You want to LORD over the stars! You always have! But you've grown up now, had a few kids, cleaned up more than your share of dog diarrhea off the couch, and you're not sure you have it in you anymore. Maybe you're not the "type" to lord over stars anymore. Maybe that's for the youngsters anymore. The young bucks.
Well, what if the stars looked like THIS:
Yeah! YEAH! You're ready to fucking LORD OVER SOME STARS NOW ain't ya?
Of course you are, which is why I am happy to let you all know about the upcoming SPACE 4X GAME: STAR LORDS!!! I will be "championing" this game here, because I believe it will be the one space 4x game we've always wanted.
It is in early alpha now, but already it is showing signs of being the "chosen one". I mean, Christ! You wanna lord over some stars??
During your 4X-ing, you will of course come across other alien cultures, the exact same way you have since the genre was invented! Look, I am not saying this is going to break any ground here! I am just saying it's going to take you back to when 4X was fun, and look great while doing it! Look! These alien cultures are about to go to war, because, you know, that's what they do!
And unlike many recent space 4X offerings, when they go to war, you don't just get a pretty "combat resolution" screen. You go to FUCKING BATTLE!!! In a TACTICAL BATTLE MAP!!! One... one simple word comes to mind here:
Isn't this what you've always wanted? Since MOO, I mean? Of course it is. And that is why you should PRE-ORDER THE GAME for $20! Like I said, it's in early alpha, some of the features are currently a little sketchy, and the user interface, while functional, how can I say it politely, "kinda blows wombat ass":
But that doesn't matter. That'll get fixed in time.
And now it's YOUR time, to feel young, as when the world was new!
It is YOUR time...
...to be a STAR LORD.
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:47 am
by RetroR
Didn't we already go through this with Endless Space?
You gushed over that game when it was in beta and when I tried to rekindle interest, you went "meh." Will Pinback ever enjoy an x4 game enough to play it after it goes gold?
Will he?
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:50 am
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Star Lords could be my first 4x game! (Civ2 isn't a 4x game, right?) How much is it gonna cost me to pre order? Is there an alpha I can play? I wanna lord over stars!
Do the things around the alien worlds show how much they hate you? Is that what those bubbles are? I love it! Ha! Ha ha!
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:14 am
by pinback
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Star Lords could be my first 4x game! (Civ2 isn't a 4x game, right?)
Civ2 is the quintessential 4x game.
How much is it gonna cost me to pre order?
$20!
Is there an alpha I can play?
Yes, for your $20 preorder, you get the current alpha, along with any updates!
Do the things around the alien worlds show how much they hate you? Is that what those bubbles are? I love it! Ha! Ha ha!
Okay, easy.
Didn't we already go through this with Endless Space?
Look, Stanky, I want you to notice that you came on here last night, dropped two stinkbombs of negative-nelly posts and then took off. Don't do that again. It's not cool, and most importantly, it's not... retro.
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:18 pm
by RetroRomper
I just want to play a 4x game with people I know! Is that too much to ask for?
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:28 pm
by pinback
RetroRomper wrote:I just want to play a 4x game with people I know! Is that too much to ask for?
ALL OF THESE GAMES ARE SINGLE PLAYER.
Nobody would want to play 4x with another person unless it was by email.
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:23 pm
by RetroRomper
Pinback wrote:ALL OF THESE GAMES ARE SINGLE PLAYER.
Nobody would want to play 4x with another person unless it was by email.
Star Lords - Features
- Lan, hot seat and Online multiplayer with matchmaking.
Endless Space Multiplayer
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Let's Play Masters of Orion 2 Multiplayer
[youtube][/youtube]
Let's play Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion [Multiplayer battle
[youtube][/youtube]
Sword of the Stars 2 Multiplayer 1v1 Zuul vs. Hiver
[youtube][/youtube][/b]
Distant Worlds: Collab
[youtube][/youtube]
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:34 pm
by pinback
SOTS2!!??? HAHAAAhahaha. Have they gotten that to a point you can install it without your house exploding yet? HAAAhhahaha.
You've ruined this thread, by the way. This one's on you.
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:43 pm
by RetroRomper
pinback wrote:SOTS2!!??? HAHAAAhahaha. Have they gotten that to a point you can install it without your house exploding yet? HAAAhhahaha.
Martin Cirulis (Kerberos Productions CEO) wrote:Today (10/19/12) Kerberos Productions announced, through its CEO Martin Cirulis (aka Mecron in the Kerberos forums), that Sword of the Stars 2: Lords of Winter is “all clear”, which is what they understand as being “in the shape we would have wished it to be upon release” ~Martin Cirulis (Kerberos Productions CEO).
Pinback wrote:You've ruined this thread, by the way. This one's on you.
Allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll I want to do is play a random 4x game with SOMEONE from Jolt country. Anyone.
Tdarcos - want to play MOO2 with me?
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:44 pm
by Tom Petty
pinback wrote:Look, Stanky,
what's this, a Made in Heaven reference?
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:48 pm
by pinback
Kerberos announces SOTS2 "all clear"! Well! You can understand if maybe it would have been better if they had a third party, namely, anyone in the entire universe give the "all clear" instead of them?
"Hitler announces Poland ghettos 'all clear'!"
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:05 pm
by pinback
Alright, gift me SOTS2 on Steam and I will play you it. I'm tired of footing the bill for this shit.
I WILL PLAY (SOTS2) AGAINST ANYONE WHO BUYS ME SOTS2.
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:36 pm
by pinback
Alright, fuck it. This thread is now the official:
PLEAAAASE SOMEBODY BUY ME SOTS2. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ.
I've bought this game in its first incarnation a thousand times, kept wanting to love it, and never could. BUT MAYBE NOW??? PLEEEEEEEZE BUY THIS FOR MEEE???
PLEEEEEEEEEASEZEEEEZEZE
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:38 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
who what
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:27 am
by RealNC
For some reason, and for a fraction of a second, my brain told me that this thread's title was "The TRACI LORDS thread"...
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:43 am
by pinback
{PELPEPELLAAAAZSZAZZ!!!! MABE U CAN ALL CHIP IN LIKE 5 BUX OR OSMETHIN>?>?>>????
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:23 am
by RetroRomper
I offered Pinback a copy of the the game delivered to his doorstep (with two day shipping no less) via Amazon. He politely refused, instead opting to wait for the game to hit a sale price on steam (currently it sits at $30. Amazon sells the physical copy for $12).
Finding it monumentally hilarious that someone would refuse a new, boxed copy of a game because it can't be tied to an online service. What a reversal from a few years ago...
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:44 pm
by pinback
Well there's a reason Amazon sells the physical copy for 1/3 the price of the online version, because even the goddamn BOX IT COMES IN needs eighteen patches before it opens properly.
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:55 pm
by pinback
I may up buying it on a whim. SOMEONE PLEASE GET IT FOR ME FIRST BEFORE I DO HTAT?????
Or just paypal me a few dollars!
PAYPAL ME!!! I've given you people so much over the years, and never asked anything in return.
Alright, never mind. Forget all this SOTS2 stuff, I worked it out.
Let's get back to talking about... what was it? STAR LORDS!! Yes!
Alpha 2 should have been out by now but they say they're "having trouble uploading it". For two weeks. This certainly does not lower my confidence in the company's ability to put out a quality product! Uploading, man... not an exact science!
(PS: I own SOTS2 now, if anyone wants to play it.)
