Jolt Country

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?