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#Star control 2 maps software

Maybe this should be heeded by other game and software makers: create a copyright licence that voids itself ten years after the release of the software. In 2002, ten years after its release, the makers of Star Control 2 made released the source of the game as open source. So I am not just a geezer that hates the new, all melancholic about the past the present has its boons.

Also very annoying was to manually look for star names, until I downloaded the map from. I also had moments where I cursed the necessity to move towards a planet or a star by actually waiting until the ship got there, and often by manually controlling the craft to reach there. That being said, as a software developer myself, I played The Ur-Quan Masters for only two days, using said walkthroughs and being nagged by the wife and dog for not spending time with them.

The advertising is done via the web, with 'stars' or other such whimsical method of rating a game, often resulting in simplistic orgies of graphical design with repetitive action as the only thing to do, humour provided by caricaturesque icons of birds or zombies. And of course, if they are not social enough, they aren't even worth playing. Atmospheric gameplay where one has to walk for hours to find something are considered antique and wasteful of time. Once the gameplay is too complex, players swarm to online walkthroughs, often in video format, to tell them what to do. And the answer is, of course, the Internet.

#Star control 2 maps movie

How their stories had the complexity of movie scripts (often a lot better) and so much intricacies like alternate game modes, humour and so on. One has to ask oneself how games back then required a number of hours of play orders of magnitude larger than present ones. Not all, maybe not most, but certainly the ones reaching me through 'the grapevine', probably because the bad ones would be filtered away. Yet, a lot of the games back then were great. And you also have to think of the state of affairs in software programming: every software firm was basically a gang of enthusiasts inventing and trying their own way in which to build software. Also, not having any Internet (or very little on it), you would not have access to many reviews and neither to game updates, if something was wrong in the game. This was the only thing that made you play it other than seeing the cover in some window and feeling like you have to try it. In other words, the relationship to the game played was personal: someone that you know and respect came to you and recommended the game. I can only imagine that even in a country were they were a lot more computers and games were bought, rather than copied, the game play situation was similar. Sometimes it got frustrating enough that after hours of trying to find something, you would call friends and ask them what they did. There were no walkthroughs, rarely any printed maps or special instructions (since they were not original games) and the only way to finish up a game was to actually play it.

#Star control 2 maps Pc

I really have no idea how the PC game market was working in the US, but here in Romania, there were very few PCs, no Internet and the distribution of games (all pirated) was done via friends who would recommend and share what they thought was great. Click here to hide the following rant, if you are not in the mood for it. I want to open a parenthesis here and talk about the quality of games back then.

They were DOS games released in 19, respectively, and were absolutely marvellous: large universes, with many star systems, each of them with planets and moons many alien species which were strange and funny and obnoxious storylines that were both absurd and very captivating. I have very fond memories of the games Star Control and Star Control 2, played on my PC when I was but a wee boy.