Upcoming Space Games - Lost Empires: Immortals, and Infinity

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Since Sins is doing so well and theres a feeling of newer players to the space genre I thought I would post some links to some upcoming space games. I am having a blast with sins right now and am truly hoping for the space game genre to start making a comeback. Here are 2 games to keep an eye on.

Infinity - The quest for earth
MMO, small ship based flight sim type combat.

Videos:
Watch the planetary take off and landing videos - very impressive like seriously watch this first the game uses an amazing procedural based rendering engine.

PlanetaryTakeoffVideo
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Main site:
InfinityQuestForEarth


Forum post for a playable multiplayer team vs team beta
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Also keep an eye on Lost Empires: Immortals 4x Pure turn based game. Pretty cool galaxy map(it's in the gamespot preview first picture)

Reviews
totalvideogames
gamespot


Forums
Paradox (Producer they did Hearts of Iron)
Paradox

Pollux (The developer )
Pollux


Link to Lost Empire Pollux's first iteration of the game.
LostEmpire

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
If they pull that Infinity off... man, it will be the new Elite. I hope the guys succeed, we are long overdue for a sandbox of that magnitude. Hundred billion worlds? Wohoo! :D
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Meh eve has pretty much cornered the market in a space MMO game, i would play eve online any day over some dodgey twitch based flying space flying sim.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I really prefer scifi to fantasy, so EVE caught my eye, but everything I have read makes it sound FAR too cutthroat for my tastes.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I really prefer scifi to fantasy, so EVE caught my eye, but everything I have read makes it sound FAR too cutthroat for my tastes.
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EVE is mainly cutthroat if you stray out of socalled High-Sec space, once you do that CONCORD (the ingame police basically) won't show up to blow the bandit apart if they attack you without provocation. Once you do venture into low-sec and no-sec paranoia is the only safe state of mind, treat everything and everyone as a potential enemy, watch local chat, and have your ship ready to run at all times. Pirates call those places home and the resident player alliances tend to defend their territory agressively. Following a socalled NBSI policy (Not Blue, Shoot It) meaning that anyone not set to friend by their alliance is an automatic target for elimination.

High-Sec however is a great sandbox to play in, and is fairly peaceful usually. And i guess most players are there.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
I am a long-term EvE player, and while it is a great game, I find the inability to interact with your environment a bit limiting. Don't get me wrong, there are a LOT of options and stuff to do, but what I always liked in space games is the freedom you have. That's why I still think Elite and later sequels have it right - free-form travel (no damn stargates and other artificial choke-points), planet landing (though I hear they plan that for EvE), hell, you could even fill your hydrogen fuel tanks by scooping the upper layers of a gas giant - how cool is that?

IF they pull Infinity off... it looks like the greatest sandbox ever. Not everyone's thing, but for us who love freedom of action and decision in game, sandbox is the way to go (that's also why I love Sins btw).
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I have been loosely following infinity for some time and am highly interested in it but development seemed stalled at times.

For some reason LE did not interest me. It looks a little cartoonish for my taste last year and frankly with what little free time I had it was invested in GC. Anyway LE:I is a Para game, so it is automatically on my checkout list. I also think it is strikingly close to a pure GC & Sins hybrid. The questions is 'can it be highly modded?'

I am also considering getting Eve now that it is on Steam. Since I live outside the American now DD is best for me to be sure.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
I read a review about LE:I where the fellow said you get to only watch the battles, but not actually control your ships... if that's true, it's a show stopper for me. I love the concept of a huge galaxy with ~5000 star systems in it, but you just have to have control over your ships in a fight. I simply like multi-layered games. Grand scheming one moment, micromanaging a fleet in a battle the next, that sort of thing.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

I read a review about LE:I where the fellow said you get to only watch the battles, but not actually control your ships... if that's true, it's a show stopper for me. I love the concept of a huge galaxy with ~5000 star systems in it, but you just have to have control over your ships in a fight. I simply like multi-layered games. Grand scheming one moment, micromanaging a fleet in a battle the next, that sort of thing.
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That is my biggest issue with GC to be sure and the reason I started to look into Sins.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
I might pick this up, is like the idea of me not having control of my fleets as there would be real captains and admirals doing that stuff.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Read the reviews before buying. I'm not saying its a bad game, but I have come to expect certain things from this genre... for example, if you have an extensive and complex research tree, I expect equally extensive information on what each research project is meant to accomplish. As far as I understand, LE:I is VERY scarce on that, allmost to the point of making you use trial and error to determine what ship components do...
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
So far LE sounds like GC2 clone the way it plays,it adds some new elemnts to the game, but lacks others, one things that bothers me is...dragons in space??? hehe...thats some awsome mental abilities, ugh...why dont they just leave dragons where they belong and thats DUNGEONS and DRAGONS!!!