Moonbase Alpha - NASA Videogame, FREE!

[RayvenQ]

Some of you might get a kick out of this

http://store.steampowered.com/app/39000/

It's a NASA made moon base disaster game. The site can explain more than I can, It's pretty good considering it's free.

[draggar]

Heh, this reminds me too much of those "Government runs games" theories to find god people.

What's "Steam" BTW?

[RayvenQ]

Steam is an online game distribution client made by Valve.

http://store.steampowered.com/about/

Has more info than I could tell you, though registration is free.

You don't have to buy any games at all, but the sales they have are fantastic at times though and, you can redownload and reinstall from their servers and unlimited amount of times, for free.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Is it wrong that I was expecting something modelled by Gerry Anderson?

[Flying Grype]

Is it wrong that I was expecting something modelled by Gerry Anderson?

I would love to see a cartoon or a video game done in CGI but made to look like Supermarionation.

[Cazzi]

Is it wrong that I was expecting something modelled by Gerry Anderson?

First thing that went through my mind (and stuck there) was the theme to Space 1999

[RayvenQ]

Heh, this reminds me too much of those "Government runs games" theories to find god people.

What's "Steam" BTW?

Funnily enough, this is just the precursor to a NASA MMO

[Eric the Grey]

First thing that went through my mind (and stuck there) was the theme to Space 1999

Lol. I had the same thought. Unfortunately it's on steam, and I refuse to have anything to do with them.


Eric the Grey

[RayvenQ]

How come, if I may ask, I've been using Steam for 6 years now and hardly ever had a problem (only notable ones are on release days of really popular games and one time when lightning struck the building the Steam servers are hosted in)

[Eric the Grey]

How come, if I may ask, I've been using Steam for 6 years now and hardly ever had a problem (only notable ones are on release days of really popular games and one time when lightning struck the building the Steam servers are hosted in)

For exactly the secondary reason you mentioned. IF for some reason the Steam servers are unavailable (lightning strike, power outage, company going out of business and shutting down) then all the games you've purchased through them are suddenly useless.

If I'm going to buy a game, I don't want it dependent on connecting to the company remotely for any reason. It's unnecessary, and uncalled for.



Eric the Grey

[RayvenQ]

Valve have always said that if they do go out of buisness, they will release patches to allow you to play, besides, worse comes to worse and you really want to play, you can pull out your ethernet cable temporarily and load steam in offline mode.