Hello fellow B12ers,
I've been wondering for a while if there are more games like
Starshatter - The Gathering Storm, a space sim from 2006 which features a Dynamic Campaign.
Even though the gameplay can eventually feel "shallow", I found the Dynamic Campaign feature very fun, since anything can happen - the game can play itself without you or fail horribly, or just go on forever with your team failing to accomplish the current goal or your enemies failing to finish your team. Your impact on the game is easily measurable and noticeable.
There's no scripted missions - only scripted "events". The enemy has an army, so do you, and in every "mission" you select to play, you're actually 'just' launching and going into a brief mission with the goal of destroying an airbase, intercepting bombers, patrolling, destroying cruisers/destroyers/frigates and so on. So if the plot currently talks about rebels holding an airport, if you liberate the airport the story moves on.
Of course, you can go above and beyond your mission goals and attempt to blow up their whole fleet in a single assignment (I think it's doable once you get enough rank to command a Cruiser)
Oh and yeah, the whole campaign map is open for you to fly around, there's space and atmospheric combat and all that.
I'd like to ask, do you know any games that plays like this? I've already searched in the past and tried again nowadays with no success. Doesn't need to be a space game.
I remember Operation Flashpoint (old one) being more or less like this, but not really.
Thanks.
EDIT: If anyone get interested on the game I used as an example for dynamic campaigns, here's the
game's thread.
EDIT2: List of games suggested in this thread, that either have Dynamic Campaings (or have DCG mods), or are sandbox games that may be close enough to scratch the itches (like featuring persistance of units or other entities, which may alter gameplay or the game's universe) - of course, I cannot confirm that all games here have what it takes, so you might wanna check it out for yourself
:
Echelon
Enemy Engaged – Comanche vs. Hokum
F-22 Total Air War
Falcon 4 BMS
IL-2 Sturmovik (Modded)
Silent Hunter 4
Starshatter
Anno 1701
Cossacks 2
Men of War: Assault Squad DCG
Rise of Nations
Sid Meier's Gettysburg
Flotilla
Space Rangers
Warlock masters of Arcana
Armour Geddon
Carrier Command
Cyber Empires
Midwinter
Red Baron
Transartica
Steel Panthers
Sword of the Samurai
Feel free to PM me or warn me in this thread of any game that I might miss