What game were you playing? Are you thinking of the craptacular game X-Wing vs Tie Fighter?

While nowhere near as good as Tie Fighter, Alliance was a decent game. I think there was only 1 training mission where you were stuck in the turret seat, the rest was flight.

Thank you. I was starting to wonder if I had played the same game as him. Alliance was a great game. The only Totally Alliance game I haven't heard great things about is the latest Secret Weapons game, and I'll bet it's better than people think.

Yeah and in Battlestar Galactica they build new capital ships all the time right?

You built motherships in your mothership?

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The BSG mini-series was good but nothing on the quality of the first season - the tension, character development and plotline were excellent. Season 2 was pretty good but lost some of the magic (a bit too soapy) until the final episode - I nearly gave up completely on the series because of that. Season 3 took too long to get off the ground (the whole resistance suicide bombers / political jab was ridiculous) but was alright - it then completely lost pace until half way through the final episode where it picked up the magic again.

Basically I think they've lost the plot and run out of ideas, which is a shame because the potential was huge. It will probably blunder on until it's cancelled or they'll wrap it up in a less than satisfactory way.

As for this game... it doesn't sound promising. We need something along the lines of Tie Fighter, not some dumbed down console nonsense. Heck, it's not like the Tie Fighter gameplay isn't console friendly - it's ideally suited to it. Still, it looks like we'll have to wait even longer for a good space sim. I was looking forward to the Babylon 5 game years back (it looked amazing) but was very disappointed to see it cancelled.

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Anyways I'd have loved to see a HOMEWORLD-esque game in the BSG universe... considering, in Homeworld, you have one massive base ship (Galactica) and a crew attempting to search for earth...
Guess that'd be just too easy.

The Star Wars mode for Homeworld worked well, because the Empire fleet was massive and that was constantly growing as it "recruited" from its planets.

Technically, for Battlestar Galactica to work you'd have to start with a large unarmed fleet and watch it dwindle down as you fail to protect the unarmed cap ships with fighters and your 1 large Battlestar. Plus the battles would mostly be to fight off the enemy until you're managed to sync up all of the ships FTL engines to escape at the same time.

So I could see it working. It would need to be more than a Homeworld MOD though (but considering how dated the engine is, that's a given). The only problem is if you don't play well enough in the beginning of the game, you could never reach the end.

Poor guys. At the beginning of each episode they show an updated survivor counter, and it is constantly ticking down. Meanwhile they've been losing a lot of their ships.


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Someone made a good point about setting it during the previous war, when it wasn't so one-sided and humanity could actually build.




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Yeah and in Battlestar Galactica they build new capital ships all the time right?

No, the only way they could make a serious TIE Fighter or Homeworld style game is if they set it in the timeline of the first Cylon war.

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no space flight sim could ever near Tie Fighter,

Independence War is pretty god damn slick.

Anyways I'd have loved to see a HOMEWORLD-esque game in the BSG universe... considering, in Homeworld, you have one massive base ship (Galactica) and a crew attempting to search for earth...
Guess that'd be just too easy.

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Totally games X-wing alliance SUCKED BALL$ compared to the original Xwing/Tie series and was a complete let down..believe it or not there are people who want to play something a bit more detailed than flying a camera around a black sky box...

What game were you playing? Are you thinking of the craptacular game X-Wing vs Tie Fighter?

While nowhere near as good as Tie Fighter, Alliance was a decent game. I think there was only 1 training mission where you were stuck in the turret seat, the rest was flight.

Are you saying that it wasn't a combat game? I don't see how. Sure the training missions were mostly fly-around, but after that it went into combat.

After about 1/2 hour you join up with the alliance and fly X-Wings and such, but even the Corellian ship missions were mostly attack missions.

Granted, no space flight sim could ever near Tie Fighter, but Alliance wasn't shabby. I managed to get Tie Fighter CD running on my XP box for a few days but then my hd crashed.



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-Fry, Futurmama
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So will this include the same craptastic voice acting?

/runs...

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Totally games X-wing alliance SUCKED BALL$ compared to the original Xwing/Tie series and was a complete let down..believe it or not there are people who want to play something a bit more detailed than flying a camera around a black sky box...

I got it working on my new Dell Xps 710 H2c dual core
no problem and it rocks. Keep trying

Beyond the Red Line is INCREDIBLE

I'd like to try it, but I could never get FreeSpace2 working on my AMD64 X2 (it's the dual cores), and I suspect this suffers from the same problem. I even tried "The FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project", but that didn't work right either.

Beyond the Red Line is INCREDIBLE. I can't wait for the full version.

If you have the controls down, you can pretty much pull off any of the maneuvers from the show- such as the Vipers "skidding" as they fire on passing ships and whatnot. Amazing.

One of the best shows to come along ever and not only do they cancel early

I'm not sure how they could continue the storyline past 4 seasons. Too many big changes are made in a short period of time on BSG for it to last very long before the writers run out of ideas. I look at 4 seasons as more of a "short but sweet" thing.

Anyway, the game might be kind of fun, if it was done in the vein of Totally Games arcade sims (like X-Wing and Bridge Commander). Those games aren't too complicated (unlike the vast majority of sims), but they have enough meat to set them apart from the average arcade game.

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For those looking for a space-sim:

On the previous BSG post, someone clued me in to "Beyond the Red Line" - a mod using the Freespace 2 source code. Doesn't need FS2 to play, and it is VERY professional. Check out the demo:

http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/

The mini-series felt much different than the regular series. Then again, a LOT was happening (genocide, running away, etc). The mini-series is a great piece of work.

I like the series well enough, and am OK with the drama-heavy focus. There's less corn than the original, and at least the space scenes are better than the original's idea of "let's recycle these same 3 scenes every episode for years."

In all, not bad. But the mini-series was better.


"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurmama

BSG was pretty weak, they had plenty of chances to not be but never seemed to opt for anything more than sappy "Days of Our Lives" soap opera bullshit

i wont shed a tear for it, thats for sure

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Ha, no chance of getting a flight sim from a movie/tv based game. They want mass appeal. It has a very good chance to suck of course because of it.

I didn't like BSG. Much bigger fan of B5.

If ya want a flight sim for the 360, try the Ace Combat 6 Demo very awesome

Oh and I saw a bit of Wing Commander Arena during MS's pre-e3 show, don't expect it to fill the Space Sim gap either.

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One of the best shows to come along ever and not only do they cancel early, but, the only game they can produce related to it is some top-down arcade shooter? This is beyond the valley of the sad.

Here's a series that's a natch for a 4X-space-rpg-sim-sandbox hybrid.



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It's not a flight sim?

Bah!

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