It’s fully as cool as it sounds. I wish I had more time to write. The videos do have textual descriptions that describe my thoughts, though. I hope that helps.
Editer
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Just saw surrounding messages. Wow, timed that post poorly,. Sorry, Brian! I appreciate your efforts, But as a word guy, I get most stuff from your FB posts and posts here, and the words you type. I just don’t have a lot of time to watch videos (and I’m spoiler-averse). I know videos are where it’s at nowadays, and don’t fault you.
Just know that if you ever see historical space sims like Go For Launch Mercury or realistic space games like this and Starfighter Inc, it is your responsibility to inform me personally. That is all I ask. :)
I usually avoid words on YouTube because comments, but I’ll go back and find the descriptions!
I shall Endeavour to remember, sir. Yes, if you like Kerbal but wish it had less buildy buildy and more shooty shooty (though it has buildy buildy), you’ll love Children of a Dead Earth.
Trying to change orbits from one planet to another in order to get a firing solution brought me to tears.
You’ll love it.
It’s a catch 22 really. If I went back to text, I’d be updating with new content maybe once every two weeks, but I’d much rather prefer text. I’d also rather a more regularly updated blog. But I also have a busy schedule. So yeah, it’s not perfect, but it works for now. :/ Mostly.
You have a YouTube Channel? Next you’re going to tell me you have a website…
Me too man. Me too. Hugs?
CraigM
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I… HOW DID I MISS THIS!
Right, baby stuff. BUT STILL!
If I may pimp myself once again, I’ll be writing blog/news entries now, Monday through Friday and they’ll include releases and talk of coverage of games like these, so I invite you all to stop by so you don’t miss stuff. :-) Thank you.
tgb123
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So I took the plunge on After the Empire. So far I’ve done little more than poke around. I still see a huge learning curve, but the tutorials and help screens are so much better that the ones with The Viceroy that I can see myself actually playing this one.
It helps that underneath the blanket of weird, in the end it’s a lot closer to a conventional 4X than the previous title was.
The New America loves space games!
Though I am waiting for GC3:Crusade. I am going to bet on Brad.
Get Brian Rubin some lotion and tissues!
I sent a email to GabeN regarding this. :p
What? OS/2 release TBA? I am disappoint.
That makes me so, so very happy.
I just won the Tutorial for After the Empire. There is so much going on in this game, but I’m not sure what impact it really has yet.
On Easy, this game can simply be played like a microstrategy game. All you really need to do is pick your best opportunity(s) to attack, designate a War Ambition or two, and a Defensive Holdout or two. I’m sure that the more skilled player would be winning the game faster, and would get a higher score accordingly. I’m not sure how long my first game took, but it wasn’t too long in real time, and I am an incredibly slow player.
For those of you out there who are offended by cheating AI, this game doesn’t. All it does is dumb down the AI.
I’m going to read the manual some and start a second game on the next easiest difficulty and see if I can start grokking what is actually going on.
