X3 : Reunion

[Lutz]

I also play it have a fleet of 55 Destroyers (all Argons) and more than 1000 Fighter and 13 stations but i cannot do the last mission to get the HQ.

Its a brilliant game and you can do so much BUT ont thing is missing a simply way to fly all the flying and trading take to much time so you cant play with your fleets cause you have to make money self or to wait if you fly to a station in my opinion its a good game but takes too much time and have also little thing what can be make better.

Its a very good Space sim. but not the best.

[Cyro]

Well, it is a "realistic simulation" that's why you have to play for months to get the big ships...

EDIT: And all the big stations...

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I wrote a really funny FL story, but it disappeared when the old forum went away. So, no lulz for you today.

[SilentAssassin82]

Realy good game. Played it over and over. But it needs a multiplayer.

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[Exile]

And the multiplayer would need an active server.

One, two, 5 players in sucha huge universe, nah.

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[Cyro]

One, two, 5 players in sucha huge universe, nah.

Yeah, that would need too much processing power. Imagine those 5 people all have stations and like all of them 10 universal traders... Nah.

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I wrote a really funny FL story, but it disappeared when the old forum went away. So, no lulz for you today.

[Exile]

Imagine a Discovery active server with all veteran players (I.e, got alot).

Thus, no MP.

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[Xaero]

I have it, it's not a bad game, but it's a bit like these MMORPGs, except it's off line. Is it like freelancer? Hell no. It's alright though, takes too much effort to play in my opinion. Graphics are sound, and it runs okay. A lot of people seem to have bugs with it though.

Good luck with making some kind of online version. The game is too vast to implement any kind of netcode.

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Ed: Well because me and these three chicks decided to have a cereal fight.
Ed: Then we got productive....
Ed: IN THE SHREDDIE TOWER MAKING DEPARTMENT.. before you say anything...

Dave: I feel like standing in the middle of the beach stripping down naked to put on a hula skirt playing pan pipes whilst I watch a pixie try to make love to a cow and have the evil sock goblins chase the 5 penguins of the Apocalypse across Timbuktu all whist my wife Sammie drinks vodka and red bull served by the rich penguins in the sun.

[triple88a]

I purchased this game about a week ago because of great reviews on how great the graphics, the ideas, the sim and the overall rating of the game is. I mean many reviews give it 9/10. I just had to try it out. Well as soon as i installed it, it automatically checked for updates which made me believe this game should be by far one of the best space sim games available in the stores today. As soon as i turned it on, i was shocked. This game clearly leaves you in the complete dark, and no i am not talking about the darkness of space, i am talking about the darkness of confusion. There are tons of menus, there are tons of possibilities, there is tons of space but not a single good tutorial of how to actually play the game. Eventually your game play gets interrupted by your "ship's computer" telling you that you have a message however you are left to guess on HOW to actually check your messages. Learning curve of the game is horrible. Because there are so many possibilities, instead of a game filled with excitement of shooting other ships and doing missions and upgrading your ships and getting new weapons, you are left at the exit of a space station with a game that is closer to the strategy genre and you are trying to see which button from the about "83" hidden ones increases the throttle. After you have this figured out, next thing you have to do is locate the starting point of a mission that can be a confusion of another dimension and no not a single tip comes up to guide you to how to properly play the game. As soon as the mission starts, the confusion expands even more as now you have menus buried underneath other menus and again you are left with no help on how to play the game at all. As soon as you start moving you realize that the "so amazing graphics" are really not that amazing. The 3D stuff does look great. No question about it. The space ships have amazing graphics, the space stations have great graphics and so on however the rest of the stuff is where it's bad and there is tons of it in space. Let me give you an example. You are approaching a dust field of some sort. When you are far away from the dust field you do not see it, you see the background image of stars clearly instead of where the dusty cloud should be. You cannot see the cloud until you hit it. At that point instead of you feeling like you are passing through it, you are left with somewhat transparent moving image on your monitor however behind the transparent image you can still see the background stars just as clear. To explain that, imagine you are going through a snow storm in freelancer, you can see the objects closer to you however you cannot see the further away objects because of the bad snow and obviously you cannot see anything else. What this game does is sort of like driving with a curtain on your windshield (in a sunny day) instead of being in the snow storm, you see the background all the time.. just now there is something in front of it. The impressive 3D work is nothing with out the proper special effects. A lipstick on a pig does not change the fact that it's a pig. The sound effects are not bad however they get repetitive especially when you interact with other players that say the same thing in the same voice.
The only thing i like about the game is the many possibilities it has. You can build space stations, you can pick tons of ships, you can purchase ships and have the computers work for you. If you could make it that far before you get bored, may the power be with you.

[Zygoeths]

Yes it looks p.... wait the cock?

[triple88a]

lol you mean the "ka'aak"?:)