The Best Space Trading Game On The Earth Right Now

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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?

[pinbacker]

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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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!

[pinbacker]

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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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

[pinbacker]

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

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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.

[pinback]

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.

[RealNC]

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.

[pinback]

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.

[RetroRomper]

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?