Starbase Startopia - Startopia homage/remake set for 2020 release

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Starbase Startopia - Startopia homage/remake set for 2020 release

Post by Sly Boots » Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:44 am

A nod to the classic space station sim Startopia has been announced, and it looks much as Two Point Hospital was for Theme Hospital:

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/goofy-strate ... next-year/

The launch trailer is... well, it's not that it's bad, more that it's going for funny but the jokes are terrible and delivered badly. For a game that's at least partly reliant on humour I'm not sure that's an encouraging sign:



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Re: Starbase Startopia - Startopia homage/remake set for 2020 release

Post by Strudel » Tue Aug 20, 2019 12:32 pm

The original is still a great game; I'm not sure what would make me buy this rather than just play the old game again.

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Re: Starbase Startopia - Startopia homage/remake set for 2020 release

Post by Sly Boots » Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:45 am

Very close to the original, apparently:

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/spacebase-st ... 1-classic/

But with a bit better combat (which, even as someone who likes Startopia, was abysmal).

I replayed Startopia fairly recently, it's still good but definitely showing its age a bit (and due to the combat I just cba with the final mission of the campaign this time around). Still keeping an interested eye on this.

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