5902

Shizzle my hairy nizzles! Starflight!!!

5903

That you are a very old man.

5904

Then get off my damned lawn.

5905

You only played through Star Control 2 once? I played through it at least 5 times. And that’s not even counting the countless hours I spent huddled around the keyboard with someone else in Super-melee mode.

I’ve never played Starflight 1 and 2 though. I’m going to go by your earlier recommendation and stay away. (I believe you said that they don’t hold up as well as Star Control 2 does, because the core combat engine isn’t as well designed and as fun).

5906

Divine Divinity is $2.99 this weekend.

One of the greatest RPGs of all time and criminally underrated/under appreciated. Playing Skyrim now is actually recalling that DD is sort of like an old-school isometric 2D Skyrim or ES game. While it doesn’t have as much content, it’s an entire world that’s open to explore and chock full of quests. And whatever you may have heard, it is NOT a Diablo clone aside from a stylistic/graphical resemblance.

Also has a great sense of humor, and excellent soundtrack.

And one of the stupidest names of all time. I mean, really, they could have just called the damn thing “Divinity”.

5907

Starflight is probably my all-time favorite computer game. I loved that game so much when I first played it. Not sure how well it would hold up nowadays, though, especially if you’ve already played it once and know the story. But I’ll probably get it just for the nostalgia value, since it’s pocket change and comes with SF2 (which I know I played, but don’t really remember).

Anyone bought them yet? Do they run correctly?

5908

They ran fine for me. :-)

5909

Starflight is probably my all-time favorite computer game. I loved that game so much when I first played it. Not sure how well it would hold up nowadays, though, especially if you’ve already played it once and know the story. But I’ll probably get it just for the nostalgia value, since it’s pocket change and comes with SF2 (which I know I played, but don’t really remember).

Anyone bought them yet? Do they run correctly?

5910

Thanks, may give DD a try.

You have to wonder how many sales were lost because of the title. What were they thinking? Or did they use a random title generator?

5911

They are belgian. They thought the name was cool.

5912

I always thought it was tongue in cheek to go along with the humor in the game.

5913

They were forced to use that name by German publisher CDV. It sounded like a Suske & Wiske comic book title, we Belgians know how stupid that sounds, even in English.

5914

Bought Divine Divinty thanks to y’all.

Except I didn’t. I clicked on Beyond Divinity instead, and didn’t realize it until the receipt arrived. That’ll teach me not to double-check before hitting submit. So, guess I just shot the discount, but at least it goes to the good cause that is GOG.

5915

lol. Beyond Divinity is more fun if you haven’t played the original first (IMO), so maybe it was for the best if you were planning on getting both eventually.

5916

I felt like the design spec for Divine Divinity was: “Lets take the combat from Diablo and the World Design/Game Structure from Baldurs Gate to make one super RPG”. They did a pretty decent job. If you can put up with (or embrace) the quirkiness that accompanied many smaller game-studio games back then.

5917

GOG’s Divine Divinity includes a 30+ page prequel story in a .pdf. It includes wonderful passages straight out of Faulkner, such as this:

Jemthorn of the elves slammed his waraxe into Chaos’ skull
and it connected with a bone-jarring crunch, without seeming
to be harmed the black shape tore the elf’s arm clean out of
his socket in a spray of gouting blood. Carnage was the master
of this battle as Zakx fell to the Chaos Lord’s black finger,
driven into his skull like a twisted dagger…he staggered
backwards and fell to the ground. Duke Dylan Ferol leapt from
his horse and tried to wrestle with Chaos, who grabbed the
man held both his arms, tilted his own head to the side then
slammed him into the ground – breaking his back, rolling him
over and crushing his chest like he was treading on a pair of
well used bellows…he died spitting blood.

And such punctuation!

5918

“Carnage is my master” - that’s sig-worthy!

5919

I read that entire thing out of sheer morbid curiousity. You’d think they would have had a native English speaker at least give it a once-over, but no.

5920

Actually its credited to:

Written by Damon Wilson
Re-Written and Edited by Darren Evans and Gillian Pearce

So this is after Darren and Gillian went over Damon’s original draft. Wow.

5921

I respect a game’s place in history, so what you’re saying counts for something. But one of the things that is so great about SC2 is how truly playable it still is. Not sure if that’s true about Starflight. Either way, I’m happy to own them and I’ll be giving them a try. I certainly hope they are up on Star Control’s level, from a contemporary perspective.