When I say it doesn't look anything like Star Control 2, I mean gameplay-wise it looks entirely different. The graphics don't bother me but, unless the video is misleading, I expect that this game will be nothing like Star Control 2. It looks like they are trying to make a similar game - there's a bit where you fly around in space, there's space battles, there's quirky characters - but Star Control 2 was so much more than that and the impression that I got from the video is that they will have nothing of that which made Star Control 2 a special game.

Just my opinion. I would love to be proven wrong.

Looks nice ^_^

And that is why I direct my ire towards gog. Taking the money without asking question is SSteam's way and if gog wants to be Steam, why bother with gog?
Oh my, that's the worst.

Steer away from these shitty practices.

Early Access cancer arrived at GOG? Sad.

With Stardock as the driving force this game will probably be complete after 28 DLCs about 5 years after release.

Count me towards someone somewhat interested in the distant future. Didn't even bother to wishlist because the time horizon is too large. I may not play games anymore then.

Quite a sensible precaution. Even Galactic Civilizations 3 is after years of development by Stardock so highly unstable that it crashes to desktop anytime you play the game. Not to forget the 10 highly overpriced dlcs. Thankfully at least for Ashes of the Singularity they solved the stability issues.

Yeah sorry I shouldn't have gotten involved here. Gotta let people call it as they see it, carry on. ;)

I'm sorry, but when were the titles of Star Control 2&3 retroactively changed??? And renaming SC2 to "The Ur-Quan Masters", when the free (and superior) version has been known by that name for years is misleading at best :-(

Wow, that is a really sad view. :(

I'm sorry you are taking it that way.

Sorry if I appeared aggressive, that wasn't the intent.

Stardock.. Let's see.. We can expect to play the "Complete" version (with all the cut pieces put together) roughly 4 years from now (tentative estimate).

No, I just jumped into something I shouldn't have. I guess I'm tired of people making the mistake that GOG can do whatever they want whenever they want with their games, and have complete and total control over the store with no legal considerations, fueled yesterday by people getting outraged at GOG having the audacity to release Mafia w/o the licensed music. (I think some of this view is fueled by GOG's "Good Old Games" days, where the idea started gestating that GOG made all their own patches for all their games.) And my posts here were an outlet. But there wasn't any reason to call you out or silence people. I guess we get passionate, frustrated, hotheaded, etc. about different things.

True, I don't remember it being like that originally. I guess it confuses the issue when people recommend the superior, free, Ur-Quan masters.

Oh but I do agree with you on the silliness to react badly at gog releasing a game with removed licensed music. It was either that or no release at all. AND it is not something directly related to the industry itself but a complicated legal matter. That is still silly but another matter entirely.

Ha-ha, Stardock may f*ck itself! :)

Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is the original full title of the second game in the series. That is where the open source project took its name from.

I'm guessing the change to the travesty known as Star Control 3 is to disassociate it as a direct sequel to SC2 now that Toys for Bob are finally working on a true sequel.