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Topic: NEWS: Toys for Bob go for a new Star Control and need your help (READ!) (Read 139206 times)
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Qwer
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Here's what i'd like to see in new Star Control:
- plot as good as in SC2
- more ROTFLish texts 
- MP Super Melee
- game style similar to SC2, but with some plot-forced driffence.
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Draxas
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Yes, all mathematics textbooks should be rewritten, and all experimental aircraft in the aeronautical museums reclassified, simply because there's people out there on skateboards who think they are "xtreme". On a similar note, I guess we should also consider the duudssonit group, average representatives of your eXtreme culture, eh? 
I suppose it might be relevant to mention that we're not discussing mathematics nor experimental airplane design, but video games. In that regard, the X takes on a totally different meaning than "algebra variable." Not to say that you didn't mean it in that context when you proposed it, but I (and I imagine, most others) tend to have a different frame of reference when I consider video games, as opposed to mathematics. In this case, that frame of reference sees X in the pop-culture light.
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Zarnium
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Well, whether they use an X or Y or W for the title, I'm afraid i won't be able to play it. I have an older computer that doen't handle 3d very well, so if they actually make it compatible, I'm afraid if they make it 3d I won't be able to play and be stuck with Ur-Quan masters for the rest of my life...
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Deus Siddis
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From Lukipela
Fair enough. How about SCW?
I'm not sure people would see it as a variable. Looking at it, my first assumption is that the W stands for War, and not just a mystery. I guess you mean it stands for "What?," perhaps?
If you are somehow implying that SC isn't groovy, I shall be forced to declare you a heretic and have you burnt at the stake
PLEEEAAASE don't hurt me, oh greatest of species, PLEEEAAASE! Think of my wife and little blobbies at home. . .err, I mean- AIEEEE! No! Please be merciful! Not my claw! Please, no! I beg of you! The Pain! NO!
/nobodyexpectsthespanishinquisition
Oh, you were only joking, I'm glad you cleared that up. Smerg, smerg. . .I mean. . .snork, snork, snork.
From DavidPartay:
We just do what we do because we love doing it! To us, it's just skateboarding.
I understand entirely, we feel the same way about burning heretics at the stake. To us it's just a bonfire.
From Draxas:
I suppose it might be relevant to mention that we're not discussing mathematics nor experimental airplane design, but video games.
Indeed, as it would be to mention that we are not discussing "extreme" sports, but a SciFi Action/RPG.
However, mathematics has to do with numbers, and the symbols that represent them like 1, 2, 3, 4, and X, amoung others, are highly relevant. Thus, when these have been invoked through the use of a "2" or a "3" in a title like "Star Control 2: the Ur-Quan Masters" or "Star Control 3: Flush this Crap Down your Toilet," it is fair to assume that you can use others, like 0, 1, 4, X, etc.
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Zarnium
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I think they should just call it Starcon and leave it at that, like they were going to do. That way it doesn't scare off people who haven't played before, like "hmmm, haven't played the first 3, better not buy it."
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Aya Reiko
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I'll support it as long as SC3 is officially removed from canon. They don't even need to include a number. Just call it "Star Control: _____". Fill in the blank with whatever they want. For example, they could call it "Star Control: Black Spathi Squadron", or anything else that'd fit.
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Lukipela
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I'm not sure people would see it as a variable. Looking at it, my first assumption is that the W stands for War, and not just a mystery. I guess you mean it stands for "What?," perhaps?
Star Control: What? seems a good choice  . And war will very probably be involved on some level, or at least i certainly hope so. If there is a sentient league that tells me I can't attack funny-looking people again, I shall be very cross.
Think of my wife and little blobbies at home. . .err, I mean- AIEEEE!
Somehow it makes sense that you'd be a blobby Umgah. Twisted sense of humour, mischievous, not as much evil as deranged.
Oh, you were only joking, I'm glad you cleared that up. Smerg, smerg. . .I mean. . .snork, snork, snork.
Shouldn't that be HAR HAR HAR?
Indeed, as it would be to mention that we are not discussing "extreme" sports, but a SciFi Action/RPG.
I think that Draxas meant that if someone only seesthe title SCX, they'll assume tht it is an extreme game of one sort or another. This whole conversation was originally about a non-confusing name for a sequel. Your own argument that UQM:2 would infer a similar engine to UQM seems based on the same assumption; that people who do not already know about the project will become confused.
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« Last Edit: September 19, 2006, 06:46:12 pm by Lukipela »
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What's up doc?
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Deus Siddis
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Somehow it makes sense that you'd be a blobby Umgah.
I am? Well I guess that would be a step up then.
Twisted sense of humour, mischievous, not as much evil as deranged.
I'm not real big on gmos though.
Shouldn't that be HAR HAR HAR?
Wrong blobby.
I think that Draxas meant that if someone only seesthe title SCX, they'll assume tht it is an extreme game of one sort or another.
Not if they see it on this forum. Remember, if you mention "SC" anywhere else, people will probably think you refer to StarCraft or another game. So people here will know what you mean.
Your own argument that UQM:2 would infer a similar engine to UQM seems based on the same assumption; that people who do not already know about the project will become confused.
Just the opposite, people who know about UQM will think that UQM2 is an offshoot of the project. SCX is a place-holder title for people who already know a little about the projects and history of this universe. And again, many think that a sequel to SC2 would not revolve around the UQ anyway. That is my biggest complaint about "UQM2" as a title- it assumes the project is about Ur-Quan and their thralls.
However, mathematics has to do with numbers, and the symbols that represent them like 1, 2, 3, 4, and X, amoung others, are highly relevant. Thus, when these have been invoked through the use of a "2" or a "3" in a title like "Star Control 2: the Ur-Quan Masters" or "Star Control 3: Flush this Crap Down your Toilet," it is fair to assume that you can use others, like 0, 1, 4, X, etc.
I couldn't agree more.
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Draxas
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I've got it. Simple, elegant, perfectly descriptive:
NSC = New Star Control
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