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Mandatory Assembly posted:This isn't _exactly_ a 4X game but I figured this was the best thread for it: thinking that's Thea. i played the first one and there is a sequel which i have not played.
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Fuligin posted:this actually sounds pretty good, loathe as I am to give brad anything. hell you could cut everything out of that diary except 'kael from fall from heaven 2 is back as lead designer' and i'd be sold yeah, i want to see what the fall from heaven guy can do but i don't want to give Brad any money. such a dilemma.
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Bug Squash posted:I'm not holding much hope. It's a sequel to a not great game, taking inspiration from two other not great games. well not officially, he sued the woman who accused him and forced her to write him an apology letter as part of the settlement.
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THE BAR posted:Wasn't he the bee guy? yup
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he framed the letter and mounted it on his office wall.
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Neophyte posted:Master of Magic is getting a remake from Slitherine and Muha Games for sometime in 2022. 
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Bug Squash posted:Something like the universe of Dune just before the events of the first book go down would be fabulous. Dozens of competing houses trying to accumulate planets and power, and weirdo factions trying to breed superman or corner a market. All held together with mad social science and drugs. weren't pdox planning on doing something like Dune but ultimately decided against it? feel like i read that somewhere.
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i'm no good at this slipway thing but i think it's got something cool going so i'll stick with it.
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the first master of orion was just sliders.
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ikanreed posted:Hot take, sliders are bad, and they abstract away the fun of micromanaging an empire the designer who finds the happy medium between sliders and individual buildings will be crowned king.
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i always enjoyed the gimmicky space pirate build where you just steal everyone's ships with your burly combat bear men. mistake to take it out.
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i was a little leery of checking out humankind but it turns out to be on gamepass which i still have for some reason. so here we go.
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nessin posted:I know it's not really a 4x but close enough. Has anyone been playing Star Dynasties? I think it was early access but just got it's 1.0 release and I had it on my wishlist for when that happened. Just wondering if anyone whose played it recently would recommend buying it? i haven't played it yet but looks like it has a demo.
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i didn't even know there was a demo for that so thanks for posting about it .
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sounds like the old sometimes it's better to not have a demo problem.
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i will join forces with our Alien friends to block the imposition of the Amero on these United States.
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Mayveena posted:The classic one is Alan Emrich's Master of Orion. He did a few more as well, you can probably find his titles on Wikipedia. then he went on to lead moo3 
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there's a Master of Magic remake coming out in the not too distant future. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623070/Master_of_Magic/
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Beefeater1980 posted:Emperor of the Fading Suns is one of my favourite 4Xs from my childhood and I just discovered it got an update (which is nuts, the last time this was updated was like 20 years ago). I think it’s still only on gog.com. The update seems to be folding in a lot of the work done by modders over the years. i tried this years ago and bounced off it but might be worth another shot for less than 5bux.
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good lord was Civ 4 a GOAT.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Civ 2 was nuts for mods too, remember spending lunchtimes at high school downloading mods from Apolyton onto an actual physical disc. Someone did this 4-part mod of defending Russia in WW2 that was incredible: part 1 you just get smashed by panzers and dive bombers and then gradually you build back and the wave starts going in the other direction. Civ 2 was my introduction to game modding. i had a bunch of futuristic techs and units for the end game added, mechs n poo poo. kicked rear end. THE BAR posted:Don't think I've ever actually played 4. Huh! play it! play the Fall from Heaven mod also.
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god you've got me actually thinking about reinstalling that after who knows how many years.
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the thing about the xcom shooter, iirc, is that it was announced before the xcom reboot, which was in active development. people were like "why are you not just making a new xcom" and then it turned out they were. all a bit silly.
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victrix posted:https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1623070/view/3682292513183048363?l=english i had read that this was a pretty straight 1 to 1 port but if they're gonna add new stuff i may take a look.
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Fall from Heaven is one of the best 4x games ever, if you have any interest in the genre you need to get in there.
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i don't enjoy Stellaris at all as a map painter game and i kinda hate doing wars in it. but it's great as a sci fi RPG story generator, at least until you run through all the content. the new dlc is adding more story and rpg stuff so i'm looking forward to it. when i was a wee child i would play master of orion and record the significant events of the game in a little notebook, like i was recording the history of some great nation. wish i still had the notebook, probably would be hilarious.
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Elemental has the one-two punch of being intensely boring and being dev'd by a company run by a real mother fucker. he's a lovely ring wing libertarian and IN ADDITION he tried to steal the intellectual property of my #1 favorite game of all time, Star Control 2.
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we're all just living in the box that MOO and Civ made.
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they need to do a SMAC remake like that MOM remake. just polish up the graphics on level 3 and modernize the interface. you don't have to add anything else. i wouldn't say no if you did but...
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Feb 23, 2023 20:09
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in addition there's no diplomacy, alliances, that kind of thing... which, i mean its warhammer, whaddaya expect. but if you're expecting to have options other than KILL EVERYONE this isn't it.
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oh how i loved turning Sister Miriam's entire continent into an inland sea with PBs. feels good, man.
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all the factions get up to some off-putting things,even the "good guys." it's the future, you're building a civilization on a planet that is literally alive, poo poo's going to get weird.
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a substantial portion of my Stellaris playtime is forgetting to close it before going to bed and it just runs all night and day until i got home from work.
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Anno posted:Save your money imo and wait for Age of Wonders 4 next week! Haven't been hyped for a 4xish game in a good long while. cannibal halfling horde incoming ,whoop whoop.
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the leader system was in desperate need of a revamp. i mostly just ignored it previously.
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Anno posted:I’ve had this on the old wishlist for awhile and have time for a new map game this weekend so I’m excited. Is it something like the Warlock games where it’s basically all war all the time against everyone? 40ks motto is “IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY WAR.” and Gladius leans into it. no diplomacy whatsoever.
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Future Video GamesUK posted:It just seems really weird when there are at least two full-featured Trek mods for Stellaris anyway. I assume people who want to play 'Stellaris but Trek' are just playing those. i never messed with it but i read about one of those and you could even play as mirror universe Feds and stuff like that. you could play as Pakleds. i don't know why they ever wanted to try and compete with the kind of crazy people who would make a mod with so much content and all for free.
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Wardell tried to literally steal the Star Control name and characters from the guys who created it. i tried to find the photo of his car (porshe 911) parked across multiple parking spots including a handicapped one but i couldn't locate it. i don't know how good Galciv 4 is and don't care.
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to be honest AI generated text isn't much of a downgrade from the writing in previous stardock games.
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i know games writing is generally not so great but go read Brad's old elemental novel if you really hate yourself.
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