>you see, we were oppressed once a long time ago, now we have to oppress, enslave, and exterminate everyone because of it.
Ur Quan Masters/Star Control 2
>you see, we were oppressed once a long time ago, now we have to oppress, enslave, and exterminate everyone because of it.
Literally the story of mankind.
no antisemitism on Ganker please
yes you should instead trade with human lives instead of filthy credits.
The Ur-Quan didn't exterminate anyone. They're relatively cool.
these ones didnt, anyway.
thoughts on the new game?
Are those spider squirrels?
I guess. Whatever they are, they're little freaks.
This looks halfway decent. Wonder if it will actually be good or another example of old devs having lost their touch.
on the one hand, its all the old devs coming back together. on the other hand, they're in san francisco. i'm holding out hope it'll be more of the same rather than trying to fix it with modern sensibilities.
surely whatever happens, it'll be better than star control 3 right?
yeah the old devs are involved and the dev team are all white dudes. that being said, they've basically already confirmed they're going to make the shofixti less overtly racist and the syreen less sexualized. other than that, everything seems to be about the same. i don't mind it so long as they don't take it too far and make all the syreen fat or something. the syreen have a reason for wearing less clothing anyways, their planet is hotter than earth.
i mean, it could be funny if the syreen ended up in parkas after all.
>they're going to make the shofixti less overtly racist and the syreen less sexualized.
literally unplayable
seems pretty implausible to expect anything but political correctness.
old people may retain some of their older beliefs but no one escapes the march of time and social progress.
This. The march of time and social progress culminates in the ascension of the Antichrist, the ultimate beneficiary of the march and progress.
Depends on how close you want it to be to the original, but if its Pistol Shrimp (which has the old devs onboard) there's a good chance it will be solid. Apparently this is from the prototype build for the Kickstarter on April 16th so that's neat. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if for no other reason that the original was great for its time, and the oldgay devs A) allowing the best version of the game to go open source and B) basically supported it FOSS for 30 fricking years.
the old devs have all already fricked off. it was just some help with tool development and storyline shit.
i thought it was just the one guy who bailed and the rest were still in?
maybe i misremember and fred is still onboard, but is there anybody else from the old team? dunno. maybe they can make it work. just hope they managed to wring all of the story/lore juice out of paul.
Paul left because he retired, he completed writing the entire plot and designing all the new aliens.
https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2023/09/uqm2-update-summer-2023/
No voice acting or is it just early footage? I know the original games were like that but I really love the voices in Star Control II, they're very unique
Nice to see new races but I really hope we still get most of the old cast, they're just all so memorable
proto-umgah or v2?
New game?
Yes, frick you, it's preemptive self defense
so they are nig analogs?
no, that's the kohr-ah.
they are murderous and have dark skin.
AAAA FWIFFO HELP
he's not gonna help, he's been hiding under the table for hours and you know it
They did nothing wrong
Eventually, everyone would reincarnated into kohr-ah anyways, so if anything they are the good guys
if you found a hypno-toad race that enslaved you for thousands of years and the only way to break yourself free was to subject yourself to horrific levels of pain you'd go both insane and incredibly xenophobic and that's pretty much what happened to the ur-quan. even before their enslavement, the ur-quan were very territorial predators who had a sort of natural hostility which they were only able to overcome because of the taalo.
Absolute kino theme
For me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpAE_inNlE
This track is absolutely burned into my brain and I love it
literally me
Reminder to get the free version on Steam and not the now obsolete older version
begone fot
yes, preemptively attacking every race they meet and enslaving them is a logical course of action if they fear being enslaved again
I predict following the destruction of the Sa-Matra, the Ur-Quan are gonna try and settle the differences between their two sub-races and go back to the original Ur-Quan, erasing the last traces of Dnyarri culture
Have you asked AI to draw the races?
Are you a happy camper?
We will have a really big party.
In their defense they are doing it to prepare for the return of their brethren.
Ur Quan is a Black person
I went to Earth and some alien told me to stay put, nothings happening so I went to Earths moon got resources and now I am truly stumped as to what to do next. If i leave the system some robot race nukes my ass, but I don't see any other place I can go?
Talk to the commander at the starbase. He'll get you on track.
Pluto might be interesting... 9th planet from the sun...
>9th planet from the sun.
Fwiffo, darling.
Isn't the Ur Quan story just a retooled story of how the mind flayers enslaved the gith in AD&D 2e lore? Instead of the githyanki/githzerai it's the green/black Ur Quan and instead of mind flayers it's the dnyarri.