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The Game of My Dreams
Topic Started: Aug 11 2010, 03:10 PM (4,274 Views)
Ànraich
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Behold, Infinity, the game of my dreams. It's an open-ended MMO that features a life-size, procedurally generated galaxy filled with billions of stars and billions of worlds. It's totally unrestricted; you can go anywhere and do anything. Every planet is to scale, and every celestial body you encounter can be completely and totally explored. Not only that, but it's an active universe; the galaxy rotates, planets rotate and orbit their stars, there's even active ecosystems of flora and fauna on Earth-like planets.

It has no classes and no races; your destiny is entirely up to you. You can conquer worlds, build mighty corporate empires, become a space pirate, merchant, explorer, or anything else your heart desires. This is by far the biggest and most ambitious game ever developed, dwarfing the scale that was established by Spore a few years ago. Just look at it in action. Not only that but the world is persistent, meaning that your character will continue to be influenced by things occurring in the game even while you are offline.

It's still a long way from being released, but I hope I'm not the only one here who is practically drooling over this game. How often do you get the chance to explore the galaxy from the comfort of your own home?
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Isn't this like EVE online?

Besides the fact that the ship was so SLOW it's an awesome game (a whole lot better than Spore!).
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Must be a lot of CPUs in this galaxy.
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that game would literally eat my life away :lol:
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this game will replace my boyfriend other games
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I was going to make a slightly snide comment about this being just like Spore, EVE and Star Trek Online combined. Then he entered the rings.

When this comes out, assuming it does and at that time we're all still here, anyone feel like checking this game out together?

And the ship wasn't slow. Space is just vast, I'm sure their is a hyperdrive or warp for interstellar travel.
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Ill happily check it out as long as they include intersting alien ecosystems and not the boring bland planets shown in screenshots...
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What's bland about those landscapes?
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And I bet... that it has the physics of an space shooter arcade game... <_<
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Aug 11 2010, 05:28 PM
And I bet... that it has the physics of an space shooter arcade game... <_<
It has Newtonian physics. So it has the physics of real life.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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But it looks good.


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This isn't the game ofyour dreams, this is. http://www.retromundi.com/games/skills-games/robot-unicorn-attack.html
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It has Newtonian physics. So it has the physics of real life.


So does X-wing, it just has the newtonian physics of a fighter plane...

I doubt things like orbital dynamics are modelled, or Dv budgets, or transit times...
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Aug 11 2010, 04:43 PM
What's bland about those landscapes?
The trees are the same on every planet!
I would get very quickly bored of looking at generic planets all moderately covered in procedurally generated pine trees

No my friends Spore 2 should be good
But!!!!
Mass Effect 3 will blow your mind ^_^
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