Reply With QuoteWell dang, you're really making me wish I had the space to download this game now!
Was hoping they'd get me into the external storage beta by this point but no luck... one day I will get to give this game a try
I said this is my first experience of this game right before your post so yes.Originally Posted by Kaimega
It has the potential to become my favorite game released on the OUYA so far. I obviously haven't played all 514 games yet but I would be surprised to find more than a handful of games this big. It comes really close to the commanding the Star Trek Enterprise and exploring the galaxy experience that I seek.
I made room before I was in the beta because I watched someone doing a long play of another version for about an hour and had to play it. I wouldn't delete it to make room for the other games you listed.
I think this is a case of judging a book by its cover because if I were to come across a SNES cart, put it in my SNES, and this exact game showed up on the screen then I would think that they put something in the cart to make it more advanced than the console. Also, since I didn't have a computer when the SNES came out, then if I had the exact same experience of this showing up on the screen then it would have been the most advanced game I have seen up to that point. It would have felt like pushing play on a VCR and the blu-ray for Avatar showing up. I would have been completely blown away. I'm kind of blown away that computer games like this existed in 1992. If it had a more modern art style to it and I was told it was a computer game from a few years ago then I would believe it.
Well dang, you're really making me wish I had the space to download this game now!
Was hoping they'd get me into the external storage beta by this point but no luck... one day I will get to give this game a try
The external storage beta is not a very fun game for us OCD filled members but at the same time you can't stop trying to win at external storage beta and quit playing external storage beta long enough to get enough time to play anything else. I'm almost to the point of getting on my knees, grabbing the OUYA and my 2TB hard drive, and begging while crying out,"Please fit all of Discover in a very small part of you with no bugs, system crashes, or failed downloads and be perfect so I can play Ur-Quan Masters HD! Why do you torture me in such ways? You guys fit together perfectly and I just want you to do the simple task of holding 515 small game files with plenty of room to spare for future games like I have been waiting for you to do since launch! Please! Mommy! My hardware is being mean and won't play with me!...."Well dang, you're really making me wish I had the space to download this game now!
Was hoping they'd get me into the external storage beta by this point but no luck... one day I will get to give this game a try
Anyway, here is about 30 minutes worth of the game and still at this point the ship hasn't even left the solar system into a huge star map full of stars with planets and moons to explore. Watch it and see if you can imagine this game fitting in a SNES cart with this portion shown only accounting for a small section of the star map in the spoiler below. On the map look in the bottom left corner for the bright white super giant Sirus. The star next to it is Sol. That is our Sun. Now look at how small that star is compared to the whole star map. I am blown away that a game from 1992 existed with such a huge area of the galaxy in it but can completely understand why people would feel the need to give it a high definition remastering for our time. I have only visited a hand full of star systems and can tell there is still a massive area to explore and story to be told.
This game (the OG Star Control 2) is an absolute legend! It shares a family tree with Starflight, my favorite game of all time. In fact, those two together have been cited by Casey Hudson as some of the big influences to Mass Effect (and if you've played them, you'll see it all over the place, especially the first ME). Now that its clear I'll be picking up the OUYA, I'll be grabbing this ASAP.
Heck, I was saying in my own game's thread that I wanted to ultimately make a modern Star Control2/Starflight type game.
I may have some competition though! Stardock, the publisher of Galactic Civilizations and Sins of a Solar Empire, scooped up the rights and are supposedly in pre-production of a new Star Control game.
Does anyone know exactly how much room is needed for this to install? I've removed almost all my games, and still do not have enough room. I have almost 1.4 gig free, and it still won't install.
*Update* Removed a few more games. 1.50GB free. Still won't install.
Screw it. Just removed all games that I had progress on, and was trying to avoid removing. Went a little crazy and deleted several games. 2.85GB free. Installed. I better call in sick at work.
UPDATE: Wow. This game really doesn't want to install. 5th attempt, and the OUYA keeps freezing during the download around the 40% - 50% margin, and it has to start all over again. The problem seemed to be whenever the controller went to sleep. After keeping the controller active and happy during the download, it got to about 50% complete and froze again. Now the download is locked "IN QUEUE..." even though there are no downloads ahead of it.
Turned controller off and on. No luck. Tried another download, no change. Softbooted Ouya, and the download started over at 0%. Dang! What's going on???
I merged your posts. Please use the Edit Post button in the future to avoid multi-posting. Thanks! - DP
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Excited to start this but the first thing they ask for is captain name... but it will not remove the default name and just appends my name to it. Anyone else having this issue? Would love to be able to name the captain and ship before I have a few hours into this lol
I had the same problem. I think it is a bug.
I was very excited to try this, but it just runs too slow on OUYA. Maybe it will be better on the OUYA 2, but right now I'll stick to the PC version.
If you change a few of the graphical settings and use Tegra Overclock the frame rate improves dramatically.
It never be on par with the PC version or probably any other platform but it brings it to a level where you can actually control the game smoothly.
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