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Author Topic: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)  (Read 11914 times)

Shadowgandor

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The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« on: December 02, 2013, 03:49:39 pm »

The creators of AI War are working on a new game with an awesome concept. I'm going to post their preview here, because they're better at explaining their own games.

From their forum

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This sounds like a wet dream to me. A simulation where you can influence events? Count me in!
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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2013, 04:51:27 pm »

This sounds extremely interesting.  I never played AI War (being more interested in the building than the battling aspects of such games), but this diplomatic and politicking sort of game is a lot more intriguing to me.  ^_^
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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2013, 05:26:47 pm »

Yeah, I noticed they had another game in the pipelines, and it sounds like it has a ton of potential. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of there.

Arcen games are always coming up with completely new game mechanics. Sometimes they don't turn out that good or fun, but it's definitely something completely new :)

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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2013, 05:30:43 pm »

This looks like it could be a bunch of fun to play! I eagerly await more news. :D
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« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2013, 05:44:52 pm »

This sounds fantastic! PTW
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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2013, 05:50:29 pm »

Sounds a bit like Drox Operative.
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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2013, 06:39:25 pm »

This sounds nifty indeed.
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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2013, 07:00:08 pm »

Sounds a bit like Drox Operative.
Well you took the words out of my mouth, im def keeping an eye here, loved drox operative for that, distant world too, and wish that other game with samurai bear i have on desura did its adventure mode, but sadly has been scrapped :(.
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« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2013, 09:00:51 am »

They've talked about Drox Operative too. Here's a quote from their own forum regarding Drox:

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This Is Strategy, Not An RPG
The above sounds like it could make for a great RPG game, though, right?  I mean, there have been other games that do things that you could kind of shoehorn into that description a bit, vaguely.  A lot of people ask us "Is it like Drox Operative?  Or how about Space Rangers?"  The answer is an emphatic no on both counts, although those are both great games that you should check out, too.

I should also preface the below by saying that I love RPG games and hope to make one someday.  But this is definitely not that day, and I think that it's best to be clear about what this game actually is! So here's a bit of a Q&A list of differences between our game and some of the RPG-style games we're getting a few comparisons to.

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« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2013, 11:10:29 am »

my feelings about Arcen are mixed at this point, on the one hand they created and have continued to improve AI War (which is pure gold and one of my favorite RTS games) but on the other hand everything else from them that I have tried has been rather mediocre

this game does sound neat, but so have many of their others until i actually played them...

here's hoping they exceed my expectations ;)
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« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2013, 12:26:12 pm »

Skyward collapse was pretty entertaining. I think I've played it for 5-10 hours or something and had a lot of fun at start, which was worth the 5 euros I paid for it :p

Haven't tried the rest of their games yet, apart from AI war of course
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« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2013, 04:40:32 pm »

I'm actually glad that Arcen has the balls to continue creating games with nonstandard and original ideas like Skyward Collapse and AVWW especially when they at times seem pretty mediocre and doubly so after some of the reception their games get.
Kinda like Peter Molyneux without the long winded monologues.
Really interested to see how The Last Federation will shape up.
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« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2013, 05:12:24 pm »

Their problem is that they seem to not prototype in the beginning, and it leads to them using art assets that don't really fit with the game.
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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2013, 06:18:25 am »

Sounds like it could be great fun. But I haven't been too impressed by their games except for AI War which is one of my favourite games.

Does sound a bit like Drox Operative, Distant Worlds and so on but I don't think that's something bad since there were a lot left to be desired in Drox (in my opinion) and Distant Worlds has its focus on a much larger scale.

Will have to wait for more information on the game. If there's lots of content and things to do it could become awesome. And like Vortex Rikers already mentioned, it's impressive indeed that they keep coming up with these unique games even if they're not all working out perfectly.

Only negative thing I can come up with so far is that it isn't an AI War expansion they're working on.  :P
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Re: The Last Federation (New Game By The Creators Of AI War)
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2014, 04:21:41 pm »

So I just noticed there's a few long videos of actual gameplay of this now. I can't really watch the whole thing at the moment, but it definitely seems nifty!

http://www.arcengames.com/w/index.php/tlf-features
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