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Post by Captain Galaxy on Mar 24, 2010 9:13:20 GMT -8
Is Infinite Space like Sid Meier's Pirates but in space? Cause that would be cool.
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Post by The Dankness on Mar 24, 2010 10:17:40 GMT -8
Is Infinite Space like Sid Meier's Pirates but in space? Cause that would be cool. Yup, that pretty much sums it up. That's how I usually describe it to people who don't know about it. |
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Post by You probably can't touch this. on Mar 24, 2010 12:49:37 GMT -8
Inject anime and make it DS only and it collapses to a resounding 0 on the awesome-o-meter.
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Post by Captain Galaxy on Mar 24, 2010 13:24:50 GMT -8
Is Infinite Space like Sid Meier's Pirates but in space? Cause that would be cool. Yup, that pretty much sums it up. That's how I usually describe it to people who don't know about it. Hmm, interesting, I'm looking for something like Pirates but in space. |
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Post by The Dankness on Mar 24, 2010 14:23:09 GMT -8
Inject anime and make it DS only and it collapses to a resounding 0 on the awesome-o-meter. See, Patrick? It's right on your level! |
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Post by You probably can't touch this. on Mar 24, 2010 14:38:05 GMT -8
Awesome-o-meter is reporting that the previous post was at -27 awesomes.
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Post by The Dankness on Mar 24, 2010 16:02:25 GMT -8
I'd say that the main difference between Infinite Space and Sid Meier's is that Pirates was completely free-roaming, while Infinite Space is pretty much linear.
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Post by Inaaca on Mar 24, 2010 16:09:06 GMT -8
I'd say that the main difference between Infinite Space and Sid Meier's is that Pirates was completely free-roaming, while Infinite Space is pretty much linear. What? They're practically nothing alike, then. |
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Post by The Dankness on Mar 24, 2010 16:21:16 GMT -8
I'd say that the main difference between Infinite Space and Sid Meier's is that Pirates was completely free-roaming, while Infinite Space is pretty much linear. What? They're practically nothing alike, then. Kinda. |
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Post by Captain Galaxy on Mar 24, 2010 17:05:30 GMT -8
So is there anything akin to fencing, looking for treasure, raiding other ships, wooing the ladies?
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Post by Kuat on Mar 24, 2010 17:23:26 GMT -8
So is there anything akin to fencing, looking for treasure, raiding other ships, wooing the ladies? These are things of which you can sorta do. I'm about two hours into the game. Exploration of the game is that you have a bunch of destinations, and travel in a straight line between them. During these travels you have random encounters where you fight/board that sorta deal. At your destinations, you recruit new pilots, upgrade, and do plotline stuff. So far the draw to me is customization. The battle system is not as good as the rest of the game is. Basically, I think the general consensus is that it's a good game, but certain things could have been done better. It's like you have a ton of exceptional ingredients to make anything in the world, but you make Mac N' Cheese. The cookware is state of the art, the knives you have are infinitely sharp, your cooking personnel are top notch, but end dish can only be so good. Basically, it's lots of good stuff surrounding a bland (yet unique) battle system. Again, I'm playing for customization, and a little bit of exploration and character interaction. I'm not playing to, you know, play. |
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Post by The Dankness on Mar 25, 2010 10:53:28 GMT -8
One person who reviewed Infinite Space described it like this:
"It's like Scarlett Johansson in an ugly dress: sure, there's something to criticize, but you'd be an idiot to pass up on it."
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Post by Kuat on Mar 25, 2010 21:43:26 GMT -8
This game is a god damned disease.
It starts out benign. "Hey the game play is sorta bland, but the setting and stuff is cool"
Then it sorta grows on you "Man, I better keep dodge up, but maybe if I..."
Until you are shouting at the screen "HEY BITCHES, HERE COMES A SPECIAL! I HOPE YOU DIDN'T LIKE YOUR ASS, BECAUSE I'M BURNING IT OFF WITH HOT PLASMA"
"YOU STUPID ASS SHIP CAN'T YOU HIT ANYTHING WHAT DO I PAY YOU ASSHOLES FOR"
It's quite a fun game, and works rather well. I was initially hoping for Homeworld DS, but this is cool too. It's much less strategy as it is a management game of sorts. The characters are nice, and the plot is good enough. The technobabble is still a bit much for me, but like everything else in this game, it's growing on me.
Long story short: worth the money.
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Post by Kuat on Mar 28, 2010 23:42:16 GMT -8
Another infinite space post:
What are you guys naming your ships?
So far I have: Striker, Goliath, Impaler, Hades, Stinger
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Post by The Dankness on Mar 30, 2010 9:07:26 GMT -8
My current ships: Espoir (Flagship), Vince Viper, Nemesis, and Lord British
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Post by You probably can't touch this. on Apr 2, 2010 18:44:40 GMT -8
Ha ha, Vince Viper and Lord British.
I'm enjoying Pandemic 2.
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Post by The Dankness on Apr 2, 2010 18:57:00 GMT -8
Heh, I should probably try that out. The first one was pretty fun. Any notable new additions to the second? |
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Post by You probably can't touch this. on Apr 2, 2010 19:42:52 GMT -8
Never played the first one. However, looking at the first one now, there are a lot of new additions. For example, you can select between virus, bacteria, and parasite which have different stats. There are more specific regions. Madagascar is hard to infect, they say. Instead of a limit of days, you play for how long the disease lasts.
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Post by Muramasa on Apr 2, 2010 23:25:43 GMT -8
Played that one a while back. Did you manage to get Madagascar?
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Post by The Dankness on Apr 4, 2010 0:05:16 GMT -8
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