/v/ - Video Games

Star Control Origins looks good so far. Given that it is developed by the same Studio that made Galactic civilizations, there are a million ways how the could mutate horrible. The game will come with an ship editor. That's galactic Civilizations and Stellaris, not Star Control The real awkward junkheap in the series was Star Control 3 That has dabbled in FMV. Compare the dialog with the Spathi to the one with Captain Fiwwho and you will figure out that it hasn't aged that well.

>Why the fuck haven't I heard about this game my entire life until now?

I bet you was born after 1996, have only visited that place since yesterday, or not paid attention. That game is usually one of the usual suspects that always comes up in any Lunix or Open Source gaming thread. Besides that, every gaming rag mentioned that game at least once.

>>13859963

>Why the fuck haven't I heard about this game my entire life until now?

Because the /vr/ crowd isn't very interested in much other than emulating, scrollers and JRPGs. Which is strange since there are a lot of older guys still into /vr/. It was popular in it's day, but SC3 left a very bad taste in everyone's mouth.

>>13860012

God please stop.

>>13860017

This also a good explanation. /vr/ as a whole strikes me as console centric. The most hilarious aspect on all of this is, that LGR has a quasi monopoly on retro DOS gaming, although it seems that he wanted it in the first place. Peasantry is a hell of a drug, I tell you what.

>>13860031

>LGR

Another thing people don't consider is the culture has changed by having the internet to keep the interest going.

I grew up in a shithole mining town in the middle of Australia, SC2 wasn't even for sale anywhere in town. A lot of new games would come from like-minded friends who'd been out of town for a while and other than magazines all we had was word of mouth. It doesn't surprise me that younger gamers never here about something like SC2.

>Make a Star Control 2 thread every other month

>Anon hasn't seen it

Well who's fault is that?

Should I try to play SC1 before SC2/Ur-Quan Masters?

>>13860052

Same here although in one of the US's dead railroad towns. My only source of gaming news growing up was my brother bringing copies of EGM when he'd visit. Hell, I still have every issue they printed in 1992.

>>13863051

There is no need for it whatsoever. First SC1 was very bare bones second the entire backstory of the first game is in the intro of the second one. SC2 was also expanded so much that it almost became different from SC1. There is acutally no reason to play unless you want to play it on some home computer.

Fun game but didn't like the way battles were

>>13859963

>Why the fuck haven't I heard about this game my entire life until now?

But you did Anon, it's called Mass Effect.

Last year when my live in girlfriend went home (other side of world) for Christmas and I had a week off from work, I fired this up for the first time not knowing what to expect.

I played the game solidly for pretty much the entire week, drinking rum for most of it and annotating an A2 sized galaxy map I'd printed out.

The game is an order of magnitude better than Mass Effect at it's best. It really is an amazing experience.

The good news is the devs of SC2 are making a real sequel, likely because they couldn't stand to see Stardock shit all over their work.

>>13867860

Source?

>>13868754

https://dogarandkazon.squarespace.com/

>>13860002

>Compare the dialog with the Spathi to the one with Captain Fiwwho

A big problem is the voice acting, and you also see this in the "Ur-Quan Masters" port. The acting sucks, but really, don't think there is any voice acting that could take this type of writing and make it sound good.

>>13859963

First day huh?

>>13869105

So I'm guessing they don't have an actual website? Im not a normalfag so I don't use Twitter… Good to here they gonna be doing this. I actually still pop open the game and play it sometimes. To tell you guys the truth when I use to play this game a lot I'd put this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnh8mmt3ci8 on but this one isn't all the song, and he isn't very good compared to the actual CD. Its about 52 minutes long and I'd just loop the songs and let them play instead of listening to the game.

Wow so sneaky, they filter the word n o r m i e with normalfag

>>13869389

I remember try to find any sort of acknowledgement online by Bioware that they'd riped off the mining aspect. Mad as fuck I could never find anything. Another thing a number of games have copied is the hyperspace/interstellar/system travel aspect of getting around.

Over 20 years and Starsector is the closest thing we have to SC2.

>>13869389

Yeah. I noticed this too.

>>13869389

And yet, despite much better graphics and much higher budget, Mass effect has none of the charm or creativity of the original.

I used a pencil and ruler on a map print out to find the gas-giant world of the race that made those rogue probes and it was one of the coolest fucking vidya experiences I've ever had.

There are thousands of planets in SC2. You have to actually think about where you're going otherwise it's like a needle in a haystack.

Mass effect games suffer from the fact that only a small number of planets are "duds", the majority have stuff to do. This is done for the ADHD mass appeal audience, and the exploratory nature of the game suffers for it.

>>13871517

>I used a pencil and ruler on a map print out to find the gas-giant world of the race that made those rogue probes and it was one of the coolest fucking vidya experiences I've ever had.

12 year old me did this, as well as filling half a notepad with heaps of other stuff I thought I'd forget and I thought it was the most gnarly shit ever.

>>13859963

>Why the fuck haven't I heard about this game my entire life until now?

Probably because you're a pleb.

>>13869526

Go back to wherever you came from.

>>13871517

>There are thousands of planets in SC2. You have to actually think about where you're going otherwise it's like a needle in a haystack.

Not to mention that you can't just fuck around randomly too much, or you'll run out of time.

>>13869516

They did this with the original starcon, too. They just kinda vanished for a while and reappeared with a legendary game.

>>13869105

>Pretty much ever since then, fans have been politely asking us to create a sequel, sometimes begging for a sequel, even threatening us if we don’t make a sequel. Our answer was always, “We really want to do this, we just need to wait until the time is right” – kind of like Cthulhu awakening, but less end-of-the-worldy. Well, the stars have finally aligned – we are now working on a direct sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters, called Ghosts of the Precursors™.

Let me guess: Wardell the madman gave them the part of the license they needed.

>>13871517

>Mass effect games suffer from the fact that only a small number of planets are "duds", the majority have stuff to do. This is done for the ADHD mass appeal audience, and the exploratory nature of the game suffers for it.

I agree, but…

why you typing

like this?

>>13869526

Because its plebbit speak nowadays. We aren't supposed to talk like /jp/ outside of /jp/ anyway.

>>13871944

I'll look the guys up on moby games. This has to be a MO of them.

>>13872694

>I agree, but…

>why you typing

>like this?

I'm not…you're just shitting your pants about maybe one comma out of place.

>>13872747

you are……… goooo backkk …. tooo reddditt….. loll ;;; lol 1!!11

fuck off

>>13871802

Well actually I've always been here, just been away a couple years just got internet, fuck off

>>13873940

Then turn your fucking internet back off and go back to your smartphone memes faggot.

>>13869526

Because fat idiot thinks it's not censorship if it's a word he doesn't like.

>>13873955

Blah blah blah, I don't care what you have to say cunt bag. You gotta be pretty autistic to think someone like you could say something that would impact me faggot.

>try harder

>>13875308

You do a good job of showing how much you really don't belong.