X Rebirth Looks Like One Hell of a Space Game

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If you want capital ship combat I recommend the I-War series, the first two games focus exclusively on space dreadnaughts, while the last game (I-War 2, released in 2001) starts you off with interceptors but lets you fly capital ships later on. They are all available on GOG.

There's of course also Star Trek Bridge Commander and the infamous Battlecruiser 3000AD.

Give me that soundtrack now!

The X series is absolutely for crazy people.

@kingschiebi: I totally felt compelled to make a couple of spreadsheets to play X3: Reunion. Only game I've ever done that with.

I spy a radial menu, hope this comes to PS4.

Yeeeep, gonna get this. Gonna get back into X3TC or Albion Prelude to prepare for this.

@beaudacious: The issue would be the amount of time it takes to play the game and the amount of your life it takes away from you and yes somewhat the sandbox nature where what you do is entirely up to you and there really is no story except what you make yourself. If I am going to play a game I want story that I can follow and get sucked into!

Damn, I want this more than anything.

Good lord the art direction reminds me of Battlestar Galactica.

I might lose my entire life to this game.

Oculus Rift support on this.. I've always thought that space sims would benefit hugely from Track IR and stuff like that, but the implementation has always been just horrible, and often the space crafts themselves are clearly designed to look cool, not to offer any situational awareness in the cockpit. Glass dome-style fighter plane pits would feel amazing in space. So much..space..

Nothing in this trailer indicates a less complicated EVE, and it will be nothing like that.

I love the idea of being able to walk around inside the ship and talk to people and then just go seamlessly to the cockpit, but... only one ship? What the fuck

if anyone thinks x isn't as crazy and numbersy as eve they haven't touched x

I believe it used to be (at least in the more recent X games), but it appears you can only control one ship in X Rebirth. With that said, you can upgrade your ship.

I bought all of them in search for that "tutorial". Surely one of these games actually held your hand a bit right? Nope. When I realized how long it would take me just to understand how to properly use my ship I was done. It's too bad because all of those games look awesome. I haven't found a proper replacement for Freespace 2 since, well, Freespace open source project.

They had me at sexy anthropomorphic skunk nose art.

I'm a huge sucker for being able to walk inside of your own space ship and possibly in weird space stations/cities to some extent. I also love a good space drinking establishment.

This looks bananas!! I was never able to get in to the earlier games but managed to git grips on EvE. This looks like it can be freaking awesome if its just has a bit smoother learning curve.

I truly hope they make controls better, more streamlined; all of the X-games I tried feels clunky and nearly EVE-Online in complexity. Now if this is more streamlined and easier to get into and understand then maybe...

1:53 in, is that the Battlestar Galactica?!

They're in space. How does a column of burning fire at 00:54 exist in space?

Also, is the X series big on you controlling capital ships (ie dreadnaughts, carriers, cruisers) and NOT on little itty bitty fighters/interceptors (ie every single space sim game except EVE)?

If they're making this game a more accessible version of X I'm so in. Mad Freelancer vibes.

Well, I'm all in.

*Puts on space trucker hat*

I will buy the shit out of this game. I have X3 Reunion but I don't know what the hell I'm doing in that one. I'll totally do the same thing for this game!

I thought this was that X game that got announced for the Wii U for about half the trailer.

It's still definitely FOR crazy people, they're just trying to expand the audience.

Looks pretty damn good! I would be willing to give this a looksee

That looks fucking awesome. I hope idiots like me can play it without dedicating a lot of time.

@jarowdowsky said:

Egosoft has said that you will constantly be upgrading your ship. The ship you fly in the end will be drastically different from the one you have in the beginning. Here is an interview about the game if anyone is interested. http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=327997

This is looking pretty incredible. X3 was quite difficult to get into but was rewarding. The controls look much more approachable this time.

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@korolev: Pretty sure it's a developer doing the narration, probably the same guy from the Scale and Detail trailer. Its a small developer, I'm guessing they preferred it that way.

Egosoft has a solid history of doing these sorts of games.

What makes you say that? Sure past X games have needed a lot of mod support to reach its potential, but they are still pretty solid if not time-consuming to learn.

Something i can play til Star Citizen comes out.

Looks great, but it sounds like they hired a 20 year old guy off the street to do the narration for this trailer. It's not terrible, but it sounds a bit unprofessional.

I wouldn't say "non-crazy people." I would say it's very Eve-esque for non-sadistic people, however.

Can't help but think I'd spend this entire game seeing other cool ships and wishing I could fly them as well. Best thing about Elite for me was slowly improving the ship you were flying. Does look amazing though (the scale video is well worth watching) but it's a bit of a downer for me to be stuck in the same ship for a game...

Looks stunning, cant argue with that.

This sounds like snake oil.

I played so many hundreds of hours of the past x games. I'm hoping they have improved the rough edges of the last games

Yes, but if a ship is filled with oxygen and fuel that catches fire and explodes from within, isn't all of that going to burn off even if it becomes exposed to vacuum? It made be very quick, but it would still burn like a flash.

Something I feel I can say is that it looks like the design team did a great job illustrating depth of view in this game. I have almost never truly gotten a sense that I was somewhere really high because games never portrayed that too well, but at 1:02 I got that feeling. I bet this game would be amazing with O.Rift.

Still waiting for the game that lets me do all these things and get up from the cockpit and walk around my ship mid-battle or anytime I want. What could be more fun than piloting a giant cruiser into a battle, locking the command console, then running to an escape pod and ditching your whole real-person crew while they get slaughtered? Nothing.