Star Control Discussion Board

Captain, with all due respect, I know your experiences with the Ilwrath have been traumatic, but perhaps emulating their methods is not the best way to deal with your issues.

That has not stopped big companies with deep pockets pulling down these things before. Like it or not, we are using trademarked terms and copyrighted imagery, and who owns those rights is exactly what is in dispute here. I doubt any of us here in this community would have the money, ability, and tim...

When you said "does not necessarily need to have Ilwrath present", the concept that stuck in my mind was sort of a horror/Werewolf style story. Out of the 30 crew, one is *other*, and is slowly eliminating the Spathi one by one for whatever nefarious purpose (or maybe the lack of one, which is it's ...

I swear, no sleazy, underhanded tactic is below them at this point. The whole situation only gets more troubling with each update.

Well, it took only a couple of months before this got caught up in legal limbo, and the stories of suits and countersuits overshadowed the announcement completely. We've been discussing that for nearly a year as well, and I'm guessing we will be for several more to come. Maybe once that's wrapped up...

Against my better judgment, I actually played the game because I wanted to know how much was reused from the previous installement. Here are a few things: 1) the gameplay itself is okay at best, lander is horrible, combat dynamics are weird, exploration in general is okay 2) The aliens are extremel...

And you'll note, Stardock wants UQM now in addition to the classic SC games. I'd suggest everyone that doesn't have a copy, grab one soon before the Cease and Desist shows up. I am disappointed to have called this all the way back in March. I will have to make a point to redownload the latest versi...

Ah, the Utwig. As others have mentioned, I always imagined their lines read in solemn, dignified resignation of their fate. Suffice to say, that was back when I was playing the DOS version, which had no voiceovers. The voice actor clearly took a different approach to their line readings. It's made t...

Like I said, not totally factually accurate. A lot of the statements you could dispute the legitimacy of come from a place of having clearly played and most likely finished the games, but not really gone into huge depth with them like those of us in the fandom have. So it makes sense that first impr...

So, at long last, the folks over at Hardcore Gaming 101 finally covered the SC series. It starts here with SC1, and covers the 3 officially released games in the series. The articles pull no punches, and some of the details are not completely factually accurate, but I've known some of the writers ar...