unimural Posted September 11, 2016 Halcyon 6 is out. Massive Damage, the devs, say the following: A retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling. Which is a passable description. It has X-COM antfarm basebuilding a simple tech tree Final Fantasy VI era JRPGish combat a single scenario with lots of scripted events, storybits and conversations a bit wonky starmap exploration (very) vaguely reminiscent of Starflight and Star Control II pixel graphics The narrative borrows widely from typical sci-fi tropes, the first two+ hours have been good fun. You play as a starbase commander and you send officers on missions with ships. You talk with alien factions and fight a war. It's very combat heavy, and personally the aesthetics feel a bit dispirited to me. The game does have some procedural and random elements, but the main narrative, I believe, is the same every time. All in all, the game has a fair amount of the game I've been dreaming about ever since Star Control II and Babylon 5. Fortunately it seems to work pretty well. I backed this on Kickstarter. There are still some stretch goals missing from the game and I think I will end up waiting until the game is done for good before actually jumping in. It is not in early access, though. These days I just prefer to wait until games with a storyline are done with adding DLC and whatnots before I play them. Has anyone else been playing/following this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Another_Kmurphy Posted September 14, 2016 I saw this at Pax and it looked very interesting. Its definently on my list of games to check out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ratzofftoya Posted September 20, 2016 I kinda bounced off of this. It hard the problem that a few other games sometimes present: a long tutorial introducing a bunch of systems. I complete it, I quit, then I reload my game the next day only to be confronted with a world map and absolutely no idea what I should be doing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dewar Posted September 20, 2016 Looking forward to seeing the GB video of this. The description had me until 3v3 turn based combat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites