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Topic: Is Star Control 3 a good game? (Read 7811 times)
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wizzard
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I played Star Control 2 for the 3DO years ago.
It is a great game.
I am thinking of buying the PC game Star Control 3.
I heard that the people who made Star Control 2 didn't design it.
Is it a good game?
Will it run in WinXP?
It's the one that says:
The fate of a thousand worlds is in your hands...AGAIN
The Adventure Starts Here...
Hyper-space travel has mysteriously stopped and the fabric of the universe is unraveling.
You are the Senior Commander of the League of Sentient Races and you must prevent a catastrophic future where the universe ceases to exist.
A string of puzzling clues points you and your small fleet to the unexplored Kassari Quadrant.
There, the fate of a 1000 worlds is in your hands
Make Friends and Influence Aliens
On your mission you will meet strange and exotic alien races, learn their cultures, gather intelligence, and negotiate tactical alliances.
If you're going to save the universe you'll need all the help you can get, even if it comes from the Pkunk.
Since everything depends on you, you'll need puzzle-solving skills and an alien sense of humor!
The fabric of the universe is crumbling and its up to you to find the answer somewhere in the unexplored reached of the Kessari Quadrant.
Your are in control of a star fleet searching hundreds of planets.
Your quest is to unravel the secret to the universe's oldest and deadliest mystery
Pilot 24 different alien starships, use 48 unique weapons
· Manage the resources of over 30 colonies and 24 races
· Discover more than 40 ancient artifacts from an advanced technology
· Deploy your starfleet strategically for victorious Hyper Melee Combat
· Play Hyper Melee against the computer or a friend at the same keyboard, or across a serial, modem, or LAN connection
· Interact with 24 aliens designed by Hollywood's top- SFX artists
· An epic adventure with a huge universe to explore - over 1000 planets and moons!
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Anthony
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Star Control Lives!
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It's not a good game. The characters are puppets with very limited and repetitive movements. There are bugs in the game that can crash the game, and sometimes the fast ships just run away and the melee never ends.
And there's mining, and colony management; personally, I liked the adventure of SC2 better...
No, it will not run in Windows XP. You need to get DOSBox to run SC3.
Edit: Actually, it does run on XP.
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TiLT
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Honestly, SC3 isn't a bad game, just like the Godfather 3 isn't a bad movie. It's just that none of them can stand up to their legacies and thus pale in comparison. Don't play SC3 expecting more of what made SC2 good.
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Draxas
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SC3 is a mediocre game at best. If you liked the dialog in SC2, you'll probably get a sense of deja-vu playing the game; a great deal of it was plagarized verbatim. That remains my most abiding impression of the game to this day, 10 years later.
If you want to save yourself some time, effort, money, and likely disappointment, check out this thread instead of playing the game (Warning: Super-spoilerrific for nearly every major event in the game):
http://uqm.stack.nl/forum/index.php?topic=3206.0
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Zarnium
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You know, that title probably made some people wretch and die as soon as they saw it.
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Culture20
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Even standing on its own merits (excluding setting thrashing, copy/pasted dialogue from SC2, etc), SC3 is a bad game in my opinion. I had to restart multiple times due to time-trigger related bugs, and just plain bad design. The music was dreary; the colors were dreary; the basic plot in the game was dreary (you can't stop the big enemy, defying the whole concept of the epic story [the fate of a thousand worlds is in their hands: you had better grovel correctly!]).
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Icemage_999
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I didn't like SC3 either. Lots of nonsensical dialogue, bugs galore, poor storyline flow and writing, all of the above.
What truly killed it, though, was the absolutely horrid combat. The "3D" view was only good for getting yourself killed, and even in 2D mode the ships weren't even vaguely balanced. SC1 and SC2 both have very few matchups that are effectively un-winnable with any combination of ships, but such a situation is the norm in SC3, not the exception. It made for extremely frustrating gameplay, as you were simply forced to use certain ships to counter others due to the impossibility of hurting them (due to ship speed or defensive power).
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Lukipela
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Honestly, SC3 isn't a bad game, just like the Godfather 3 isn't a bad movie. It's just that none of them can stand up to their legacies and thus pale in comparison. Don't play SC3 expecting more of what made SC2 good.
I keep hearing this over and over from people. While I agree that the SC3 story as a standalone wasn't that bad, I still don't understand how people can just ignore:
Even standing on its own merits (excluding setting thrashing, copy/pasted dialogue from SC2, etc), SC3 is a bad game in my opinion. I had to restart multiple times due to time-trigger related bugs, and just plain bad design. The music was dreary; the colors were dreary; the basic plot in the game was dreary (you can't stop the big enemy, defying the whole concept of the epic story [the fate of a thousand worlds is in their hands: you had better grovel correctly!]).
The story is not everything. If the game is broken (and uninspiring in every way to boot), the story will not save it. Hell, if I had had to restart SC2 as often as I did SC3, I surely wouldn't be on this forum now.
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What's up doc?
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BlackSpathi
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hmmm..... my sc2 version was buggy as hell.  Lots of times when i selected a star in the starmap the game would crash. But the game was so awesome i would simply restart it immediately and continue playing. I think there are very few games where i would have put up with this.
anyways to add to the thread subject: Imho the worst about sc3 is the removal of several sc1 and sc2 ships, even from melee!
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Icemage_999
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I had the floppy disc version of SC2. Never had any issues with the starmap other than trying to find specific stars.
However, that does bring something to mind - I do recall reading somewhere a while back that the *cough*pirated*cough* version had issues with the starmap...
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