The Shrine

It's terrible.

The End.

Anyone else a big X series fan? If so, I am sure you'll be tempted to buy it...don't. Really too bad too...the problems aren't bugs, it's game design. Whole thing feels like a failed console port.

Sadly, the only X I'm interested in is on the Wii U. >_<

I'd never even heard of the PC X Series before now.

I thought you were talking about another Mega Man X remake.....I was so disappointed when it wasn't :-(

Bah -- console peasants

Pick up X3 if you can find a copy cheap. Deep (and I mean DEEEEEEEP) space sim. If you can get past the initial complexity, you'd be hard pressed to find a better game in the genre.

I had trouble getting into X3 and I admit it's because I didn't want to bother getting past the initial complexity... but have you checked out Star Citizen, kali? I think that's basically the only space sim on the horizon that's going to be any good... and it's probably a good 2-3 years out. I still put in for a backer package that gets me beta participation. They're in the 'promising the world' phase of development and considering they've raised between 25-30 million dollars (not including an untold investment from beefier investors that I'm going to assume amounts to another 5-10 million) they might just do it. The latest stretch goal they hit included first person gameplay on planets which I'm not all that enthused for.

If Star Citizen is that kickstarter project by Chris Roberts, then ya, I've heard of it.

I am pretty wary of kickstarter stuff (Shadowrun was a terrible disappointment), so I am just kind of ignoring it until it finishes (same with Obsidian's KS stuff). Fingers crossed, but I have no expectations.

Yeah Chris Roberts is the guy behind it. I've stopped bothering with Kickstarter but I definitely had to get in on a few of them. It's definitely a form of gambling and I'd say 30-40% of the Kickstarters I've put in for have been disappointing so far. Only a couple have actually finished that I actually Kickstarted (a music CD that I liked enough to justify the Kickstarter price point I put in for and a decent Defense Grid DLC update and I'll get the sequel for 'free' later), but a few of the other ones.. the gameplay videos and whatnot aren't impressing me.

Wasteland 2 is shaping up nicely and every backer release only makes me more excited. It HAS been delayed 3-6 months, though. I'd be surprised if all the decent ones didn't get delayed about this long.

Grim Dawn looks decent for an action RPG and recently went for sale on Steam if you want to pay to get into the alpha/beta... I don't. I put in for the cheapest price point where you still got the game and I'll eagerly install the game in the future and save the $12 or so (assuming it'll initially sell for $30... I paid $18) for getting in on the ground floor.

The new Torment game is so set up to be amazing that it's hard to believe Obsidian/inXile would drop the ball. Same with Project Eternity.

The games that are making me nervous are Drifter (a minimalist space sim), Dead State (zombie survival sim), and Republique (a stealth hacker game of some kind that I really don't find myself caring about any more).

Any way, Star Citizen has earned more money than all of these combined, so it should be impressive (either a disaster or a success). I'll probably post a thread about it when the beta starts up (barring NDA if they do that) and let you know how it's shaping up... but that's like a year away.

It's definitely a form of gambling. I've put something like $250 into backing these games and don't plan on backing anything else until most of them succeed... or never again if they fail.

kali o. wrote:Bah -- console peasants

Pick up X3 if you can find a copy cheap. Deep (and I mean DEEEEEEEP) space sim. If you can get past the initial complexity, you'd be hard pressed to find a better game in the genre.

Are you kidding? You see how much a cart-only of X3 goes for nowadays? (hint: it's well over $100). There ain't no "cheap" when trying to get the old SNES games, man :-)