Sun Mar 31 22:37:33 2002

SFC, patched and modded to include different vessels.

It was a minor lan party with 8 of us against a MAX level Computer-controlled Borg Cube.

Notice the scale. Notice the chaos. Notice the different ship classes:

An Excelsior traveling right in front of the cube. A Gorn battleship to the left and a Galaxy-class ship to the right. Look closely and you'll see a Defiant-class ship right off the Galaxy's bow!

All with various shield, armor, speed, handling, power and weaponry systems. Literally thousands of different systems available!

Notice the modified modulated torpedo fired by my ship the Norway(in the middle). Weapons can all be modified and there are many different kinds. Disruptor, pulse disruptor, missile batteries, phasers(V, VI, VIII, X), plasma torpedoes, fusion cannons, hellkite projectors, plasma projectors, gattling/pulse phasor cannons, hellbore, and others...

Now remember that all the ships are modifyable. That we had a Starwars battle(to scale) last night.
That we had a Babylon5 vs. Battlestar Galactica vs. Andromeda fight last week.

Are you getting it yet?

Sweet. And before you guys mention something like Homeworld or WC or anything else like that, keep in mind I've played those. This one, imo, is much easier, much more intuitive and much, much , much more fun.

Only bad side? Despite the fact that we had my Norway, a Galaxy, a Defiant, an Excelsior, two Vorchas, on Romulan Warbird....we still lost the first three times.

It took the fourth fight to finally win it for us. Yours truly was the only one alive left in the final battle. ;)

M.

Sun Mar 31 22:46:02 2002

Sun Mar 31 22:51:35 2002

I haven't played it in awhile, but it was a fun tactical game that could turn into a great franchise with proper guidance in the strategical gameplay realm.

Maybe AYB can help in that regard. :)

Sun Mar 31 22:53:07 2002

Sun Mar 31 23:36:07 2002

M.

Sun Mar 31 23:37:53 2002

M.

Sun Mar 31 23:53:57 2002

I have SFC I. There are a heckuva lot more ships for SFC II but I don't have two because I bought one in a Interplay pack for 5 bucks. (4 CDs 10 bucks)

SFCIII is being released:

Check out the improved graphics. And now, there's WARP! Fucking cool. The entire game takes place in the TNG universe(Better than TOS, imo)...

M.

Mon Apr 1 00:06:21 2002

I suppose it's because they're all 3D.

Mon Apr 1 01:07:27 2002

Mon Apr 1 02:16:31 2002

I used to play the old pen and paper game for hours at a time...

Mon Apr 1 03:00:21 2002

Mon Apr 1 14:18:30 2002

Mon Apr 1 15:31:30 2002

True, even Armada 2 looks better.

I'm running it on a piece of shit Wintel 933/128/TNT232,
so if the graphics suck, blame Compaq.

But be assured that moving from 16 bit textures to 32 bit. Upping the rez from 800/600 to a higher one and moving to enhanced lighting *would* make a difference in the game's graphics.

Also keep in mind that I shrunk the picture and saved it as a low-quality JPG to save *YOU* the download time.

BTW, Riso, check out staryards and *tell* me that the SFC2 graphics don't own Armada 2 backwards and forwards.

M.

(Edited by Madan at 7:44 am on April 1, 2002)

Mon Apr 1 19:54:32 2002

Tue Apr 2 23:42:50 2002

I can't believe the same team is also behind the comfy, attractive Enterprise.

Apart from the ghastly mistake of the poodle-rock opening song, obv. Fantastic titles, but god, what were they thinking? A continuous Middle C tone would be better.