Star Control II Remake

[CygnusZ]

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2872407,00.html

Anybody else here have really fond memories of Captain Fwiffo and the gang?

[Apocalypse]

Never played it but I have always wanted to. I really don't know where to find it. I've never seen it in stores or at abandonware sites. I haven't really ever looked that hard though.

[Urban Ranger]

This is excellent news. The original game was almost a legend, even though the combat system sucked

[Father Beast]

Back when I had a crummy thrift store 386, somebody got this game for me from...... a Thrift store! unfortunately, even though the manual made me drool, I was never able to play it because of the old manual warfare copy protection method. and I didn't have the star chart....

[Urban Ranger]

Oh man, that rots.

[CygnusZ]

It's abandonware now. So you can pick it up at this link:

http://home.freeuk.com/a51/games/sc2.htm

[CapTVK]

It never will be as good as the original, I hope it doesn't suck as SC3 did.

My favourite race had to be zoq-phot-pick (an enlightened but very, very, very naive race of birds) or the spathi (think of a cowardly clam armed with a howitzer) .

[CapTVK]

Oh wait, it's going to be more of a remake and it seems to involve the original designers. This could be worthwhile!

[Eroberer]

Badass! I hope to see several games follow this trend: All the Kings Quests, all the Space Quests, A few Monkey Islands, Ascendancy, Sam & Max Hit the Road...maybe even Daggerfall. I want to see a trend like this; something maybe developers do when they're at home and bored or something.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by CapTVK
My favourite race had to be zoq-phot-pick (an enlightened but very, very, very naive race of birds) or the spathi (think of a cowardly clam armed with a howitzer) .

The Zoq-Fot-Pick (or something like that) are a bunch of plant-like beings. The birds you're thinking about are a relative of the Yehats (something like that), a member of the Alliance.

[Guynemer]

One word:

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

One of the Greatest Games Ever (TM).

And the naive, new-age spiritual birds were the Pkunk, old relatives of the Yehat.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger

The Zoq-Fot-Pick (or something like that) are a bunch of plant-like beings. The birds you're thinking about are a relative of the Yehats (something like that), a member of the Alliance.

The Zoq-Fot-Pik (3 species IIRC) were the race just inside Ur-Quan space that were constantly under attack. Their ships had that "stinger" weapon (kinda like a flamethrower) but you hardly ever got the chance to use it as the Dreadnoughts/Marauders blew you away before getting close.

The "enlightened" (read new-age on steroids - and other things ) birds were the Pkunk - a hated offshoot of the Yehat race.
Their ships were the fastest thing around and used psychic energy as a basis for their weapons - hence the insults the Pkunk pilots kept throwing around to keep themselves "worked up".

[CygnusZ]

I think that thing was actually a tounge! Really powerful too,I could take down the Ur-Quan ships in the damn thing.

One of the thing that amazes me is how well the dialogue was done for each of the races. They all had a unique feel with real personality. I'm a little hesitant about the addition of voice acting (this will be based off the 3D0 version) to the game because it dissapointed me so much in SC3 (having to actually LISTEN to the Spathi regurgitate their entire script from SC2 was agnoy).

Maybe it's just me, but unless the voice acting is AAA material, it would generally ruin the game.

[Urban Ranger]

Personally I suck at melee (ship-to-ship combat), though a friend of mine is excellent.

Any clues on how to fly the ships better?


ravagon,

Yeah, they looked like plants though.

[Scouse Gits]

Yeah - the melee was a click fest - that I could never master -- but nontheless a GREAT game...

SG[1]