Decent Space RPG?

There's a game called The Precursors that's worth a look if you can pick it up cheap. Needs a bit of work and unofficial patching to get it running properly, but it's just crazy in scope - part fps, rgp, space sim. It's by no means perfect, but it has some genuine wow moments. Wandering around inside my ship and finding that it had a toilet, for example :)
 
Wait a week or two and buy the x superbox set from steam, it'll be down to five or ten pounds like usual no doubt, then start playing x:tc
I loved the game and will go back to playing it again when i am ready to waste a year or two
 
I really want more space RPG games with LOADS of stuff. Building a ship, flying to planets, docking, exploring planets, etc.

Would also be great if it had co-op or a good online mode.

Haven't found one I like yet :( Might have a look at X3 if its on sale at xmas :)
 
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I see the new X3 game now says releasing in 2013 instead of the end of 2012. Can't be too far off as it still said the end of this year just a couple of weeks back.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Wait a week or two and buy the x superbox set from steam, it'll be down to five or ten pounds like usual no doubt, then start playing x:tc
I loved the game and will go back to playing it again when i am ready to waste a year or two
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Might do this. The sales only start on the 20th though. Hopefully it'll be on sale/will have gone on sale before I finish GTA IV & Saints Row :)

I'm going to put that walkthrough video on now, may as well start learning it! Looks like it really is worth it once you've got passed the stage of not knowing what's going on.
 
Good thread. :cool:

The one genre I haven't looked into since my Elite days is this. I've been watching the youtube video linked way above, and will likely make this one of my next purchases. :)
 
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Eve Online, a mate of mine plays it from way out in the sticks on a line that only gives him ~250kB/s
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Lucky him :p. Max is 120kB/s here shared between 4 users, so whenever anyone does anything on the internet online games will lag unfortunately. I would have quite liked to get into EVE and maybe still will one day.

I've just been watching those videos, very well explained. I feel like I could pretty much pick up & play and start some small trades after watching the first 4 parts.

I'm being as patient as I possibly can though as £15.99 is quite a lot for a game of that age and I know it'll probably come up in the sales. Pretty sure I've seen it at -75% before on Steam but never took note as I didn't know the game.
 
Eve Online is a bigger time sinkhole and many people do take it seriously. I remember the amount of flames we used to get ingame, after we would blast a hauler to bits on a gate-camp in 0.4sec. I also remember getting my first T2 ship (a recon) that got decimated on my return to our corp's homebase in 0.0 system. I lost everything with that ship, but I quickly learnt that being calm instead of panicky gets you out of most situations... and warp bubbles.
 
Downside of Eve is too many players taking advantage of exploits - such as the old login/logoff fleet exploit, as favoured by certain large alliances. You login when the your fleet scout snares a potential target (not logged into the game means thgat your ship doesn't show up on scanner or probe). And also blobbing a sector, causing massive game lag that makes combat unplayable and crashes the sector servers.
 
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