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Meet Starflight, one of the first great space opera adventures, available here on GOG.com for just $5.99.

Some of you may not know this game but that’s why we write these fascinating articles, right? [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/starflight_1_2]Starflight 1 begins on the planet Arth, when your civilization discovers that they were, in fact, a colony planet of Earth. Excavations into the ancient colony landing sites enable humans to build starships, and set course for new life and new civilizations. You are set to embark on a mission to re-explore space and discover why the Old Empire collapsed. As time goes by and you discover new planets ready to be colonized, discover new lifeforms, and eventually build yourself a proper battleship, an old threat emerges and will humans triumph this time over the mysterious Crystal Planet which endangers the galaxy, or will it all fall to ruin and ashes again?

Gameplay consists of oddly familiar features for the genre, in part because Starflight defined a number of standard elements space opera adventure games. For example, you start out with a ship that is held together with duct tape and baling wire. Most of the cool features aren’t available yet--like weapons. Initially, you will need to get by with mining and trading, but after you’ve paid your dues, things start to get more interesting. When you’ve earned a little cash through hard work you can enroll a crew to man six different posts (each has a direct correlation to your ship’s performance) and upgrade every part of your spaceship. You can also land on planets (but not all of them, some are so high gravity that you will crash if you try). After you touch down safely, you can send a terrain vehicle to travel around the planet for minerals, artifacts, or alien lifeforms (that ring a bell for anyone? :).

The Starflight universe consists of over two hundred stars and several hundred planets to explore, and the Starflight II universe is even bigger. No RPG can be good without random encounters, and you’ll meet aliens of all kinds and shapes. Some will be belligerent, and some will be friendly, and you’ll rarely know until after they’ve fired at you.

Starflight 2 basically takes all the good things from it’s predecessor and improves on it drastically. Following the events of the first game, the galaxy is at relative peace but a race of cowardly, gelatinous blobs gain access to superior technology and it’s your mission to find out how to stop them! The story may start a bit ordinarily, but it definitely ramps up to an exciting finale! If you’re a fan of Starflight--or another game in our catalogue that has you flying around the stars and talking to aliens--you should definitely pick up this incredible two pack for just $5.99 today!
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SirPrimalform: If you want to deprive yourself of a game because of a completely unenforceable and irrelevant line in an EULA then be my guest. :P
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jimthev: If you break the EULA you are just as much of a pirate as somebody that breaks DRM. You are playing with an illegal copy. Rationalize it away if you want, but there is no difference.

So "if you want to deprive yourself of a game because of a completely unenforceable and irrelevant line of code then be my guest. :P"
My point is that the objectionable lines of the EULA don't apply to this game because this game isn't on Origin. Do you see? It doesn't apply to this game so you're not breaking anything, it's just not relevant. If anyone's being a pirate according to the EULA, it's GOG for distributing it without DRM.
Hmm...

While this certainly looks like an interesting game, it looks a bit too dated for me.

I'll pass.
I did NOT see this coming. Well done, GOG.

However, I would have preferred the Amiga or Mac versions. Vastly improved interface, along with better graphics and sound. (Also, the Amiga has a glitch in the first game that results in nigh-unlimited funds...)

There's also the Genesis/Mega Drive remake of the first game, which is...not bad, just very different. Different enough to throw a fan of the computer games for a loop at first, and a bit more like Star Control II (which I should probably say is more like Starflight than anything).

Oh, and have some trivia: Paul Reiche III is in the "Special Thanks" section of the credits for Starflight. He's also one of the co-creators of Star Control.
Now that's an oldie, way before my time :)

I'm going to check this out for sure.
I never heard of this one, but I love the sound of "1986". :)

By reading the reviews, wishlisted.
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Metro09: The guy who entitled his review 'Prelude to Mass Effect..." should be punched. Please don't compare these great classics to Mass Effect.
Haha I was actually looking up to this game because someone compared it to Mass Effect...
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gyokzoli: Does it mean that the SSI AD&D games are coming to GOG? If yes I will love you forever!!!11!1!!one
What makes you think that?
Post edited November 24, 2011 by RafaelLopez
oh my oh my. Fond memories I have of this! Mind you, I've only played Starflight 2 back then. Very deep game for its time, I always come back to it!

On RPGCodex, there's a let's play of this game, it's worth having a look at it to see how great it is!
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SirPrimalform: If you want to deprive yourself of a game because of a completely unenforceable and irrelevant line in an EULA then be my guest. :P
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jimthev: If you break the EULA you are just as much of a pirate as somebody that breaks DRM. You are playing with an illegal copy. Rationalize it away if you want, but there is no difference.

So "if you want to deprive yourself of a game because of a completely unenforceable and irrelevant line of code then be my guest. :P"
AArrrrr!!! I'm a pirate, aye! Look at my furry eyebrows!! Are you scared already?!

Gog, you made me a scurvy pirate no less!!!
Post edited November 24, 2011 by meudoland
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HGiles: I don't buy games that I can't own.
You cannot buy games from GOG. All you buy is a license to use the softwares, no more.
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GOG.com: Meet Starflight, one of the first great space opera adventures, available here on GOG.com for just $5.99.
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YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post edited November 27, 2011 by meudoland
Scifi-rpg from '86, dang. Not heard of this before.
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KingofGnG: A game from the Eighties?!? Unexpected.... Good, good....
ma dove cazzo hai vissuto??.....
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HGiles: ...
That EULA is why I'm not buying this. I don't buy games that I can't own.
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You can never really own immaterial things, right. You can only own physical copies and since GOG doesn't sell anything physical...

Sorry but this myth about ownership is surfacing again and again.

As for the game itself: I probably don't have enough time for it. It looks quite old. It might be good, but I would prefer a good remake.
Post edited November 24, 2011 by Trilarion
I loved the Megadrive version, and used to dig it out every year or so to go for a spin around the galaxy... That said, I understand the PC versions pretty different, and by the looks of it not quite so much to my taste... A bit like Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday... Loved the Megadrive version, and partly because of that, had difficulty getting into the PC version. A shame because I wanted to play the sequel after...

An eventual purchase methinks.
high rated
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Tsugirai: You cannot buy games from GOG. All you buy is a license to use the softwares, no more.
I'm getting tired of all the smartasses who keep posting this BS. It's just splitting hairs on semantics, nothing more. Normal people use the expression "buying a game" in the same sense as "buying a DVD" or "buying a book." When you say that you buy a book, you obviously don't mean that you acquire the intellectual property rights. You just buy a reproduction of its contents, which is really all a customer wants. I think almost everybody would consider it pretty ridiculous if you kept insisting that you cannot buy a book but only a license to read it. Buying something in the everyday sense means to get legitimate access to something for indefinite and (mostly) unrestricted use. So yes, I can indeed buy games from GOG, thank you very much.