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Post by xaffax on Apr 9, 2011 23:47:10 GMT -5
After more than a decade of the same craters you start looking for other games that offer a new experience. Still... I haven't found anything like Hardwar. It was at the frontier of the development of what we now know as the "sand box" games. But it is different from Oblivion, Elite, Fallout GTA, the X games and the likes. Because it's the only sandbox game that actually has fully independent and self serving AI that are almost as much a player as you are yourself. They are not very smart but they have their own live with their own purpose (till you or another AI kills them). and that makes it a real single player alternative reality and I don't know any game that can match that.
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NightHawk
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You painted my Moth what color??!!
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Post by NightHawk on Apr 10, 2011 8:49:46 GMT -5
As one who plays Oblivion, (and anxiously awaiting Elder Scrolls V) I have to agree. While the game engine for Oblivion is outstanding and the graphics amazing, still no other game plays like Hardwar. Each AI is developed for an individual life, and they go about their business regardless of your activity.
Consider this, you step away from the computer for a couple of hours, you come back to find the Jade Falcon has been busy, but if you step away from your XBox 360 for a day, and all the AI will be almost right where you left them.
Imagine a game with Oblivions graphics but Hardwar's game engine and you could possibly have the greatest game this side of Madden.
Just my $.02 worth
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Post by Pilot on Apr 10, 2011 9:43:44 GMT -5
So true, What other game do you have to worry about a TRULY ever changing environment?
What a minute your suppose to be in Riverside! Why are you in Alpha!?
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Post by rotary on Apr 10, 2011 11:26:27 GMT -5
Although I agree that HardWar special, I like oblivion a lot also, however when heavily modded with realism-mods. Played the X-serie quite a bit also, also modded. Most recent games only offer fancy graphics, although I must say that Red Faction: Guerrilia and Just Cause 2 are also very nice setups.
Talking about better graphics for HardWar, i'm currently busy creating a sequel/modded version from scratch. Very nice to create an IA runned economy. I'm trying to make it run on individuals which run moths, walk (shot down), run factions, all depending on their skills. So to kill a person you really have to kill the jettisoned (and running) pilot, else he just lost his moth, will work in the mines for money, buy a moth and come back after a while to start over (and for revanche).
It's also nice when you can do ordinary things in game, like cut a tree for wood and craft all stuff. That's what I like about (modded) Oblivion.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Apr 11, 2011 6:27:08 GMT -5
I seem to find something new every time I play the game. Little things, big things. Just something new.
I've never played another game like it. It certainly pioneered the idea of open gameplay. *All* of the big games of the day had missions.
It seems with the advent of the game boxes, that Doom-style games have become the standard. The game play on these is pretty open ended in each level, but you simply don't have the effect on the game that you do in Hardwar. Hardwar is much more complex in its environment.
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