360 also got Darkstar one, which was originally a PC game. it went to 360 with full HD and it was sort of a space trading sim / shooter, though ultimately a bit shit.
It is a genre I wish consoles had more of.
If you like the look of any of the games he posted, i urge you to give strike suit zero a try. the screenshot i posted is crap (best i could find and possibly from the PC version). The game looks awesome on XB1 / PS4, the level i am upto now features a massive representation of jupiter and its moons, super good looking. check it out below (this is PC gameplay) also note that you can play with cockpit view throughout.
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I'm sure most people here have played Strike Suite Zero. It's been like 4 bucks on Steam on several occasions. If you think that's fun I urge you to try a PC space sim because SSZ is a dumbed down, repetitive version of its non indie PC exclusive counterparts, see elite dangerous.
I dont play on PC, (though i used to around the time of xwing etc) nor am i under the illusion that SSZ is anything other than a shooter set in space. like i said above, i wish there were more space games on consoles.
What? I was simply letting you know that if you like that type of game, there's better games out there for you to enjoy. From my experience, even when SSZ was a PC exclusive, it was never that fun.
Your Caesar suggests you beg harder for a port of Vanquish. A hardcore game, set in space, that destroys any pc space game in terms of difficulty.
Pc gaming is pretty casual, so highly unlikely most pc citizens would dare attempt it.
Carry on, casual citizen.
Vanquish is an extremely easy shooter that takes place in space. Nothing to do with the topic. Honestly, Halo is far superior to any game on Playstation if you want to talk space shooters.
And come on now man. We all know the target demographic of MS and Sony is the casual gamer who wants nothing but COD and FIFA
It's kind of a re-emerging genre, as evidenced by TC including games that are as much as two years away in his picture-list. You'd be a fool to think we won't see the genre on all popular platforms if it proves to be popular.
He's clearly talking about full space combat/commerce sims like Privateer and Elite.
Space ships sims need alot of buttons to control all the functions. If they don't need alot of buttons and have a simplified interface, they are casual space shooters and hence junk. Hence, the very act of making a space sim playable on consoles turns the game into junk.
I don't necessarily agree with this reasoning, Darkstar One was pretty fun (though I played it on pc) but I can't think of any other games in that vein on consoles. Was there ever a Privateer or Elite (SNES version doesn't count) on consoles?
I would freaking kill for an open ended single player space sim like that. None of that Eve time wasting crap, just me taking on a gigantic galaxy as a miner, pirate hunter, pirate, soldier, or whatever. Tie it in to a Dark Souls type multiplayer and it would be freaking amazing.
it does not involve spaceship battles, I would like to mention Dead Space 3, I loved the space scenes in that game, I had great fun fun maneuvering in space with my suit, felt like a true simulation, and I had not seen anything like that in any other game, except maybe Dead Space2
It has nothing to do with power or how "hardcore" people are. Blind fanboyism leads you to make ridiculously ignorant claims like that.
Anyways space flight/sim games in general are pretty damn niche. Sure Star Citizen has 43 million in funding but less than 500k backers which puts the average spent on the game at about $86. This shows that those people are passionate about a game but there aren't necessarily a whole lot of them.
Generally if a dev is going to make a game they need to examine the markets to find where the game is demanded. Space flight/sim games have not really been on consoles ever. Barring some titles like Star Fox or Star Wars Rouge Squadron, which aren't really the same as something like Freelancer, Freespace, or Elite, the vast majority of the market for those games exists on the PC. Why would any dev try to build one of these games on the PC when the small group of people who demand those games already exist on the PC?
RTS and Space Sims are not very console friendly genres . Some random space games mentioned above are either mostly poor ports from PC version or just arcady space shooters and not real Space Sims .
@FreedomFreeLife :
You should change the title from "Space Games" to "Space Sims" , since lot of people are not getting it and writing about games that are not related to genre about which you are talking about .
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