Star Control 3 - The Precursor Tells All 1

[Mandemon1990]

What. WHAT!? PRECURSORS ARE FUCKING COWS? Somebody clense my mind so I ma yenjoy SC2 again...

[Soulsphere001]

@Mandemon1990

More dinosaurs, which is how they're described in SC2.

[TheCottonTop]

The melee looked better and play more dynamic than in Starcon2, but the story line lacked "wow" factor of the second game. Star Control 3 had the most complex story and brings every thing togather for 1&2, but the meaning of the story was lost in all the insignificant details, and insignificant races that you wish you could just threatened to nuke if they didn't play ball.

The lack luster missions/challenges and constant condensation form lesser races is what killed some of the fun for me.

[kvn8907]

Gotta hand it to the developers, this IS an interesting way to get around the Fermi Paradox.

[DarkKnightBob1o1]

lol this is probably the best joke in this average game.

lol devolving into cows.

[superpenguin4500]

giant planetary un-devolver?!?

[WUZLE]

Probably the best part of a very bad game. There are some good ideas here, they are just buried in the crap.

[ZarlaSheenaza]

@WUZLE That's how I feel about a lot of Starcon3 really.

[AutodidacticPhd]

@WUZLE Yeah, in fact the ideas were so good that Bioware chose to rip off the story and setting almost verbatim. I've been replaying SC2 for the first time in years (though I missed SC3 first time round) and was starting to get the feeling that it was a little too similar to Mass Effect, but this clenches it. ME's story is just a SC redux.

[TheSkunkCat]

@WUZLE

Good ideas? Hardly. It turns the captain into a sort of Wesley f'in Crusher, mary-sue-ily succeeding to solve mysteries that far more advanced alien superbrains couldn't figure out over billions of years.

Then adds a repugnant little moral about how humans are better then aliens, which is hilariously arrogant coming from human writers. (And kind of racist come to think about it.)

So thanks but no thanks on the SC3 plot.

[TheSkunkCat]

@TheSkunkCat

Me... I really LOATHE 'humans are special/superior' as a trope not only because I deem it disgustingly arrogant. (Look at human history, we're not THAT great. We kill eachother alot over everything and despoil the planet. Sure humanity has good traits to, but it's FAR from a superior intelligent species.)

And secondly it diminished alien races as mere quirky background to beat around for the oh-so-superior humans, rather then actual species with real characters.

[perturber]

this game is heinous. what a disgrace to star control

[TheMisterCat]

Anyone who doesn't realise what that big thing in the background is, it's the key you send down to the planet to activate the C.U.D.

[fiveMIRrOrs]

@StarControl69 Hey, I would never sacrifice the council. No matter how stubborn fools they would be. But I was talking about the second one, you know, Mass Effect 2. I don't wanna spoil it for anyone, so I won't go into details here. But let's just say that thanks to its characters ME2 is one of my favourite pieces of art in long time, even as it could use more of those characters, and contains one of the shittiest plot devices to my knowledge.

[fiveMIRrOrs]

@StarControl69 Just finished the second one, and it looks awfully that the story is going down the shitter.

Humans being the chosen ones of the galaxy is the one scifi clichee that I just can't stand. Technically it does not make any sense, and from storypoint it is disgusting.

[bubthegreat1]

This game was made by vegetarians: 04:45 - 05:20. What a fucked up game!!!

[ThePieIsFalse]

ok...time to be a grammar nazi....why the hell would they use the word "Undevolve" when they can just use "evolve"

[ancalites]

The voice actor for the human probably had to purge himself after reading all that bullcrap.

[TaveTheThrasher]

Mass Effect totally ripped this game's story.

[Drogmir]

Well thank god it didn't just say Moo with translations in asterisks or something.

[Kiarip]

The Pre-cursor sounds un-impressed tbh.

I would expect more from an Ortog.

[TheSpaceHamster]

After the first sixty seconds I wanted to eat my own eyeballs.

[dieman14]

why do you have so many doog ships lol

[Veke99]

I'm glad they didn't attempt to make music for this race... way to go sc3 team

[Kation666]

damn i though the precursors world be more cool that this but oh well...

[Kromgar]

I never did quite figure out what that machine in the back was supposed to be.

[Shavarnarak]

In story: Probably some sort of magic evolution ray.

In reality: Looks like some sort of farming tool to sort grain or something like that.

[Zernium]

One time I asked my friend what the metal thing in the background was, and he jokingly said it was a "precursor launcher" XD!