Stardock owns Star Control and is planning an "XCOM-like" reboot

#937

Oh cool, that’s sooner than I’d hoped. Thanks!

#938

So… I never played the original. There, I said it out loud.

Looking forward to this – it looks like a whole lot of fun.

#939

Wait, there was a star control before this one? Was it any good? :)

#940

Yes, Yes, and No.

#941

There were 2 Star Control games before this. Just 2.

#942

Star Control 3 is an underappreciated gem y’all. Bah, bah I say!

#943

I mainly played the melee’s of starcon 2 and 3 and honestly didn’t think the melee portion of starcon 3 was all that bad.

#944

But surely not in 3D perspective, right? You switched to top-down? That 3D mode messed with my eyeballs. Couldn’t hit shit.

#945

I could play it in either mode by the end. I started off in 2D mode, but I kept switching to 3D since it looked so pretty. And by the end of the game I was mostly playing 3D mode, even Hyper Melee mode. Your brain just needs time to adjust. It helps that in the campaign, there’s a lot of easy battles, so you can still do them easily in 3D, even when you’re not used to it yet.

#946

Yeah, hypermelee was fine in Star Control 3 - there were some good ship designs. Even the aliens were decent. It was just the game that was largely broken.

#947

The thing I remember about SC3 was that it seemed like it wanted to combine strategy and RPG together and that didn’t really work.

#948

IGN sat down with Stardock’s Patrick Shaw to take a look at Adventure Mode!

#949

May preview trailer!

#950

All right, I am down for adventure mode. That looks totally up my alley.

#951

Here’s an interview with our producer about Star Control: Origins.

#952

That is perhaps one of the most egregious mail-it-in interviews I’ve ever read. I mean, I understand mail-it-interviews, but sheesh. Those questions were straight from the “gam3z jurlnalism” class 101.

Stardock needs to have a sit down with @tomchick, not randos from the Interwebs. Then we’ll get to whole bottom of this sordid Star Control business!

#953

May dev journal is out!

#954

“any people are already somewhat aware that Mass Effect is considered a remake of Star Control II (with enough changes to keep the copyright and trademark gods happy).”

Wait; what?

I am actually really looking forward to this game – it’s obviously a Stardock all-hands-on-deck, do-or-die effort --but again, geez.

There are also mentions of that the “classic” SC2 races might show up. I thought… but Brad said…

You know what, never mind. I’m sure this sausage will be delicious and I don’t really want to know how it’s made.

#955

I thought you made that quote up as a joke.

Who are these many people? Is this just a weird attempt to appeal to Mass Effect fans?

#956

What’s weird about it? Mass Effect scratches nearly the same itch that Starflight and Star Control did for me way back when.