Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 week agoConsole games seldom had this amount of "hard sci-fi" mechanics and that made me super happy.
I still fondly remember trying to land in a planet with massive gravity and immediately pancaking my crew.
I will confess, I had hopes that Bethesda's Starfield would be somehow similar to Starflight. (I mean they called it a Hard Sci-Fi game)
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah it’s hard to get the mix of space exploration, interesting aliens to meet, and a good overarching story that Starflight (the first of this kind of game) right out of the gate.
And yeah you didn’t scan that planet and check the gravity levels? You’re dead. If you didn’t notice in the report how hostile the animals on the planet are? You’re dead.
But it kind of got it right, there wasn’t a cut scene where the science officer explains that it’s too dangerous to land on the planet, it’s you deciding it’s too dangerous. It had an element where there’s danger but if you get the science right the danger isn’t an issue. Space is scary but science makes it less scary.