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Topic: Stardock looking to aquire Star Control rights. (Read 7693 times)
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Mormont
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I'm not sure how I feel about this. Stardock is a great company, but if they can't somehow get FF and PR on board (and they probably can't), I'd rather there be no sequel.
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Novus
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Gamasutra has the actual article.
Stardock's CEO seems to know what he's talking about; his position on SC3 is "We just pretend that never happened". That said, I'd rather see TFB do UQM2, but the additional interest from Stardock could help convince Activision that there's a business case for it.
I haven't actually played any of Stardock's games, but they seem to be big in the turn-based strategy genre. Whether this would translate to a good UQM2 is, to put it mildly, unclear (after all, Legend was a big player in graphical adventures, and look what we got).
Moderator edit: merged from Starbase Café
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« Last Edit: November 19, 2008, 07:53:40 pm by meep-eep »
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Personally I am not opposed to a Star Control spin-off, with some guidance by TFB. It wouldn't have to be a "sequel" but rather just a "game" in the SC universe. I'm ok with that.
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Stardock is a great company. Their turn-based games are great (Galactic Civilizations I and II), but they also have awesome real time strategy games (Sins of a Solar Empire, although Sword of the Stars was only "ok.").
But one of the reasons I really support Stardock is their position on copyright protection. They don't mess around with CD keys, passwords, authentication or any crap like that. I think UGM move from UGM and open source to UGM2 and Stardock would be a perfect progression.
Seriously, all of you UGM people should check out GC1&2 and SoaSE.
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Weren't some of Stardock's games MoO clones with the serial number filed off? If so, they have explored their own artistic vision, and might be willing to stay more true to the original with the MoO license. I've never really seen anyone do a truly faithful (next-gen jump) sequel though, so I remain skeptic.
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Weren't some of Stardock's games MoO clones with the serial number filed off? If so, they have explored their own artistic vision, and might be willing to stay more true to the original with the MoO license. I've never really seen anyone do a truly faithful (next-gen jump) sequel though, so I remain skeptic.
2D Mario to 3D Mario wasn't bad. Actually, most of Nintendo's stuff seems to have survived the transition in good condition.
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But Nintendo has made sequels steadily, so the mutation isn't as noticeable in many cases. We'll see how they'll treat Kid Icarus. There was a GB version but it's quite unknown.
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I'd certainly buy another Star Control game, SC2 is my 2nd favorite game of all time. It would be especially nice, in my opinion, if ALL the ships from all the games (including the new one & SC3) were available in SuperMelee (though not necessarily in the full game). I'd love to see a Ship from SC3 or the new game pitted against a Yehat Terminator, Druuge Mauler, Ilwarth Avenger, or Thraddash Torch in SuperMelee (or whatever they choose to call it in a new game).
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I just hope it's not PC only and beyond what my computer can handle. Maybe I'll have a new computer by then though.