This could be kind of cool...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/stardock-acquires-star-control-rights-in-fire-sale-plans-reboot/

Or horribly misguided. I will stick with "kind of cool" for now.

But Ur-Quan Masters was essentially the embodiment of a strategy game with "soul", the whacky characters and pulpy art-style made it as much as the gameplay. It was like a 60's sci-fi comic converted into a RTS/Adventure/Strategy game hybrid and somehow it worked.

Stardock on the other hand make strategy games which are epitome of "soulless", boring graphical spreadsheet generators with no personality.

Hell, I doubt Stardock even have any designers, they strike me as a bunch of programmer-types who occasionally moonlight as designers, that's the vibe all their games give off anyway. They probably talk to each other in C+ too. They're a company that went from making desktop skins for Windows XP to making computer games, which pretty much tells you everything.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, whyyyyyyyyyyy!?

Galactic Civ wasn't bad. I enjoyed it in a "not enough time to totally learn every nuance" kind of way.

I suppose since I enjoy SC2 so much anyway that I don't mind if somebody tries to do a remake. I can still play the original to my hearts content, and what if, just if.. they make it decent.

4 times i read that as star control robot! 4 times!

Quickly, someone put Stardock out of business so they're forced to sell it!

A new Star Control game could be pretty cool, provided it took its inspiration from SC2, and was made with the deepest respect for that game.

On the other hand, I sincerely doubt that Stardock is the right company to make such a game.

Still, time will tell. It might be good, it might be bad. But really, I wouldn't trust anybody besides Toys For Bob to make a decent Star Control game.

Well sadly giving Star Control back to the original developers would essentially mean giving it to Activision.

Stardock is a company I've lost all respect for. They sat there and praised Impulse as some kind of DRM-free system when it was clearly nothing of the sort. They paraded themselves around as champions of DRM-free, then shifted over to Steamworks.

They can't even keep to their own plans. No physical release for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion?

Yeah, right. Guess the so-called digital revolution didn't pan out quite so well, did it?

That's highly subjective. GalCiv 2 is one of my favourite games. I think it has plenty of "soul" and personality, and isn't anywhere near boring. What!? o.0 You completely got that backwards. Stardock was created in order to make the first GalCiv for OS/2. The developing of desktop software came much later.

As for the topic at hand, I try to keep an open mind. It is pretty well known that Brad Wardell is a huge fan of SC (there are a lot of SC references in GalCiv due to this), and has already stated, that they are trying to work with the original creators.

Still, due to recent developments, it is very likely that the new SC-game will be Steam-only. :(

Unfortunately this retail SOTSE: Rebellion also uses steam.

I know - I saw it in our local electronics store recently and almost bought it until I read the back of the packaging.

Brad Wardell's supposed justification was that digital was hugely successful against physical, but compared worldwide Steam sales to physical sales in one retail chain (GameStop) in one country (US), ignoring every other retail outlet, ignoring the fact that the European PC gaming market outsizes the American one massively, and ignoring the fact that the vast majority of PC physical box buyers in the US don't bother with GameStop anyway (Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon are all better places to buy PC games).

It was typical of the way Brad Wardell loves to twist facts and exaggerate.

Necro!!!

there is now a FAQ!

http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/463278/Star_Control_FAQ

Wait and see on this one....

*without the original story and aliens*

*facepalm*

That's over half the reason I love that series gone right off the bat. The style and quirkiness and loving humor that those races had was brilliant. And while Stardock can make a mean space/strategy game, I struggle to remember particularly loveable faction/races in any of their creations I played, but I'll remember the Spathi for life!

Their intent to allow people to custom and introduce their own custom races in their own uploadable star section doesn't help bolster my confidence in that regard either since it might make them make a mediocre effort at best with the justification that plenty of custom content will get uploaded anyway. And while I like custom content, I very, very much favor canon play over some unreliably put together star section by some random player.