Which X game to play?

Woden · 17 Jun 2015 at 17:35

So thanks to sales over the years I have X3, Reunion, TC and AP. And I have Rebirth.

If I am not all that interested in the story, and just want to build an empire and rule the known universe with a iron fist (well cheque book), which is best?

Not put any time into any of them yet.

modo77 · 17 Jun 2015 at 18:16

AP is the best, it was the last version of X3. Rebirth is awful and should be avoided at all costs.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 17 Jun 2015 at 18:25

I would assume Albion Prelude to be the best, but after having sunk way too much time in to X3 Reunion and Terran Conflict, I couldn't face starting again. Great games, but massive time sinks.

You really shouldn't have bought Rebirth though. That thing was a shameless cash grab by Egosoft and it ****** all over the goodwill that developer had built up over the years.

spydermixx · 17 Jun 2015 at 18:36

What these guys said! Rebirth was painful.

Woden · 17 Jun 2015 at 18:53

AP it is then, thanks guys.

It also has a ship called Woden .... nuff said

Woden · 20 Jun 2015 at 05:10

Bad times!

The game crashes for me about 10 mins-ish into the game. I did the flight tutorial, flew through a gate to kill some pirates and the whole game crashed to desktop. But left a constant buzzing in my headphones, had to reboot.

Will try again later (I'm in work now, til 12) in WinXP compatability mode.

JimJoeRooney · 20 Jun 2015 at 06:36

I had rebirth for over a year now and discarded the series based on how crap it is, went and looked at AP after reading this and it looks amazing! such a gem to find. Thanks very much everyone!

modo77 · 20 Jun 2015 at 16:12

Woden said:
Bad times!

The game crashes for me about 10 mins-ish into the game. I did the flight tutorial, flew through a gate to kill some pirates and the whole game crashed to desktop. But left a constant buzzing in my headphones, had to reboot.

Will try again later (I'm in work now, til 12) in WinXP compatability mode.

Hmm that's a little odd, only real issue I remember with them was codecs but don't think that caused crashes. Check the egosoft forums they are pretty helpful

It's really worth sorting it. Does your event log show anything?

JimJoeRooney said:
I had rebirth for over a year now and discarded the series based on how crap it is, went and looked at AP after reading this and it looks amazing! such a gem to find. Thanks very much everyone!

Yeah Rebirth really took a dump on the series, all the previous games are very good (most were buggy at release but sorted fairly quickly).