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Author Topic: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?  (Read 9924 times)

Jiharo

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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2011, 08:38:51 am »

My two cents:
AI Wars fits title pretty well but it's RTS, not RPG.
Flatspace is lovely pseudo-2D sandboxish spacesim but it's not really about conquest.
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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2011, 09:07:06 am »

Freelancer still gets around on eBay?
I got mine on Ebay, 2 years ago : $5 (plus $10 to ship to Europe -_- )
don't worry about buying it on second hand, I think ("I THINK") you can play on the internet still
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« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2011, 09:08:49 am »

Posting so I can find this thread later.
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« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2011, 10:36:42 am »

Escape Velocity Nova.
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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2011, 11:02:12 am »

I third distant worlds. You can set automation so that you're pretty much controlling one ship or fleet in a pretty massive galaxy (up to 1400 stars each with their own system of planets.) and it really feels like you're in space, with planets orbiting stars and moons orbiting planets and massive rifts of gas around the galactic centre.
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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #20 on: August 16, 2011, 12:56:05 pm »

Space Ranger perhaps?
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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2011, 01:08:20 pm »

I'd suggest Space Rangers 2, but it's only meta-realtime, and you're on the wrong side of the conquest. :P
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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2011, 09:10:24 pm »

I'd also like to put in a word for Sins.
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« Reply #23 on: August 16, 2011, 09:13:56 pm »

Sword of the Stars lets you control your ships individually in realtime combat, despite also being a turn-based 4x game. It's fun. Plus there's a sequel coming out in a month or so.

I play it quite a bit.
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« Reply #24 on: August 16, 2011, 09:21:45 pm »

Sword of the Stars lets you control your ships individually in realtime combat, despite also being a turn-based 4x game. It's fun. Plus there's a sequel coming out in a month or so.

It's more turn based than real time.
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« Reply #25 on: August 16, 2011, 09:27:54 pm »

Yes, turn based with realtime combat a la Total War. The best of both worlds, IMO.
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« Reply #27 on: August 16, 2011, 10:36:48 pm »

C27, I'm not getting your Latin. Best I can get is "Not slaves - We are crimes against their divine law." but even that isn't translated correctly.
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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #28 on: August 16, 2011, 10:45:01 pm »

galactic conquest
4x
realtime
2d

Pax Imperia
Pax Imperia, Emminent Domain

Basically MOO2 in real time.


Eh, on a similar note there's Remember Tomorrow. I basically found Pax Imperia only because it was listed as "similar" to it on old-games.ru.

Also, there's Imperium Galactica 2. Realtime? Check. 2D space? Check. 4X? Check. Galactic conquest? Double check. It was one of my favorite 4X games.
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Re: 2D Realtime galactic conquest / 4X game?
« Reply #29 on: August 16, 2011, 11:14:43 pm »

Having played both, I'd say X3 is superior to Freelancer in every way except that Freelancer has multiplayer, and that Freelancer must be easier to mod or something (or more popular to mod), because more people have done it.
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