Comments on: Sins of a Solar Empire Demo

By: SwiftRanger

SwiftRanger — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:25:18 +0000

Decent stuff, too bad I can’t buy it online myself. Those European publishers/distributors must have been scratching their eyes out now surely once they saw SoaSE is in the top charts? Release it here already!

By: Poddagoblin

Poddagoblin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:39:43 +0000

TychoCelchuuu: I had that annoying “Noise” like sound. It doesn’t appear to be present in the full version.

By: TychoCelchuuu

TychoCelchuuu — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:28:41 +0000

It’s 90 minutes per game, and you can play each game as many times as you want, so it’s not like you have to learn to love it in a hour and a half or else.

That said, I spent a little time fixing some stupid audio bug I got (I still get an annoying popping noise during battles), and then I played through the tutorials and about half an hour of one of the maps. I still need to play it a lot more before I make a decision but what little I dealt with was pretty cool. I might have to buy this.

Especially if I sort out that annoying popping.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:06:31 +0000

i know it’s an arbitrary point to raise really, but everytime i play a space game i’m struck by the fact that nothing has yet to touch the sense of scale, beauty and fluidity that Eve Online delivers, and how ‘real’ it feels, if you know what i mean.
For me it’s a feeling that almost makes or breaks the game tbh. That ‘feeling’ imo is extremely important.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:32:45 +0000

Whoa small res alert!
The ui takes up a HUGE amount of screen space so if you play with a smaller screen res [like I do *sniff*] it’s difficult to see anything other then one or two ships on your screen at one time.
1024 is what I’m on you REALLY need to play on a bigger res then that.

By: Omnibus: March 16th - 22nd | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Pretentious, moi?

Omnibus: March 16th - 22nd | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Pretentious, moi? — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:31:35 +0000

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By: trains and clocks

trains and clocks — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:39:54 +0000

I wonder if the time acceleration keys & – work in the demo. If so, do they also accelerate the demo timer?

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:07:19 +0000

Downloading demo now, thanks!

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:41:32 +0000

I think time limited can be fine, as long as it’s reasonable. I’m not sure 90 minutes is enough for something like Sins…guess I’ll know when it finishes downloading…

By: Solar Podpire

Solar Podpire — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:21:39 +0000

Excellent. I’m only downloading this to see how much it hurts my computer.

By: Cigol

Cigol — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:42:38 +0000

Considering the way the demo works I think it was a necessary evil.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:42:32 +0000

Just in time for me to be nowhere near a PC capable of running it.

Ace.