Was talking with other forums goers in another thread about a new game online called EVE and it dawned on me that I don't know of a lot of SciFi video games for game systems.
I have an XBOX and love SciFi and everythign to do with SciFi. I wish Advent had done better in sales so that there would definitely be hope of then finishing out the trilogy that it was supposed to be. Any one know if there are going to be more of them? Gamers at the store told me no.
Back on track wanted to start a thread about anythign SciFi video game wise. Already mentioned EVE but what other games are really good in the SciFi genre. Halo and Star Wars are pretty much all I know of?
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
The Advent games aren't going to happen any time soon (both the PSP side story and the two remaining games in the trilogy). Majesco, the publisher, didn't do too well last year. Advent Rising didn't sell as well as expected (or as well as it deserved, much like Majesco's other big title that year Psychonauts). Kind of sad that the Advent trilogy may never be finished.
As for other sci-fi games, none are popping into my mind immediately. The Metroid games are sci-fi, although on the Prime games seem to have a somewhat deep story (at least if you scan everywhere and read all the little tidbits). That's all that's coming to my mind at the moment. I wish there were more good original sci-fi games.
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
Yeah, I feel you on the more SciFi games that's why I started the post. I wish there were more. It used to be that you couldn't escape SciFi stuff and now it seems as though it is being slowly replaced with "Reality TV" and the like. EWven SciFi movies are becoming less common. If it wasn't for the SciFi channel Id be hurting for my SciFi fixes.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
Well even Sci-fi Channel has drifted somewhat away from Sci-fi (what with the ECW wrestling and all). It's sort of sad, but that's how it goes. I guess you pick up sci-fi where you can.
*looks over at pile of sci-fi books he has to read* *rewatches trailer for BSG season 3*
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
Well, it depends on what *kind* of Sci-Fi you're talking about. A LOT of games out there are Sci-Fi. The Half-Life series, Quake series, Unreal series, Deus Ex, Homeworld, Command and Conquer (more or less Red Alert is alternate history sci-fi), Fallout (Best Sci-Fi RPG ever, I think), Halo, Descent, the Wing Commander series, Freelancer, Starlancer, Privateer. That's all I can think of right now, but for the most part, the Video game industry has found that SciFi is a very effective genre to develop games in. I think that's due in part to the popularity of Sci-Fi among computer geeks.
edit to add: The gaming industry kind of ebbs and flows on the Genres that are common at any one time. Right now it's more popular to create fantasy style games due to the success of MMORPGs like Everquest and WoW. Just like when there were millions of RTS games that came out following the success of Warcraft and C&C. There are, in general, many many sci-fi games out there. I have boxes for two of them sitting on my desk right now. Galactic Civilizations (great Civilization style empire builder) and Space Rangers 2 (one of the best cross-genre games I've ever played. It's a mix of star control, C&C and a few third person shooters).
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
Hold on you have a copy of the trailer for the BSG Season 3. I keep clicking the link at SciFi and it doesn't go anywhere. Is it just the teaser they gave at the end of LDYB P.2
* Keeps clicking link as chuncks of hair come from head in hands *
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
i have seaons 1-4 and half of s5 somewhere.
you forgot KOTOR
btw read my comics!
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
That's the BSG Season 3 trailer I have.
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
LOL! Are you talking about the old version or the new one. I don't think they're quite done with making the 3rd season so if you have you have some sort of time travel I have to get my hands on.
Your comics rock! What is KOTOR?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Knights of the Old Republic ^^
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
oh and I confused BSG with Babylon 5 for some reason.....
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
oh and I confused BSG with Babylon 5 for some reason.....
Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
Descent: Freespace 2 is IMO the greatest space dogfighting game ever, even with it's bad physics model. Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
I've played Knights of the Old Republic, Stars Wars has definitely got a long list of games available for PC and game consoles but after a while they are all the same thing. I thought Lego Star Wars was great cause it was the same but different and can't wait fo the orginial trilogy to come out soon so I can play that one.
- Earendil - I haven't played Descent yet I'll check it out.
- Blayne - I figured you were talking about something else, Babylon 5 is awesome, I watched that religiously when it was on as an original series. They also just started putting it up on iTunes. I think they even made a Babylon 5 game a while back I might be mistaken though.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Much, much easier to find real sci-fi in computer games than on consoles. I don't even know if I'm entirely comfortable with putting Star Wars in the science fiction category. Not that I didn't love KOTOR, but for all its blasters and spaceships, Star Wars seems more like space-based fantasy than science fiction.
A lot of good stuff coming out for PC lately though; very good reviews for Space Rangers 2 and Galactic Civilizations II, among others. It seems like on consoles it's easier to find science fiction settings for what are basically action pieces, like Unreal Championship or Halo. Not to knock either.
[EDIT: Spelling]
[ July 28, 2006, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: Sterling ]
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
Yeah, I wasn't thinking PC games. I was trying to think about console games.
Phantasy Star Universe is sort of sci-fi, although it's similar to Star Wars in that it's sort of "space-based fantasy" (as Sterling put it).
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
I definitely usderstand what your talking about with the console shoot'em up stuff. I have noticed in the last couple of days of research into the subject that there is alot more stuff on PC.
The thing I liked about Halo and Advent is the stories that go along with the shoot'em up. I honestly would have given up half way through Advent if the story wasn't so appealing to me and I really hope they make more even though I doubt it.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I really liked Freelancer, though it seemed that most hardcore gamers (which I am not) did not like it as much. Fromn a sci-fi and story standpoint, though, I loved it. I wish I could find something else I liked as much.
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
The environments on that one look cool. As you can tell by the question I am not a serious gamer either but like to play SciFi stuff when I have time.
On a side note PC games seem a little easier to deal with in that when you play halo, halo 2 and then want to finish the trilogy you don't have to go and buy another system that costs as much as a new computer. I hate when the video game companies do that. Sorry I'll get off my soap box. Thanks for all the info.
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
I liked Freelancer alot too.
Also I have been trying to play Eve Online but whenever I start the installer it goes a little ways and then says "Corrupt Installer" and I cannot fix it. Any ideas?
KOTOR 2 was good but not as good as the first.
My friend and I were wondering the other day about why on earth there was not a Firefly video game.
Alot of Sci-Fi games are shooters or RTSs.
Posted by Eldrad (Member # 8578) on :
Boris hit on most of the stuff I would've recommended but missed one that I must suggest and seems that so few have played - Beyond Good & Evil. It's an absolutely fantastic game (for both XBox and GameCube, if I recall correctly; I know it's on XBox at the very least, as that's the system I have BG&E on), and you can get it for a steal. If it helps, it was critically heralded and received excellent reviews from every gaming publication I know of.
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
It is also for the PC.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vasslia Cora: I liked Freelancer alot too.
Also I have been trying to play Eve Online but whenever I start the installer it goes a little ways and then says "Corrupt Installer" and I cannot fix it. Any ideas?
KOTOR 2 was good but not as good as the first.
My friend and I were wondering the other day about why on earth there was not a Firefly video game.
Alot of Sci-Fi games are shooters or RTSs.
Yeah, I had that problem, too. I think the downloads on the Eve site are perpetually corrupt or something. I can't remember how I got past it, though. I think I looked around on game download sites and finally got a good install.
edit: I realized I forgot to mention the X-Com series. How could I ever forget those?!
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
Sci-fi games I recommend for XBox:
The Chronicles of Riddick. Much better than the movie. A very well-made game.
Half-life 2. I don't know how it is on console, actually, but on PC, it was pretty amazing. No game has ever created a world and people that felt this real to me before.
Psychonauts. Trippiest, funniest game I've ever played. The secret agents in the mind of the paranoid guy had me laughing for days.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I and II. Both of these, I think, are equally good — they each get different things right.
Crimson Skies. Has sort of a Sky Captain/Slipstream feel to it. It's definitely retro/alternate-world sci-fi, but it's a great dogfighting game.
Hitman 4. It's slightly sci-fi-ish under the surface, but it really doesn't belong on this list. I'm only mentioning it because this game is FRICKING AWESOME.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puppy:
Psychonauts. Trippiest, funniest game I've ever played. The secret agents in the mind of the paranoid guy had me laughing for days.
I like the Milkman's level particularly, when you wander around with the different items to be part of the different crews.
Raz (holding a stop sign) : "I'm part of the road crew. This is my stop sign."
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
For PCs:
The Escape Velocity Series (especially EV: Nova).
Possibly the greatest game ever: Starcraft.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
Tachyon: The Fringe was great -- good story, and multiplayer was once very active.
It's very disappointing that the genre seems to have died, but FreeSpace 2's source code was recently released, and there are some cool mods and TCs coming out with updated graphics.
Homeworld 2 is a great space RTS, but you'll proably have to find the first one to understand the story. Very hard to learn, though.
--j_k
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Only problem I had with Psychonauts: it was a platformer that wanted to be an old-school adventure game. And would have been more fun as an old-school adventure game.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
I didn't mind it being a platformer really. What bothered me was having a "protect" mission right near the end of the game. "Protect" missions suck in any game and putting one at the end of a game just doubly sucks.
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puppy: Sci-fi games I recommend for XBox:
The Chronicles of Riddick. Much better than the movie. A very well-made game.
Half-life 2. I don't know how it is on console, actually, but on PC, it was pretty amazing. No game has ever created a world and people that felt this real to me before.
Psychonauts. Trippiest, funniest game I've ever played. The secret agents in the mind of the paranoid guy had me laughing for days.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I and II. Both of these, I think, are equally good — they each get different things right.
Crimson Skies. Has sort of a Sky Captain/Slipstream feel to it. It's definitely retro/alternate-world sci-fi, but it's a great dogfighting game.
Hitman 4. It's slightly sci-fi-ish under the surface, but it really doesn't belong on this list. I'm only mentioning it because this game is FRICKING AWESOME.
Crimson Skies and Hitman I have played before and really liked. I am very interested in the Pyschonauts game, I think I saw that on display at the game place and was tempted to buy it but decided against the impulse buy. I wish I had picked it up now. Here's a question can you play the PC games on MACs? Probably not wich is wierd cause MACs were designed specifically to handle graphics better, even though now days you just need a good vcard with lots of vram and a nice monitor.
Man I a techy geek and I had no idea there were this many cool games out there. Thanks for all the great posts I love this forum. All of you have been great!
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
I think you can play PC games on Mac under emulation, but they run horrendously slow (to the point that they're unplayable.)
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Starcraft is an extremely good SciFi video game. Its a little old, and its a real-time strategy game, but the battles in it are often very big, and each of the little guys you make are really cool looking.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:Originally posted by Raventhief: For PCs:
The Escape Velocity Series (especially EV: Nova).
Possibly the greatest game ever: Starcraft.
I played Starcraft vicariously, through my wife.
She was loving it until it forced her to switch POV, to the enemy side. Then she threw it across the room in disgust and never looked at it again.
Damn replacing that PC was expensive. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I own Homeworld. It's sitting in the den somewhere. Spent about an hour playing it, and it never grabbed me.
I should probably give it another shot sometime.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Yeah I think starcraft is a good bet...
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
quote:She was loving it until it forced her to switch POV, to the enemy side. Then she threw it across the room in disgust and never looked at it again.
I know people sometimes react that way, but ... I've never understood it. I mean, it's a game. You're still participating in the same story AND you're playing around with a new set of cool mechanics. What's to disgust?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I'm actually surprised you don't see it. It's not just a game, it's a story. My favorite games are the ones with a strong story element. Cor loved the story in this game. She loved the characters. She loved the relationship that was forming between the male and female protagonist. When the POV shift happened, it became a different story. More realistic, possibly, in the sense of the moral relativism that was introduced. But we don't prize realism in our stories. I don't like to read novels or watch movies about people I don't like. I don't like movies or novels in which the bad guy wins. Not because I think that's how the world works, but because the stories that I think are worth telling are stories about good people who achieve heroic things. Sure, bad guys win in real life, and nice guys often finish last. But why the hell would we recount those stories?
If somebody I thought was bad turns out to be good, it better be because they are now my allies. I'm not interested in directing actions against the side I was formerly trying to build up--against the characters I was trying to build up.
Can you imagine if, in Empire Strikes Back we got the whole movie from the Empire's side, and started to see that they really weren't evil at all, just victims of propaganda, and we were led to root for them in battles against the rebels?
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
quote:Can you imagine if, in Empire Strikes Back we got the whole movie from the Empire's side, and started to see that they really weren't evil at all, just victims of propaganda, and we were led to root for them in battles against the rebels? [/QB]
Actually wasnt there a little of that in Battlefront II. Not much but they definitely told the story fromt he other side. While I'm on it never played Battlefront, is much different than II.
Posted by Eldrad (Member # 8578) on :
quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: Starcraft is an extremely good SciFi video game. Its a little old, and its a real-time strategy game, but the battles in it are often very big, and each of the little guys you make are really cool looking.
If you're looking for similar games to Starcraft but don't like as much micromanagement, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War (for the PC) is really fantastic. I personally prefer it to Starcraft (it's newer and thus prettier, the battles feel more epic, you control squads rather than individuals making it much more fluid, etc.), though I'd have to admit I'm probably a little biased because I love the tabletop game and universe the game is based on.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: She was loving it until it forced her to switch POV, to the enemy side. Then she threw it across the room in disgust and never looked at it again.
Damn replacing that PC was expensive.
That wasn't the one I built, was it? No matter... it sucked anyway.
Recently the only sci fi game I recall playing is Rogue Trooper, which although it had great concepts and characters, somehow fell short and forced. I did like it nonetheless.
And does Far Cry count as "sci fi"? Besides the occasional mutant shooting rockets at you, or the occasional invisible soldier scaring the hell out of you, or the occasional soldier that can jump sixty feet straight up, it's the perpetual "shoot the mercenaries with the M-4" type of game.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I was joking about her old Toshiba laptop, actually.
The computer you built is no longer in use, but we did cannibalize the hard drive from it. I recently built a computer, and feel all |337 now. Posted by Shepherd (Member # 7380) on :
This isn't a console, but an entirely online game. Ogame. (Ogame.org) It takes about ten fifteen minutes every five to six hours, and it is so incredibly addicitive, and great fun. Thought I should through it out here. It's very very scifi never fear.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Once upon a time, there was a game called "System Shock 2" -- it was made as a 'spiritual successor' to the first game, lovingly crafted by an inventive little studio.
Game reviewers had trouble classifying it. Was it a FPS? An RPG? Nothing was linear. You did indeed grow and become more capable as the game progressed -- in fact, transforming and expanding your character was the only way, really, to succeed. Different aspects were gushed over by each reviewer, but there was one solid compact: Everyone absolutely loved it. PC Gamer declared it unquestionably to have been one of the greatest games of all time.
It is sci-fi. It takes place on a spaceship en route to Tau Ceti. It is absolutely astounding. It is the quintessence of the Gaming Experience that is rarely recreated so faithfully.
It is, unfortunately, not for everyone. It's wet-your-pants scary. It's a horror game. It is best played at night, alone, with headphones, and appropriately spooky gamma. It's absolutely terrifying.
It's tragic that the studio that made it (Looking Glass) bit the dust and left the title in abandonware limbo, shortly after the release. Home of The Underdogs, an abandonware site, apparently got the ok to distribute the game via torrent or direct download, here.
For free.
You need no further excuse.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:This isn't a console, but an entirely online game. Ogame. (Ogame.org) It takes about ten fifteen minutes every five to six hours, and it is so incredibly addicitive, and great fun. Thought I should through it out here. It's very very scifi never fear.
I admit I haven't followed the link, but if it's what I think it is I've been trying to create a game just like that for some time. Space conquest, in the big scale, akin to Star Control and Starflight of old. Web based, but with passing turns every 15-20 minutes. I have the whole gaming engine done; all it needs is an interface. If I can ever get around to it, it's going to be great I tell you!
I also have played now and then an online game, Stellar Realms (link unavailable right now), but it's weak in that you only get one planet and there's no "conquest" about it really.
quote:It is, unfortunately, not for everyone. It's wet-your-pants scary. It's a horror game. It is best played at night, alone, with headphones, and appropriately spooky gamma. It's absolutely terrifying.
You're right about SS2; thanks for the link.
But it can't be as disturbing as Doom III, which borders on the edge between scifi and horror.
Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
Doom 3 was scary for about 3 minutes, and then dissolved in to very old scare-tactics that repeated every level. It also didn't help that everyone looked like clay models. Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:Doom 3 was scary for about 3 minutes...
Play it in the dark with headphones and I don't care how many times it might repeat, it'll still freak you out.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
I'm one of the people who hated System Shock 2. Not because it's a horror game; there are plenty of horror games that I enjoy. The story and atmosphere are actually pretty good. The economic system that drives the game, however, creates artificial scarcities which are unforgivable in a game that forces a player to frequently backtrack through areas that have an infinite enemy respawn. Scarcities that punish players for trying new things.
If you find enjoyment in being shot repeatedly with weapons that turn out to be empty and broken when you get them off your enemies' bodies, taking damage from running into railings, mispaced challenges, and an anticipation that you'll die repeatedly over the course of play, you might be able to enjoy System Shock 2. I wouldn't voluntarily play it again.
quote:She was loving it until it forced her to switch POV, to the enemy side. Then she threw it across the room in disgust and never looked at it again.
Damn replacing that PC was expensive.
I enjoyed the story of Starcraft, and if I was bothered by playing the Zerg, I was perhaps reassured by getting to see more of Kerrigan's story and knowing I'd ultimately be playing the Protoss.
The Zerg-vs.-Zerg missions in the expansion, however, drove me nuts. They made levels that favored a computer's strengths- being able to manage huge armies and their creation and direction over huge maps with nonintuitive ways to get from point x to point y, and then expected players to enjoy playing them for hours because they were challenging.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
I just sampled Prey (on the 360) a few days ago at a friend's place. The character powers (that I've seen so far) are really interesting, and the levels are absolutely awesome. The only downside is that all the gravity switching made me mildly queasy.
And there are aaaaaaliens.
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
quote:Can you imagine if, in Empire Strikes Back we got the whole movie from the Empire's side, and started to see that they really weren't evil at all, just victims of propaganda, and we were led to root for them in battles against the rebels?
We do get sequences in Empire that make a few of the Empire folks sympathetic. I like it when the opposing force in a story is actually comprehensible and human. Being able to conceive of their point-of-view is what makes it feel real and legitimate to me.
Fighting endless hordes of faceless enemies is boring and pointless. Fighting enemies that are well-developed and even sometimes sympathetic is fascinating. Makes you actually think about why they're really worth fighting. Instead of, "Well, obviously, they're evil. Look at their tentacles."
Also, I don't feel like I have to be rooting for their ultimate victory to play out a few of their battles and see their side of the story.
But maybe I'm weird Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Tentacles? Is that some "The Empire Strikes Back - Special Anime Edition" version I've missed?
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
B34N: Perhaps you would enjoy these oldies
* Flashback (on PC and SNES for sure, maybe other consoles) - platform game with fairly realistic animation. * Fade to Black (PC only I think, sequel to Flashback) - Mostly it's a 3D shooter, with some simple puzzles.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
quote:Originally posted by Eduardo St. Elmo: B34N: Perhaps you would enjoy these oldies
* Flashback (on PC and SNES for sure, maybe other consoles) - platform game with fairly realistic animation. * Fade to Black (PC only I think, sequel to Flashback) - Mostly it's a 3D shooter, with some simple puzzles.
Ooh, which reminds me! The author of "Another World" (known in the U.S. as "Out of This World"), Flashback's predecessor, has just remade it for modern PCs and is offering it online, with a free demo.
It's a game I first saw in England running on an Amiga, and made me stop and say "Wow, I didn't know computers could *do* that."
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
I'll check it out, thanks for all the great games. I only fast MACs and old Slow PC so I may have to start with some of the older games if the won't run on the MAC.
It has definitely come to my attention that if I want to play some SciFi the PC arena is where I need to be.
Thanks, B34N Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nighthawk: Tentacles? Is that some "The Empire Strikes Back - Special Anime Edition" version I've missed?
Also I was thinking that with the new ai in video how long it will be until we see a game like the fantasy game in Ender's Game. That would be an interesting game to play, minus the whole mind shriking stuff.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:Originally posted by A Rat Named Dog:
quote:Can you imagine if, in Empire Strikes Back we got the whole movie from the Empire's side, and started to see that they really weren't evil at all, just victims of propaganda, and we were led to root for them in battles against the rebels?
We do get sequences in Empire that make a few of the Empire folks sympathetic. I like it when the opposing force in a story is actually comprehensible and human. Being able to conceive of their point-of-view is what makes it feel real and legitimate to me.
Fighting endless hordes of faceless enemies is boring and pointless. Fighting enemies that are well-developed and even sometimes sympathetic is fascinating. Makes you actually think about why they're really worth fighting. Instead of, "Well, obviously, they're evil. Look at their tentacles."
It's not the same thing, Geoff. Freelancer develops the different sides of the story, but it's always clear on which side the central character is (his own ). That's not the same thing at all as suddenly rooting against all the very characters you have become close to.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
I've yet to meet a person who did not enjoy StarCraft.
To this day every South Korean wakes up with one thought on their mind, "Will Blizzard announce StarCraft 2 today." and, "If not, when is the soonest moment I can play on battle net again?"
There was a game in the 90's called "Cyberia" where you basically had a man outfitted with a gun in his wrist. You moved by pressing up, and you selected your direction by pressing left or right. You fired with the space bar. You could only move alittle bit at a time as you progressed through the lvls. It made for some interesting puzzles.
They had some really cool shoot em up lvls where you piloted a stealth bomber (this was cool for the 90's) and manned an anti aircraft gun on an oil rig. The plot was interesting and it was quite a difficult game.
I'm the only one I know who ever played it Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:If you find enjoyment in being shot repeatedly with weapons that turn out to be empty and broken when you get them off your enemies' bodies, taking damage from running into railings, mispaced challenges, and an anticipation that you'll die repeatedly over the course of play, you might be able to enjoy System Shock 2. I wouldn't voluntarily play it again.
I enjoy all of these things! Well, those shotguns you got off the hybrids could always be emptied for a single shell, so they aren't technically empty, only broken. I also couldn't hurt myself on railings unless I was a very agile and fast character and I pumped myself up on a speed hypo.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
Oh, I thought of another more recent game, although not a PC or Xbox game. Eternal Darkness for the GameCube. It's sort of a horror type game, but it has fantasy and sci-fi elements to it. It's a very awesome game, even though it didn't sell really well. If you have a chance to check it out, I recommend doing so. I don't think you'll regret it.
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
Anyone got a XBOX 360 and think that it was worth the purchase. I amy buy it just to get a chance to play prey, halo 3 and a couple of other new games that I am really interested in but don't think $400 is worth it.
Posted by aragorn64 (Member # 4204) on :
Let's see...if you want to pick up on one of the best Sci-Fi series out there, I can't suggest the Metroid series highly enough.
There's Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission (a remake of the original Metroid game) that you can buy for the Game Boy Advance. Both are excellent.
And the Metroid Prime games for the GameCube are...amazing. If you go at them with the right mindest: if you play them expecting them to play, feel, and control like a typical FPS, then you will be surprised and possibly dissapointed. Because, as weird as it may sound, Nintendo marketing them as "First Person Adventures" is entirely accurate.
In fact, they're worth the purchase of a GameCube alone. (Let's see, you can get a used GameCube for about $60, and MP and MP2 are each $20). (Of course, there are a huge, huge amount of great games for the GameCube. It was, for me, the best system of this last generation.) Anyway, I'd love anybody who is interested more about the games.
Or, instead of getting a GCN with them, you could wait and purchase the Wii which is backwards compataible with the GCN. (It will probably have a price range of around $200). Metroid Prime 3 is supposed to be a launch title (although it may be delayed) and it looks like it's going to be incredible as well. Let's see, here's a trailer for it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dM4xGBFQYYc
So anyway, my 0.02 is if you like Sci-Fi video games you really can't go wrong with the Metroid series.
Posted by _L (Member # 9448) on :
If you're into fighting games, One Must Fall: 2097 is a really, really old sci-fi "maintain a robot and beat up other robots" game. It's fantastic.
There's a download of it there.
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
My favorite is Second Sight. There is something very entertaining about projecting your mind in to that of an enemy's, and then walking them right off of a cliff.
[ August 22, 2006, 03:04 PM: Message edited by: Stephan ]
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
I actually gave up trying to get a new game for while, until I decide whether or not I want an XBOX 360, looking forwrd to The new Lego Star Wars game coming out in Sept though.
Started play advent rising again without the cheats this time, its a really fun game and I wish they would make another only problem is the frame rate and sound go whacky when too mach is happening on screen. Posted by SSMARTINDBZ (Member # 9685) on :
PREY XBOX360/PC KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC 1/2 XBOX/PC HALO 1/2 XBOX/PC ADVENT RISING XBOX/PC THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK XBOX/PC RESIDENT EVIL GAMECUBE/PC METROID PRIME GAMECUBE/PC PHANTOM DUST XBOX
Posted by Palliard (Member # 8109) on :
I'm not really into real-time tactical games or shooters, I'm more into adventure and role-playing games.
In that line, I would echo KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC and FALLOUT as games well worth playing.
My own favorite, and arguably as science-fictiony as anything Star Wars, is PLANESCAPE: TORMENT. That had the deepest and most meaningful plot of any game I have ever played, and the choices you make in the game actually matter.
For a strictly-SF game... I'm gonna have to go with STARFLIGHT. It's a hoary old game, but it had an unusual conceit that made it memorable: it starts off as an exploring/mining/fighting game, and lets you stumble upon the overarching plot as you play, so you have more of a sense of discovering/unearthing the game's plot and more of a driven sense of investigating it. That sense of wonder I fealt as I first stubmled upon the message capsule directing me to New Scotland has never been truly equaled in another game.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:For a strictly-SF game... I'm gonna have to go with STARFLIGHT.
Wow, I'm impressed that I'm not alone in my admiration of it. The youth of today just doesn't understand the simplicity of it.
Personally, I preferred Star Control, specifically SC2.
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
I am watching Force of Arms very closly. It looks to be what most Sci-fi MMOs aim for but fail.
Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
If by sci-fi we mean "has robots and/or spaceships," there are plenty of sci-fi games out there: Super Robot Taisen, Mega Man, Pikmin, Star Fox ... (and those are just series available on Nintendo systems I could come up with in 5 seconds).
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
New Lego Star Wars comes out pretty soon!
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
Somebody already mentioned Escape Velocity, which was an awesome trilogy.
If you're running a Mac, you should definitely check out the old school Bungie games. The Marathon trilogy (which I just found out are available and free from PCs) was an astounding sci fi FPS for the time.
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Red Alert is alternate history sci-fi), Fallout (Best Sci-Fi RPG ever, I think), Halo, Descent, the Wing Commander series, Freelancer, Starlancer, Privateer. That's all I can think of right now, but for the most part, the Video game industry has found that SciFi is a very effective genre to develop games in. I think that's due in part to the popularity of Sci-Fi among computer geeks.![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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