Game Recommendations - What should I play next?
I didn't see one like this so I figured I'd create one. It's a place we can recommend games to each other.
For starters, I'm looking for a nicely long-term 4X space game to play. Anyone have any ideas? I'm considering Galactic Civilizations 2. I've already played the shit out of MoO 2.
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I've also heard good things about The Sword of the Stars 1.
If you don't mind iPhone/iPad type games Ascendancy was recently re-released for them.
If you want more of a focus on space and trading from a different perspective I'd suggest the X3 series.
SOTS is also cool in that certain empires are limited in tech capabilities, but also everytime you play your starting techs and the techs available are randomized. There is no set "build" for research.
It's old (win95) but has network game play and plays fast.
When you don't want to deal with the complexity of MoO and better games SH! Is a great alternative.
I have fond memories of this game mostly because I was part of a group that made a knock-off of it for a CS final project back in college. We used the Mac version as our reference.