Good morrow to all my fellow /vst/ forum Compadres! I am at your service and the service of your families!I stumbled across this older game called Alien Legacy and I have to say I am really fucking liking it bros! I knows it's heavily dated, it's not really a 4x game, I don't know what genre you would even call it. You have exploration, a little bit of colony building and management, and it's almost like you are trying to solve problems and a mystery of what happened to the colony that got there before your colony ship. I think the thing I enjoy most about it is all the lore. You find bits and pieces of messages and different things as you explore the various planets. Has anybody else played this? It seems like this would be a fucking perfect game to be re-imagined and remade.
Holy fuck, a blast from the past!Haven't played the game in literally 30 years or so, so I don't remember a whole lot of details. I do remember as a kid I sucked ass at the colony management so the first few games I played my people were so unhappy I was assassinated by my own officers. Also I remember that somewhere around midgame you were forced to replace all your pilots with robots because the aliens would just mindfuck human pilots and make their head explode, which really pissed me off.Some of the later events are pretty annoying as well if you don't know how to quickly deal with them, since they give you an instant game over if you don't resolve them in time.
>>2460776>you are trying to solve problems and a mystery of what happened to the colony that got there before your colony shipI always found it a fun detail that your ship left Earth BEFORE the colony ship you're investigating, but it arrived much later because it has shitty engines.
>>2460776I played this years ago, liked unravelling the mystery through exploring and finding clues. The fact that I could turn the colony ship into a huge mobile colony was nice. Also liked that research was mostly tied to discovering things from the previous colony ship rushing 50 years of R&D in months. Huge solar system with dozens of planets and asteroids to explore was good too. Didn't like that getting the good ending required me to look it up in a guide. Still, I'd recommend it to anyone who can find it.
>>2460776Can you explain exactly what it means to be at the service of our families?
>>2461888I'll service your mother real good if you know what I mean.
>>2460776I miss when games had sol like this..
why is michael jackson one of my advisors?
>>2463689That's actually an Italian female engineer.
I loved this gamed. Took me almost 20 years to beat it because I was too young when it came out to deal with some the crises it kept throwing at you...all of which require you to step out of your comfort zone/gameplay loop. Worth it if you can deal with its DOS-jank
>>2460776I found this game in 2023 or so. It's fantastic. I want to make a more modern game like that in Godot, but game dev is slow and difficult.
I streamed this a few years ago, very good game. Managed to get the second best ending. I also did not bother developing the first habitable planet first, starting on the second one made my life a million times easier, because the local life doesn't go apeshit quite as badly as the ones on the first one. Also I recommend setting up MT-32. Dosbox X can do it without much trouble.
