SubJeff on 12/8/2013 at 22:15
Quote Posted by Starker
The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2 remake).
Is it actually any good? And is it easy to get working?
june gloom on 13/8/2013 at 02:26
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
All games are science fiction these days, or sports. Hell even Call of Duty is science fiction now.
Not true. Some of them are bog-standard by-the-numbers fantasy.
ZylonBane on 13/8/2013 at 03:38
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Not true. Some of them are bog-standard by-the-numbers fantasy.
/casts Sufficiently Advanced Technology
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Is it actually any good? And is it easy to get working?
Is Star Control 2 actually any good? IS STAR CONTROL 2 ACTUALLY ANY GOOD?
STAR CONTROL 2??june gloom on 13/8/2013 at 04:24
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
/casts Sufficiently Advanced Technology
Not to encroach on your status as King Pedant Motherfucker The 1st, but Star Wars-style genre-blending aside, claiming that, say, Dark Souls is the same thing as, let's go with System Shock 2, is absolute lunacy. The difference is why I have friends who absorb anything that remotely looks like a boilerplate LOTR knockoff but shriek in horror at any technology level greater than pre-industrial. It's also why I have other friends who swear by Star Trek and comic book psychic powers but turn their noses up at anything that might look like medieval Europe.
Sulphur on 13/8/2013 at 05:44
That's really only because you have terrible friends. ZB invoking Clarke's quote was cute, though, even if it's somewhat irrelevant given the context.
Also, SubjEff: SC2 is one of the foundations of classic gaming. At least 65% of Mass Effect owes its existence directly to SC2. Your question should be beaten over the head, have weights attached to its legs, and dunked in the nearest lake.
The Ur-Quan Masters is a source port of the 3DO version to the PC, so it's rather easy to get working. You just download it. (
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/) Link.
There's an (
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urquanmastershd/) HD version in alpha that I haven't tried yet, but it looks good enough for a spin.
Starker on 13/8/2013 at 08:31
Quote Posted by Sulphur
At least 65% of Mass Effect owes its existence directly to SC2.
The dating sim pasted onto a shitty shooter with vehicle sections must have been in the remaining 35% then.
Sulphur on 13/8/2013 at 08:37
The dating sim with the shooter parts, yes. You might be amazed, but the Mako sequences were pretty much a poor 3D extrapolation of the lander bits from SC2.
Vivian on 13/8/2013 at 08:47
if being stuck in a ludicrously atmospheric radioactive tunnel with nothing but duct-taped-together lunatics and stoic, pungent death at every turn sounds like your idea of fun, Metro: Last Light is fucking AMAZING. It's like a combination of the troglodytes from Delicatessen, Das Boot and C.H.U.D.
.... with some fairly ill-advised plastic-faced tits.
SubJeff on 13/8/2013 at 08:50
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Is Star Control 2 actually any good? IS STAR CONTROL 2 ACTUALLY ANY GOOD?
STAR CONTROL 2??It's a remake. Who knows what they've messed with?
Sulphur on 13/8/2013 at 08:53
'Remake' is poor wording. It's a source port that takes the best parts from the 3DO version and makes it digestible for current-generation PC consumption.
