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Sid Meier's Starships

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March 31st, 2015, 11:35 (This post was last modified: March 31st, 2015, 11:35 by v8mark.)
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TotalBiscuit has just released his WTF is...? of Starships. 'Ouch' is all I have to say.

"It's all so stripped down in every possible way that I can imagine that it leaves me completely disinterested in the subject matter and the game mechanics... what a shame. We have a company that is legendary for making complex, in-depth and interesting PC strategy games, and what do we get? A cop-out mobile port, frankly... something that has very little going for it and just isn't all that interesting."

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March 31st, 2015, 11:41
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At this point I don't trust anything with Sid Meier's name on it.
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April 15th, 2015, 15:31 (This post was last modified: April 16th, 2015, 06:16 by Hail.)
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yeah. Starships is meh.

pay Y of X to get more X next turn. Starships lacks any interesting decisions/trade offs. even the choice between lasers and cannons is rendered pointless by the observation that in practice cannons do like 200% more damage. fighters are OP. did not use torpedoes, though. any replayability is absent in Starships.

the tl;dr version: 2 starhips out of 5 -> avoid this game.

btw, I suggested how to improve Starships here.
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February 28th, 2016, 16:59 (This post was last modified: February 28th, 2016, 17:03 by Hail.)
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Starships made the seventh place in Angry Joe's Top 10 Worst Games of 2015 lol

"a heap of underdeveloped garbage. [...] it's completely hollow, shallow" - Angry Joe
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February 28th, 2016, 17:40
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(March 31st, 2015, 11:41)Lewwyn Wrote: At this point I don't trust anything with Sid Meier's name on it.

Good thing it's not Sid Meier's XCOM, eh? lol
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