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[Doubler]

This isn't 3000AD, this is the sequal.
Did you play it, by the way? Going by the creators name usually is a sure way to judging prematurely.

[MasterGrazzt]

Derek Smart is a nutcase who wouldn't know how to make a good, or even playable game if he was locked in a room with the staff of the classic Sierra, Microprose, Capcom, Konami, Origin, SSI and other such companies, and they were forced to try and teach him how.

[Doubler]

Ah, so you played all his games without bias, and know him personally, then. Nice

Ah well, your choise. You might miss out on something, maybe not *shrugs*
It doesn't really matter. I for me had a load of fun with this game, despite it's faults, and imho it's a good game if you take the time and effort to get into it.

[MasterGrazzt]

http://www.encyclope...php/Derek_Smart

[A. J. Raffles]

MasterGrazzt, on Apr 27 2006, 02:59 PM, said:

http://www.encyclope...php/Derek_Smart

So?

[MasterGrazzt]

so the game is terrible, partially because a lunatic coded it

[A. J. Raffles]

MasterGrazzt, on Apr 27 2006, 03:06 PM, said:

so the game is terrible, partially because a lunatic coded it

So you have actually played it, then?

[MasterGrazzt]

well, i played it, then it crashed and my computer deleted it before it was too late

[A. J. Raffles]

Ah, right. Well, fair enough then. It just sounded a bit as though your low opinion of the game was entirely based on somebody else's low opinion of the maker, which seemed a bit odd to me.

[MasterGrazzt]

I wanted to see if the opinion of the heroic Something Awful writers was right. Turns out it is.

[Mighty Midget]

So, DS is a nutter? So what? I like this game: I always, since the days of flight sims on my C64, wanted to play something like this. I must say that it comes pretty darn close to my wishes. If I'm to put an ugly finger at anything, it has to be what's been said: You can't walk around inside the ship, and it has some really wacky bugs. One of my tanks went into hyperspace, for instance. Ok, one more thing: There's periods of waiting... looooooong periods of waiting. But overall, I find the game sweet enough to be more than playable.

[Eagle of Fire]

Believe it or not but in a day in which I really had nothing to do I looked around for a new game to try and I stopped on this one.

I am afraid that it is true that this game is really badly done. I would not rate it higher than a 2 and even that is a lot... But at the same time this game is challenging and quite addicting so I still continue to play it.

So, anybody have hints and tips about what to do in this game? I didn't like the roam mode idea because I need a goal to be able to be efficient in a game. I thought the campaign would thus be a good idea but so far it looks like the game would be way more enjoyable if I wasn't tied to do missions and such.

So far I learned that the only viable way to go in this game is send your flagship alone at a set destination point for the mission then jump the AE in a shuttle and start doing selling runs. About half an hour of boring trade between Earth and Syrius net enough money to purchase about 30-35 fighters or mining drones and you have enough time to do that and get back to your ship for mission two.

The most stupid part of this game I learned the hard way is that your capital ship is not really "capital" in any way. You are always better to get a ship which can field fighters because a few fighters can easily down a "capital" ship in a few seconds. Fighters and fighter pilots die/get destroyed just as easily but of course they are way easier to replace/clone.

What about the exploration part of this game? Anything interesting to find out once you're set free to "roam" the map?

[Frodo]

Sorry Eagle.  I can't get anywhere in this game

[Eagle of Fire]

Don't worry Frodo. I'm not surprised at all, this game learning curve is so steep it practically goes 90 degrees... :/

That won't stop me though. The bugs and constant crashes coupled with a lack of autosaving will however probably eventually do...

Edited by Eagle of Fire, 09 February 2012 - 10:43 PM.