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I introduced my kids to Dune II a couple of months back and they loved it. They now like to pretend to be sand worms rolling around the lounge in their sleeping

by aidos 8y ago

I introduced my kids to Dune II a couple of months back and they loved it. They now like to pretend to be sand worms rolling around the lounge in their sleeping bags. I haven’t really done any gaming in years (other than The Witness). Still reminisce about all the hours spent playing Dune and Syndicate and the like.

viraptor 8y ago
I'd pay a lot for a good reimplementation is syndicate. It was so good in its simplicity and so good in controls. Syndicate wars was both an improvement and a failure at the same time in many ways unfortunately.
- stormking 8y ago
  Have you tried https://store.steampowered.com/app/268870/Satellite_Reign/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/268870/Satellite_Reign/ ?
  - viraptor 8y ago
    Yeah, I tried it for quite a while and found it really disappointing. Maybe I fail at playing it, but it seems to move between syndicate-style global map which is OK and restricted missions which are super slow, super annoying episodes where you get kicked back to the beginning for every stupid mistake. You just can't afford an open fight at the beginning and it's so slow I couldn't progress to real upgrades. It basically turns into a stealth game where any detection means you're swamped by new units and dead. This is much different from syndicate where if you messed up, you just faced a bigger fight. You could die or survive, but it was a fair fight without sudden reinforcements.
    - stormking 8y ago
      To be honest, I bought it but never found the time to actually play it. I loved Syndicate on the Amiga, thought. Some time during the 2000s, I tried Syndicate Wars, but its crude 3D engine was a real turn-off.
  - ekianjo 8y ago
    Yeah and it's not really that good.
- melias 8y ago
  Check out Satellite Reign. I found it a very fun game that considers itself the spiritual successor to Syndicate.
- Coincoin 8y ago
  What I find the most impressive about Syndicate is the action phase was only 16 colors.

by aidos 8y ago

viraptor 8y ago

I'd pay a lot for a good reimplementation is syndicate. It was so good in its simplicity and so good in controls. Syndicate wars was both an improvement and a failure at the same time in many ways unfortunately.

stormking 8y ago
Have you tried https://store.steampowered.com/app/268870/Satellite_Reign/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/268870/Satellite_Reign/ ?
- viraptor 8y ago
  Yeah, I tried it for quite a while and found it really disappointing. Maybe I fail at playing it, but it seems to move between syndicate-style global map which is OK and restricted missions which are super slow, super annoying episodes where you get kicked back to the beginning for every stupid mistake. You just can't afford an open fight at the beginning and it's so slow I couldn't progress to real upgrades. It basically turns into a stealth game where any detection means you're swamped by new units and dead. This is much different from syndicate where if you messed up, you just faced a bigger fight. You could die or survive, but it was a fair fight without sudden reinforcements.
  - stormking 8y ago
    To be honest, I bought it but never found the time to actually play it. I loved Syndicate on the Amiga, thought. Some time during the 2000s, I tried Syndicate Wars, but its crude 3D engine was a real turn-off.
- ekianjo 8y ago
  Yeah and it's not really that good.
melias 8y ago
Check out Satellite Reign. I found it a very fun game that considers itself the spiritual successor to Syndicate.
Coincoin 8y ago
What I find the most impressive about Syndicate is the action phase was only 16 colors.