X Series

[Revan]

Did anyone every play any of the games in the X series besides me? The first one came out in 1999, which was way before my time, but I got the X superbox a while ago, and have been recently getting back into the series.

 

 

I have not touched rebirth with a ten foot pole.

 

I really enjoyed X2: the Threat, and X3: Terran Conflict, and X3 Albion Prelude. I even ended up struggling through X: Beyond the Frontier!

[Aginor]

I played all of them, except Albion Prelude. Great games. I just wish they had kept their ships styles from X2. Those in X3 don't look as good IMO.

 

I remember drawing my own universe map on paper for X:BTF. Good times.

 

I even played X:Rebirth, and even though I was vastly disappointed I enjoyed parts of it. So maybe if they patch it some more I may play through it. Not an X like I wanted it though. But it has some nice features that are actually fun.

 

I can also recommend reading the books by Helge Kautz. Those are - for the most part - nice to read, and fit well into the universe.

[Revan]

I do know that there was a mod for x3: Terran Conflict, and X3: Albion Prelude, that added more ships, reintroduced the cockpits for the ships, and tweaked the designs to be similar to those of X2. However I found the ships to be fine in X3.

[Aginor]

Yeah, they were ok, just not as iconic as the X2 ones.

Concerning the technology and gameplay X3 was the peak of the series, even though the menu structures were a pure nightmare for anybody who wasn't a veteran of X:BTF and X:2. The menus had just grown out of every reasonable size. A complex game has complex menus, but it stopped being maintainable.

So the reboot wasn't exactly a bad idea, it just went horribly wrong in many points.

[tsumikae]

IMHO, the ship designs in X3 were vastly superiors to X2 cheap modular system where they'd glue two meshes from their database, stretch them a bit and voilà, new ship. The Nemesis for instance, was merely a dragon given the lattice deformation trauma.

 

I hated it whan they did that cheap trick again with the so called M3+ designs (merging meshes toghether) and some supposed new designs in later X3 expansions.

 

My fav from the series, and I started from X2 to Xrebirth (what a super massive let down that was) was X3 Terran conflict.

[Revan]

My friend bought me the superbox just after albion prelude was included.

 

I started with X2 and tried Beyond the Frontier (though i was never able to get through the campaign).

 

Eventually, I moved onto the X3 games and loved them. I had thought that X2's menu system was the most complicated. I was very confused as to why all the ship designs changed from X2 to X3, but I got over that. (like a Mk3 Titan going to a MK4. and a Mk1 colossus going to a MK2.)