Remind anyone of the 1996 game Archimedean dynasty.

[Entropy75]

Be great to play something like that again.

[Minnie]

i remember Sub-Culture.

[Sire Reap-A-Lot]

Still my all-time favorite

[fickó]

Archimedean Dynasty was the first game in the Aquanox series, so, yes, it's meant to evoke that.

[jaghammer]

yes, in germany it was called "Schleichfahrt"(silent running).
it was amazing´game.

[Neozoon]

I played it on DOS-Box, got overwhelmed by the amounts of controls.

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by fisk0:

Archimedean Dynasty was the first game in the Aquanox series, so, yes, it's meant to evoke that.

do you mean the games Aquanox and Aquanox 2 are not the first ones in the series?

[Neozoon]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

do you mean the games Aquanox and Aquanox 2 are not the first ones in the series?

Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcKLFLPehGo
Don't mind the german voice in the background, you'll see many familiar names.

[fickó]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

Originally posted by fisk0:

Archimedean Dynasty was the first game in the Aquanox series, so, yes, it's meant to evoke that.

do you mean the games Aquanox and Aquanox 2 are not the first ones in the series?

You can think of it like how the first Battlefield game was Codename: Eagle or in movie terms, how the Evil Dead series started with "Within the Woods" or the first Indiana Jones movie was called "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the first Rambo movie simply was titled "First Blood", they got the franchise names later.

[Evil Inside]

I think the game is something of a prequel to Schleichfahrt /Archimedean Dynasty.

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by Neozoon:

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

do you mean the games Aquanox and Aquanox 2 are not the first ones in the series?

Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcKLFLPehGo
Don't mind the german voice in the background, you'll see many familiar names.

it looks good for 1996, do they still sell it anywhere in digital format? I purchased Aquanox 1st and 2d from gog, planned to play it while wait for upcoming new release. Now it looks like I have missing title to add :)
German voice is OK, I had German as foreign major in school, maybe will hear some familiar words.

[fickó]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

Originally posted by Neozoon:

Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcKLFLPehGo
Don't mind the german voice in the background, you'll see many familiar names.

it looks good for 1996, do they still sell it anywhere in digital format? I purchased Aquanox 1st and 2d from gog, planned to play it while wait for upcoming new release. Now it looks like I have missing title to add :)
German voice is OK, I had German as foreign major in school, maybe will hear some familiar words.

It's available on GOG as well, both with English and German languages: https://www.gog.com/game/archimedean_dynasty

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by fisk0:

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

it looks good for 1996, do they still sell it anywhere in digital format? I purchased Aquanox 1st and 2d from gog, planned to play it while wait for upcoming new release. Now it looks like I have missing title to add :)
German voice is OK, I had German as foreign major in school, maybe will hear some familiar words.

It's available on GOG as well, both with English and German languages: https://www.gog.com/game/archimedean_dynasty

wonderful, thank you! :)

[Jon]

Never could get sub culture working back when.. closest I managed was playing hardwar, which constantly required tou to tap thrust up or youd crash into the ground.. was almost similar

[Naryoril]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

Originally posted by fisk0:

It's available on GOG as well, both with English and German languages: https://www.gog.com/game/archimedean_dynasty

wonderful, thank you! :)

Just as a little warning: the original is much less action oriented than its sequels, while it's still an action game, it feels and controls much closer to a simulation. e.g. there is no weapon swapping during the mission, and the best way to play the game is with a joystick/HOTAS, and not with a mouse like the Aquanox games. At least if i remember the gameplay of the Aquanox games correctly, i only played them once. In contrary to Archimedean Dynasty/Schleichfahrt, which i played several times, including once about 3 years ago.

That said: it's by far the best game in the series imo and still one of my all time favorite games.