The 'X' Series and Why You Should Play It

Can't agree with this more. Something not mentioned is the amazing modding community for X3Ap. Its still going strong!

"Prepare a Disco Immediately" needs to be a reoccurring catchphrase on this channel

Sidenote on the "Prepare a disco imediatly" Disco in this universe is short for "Discoverer" which is the smallest Argon Ship there is. Still hillarious.

You’ve got to love being told a Khaak destroyer is now in the zone, first time it happened to me, I heard “Cock destroyer” I ended up laughing my way through the encounter

I'm still waiting for Spacedock Episodes about X-Universe ships.

I bought the original X: Beyond the Frontier back when you had to actually go into game stores to buy games instead of downloading them. It wasn't out on the shelves, so I had to ask for it at the counter, and then explain that it was, in fact, a space trading game rather than anything else the title might imply.

I have a sudden urge to prepare a disco immediately.

The way I like to explain the X series (Particularly X2 and X3) is that it's basically singleplayer EVE. All the cool parts of exploration and building, still has a learning cliff as opposed to a learning curve, but none of the other players.

Finally, X gets the love, it deserves. You forgot to mention the huge modding community (supported by the dev team on the official forums) and the integrated script editor for modding (and cheating). I spend 10k+ hours playing all the games in the series. Alot of ships are inspired (stolen) from other franchises like the Argon Destroyer in X2 (based on the ship from the movie Starship Troopers) X is one of the best series in SciFi games ever. Very hard to get into, but if you learn how to play the game, you will have alot of fun. Things like outplaying the different factions/races, fighting the Xenon and Khaak, capturing enemy fighters, boarding and capturing enemy battleships, building your own space station complex to produce tradable items, get your own shipyard and building your own fleet, take over territories with your fleet, trying to keep your conquered Xenon sector from Xenon attacks, using the unfocused jumpdrive to find the lost Goner ship, and on and on and on. I could list millions of other things. If you never played the game, you are missing out. TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD, THINK

I've been wanting you to do X-series ship design pretty much since I subscribed. Especially the TC/AP era but really any would be amazing

"learning curve" isnt exaggerated!

The Kingdoms End sector soundtrack was perfect

"play them on a casio calculator" - made my day :D

I remember back over 12 years ago when i first got into the X games with X3:Reunion (Bala Gi Expansion) and losing myself in its vast universe. So much stuff my 13 year old brain had to try and understand like like trading and ship combat as the closest thing to it I had played up to that point was Tachyon: The Fringe. Never regretted a moment playing it or X3:Terran Conflict, fantastic games still worth playing even today.

Because the music is beyond beautiful. That is all the reason I need XD

Wish there was a "Why You Should Play Freelancer". I still miss a game as easy to play and as nice as a space game as that one.

I still remember playing the demo for the original X game when it came out. One of the earliest dialog choices in the game was an alien saying something along the lines of. "maybe you should become a trader." I instantly chose the 'what!? Never!" response 'cause I was a dumb kid and thought he said traitor, as in betray the Terran people.

I've probably spent a few thousand hours on this series, mostly spread across Terran Conflict and my heavily modified version of Albion Prelude. As you mentioned the learning curve is steep, and the gameplay can be a bit slow and grindy, but if one is into space sims of any kind I highly recommend giving the X-Universe a shot. The depth is amazing, and thanks to a very active modding community there's a mod for almost everything. And thank you for giving my favorite space sim series some attention. I would love to hear your comments on some of the ship designs and such further down the road.

I know this video is old, but thought I'd add in my two cents worth. I actually was introduced to the X series from X: Rebirth. Yes, I'm aware it wasn't well received and many fans didn't like it. But, I did enjoy it and it prompted me to then buy X4: Foundations, which I'm currently loving and awaiting the latest DLC release "Tides of Avarice". It has also prompted me to purchase the full X Series of games. I've just started playing the first release, and while it is dated by today's standards, I really believe I would have been blown away had I played it at release. Kudos to the Egosoft team, I think they do a fantastic job with their games.

I have dropped 200+ hours into Albion Prelude and still have only a 10% completion rating