Nexus 2: The Gods Awaken (Kickstarter)

[White Elk]

The kickstarter has launched for Nexus 2: The Gods Awaken.

Tactical space combat. Lead multiple ships in fleet to fleet combat. No resource gathering and planetary builds, just straight up tactical combat. Gorgeous game. To learn more please visit the Kickstarter page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mostwanted/nexus-2-the-gods-awaken



Nexus 1: The Jupiter Incident:
Available on GOG.com for $9.99. DRM-free as always.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/nexus_the_jupiter_incident

 

[Sonereal]

This part was a good read.

Why Kickstarter?

It is a new era in video games development. Traditional publishers are struggling in the age of digital distribution, and are becoming increasingly risk-averse in terms of the products and the budgets they are prepared to consider.

Scared by the size and range of the modern games market, they choose to put their money only into projects they consider “safe” – which usually means copying a recent successful product, and results in a glut of very similar and uninspiring products.

In an environment like this, classic game genres are easily neglected, as publishers fall over themselves to sign the next “gritty” combat FPS, or “epic” RPG that’s heavy on cut scenes and feather-light on gameplay.

A game like Nexus 2 is just too challenging a prospect for modern publishers. The lack of any recent comparisons for market performance means that they propose a budget that’s insultingly small, or want to throw away the rich, deep tactical fabric in favour of brainless “space shooter” gameplay.

We at Most Wanted have realised that, if we want to make the game of our vision, then who best to turn to for support than the sophisticated gamers who share our passion for the genre, and desire to see it continue.

Kickstarter gives a voice to you, the neglected consumer, to make your opinion heard, and to support the production of games that you want to play.

 

[White Elk]

^ Yeah that got me to. i dig the crowd source funding model. And for PC games it seems to be the only way to get big budget epic games. With No publisher interference on creativity and quality.

 

[White Elk]

New dev update:

Mac OSX will be supported from day one !
Dev AMA on Reddit tomorrow, 12:00 EST -13:30
More concept art will be released as well as the T-shirt designs

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mostwanted/nexus-2-the-gods-awaken/posts

 

[GoodGame]

Hmm....they should have a tier say $25 where you get the first game for immediate download and the second game.

I guess the first one was a pretty good sleeper, but a Homeworld 3 would be a better bet I think.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/03/22/nexus-the-jupiter-incident
vs
http://www.ign.com/games/homeworld2/pc-16221

and there are other space ship kickstarter projects.

There's a fully deformable one using voxels a la Minecraft.

 

[White Elk]

i agree GG. Some of us have been suggesting it on their FB Group Page

A free, DRM-free digital download with support of Nexus 2. $25 might be too cheap. But not more than $35.

 

[FriendlyFire]

/meh

Give me X-Rebirth already, Its been delayed by a year now and they have been very tight lipped about it.

 

[Maniacal]

Entirely different games.

 

[White Elk]

X-Rebirth looks great as well. Different companies (so X-Rebirths delay has nothing to do with Nexus 2). The video preview of Nexus in-game action is 6 years old. The newer technology will allow an even sharper look. The physics of things are interesting to me. Like how a beam weapon gets that whip action, and how the shields form and more. This might be the game to compel me to upgrade this old PC.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

Oh, Nexus...

It was a shame that the game didn't do so well when it came out.
The tactical combat was really neat, the graphics AWESOME and it was one of the few space battle games with some sort of "logical realism" where ships actually had mass, used side thrusters to maneuver and were evacuated* instead of exploding into giant fire balls...

Consider me signed up for part 2! ^.^

(* That "Target ship is being evacuated" audio report is still burned into my mind )