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Posted January 28, 2012
I'm going to buy this later today. The $4 price tag also provides the perfect opportunity to upgrade my TF2 account.
Posted January 28, 2012
I bought it, but after 7 hours it starts to be tiring. And I could play Space Rangers for weeks!

Maybe it is because i did not yet find ideal ship for me. I just unlocked my first L class ship - Big Bus.
Posted January 28, 2012
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Sogi-Ya: I played for about 5 hours last night, wiped out my rez bank TWICE taking down some nasty space stations, unlocked 4 new ships, visited three new worlds, and then promptly loaded an old file instead of saving.

oh well, the new ships weren't all that great and I kinda need to get my mother ship upgraded / find some fourth tier attack ships before I start trying to piss off everyone at once.
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orcishgamer: If you need to blow through space stations early game, try the outer rims and stick to stations that have a lower power (or do a single mission that lowers Civ or UTA strength in that system), there's a big difference between systems, even at strength 3 that, which tech levels of 10 and systems with tech levels of 30 (or more). You can often get the same item from multiple systems.

Also, you can get infinite research, rez, and goons later on, if you want, but it takes time and there's a bit of tedium involved (not so much that you won't max out everything you really want, but enough that you'll probably not move every tech to 10).
Not even Skyrim or DX:HR?
Post edited January 28, 2012 by Fever_Discordia
Posted January 28, 2012
hell no!

overworked pieces of crap is what they are; playing with a shiny turd may be funny for a while, but eventually you gonna have to flush the toilet and wash your hands.

Skyrim and the like may win game of the year awards, but spaz will probably be a contender for game of the decade.

it's like who the fuck plays Portal 2 anymore, yet Thief 2 is still getting fan made missions. or red dead redemption, that game swept the GOTYs last year but who even remembers it now?

SPAZ is just that perfectly balanced between it's graphics, mechanics, and complexity ... it's like a space sim version of tetris.
Posted January 28, 2012
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orcishgamer: If you need to blow through space stations early game, try the outer rims and stick to stations that have a lower power (or do a single mission that lowers Civ or UTA strength in that system), there's a big difference between systems, even at strength 3 that, which tech levels of 10 and systems with tech levels of 30 (or more). You can often get the same item from multiple systems.

Also, you can get infinite research, rez, and goons later on, if you want, but it takes time and there's a bit of tedium involved (not so much that you won't max out everything you really want, but enough that you'll probably not move every tech to 10).
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Fever_Discordia: Not even Skyrim or DX:HR?
I'm really confused as to how your post relates to the ones you quoted.
Post edited January 28, 2012 by SirPrimalform
Posted January 28, 2012
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Bodkin: I bought it, but after 7 hours it starts to be tiring. And I could play Space Rangers for weeks!

Maybe it is because i did not yet find ideal ship for me. I just unlocked my first L class ship - Big Bus.
part of the game's limits are that for how much unlocking ships and tech is a major element of the game's playability, it's kinda got a rather limited amount.

there is supposed to me more of all that coming in future content patches, but I can't really say that I have found my perfect ship either.

*edited to retract comment that was also stated by the guy who said the first comment but was misquoting the first statement by someone else who made a comment in regards to the quality of the game towards another poster's inquiry as to the viability of the title*
Post edited January 28, 2012 by Sogi-Ya
Posted January 28, 2012
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SirPrimalform: To pretty much everyone in this thread: would you recommend this game to someone who was a massive fan of Star Control 2/UQM?





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Fever_Discordia: Not even Skyrim or DX:HR?
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SirPrimalform: I'm really confused as to how your post relates to the ones you quoted.
Crap, sorry, meant to quote the post from the same poster 2 above the one I actually quoted!
"There's a strong argument that SPAZ was the best game released last year, only Sequence and Bastion really compete for that honor, no AAA games do. Yes, you should be playing it. Steam even has it on sale this weekend. "

Oops!
Posted January 28, 2012
grrr, and I just replied with a mangled quote of my own.
Posted January 28, 2012
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SirPrimalform: I'm really confused as to how your post relates to the ones you quoted.
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Fever_Discordia: Crap, sorry, meant to quote the post from the same poster 2 above the one I actually quoted!
"There's a strong argument that SPAZ was the best game released last year, only Sequence and Bastion really compete for that honor, no AAA games do. Yes, you should be playing it. Steam even has it on sale this weekend. "

Oops!
Whoops, I should have been able to work that out.
Posted January 28, 2012
I must be in the minority but I didn't have a very good experience trying out SPAZ.

I played the demo on Steam and was having fun with it. Everything was going along fine as I was doing simple missions learning the game and it's screens.

Then I got a mission to go kill some bad guys who were trying to get away. No problem I thought. So I zone in and just before getting there a tutorial screen gives me the dire warning that I Mass Retreat if things go badly and that I should not be hesitant to do so as needed. Hmm, I thought to myself, maybe this is going to be rough. I was playing on normal difficulty by the way.

So, I zone in and something(s) begin firing on me immediately. I try to spin around to fight back. Then in a moment I am dead.

Here is the bad part. I decided if this game kills me like this the first time I encounter opposition on normal difficulty in the tutorial lessons no less, it must be too hard for me. So I exited out and uninstalled it. :-(

Maybe I just got unlucky and should give it another chance?
Posted January 28, 2012
uhm .... that's like quitting after your first grunt gets killed in a command & conquer title.

everything outside of your mother ship is cannon fodder, when I was talking about clearing out my Rez bank attacking space stations the ships I was using were 1 hound (replacement cost of 75) and 2 Gyros (replacement cost of 5 rez) ... my rez bank is 2,500.

I had to have replaced at least 50 ships since the little ones go down in within seconds of coming under fire from a space station, thankfully you can set your mother ship to automatically start replace lost ships as soon as they pop.
Posted January 28, 2012
To pretty much everyone in this thread: would you recommend this game to someone who was a massive fan of Star Control 2/UQM?

I'm thinking of getting it if/when they remove the online activation.
Post edited January 28, 2012 by SirPrimalform
Posted January 28, 2012
Just watch the WTF Is video for it :)
Posted January 28, 2012
I couldn't tell you 'cause I haven't played Star Control.
Posted January 29, 2012
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Fever_Discordia: Not even Skyrim or DX:HR?
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SirPrimalform: I'm really confused as to how your post relates to the ones you quoted.
Because I said no AAA games this year were better than SPAZ, Sequence, or Bastion. I stand by that statement, actually Batman AC was the best AAA this year, not DE: HR or Skyrim.
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