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I was pretty excited to see this interview pop up in my subscriptions on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APV_caBjO60

Nice interview. Let us know when he posts up part 2.

That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.

For those of you who see it's a 25 minute part I and wonder whether its worth watching, the answer is definitely a yes if you want to know:

• TFB's world domination plans
• What goes on in Paul's brain
• All the cool people who've inspired TFB

I'm looking forward to part II!

Also, the rest of professor Barton's Matt Chat series is also worth looking at for the retrogaming fan.

It is indeed interesting and enjoyable to watch.

I noticed Mail Order Monsters (by PR3) is in there. I never saw that game in action before, so that was interesting as well.

Absolutely.  I've been subscribed to Matt Barton's channel for quite some time, and it's a real treat for fans of retrogaming of any type, be it PC, console or tabletop.

He does brief game playthroughs, but in my opinion his more exciting videos are when he scores interviews with these legendary game designers.  To name a few -- John Romero, Arnold Hendrick, "Burger" Heineman, and of course Ford and Reiche, III.

He had hinted several episodes back that he was going to try to get an interview with Ford and Reiche, III, so I had been anticipating this video for some time.

Part 2 of the interview is up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuLGjRuaCC4

Love this series, looking forward to part 3.

Bizarrely enough, one of the most interesting things for me is hearing just how Paul and Fred pronounce the names of some of the aliens (and Riku's last name, which is something I could never figure out on my own). I guess I've been pronouncing Chenjesu wrong all these years (among others).

Part II is actually even more awesome than part I. :D

The 3DO voices are mostly consistent with Paul's and Fred's pronunciation, but there are a few surprising differences in some places (I think every voice actor pronounces 'Mmrnmhrm' differently). However, they mispronounce Riku's name; it should be something like /ˈriku ˈnuo̯ttɑjærʋi/ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_for_Estonian_and_Finnish). In particular, Finnish doesn't have a /d͡ʒ/ sound, the dots in 'ä' indicate that it's pronounced /æ/, not /ɑ/, and the distinction between short and long vowels (and likewise for consonants) is very important in Finnish.

Part 3 (the final part) is now up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJwUO--Hwmk

Honestly I'm surprised that the response to this has been rather dry.

Well, this is an oddly placed post, being in the café rather than GD. I like that they really want to get back to Star Control, but that's not news. News is them getting permission/a contract to return to Star Control.

That would cause me to whoop-de-dee and trolly bazoo greatly.

I guess the future SC should from here on be called "Star Control Returns".

I'm wondering what I should make of that "Let's call it 'Star Control Returns'". He obviously thought about the name before, but the "or something along those lines" was a bit too nonchalant for me.

It's an awesome interview, but I said that twice already. And as the others have mentioned, only confirmation of TFB working on a new SC game is really going to get people excited at this point.

I'd say getting four out of the eight or so active UQMF members in a thread is a pretty warm reception. :)

There is some discussion on this over at the SCDB as well, but not that much. I can't speak for anyone else, but SC wise I felt that these interviews only rehashed what we've heard before; the Creators want and intend to make a sequel but can't right now. Of course, they were filled with a lot of other interesting stuff as well.

To be honest, I originally posted this in General Discussion, but it was moved to Starbase Cafe.

I know this is a Star Control community, and they didn't talk a *whole* lot about Star Control, nor was there some major Star Control-related announcement, but honestly I haven't seen any sort of interaction with PR3 and FF since that IRC interview a few years back.  Personally I was super stoked to see them being interviewed by a fellow gamer and fellow fan of TFB games.

I count seven people over here and twelve on the SCDB discussing (some overlap). That's pretty much what is left of the fandom :)

There are people lurking, though, I'm sure.  Like me. :p

I'm still here as well. On & off

I love the explanation of wanting a house out in the woods, but also wanting to be able to protect yourself from bears or monsters :P Just brilliant!

yeah well, I watched the first interview but I didnt find it that interesting so I didnt watch the others.

That was quite entertaining.  I especially liked the story about the Pkunk special ability, and also the Little Witching Mischiefs development tale.

We are all around, but since news have been quite rare these days, I just peek at the foruns every other month or so...

This was a great interview, but I agree that only a new Star Control announcement could heat up this place :)

I think the Ur-Quan Masters should be published on digital platforms like STEAM to rise the interest on a sequel.

Regards and lets keet Star Controling...