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Offline BloodEagle

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No (Star Control Reboot)
on: July 22, 2013, 03:29:31 pm
  

Offline An4ximandros

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #1 on: July 22, 2013, 03:50:47 pm
BloodEagle:


As for me: Aww yiss! I hope they succeed at getting the original peeps onboard, at least Paul Reiche III.


 Plus, Spoon will have a source of extra... "ideas" for the Hertak. :L
 

Offline niffiwan

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #2 on: July 22, 2013, 04:21:18 pm
 :(  Stardock seem to be a pretty good dev company, but it means it most likely won't be released for Linux (or OSX).  Boo.  :(
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #3 on: July 22, 2013, 04:23:34 pm
I am not yet ready to panic.
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Offline Lorric

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #4 on: July 22, 2013, 04:49:55 pm
Quote from: BloodEagle on July 22, 2013, 03:29:31 pm
DO NOT WANT

Why so pessimistic? You don't have to buy it. It might come good if they're scooping up the people who made Star Control 2.
 

Offline newman

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #5 on: July 22, 2013, 05:10:32 pm
Two possibilities. It will either be bad, or good. If it's bad, the original StarControl games won't suddenly get erased from existence. If it's good, we'll get something new in that excellent franchise. I don't see what do we have to lose here to inspire such negative reactions. At worst it'll be something to ignore, not like there's a new Star Control game being made every year and this will somehow spoil it.. For me even the possibility of a good new Star Control game is good news.
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Offline niffiwan

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #6 on: July 22, 2013, 05:23:29 pm
You're right of course, my unhappiness is more the fear that the game *will* be good, but I'll have to jump through many hoops in order to play it (i.e. WINE for both the stardock delivery app & the game itself)
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Offline Hobbie

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #7 on: July 22, 2013, 06:26:18 pm
Noooooooooowait. Stardock is doing it?

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES. After they managed to make GalCiv2 funny (one of my most favouritest games of all time) I am heartily buying this.
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Offline Spoon

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #8 on: July 22, 2013, 07:31:51 pm
At least they aren't going to turn it into a FPS like that 'syndicate reboot'... right?  :nervous: RIGHT?

Quote from: NGTM-1R on July 22, 2013, 04:23:34 pm
I am not yet ready to panic.
Same.
yet
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Offline Hades

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #9 on: July 22, 2013, 08:39:55 pm
Quote from: Spoon on July 22, 2013, 07:31:51 pm
At least they aren't going to turn it into a FPS like that 'syndicate reboot'... right?  :nervous: RIGHT?

Quote from: NGTM-1R on July 22, 2013, 04:23:34 pm
I am not yet ready to panic.
Same.
yet
Stardock didn't even publish/dev the Syndicate reboot you giant farce, how is that relevant?
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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #10 on: July 22, 2013, 08:45:48 pm
Quote from: Hades on July 22, 2013, 08:39:55 pm
Stardock didn't even publish/dev the Syndicate reboot you giant farce, how is that relevant?

Try turning on your brain. JUST FOR ONCE.

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Offline Hades

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #11 on: July 22, 2013, 08:47:51 pm
Quote from: Spoon on July 22, 2013, 08:45:48 pm
Quote from: Hades on July 22, 2013, 08:39:55 pm
Stardock didn't even publish/dev the Syndicate reboot you giant farce, how is that relevant?

Try turning on your brain. JUST FOR ONCE.

HADES. ANSWER ME.
WHAT IS A MAN.
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<batwota> wow
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Offline Spoon

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #12 on: July 22, 2013, 08:49:28 pm
Quote from: Hades on July 22, 2013, 08:47:51 pm
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As expected from my pupil. An excellent answer.
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[02:44] <@Axem> with 2 of them
 

Offline BloodEagle

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #13 on: July 22, 2013, 09:03:01 pm
Quote from: Lorric on July 22, 2013, 04:49:55 pm
Quote from: BloodEagle on July 22, 2013, 03:29:31 pm
DO NOT WANT

Why so pessimistic? You don't have to buy it. It might come good if they're scooping up the people who made Star Control 2.

I might be displaying my distaste a little early, but History has shown that these things tend to be bad (in my humble opinion) more often than not.

And I subscribe to the school of thought that a <book / game / movie / thing> can be harmed overall by additional works.  I'm usually pretty good about ignoring these -- but this is not always the case.
 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #14 on: July 23, 2013, 02:56:07 am
Besides, you want to really panic about the Wargaming ownership of both GPG and the Total Annihilation IP.

Or the fact MoO is now in play again.
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Offline phatosealpha

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #15 on: July 23, 2013, 01:41:02 pm
It's worth noting that all content of the Star Control games is still property of Toys For Bob.  The only thing they bought was the name.
 

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #16 on: July 24, 2013, 03:27:59 pm
Quote from: Lorric on July 22, 2013, 04:49:55 pm
Quote from: BloodEagle on July 22, 2013, 03:29:31 pm
DO NOT WANT

Why so pessimistic? You don't have to buy it. It might come good if they're scooping up the people who made Star Control 2.
Brad Wardell is a pretty ample excuse for any and all pessimism.
 

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #17 on: July 24, 2013, 03:59:41 pm
Quote from: BloodEagle on July 22, 2013, 09:03:01 pm
Quote from: Lorric on July 22, 2013, 04:49:55 pm
Quote from: BloodEagle on July 22, 2013, 03:29:31 pm
DO NOT WANT

Why so pessimistic? You don't have to buy it. It might come good if they're scooping up the people who made Star Control 2.

I might be displaying my distaste a little early, but History has shown that these things tend to be bad (in my humble opinion) more often than not.

And I subscribe to the school of thought that a <book / game / movie / thing> can be harmed overall by additional works.  I'm usually pretty good about ignoring these -- but this is not always the case.
Star Control III is widely regarded as a travesty; doesn't stop people from enjoying the first two games.
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Offline Torchwood

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #18 on: July 26, 2013, 04:50:24 am
Is it just me, or are there a lot of remakes/reboots announced nowadays? X-Com, Homeworld, and now another Star Control. I wonder if it will be more of a strategy game like SC1 or more exploration oriented like SC2.
 

Offline Luis Dias

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Re: No (Star Control Reboot)
Reply #19 on: July 26, 2013, 06:26:17 am
It will be basically Mass Effect.
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