https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893810/Solium_Infernum/

I just stumbled upon this game, havent heard about it before. Strategy in hell, with some fresh ideas imho. The mood/lore/art/Ui looks pretty good.
Its got a demo, i played abit , imho its really interesting.

a sorry

Looks very nice, never heard about it.

Personally I think my passion for 4x games diminished a bit, and consequntially my pariticpiation in this forum. I still play them from time to time (Dominus Galaxia is my number one for years), but these last years i got really into sc2 ladder, it takes quite a bit of my gaming time/focus. Sorry, but im just changing, nothing lasts forever.

Also i think whats discouraging for me is most of interesting 4 x games are indie, and they are forever in early access/beta. With limited time for gaming, I just hate to pick up a new title and after 4 hours of gameplay find out the AI is brain dead and i essentially wasted 2 evenings... This is for example my experience so far with Lord of Rigel. I really love the mood and fundamentals for this game, but its still far from release state.

Ok i bumped into some problem, but posting on the Lords of Rigel forums, wont be spamming it everywhere

Originally posted by CyMonk:

Reading some of the recent feedback really makes me wonder if I've been playing the same game. :hee: Good that there is a demo that everyone can try for themselves.

Definitely. If everybody had the same taste, we would all be fighting for the same woman/man :).

Anyway I actually read opinions on other 4x games similar to your own. I respect that there are poeple who got this view, but i dont really understand it. Its like you expect a 4x game to have something new, somethign revolutionary to be even worth playing.Its like you dont really like 4x, and want it to be something different. I like 4x games, all i want is it to be good as a 4x game, not reinventing the wheel. I would never judge a 4x game from its tutorial, cause the most important things are the mechanics and the AI, which you cant judge unless you play 1-2 full long games.

Anyway as said , each to his own, very good that there is a demo and each person can see if he likes it or not,

So my first impressions after playing a bit of the tutorial:

-Very nice atmospheric cutscenes, I was feeling immediately the vibe of Babylon V :)
-The graphics : maybe not stellaris class, but nice, above average for 4x
-music is nice
- The tutorial is quite good, tough for me its a bit to long, I alwys am impatient to startt my own adventure, not go through scripted stuff :)

- Nice shorcuts for apprently everything, will come in handy in a longer game.

Some toughts i had while trying stuff:

-When I select ships,I am not sure if blue or white means selected, it isnt obvious to me.
- In the planetary screen, the build button is imho not obvious. With the tutorial i was looking for it a good minute, clicking all around, the queue, the texts. It just looked like a text to me.
- Maybe i missed the info, but I stumbled by luck upon the fact that clicking on the tutorial tasks shows the details how to do it.
- The research screen - I was also looking a good minute how to enter research screen(before i did the tutorial ) . Usually with 4x menus you got somwhere a list of everything ships, design , economy, research. So i was intently looking for it in the upper menu, until i found out its actually in the bottom, you must click on the info

-Not a big thing, but I am more used to "esc" being the default key for exiting, not tab.

-No crashes so far:), I think i found one small bug in the tutorial:
exited info screen in turtorial when it was said to enter info screen research menu, couldnt go back, 2 tasks were white in the list of tasks.

So, so far for me very positive, tough with 4x for me the critical thing is mechanics and AI, which will take me a while to judge. Will write more when I experience more:)

The funny thing is I uisually didnt like Space Sectors reviews, cant remember why, but i remember being mildly annoyed by them ... But I do love ISG :). I havent even noticed the dlc is out, a bit preocupieed with GalCiv 4, but im gonna play it soon:)

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

Originally posted by FireStorm20:

Imho ISG is one of the best 4x atm on the market, so im very happy with more content.

Yeah, I'm getting a very +ve vibe from this. This is essentially a MOO1 clone, right? How close is it. I mean the presentation has obviously been upgraded but has stuff been added/altered to the game play, has that been ungraded as well (I can't tell 'cos I never played MOO1/2).

Originally posted by ergie:

More like moo2 than moo1. It has all the checkboxes to be a clone, but It has more and very well implemented clever ideas, like asteroid explotation, improved and longer exploration phase...
It has not antarans, I mean, an end game menace, but I hope It will have something in the future.

Well said, definitely more moo 2 then moo1, but definiterly much more. But it just clicks together, there is a very nice expoaration system which i come to appreciatre very much in space 4x . I mean it adds so much to the mood to have this expolaration of the unkown space.

The AI is also decent, terraforming is an important part , what can you ask more?:)

Imho ISG is one of the best 4x atm on the market, so im very happy with more content.

Playing more, Im tottaly addicted. The more I play, the more I appreciate the changes. Gone are the 50 moves a turn transports that would insta conquer your planets, so I would build 80 sensor range ships, just to detect them in time.... Each race I tried so far really plays different... lots of things

I still got a lot of things I would like different, and the game does feel rushed out of the door, but its so good even now..

So I have played a good number of hours of GalCiv 4.For me , its pretty good, it definitely has that one more turn feel:). I wasnt to sold on the whole sectors thing first, as the galaxy seemed smaller at start, confined. But now that I actually am in mid game and have a majority of a sector, its pretty nice to be able to build defensive starbases at the exit of a slipspace stream, and intercept with fleets , it adds a layer of strategy and reduces the whack a mole, you can intercept most of them there. Overall some changes i like , some im not sure, but I do like the whole. Still it does feel a bit rushed, I have had some crashes, and a weird bug that makes the turn never end. Also some stuff like invasions, atm feel functional but half baked. What im most impressed with i think are the races this time. I played a Festeron Hunt, the creepy aliens, and the Navigators and they do play completely different. Also I like the super cute white fur elves that tell you with a smile pretty much they exterminated all their homeword sapient species, very creepy:)

Originally posted by Martok:

^ It is.


Not that the free/Kicskstarter version is bad. It's just not the "ultimate/final" version we were all hoping for.

Yes, exactly my feelings. As it is its pretty good, but it could have been so much better.

Nice,l its true its like they really publish games that im interested in:). I do hope tough that along with good taste , they got good quality, so far im waiting for a number of their games, but not one has released/

Originally posted by ashbery76:

Just watched that Raised with Wolves SERIES 1 and 2 and love it.Wacky sci fi with great visuals and lore.

I tried but personally i couldnt get into it. Its so, i dont know, depressing for me. That grey planet, not much going on. the kids ,the 2 robots... Its really weird ..

Originally posted by ashbery76:

So this popped up on amazon and looks great compared to the SD stuff before.The show is great apart from a terrible season1 and is a must watch for sci fi fans,.Just watch

Midnight on the Firing Line
Soul Hunter
And the Sky Full of Stars
Survivors
Signs and Portents
A Voice in the Wilderness
Babylon Squared
The Quality of Mercy
Chrysalis
for the arc Skip the rest of season 1 as it's bad


What is sad is most of the main cast is dead.Like some sort of curse.

I loved Babylon 5. I actually loved season 1 also, i preffered the main hero actor in episode 1 to the replaced one. The new one was to much of a gung ho american cowboy type for me:). The one from season 1 was more of a thinker.

But overall for me its the best sci fi serie of all times, maybe on par witht he reimagined bsg. Sure its more campy, the effects are poor, but that space opera feel, that story... Its so near a 4x game lol.

Btw i heard Michael Straczynski is trying to do a reboot, i just checked , its still on but pushed back to next season.

Still nice:)

niiiice

I am honestly a bit fed up with Warhammer franchise in many games, but this trailer was phenomenal, I had goosebumps. I hope it will have coop so I can play with my friend.

Originally posted by Scootouchard:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1741640/Shadows_of_Forbidden_Gods/

This is really interesting for me. I remember a drama filled failed kickstarter that tried to do somethign similar and i was sad it failed. So very happy that something alike is actually being developed

I am atm enjoying very much Interstellar Space Genesis, but its a very traditional 4x (with soem very smart ideas) with indie graphics. Yuo can checkit out if its your piece of cake.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/984680/Interstellar_Space_Genesis/


Of the more unorthodox strategies I really liked Frostpunk, tough again i know poeple who didnt like it at all.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/

Also from older ones Total War Warhammer was really good, if you like the total war format

https://store.steampowered.com/app/364360/Total_War_WARHAMMER/