Game News Legend of Pegasus is out now

Well, I'll be darned. I checked the reliable sources and it turns out this is an actual thing. Hot diggity dog.

Waaaaah ! I am hyped, maybe even the beggining of an hardon... Hope its any good,many of those new 4x were really disapointing.

RTS combat seems iffy... I heard it being compared to SotSE(meh). Someone try it out and report back, because my time is worth more than yours I'm lazy.

Yeah, i want to know if it's good. It certainly looks better than Endless Space.

So there is this, Endless Space and Starfarer. Like to know more, they all look good.

Wow, looks awesome.

What is a "Peasus"?

Seems really cool, but I've noticed a tendency for these types of nearly-silent releases to be plagued with issues at the onset. There's no demo (yet?) so hopefully some brave soul will take one for the team to give us the KKK on this bitch, I don't really want to drop $40 on something that could be junk.

First patch is already out

Going to have to wait a few months to sift through this inexplicable plethora of 4x space games that just came out these last couple of weeks.

Anyone tried it and can share anything? Is it good? Is it playable at least?

My initial impression is unfavorable. Things invariably go downhill from there, as entropy always increases.

When I attempt to start, you know, a game, because in these kinds of things, who really wants to play a railroad campaign, I am immediately discouraged by the point that it is A: Called "Skirmish", and B: For some reason, despite there being 3 races and like 8 player slots, I cannot seem to actually populate them with more than a single enemy. When I fill the first slot with an AI opponent, every other slot can be opened, but there is no means to actually FILL them with anything. You can't assign a race, put an AI opponent in it, nothing.

In annoyance, when I start the campaign, whatever my actual objectives are appear to be truncated by the right side of the screen, so I can't see what it is I'm supposed to do. From what I could see, it looked more like Starcraft and less like Master of Orion. Except that after the fight ended, all of my units became immobile and it wasn't clear what is they were supposed to be doing. Or what it is they COULD do. I'm honestly unclear as to what the hell this thing is trying to be.

Verdict: Unplayable. This means a lot considering that I'm generally a fan of the genre.

You took one for the team, Norfleet Now go back and try it with the new patch. I think it fixes that right side thing.

I *DID* install it with the patch. The truncated right side is, honestly, probably the least of the issues with the game. Just from the very beginning I did not get the feeling I was looking as a good, compelling game. It seems to be a game that captures the worst of both the RTS and TBS genres.

Compared to say, Endless Space, it is way worse. At least with Endless Space, I got the distinct impression that I recognized what was going on and what I was playing. This game...well, it conjured up a "What is this?" reaction every turn. It was like, "What am I playing here? Is this a 4x, or is this like Sins? What is it?".

And keep in mind, Sins wasn't terrible. It did what I expected it to do. This? This is terrible.

Tries to be Haegemonia, but it's not half as compelling.

Damn

Has there been any space 4X games as good as MoO2 that've come out in the past 15 years?

Alpha Centauri.

Just play MoO 2 again; better use of your time.

This is pretty good according to The Brazilian Slaughter

Sword of the Stars II Part 2: Electric Boogaloo


But seriously, the game is a technical disaster on a Sword of the Stars II level; fucking shame since this an amazing genre. Just stick with Endless Space & Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, they're actually finished.