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[IronBorn]

Has anyone here every played Ares? (Mac only game  )

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ares/


It is an old game, but Starsector reminds me of it a lot. In Ares you:
- Could command any ship in your fleet.
- Had tactical control over all ships in your fleet, able to give them specific attack/defend/escort orders.
- Captured planets and collected resources to build different classes of ships (I know, industry isn't yet added into Starsector).
- All real time combat/command.

One of my favorite features of the game was how the camera scrolled in and out seamlessly, and would automatically zoom in and out to keep your target in view.

[MShadowy]

Ah, Ares.  Played the Escape Velocity series more, but I definitely had fun with it.  An old, unremembered classic, done, like a lot of shareware stuff in those days, by a single man--in this case one Nathan Lamont.

Also, it

[Cycerin]

Ares is utterly classic and has inspired and influenced me in so many ways. I actually play it on my mac now and then - rough around the edges compared to Starsector, but pretty funky nonetheless.

I've actually been considering to make the Ishiman fleet as a mod, but the game's weird ship size classification gives me a headache when it comes to porting it to Starsector's more naval take on the concept.

EDIT: Actually, there even is an Ares homage in Blackrock, the scalar deracinator sound.

[Thule]

Wow, the music is so awesome.

Also

[Jazwana]

Ahhhh such a fun game.  Definitely a favorite of mine although EV captured my heart much more.  Playing local Co-op was a treat!

[dmaiski]

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ares/

selling a 1996 OPEN-SOURCE game for 25$, i think its a stupid test... anyone that purchases passes with flying colors

sauce:wikipedia

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[DeMatt]

The thing that *** me off the most was that, if you did a good tactical job and didn't actually lose your ships, eventually they'd be useless because they'd run out of power for their guns.  And there's no refuelling tanker or whatever - you're stuck with getting the ship destroyed and building a new one.

[MaddenedMage]

selling a 1996 OPEN-SOURCE game for 25$, i think its a stupid test... anyone that purchases passes with flying colors

The code is now open source. You would be a fool to buy it there.
There was a project to port it to new Mac OS (only runs on the old Mac OS) and to windows. You can look them up, ones called Xsera (ares x backwards) and the other is on Ares Central (project is called Antares).

Wow, the music is so awesome.

I think so too, my favorite game music of all time! Maybe someone will make a mod to include that music in Starsector.....

Ahhhh such a fun game.  Definitely a favorite of mine although EV captured my heart much more.  Playing local Co-op was a treat!

EV (the original) was my favorite game of all time! The other two werent bad, but the original.... well, its the original!

I find Starsector is a hybrid of Ares and EV. Very cool game so far (and Ive only just started).

[dogboy123]

EV Nova was the game that got me into the space-sim genre, and it taught me to "save early, save often" .

[Ishman]

Ares has forever instilled in me a love of top-down space games, and is easily up there in my favorite games of all time with MOO and EV. So much so, I bastardized the Ishiman race for my nick.