Firaxis Reveals New Interstellar Strategy Game, Sid Meier's Starships

Hells yeah!

is a nice change of pace, however personally i feel something different from turn based strategic games from sid would be even better. personally i adored civilization, can get a little long in the tooth however after days and days of game-play on the same level. Still a legend of gaming and im enjoying earth.

Some are fearing the whole iPad thing. But you have to remember that Firaxis was able to port XCOM:EU to iPad as well.

Sid Meier needs to slow down. He is releasing too many similar games way too often.

From the screenshots it looks amazingly lame, especially for a TBS in 2015. And i just can't not to notice an increase in SciFi theme games after the StarCitizen success in crowd funding. Are they trying to milk the same cow? :D

Well I have to say I'm excited, but a little sceptical if the screenshots are indicative of the final release. I noticed there are no stars, just planets. This, and the fact that it's for IPad too, make me think it will be a very limited 4X. A new genre perhaps; 4X-lite.

Very torn. I like the concept, but kind of feel like it's a slap in the face for BE players. The amount of updates released for BE is laughable. Honestly I think there only has been one major patch of note. They need to polish BE before trying to push more stuff out the door. The whole cross connectivity thing is interesting and potentially cool, but the fact that it is being released like 6 months after BE is a little disconcerting. It sounds like it should be an expansion pack for BE instead of a standalone game. I guess I have to wait to see gameplay.

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lol, this now because people were bummed that Beyond Earth had no space stuff.

People will be bummed again when this is just the same thing as Beyond Earth, but in space instead and your colonizing and fighting over planets instead of landmasses.

From what I read from reviews off steam, civ beyond earth is a massive let down on an epic scale. Maybe focus on expanding on games you have already got done and can work with more, rather than make complete spinoffs....... ugh. Would be nice to have a futuristic civ game thats not entirely like galciv with just ships and planets and 2d map overviews of each world.

Sir, we heard some cry for help coming from outer space and we think we should divert all the world's researchers from their Universities, usurp all the best engineers from around the world, cut healtcare and social programs in order to develop and then send a war fleet accross the Universe, in about 50 years from now, to save some unknown civilization. - All right, blame it on Al Quaeda thought

"Guys, we need to compete with GalCiv III"

And thus, this game was born. I swear to god if it says "Tap to do _____" like Godus does, I will shoot someone, Its click....CLICK to do _______.

So is this going to be like Sid Meier's FTL or Sid Meier's Space Pirates?

Could be awesome.....Focus on the PC version though. IPad really isn't for gamers....

Sounds like Master of Orion, so I am super excited about this! Expanding federation means taking control of planets in some way? Turn based combat with customized ships. Explore and research. Everything they are stating is check check check on the Master of Orion list!

if it's out on the ipad than it's guaranteed to be a shiet phone game...

Wow, we use to have a shortage of this genre. Then FTL happened, Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and now this. Gaming has never been as good as it is today.

I bet it's not for PC, Mac, and iPad. I bet it's for iPad with quick-n-dirty ports to Mac & PC because it's easy to do.

I have great respect for firaxis. But judging from the screenshots, this is a 100% copy of Galactic Civilizations. But, then again, those games are super good. However, Ipad? No, firaxis, no.

Sales of the game would increase if he took his name out of the title.

why he always have to have his name in the title?

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