You pick one of 21 different alien races and start on a single planet. Whoops.Īscendancy follows all the of the basic paths you might expect. I'll let the Wikipedia entry show you just how much of a splash Ascendancy made: "Several reviewers praised the game for having great graphics, being entertaining, and being fun to play." Being entertaining and being fun to play. And if you're trying to compete with comparable titles like the Master of Orion series, and are doing so on a budget, you'd better have some unique, attention grabbing gameplay elements. The one I wound up with, perhaps just by luck of the draw, was Ascendancy. Made by an incredibly small team, the game slipped through the cracks as the mid-90s got flooded by 4x games. My introduction to the 4x genre (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) came through a lesser known game from 1995. Weekends should be for having fun and by god, we're going to have some wholesome gosh dang fun on RPS Weekends. DOS Boot is just Brock digging into old DOS/Windows games and talking half-remembering cool and bizarre experiences that are only available on abandon-ware sites at this point.
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