Comments on: Black Prophecy Beta And Space Glitter

By: Xizor

Xizor — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:00:03 +0000

Neocron was a great game in it’s own way… It was waaay buggy tho and the way they tried to fix it was utterly pathetic. I really hope this will work.. but I have my doubts.

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:38:43 +0000

Planetside IN SPACE?

Oh my yes. *beta signed*

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:20:36 +0000

That looks pretty chill, and hopefully the ancient secret turns out to be one of those things that’s “over there” and can be safely ignored as nothing more than an NPC source of xp and money by all but the most hardcore of RP fanatics.

By: Larington

Larington — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:36:20 +0000

Regarding modular ship design: About time someone implemented that, means I’ve been beaten to it, but I can’t complain really.

By: Soroboros

Soroboros — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:50:26 +0000

I’m still looking for a space game that can fill the long empty shoes of “Earth & Beyond”. O how I mis E&B…

By: Nuyan

Nuyan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:23:13 +0000

There is only one Black Prophecy and it’s called a Damnation.

(/silly old joke that’s not originally mine)

By: dalig varg

dalig varg — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:22:26 +0000

this+ eve online would equal pwnge if the trailer is to be belived

By: Marcin

Marcin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:45:28 +0000

Looks great, but let’s see some actual gameplay :)

Still …. if someone stuffed even the typical WoW model (fetch, fedex, kill quests with armor, weapon and loot bits) into an actiony space combat game, I might never buy another game again.

By: Evangel

Evangel — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:30:42 +0000

Gameplay? Where are you gameplay? Why don’t trailers ever show the interesting stuff, namely, gameplay. They’re all graphics wankfests and “we’re in the future so the enemy MUST be some ancient group that’s lain dormant since the beginning of time and is only now waking up when we’re finally at a comparable level of technology”.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:43:56 +0000

To clarify, the difference between what every AAA MMO lets you do (fill slots with various types of equipment that are visible on your character) and what the ship editor in the single-player galactic civilizations II, is that you don’t have finite or pre-defined slots. That is to say you weren’t limited to 1 wing, 1 cockpit, 1 engine, 1 afterburner, 1 trinket.

Simply having an upper limit on how much ‘stuff’ a ship can have and offering modules with advantages and tradeoffs achieves the same game-play effect, but doesn’t allow for the expression of as many designs.

What I mean is that, even taking rendering limitations into consideration — because you don’t want a runaway increase in polygon levels if people decide to stack 10x as many modules as normal onto their ships — if you go from a system that allows 1 of each type of thing, to a system that allows between 0 and 5 of each type of thing, you increase the possibilities by factors.

By: l1ddl3monkey

l1ddl3monkey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:27:05 +0000

Hidden from the eye of man? My god; in the future we all share one eye? What kind of twisted dystopian vision is this?

It’s a very pretty demo though; I do like a bit of space dog fightery.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:25:48 +0000

They need to remove the text from that trailer, because that’s nearly the most contrived and cliched text I’ve ever seen. And I just got done playing The Linear RPG.

Modular ship design does sound awesome though, a real game (not just SecondLife which is more a graphical MU) that allows for a great degree of relevant customization would be quite cool. Though if you’re not literally slapping these things together from scratch it’s nothing new, every MMORPG has slots that you put equipment in but something more like Galactic Civilization II’s ship editor would be bad ass.