What's So Great About FTL: Faster Than Light - A New View of the Captain's Chair

In the second installation of What's So Great About Gaming, we explore the universe of FTL: Faster Than Light by Subset Games to find what makes a great space game.

[Draconicrose]

Just. The music. Honestly 70% of my enjoyment of this game is the soundtrack.

[vaclavblazej]

Very well fleshed out video. After watching it I went to the channel to check another, but to my surprise this was only second uploaded video. Now subbed and waiting :) ... once again, great work

[EmeraldS]

Came here from your submission on the FTL sub. Good choice on doing away with a scoring system. Scoring systems tend to lead to focusing on the score itself and what that number means to each person and is much less objective than what makes a game great and earns its acclaim. You've got a new sub and I look forward to seeing your channel grow.

[Rubberman]

...Oh yeah, I vaguely remember this game being talked about back in the day. This is why I love going through old videos, it helps remind me of what was "hot" at the time. I don't know of FTL is still as popular as it was back in 2012, but... hey, if you made this video back in 2016, that must mean at least some people still thought it was great 4 years later.

[ajokay]

Still go back to this game once a year or so. Im awful at it, but it's great fun every time.

[ajokay]

Still go back to this game once a year or so. Im awful at it, but its great fun.

[curtisbrown]

I love ftl but the one thing that really bothers me is how hard it'll counter your ship build. you like playing a sheild heavy low dodge vessel? well it just so happens every ship on the block just bought a brand new missile system! an Ion is half off! missile ship? suddenly people with defense drones just sorta show up. running a boarding ship? you better believe the crewless airless robot ships will make their presence known! an every other ship on the block just bought a teleporter a clone bay or a medbay an just so happens to have a good boarding crew or maybe even a anti boarding drone! later on your burts down ships are gonna fail to the invisible bullshitaroo. the game is great but it gets frustrating when the enemy's keep showing up with just the perfect counter to your ship