Tachyon: The Fringe

I tried to get this game to run properly but nothing helped, maybe its good but I never knew. Keep in mind this wont run on Windows 10/11 and apparently some tinkering is supposed to make it work in my case I did get it to "run" but I couldnt see crap because the resolution is too low and cant be maximized either. I am a Delta Force Veteran and enjoyed those games (classics) so yeah I wanted to enjoy this too

Лучший космосим от лица кабины. Самый душевный, проработанный, завораживающий. Познакомился с ним ещё в детстве через бонусный диск к журналу Трансформеров из киоска Росспечати с локализацией 1С-Snowball (На то время не менее разъёбной)

This game is and forever will be an absolute nostalgia bomb from my childhood and i recommend anybody curious on a good, old school, basic space shooter with the protagonist voiced by BRUCE CAMPBELL! to try this out, prob wait for it to go on sale tho

Bruce Campbell in space! Easier than the star wars space sims! Good plot!

I first played this game more than 20 years ago, and recently picked it back up when I found it on Steam. It is very enjoyable, has a great underlying story line, and was ahead of its time when released. Even with today's new terrain models and graphics, it still works. Add the nGlide wrapper, and you can play this on your Windows 11 computer. The single player is fun to work through. It is not exceptionally challenging, but it is fun. The BASE WARS and ARENA are where this game excels in the entertainment category. Get a few friends involved and you will lose yourselves for hours!

I expected Tachyon: The Fringe to be a lot more slower, simulator type of game but no its actually a pretty fast paced, action oriented game more then anything else. The game is, obviously, very old but there are some interesting things in it here and there. Mainly the story and the voice acting which is pretty well I did have some weird sounding voice acting but like it wasn't cuz of the acting itself it just sounded as if there was something wrong with the audio you know? Like an audio bug or something which is to be expected from a game this old some setting might just be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and doesn't work well with modern computers who knows. Either way even though the voice acting is good and the story is interesting the gameplay loop is very repetative and boring to the point where it makes me dislike the game. +Ran without any issues on my system. Others are saying you need a patch for it to run on modern systems but I didn't need one, it just worked. No crashes, no major bugs to speak of. +The game looks alright, sounds alright. Graphics and sound wise nothing major to compliment and nothing awful to really ♥♥♥♥ on. +You get to use a few different ships, there's a few different guns, lasers and missiles etc to choose from, there are other upgrades like an upgrade that can show you how much health and armor your enemy still has, an upgrade that'll show you a targeting reticle on moving targets so you can hit them easier etc. +The story is pretty interesting and the voice acting is good. +The controls are alright. Not the easiest I've seen but I've definitely seen harder controls too. Pretty sure you can remap stuff if you need but I didn't, the default was good enough for me. -Like I said you'll get to see and use a few different ships which is all cool. Sadly I wouldn't say that they "feel" any different from each other. Not by a huge margin at least. Even though the cockpit of the vehicles changes it isn't a huge change and most of the time you'll be occupied with the HUD to really notice the different cockpit. The changes in the HUD from ship to ship can be a bit bigger and nicer and you'll never really feel lost with a new ship cuz the HUDs all follow the same logic with their layout with very small changes. Aside from the very small, hard to notice visual changes like I said the ships all feel very samey to me so that sucks. -There were times where the voice acting got weird but rather then the acting itself it was just the voice, the sound that was all messed up. Probably something to do with playing a very old game on a modern system. Didn't take away from the experience that much but I still wanna mention it. -The gameplay loop is very repetative and boring. Take a job, choose a ship from the ones you have, modify it a lil before starting if you want, watch a short cutscene, press A to fast travel, watch a short cutscene, press A to fast travel, watch a short cutscene repeat until you get to your objective. When you do get to your objective do the job you took. Maybe you're fighting some enemy ships and the fighting is really boring I wouldn't call the AI great or even good. After its done press A again and watch cutscenes until you get to the station then take another job and repeat. Its not the worst game out there but the gameplay just isn't there. I feel like I'm watching a lot of cutscenes just to partake in some mediocre space battles then watching more cutscenes. Considering the age of the game its a pretty easy download right like its not even 1GB in size, it would run on a potato PC too and it ran on my modern system with no issues without even needing a patch. I bought this on my older computer which was a very potato computer but never played it and now with my more modern, new computer I can just focus on more modern games so old games like these don't hold the same meaning to me as they did when I was still on my old, potato PC. Most other people out there have computers better then mine so I doubt they'll even take a look at this game when they see its age and the graphics. In my old PC I probably would have given this a thumbs up because my choice in games was a lot more limited but now with my new one I don't need to do that, I can just play more modern space games and I think the same logic applies to a lot of others too. Not the worst game out there but the gameplay isn't there and with more modern, better alternatives there isn't really a need to try this one unless your PC sucks and you can't play newer games.

"Tachyon: The Fringe is a fun, if a bit aggravating, retro space sim that will please fans of the genre. It also has Bruce Campbell." Full Review: https://medium.com/@DragonFangGaming/tachyon-the-fringe-review-f5b0383a1670