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Topic: The Star Control: Origins thread (Read 10211 times)
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Telemont
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I literally cannot imagine a Star Control game without some of the races or lore from Star Control 1-3. Even putting aside new races in SC3, there were lots of references to the older and more familiar races in that game. No matter what game Fred and Paul make, it cannot be publicly seen as anything but the next "Star Control" game. Stardock can make a game of their own, but without those races and lore it isn't a Star Control game. It's something else (possibly quite good) with the name Star Control slapped on like someone swapped their "Hello, I am _____" stickers.
Which... is pretty fair grounds for Fred and Pauls new game to be infringing upon the Trademark.
Stardock would have to put out their game and maybe even a second game before people start dis-associating the name Star Control with the old races and lore. Which is years and years down the road.
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Krulle
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*Hurghi*! Krulle is *spitting* again!
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Can we keep that discussion in ome of the other topics, please?
Anyway, back to topic: a short round-trip to Jupiter as a concept of proof?
And collecting minerals on the surface...
Starts good.
But the graphics are not what I'd expect of a Star Control game, but then I am biased, and simply love the more "naive" and "flat"graphics style, like classic cartoons and so.
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rosepatel
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Legal issues aside, a Star Control game without any of the old characters or races... it's hard to get excited.
I'd still be curious who is writing Origins. A Stardock guy? Someone new?
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Frogboy
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The idea was to discuss the game itself.
If the community wants to focus on activity that is outside the game itself, then that is fine too, that's just not a topic I'm interested in participating in as there are already multiple threads regarding that.
Given that the game begins in 2086, the aliens from Star Control 1/2 aren't really germane as according to Ur-Quan canon, the first time a canon race makes contact with Earth is 2112 (the Chenjesu). Therefore, any story that takes place before then would necessarily involve different species.
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Soul Reaver
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The idea was to discuss the game itself.
If the community wants to focus on activity that is outside the game itself, then that is fine too, that's just not a topic I'm interested in participating in as there are already multiple threads regarding that.
Given that the game begins in 2086, the aliens from Star Control 1/2 aren't really germane as according to Ur-Quan canon, the first time a canon race makes contact with Earth is 2112 (the Chenjesu). Therefore, any story that takes place before then would necessarily involve different species.
Since this occurs in a different universe, what it says in the manual doesn't really matter though does it?
If you went by what was in the manual, it also says Earthlings at the time of the Chenjesu contact:
"...the inhabitants of Earth, a people who, amazingly,
had never before had contact with a species other than their own. "
Which clearly won't apply in this case.
EDIT: Forgot to say though, the idea of driving/hovering along on the surface of various types of alien worlds is something I find inherently cool. I always wish Mass Effect 1 had done a better of job of it (rather than the wheeled Bouncy Castle that we ended up with)
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lostsoul
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will there be an option to create your own missions, scenarios or campaigns?
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vok3
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(This may seem a bit off topic for a while but I'll get back there eventually, trust me ...)
EDIT: Forgot to say though, the idea of driving/hovering along on the surface of various types of alien worlds is something I find inherently cool. I always wish Mass Effect 1 had done a better of job of it (rather than the wheeled Bouncy Castle that we ended up with)
This is one part of No Man's Sky that is genuinely fun. It's the closest thing I've found to an updated SC2 lander experience. It's become standard practice for me to always carry the materials for a Roamer geobay and to drop one as soon as I land on any planet, then drive around in it to do whatever it is needs doing. Works best on desert worlds, with their broad sweeping plains and gentle hills - you can really get moving fast, covering lots of distance in little time, but it's just as much fun on rainy grassland worlds, stormy acid rain baths, volcanic hellholes and Hoth-like arctics. The one environment where it really doesn't work is planets that are really rugged, ridges and gullies every few feet, with thick forests all over - I've been on a few of those and you quite literally go faster on foot.
Some of my best experiences with the game have involved the Roamer. When I finally got around to doing my run to the Hub (the region of space where NMS players were congregating and putting up bases and signposts), it took me most of a week, several hours each day of jump-jump-jump-jump-gather resources-build more warp cells-jump-jump-jump. About two thirds of the way there, I popped into the local space station, noted they had a tech upgrade for sale that I'd been looking for, but I was a few nanites short. Launch, do a scan, abandoned base detected on the planet the station was orbiting. Score! Ok, nose down and head for the ground. I figured: quick landing, hit the base, grab the nanites, back up, buy the thingy and back to jumping. I land on the shore of an ocean, jump out - whoa, super high radiation atmosphere - and wouldn't you know it, my target base is out there under the water somewhere. Ok, I figure, it's not far; I'll just set up the Roamer and drive out along the sea bottom. There's another base nearby, on land, with a landing beacon; first head there to set up the geobay so I can take off easily when all's done. It's not far, just a minute or so on foot - and good thing it's not far, because in the short time it took me to localize that base, I get attacked by two different forms of hostile life. (Two is pretty much as bad as it tends to get in NMS; just one is lots more common.) While I'm dealing with that - and desperately recharging my hazard protection along the way, which is not standing up well to "Unstable Atmosphere" conditions - the local sentinel drones get mad at my killing the poor innocent harmonious-with-nature facerippers, so now I'm shooting them too - and still frantically recharging hazard protection.
Well, I make my way to the base, discovering along the way a third form of hostile life that also wants me for lunch. Whatever, I won't be here long. Get to the beacon, set up the geobay, hop in the Roamer, head out for a peaceful undersea drive. I roll into the water, ignoring the "high radiation" warning; the waves close above the cockpit canopy, and I see something I have never before seen in NMS: elevated levels of radiation within the Roamer cockpit. I actually stopped still and just sat there looking at the numbers to see what they'd do for a few seconds. They stabilize, at high-but-still-safe levels, so I go on. With 30 seconds left to go before reaching destination, the Roamer tips over the edge of an undersea canyon, noses down, and does a beautiful slow-motion tumble into said canyon.
It quickly becomes clear that there will be no driving the Roamer out of here: it is stuck. Only thing for it: eject, swim to the drowned base, grab the nanites, then swim back to shore, recharging hazard protection AND breathing equipment the whole way. It'll be rough, but I figure I can do it.
And I do. Barely. No thanks to the two different types of aggressive aquatic life that harassed me the whole way back. (For those NMSers keeping track, that's FIVE aggressive species. On one planet. I named it Hellabad.)
This is the kind of experience I figure the SC2 lander drivers kept having. I know there were plenty of occasions where I'd take off with 1 or 2 guys left alive. It's not "core" Star Control. It's not anything I expect to see in Star Control games anytime soon. But ... it was a fun experience, and desperately searching through the hostile environment and dangerous lifeforms for that one artifact or key resource you need before you can leave this planet and hit deep space again - that's definitely something we are all familiar with. Even going back to Starflight. It doesn't need to be the focus, doesn't need to be first-person, and I'm not expecting this from Origins, but gameplay experiences of this sort would definitely fit in well with Star Control and add to the overall experience. If Origins works (and I hope it does) it might be the sort of idea we could hope to see show up in later iterations.
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tingkagol
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I'm really just excited to find out what it's like to have your landers completely decimated by planet hotspots.
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Frogboy
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The "Origins" in Origin refer to a Precursor structure that can take you to other universes.
So the idea is that you would have the Prime universe where we tell our stories and then players can also visit other universes either owned or licensed by Stardock (Sins of a Solar Empire universe, GalCiv universe, Ur-Quan universe, Babylon 5, Farscape, etc.).
Way long ago, in November 1992, when Star Control II changed my career path from being an Electrical Engineer to wanting to develop games as a career and not as a hobby, was that Star Control was a game that told a compelling story and yet was open-ended too.
These days, it seems like games want to go in one of two ways:
1. It's a giant, procedural generated thing that you have to find your own meaning.
2. It's a tight, on rails, RPG / adventure that you might as well simply hit the spacebar for to have it tell you where to go to next to get the next cut-scene.
By contrast, Star Control was really about you being a Captain Kirk going on missions but with an overarching story to it but also made it clear you were part of a much bigger universe.
(shots from the beta)
Planet exploration:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuBwidOf1nOuip0rUtv5zJwcb-FNXA
Space exporation:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuBwidOf1nOuip0qkDADgS4mJG357w
Battle:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuBwidOf1nOuip0tZvggrYDEbZvvhA
Aliens:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuBwidOf1nOuip0p7VHHmLegUBhsuQ
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