneuver plotting and intercept indicators.
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Feb 23, 2021 08:25
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The Ur-Quan Masters is an open-source remake of the space adventure masterpiece Star Control II. The game was wildly ambitious for the time, and has in my opinion stood the test of time better than any other game of the era.   
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Feb 23, 2021 08:27
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Dyson Sphere Program is hella cool but it feels a bit short to me. Maybe I'm wrong, though, but right now I'm waiting for more updates. Outer Wilds is amazing. It was to me what No Man's Sky tried to be but not random and stupid and instead well thought out and great, so very satisfying space exploration. Edit: this is probably the best space game, though: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2280/Ultimate_Doom/ Man with Hat fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Feb 23, 2021 09:38
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/6420/Nexus__The_Jupiter_Incident/ I really enjoyed this game, it is interesting!
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Feb 23, 2021 10:01
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Horsebanger posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/6420/Nexus__The_Jupiter_Incident/ Hard agree, that game is awesome. My favourite space combat game is Freespace 2, though. With the engine and asset updates that are still being released, it looks like a game from 2019 rather than 1999.
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yaffle posted:Endless sky is a modern game with very similar features which I haven't played. Especially if you've already been replaying the EV series and having a good time. Anyway, lately been playing a lot of Hardspace: Shipbreaker which is quite good for Early Access. Your job is to dismantle space ships to pay off the debt you incurred for the privilege of getting the job of dismantling space ships while trying not to get killed by accidental/intentional decompression, runaway reactors, and your own cutting explosives. Also, some of the space ships are haunted.
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