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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
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Mudkest
Contagious Goat Labs
#21 - 2014-04-17 23:07:56 UTC
judging from those 3 screens, it looks quite a bit like http://www.slitherine.com/games/PandoraPC
Max Godsnottlingson
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2014-04-18 08:35:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Max Godsnottlingson
Mudkest wrote:
judging from those 3 screens, it looks quite a bit like http://www.slitherine.com/games/PandoraPC


That certainly does look interesting, but is it anything more then a Civ V reversed engineered game engine with all of the contents ripped straight out of Alpha Centuri?

Actually, after giving this some thought, I guess that exactly the same question can be put to Firaxis. Are we looking at a whole new game, or are we going to be charged top money for what is in effect just a heavy mod for the Civ V game engine.
Mudkest
Contagious Goat Labs
#23 - 2014-04-18 09:19:45 UTC
Max Godsnottlingson wrote:

That certainly does look interesting, but is it anything more then a Civ V reversed engineered game engine with all of the contents ripped straight out of Alpha Centuri?


I'm still not sure about how I feel about the game, but its definetly more then just a civ/alpha cnetauri clone/rip off. I'm just not sure how much more.
Malaclypse Muscaria
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#24 - 2014-04-18 10:23:16 UTC
Max Godsnottlingson wrote:
Mudkest wrote:
judging from those 3 screens, it looks quite a bit like http://www.slitherine.com/games/PandoraPC


That certainly does look interesting, but is it anything more then a Civ V reversed engineered game engine with all of the contents ripped straight out of Alpha Centuri?

Actually, after giving this some thought, I guess that exactly the same question can be put to Firaxis. Are we looking at a whole new game, or are we going to be charged top money for what is in effect just a heavy mod for the Civ V game engine.



Don't tell Fireaxis, but as someone with an embarrassing number of hours dedicated to Civ V on Steam, I wouldn't mind paying top money for an Alpha Centauri heavy mod for the Civ V game engine.

Seems to me it's going to be a bit more than that though, based on the little I've been reading about it (for example regarding victory conditions), even if the core gameplay mechanics will be similar. And personally I wouldn't want it otherwise - I quite liked the hexes, the removal of the stacks of doom and the tactical dimension these brought, for instance. It's a Civilization game after all.
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2014-04-18 14:48:51 UTC
Love Civ games. What would be really awesome though would be a 4X game in the WH40K universe. I would give an arm and a leg for something like that.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2014-04-19 05:51:17 UTC
Jake Warbird wrote:
Love Civ games. What would be really awesome though would be a 4X game in the WH40K universe. I would give an arm and a leg for something like that.


Well Creative Assembly has the 40k license from THQ it seems since Sega bought Relic. So Total War 40k might become real.

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Colonel Selene
Kesukka
#27 - 2014-07-05 22:57:52 UTC
Just read that Beyond Earth will be released on October 24th.

Guess that's not that long of a wait P

Grrr.
Erin Crawford
#28 - 2014-07-06 09:56:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Erin Crawford
Awesome! Looks like there will quite a few new games i will most definitely be checking out!
Thanks for posting.


*edit*

Found another interesting space game here, but it's an fps: http://flagshipgame.com

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Handar Turiant
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2014-07-07 11:34:26 UTC
Max Godsnottlingson wrote:
Mudkest wrote:
judging from those 3 screens, it looks quite a bit like http://www.slitherine.com/games/PandoraPC


That certainly does look interesting, but is it anything more then a Civ V reversed engineered game engine with all of the contents ripped straight out of Alpha Centuri?

Actually, after giving this some thought, I guess that exactly the same question can be put to Firaxis. Are we looking at a whole new game, or are we going to be charged top money for what is in effect just a heavy mod for the Civ V game engine.


It will be based off of the Civ V engine. There will be some significant mods though:

- tech web instead of tree, will have impact on choices and paths
- 3 distinct factions that influence look and feel of your civ
- starting conditions based on rough ideology when your civ left earth
- barbarians are local critters and play a bigger role (probably like in AC)
- apparently there will be some nice and cool story elements also

So yeah, heavy modding of the engine etc. Still worthwhile if you ask me.
Nose' Feliciano
#30 - 2014-07-07 18:56:04 UTC
Isnt this game along the same lines as Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri?

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Handar Turiant
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2014-07-08 12:10:22 UTC
Nose' Feliciano wrote:
Isnt this game along the same lines as Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri?



Yup. Definitely a spiritual successor of AC.


If only someone would make a reboot of Ascendancy. That game was TEH SHIZNIT! srsly. check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy_(video_game)
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