Best 4 X Game To Date

Atrocities · #1 July 11th, 2002, 03:08 AM

Simply vote or comment on what you feel is the best 4x game todate.

PaladinOfEarth · #2 July 11th, 2002, 03:14 AM

:: Looks at Atrocities, Wonders where he is coming from ::

Phoenix-D · #3 July 11th, 2002, 03:22 AM

You think maybe this might get a little biased?

Phoenix-D

Atrocities · #4 July 11th, 2002, 03:59 AM

We have a lot of new people here, and I just wanted to gauge what people thought.

Suicide Junkie · #5 July 11th, 2002, 04:28 AM

Strange Adventures in Infinite Space is currently #2 for me.

If you like SE4 Tactical Combat, and micromanaging very small (1-3 ships in the demo) fleets, or are just looking for quick jolts of Space Exploring Action, grab the demo, and then try my little mod for it. (zip, 31kb)
It seems to me that this game is the mathematical complement to SE4; 20 minute games, micromanaging tiny fleets, searching for treasures to bring home.

Combat gets played out in realtime, but you can pause whenever you want to give new orders and inspect all the ships. There is also a double-speed option, which I use fairly often.
Of course, combat isn't the priority, but when the aliens are guarding ruins technology, you have to make a choice

[ July 11, 2002, 03:38: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Fyron · #6 July 11th, 2002, 06:20 AM

Wow that's a stacked voting scheme.

Captain Kwok · #7 July 11th, 2002, 06:24 AM

Ah, someone has betrayed us all and voted for a non-SE4 title!

Pax · #8 July 11th, 2002, 06:49 AM

I voted "other".

First off, I kind of disqualified Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri / Alien Crossfire -- it's SF themed, but not truly a Space 4X game per se -- or it would have won out, hands down.

...

So instead, IMO it's currently a tie between SE4 (v1.49 only so far, ordering SE4/Gold soon!) ... and MOO2. Stars! comes in a close second to that tie.

I won't vote clearly for SE4 just yet, since it's (for me) still got hte blush of newness on it, and I mgiht tire of the sheer length of an SE4 game in the next year or so.

MOO2 (barring current video card conflicts) regularly returns to my HD for a month or three at a time.

SMAC/SMAX (the SF-but-not-space game I mentioned above) makes repeated visits to my HD, sometimes staying resident for a year or more.

Hopefully, SE4 will do likewise, having a space essentially reserved for it on the HD near-perpetually.

Atrocities · #9 July 11th, 2002, 07:19 AM

Suicide Junkie haven't seen you around in quite some time. Glad you posted.

OMG! someone actually posted a vote for "what is 4X" Please tell me you were just joking....

[ July 11, 2002, 06:20: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Fyron · #10 July 11th, 2002, 07:33 AM

Ah, someone has betrayed us all and voted for a non-SE4 title!

I was the first to do that.