jerryhinn

It's not knowing what the flak cannons are that's my problem; I can see the random blow up fireworks around the ship. Same as the Demotivator; I can see the green ring. But that's just about all I know about them. The alien technology is important for story mode; how I use them is important for combat. In combat, I just need to know when to shoot them, and that is missing from the experience. Compare this to a beat 'em up brawler like Mortal Kombat. All t

It has been a long (looooong) time since I first fired up SC1 and was awed by the diversity of ships, and pored over the menus to learn more about the ships. SC2 did not make it any easier, and fortunately you could always drop out of the main story to go knock heads with the AI until you figured out what the enemy ships did. I loved this, so much so in fact that I'm the original author of the SC Saga (http://www.star-control.com/hosted/scsaga/) and yes, looking back on my paragra