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Date:
10/30/2014 8:28:17 AM
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RE: Blood 2 steam sale...
I believe 3 Derek Smarts in front of a mirror is enough, that many repetitions is just asking for some kind of quadruple Derek Smart threat to show up.
All of the Larry Holland/Totally Games Star Wars sims of that era were notorious for having at least one impossibly annoying escort mission in them, X-Wing was the biggest offender but they improved with subsequent releases and switched escort missions to be bonus objectives rather than primaries, they also added an option to eat your pride and just skip the mission if you failed it enough.
I ended up piling the CattleBruiser series as 4X games rather than space sims, mostly because in my 2~3 hours with BCM I never ended up fighting anything, just responded to a bunch of nonsensical radio calls and jumping around before the game crashed and I gave up. Think of them as the Silent Service games, except in space and with space ships instead of submarines, you're not hands-on controlling the thing yourself, rather directing its actions.
Elite Dangerous is looking to be a good option for people who liked Freelancer, you can even play it WASD+mouse just fine and most of the game's functions are integrated into the ship's interface in the form of HUD menus that you can directly interact with so you don't have to remember 50 million hotkeys.
