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The Ur-Quan Masters Re-Release => General UQM Discussion => Topic started by: Chrispy on July 28, 2003, 09:08:50 pm



Title: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Chrispy on July 28, 2003, 09:08:50 pm
and why.
I like the zoq fot pik because of the general idea of the girl that helps u, they boy that argues with the girl, and the one in the middle that doesnt say anything or do anything.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: player1 on July 28, 2003, 10:11:21 pm
Thraddash are the best.

Good background music (and even better, if you take remixed music from "Pages of now and forewer").
Good ships (at least in human vs AI fights).

Great attitude.
Intersting cultural concept (strenght prevails, and there is costs of progress).

Unfortunatly, it's sad that you you must become enemy with them to get Helix (IMO the only bad thing in SC2 plot).


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Deep-Jiffa on July 28, 2003, 10:23:08 pm
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Thraddash are the best.

Unfortunatly, it's sad that you you must become enemy with them to get Helix (IMO the only bad thing in SC2 plot).


Not true, you can get the helix without becomnig their enemy. Just trick the ilwrath to kill them all.

Anyway, my favourite race is the best! They are the smartest, the most brave, nobel and recourseful race! Who are they? The hunam!


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Chrispy on July 28, 2003, 11:29:02 pm
too true


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Lukipela on July 29, 2003, 12:42:52 am
I'm gonna brake the rule with a combo, just beacuse. The Synth, for their sleek efficency, and the Umgah for their happy-go-lucky way of life.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Volka on July 29, 2003, 01:10:36 am
Don't have a special favorite race...I love the funny races,like the Orz..the Umgah...the Zot-fot-Pik,they're all great.
The Yehat are very fun too,not only because I love to fight with them,but they also speak funny,that accent.
And the Thraddash,I agree with player1,their background music is so cool.

And the Syreen
...those bodies man!

Herm...well...I don't like the Druuge!


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Death 999 on July 29, 2003, 01:16:03 am
I love the Chenjesu. Ship and species.
They are philosophers, highly alien. All comments on them, save one, are highly complimentary.
The Ur-Quan may claim to have far superior philosophy, but  that's highly doubtful given the culture of fear in which they live.
The Broodhome is cool -- a combination of artillery and close-up power that even outdoes the Dreadnaught (though it can't take the same punishment as the Dread).


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Melignus on August 06, 2003, 09:26:44 am
 :D :D :D
ZOQ FOT PIK all the way!!!
:D :D :D


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Novus on August 06, 2003, 12:12:20 pm
FRUNGY! FRUNGY! FRUNGY! ;D

Actually, Thraddash are kind of fun too. They blather a lot about their thick-skulled history... and they make excellent target practice for my Stingers!


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: sliteyes on August 06, 2003, 09:08:55 pm
Personally, I like the psychotic nature of the Ur-Quan, both of them. And my best friend is practically a spathi: he'll do anything to not die, up to and including killing the other dude. I've seen him smack this huge rugby dude in the balls, then smack his face left right center, just so that he won't die. Spathi alright.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Cyamarin on August 06, 2003, 10:48:27 pm
It's alla bout the Orz.  No other race in a game like this has ever been able to genuinely scare me.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Chrispy on August 07, 2003, 04:05:14 am
the ariloo kinda freak me out.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Gill_Bates on August 07, 2003, 05:37:11 am
The Orz. All through the first time I played I was always wondering what they are up to and when if and how they will betray me.
I always thought the game was somewhat about THEM.
They can easily destroy a fleet of Kzer-Za or Ilwrath ships and those were the hardest enemies for me then.
And they are funny too.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Precursors=Yeti on August 07, 2003, 10:05:28 pm
Either the Kor-Ah, Umgah or Pkunk, The Kor-Ah just because they are really cool, the Umgah because they are fun to call evil blobbies, and the Pkunk, because they remind me of my favorite cereal-froot loops.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Yehat_Sympathizer on August 08, 2003, 02:59:58 am
Yehat rules!

Cool name, great music, great culture. They also adopted the Shofixiti and they are predators all the way...


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Pimp on August 08, 2003, 03:42:28 am
The Yehat LIVE!
(http://www.angelfire.com/alt/p1mpmaster/yehat.JPG)


or not...


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...er
Post by: Krogoth255 on August 08, 2003, 09:20:12 am
Ur-Quan Kzar-Za are my favorite race because, they were original villans in Star Control universe their Dreadnoughts were fear by many and we offen refer to as Planetary Siege Units and for good reason too.
Althought, their Kohr-Ah breathen were more medceing the Kzar-Za were humble remember, they thought their doctrine wasn't proven supriour since Sa-Matra wipe out Kohr-Ah's fleet with relative ease in the First Doctrine War Kzar-Za were sort of beleviolent in a selfish manner by protecting races from Kohr-Ah or other threats by enslaving on their homeworld for Kzar-Za own benefit due to tragic history of Un-Quan.




Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: bigfoot256 on August 20, 2003, 03:20:23 am
Either the Spathi (Oh, god, please don't let me die today! Tomorrow would be so much better!) or the Slylandro (We live in a egalitarian society, everyone is equal. But that doesn't stop some from being stupid jerks).


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Chrispy on August 20, 2003, 09:19:40 am
heh heh. some of the greatest quotes in the game:D


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Sam Taylor on August 20, 2003, 12:36:53 pm
i like making the Orz Angry... "ARRGHHHH!!!! It is *Dancing*!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
but then i really like the fruit loops people.. (lol... forgot their names)


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Krulle on August 20, 2003, 02:07:54 pm
'On behalf of the Utwig Proctors I truly hope, for your sake
that your day has been better than ours
although this really isn't saying that much'

I like best the Supox.
'Greetings and Salutations. May the fertilizer flow on your roots.'
Maybe we just should try to plant a colony of the Supox Utricularia on our Earth or on Unzervalt in the 'Perfectly Good and Nutritious Dirt'.
I just love symbiotic people (regarding the fleshy environment, i do not know if the Umgah are parasitic or symbiotic. Probably the first).

I even like the Wearers of Masks.
'Ha ha, don't worry. Hey! I laughed! How could I do that?
Now I sink into a depression that leaves me speechless.'

May Sunlight and Water always fall upon you.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Shiver on August 20, 2003, 02:28:12 pm
Oh joy, here's an original question. Hey, maybe we should do a poll of this.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: PakoPako on August 20, 2003, 02:30:21 pm
They're all such unique, and lively, it's hard to choose.
From the simple, down-to-roots Thraddash, to the Omniscient Arilou, to the egotistical VUX who use your face to punish their children...

I still gotta go with Bigfoot. Those Spathi are just WAY to hard not to love. They'll agree. Just hold a vegetable up to their head.

Not settling for second bannana to the Spathi, the ZoqFotPik take up the next slots. I mean, who could ever forget about those cute tree narfs and wood jukes? Or FRUNGY! It's the Sport of Kings! (this post is fully endorsed by it)

-=PakoPako=-


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Orz Brain on August 20, 2003, 10:40:58 pm
Orz all the way! No other race can be cute, cudly, wacky, friendly, helpful, creepy, frightining, menacing, and just plain terrifying all at the same time.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: NECRO-99 on September 09, 2003, 10:26:40 pm
If you think the Orz are "cuddly", you've got to check yourself into a mental hospital. I don't think they'd want to cuddle..more like chew on your head or kill you from within their vac-suits.

Even if you were to try to cuddle with an Orz, you'd have to be able to breathe liquid ethanol.

Hey! There's a good way to kill em! Open a little hole in their hull and drop a match! HEHEHE!!! ;D


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Deep-Jiffa on September 09, 2003, 10:30:52 pm
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Orz all the way! No other race can be cute, cudly, wacky, friendly, helpful, creepy, frightining, menacing, and just plain terrifying all at the same time.


Humans maybe?


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: NECRO-99 on September 11, 2003, 12:02:21 am
Wonder if that's possible for a hunam.

*big happy grin* "Hello, my name is Bob!" *puts on a nice, fuzzy sweater* "Would you like to put this rabbit on your head and we can play William (cotton)Tell? C'mon pal, it'll be fun! Here, let me put the rabbit on your head for you. Look at it...it's beady eyes...the twichy nose...eeheehehehe.... BOO!!! Ahahaha, I scared the rabbit, and you! Hey, catch that rabbit and put it back on your head or I'll skin you alive! Ok, good...now where's my shotgun..."

There, that's in order: cute, cuddly, wacky, friendly, helpful, creepy, frightining, menacing, and just plain terrifying.

Maybe if you went to an asylum you could find someone like that...


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Deep-Jiffa on September 12, 2003, 04:43:37 pm
Yehats, funny, dramatic, specie with honor and ofcourse nice music and voices! ( my favourite."..... But now we are faced with the cruellest truth!...
...We who have sacrificed our honor! We who have lain with our enemy!
WE ARE NOT WORTHY! WE ARE NOTHING!...We are less than nothing.
But wait! We are not Spathi."  ;D)

I just love how the aliens make fun of spathi.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Orz Brain on September 12, 2003, 10:02:49 pm
THE BEST SF RACES OF ALL TIME:

(1) The Borg from Star Trek. (I'd sure like to marry the borg queen. She's err um very nice.)

(2) The Bugs from Starship Troopers. (I'd sure like to have that Brain Bug for a pet. It was so cute and cudly!)

(3) The Metroids from Super Metroid. (I'd like to have an Omega Metroid as a pet.)

(4) The Orz from Star Control. (I'd sure like to try a mind meld with em.)


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: NECRO-99 on September 12, 2003, 11:15:18 pm
Yea, I'd love to have a Metroid.

"Hey, what the hell is that ugly dog? Hahahaha, it looks like a disfigured jellyfish with three eye---what the? HEY! GET IT OFF!! GET It Offf....get it off...ge...get it....*thud*"

Hmmm...
A freaky thought occured to me. Merge the timelines of Star Trek: TNG and Starcraft.

What if the Borg met the Zerg? Mechanized Zerglings or Ultralisks with titanium plating and laser optics in their eyes.  :o Bye bye rest-of-lifeforms in the universe!


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Lukipela on September 12, 2003, 11:18:49 pm
Now that is an entertaining thought. I woulddearly like to see that movie. On one side the BorgZerg, and on the other the sissy federation trying to get along with the insane humans in Starcraft.

"Greeting fellow human lifefform, we come in peace".

"Yeee-Haww!! Let's toast us a sissy!" (Cue Firebat)


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: NECRO-99 on September 12, 2003, 11:30:12 pm
Phaser Mk. VII vs. M-246 Gauss Rifle. Not even a contest.
Photon Torpedos vs. Yamato Cannon. *laughs*
Steamrunner class RD Bombs vs. Ghost Nuclear Strike. *laughs harder*

Add:

The other odd thought: Get the Klingons and the Protoss on the same side. I would NOT want to be on their bad side.
Carriers w/ Bird of Prey cloaking device, Klingon foot-soldiers with shielding (as if they werent dangerous enough!) and Negh'var Battlecrusiers with the ability to warp other ships near/stop time. *shudders*


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Lukipela on September 12, 2003, 11:38:24 pm
Completely unrelated to this other than it features borg and is a funny way to defeat them :  If you can't beat them, join them! (http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971003)

On the other hand, this new hyper breed you just deviced could simply be taken out by an greater adversary. Predators merged with Dark Jedi into lightsaberwielding invisible hunters with the ability to use the force! ... ok, maybe we are getting a bet over the top here :)


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: NECRO-99 on September 12, 2003, 11:53:06 pm
Calm down, Luki...


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: Lukipela on September 13, 2003, 03:35:58 am
Can't calm down when I'm on a roll. Can't you just imagine it? The invisible predator, high up in a tree, looking through his fancy vision at the futile forms of the human trekkers down in ther jungle. He closes his eyes, summons the force, and WHAM!

Two dead from plasma fire before they know what hit them.
One choking on a force grip.
Three slashed to pieces by a lightsaber attack.

wicked.


Title: Re: Whats you favorite race...
Post by: bigfoot256 on September 13, 2003, 05:53:59 am
And then four monstrous trolls jump out of the bush, clobbering them with wooden clubs.  :P