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okr on 19 October 2012
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sethnintendo said:
okr said:
NiKKoM said:
okr said:

Did he have like 6 people attending his GDC presentation (all visible at 50:14)?

that's still more people then that are interested here on this site.. :(
Space sims may really be a dead genre... I haven't played one in years before Galaxy on Fire 2 on my iPhone and iPad..

That's because it's posted in the forum section which is as successful as Pluto Nash at the boxoffice.

If Roberts had announced this game not only for PC but also as one of the first announcements for several next gen consoles (ironically I think space action sims would be perfect for console), the gaming communities would probably have imploded.

Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 was the last great space shooting game that I know of.  I used to be a big fan of X-wing, TIE Fighter, and X-wing vs TIE fighter.  That was when Lucas Arts was on the top of their game.  The good old DOS days.  Never really got into Descent or Wing Commander though for some reason.

Wing Commander: Privateer was by far my most favorite space sim. I didn't care about the main story (the usual Chris Roberts trash), I always played as a merchant. I didn't like the regular Wing Commander series with those ridiculous Kilrathi (meow) and those simpleton war plots which made an average Star Trek episode look like it was written by Tolstoi.