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[moghopper]

Anyone remember the old earthsiege series? I must say that they were probably my favorite mech games. Anyone else play and love them? I feel like some nostalgia is in order...

It's just one of those games I wish would be remade, or at least made open source so I could fiddle a bit.

Anyone else remember these old gems?

[HematiteMan]

I'm not old-skool enough to have played the Earthsiege series, but hey, I've still got my Starsiege discs and still play it every now and then, and love it!

[Zorgn]

If it counts, I occasionally bust out Cyberstorm. I love the buildup to the endgame, but I've never been able to actually beat the game. I've forgotten why, really. Probably means I should reinstall and play it again.

[Soulwynd]

I played it a few times when I was a kid. But I liked mechwarrior more.

[puke]

Mission Force Cyberstorm was pretty great, the End Game is pretty hard, youve got to be slow and methodical with your tactics.  thought i couldnt get CS2:Corporate Wars working.  it always crashed on me.  Didnt get as good reviews, either.  I think you can get both of them through abandonware sites.

Earthsiege was basically the only real cockpit style mecha game between Mechwarior and Mechwarior 2 -- as far as i can remember.  It was a pretty nice improvement over MW, but when Activision finally cranked out MW2, it pretty much ate its lunch.

the Cyberstorm series had some great features, innovations, and ideas.  but generally lacked the interface and polish of the Mechwarior games.  MW was just more playable.

[fenrif]

I always get earthseige confused with starseige (theyre different right?) I definatly played one of them when i was younger... I'm pretty sure it had tanks.

Always thought they should do a new game in the series, but with the ability to get out your mechs and fly around in jetpacks like tribes, that'd be awesome.

[engy]

I loved Earthseige 2, though I never finshed once I got to the moon.

I think it was one of the first games that you could fail missions and still go on, and it would impact the storyline, herc pilots, and equipment you had later.

It was pretty sweet...

[Zorgn]

Damnit all, I can't save my game in Cyberstorm on Vista. If anyone knows how to fix this, short of buying a new OS, I'd love to hear it.

[quinnr]

Get Linux, you don't have to buy anything, it's free

[Sowelu]

Doesn't Wine require you to own a copy of Windows for all the DLLs and stuff?  Or did that change a long time ago?

[moghopper]

I loved Earthseige 2, though I never finshed once I got to the moon.

I think it was one of the first games that you could fail missions and still go on, and it would impact the storyline, herc pilots, and equipment you had later.

It was pretty sweet...

The moon missions where... troublesome at some points. Having to download a virus into a radar while a around 10 or 15 cybrid heavy units wail on you is bad enough, but not having backup made me hate that mission.

But I still loved the game. I just wish there were more mech to mess around with.

[GlyphGryph]

I always get earthseige confused with starseige (theyre different right?)

Starsiege is the last earthsiege game, so it's still part of the series.

You do realize that tribes IS a starsiege game, right? And the canceled (but still being continued by fans) Starsiege 2xxx something, is basically tribes/earthsiege combined?

Anyways, I totally love the series, though Starsiege is my favorite. (Gogo Harabec! Dystopian Snowman roaming the omni-web! Your whole squad turning metagen! Whee!)

I haven't actually gotten a chance to play the cyberstorm games, but I heard they were good.

BTW, I'm actually running a Cybrid Mafia in the mafia sub-forum.

[puke]

I think it was one of the first games that you could fail missions and still go on, and it would impact the storyline, herc pilots, and equipment you had later.

Wing Commander 1 was the first game I remember that did this.  I dont remember where the forks were in the campaign missions, but if you found yourself in Hells Kitchen then it was too late to get the good ending.

[puke]

Damnit all, I can't save my game in Cyberstorm on Vista. If anyone knows how to fix this, short of buying a new OS, I'd love to hear it.

run the program (or your emulator) with administrative rights.  its probably preventing an unauthorized process from writing to your disk.  which is generally a good thing, just not very backwards compatable.

[Zorgn]

Damnit all, I can't save my game in Cyberstorm on Vista. If anyone knows how to fix this, short of buying a new OS, I'd love to hear it.

run the program (or your emulator) with administrative rights.  its probably preventing an unauthorized process from writing to your disk.  which is generally a good thing, just not very backwards compatable.

It's running with admin rights, and emulation, the works. This is a damn weird error.

"The instruction at 10019586 refrenced memory at 000000000.
The memory could not be read from."

And the funny thing is, my Windows ME box that I used to play this on is now running Ubuntu. A few years back I got tired of ME and upgraded to Vista. :facepalm: I'll try installing this with wine, but I have doubts it'll work.