BionicDance

[quote]Sorry you misinterpret then, it is essential to have all elements including graphics, well balanced to take a game to the next level, but the core gameplay always takes priority. That's why i Said it's part of what makes a game great. [/quote] And yet you still haven't said what it was about MoO2 that you didn't like in terms of gameplay. You can claim it ain't all graphics as much as you like, but I don't really believe it, and won't until you actually engage.</p

[quote who="UrQuanian" reply="60" id="3715576"] Sorry you misinterpret then, it is essential to have all elements including graphics, well balanced to take a game to the next level, but the core gameplay always takes priority. That's why i Said it's part of what makes a game great. [/quote] Well, given that you said this: Sure i made no point of knowing MoO2 at all, i insisted i don't. But there is a reason why i don't. Everythin

[quote who="UrQuanian" reply="58" id="3715508"] Again i did not say graphics is what makes a game, it is not[/quote] Sure sounded like it, but okay. [quote]Talking about movies, do you remember this one and Only classic. Krull, what a brilliant movie, you would laugh at the special effects back then, i don't the movie is my favourite classic ! a true gem that not many know of.[/quote] Funny, I just watched it a few days ago. Thing is, I actually&nbsp

I built a ship in the Crafting section...and for some reason, when it's an NPC, it basically commits suicide by going to the ring of asteroids on the edge of the battlefield and starts crashing into them. And, of course, this makes the green cloud slowly kill it. Now, I only have a guess, but I suspect that it has to do with the parts I used; maybe there is an alien race in the main game that is immune to the green clouds and gains power by harvesting the

Something else I'd like to see: retro rockets. The ability to slow yourself without having to turn around, or at least thrust backward relative to the ship's direction. Obviously, there aren't slots in the Engine and Thrusters categories, so imagine these as, say, a secondary weapon.

Well, let me ask this: if we can run what's out now, will that guarantee we can run the full game when it's released?

[quote quoting="post"] Greetings! This is the LAST month for monthly Star Control updates before release....because now we're moving into weekly updates because things are moving so fast.[/quote] *droooool* Kate can't wait! Hummina! :) [quote]Star Control: Origins is not a strategy game. [/quote] Perhaps we define "strategy game" differently. (I'm picturing Master of Orion, here, but perhaps something closer to Wo

[quote who="UrQuanian" reply="56" id="3715253"] Graphics is essential to a game such as Star Control, however, where i agree with you is that the core derived from games prior to it's existence that did not have good graphics.[/quote] But that only illustrates the point that graphics aren't necessary for a game to be good. Think of it like this: can you enjoy a sci-fi movie from decades ago, when we didn't have ILM making CGI? When the FX were all stop-motion or mod

[quote who="UrQuanian" reply="54" id="3715229"] No it says everything, Animation, Exciting graphics is absolutely Essential to the creation of an immersive experience[/quote] First of all, that's not everything. Second, that's completely wrong...I don't know how old you are, but I was around for the age of text adventure games like Zork and Planetfall, which had no graphics at all, and they were perfectly lovely gaming experiences. It's the&nbs

[quote who="bleybourne" reply="58" id="3714890"] As someone who has been lucky enough to play around with some of this stuff, let me assure you that it IS "all kinds of awesome". [/quote] I hate waiting. [quote]Did you ever play Neverwinter Nights?[/quote] Briefly...I seem to remember not liking it very much and not sticking with it. [quote]That's basically Stardock's goal here - have players make their own universes and ships

[quote who="UrQuanian" reply="51" id="3714970"] Everything is pretty much stationary, the only thing that put a mild smile on my face were those churning like black holes on the map, and the technology, Nothing else moved. no real interaction with the ships/aliens and universe. poor graphics.[/quote] ...which says nothing at all about the game; this argument is 100% superficial. [quote]When i fired up Star Control vs firing up MoO2, i stopped playin

Seems a strange thing to have to unlock. I mean, ships have guidance systems, they can get through normal space and hyperspace, etc...but SOMEhow just can't manage to let you pick a spot on the planet for landing. ...makes perfect sense. If you want me to unlock a power like that, make the landing-safely spot really small at the beginning and then let me unlock the scientific discovery (or the alien tech purchase) that widens

Man...just about every time I see information on this game, it's like someone was reading my mind. Love it. :)

How about a win/loss category comparing battles between custom ships vs custom ships, pre-packaged ships vs pre-packaged ships, and custom vs pre-packaged.

It hardly makes sense to leave the player completely guessing, though. Even if there is no arrow, a mission log describing our available tasks makes sense. And it'd be awfully nice to have some sort of star-system search mode so we don't have to completely shoot in the dark to find a place; who would design a star-map without that feature? Don't get me wrong; I loved the exploration part of SC2 and will almost certainly do a lot of it in SCO...but bounds of reaso

Well, it's really just a design thing: make the eyes less round and goofy, maybe make the colors not quite so vibrant, give them a bit more texture, a little more messiness. I mean, it doesn't take more polygons just to make the shapes different.

[quote who="Taslios" reply="21" id="3714701"] I made the spelling error, not you [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Oh. [quote]But I digress, we are here to talk about a soon to be released awesome game, not the nuances of the English language [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] True. Where were we...? Oh. Right. Visual design. Cartoony vs realistic.

Now, now...non-sweetened is in the dictionary. (I checked). http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sweeten Scroll down a bit. QUOTE: "Related forms "nonsweetened, adjective"

80s kid, you say. The Last Starfighter, you say. Anyway, I never would have chosen Charbroiled for the GunStar...Dual Shot seems more appropriate. Mind you, if we were going for total accuracy with regard to the movie, Point Defense and Nuclear Missiles would be best; PD is the only weapon that can fire omni-directionally li

Not sure I grok the request. What are we talking about, here? Win/loss record? Hit/miss record? Number of shots/hits required for a kill for each ship vs each other ship? Average length of battle? Those kinds of stats? Or something else?

You sound like you think that I'm advocating these things. I didn't picture pretty much any of what I just described until I started hearing the developers talking, and I only made guesses based on what I'd heard. Mind you, Star Control crossed with Master of Orion 2 would be absolutely badass; you say you've never actually played MoO2, and your criticism of it--and how it wouldn't fit with Star Control--lays that quite

[quote who="Taslios" reply="17" id="3714641"] I have a background in Linguistics and don't even get me started on how irritating things like "irregardless" or "hey can you borrow me that thing?" are to me. [/quote] Well, I promise to you that you'll never hear--well, read--that kind of drek out of me. I usually do my best to get the grammatical order correct even when it's obviously a bit awkward, and I always, always, always use an Oxford comma. ;)

[quote who="Taslios" reply="15" id="3714635"]I don't understand why people are so hung up on the "Cartoony"[/quote] Well, it helps take a game seriously. Or at least, more seriously. It lets us know the developers are taking us seriously. Maybe that's a bit unrealistic, and I freely admit that it's a visceral thing rather than logical but that doesn't mean it's not still there. [quote] back in 2004 A game called World of Warcraft was de

[quote who="Taslios" reply="46" id="3714625"] They do.... these people by and large are called "founders Elite" [/quote] Drat. I only even found out this game was happening about a week ago...

If I'm reading between the lines correctly, it sounds as if, while there are definite plot points, there is also a lot of available improv because the AI is trained to handle it. ...or should be, anyway. Hence the play-testing. I...don't suppose you have independent playtesters? You know...folks who haven't been working on the game for ages and can evaluate it without bias? *hint hint* [e digicons]O:)[/e]