Topic: Space flight games (Read 6750 times)

glyphic · « **on:** 07 May 2010, 08:40 »

I used to love space-based flying games. Limitless flying and ridiculous ships battling all over the cold expanses. Are there any recent games that pull it off decently that aren't MMOs?

I generally only play on XBOX360, but I have a decent PC setup (top of the line five years ago. SIGH)

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 May 2010, 09:04 »

The X series is pretty good for fighting in space. It also has a strong trade element and a really open universe. The latest is X3: Terran Conflict and it's quite a good price on Steam at the moment I think. It plays quite well on my older desktop, which is probably a similar spec to your PC.

maxusy3k · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 May 2010, 10:47 »

I played the hell out of Freelancer, but I understand it wasn't really everybody's thing.

LTK · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 May 2010, 13:50 »

When I was a kid I played a lot of Freespace, I had loads of fun with that game. You can get the first and second Freespace games on gog.com for a fair price, which at gog.com means barely anything. I'm planning on buying it again some day.

You might also be interested in the fact that the Escapist's Yahtzee also used to love space dogfight games, and has set out to create one. You can read about some of his progress.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 May 2010, 14:23 »

There's this game called Shattered Horizon that I always thought looked really cool.

It's not a spaceship flight game, but it's played in space with thruster-equipped spacesuits. I've always wanted to check it out but my computer can't handle it so I've never bothered.

Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it's worth a look anyway.

kemon · « **Reply #5 on:** 07 May 2010, 15:02 »

if you don't mind looking up an older game, i recommend tachyon:the fringe. good space combat, great story. and even without that, the best reason is the main character is voiced by bruce campbell.

Melodic · « **Reply #6 on:** 07 May 2010, 16:11 »

Hey, I was just thinking about this! I bought X3 recently and am enjoying it pretty much a lot, although it's not the perfect game I want it to be.

glyphic · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 May 2010, 08:50 »

Man. It looks like all the best space sims were made 20 years ago.

kemon · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 May 2010, 11:26 »

that's about the size of it.

snalin · « **Reply #9 on:** 10 May 2010, 13:55 »

Another great space game is Homeworld, an RTS in space makes flanking a much more serious business. Cry in anguish as your defences are no good since the enemy is flying in from not the back, not the sides, but above and below and oh my GOD.

It's fun when you figure it out, though.

LeeC · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 May 2010, 21:37 »

I used to play wing commander 3 heart of the tiger and wing commander prophecy along with the old xwing v tie fighter game and they were pretty good.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #11 on:** 10 May 2010, 22:52 »

Yeah X-Wing Alliance is still one of my most favourite games ever

glyphic · « **Reply #12 on:** 11 May 2010, 06:26 »

I took some advice and am downloading X3. I will let you know how it is in a week AFTER IT DOWNLOADS ALL DAY AND NIGHT FOR SEVEN FULL DAYS.

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #13 on:** 11 May 2010, 07:19 »

Yeah, it is quite a big game. Although unless you have an even slower internet connection than me I don't know how it's taking an entire week.

Also, a warning: the voice acting is hilariously terrible.

Melodic · « **Reply #14 on:** 11 May 2010, 11:15 »

not even hilarious. it's just terrible

glyphic · « **Reply #15 on:** 16 May 2010, 10:22 »

Got it installed. Boy does it start slowly. When do I get to go faster?

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #16 on:** 16 May 2010, 10:29 »

Depends who you chose to start with. If you went with Terran you bounce about between combat and slightly tedious travelling quite a bit. If you start as, say, the bankrupt assassin, you're almost always fighting somebody. But it's more difficult to get to one of the plot sectors. The plots themselves are designed to be drop in/drop out mostly as you choose, so the pace is generally as fast as you want it to be.

glyphic · « **Reply #17 on:** 17 May 2010, 05:59 »

I suppose that makes sense. I started as the Terran. I spent most of the two hours I played flying from place to place on autopilot.

Maybe I'll start over when I get some time and be someone else.

McTaggart · « **Reply #18 on:** 17 May 2010, 07:02 »

The best thing about that game was the 10x time compression.

Cire27 · « **Reply #19 on:** 17 May 2010, 21:46 »

Quote from: glyphic on 16 May 2010, 10:22

Got it installed. Boy does it start slowly. When do I get to go faster?

Making sure you're hitting 'J' every chance it's possible. I think that's the default button for the time compression.

glyphic · « **Reply #20 on:** 18 May 2010, 06:50 »

Yeah, I was using it. Unfortunately, the second mission involves flying three or four systems away, which takes forever even at 600% compression.

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #21 on:** 18 May 2010, 06:57 »

It's not so bad once you get a jump drive. Then you can just instantly travel between sectors. You can find them for sale in a few sectors. I believe the PTNI Headquarters has some for sale. (I recommend getting a sector map from one of the many X3:TC websites there are. Depends how much you want to assist yourself)

Cire27 · « **Reply #22 on:** 18 May 2010, 15:02 »

You can go to options and make it 1000x.

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