By Adam Smith on July 17th, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
When a trailer begins with the line, “War has been part of mankind for ages”, you know it’s going to teach you important lessons about mankind’s parts. Legends of Pegasus, the Galactica-like 4X game from Novacore, has just such a trailer. It’s quite an old trailer, showing the game’s smelly, warlike humans, but there’s a new one today showing the X’or, who are an aromatic and peaceful machine race. Both are below. In all honesty, I’ve never smelled a X’or but surely they can’t be any more malodorous than the orifice-strewn bags of guts that house all the brilliance and beauty of human intellect. The game’s campaign will see the player exploring human, X’or and an as yet unannounced third culture and Alec’s preview makes it sound like it could be quite special.
Be warned, the voiceovers are so grave you might feel as if you’ve been entombed by them.
17/07/2012 at 19:09 AmateurScience says:
Looks like they’re not Boolean around with the X’or.
17/07/2012 at 19:12 Chris D says:
Seems logical.
17/07/2012 at 20:38 Hoaxfish says:
NAND that’s not the half of it
17/07/2012 at 19:14 ATwig says:
I can do neither funny puns XNOR bad math jokes…
17/07/2012 at 23:18 LintMan says:
The X’or are said to be quite an exclusive race.
18/07/2012 at 11:40 The Infamous Woodchuck says:
God, that narrator!, sounds like he got a bad case of X’or throat.
18/07/2012 at 13:03 Shadowcat says:
They can either be aromatic or they can be peaceful, but we all know they can’t be both.
17/07/2012 at 19:11 DigitalSignalX says:
No one still wants to make Homeworld 3?
17/07/2012 at 19:39 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
Everybody should go and make Homeworld 3 with Unity right now.
17/07/2012 at 20:12 wcanyon says:
Oh man I miss me some Homeworld. Those devs are up to something sandboxy these days aren’t they?
17/07/2012 at 20:38 omicron1 says:
I’ll get right on that, then.
No, really. If Relic won’t make this game, I will make it for them.
18/07/2012 at 04:35 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
Hero! You’re ahead of me then. I just knocked out some basic ship shapes and simple turret components in Sketchup this evening as stand-ins for proper ship models.
17/07/2012 at 23:33 Wololo says:
Someone from Relic staff said they really want to make HW3 and that’s about it. I really really really hope they do work on it, though. Maybe it’ll be a sudden announcement, like CoH2.
17/07/2012 at 19:16 Faldrath says:
Very interesting, there can never be enough space 4X games (and that ship design screen looked pretty daunting). Speaking of that, here’s the mandatory “where’s the Endless Space WIT?” comment!
17/07/2012 at 19:32 MythArcana says:
I want an Alpha Centauri meets meets Dominions 3. Me thinks this is more Steam fodder with the usual bottlecap depth. It will sell generally well, just not from anyone I game with normally.
17/07/2012 at 19:46 timmyvos says:
Distant Worlds could be up your alley, I think it’s published by the same guys as Dominions and its really deep and unique. It’s a real time space sim with a huge, randomly generated galaxy, and a lot of different species. You can choose micromanage your entire empire, build and design your own ships with hundreds of different components , build mining stations and resorts for the private sector. One thing I don’t like is that there’s not a lot of personality in the different races. They have different portraits but a lot of species share the same diplomatic dialogue and they don’t really have a unique AI. It is, however, rather expensive at about $80 with the practically required expansions.
17/07/2012 at 20:11 wcanyon says:
that vs Endless Space… ES wins. Plus, ouch that pricetag.
17/07/2012 at 21:02 MythArcana says:
I frequently play Dominions 3 and Distant Worlds Legends which are both superb games in their own right, but it would seem my tastes are rather expensive. I guess the moral of the story is that you get what you pay for in most cases.
I honestly don’t mind paying a king’s ransom up front if the package will exclude DLC, marketing gimmicks, flash in the pan tactics, and forceful distribution on platforms not wanted. Most developers that push these high-end games will included free extras in their patches over time anyway…so it all works out and it keeps the riffraff out nicely.
17/07/2012 at 22:58 cptgone says:
every now and then i come here, read about Dominions and Distant Worlds, get all excited, see the price tag and… realise i’m just some “riffraff” that needs to be kept “out nicely”.
18/07/2012 at 14:51 wodin says:
DOm 3 for any turn based fantasy fan is a must buy. I use the great Warhammer mods aswell.
17/07/2012 at 19:39 Herbert_West says:
I got an Ascendancy vibe from that planet screen, so its a preorder.
17/07/2012 at 21:21 GenFailure says:
Finally, someone noticed it. I really didn’t remember the name but it was definitely Ascendency. And yes, the planetary view is from Ascendency, no point denying it.
18/07/2012 at 02:19 Reapy says:
3rded there, I forgot the name also, but yes, ascendency!
17/07/2012 at 20:09 mckertis says:
Let me guess, an EXTENSIVE ship constructor, and, once again, completely decorative ?
17/07/2012 at 20:15 wcanyon says:
Wow does that ship editor look clicky/draggy. So much click and drag. They need to work on that, I’d get a RSI playing this game otherwise.
17/07/2012 at 21:33 Dreforian says:
I’ve really only seen 3 building methods that aren’t sandbox games themselves. There’s obviously the click and drag based building. The list based method, which also uses attachment points but only lets you scroll through a list of relevant parts. And the more free-form “gummi ship” method (from Kingdom Hearts 2) where you just shift parts around in 2d/3d grid.
I’m just curious what your ideal ship editor / level of ship building would entail?
17/07/2012 at 23:50 MaXimillion says:
Master of Orion 2 had the right idea, IMO. Just give a space limit and allow free choosing of parts.
Of course, having that kind of design work becomes a lot harder if you decide to go for 3D ship models instead of static sprites.
17/07/2012 at 21:25 Jimbo says:
Is that Mors?
18/07/2012 at 09:58 Skhalt says:
Mors Westford, going to space to chop your mutinous crew’s heads off!
17/07/2012 at 21:32 phelix says:
“Sight for X’or Eyes”
No offense Adam, but that pun is just godawful.
17/07/2012 at 21:43 Dreforian says:
I saw this on…Steam I think? Went in my wishlist. It snagged my interest as a 4x game with an actual single-player story campaign so I’m hoping I can use it to hook me into the genre. Also it looks like a more in-depth Hegemonia, converted from RTS to turn-based. I have to wonder how the planet/ship building works in a multiplayer game though. Personally I could spend hours just configuring ships which could turn ugly when someone is waiting for me to finish my turn.
17/07/2012 at 21:55 sinister agent says:
Mr. Smith! I am not particularly interested in this game, but I thought it might please you to know that it’s already possible to identify you as the author of a post on here from its opening sentence. In very much a good way. That didn’t take long at all.
18/07/2012 at 14:55 wodin says:
Liked the look of the ship designer…One day someone will make an Aurora game with top notch 3D graphics…that would be the ultimate. Even with it’s more spreadsheet style I spent many many hours on hours designing ships…showing them off to the forum, only to be told a whole list of design faults! Still just doing that was great fun.
I recommend Aurora to any hardcore sci fi nut. Free aswell. However if your a graphics person, then it wont be for you.