A new Space Game-Star Quest-2

[Rahix]

If you are looking for space games, I saw a cool video on kickstarter that has a RTS mode:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760753044/star-quest-2-united-galaxies-space-sim-rts-racing/

[Vagrant0]

Hate to be blunt, but I don't see this going anywhere. Developer hasn't released any games since 1999, graphics and concepts are nothing special, and most of it is based around 90's era technology. The only thing modern that was shown in the video are the graphical effects of transitions... Which looks like someone payed too much money to someone with Windows Movie Maker to try and make an uninteresting game look interesting with flashy effects and tense music. There's a saying about those projects that havn't been worked on in over a decade "...bury them and don't look back". If this was anything special, it would have been tinkered with and developed slowly over that time as some sort of hobby... Don't care how busy you might be, when it comes to those projects that really get under your skin, you make time.

 

Looks like too much of an afterthought.

 

 

It does however seem to be legitimate.

https://twitter.com/SQ2UG

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-lauzon/8/3a6/ab9

http://www.virtuadv.com/

[Vindekarr]

You see this a lot in the automobile industry. Someone has a "brilliant"(idiotic) idea that's going to make a million. They're so sure of the new idea that they take out a massive loan and start producing the new "innovation"(bathtub-on-wheels) right away. Fast forward two years and the company shuts down because nobody bought the car, the bank repossessed everything, and the bright spark and the idea both are now living in the gutter. About twenty years later some other gullible buffoon comes along and buys the blueprints for the car, makes a new factory, and sells under the idea that it's "unique" and "retro" The second coming does even worse, though often lasts longer given the modern investor has more money. The company inevitably folds again, usually ending with the investor's bankruptcy. The moral of the story is, a bad idea is a bad idea. It doesn't matter if you bring it back decades later, it's still a bad idea and it'll still fail miserably. I predict this project going bust a second time.

 

I mean, as someone who works in the sports car industry I see this usually on a monthly basis. Someone finds a "gem" of an old car brand that went out of business decades ago because banks are totally evil and absolutely not because they made bad cars. They then pump the company's carcass full of money and start selling cars that are decades out of date at huge mark-ups claiming they're "retro nostalgia"(unreliable, unsafe, leaky) This usually goes on for a period of about five years, creating a sort of "zombie" corporation that staggers mindlessly along, devoid of the ideals or inspirational people who made it work the first time, until eventually the investor runs out of money and the bank delivers a merciful bullet to the head. In the last five years alone it's been tried about a dozen times, with only one success. And that success came at the cost of over a a hundred million dollars and required the intervention of the world's largest car company.

 

EDIT: seems like the only successful product Virtual Adventures has made recently is a creepy dating website. Unless this game's going to have simulated dating, I can't see this being a very experienced development team.

Edited November 17, 2013 by Vindekarr

[Rahix]

 

 

EDIT: seems like the only successful product Virtual Adventures has made recently is a creepy dating website. Unless this game's going to have simulated dating, I can't see this being a very experienced development team.

 

Don`t worry!!! It will land it`s mark.