So I played a bit of Rebel Galaxy last night. I was actually not that into the control scheme and it felt a bit flat in the plot from the get go. I guess I also should have done more research about if you can change the views, because I couldn't figure out how to change it from the closely following cam at that odd isometric angle. 

In any case, I took a break from it to play another game I hadn't tried before, a rougelike called RymdResa. 

I really liked it. It has vaguely star control like controls except there don't seem to be any real weapons or combat and a lot of it is just focused on drifting exploration. I don't think it really makes 'sense' as much as other games, and is focused more on mood than plot, but I found myself getting into it. Like part astroids part 'flow', if you guys remember that PS3 game. 

I haven't picked up FO4 for the reasons you've mentioned, I keep hearing them.Your other post makes me want to give New Vegas another shot. I think I was burnt out on fallout from the game before it, I remember beating the main plotline fairly quickly (an odd thing for me to do in open world games) and then putting New Vegas down. I was like "eh, more fallout? I just put a couple hundred hours into fallout. I'm sick of gray and green."

It looks like I've only got 32 hours played on steam? Maybe I should give it another shot? Are there any good modpacks to boost the graphics quality, add even more content?

There's about a million good mods for New Vegas. And being made by the same folks who made the ORIGINAL Fallout 1 and 2, they stayed so true to the originals in many ways. 

In fact: I've never met ANYONE who handled the Mr. House situation in the way I found. It's not the way the game leads you to complete that quest line and it goes completely against what you're "supposed" to do, and was completely beautiful. Fallout at its finest!! If you find it, it's a very cool way to complete that quest! And the fact a while sequence exists that most people never find is pretty insane these days in and of itself. 

Either way, Rebel Galaxy was cool because you only flew on one single plane, not true 3d and that was reminiscent at least, of Star Control II. But it certainly didn't have the depth and intrigue of our beloved. 

I want to know what you did! PM me? (or is there a spoiler tag here?)

I'm totally reinstalling it right now and researching mods.

I see the single plane stuff in RG, but I'm just not feeling the viewing angle and I'm having trouble getting over it. My issue, I'm sure. 

I posted my play experience of Mad Max in another thread. For an action open world game, it was nifty. It gave me the chance to try out my new XBox Elite Controller on my PC.

The next games I'll be playing are story driven. Tales from the Borderlands, Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Stanley Parable, A Bird's Story, Life is Strange. I'll also complete Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition once they rerelease the mod tools.

I've broken out my DosBox and started playing some classics like Command Adventures: Starship, Wing Commander 2, Scorched Earth and Dungeon Hack. love the classics.

If you talk about classics you also need to add Commander Keen and Rick Dangerous as well as Lost Vikings 2 and Lemmings and.....

and star control

Traffic Department 2192 and Starsiege are probably the two classics that stick out the most for me as great sci-fi games to replay (although neither is space based; TD2192 is a planet based top-down shooter in ships and Starsiege is mechs on Mars) besides the ones that have already been mentioned.

I just spent about an hour looking for the game I played probably 6 years ago, that was the game MOST like Star Control II. I remember almost nothing specific about it, except that it was kind of like SPaZ, mixed with Star Control II and was very fun, but ultimately shallow. I remember there was a girl in it, like as one of your advisors... and maybe a science advisor that helped you develop new technologies and... I remember hating the art-style of the people you have conversations with, but liking the art-style of the ship combat.

It was top-down too, like Star Control and Space Pirates and Zombies, also. And you'd jump to different systems... GAHHH! It's killing me!!!

Anyone who helps a brotha out and tells me the name of the game in my very very vague description gets a +karma!!!!!!!!!!

PS- If you haven't tried it, definitely play SPaZ!!!

Halloween Harry, Star Goose, TFX, Dune 2, Stellar 7 are perfect games to play!!!

Sounds like Reunion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion_%28video_game%29

OMG! What an excellent choice! I almost forgot about that one.

Ahhh... Reunion... should be pretty much abandonware now.... you can probably download for free....

Just make sure you have dosbox or something... this is only another great game that could do with a makeover!

I just remembered that there is this magical little game that truly is worth playing if you haven't already. There is no game quite like it.

You just have to play LOOM!

Loom is a good one.

Primordia is a pretty good game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/227000/

Another good but very old space ship game is Renegade Legion Interceptor.

That was a computerized version of the base pen-and-paper wargame. It was also my first game that I theorycrafted the best ship armament for optimal destruction. (IIRC, it was the laser weapons.) Also, I found that if I took two ships with two turrets each, I could overlap them on a single hex and have a 360° firing arc. My duo of custom ships could take out anything that the AI threw at me.

It's too bad that the game didn't have many scenarios.

It was a great game.  I particularly liked how the ships had momentum even though it was a turn based game, that made it much more interesting than pretty much all other similar games.

ok so i took all these suggestions but then my partner got a PS4 and told me I had to beat Dark Souls 2 if I want to play Bloodborne so I'm just working my ass off now. 

Funny you should mention that game. I dug that yesterday and have been playing it on Launchbox. I am also playing Renegade: Battle for Jacobs Star I love the music for it. Even if it's a bit repetitive. "I'm ready to slice and dice!!" and the dialog rocks "You mess this up scuzz and I'll have you doing a EVA without a tether! Now get a move on!" It's too bad Mother doesn't last long. <sigh> 

OHMIGOD!!!! I FINALLY FOUND IT!!! I finally found the game that's even more like Star Control II than SPaZ, more than Rebel Galaxy. More than actually, pretty much any game I've ever played since!!!!

STARSCAPE!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/20700/

Finally. Jeez. I've been searching for 2 weeks now, and finally found it on Steam. I just decided to go through every "STAR" game until I found the one I was talking about. It's a great, often-overlooked gem! Watch the trailer, you guys will love it. It even has similar spaceship outfitting and physics-based ship movement. Not nearly as deep or story-driven as SCII, but still could give you some good hours of play.

I mean... don't get your hopes up too high. It's no Star Control. But it IS a cool game, that's a good amount of short fun.

Anyone else every played it????

Several times, many years ago. I enjoyed it specifically because of how similar it was in spirit to SC2.

I agree with you on a lot of points. I prefer New Vegas over almost every other Fallout title. I want to jump on the "GRRRR, Fallout IV!" bandwagon, but I'm going to give it time. After all, Bethesda games, like Firaxis games, tend to be incomplete without their DLC, so I'll judge Fallout 4 once all of the content has been released. That said, I still have 3 endings to finish from the base game

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I stopped playing F:NV after about 40 hours, 'cause one of the "important" side quests got broken due to some other quest being completed earlier than intended. I didn't have an older save and replaying 40hr of the same grindfest was just too annoying. Enjoying F4 right now. Probably will retry F:NV after it.

Yeah, the first month of NV's release was just a complete ****storm. Wonderful game, highly regarded, just that all of the nails and duct tape holding it together have to be reapplied every other week

oh huh starscape. I hadn't gotten to it yet, the graphics looked janky at a glance. But I think I picked it up in a bundle! I'll give it a shot!