>>2370619
I really liked my first playthrough but when I went back for my second, it felt too similar for me to want to keep playing. Seems weird because it feels like it's designed for lots of playthroughs with the meta layer. Either way though, it's a fun little narrative strategy game. i put it in the same category as Suzerain.

it's like a cyoa but gay and retarded

>>2370672
so its a regular cyoa?

>>2370667
>i put it in the same category as Suzerain
Suzerain doesn't make you physically move your operatives around the map and do terribad tedious tactical combat and minigames to unlock the next dialogues

>>2370619
Not too surprising, given the board. While the strategic elements aren't very deep, I found it fun enough as an RPG.

Lures you in thinking its a vst but it turns out to be a fucking vn where you just sit pressing the next turn button because there is literally nothing you can do until the story unlocks shit for you
>>2370710
Combat is even worse than that because you just deploy your fleet and it obliterates everything

>>2370698
no they managed to make it extra lame

>>2370619
arcen love coming up with cool concepts with the most dogshit possible execution, i don't think they've ever made a satisfying game outside of ai war

>>2375538
On that note, should I get the first or the second one?

>>2370698
Eternal is based

>>2375538
Stars beyond reach seemed like their best idea and funnily enough they never finished it and dropped the whole thing suddenly and went on to make that stupid Raptor thing. Very strange folks.

>>2394723
>Raptor game was so bad the dev made it free on the first week to stop losing even more money

I feel bad for Chris Park, he's a good guy but goddamn dude is unable to recreate the success of AI War no matter what. Even then feels like that one only took off because people like TotalBiscuit shilled it nonstop.

>>2382025
2nd one is prettier, more streamlined and accessible, but 1st seems to be better overall I could never get into either of them

totalbiscuit put the last federation in one of his yearly top lists back in the day. i booted up and found it a completely awful and confusing gameplay experience. i know for a fact totalbiscuit was a complete shitter at vidya games (one of his complaints against everspace, a game i really liked, was that he couldn't hit the enemy fighters with his guns, only with the homing missiles) so that surprised me, that i'd be filtered by a game he liked.

what do people who have more experience with arcen games say? was the game shit or was i a shitter?

>>2394932
I'd have given LF a shot if the ship combat was real-time. It being turn-based completely killed my interest