Sujet : Re: CRAP Poll # (Infinity - 6): Bring It Back!
De : rridge (at) *nospam* csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 18. Jun 2025, 16:37:43
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Anssi Saari <
anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
Something a little more obscure: Microprose's Lightspeed. The idea was
simple, prep an area of space for refugees from earth, make alliances
and murder off whoever you don't like. But in practice the game was
pretty simple and silly. But done right it might be something a little
more approachable than a full 4X game.
I remember playing it's sequel, Hyperspeed, back in the day. Even at the
time I thought it was a bit shallow. I also think it's quite a stretch
to call it a 4X game. It was an open-world space-sim, like Elite,
but with more of a story and structure.
I'm not sure what you liked about Lightspeed but you can find a
fair bit of that game in X: Beyond the Frontier and it's sequels.
Make friends/enemies while expanding your (business) empire. The X
series doesn't have the "silliness" of Lightspeed/Hyperspeed, but I
think that's a good thing as it was rather juvenile at times.
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