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It's not, it's being done by Stardock, creators of low budget (mostly) crappy games. They've sued the original Star Control creators for the full rights to the game and name, claiming that they didn't in fact create the game and hence don't own the rights. They've gone far off the deep end.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...suit-aims-to-invalidate-stardocks-trademarks/

The good news is that Fred and Paul are making their own Star Control game.

 

At this point I'm not sure what to expect from a Star Control game. I'm not sure how to put it, but pretty much everything I can imagine that is associated with oldschool Star Control just won't fly today.

Not to mention that without rights to original IP you can't even reproduce stuff that is supposed to work for nostalgia factor. And I imagine they have to work on indie level budgets on top of that.

 

Started playing Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong Electric Boogaloo Edition and it's really fun, the series has come a long way since Dead Man's Switch.

 

Some explicit words in various languages.

I think it would fly especially in Indy levels because "hunams" still have humour and love some political incorrectness

Now what I would want? obviously UR QUAN (kzer Za)

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and some Thraddash of course

 

I wish they'd have the courage to ditch the SuperMelee 1 on 1 ship fights. The only reason it was done that way in the past is because that was what pc's were capable of then. Nowadays something like Starsector would be what I would imagine from Star Control space combat. SCII's main attraction was the story and campaign anyway.

http://fractalsoftworks.com/

 

Those 1v1 fights ensured that battles were counterpick fests anyway. Thinking about it, I would probably agree.

 

I picked this up a while ago too but haven't played, have been playing Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun which I wanted to finished before starting anything else with a tactical element. Got XCOM 2 I haven't really played and got Xenonauts for free too

I bought BF1 in the sale but my i5-4460 couldn't handle it, not much hope for BFV either I guess and don't really want to drop £400 on a new CPU / mobo / case / RAM

 

"DocWagon" was the equivalent from Shadowrun (in Shadowrun, as I recall, it was the ONLY service) ... it wasn't in CP. The TraumaTeam competition in 2013/2020 was REO Meatwagon (a pun on the band name REO Speedwagon).

Altiera (Alt) Cunningham DOES show up in the first trailer (as the lingerie model in an advert - it's THAT piece of art from the original game.).

She was Soulkiller's first victim (she WROTE it) and she was an NPC in the C-generation stuff (so was Johnny Silverhand, the legendary rocker). As several clones. She'd figured out how to download herself back into a cloned body, but could only "copy" herself into it, not move permanently.

One thing I thought was odd in the E3 trailer were the cyber-hipsters in the record store, looking at 12" sleeves for music. The "Samurai" band logo is a reference to early cp2013/2020 - it was Johnny Silverhand's band before he went solo. I thought all music in this game world was chipped?
It's the equivalent of finding someone going through a bunch of wax cylinders in a modern music store.

The ebooks are still available on drive-thru rpg as noted. I have most of them in dead-tree format, but I also have ALL of it as digital copies, too.

Errhile is another board member who used to play the game - I know him from VftE, an old cyberpunk2020 forum.

 

Hong Kong is really cool y'all, but I think Dragonfall is still the best unless HK really steps it up.

 

I have revived a single Pkunk ship 52 times in a row, there is no counter-pick... other than been banned for life in my friends group in ever flying Pkunk again.

 

Coming utterly out of the blue, this years E3 actually gave me a lot of hype. Cyberpunk 2077 is a given, Sekiro and Nioh 2 will scratch the die-over-and-over-again itch, Ghost of Tsushima looks like an AssCreed title I actually want to play, Valkyria Chronicles 4 looks good and on top of that, there is an new Fire Emblem title coming.

 

Oh, that's easy, just delete the data from where you were copying it from :P

 

I restarted Tyranny recently on New Game+ and I'm enjoying it a lot more, partly because I didn't have to wait half the game to find a healing spell!

I went Anarchist path which is a lot of fun, Bleden Mark is an awesome bro.

The combat remains A little clunky but having a full skill tree to play with gives some needed variety and the spell system is actually really cool when you've got all the sigil and expressions combined with Lore 180+. I'd like to see more fantasy RPGs use such a customisable magic system.

The writing is superb and I'm starting to dig the Roman/early Iron Age aesthetic. The game is short for the genre but the amount of choice and consequences makes it good for at least 2-3 plays through.

 

Near a Tomato: completed. A2 was my favourite

now playing: Ori and the Blind Forest

 

I bought Ori while it was on a sale recently. Decided to give it a try since Dust: Elysian Tail clicked so well with me.
My first reaction to the prologue was "...but damn, I didn't come here to feel! :(" even though I knew from trailers what exactly was about to happen. Damn.

Seems the game is going to be harder than Dust though.

Meanwhile The Colour of Madness update/DLC came out for Darkest Dungeon. I should give it a try as well.

 

Jagged Alliance 2 for 2€ from GoG. https://www.gog.com/game/jagged_alliance_2
1.13 fan update recommended. http://ja2v113.pbworks.com/w/page/4218339/FrontPage

 

One of the best games I played on the last years. I need the sequel tomorrow!

Now playing: Detroit Become Human (PS4), Splatoon 2 Octo-Expansion (Switch), Hollow Knight (Switch)

 

Yeah, I've heard about it and I even was surprised by ability tree in Ori - what's with it having all sorts of combat upgrades. Not what I was expecting at first. But it seems that when it comes to combat, the accent is still on navigating obstacles, even though this time it's about those generated by enemies.