STELLARIS: New Paradox Game in SPAAAACE

[garbon]

I have to agree with CC. This could have been a good game but they just dropped the wall. I have no interest in playing the game until they overhaul mid game.

So you agree with the fact that it is hard to look for news at: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php as well?

[Martinus]

Nope.

[crazy canuck]

I have to agree with CC. This could have been a good game but they just dropped the wall. I have no interest in playing the game until they overhaul mid game.

So you agree with the fact that it is hard to look for news at: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php as well?

You understand the difference between it being difficult and it not being worth the click right?

[garbon]

Which is why I won't be posting news for you. I'm not your slave..

[Martinus]

I agree with CC that as things stand now (especially with their first plant skins "expansion pack"), Stellaris is not the game worth following in terms of further development, if that's what he is saying.

[celedhring]

I'd actually be pretty annoyed if they had released a content DLC at this point, instead of fixing stuff in free patches.

The starship changes look decent on paper, btw. Opens up ships with specialized roles and mixed fleets being viable (even required).

[Darth Wagtaros]

My game has turned into doing nothing but burning out Scourge infested planets. ALl the fucking while their constructors wander into my space and build space stations that I have to go smoke out, constantly.

[celedhring]

I guess I could sympathize if I mustered enough willpower to finish a game.

I have north of 60 hours in Stellaris, but I abandon most games around midgame and just start anew with some different ethos.

[Sheilbh]

I guess I could sympathize if I mustered enough willpower to finish a game.

I have north of 60 hours in Stellaris, but I abandon most games around midgame and just start anew with some different ethos.

Same. I don't know if I even get to midgame. But I do really enjoy that first bit.

[Darth Wagtaros]

It is kind of a pattern with the game sadly.  Build space stations with subspace snare to in every fucking system to stop their constructors. Wander around with several fleets destroying infested planets. No AI puts up any kind of fight against the Scourge or Unbidden or whatever.  At all. So by the time I get to the point that I can sucessfully fight them they have taken over most of the galaxy.

[Berkut]

It is kind of weird - I can't really dispute the particulars of the complaints, but...

Well, I really like the game. The flaws are real, but despite them I find myself interested in playing anyway. I abandon games regularly once they reach a point where they are not terribly interesting anymore, for whatever reason (including a couple where I simply lost).

I have found that to really get the game to be interesting, you as the player has to drive it in some fashion. If you just sit back and let things happen, you can do really well without much of anything actually happening until one of the late game meta-crisis break out.

But if you actively engage the other civilizations, and really shove yourself into the mix, declare wars, try to break up alliance, have the balls to put together an alliance and actually go to war with other big alliances, it is a lot of fun.

I am very optimistic that they will continue to drive the content to make the game drive the player more, rather than the other way around. But I have something like 300 hours played, and have more than gotten my money's worth so far, IMO.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I've found a mod that adds new ship classes and add on modules that does improve things.  So there is that.  I guess I just was hoping that the later game would be as exciting as the start. 

[Josquius]

I for one am boycotting this game.
err...girlcotting.

http://jezebel.com/why-isnt-it-called-no-womans-sky-1785411230

edit- how the hell did it end up here
I was in no mans sky thread

[Habbaku]

 

[crazy canuck]

It is kind of weird - I can't really dispute the particulars of the complaints, but...

Well, I really like the game. The flaws are real, but despite them I find myself interested in playing anyway. I abandon games regularly once they reach a point where they are not terribly interesting anymore, for whatever reason (including a couple where I simply lost).

I have found that to really get the game to be interesting, you as the player has to drive it in some fashion. If you just sit back and let things happen, you can do really well without much of anything actually happening until one of the late game meta-crisis break out.

But if you actively engage the other civilizations, and really shove yourself into the mix, declare wars, try to break up alliance, have the balls to put together an alliance and actually go to war with other big alliances, it is a lot of fun.

I am very optimistic that they will continue to drive the content to make the game drive the player more, rather than the other way around. But I have something like 300 hours played, and have more than gotten my money's worth so far, IMO.

What a wonderfully passive aggressive post.  Your theory that we do not enjoy the game because we just are not up to playing it as well as you or alternatively don't have the balls is not particularly compelling.