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Author Topic: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?  (Read 15961 times)

Rakonas

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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2012, 02:41:45 am »

Can you explore lots of planet surfaces on Mass Effect 1? :O I have 2 and have my preorder of 3 half paid for.. (gotta hurry up..)
Honestly it was one of the most baffling removals of a part of the game for me. I loved driving around in the APC like a madman, much better than pinging shit. I don't really get why you would play ME2 without first playing ME1, but oh well.
Unfortunately I can't really think of anything
Actually Star Trek Online just came to mind as something that hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's supposed to be terrible.
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2012, 05:21:55 pm »

I've been waiting on the Pioneer game for a while. Never tried it because it's alpha, and I'm still waiting for more stuff to be implemented, but it sounds and looks awesome.
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2012, 05:35:23 pm »

Can you explore lots of planet surfaces on Mass Effect 1? :O I have 2 and have my preorder of 3 half paid for.. (gotta hurry up..)
Honestly it was one of the most baffling removals of a part of the game for me. I loved driving around in the APC like a madman, much better than pinging shit. I don't really get why you would play ME2 without first playing ME1, but oh well.

ME2 and 1 are very different games. I would not call either a "planet exploration" game.

Nothing to add at the moment as all space games I'm currently playing have no planet explore.
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2012, 05:53:02 pm »

Blockade Runner will have features like that.  You'll eventually be able to land on planets and astroids, ect.   8)

Here's the forum thread.  It hasn't been updated in a while, though.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=83270.0
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2012, 07:13:51 pm »

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I've been waiting on the Pioneer game for a while. Never tried it because it's alpha, and I'm still waiting for more stuff to be implemented, but it sounds and looks awesome.

I recommend giving a look in Pioneer, even if it's labelled as "alpha", the freeform exploration of frankly stunning landscape with that streaming technology that allows impressive details the closer you are from the terrain create an exploration ambiance that should get anyone interesting in exploring planetary/moon/asteroids landscape hooked.

Even if the game in itself is not near to be feature complete (though at each alpha there are new features that give more "gameplay" to it, it's near to Frontier Elite 2 already in term of gameplay), it's really worth launching it, it's a great experience just already on the exploration level in which you can sometime be amazed by those terrains generated.

And that streaming technique makes it even playable on weak computers (and the options are very scalable so powerfull computers can get even more details).
The development is very lively as they release a new alpha nearly every months.
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2012, 07:22:39 pm »

Did you say also looking for a small town generating zombie game with rural areas and such? I don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but the Cataclysm roguelike has what you're looking for in that department.  Theres a thread on this board.
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2012, 08:03:10 pm »

Did you say also looking for a small town generating zombie game with rural areas and such? I don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but the Cataclysm roguelike has what you're looking for in that department.  Theres a thread on this board.
Survival Crisis Z anyone?

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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2012, 08:52:07 pm »

Did you say also looking for a small town generating zombie game with rural areas and such? I don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but the Cataclysm roguelike has what you're looking for in that department.  Theres a thread on this board.
Survival Crisis Z anyone?
That too, very much so (though it's more like inner city survival than anything).
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2012, 08:59:38 pm »

Prospector, never played it but jefmajor did an lp of it.
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Re: Space Eploration games where you actually explore planet surfaces?
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2012, 09:28:23 pm »

Try Space Prospector. I just put up a thread about it here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=99906.0
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