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The space fighter genre seems to be lost. I did some research a few years ago trying to understand what happened. Not enough market demand was the answer. The s

by throwaway1979 14y ago

The space fighter genre seems to be lost. I did some research a few years ago trying to understand what happened. Not enough market demand was the answer. The same goes for Mech games and flight sims. We live in a cold world some days :(

ArtB 14y ago
There is MechWarrior online in a freemium open beta and another mecha but more FPSy game in development I can't recall right now.
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- gknoy 14y ago
  Hawken. It's fun. :) Low complexity, but seems to reward skill.
SoftwareMaven 14y ago
I'm still wishing I could find a helicopter simulator to equal Janes AH-64 Longbow. A friend and I spend many, many hours after work playing that game. "Sorry, sweetie, I have to work late again..." I still have controllers in my basement, just hoping to get pulled out.
- damncabbage 14y ago
  I pulled my old joystick out I'd kept for the last ten years, only to realise my PC doesn't have a serial port. Warning! (I've no idea how long I haven't had a serial port. Which makes it worse.)
saraid216 14y ago
Low market genres like that could be addressed by open source, perhaps? Or a Kickstarter?
- ijk 14y ago
  Technically, they already have, since the Freespace 2 code was open-sourced.[1] And there have been multiple space-flight Kickstarter projects, such as Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and Limit Theory. [1] http://scp.indiegames.us/ http://scp.indiegames.us/
EvanKelly 14y ago
I had the Jedi Starfighter game for the original xbox. It was fun, but completely lacked the enjoyment I got from X-Wing. It could just be nostalgia, but I still get the same enjoyment from firing up X-Wing in DOSBox. The Rogue Squadron games achieved high popularity, but they felt more like spiritual successors to the Rebel Assault games, rather than X-Wing. I want my sprawling space battles with Correllian Corvettes and Frigates and all the different TIE variations, Y-Wings, B-Wings, A-Wings. Aw man, I'm going to reinstall X-Wing when I get home. Just need to find a cheap joystick that works with DOSBox now.
- gknoy 14y ago
  Try TIE Fighter as well, if you can: the game engine is better, and the storyline is excellent. Thanks for the tip about DOSBox. I'd pay money to get that game in a modern package that would run on my system. (Same goes for SFC3 and NFS: High Stakes, mind you - both old games that I can't even get to run properly. Perhaps DOSBox is the answer?)
  - EvanKelly 14y ago
    It's a little hard to get running sometimes, but there are plenty of guides online. On an older PC I was able to successfully get peripherals working. Right now I think DOSBox is the best way to play the older games. I would fork over a good amount of money for an easy to use platform for playing older PC games and a marketplace that sold them. Good Old Games www.gog.com has a nice selection, but it doesn't completely scratch the itch.

ArtB 14y ago

There is MechWarrior online in a freemium open beta and another mecha but more FPSy game in development I can't recall right now.

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gknoy 14y ago
Hawken. It's fun. :) Low complexity, but seems to reward skill.

SoftwareMaven 14y ago

I'm still wishing I could find a helicopter simulator to equal Janes AH-64 Longbow. A friend and I spend many, many hours after work playing that game. "Sorry, sweetie, I have to work late again..." I still have controllers in my basement, just hoping to get pulled out.

damncabbage 14y ago
I pulled my old joystick out I'd kept for the last ten years, only to realise my PC doesn't have a serial port. Warning! (I've no idea how long I haven't had a serial port. Which makes it worse.)

saraid216 14y ago

Low market genres like that could be addressed by open source, perhaps? Or a Kickstarter?

ijk 14y ago
Technically, they already have, since the Freespace 2 code was open-sourced.[1] And there have been multiple space-flight Kickstarter projects, such as Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and Limit Theory. [1] http://scp.indiegames.us/ http://scp.indiegames.us/

EvanKelly 14y ago

I had the Jedi Starfighter game for the original xbox. It was fun, but completely lacked the enjoyment I got from X-Wing. It could just be nostalgia, but I still get the same enjoyment from firing up X-Wing in DOSBox. The Rogue Squadron games achieved high popularity, but they felt more like spiritual successors to the Rebel Assault games, rather than X-Wing. I want my sprawling space battles with Correllian Corvettes and Frigates and all the different TIE variations, Y-Wings, B-Wings, A-Wings. Aw man, I'm going to reinstall X-Wing when I get home. Just need to find a cheap joystick that works with DOSBox now.

gknoy 14y ago
Try TIE Fighter as well, if you can: the game engine is better, and the storyline is excellent. Thanks for the tip about DOSBox. I'd pay money to get that game in a modern package that would run on my system. (Same goes for SFC3 and NFS: High Stakes, mind you - both old games that I can't even get to run properly. Perhaps DOSBox is the answer?)
- EvanKelly 14y ago
  It's a little hard to get running sometimes, but there are plenty of guides online. On an older PC I was able to successfully get peripherals working. Right now I think DOSBox is the best way to play the older games. I would fork over a good amount of money for an easy to use platform for playing older PC games and a marketplace that sold them. Good Old Games www.gog.com has a nice selection, but it doesn't completely scratch the itch.