The Best Space Trading Game On The Earth Right Now

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by RetroRomper » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:35 am

Would Pinback be so kind as to give us an updated list of the top trading games in.... SPAAAAACE... that have been released since 2007?

Re: The Best Space Trading Game On The Earth Right Now

by pinback » Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:47 pm

RealNC wrote:
pinbacker wrote: GAME: X3: Reunion
REVIEW: This actually might be the BSTGOTERN, but there's no way to tell because the interface is so goddamn horrible and the game is so goddamn confusing.
[...] there's no way anyone could ever figure out what is going on unless they were paid by the second to sit in a dark room and decipher this thing over a period of years.
I have X3: Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude, and it's not *that* bad. Yeah, it's a complicated game, but still manageable.
Yeah, well, that's because they paid people by the second to sit in a dark room and decipher Reunion, so that Prelude wouldn't be such a goddamn embarrassment.

I guess it wasn't? I couldn't give a fuck, as given those experiences, and now the Rebirth abortion (hehehe), I'll never touch the franchise again.

Re: The Best Space Trading Game On The Earth Right Now

by RealNC » Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:35 pm

pinbacker wrote: GAME: X3: Reunion
REVIEW: This actually might be the BSTGOTERN, but there's no way to tell because the interface is so goddamn horrible and the game is so goddamn confusing.
[...] there's no way anyone could ever figure out what is going on unless they were paid by the second to sit in a dark room and decipher this thing over a period of years.
I have X3: Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude, and it's not *that* bad. Yeah, it's a complicated game, but still manageable.

by pinback » Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:24 pm

Sadly (or maybe impressively, or both?) I think Evochron is STILL the best space trading game going.

Braben-willing, this ends soon. Or for 200 pounds.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Dec 27, 2013 5:12 pm

Well, Evochron Mercenary was on Steam, at 40% off, so I bought it.

I have the first of the six training episodes down. I am going to do these one at a time and make an investment in learning how to play this game. Because it really is worth it if I take 40 minutes out of my life and LEARN how to play.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:38 pm

pinbacker wrote:I want you to do that anyway, because I want your TAKE on what I consider to be the BSTGOTERN.
Tell me how Renegades is you goddamn son of a bitch

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:21 pm

When I get FoD back into Feelies.org, I will treat myself by buying a copy of Evochron: Renegades. How does that sound, Pinner? It gives me something to shoot for.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:34 pm

pinbacker wrote:I want you to do that anyway, because I want your TAKE on what I consider to be the BSTGOTERN.
All right. It's coming out of my Asteroids fund, if that's OK. But really, that's a pretty realistic price for a space game.

I wonder if indie authors trade their games amongst themselves. Like if one says in the future, "Hey, I'll trade you a copy of your Crypto game for my copy of Trading Space in Shit 3: The Exonerating." I'd be all for that. They do it in the Vectrex community.

by pinbacker » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:29 pm

I want you to do that anyway, because I want your TAKE on what I consider to be the BSTGOTERN.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:25 pm

So does that mean you want me to try it out for you and tell you if it is any good?

by pinbacker » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:33 am

I dunno. I bought it, downloaded it, fired it up, said "hey cool", and shut it down.

I dunno. Just ain't all that into the video games right now.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:51 am

pinbacker wrote:You'd have to be some kind of juvenile scum-slurping communist suckbag dicknob to take off work early just to go home and play a goddamn video game.
So how is it? Come on, man! It's Renegades! Have you encountered any? Surely some of you gamer types have seen them!

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:47 pm

I think that was the original subtitle for the game. Evochron: Scum-Slurping Communist Suckbag Dicknob. But then the guy went with Renegades, because his Paypal confirmation headers were too long and who needs that.

by pinbacker » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:38 pm

You'd have to be some kind of juvenile scum-slurping communist suckbag dicknob to take off work early just to go home and play a goddamn video game.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:31 pm

Well, you can probably cut out a little early today to come home and play it, right? How often does a new game you're really into get released?

Why not slip out the door... quietly head home... and enjoy the new ware?

by pinbacker » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:08 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Whoa! That was quick! I thought it was still in development?
Dude is fast. Course, it had been in development for quite a while. But when he entered the testing phase, apparently there were no bugs! So, BAM!
How is it buddy?
Dunno, I just saw that it was released today. I'm still at work, and as such have not had a chance to check 'er out.
I want to know if I should get it!
YES!

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:54 pm

Whoa! That was quick! I thought it was still in development?

How is it buddy? I want to know if I should get it!

by pinbacker » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:42 pm

EVOCHRON RENEGADES HAS BEEN RELEASED!!!!!!

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:16 pm

Yes, that is exactly like what I was hoping to have. Awesome. I'm going to buy it when it is ready.

Any update on selling pirates into white slavery? Because if it's not in space trading games I don't know where else I am going to get my "fix".

by pinbacker » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:43 pm

Also, I just got an email from the author who clued me into this upcoming sequel to EA, and if you read the FAQ, it would appear to be the greatest game in history.

Of special note for Jonsey here is this line:
The main goal of the game's design is to provide the only freeform space-sim that lets you buy, trade, negotiate, bribe, spy, race, transport, mine, explore, recruit, design your ship, and protect in an open, seamless universe (without loading screens or sudden environment flipping) also without system 'walls' or required jump/warp gates.
Boom. There you go.

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