I want something more epic than SotSE or Endless Space

[Icemania]

ORIGINAL: leafs43
I in fact own Gal Civ 2.

It's just becoming a bit dated and news of Gal Civ 3 made me want to get my space sim fix in.

Also enjoy epic games. Let's just say I own Endless Space, SotSE and Gal Civ 2 and expect to be playing Distant Worlds until Gal Civ 3 hits.

[buncheesy]

ditto

epic, deep, steepish learning curve...but in the end once you know what going on smooth flowing with relatively minor grinding compared to many 4x games

[ASHBERY76]

No game comes close to the epic feel and storytelling that DW gives.The games mentioned are too abstracted to be epic.In DW you could have a 1000 ship fleet defending 500 empire colonies.[:D]

[Plant]

Distant worlds mostly has a deep, steepish learning curve because of hidden or poorly explained game mechanics.

But mostly I like it because it is so unique; it really is a game that gives an impression of an alive universe, so long as you don't try to peek under the hood too closely.

[aaatoysandmore]

ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

No game comes close to the epic feel and storytelling that DW gives.The games mentioned are too abstracted to be epic.In DW you could have a 1000 ship fleet defending 500 empire colonies.[:D]

Depends on your definition of EPIC. A game with 1 ship can be EPIC if the story and world size is right. Freelancer comes to mind, now THAT was an EPIC game and story.[:)]