X Rebirth Looks Like One Hell of a Space Game

I've played like 5hrs of X3: TC so far and I still don't really know WTF I'm doing. I haven't even started managing separate fleets, trade routes, etc. yet either. Definitely a crazy people series, but definitely going to keep trying to figure this shit out.

I'm going to guess the new game will be a lot more 'accessible' though. Hopefully they're actually successful in keeping the game complex, while being a bit less complicated.

Never heard of X until now. That in mind, clumped together with my healthy skepticism of Deep Silver, I'll try to keep my expectations in check. But if it turns out to be what that trailer "hyped"...

Well, gosh! It'd be incredible!

Anyone else getting a "Prey 2" feel from some of this?

I was absolutely giddy watching this video, and then completely flatlined when I was told you won't be able to change ships. :/ That's part of what made X3: albion so good to me. I don't want to pilot drones, I want to shoot pilots out of their cockpits and then space walk into their ships and proceed to shoot the hell out of the rest of his friends.

The X games are really fun, but after playing for a while I realized that it is definitely a game where you need a notepad to keep track of things, especially in the early game when you don't have automated trading up and running. Still, looking forward to this one.

@atwa: yeah i always got that idea as well...

GOON SPAI. B0RT 4 LYFE.

I zoned out towards the end, but this still looks really cool. Like the look of some of those scenes, particularly that there's colour and not just grey and/or blue.

Music was great too.

Man that game looks pretty impressive. Kept thinking how much more awesome the trailer would have been if George Takai was the narrator, though.

The appeal of EVE is definitely the huge space battles for me (As a goonwaffe jackbooted thug). So no, not really any of EVE. The economics stuff is pretty cool but it's not even remotely on par with EVE either.

Space Bonner!

Lets hope that the copy protection dose not kill my PC this time around unlike X3... I can still hear that stupid disc grinding in the drive.

I have to agree with the rest of the peanut gallery here. I'm not sure what anyone could see here that makes this look more approachable than EVE. Frankly, other than the 1st Person cockpit view, and the title card at the end, this could have even been an EVE trailer.

Don't get me wrong, I dig EVE and I think this looks like it has a ton of potential too. I'm just missing the part of the trailer that makes this seem less crazy in any way.

The X series is the best space franchise going right now, but they've tended to have some rough edges. I hope Rebirth adds the finesse that could take the series to a new plateau.

Love the X series, this just got me back in.

Oh, well, both EVE and X are pretty much remakes of David Braben's Elite/Frontier. None of them go as all out crazy as Elite did.

That still seemed pretty crazy.

fucking sold

X is arguably crazier than EVE, depending on how you deep you go; I've seen this firsthand having played both series substantially in the past

lol if you think the X series is for non-crazy people you are sorely mistaken. Still a pretty awesome series but I haven't really gotten into one since X2 when it was a lot more action based as apposed to this sorta boring space trading sim the more recent games have become.

I want to inject this trailer into my veins. THAT MUSIC

what the trailer voice did I just watch

The one thing the X games completely missed out on that it sorely needs is a fucking TUTORIAL. In every single game it just dumps you out and literally doesn't tell you a single thing about how to equip your ship or get a quest or anything. For what, 5 games in a row now?

This looks incredibly ambitious. I have never played the past games, but this trailer managed to grab me. I will keep an eye on this one.

That was like FOUR Xs!

@sphinx: I don't know about Star Citizen, I'm still waiting for the Zybourne Clock to finish development.

Soo, they have made mining look cool!

I'm ready for this I think!

Unless this is ridiculously different, I would not say that this is for "non-crazy people." If you really think the X series is that much more simple Patrick, you must not have ever tried it.

I don't get why people think the X-Games were for crazy people?

They weren't that crazy at all, I'd say Eve is even on a different scale completely. I guess the difference is between people who want to watch a Naughty Dog movie, or learn a Sandbox Game?

Loved all of the X series games so far, very well made, and basically are Single Player EVE experience. I played EVE for around a year before stopping because of lack of time. X series games fill that itch for me once in a while :) Im clocked at over 300 hours on my current game of Albion Prelude (love that they added Controller support, playing it on my TV is a delight).

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What I remember of x3: Reunion was that is was super pretty (at the time), interesting and In-fucking-penetrable to someone just jumping in. What kills interest in playing high concept, large scope or multi-tiered gameplay games is a piss poor or complete lack of tutorials, so I hope this one has a comprehensive explanation of it's systems, because I really want to explore it but I don't want to only be able to do a Kessel run again and again because it's all I understand.

Well they are. They gutted the entire structure and built back up from the ground up to make it more streamlined. This is pretty much a reboot.

The scale video really made me giddy with excitement. I used to love the scale in FreeSpace 2 space combat with the capitol ships.

I tried to play X3 and found it more difficult to break into that EVE. I guess we'll see if this entry can change that.

People always make Eve out to be way more complicated than it is..

Its actually pretty simple =/

X games are also very much for crazy people.

I've always loved these games, good to see this one's coming along!

Who was the narrator, I can't place the voice and its going to drive me nuts all night?

So, is this basically like Privateer and EVE had a really good looking baby?

Dead sexy! I'm hyped!

Maybe this is EVE Online for non-crazy people?

I wouldn't go as far as to say non-crazy people, @patrickklepek. Let's just say less crazy people, even as I classify myself under this group of people that enjoys 4X-types of games.

@reelife That game is essentially what Star Citizen will be, if not at launch, then within months after launch. Roberts has promised full planetary landings and complete navigation with your character around shops and hubs within a planet.

As far as X: Rebirth is concerned, it'll be a nice bridge until Alpha and Beta of Star Citizen.

Hope this will be good. They are making somewhat radical changes, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Especially when considering the learning curve of the previous games.

No planetary landing? Guess my dream space game is still a way off... (I know about evochron:mercenary) but I need a next gen super crazy space game. like infinity quest for earth... alhtough that game will never come out.

I just watched a trailer for the thing that's going to kill me.

I had a teacher that scripted an entire trade empire that ran itself in X3. I played 51 hours of Terran Conflict, and didn't get that far.

That sounds scary, screw this game.

Cant wait, this looks ridiculously pretty, though that has to be one of the most boring cockpit designs ive ever seen, also the combat doesn't look fun at all.

The X games are rad as shit but they are definitely for crazy people

I haven't been following this too closely but I have a few hundred hours logged across X3/TC/AP so I'm definitely excited. UI has always sucked in those games though, hopefully they scrap it and come up with something less labyrinthine this time.