Do you trust the Orz?

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Anonymous Wed Feb 18 22:36:18 2015 No.2242540 [Reply] [Original]

Do you trust the Orz?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 22:45:32 2015 No.2242554 File: 38 KB, 213x213, frumple.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I trust that we'll become connected and make the special sauce if we're foolish enough to come together for parties with Orz.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 01:36:45 2015 No.2242791 >>2242540 Fuck no. Orz scares the hell out of me. And by bringing along their ship, YOU GIVE AWAY EARTH'S LOCATION, even though the game makes no mention of this. Besides, the androsynth were our fucking babies. They killed our babies.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 01:54:16 2015 No.2242804 >>2242554 I really want to dance with other happy campers.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 03:02:47 2015 No.2242875 Are you a happy camper /vr/?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 03:26:39 2015 No.2242893 >>2242875 I'm pretty sure "happy camper" meant someone who is content to leave the outer-dimensional space (or whatever it's called) alone and not try to explore it. So the androsynth died just for being too curious.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 03:38:16 2015 No.2242905 >>2242893 I always get chills at the mosquito mange past.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 03:39:18 2015 No.2242907 >>2242905 I meant "part".

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 11:58:55 2015 No.2243354 File: 89 KB, 485x213, yehat.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So what's so spooky about Orz? Someone summarize it to me, I never found them spooky.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 11:58:57 2015 No.2243356 File: 37 KB, 300x250, CAMPING!.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2242893 >>2242791 our babies tried to kill us and almost succeeded. screw them. we are happy campers!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 11:59:58 2015 No.2243359 >>2243354 they have many fingers and they like to party!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 12:35:56 2015 No.2243418 >>2243354 Did you even read the fucking logs in the abandoned Androsynth cities?

Anonymous Thu Feb 19 13:35:07 2015 No.2243508

>>2242540
Man Orz were nightmare fuel but at the same time very cool they were a great design

Here we have a galaxy with all sorts of weird aliens that look and act foreign and then here's these aliens who are appropriately WAY more alien since they're not even from our dimension

The weird broken translations and simple ideas were brilliant

>>2243354
Maybe because out of sheer ignorance or indifference at best and willful genocide at worst, what they refer to as parties and happy campers and special sauce are really battles and gore because for whatever reason, they need some race here as happy campers or as some sort of anchor for them to project themselves through into our dimension

This is open to interpretation but I always figured it meant that they used the Androsynth themselves as portals for Orz to enter our dimension physically, which is heavy space, exploding inside out from Androsynth bodies

Which is why the Androsynth went all crazy and at war with each other, to try to stop them from invading and why Orz gets antsy when asked since they think others will react the same way

Also Orz convinced me that the Aroolalay are allies, since they admit that the Aroolalay or however you spell it gets in their way sometimes

We never did find out what was the bigger picture they wanted for Humans

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 15:00:05 2015 No.2243645 I've never played Star Control, but I've heard good things, particularly about 2. Can I play 2 standalone or should I go back and play Star Control 1.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 15:13:41 2015 No.2243664 >>2243645 Go play 2 right now

Anonymous Thu Feb 19 19:29:47 2015 No.2244158

>>2243645

You can play it standalone. And you should. It's a good game. I played it that way and had fun.

I had more fun once I realized that I was using a copy of the game that had been hacked or something to give you a super-strong ship or something, and fixed it. So don't do that. Or do that, but then notice it and fix it, but earlier than I did. :(

Anonymous Thu Feb 19 20:00:01 2015 No.2244227

>>2243354

I didn't read any logs saying they had done anything bad... and I still found them spooky (and hilarious, and charming). They clearly have strange powers and a very alien nature, and there are some hints of something dark going on behind at least a few of the things they say, and the things others say about them. They don't seem like they care about or even comprehend the priorities of ordinary physical creatures from our dimension. Yet they act very cheerful and friendly. It's clear that they're dangerous, if only because of their ignorance. But it's very, very hard to tell exactly how, because of the crazy way they talk. They're real aliens. That's what makes them scary.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 22:17:54 2015 No.2244526 >>2242554 >>2242831 >Creepy Orz gif files Nice try.

Anonymous Thu Feb 19 23:43:29 2015 No.2244756
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>>2243354

The Orz is an extradimensional lovecraftian horror that feeds on the very essence of sentience itself. Its prey lose their minds and die screaming in a horrific manner.

And yes, "it" as in singular. What we see as a race of green round fish-like beings are merely projections of this horror's extremities into our reality. Like many *fingers* reaching through to *heavy space* in order to interact with matter in our dimension.

Fortunately for life in the galaxy it's not enough the Orz to find you with its *fingers*. It has to be able to *smell* a sentient species in order to get a hold of them en-masse and pull them *outside* with it to make the *special sauce*. Mind you the *fingers* can still *dance* with *silly cows* in great *parties*, so they're far from harmless.

The Androsynth and later the Supox allowed themselves to be *smelled*. Never ask the Orz about this. It doesn't like *telling stories* about them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 00:36:45 2015 No.2244798 >>2244756 >and later the Supox Explain.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 01:12:14 2015 No.2244843 >>2244798 >>2244756 might be hinting at how the Supox were lost in the warp bubble travel that begins SC3... but a lot of people feel that SC3 is not canon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 01:18:44 2015 No.2244853 File: 33 KB, 480x454, 1424409953392.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Supox captain vaguely mentions assisting other species with reproduction >exchanges this function for material or nutritional goods Are the Supox interstellar prostitutes?

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 01:21:56 2015 No.2244858

>>2244227
What makes them truly scary is that they are bad translations of an extra-dimensional being. The Arilou are individuals. They each have motivations and understandings and presence. Orz is/are a single thing, squishing through the seams of reality like living jell-o being pressed through cloth. It is unclear what would/could happen if Orz managed to press itself further into our reality. Keep in mind that the normal races must used space-bending field effect devices to travel to hyper-space, and later quasi-space. Orz does it by itself. In hundreds, thousands of instances, and twiddles its green-yellow soccer-ball-shaped fingers so that it can manipulate metal ship things around. Orz vessels and combat suits are merely waldos by which Orz interacts with life and materials in our reality. If it can push its fingers through the fabric of our existance, what happens when it finally manages to tear a rift open? How much of it will flood into our universe? Ship-sized Orz? Planet-sized? Solar-sized? The threat is horrific...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 02:35:26 2015 No.2244928 >>2242791 The androsynth were pretty much not!khan from star trek Yes, terrified of orz. I would have loved a third game about orz/arilou/androysnth/elder gods.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 02:38:39 2015 No.2244931 >>2243645 1 didn't have a plot, it was h Just ship combat and a turn based strategy fame around the ships.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 02:40:59 2015 No.2244934 >>2243508 Ariloulaleelay, or Arilou Laleelay >tfw remembering the spelling of a somewhat useless thing

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 02:41:49 2015 No.2244937 I>>2244756 If you push the arilou enough they say some things in translation error text too. Love that

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 02:48:00 2015 No.2244942

>>2243508
>This is open to interpretation but I always figured it meant that they used the Androsynth themselves as portals for Orz to enter our dimension physically, which is heavy space, exploding inside out from Androsynth bodies

that would make sense, considering that when you investigate the Androsynth cities there are no corpses or any evidence of death. Everyone's just gone.

actually, considering that the Orz talk about being "fingers", which is to say they imply that they are all part of one extra-dimensional organism poking through, maybe what they want for humans is to use them as a doorway for another individual to send its fingers through

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 02:49:01 2015 No.2244943 >>2243645 the plot of Star Control 1 is literally explained in its entirety in the opening sequence of star control 2.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 02:51:37 2015 No.2244945 >>2242791 >Besides, the androsynth were our fucking babies. They killed our babies. They're Mongoloids

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 03:03:33 2015 No.2244956 >>2242540 Never trust an alien race you can't have sex with.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 03:10:29 2015 No.2244960 >>2244956 >implying I couldn't fuck an orz

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 03:19:14 2015 No.2244967 >>2244960 >implying an orz couldn't fuck you If they're the "fingers" of an extra-dimensional entity.....you see where I'm going with this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 03:25:25 2015 No.2244973 >>2244956 The Kirk-Shepard Law.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 04:00:33 2015 No.2245002 >>2244973 It's just Kirk's Law. Leave your gay Bioware shit out of this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 04:03:54 2015 No.2245004 >>2245002 You can't chose Kirk to be a woman and fuck alien dudes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 04:30:51 2015 No.2245027 >>2245004 >playing as a girl anon pls

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 05:19:20 2015 No.2245056 This thread is frumple

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 05:35:51 2015 No.2245070

>>2242791
No, see, it's even worse than that. The Androsynth weren't simply killed off, but rather, dragged into *pretty space* as a whole. They're being hunted, killed for sport by the Orz in their freakish dimension. Those that aren't dead probably wish that they were.

Our babies were not killed. They were kidnapped, and are being raped as we speak.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 05:39:18 2015 No.2245073 >>2245002 I think you mean the Kirk-Harkness Law? Though, I suppose the Kirk Law doesn't have a clause about bestiality in it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 05:55:50 2015 No.2245082 >>2245073 Dr. Who is, quite possibly, the most insultingly homosexual thing to ever come out of Britain.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 06:44:25 2015 No.2245102 >>2245070 I'm pretty sure the Androsynth were repurposed as raw material for what you see as Orz.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 09:44:30 2015 No.2245261 I want to try SC2. Any tip on what should I download? Any essential mod?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 10:48:36 2015 No.2245350 >>2245261 Just get The Ur-Quan Masters and make sure to play it with the voices from the 3DO version as the voiceovers are for the most part excellent. Everything else just set it up to your preferences I guess? http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

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>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 12:09:30 2015 No.2245473 >>2245350 Thanks, man!

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 13:26:20 2015 No.2245592 >>2245462 Sexually mature is anyone who's hit puberty so you might still be a pedofork.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 14:41:35 2015 No.2245693

The fact that the Orz is almost child-like in its naivete makes it extra creepy. It doesn't really understand the gravity of the horrible things it does to realspace beings and just wants to have fun. It wants into our dimension because it finds it a nicer place to live (*smooth* and *bright*).

It also doesn't even understand the concept of deception. Everything it tells you is sincere amd truthful, even if you can't understand wtf it means. Deception and subterfuge confuse and anger it (it doesn't like the Syreen much), and since it's incapable of lying it will become hostile instead if you try to pressure it into talking about something it doesn't want to.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:03:35 2015 No.2245708

>>2245693

>The fact that the Orz is almost child-like in its naivete makes it extra creepy. It doesn't really understand the gravity of the horrible things it does to realspace beings and just wants to have fun.

How much of that is down to "translation" though? I do agree that they are creepy but some if not all of that might be because they are a "superior" race that knows what's best for humans and the alliance?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:10:11 2015 No.2245719 >>2245693 >>2245708 The fact that it never lies or holds anything back when you talk to it is the real icing on this NOPE cake.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:11:52 2015 No.2245720 >>2245719 Not lying doesn't mean telling you the truth. I personally love how they left so much open.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:21:25 2015 No.2245727 >>2245719 That or how simply knowing more about the Orz makes it easier for it to see you. The Captain can never really understand the Orz or he would be taken.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:25:03 2015 No.2245736 >>2245720 It always tells the truth though. It even volunteers information you didn't necessarily adk for.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:32:22 2015 No.2245756 >>2242540 I am happy camper.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:34:21 2015 No.2245761

>>2245736

>It always tells the truth though.

So still not telling you everything.

>It even volunteers information you didn't necessarily adk for.

And that means they are giving you all the info they know how? If anything that makes them even more suspicious.

My money on the "goodest" guys are the Arilou. I suspect the Orz see humans as their enemies enemy. Might be just because the grass is greener in this universe. I have a feeling that if this neighborhood goes to shit they will just move.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:47:52 2015 No.2245791 >>2244945 they were also homosexuals. still care if they died?

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:52:37 2015 No.2245796

>>2245761
The Arilou are just a cheerier shade of gray. They work towards a better future for humanity and themselves by doing shady stuff without our consent. Even if it's for our betterment, it's still pretty messed up.

I'd personally rather deal with the Orz. At least with them, you know where they stand.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:56:32 2015 No.2245806

>>2245796

>I'd personally rather deal with the Orz. At least with them, you know where they stand.

But you don't, unless you're saying they are evil.

>They work towards a better future for humanity and themselves by doing shady stuff without our consent.

Not at all messed up. It's like you not giving your dog or kid everything they want because you know it's not good for them in the long run.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 15:57:04 2015 No.2245808 GO GO GO INTRUDER

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 18:48:23 2015 No.2246128 >>2245350 >as the voiceovers are for the most part excellent. Why are you lying to that poor guy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 18:52:10 2015 No.2246138 >>2246128 Who in their right mind doesn't appreciate scottish pterodactyls?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 18:54:16 2015 No.2246140 >>2246138 The Yehat and Spathi were alright and Hayes Kohr Ah is cringeworthy and everything else is just bad

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 18:55:17 2015 No.2246146 >>2245808 Nemesis ships were the only way I could beat the game They're like proto Ur Quan Dreadnaughts

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 19:02:29 2015 No.2246160 >>2246146 The final battle? Use Pkunk Fury.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 19:09:33 2015 No.2246173

>>2245761
Nobody said the Orz tell you everything, but they do answer whatever you ask them truthfully, and then some. They're not capable of being deceitful and yet most players still have no idea because their speech is so difficult to translate.

>>2246160
>Pkunk Fury

NERD NERD NERD LOSER

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 19:10:35 2015 No.2246175 >>2246160 Nemesis for killing Ur Quan Pkunk for going in circles around the big thing >5 times HALLELUJAH final battle

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 19:18:02 2015 No.2246182 >>2246173 DWEEB DWEEB LOSER NERD

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 19:48:18 2015 No.2246209 >>2244945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY3mBkRenAM >are we not men?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 19:53:43 2015 No.2246226 >>2246209 just got this and Duty Now on vinyl the other day.Early Devo kicks so much ass

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 20:00:49 2015 No.2246239

>>2246173

>Nobody said the Orz tell you everything, but they do answer whatever you ask them truthfully, and then some. They're not capable of being deceitful and yet most players still have no idea because their speech is so difficult to translate.

>They can't tell a lie so all they say truth

What is it you don't understand? The Orz telling the truth but leaving things out might be part of it. Alternatively they might just be lying.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 20:15:59 2015 No.2246269

>>2246239
Not him, but I think the Orz might be so alien it has no concept of "truth" or "deceit".
Only "friend" (potential biomass that might help it further to materialize in our dimension) or "not friend" (potential biomass that irritates it/tries to hinder its "fingers" in transitioning to our dimension). Probably has different understanding of time and space as well and is in no hurry getting over here, making it more an unsettling eventuality than an immediate threat. But once it catches your "smell"...

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 20:33:43 2015 No.2246305

>>2246269

>Not him, but I think the Orz might be so alien it has no concept of "truth" or "deceit".

But they do, they know "our" concept of good or bad but they don't care. They know more about us than we know about them.

>Probably has different understanding of time and space as well and is in no hurry getting over here, making it more an unsettling eventuality than an immediate threat. But once it catches your "smell"...

Like the Alu they only care about us and the world in the long run, the difference is that the Alu has time on their side, the Orz doesn't.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 20:41:20 2015 No.2246323

>You are not the same too much like Androsynth. You are *happy campers*
>Do you want to see our surprising *toys*? No!! Do Not!!

I think that "No!! Do Not!! is whatever traces there are left of an Androsynth consciousness breaking trough and trying to warn you. Then the Orz cuts it off.

>Androsynth are so silly. We do not *tell stories" a lot about them.
>No more Androsynth stories.

Also, they have a brilliant theme song. Sounds so silly and jovial, yet repeats "die die die" over and over again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEEES8BeNCg

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 20:45:58 2015 No.2246330

>>2246305
>But they do, they know "our" concept of good or bad but they don't care. They know more about us than we know about them.

Then they'd be able to communicate in a more coherent manner. Thing is, we are as, or even more alien to it as it is to us. But it doesn't care because it has no concept of care, it simply wants in.

>the difference is that the Alu has time on their side, the Orz doesn't.

Oh sure, but what does that mean to us when both see and perceive in eons. A hurry to the Orz might be lifetimes to us.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 21:00:25 2015 No.2246367

>>2246323
>I think that "No!! Do Not!! is whatever traces there are left of an Androsynth consciousness breaking trough and trying to warn you. Then the Orz cuts it off.

No, that whole spiel is the Orz telling you to stop asking about the Androsynth (and being like the Androsynth) or it will have to kill you. It doesn't know how to avoid the subject or lie so it'll murder you instead if you keep pressing the subject.

Apparently whenever it did whatever it does with the Androsynth (and Supox), things didn't go exactly as planned and it doesn't like to think about it. Throughout SC2 the Orz implies that humans are more "compatible" than other species, so take that as you will. It continues this behavior in SC3. SC3's cocking up the lore aside, out of all the races the Orz remains the most true to the previous game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 21:10:28 2015 No.2246386 So why does it turn purple?

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 21:12:16 2015 No.2246391

>>2246239

The Orz can't read minds only the talking pets can do that. So it's not like they'll know what you want unless you ask.

The Orz never lie and they don't intentionally leave things out. They'll even tell you things you probably don't want to know. Hell, they're so bad at being deceptive or evasive that they have to kill you to stop a conversation from going down an uncomfortable path.

>>2246305
>But they do, they know "our" concept of good or bad

The fuck they do. Where did you even get this impression?

>Alu has time on their side, the Orz doesn't.

What.
The Orz is unimaginably ancient by our standards. It's one of "them". The Arilou are the ones running out of time, their own experiments on themselves rendering their species unviable. There's a reason they've been shepherding the Earthlings. Humans possess high potential and compatibility in many respects..

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 21:12:25 2015 No.2246392

>>2246367
>You are not the same too much like Androsynth. You are *happy campers*
=
We're related to the Androsynth (not the same but much like).

>Do you want to see our surprising *toys*?
What they offered the Androsynth, resulting in
"germination"

>No!! Do Not!!
Whatever little sentience left of the Androsynth, or perhaps just a memory as painful for the Orz as the absorbed Androsynth, crying out, attempting to warn you to not take them up on their offer.

A slight pause.

>Androsynth are so silly. We do not *tell stories" a lot about them.
>No more Androsynth stories.
The Orz warning you not to pursue the matter further. If you do, they murder you so you'll stop.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 21:23:09 2015 No.2246424 >reading up about the Androsynth >Small War of 2015 >2015 is it time? I'm not a robot = dedne

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 21:25:01 2015 No.2246427

>>2246392
>We're related to the Androsynth (not the same but much like).

"Not the same too much like" is all one descriptor. It means you're different and not too similar. The Orz compounds adjectives like this a lot.

>What they offered the Androsynth, resulting in

No, they don't "offer" anything. That's not how it works. You will make ready for *the change*.

*toys* are their ships and weapons. Which they will use on you if you don't STFU about the Androsynth.

"No! Do not!" is just the Orz exclaiming that you don't want to see said *toys*

^ The overt threats were all up in this part of its response to the player.

>Androsynth are so silly. We do not *tell stories" a lot about them.
>No more Androsynth stories.

Here it's just trying to settle back into more civilized conversation while reiterating its position.

If you press the Orz on this subject any further past this point, it will attack you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 21:39:14 2015 No.2246469 >>2246386 Nobody in our universe can afford that knowledge, sorry.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 22:34:08 2015 No.2246573

Chenjesu were ultimate bros. Chmmr are dicks.

I would love to hear what the chenjesu would have said about orz and arilou if they won the war. T seems like they felt bad for humans.

I made a copy of the human ship for backup, but then overwrotebit with the mmrnmhrn so I could destroy the computer with it in single player.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 22:38:37 2015 No.2246583 >>2246323 >yet repeats "die die die" over and over again. I always thought it says "cyborg" Cyborg CY (borg) Cyborg CY (borg) And Mycons were interesting too Precursors are unfair they're the biggest mystery of Star Control

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 22:54:10 2015 No.2246608 >>2246182 WORM WIMP DODO BABY

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 23:00:23 2015 No.2246626 >>2246573 >Chmmr are dicks. Umgah are total assholes

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 23:02:50 2015 No.2246631 >>2246626 Ha ha ha

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 23:25:04 2015 No.2246691 Here's hoping Stardock actually makes something worthwhile and doesn't further ruin the franchise.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 00:17:44 2015 No.2246810 Humanity is a candidate for being transformed into a single transcendent entity. One of "them". The Orz tried this with the Androsynth and the Supox, but they failed. Orz wants to be your daddy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 00:28:10 2015 No.2246827 >>2245708 >How much of that is down to "translation" though? It's worth noting that the race that the Orz hate(and who also hate the Orz) and are trying to destroy, the VUX, are known for their excellent translation devices.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 00:53:37 2015 No.2246864 >>2246827 >deepest lore

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 01:30:23 2015 No.2246908 >>2244858 >Ship-sized Orz? Planet-sized? Solar-sized? Worse: Orz-sized Orz.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 01:39:51 2015 No.2246915 >>2246323 i never realized it was "die" in that song, thought it was just another kooky sfx

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 03:35:26 2015 No.2247045 I never liked the *ndrosynth anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 04:55:20 2015 No.2247134 >>2247045 Their ship is really fun to play

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 05:19:45 2015 No.2247153 Have any of you tried playing The Ur-Quan Masters over netplay?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 11:45:15 2015 No.2247586 >>2247134 it's so broken

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 11:47:13 2015 No.2247592 >>2246386 So were the Melnorme the race that asked Stop! What you are doing is wrong etc

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 12:10:18 2015 No.2247612 >>2247592 Pretty sure? The ur quan identified almost every facet of them but their name. And they have the same story to tell if you pay for lore.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 19:29:00 2015 No.2248419 >>2246386 >>2246469 >>2247592 Got this from a psych major: apparently, purple is a color that is conducive to bartering(makes you more inclined to spend more, more often). That's why the price is so high...it worked.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 23:49:43 2015 No.2248908 >>2246827 The VUX are also deceitful little shits, so all the more reason the Orz would react poorly to them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:13:43 2015 No.2248938 Is it just me or was the Vux ship the most OP fucking thing in the whole game? It's the one that you can use to gradually cover an enemy ship in algae so much that it cannot turn fast enough to fight back.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:24:11 2015 No.2248958 >>2248938 Guardian >> Intruder

Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:33:43 2015 No.2248974

>>2242540
Wikipedia says:

Released to critical acclaim, Star Control II is widely viewed today as one of the greatest PC games ever made, and has appeared on numerous publications lists of the greatest video games of all time.

Okay, now I REALLY want to play this game...

Is it available on GOG or somewhere else?

Or am I pretty much shit out of luck?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:38:28 2015 No.2248983 >>2248974 Dude it's fucking free and open source. Do you even google? http://sourceforge.net/projects/urquanmastershd/

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:38:53 2015 No.2248984 >>2248974 That wikipedia article you read has a direct link to the game you know. It's free.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:43:31 2015 No.2248992 >>2248984 >>2248983 Okay, FINE. Don't get your fucking nickers all in a twist. FUCK.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:45:58 2015 No.2248996 >>2248992 It comes with a bunch of song remixes, but I like the originals better.

>>	Kasperl Sun Feb 22 00:48:59 2015 No.2249004 File: 624 KB, 1113x1437, Star_Control_II_poster_by_Krejall_Ontaris-SMALL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2248992 Be warned. This game can be very intimidating.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:50:05 2015 No.2249006 >>2248992 >Don't get your fucking nickers all in a twist. VUX haha, get it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 00:57:50 2015 No.2249016 File: 8 KB, 243x107, sc2probe.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2249004 We come in peace.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 01:14:47 2015 No.2249048 File: 10 KB, 116x119, fuck you.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2249016

Anonymous Sun Feb 22 01:18:01 2015 No.2249050

>>2248938q
It's maneuverability is too terrible. It can kill the first ship it fights easily, everything else becomes a major challenge.

All ships are extraordinarily balanced, they are worth exactly as many points as they say.

My top three are shofixti, pkunk, and mmrnmhrn. Mmrn can fucking destroy anything except pkunk and slylandro.

Takes two to take out a chmmr because the shields are too good.

Anonymous Sun Feb 22 01:19:40 2015 No.2249053

>>2248974
>as one of the greatest PC games ever made
You'd think this would attract all of the skepticism and contrarian within you but I have to say, except maybe before you upgrade the ship's speed and movement, the game is pretty damn complete

I was expecting it to be very aged but it still stands

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 01:21:14 2015 No.2249054 >>2249004 When i found the first of these, I knew I ventured out too far

>>	Kasperl Sun Feb 22 01:50:31 2015 No.2249085 >>2249016 Fuck those guys and fuck the fact that keeping them around is the easiest way to get credits.

Anonymous Sun Feb 22 02:25:03 2015 No.2249121

>>2242540
They just had a weird vibe. I mean at first they just seem le cute, silly and lolrandom but then you realize the actual translation of what they are telling you is a dire threat.

What I mean to say is that they look and sound funny and cute but they are quite malignant in their intent upon closer observation.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 05:36:57 2015 No.2249276 >>2249016 More like WE CAME TO ANAL PROBE THE ENTIRE GALAXY FOR RAW MATERIAL.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 08:53:28 2015 No.2249474 Random star control 2 question: Is it even physically possible to accumulate (or hack) enough money to pay the Melnorme to tell you why his bridge changes colour?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 09:02:37 2015 No.2249486 >>2249474 You can savehack in the amount but the game still acts like you don't have enough.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 11:53:03 2015 No.2249673 >>2249085 I prefer trashing the VUX with Fwiffo for credits.

>>	Kasperl Sun Feb 22 14:53:22 2015 No.2250045 File: 2.37 MB, 3200x4258, 07.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 17:16:51 2015 No.2250425 >>2249016 I like the Slylandro They're the most innocent race where even Ur Quan leaves them alone

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 18:50:47 2015 No.2250659 >>2250425 Considering their nature and where they live, a slave shield isn't really necessary.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 19:21:04 2015 No.2250697 File: 422 KB, 1920x840, Retro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Watch Out For Fireballs gave a real good rundown on why Star Control II is so great (while admitting it has some minor problems). http://duckfeed.tv/woff/94

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 19:37:00 2015 No.2250709 File: 568 KB, 1024x451, zoq_fot_pik_by_dczanik-d2zf50k.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Did anyone else think that the Zoq-Fot-Pik feel straight out of a much younger-rated saturday morning cartoon than the rest of the game's plots and races?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 20:58:37 2015 No.2250865 >>2250709 The story of their discovery of the wheel, fire, and religion is fucking hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 21:25:28 2015 No.2250914 I still contend that the Thraddash are the best spacefaring race to ever be imagined.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 21:28:42 2015 No.2250918 >>2250914 For anyone who needs a refresher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WsEh7oti3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz8phJG_bmk

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 21:29:46 2015 No.2250921 >>2250914 I think they're the funniest. A bunch of drunken assholes constantly nuking each other back to the stone age over different ideologies, just like we humans will be soon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 21:48:25 2015 No.2250959 File: 59 KB, 485x213, Thraddash.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2250921 You can't beat Thraddash problem-solving logic! It's PROVEN to be superior!

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 22:44:10 2015 No.2251051 >>2250709 It's probably intentional, to contrast with their "neighbor" problem.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 00:04:12 2015 No.2251174 Fuck me, just starting out with this game it feels damn near impossible to steer the ship towards ANYTHING, I swear it took me five fucking minutes to reach the space station orbiting earth, whipping and pitching around like a retard.

>>	Kasperl Mon Feb 23 00:11:25 2015 No.2251185 >>2251174 That's the fun of Newtonian physics. Once you get the credits buy some turning jets to make things more manageable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 00:12:04 2015 No.2251187 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCUXcDax3UU obligatory

Anonymous Mon Feb 23 03:02:28 2015 No.2251421

>>2249085
I am ready to blow your mind

Fill your ship with double capacity field tanks. Give your self 50 or 60 fuel, or just go outside and hail a melnorme.

Sell them a rainbow world location to 'fill your fuel tanks

Grin and laugh as the Melnorme cussed you out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 03:05:41 2015 No.2251423 >>2251421 Oh no, I guess I meant druuge, and then for a plot artifact (but you can make another portal spawned and find an extra egg case. Fug. Been too long.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 04:45:29 2015 No.2251496 File: 76 KB, 800x600, 2h2l2sm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just discovered Project 6014. Has anyone tried it? Is it worth playing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8evLDS1lafA

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 04:48:59 2015 No.2251503 >>2251496 Welp. Nevermind. It's just a demo and the latest version was released in Jan 2012. How disappointing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 04:52:22 2015 No.2251509 File: 312 KB, 1074x474, yehat___pkunk_by_kwayne64-d4i18b3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So disappoint right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 11:32:09 2015 No.2251798 File: 226 KB, 750x1091, C__Data_Users_DefApps_AppData_INTERNETEXPLORER_Temp_Saved Images_20111118-pissworld.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2251496

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 19:00:45 2015 No.2252453 >>2251174 yeah so literally the first thing you should do the second you get the ability to refit the ship is to add as many fucking turning jets and thrusters as possible

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 19:06:05 2015 No.2252472 >>2251798 god his art is really annoying looking

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 22:27:36 2015 No.2252889 >>2249050 This isn't true. Thraddash is banned in pvp play because of poor balance. Some (chenjesu for example) rarely see play.

Kasperl Mon Feb 23 23:58:58 2015 No.2252991
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>>2252453
More or less, especially if you intend to use the ship in combat. Which isn't an entirely bad idea if you manage to find time and enough Interstar credits you can get a Hellbore Cannon of the Melnorme. Otherwise, I would just get what seems to be enough to get the job done and not much more.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 00:08:40 2015 No.2253009 >>2252991 You can actually cope with the turning speed? Getting more thrusters also increases your speed during hyperdrive, saving time, you know.

Kasperl Tue Feb 24 00:43:47 2015 No.2253079

>>2252991
I'll be honest, I haven't actually beaten the game yet. That said, my major problem is I want to try to do everything I can before the Black March of the Kohr-Ah begins. So I try to skimp by with as little as possible in order to maximize my time hunting down rainbow worlds, Ultron components, and so on.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 01:11:15 2015 No.2253124 >>2249016 EXECUTE ORDER...ORDER...oh fuck where'd I put the codes the Sylandro gave me?!

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 02:14:06 2015 No.2253204 >>2252889 I dunno, maybe I'm too legendary. Maybe thraddash is a couple points low, but its astounding and downright impossible to reproduce how perfectly they reduced the ability of the ships to the point value.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 02:15:26 2015 No.2253207 >>2252889 Oh wait, ilwrath is trash, there's that too

>>	Kasperl Tue Feb 24 13:51:08 2015 No.2254045 File: 626 KB, 1000x875, ORZ_by_47ness.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JevHe85-Bg

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 01:09:38 2015 No.2255287 What happens if you fight Arilou and Melnorme? I never won any fight with them and I always wondered what they would say if you kill them and then meet up with them again

Anonymous Wed Feb 25 21:28:37 2015 No.2257017

>>2250697
this is really good

The two hosts have some real love for the game despite playing it for the first time and Zack Johnson (creator of Kingdom of Loathing) was a great guest.

Are these guys usually this good? I'm looking down their list of game and it looks like they've done a number of my favourite titles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 21:32:26 2015 No.2257029 >>2257017 >Zack Johnson (creator of Kingdom of Loathing) was a great guest. He has two of his own podcasts and they are very enjoyable

>>	Kasperl Fri Feb 27 01:52:47 2015 No.2259342 File: 51 KB, 790x416, loving.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 07:40:41 2015 No.2259639 File: 66 KB, 800x629, 1364547616628.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 07:42:13 2015 No.2259642 File: 218 KB, 644x821, 1365282761367.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 07:47:42 2015 No.2259650 File: 100 KB, 662x149, Starship Loadout.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My current saved game. For the most part these days I only work on my ever continuing mission of manually exploring star systems to find rich ones.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 10:30:06 2015 No.2259807 >>2259631 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_LRzf41wIY

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