Thread: Dead Island Ready for Preorder!

Well Bunni, I am with you on this game. I've been waiting for this game to come out since I saw that trailer you link (the 3rd one) a while back. Game looks nice and it wouldn't be fair to just lump it into the category hit while the iron is hot zombie game.

Originally Posted by enf

Im sure they'll discuss that at the next secret game developers world meeting.

I just want a few good space-themed games. Preferably without the space marine trope. Well, Space Marines™ are fine. But other kinds of space marine are just overdone; even a classic Doom or Quake space marine would feel pretty blah at this point, and they invented the trope in gaming.

But then, you don't need space marines to have a good space-themed game. Metroid, Descent, UT (plenty of space maps, DM-Phobos is a good one) are all good examples of games with a space theme that don't involve space marines.

Actually, now that I think about: how fucking long has it been since someone made a good space combat sim? X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, the Freespace games, the Wing Commander games... goddamn, I want a space combat sim now.

Shit, EVE isn't even really qualifying as one since it's like 80% stock management and 5% combat.

I'd kill for a semi-hard space combat sim. I'm fine with having sound effects and lasers that fire in bolts and plasma cannons and shit like that, but like... have it pay at least lipservice to Newtonian physics (none of that "constant thrust equals constant velocity" BS.)

I'm almost tempted to see if X-Wing vs TIE Fighter is on GOG, but after trying to play Descent... I'm a little concerned the graphics will just be TOO old to really function well. Really old (early 90's) 3D games tend to be really shitty these days, unless they're fully sprite-based like Doom and Wolfenstein and whatever.

Originally Posted by kyle700

Eve. That's all you've got

Yup

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Originally Posted by PizzaSHARK!

Shit, EVE isn't even really qualifying as one since it's like 80% stock management and 5% combat.

I'd kill for a semi-hard space combat sim. I'm fine with having sound effects and lasers that fire in bolts and plasma cannons and shit like that, but like... have it pay at least lipservice to Newtonian physics (none of that "constant thrust equals constant velocity" BS.)

I'm almost tempted to see if X-Wing vs TIE Fighter is on GOG, but after trying to play Descent... I'm a little concerned the graphics will just be TOO old to really function well. Really old (early 90's) 3D games tend to be really shitty these days, unless they're fully sprite-based like Doom and Wolfenstein and whatever.

LOL. Not quite 80% stock management. There are tons of people, myself included who don't mess with that at all. Then there AR others who eat that stuff up. Really just depends on what you want to do.


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