Talonious

Ugh. It really just doesn't help enough. That art style is a poor choice.

Ahhh. Not economically viable vs. storyline viable. A soft reboot for a new, younger audience where most of us who have played the originals are ancient dinosaurs in video game terms. And most younger gamers don't have the connection to the original games.

Not trying to create any sort of problems, but why isn't it viable in broad strokes? I haven't been privy to those discussions but isn't how old a story is essentially irrelevant if the story has not advanced during those 25 years? There was a fairly memorable intro sequence to Star Control 2 that essentially brought everyone playing it who hadn't played Star Control 1 up to speed. I don't see how old a story is to be a relevant factor on how easy or hard it is to tie a

[quote who="Alverez" reply="37" id="3692759"] The problem with using the established lore (even though SD could) is 1) it would probably damage any working relationship with FF and PR. 2) See SC3. With FF and PR doing their own thing now, 1 is a moot point. [/quote] Yeah. I can see that it might indeed damage that relationship. But prior to seeing the FF and PR announcement that

[quote quoting="post"] I want to be very clear on this: When Stardock acquired the Star Control rights from Atari/Accolade that includes a perpetual, unlimited license to the Star Control story, lore, aliens, characters, ships, etc. So yes, if we had wanted to, we could have had the aliens in the new Star Control game provided that we did so under the terms and conditions of the publishing agreement (which involves a royalty to Paul of course). I've seen people suggest t

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="30" id="3692622"] Is it even better? [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [/quote] Yes from the standpoint of the coloration changes is an improvement, but honestly still bad. The face, the posture, the body dimensions...I absolutely can't take her seriously.

I'm probably going to be in the very distinct minority but...I actually LIKED Star Control 3. It certainly had more than it's fair share of problems. But I thought the new races that were introduced - including the ships - were interesting and fun. The ship combat was also a blast. I enjoyed how large parts of the story played out, from the resolution to some of the dangling plotlines such as who the Arilou really were to what happened to the Precursors to the hilarious