Elite like X3 trilogy experience

pubzombie · 18 February 2012, 20:19

Hi peeps,
was wanting a more modern Elite experience so did some reading and went and purchased the X3 trilogy on steam.
Think I may have been a bit hastey - all three manuals add up to almost 300 pages of instructions.
Anybody here playing these, or played them? The first was released in 2005 but looks gorgeous.

synchro · 19 February 2012, 00:40

i did play them or at least tried to i found them to be to much hard work for me which made me lose interest..

I found "Evochron Mercenary" to be the closest to elite which has the playability of elite and the GFX of X3.

Pretty much all the features of Elite but no more than you really want if that makes sense...check out the vid below....Oh and one brill thing....you can fly directly to the planet surface like frontier ( Elite II ) but it looks awsome

[ Show youtube player ]

pubzombie · 19 February 2012, 03:38

Evochron Merc looks pretty cool and more accessble than X3. Starpoint Gemini also looks handy.

synchro · 19 February 2012, 03:55

looks really cool but external view based only by the look of it

Adropac2 · 19 February 2012, 04:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by synchro

looks really cool but external view based only by the look of it

Hmm it definitely looks to play from cockpit as well

Anyway i'm surprised i've not heard of this excellent looking game until now. Downloading demo. Hope it doesn't have save states or at least an option to ban them if it does. Save states in these games is very frustrating and i don't consider not using them as an option because it is actually an option available to you as part of the game

synchro · 19 February 2012, 04:50

which game are you refering to.....evochron mercenary or starpoint that Pubzombie mentioned ?
Merc has a cockpit i know....But starpoint looked mouse control like a starfleet command type game

tero · 19 February 2012, 07:10

i'm playing x for years

with savegames more than 200 hours, a lot of fun there.
But x isn't friendly to beginners. I suggest Terran Conflict to start with, this one has ingame some kind of 'wiki'. and it is a bit easier.
Manuals are useless except the controls, nearly nothing explained there.

18 February 2012, 20:19	#1
pubzombie Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: westmids Posts: 900	Elite like X3 trilogy experience Hi peeps, was wanting a more modern Elite experience so did some reading and went and purchased the X3 trilogy on steam. Think I may have been a bit hastey - all three manuals add up to almost 300 pages of instructions. Anybody here playing these, or played them? The first was released in 2005 but looks gorgeous.

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19 February 2012, 00:40	#2
synchro Sending You Back In Time Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Age: 61 Posts: 986	i did play them or at least tried to i found them to be to much hard work for me which made me lose interest.. I found "Evochron Mercenary" to be the closest to elite which has the playability of elite and the GFX of X3. Pretty much all the features of Elite but no more than you really want if that makes sense...check out the vid below....Oh and one brill thing....you can fly directly to the planet surface like frontier ( Elite II ) but it looks awsome [ Show youtube player ]

19 February 2012, 03:38	#3
pubzombie Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: westmids Posts: 900	Evochron Merc looks pretty cool and more accessble than X3. Starpoint Gemini also looks handy.

19 February 2012, 03:55	#4
synchro Sending You Back In Time Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Age: 61 Posts: 986	looks really cool but external view based only by the look of it

19 February 2012, 04:50	#6
synchro Sending You Back In Time Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Age: 61 Posts: 986	which game are you refering to.....evochron mercenary or starpoint that Pubzombie mentioned ? Merc has a cockpit i know....But starpoint looked mouse control like a starfleet command type game

19 February 2012, 07:10	#7
tero Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: M'Gladbach Age: 46 Posts: 621	i'm playing x for years with savegames more than 200 hours, a lot of fun there. But x isn't friendly to beginners. I suggest Terran Conflict to start with, this one has ingame some kind of 'wiki'. and it is a bit easier. Manuals are useless except the controls, nearly nothing explained there.

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