Star Control Discussion Board

Greetings all! An Internet friend of mine is searching for a specific bedding print, found on an old photo. It is too bad of quality for image search, so I have spent over dozen hours past month trying to brute force search it via various keywords, not surprising without success. Most realistic opti...

After month and a half, I'm heading back to work. In fifteen minutes.

Despite immeasurable hours of practice, I doubt to ever be proficient with handling the probe...

It is Passover, so the song "Exodus" might be appropriate. The animation depicts a very simplified version of power dynamics at this tiny spot. If you are interested, list of participants is at blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/ Original song by Ernest Gold. Original animation by Nina ...

I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I enjoyed that video. I found it to be informative and objective. Even though he claims it's his favorite game, he didn't go out of his way to glorify Star Control 2 as though it's completely perfect and has zero faults. Great overview that really hit the high...

One other great thing about SC2, that usually goes unmentioned is full tutorial, teaching the player all game mechanics in fairly safe environment while not holding their hand. Quite unique for the time. Alien dialogue -> planet exploration -> resource gathering -> space combat... Only after all bas...

The Troglodyte wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:21 am

And how about you, Alvarin? Do you agree with Draxas' answer? Do you have anything you'd like to add as to the reasons why you love Star Control 2?

Fine. Yes. No.

My first encounter was SC1 at year 92(?), then quite a bit later I found SC2. Same as Draxas, still in my very top. Was really happy to have come across SC3 on CDROM... And then I played it... Played the ~modern remake of Starflight (the lost colony) but didn't enjoy it much. It was sort of uncanny ...