Starships made the seventh place in Angry Joe's Top 10 Worst Games of 2015

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Starships made the seventh place in Angry Joe's Top 10 Worst Games of 2015

"a heap of underdeveloped garbage. [...] it's completely hollow, shallow" - Angry Joe

 

[Agent327]

Seeing as it's a mobile game not very well ported to PC (the CynicalBrit review), little surprise there.

 

[Ryika]

Not too surprising, he already ripped the game a second wormhole in his original review.

I had my fun for a while, but that's mostly because I went into it expecting a mobile game, and that's really what it is - a mobile game that can be played on pc.

Well, and that comes with a better payment system that doesn't constantly annoy you.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

I had my fun for a while, but that's mostly because I went into it expecting a mobile game, and that's really what it is - a mobile game that can be played on pc.

Same here. I knew it was a mobile game and I enjoyed the game a lot for a couple weeks. I hope Firaxis learns from Starships that trying to make the same game for both PC and mobile is a mistake. It caused confusion where people thought the game was going to be a true PC game and as a result got disapointed. It also required too many compromises in game design where the game was an acceptable mobile game but a poor PC game. If Firaxis had made Starships a PC only game from the start, they could have really developed the concept to its full potential and given us a much richer and deeper strategy game. In fact, we see this with XCOM2. There, Firaxis made the decision to go PC only and they produced a fantastic triple A PC game.

 

[CelJaded]

A little harsh that verdict I'd say, but it certainly wasn't the best effort from Firaxis either.

I think Starships did a decent job of condensing that epic Civilization feel into a 90-120 minute gaming session, though it really could have done with better optimization for the PC platform as others have already stated.

Far too easy as well.

 

[Barathor]

He's entitled to his own angry opinion, but I think his initial expectations were way off. As said above, it was really a mobile game which was also released on PC.

I liked Sid's charming little game; especially since it's based off of Beyond Earth. If they would release it for Android, I'd certainly buy it again to play on my phone -- it would be perfect on there. After completing it a few times, when I'm now at my computer, I usually rather play bigger, more complex games.

 

[Syrkres]

What would have been cool with Starships is more integration into BE.

Basically you can either "quickmod" colonize a planet (default) or you can play it out in Civ, basically it would spawn the game with you landing, and (1-x) number of other civilizations already living there. It would share a "similar" economy so investing heavily in a planet comes from your funds from Starship.

THis would make for "EPIC" games....

Yeah, playing it on Andriod would be nice, on tablet.

 

[Danthor]

Seeing as it's a mobile game not very well ported to PC (the CynicalBrit review), little surprise there.

I wish I had known this before buying it
I thought it was a full PC game :