Endless Space 2 Review | Jingoist Joy™ Edition

"Are you just lonely?" yes alien mommy

"They occupy just 10% of Nygean space-" Oh boy here we go

The best thing about Horatio is that the leader of Horatio is a clone of Horatio that killed Horatio and Usurped him without anyone knowing that it happened.

the joke about "endless space historian" is even funnier now that Bungee is hiring a "destiny lore historian" for real

Nothing warms my heart like: “hey hey people...”

>Gets Awakening for free >Demand to take it back, and pay reparations

"Given time - any problem can be solved. Given money any problem can be solved instantaneously"

Got the game. In my first few runs I didn’t know how to diplomatically reject the extortion efforts of the Cravers and Vodyani, so I ended up getting really good at upgrading my military in order to politely rout their militaries back into their homeworlds… and then taking over their homeworlds. In my second formal run, I played as the Umbral Choir and dumped everything into developing my economy. Imagine playing a game where no matter how hard everyone tries to make the largest economy, they are ALWAYS number 2 behind a faction that no one seems to have come into contact with. I literally made a shadow economy that everyone was baffled by because no one knew who was running it… … But enough about the Merchant’s Guild. 10/10. Would corner the galactic economy again.

"How are we meant to walk on a Gas Giant?" "Very Carefully."

- How are you supposed to walk on a gas giant? - Very carefully.

This game really makes me get into the mindset of an imperialist despot. When I started setting up buffer states and brainwashing my citizens into begging me to set up a military industrial complex the world I live in started to make a whole lot more sense.

27:56 Now see I could understand adding that kind of system to the game, basically bribing Isyander to give your enrolled future leaders and top lieutenants preferential treatment and thus say level up faster or maybe get some sweet bonuses, that actually sounds neat. But who in the Fucking name of the Endless themselves thought it was a good idea to have the Academy be an aggressive, expansionist faction when the whole point of them is to be a (atleast on the surface) 'neutral' faction that basically plays the other factions of each other through academic extortion and educational lobbying. Also it would've been great to expand the bribery system so that when it comes to influencing the Academy's choices of curriculum and who got the best education at a given time to not just be soley based on whoever gave the most "Dust" (money) but could also be based on whoever made any number of notable donations to the Academy via technology shared, luxury goods 'gifted', good'ole political backdoor dealings, and etc. That way it wouldn't just be the Lumeris gaining the upper hand most of the time when it came to bribing Isyander through sheer raw currency, there can be multiple was of gaining his favor to allow other factions to get on the action.

Congrats, in 4 hours "hey hey people" has become one of the top steam reviews.

“The Emperor does not ask, he commands”

Rejoice, they fixed the academy!

3 years later, they fixed the academy.

Fish Mom: "Are you just lonely?!" Me: "...Yes."

"Moderator Note: Yes, this is Sseth. Yes, he has been banned for vandalizing the wiki."

Why is his voice just immediately so humorous to listen to? Just a master comedic storyteller, I’m impressed

Good news: they updated the Awakening DLC and it is actually fun to play now. Back then I just left it disabled all the time, but now that's no longer the case. It's definitely worth revisiting.