Favorate Space Civilizations Game Series

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-05-20 02:20am

Some of the recent threads here have piqued my interest in the genre, and I've started looking into the various competitors that have sprung up over the years. Which game is your personal favorite?

Of the one's I've seen, I'm most impressed with Galactic Civilizations for being such a clean and streamlined design. Space Empires IV impresses me too with its sheer depth, but it seems to lack an element of personality and be a tad more complex than it needs to be. The MOO series has been going steadily downhill as much as I can tell, and I never got into Imperium Galatica.

Of the smaller titles, the one I have the most fond memories of is Ascendancy. That was one of the first games I played, and I remember being absolutely mesmerized by the originality of the alien races and the general atmosphere. I'm told the AI sucked, but I never really cared because I was a crappy n00b at the time.

Starships Unlimited is a relatively recent title. I've played the demo and it seems to be retro to a degree I've never liked. The interface looks entirely too much like a spreadsheet. I'll look it over ...

Other titles sort of in the genre:

Star Control. I never got into it as much as anyone else here, but I've maintained a quiet admiration for its galactic spanning scope, variety of alien races and general "Monkey Island in Space" character (maybe that's a bad analogy). It's a shame there hasn't been much progress on this front since II came out something like than a decade ago.

Wing Commander Armada. Not really any of the above, but a sort of space strategy game, where you built fighters, mines and fortresses, trying to bring down your opposing side's base and carrier. Can be considered an early forerunner of the Battlezone-style hybrid of combat and strategy. Like many of these game, it no longer runs on my computer. Well, a memory manager came out that supposedly would, but I haven't had luck with its previous incarnations.

What's your top game? What features would you like to see in a future incarnation (assuming MOO3 doesn't kill the genre).

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-05-20 02:06pm

My fav is "Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds". It's the bizzare child of Aok and the SW universe. Flaw galore, but very fun to play.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-05-20 02:30pm

Star War's Galactic Battlegrounds is really an RTS game not anywhere near the genre above...

I'd say what I'd like would be a game that mixed MoO2 with a graphics and the like more of Pax Imperia...that would be a fine pairing...as it is I just the other day reinstalled MoO2.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-05-20 02:37pm

MOO2 has me hooked to this day.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-05-20 04:02pm

I never really liked any of them other than MOO2.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2003-05-21 08:59pm

WOOOOO! My Type of thread!

I agree with Keevan about the MoO2/Pax idea, but I'd add the customizability of Reach For the Stars. I must play Space Empires though....

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-05-21 09:34pm

Mo02....for it's diversity and straight up easy to use interface...and pax for it's combat engine..

I'm with Keevan on a combination of the two...all that would need is slightly modernized graphics. If they do what they did to mo03..ugh...

Imperium galactica tried to be pax imperia but went too deep with the whole managing thing...and it pulled out macromanaging which is what got moo3 fucked in the first place...people want to play the game...not just click a button and let the computer do it for you....combat did make up for Ig's problems though whereas the combat in moo3 was just appauling..

Wc armada was a damn good game...it's a shame they haven't came about the chance to rework it....would be an excellent title...what the wing commander games should have been?

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-05-22 04:15am

I've been hooked on Galactic Civilizations ever since I played the OS/2 version years ago. It was actually the first civilization-building TBS I ever played, and it still ranks among the best (Alpha Centauri is the only other game I've played that comes close.)

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-05-22 06:13am

MoO, until MoO 3 fucked it all to hell in a handbasket .... assholes.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-05-22 10:54am

GalCiv at the moment; 'tis wonderful.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-05-22 12:51pm

I used to be rather good at space empires 3.

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