Official SE5 release date announced - September 12

[baby_arm]

According to Shack News, SE5 is out on Tuesday. Either they're a bit confused or they know something we don't. My guess is the former.

[Tampa_Gamer]

baby_arm - My guess is they got their info from the "Wargamer" website. Which still has the incorrect date of 8/12 instead of 9/12.

[Wade]

Strategy First states that SEV is due out in late September. http://www.strategyfirst.com/press/D...ArticleID=3298

"Strategy First will be hosting various Contests, with promotions and prizes to play for. Upcoming Contests include: Best Game Modification (Mod) Contest, Best Fan Site Contest, and a Space Empires Trivia Contest. More information on these contests will be coming your way soon.

Please also stay tuned for the first edition to the Space Empires Dedicated Newsletter which will be out September, 2006.

Space Empires V is due to be released late September, 2006. Is rated E for Everyone by ESRB. For more info on Space Empires V please visit: http://www.strategyfirst.com/en/games/SpaceEmpiresV/"

[Possum]

Woohoo! Official release date set; quick, let's have a long, involved argument about bugs in games!

[Atrocities]

Remember that when most anticipated sequels to loved games come out, they are immediately trashed, bashed, *****ed about, hated, despised, thrown out, returned, and generally do improve over time as a following develops. Keep in mind that when SE IV was released it was continually updated with patches and new features.

[Gandalf Parker]

There is no way it will match everyones idea of what it should be. And no one here can possibly give it a fair shake as if they were a newbie seeing it for the first time. So yes, there will probably be more gripes than praise at the beginning.

The test will be..
do we delete it or keep in on the machine? Do we keep playing it even with the gripes? Do we make suggestions and wait for patches?

For me personally, unless its so bad that I delete it then I think I will probably bite my toungue on anything I dont like at first. Try to give other people a chance to judge it on their own. Especially in outside forums.
Just IMHO

Gandalf Parker

[Q]

If you find bugs then I see no reason to remain silent as it will help to improve the game.
SE IV had a few very nasty bugs when it was released as far as I remember and I am willing to tolerate them in the beginning.
For me there are two key points that will decide if I switch from SE IV to SE V:

1.) AI
2.) Modding possibilities

[Possum]

Atrocities said:
Remember that when most anticipated sequels to loved games come out, they are immediately trashed, bashed, *****ed about, hated, despised, thrown out, returned, and generally do improve over time as a following develops. Keep in mind that when SE IV was released it was continually updated with patches and new features.

Atro, you know, that statement triggered a forgotten memory.

When SE4 first came out, people were *****ing like mad about the fact that, (unlike SE3), you could only build one thing at a time on a given planet.

And I bet when SE3 came out, (I wasn't here that far back!), people *****ed about some change from SE2

My only thought on the subject is that while I have unlimited faith in Malfador, I have, errrr, how to say this nicely, certain reservations about Strategy First.

[Gandalf Parker]

Just to devil-advocate my own previous post...

You all realize of course that the 3D wasnt necessarily done for us. We all stayed with SE thru the things that sent other people away. So of course we would rather see that extended than invest in eye-candy. The pretties were added to impress the fickle public who cant see past 2d graphics. It goes hand in hand with shifting from what I think of as a publicity and online publisher to a marketing and shelfware one.

I can just hope that it achieves the larger player-base that it was meant to hook into. Hmmmm do I hope that? Maybe not. But Im sure they are hoping for it.