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[Juanito]

Is it worth to buy? I've grown playing HOI2, victoria and europa universalis but latelly I've stopped liking their last games.

[Bowshot125]

I'm really loving Stellaris too.

It's like Crusader Kings/Europa Universalis had an orgy with Civilization and Master of Orion (and Sins of a Solar Empire was recording it all) and the baby was born with the best of each. It's also impressively full of nods and references to all the great sci-fi movies, books and games out there. I've even found a ceramic flower pot floating around an ocean world, lol. Still looking for the whale.

I've got this brilliant message that completely owned me yesterday when I was arrogant enough to try and attack a Fallen Empire I found just because our fleets were "equivalent". I completely ignored the fact that their technology was Overwhelming, though.
My empire - a fast spreading, slaver, xenophile and religiously fanatic hive of insectoid warriors - was conquering the galaxy without remorse. No one could stand us - and the current Divine Leader had awesome traits that lowered ship upkeep and increased energy output. This allowed me to expand and wage war like never before. We enslaved more than 150 pops from 8 different races in less than 30 years. But in his arrogance, he attacked the Fallen Empire...

Our whole fleet was wiped - it was an honourable fight, taking down many of their ships - but we lost. Suddenly, their whole fleet WARPS RIGHT INTO OUR HOME SYSTEM, light years away. I was like "WTF?"
Hopeless, I quickly cede to all their demands (abandoning 3 shitty colonies and being publicly humiliated) to ensure peace (and my empire's survival).... But they were not done yet - and I was greeted with this amazing message:



And so the "oh so promising" leader and archprophet dies... by his own arrogancy. I just love the narratives and storytelling these games allows us to create.

And just to add a bit more of flair (and because Interstellar was awesome) here's one of my fleets engaging some hostiles near a black hole because it's epic:

Report back if you find any planets from the Dune series. Arrakis, Caladan, Giedi Prime, etc. =3

[ven]

How is that, ven? I've loved the EU series, didn't care so much for Crusader Kinds, but that's just personal taste. I saw it was out now, but so many things screaming "buy me" right now.

If you take its potential into account, it's one of the greatest games I've ever seen. Paradox really nailed the lore and replayability in this one. The events are amazing and in my opinion they're what makes the game stand out - there are many 4x/grand strategy games around, what makes this one different is its well written and interconnected lore. Early and late game are great, with lots of stuff happening; mid game feels boring due to nothing going on event-wise, but that's easy to fix with DLCs, like it's done with Crusader Kings. It's also very well optimized, with low RAM usage, and that's the main reason I kept playing it.

One example of how events can go:
If you find primitive cultures, you can observe them from an orbital station, abduct them for research, enlighten them technologically, genetically modify your scientists to infiltrate them, direct their evolution, and so on. There's always a chance things go weird. It can happen, for example, that your infiltration fails, and that culture creates an anti-alien XCOM-like initiative to fight you back. Usually they're just oblivious though.

For me it was a good twist that the end game doesn't follow the usual route as other games. Even if you beat everyone and conquer the galaxy, depending on your choices during the game you can spring horrible crises like ripping space-time with your warp drives into another dimension or accidentaly letting your robots become sentient and conquering the universe. I'm looking forward to more events and DLC crises.

But it's not for everyone. It's brutal to the point of realism, some texts are long and complex, and you need imagination to have fun with it, so you have to approach it more or less like a RPG. Definitely not for the impatient.

[DaniAngione]

For me it was a good twist that the end game doesn't follow the usual route as other games. Even if you beat everyone and conquer the galaxy, depending on your choices during the game you can spring horrible crises like ripping space-time with your warp drives into another dimension or accidentaly letting your robots become sentient and conquering the universe. I'm looking forward to more events and DLC crises.

A robot uprising just started on a nearby empire... One by one, several systems are being taken and the domination AI is spreading across every other empire in the galaxy...

I've already reinforced my borders, outlawed artificial intelligence and disassembled all my robotic populations.... COME AT ME, SKYNET. I'M READY!

[MagicManICT]

But it's not for everyone. It's brutal to the point of realism, some texts are long and complex, and you need imagination to have fun with it, so you have to approach it more or less like a RPG. Definitely not for the impatient.

At one point, half of us were Dwarf Fortress players, and those that weren't were vets of other overly complex RPGs and such, I think. This is actually a selling point to us.

If I wasn't sold before, I am now. Thanks for that write-up.

[LadyV]

Anyone feeling retro?

http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php

[shubla]

latelly I've stopped liking their latest games.

Sadly common in game industry these days.
If there will be one successor, they will keep milking money with only title and shitty game.

[Zeler]

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[Patchouli_Knowledge]

Vantage Master Far East. Turn Based Strategy from Falcom. The AI in this game is one of the toughest I've seen video games, in fact sometimes too tough when you start off.