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montrealsoon said:

Plaupius said:

celine said:
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From what game is your avatar ?

It's from Star Control 2 :) If anybody here hasn't played that game, I seriously urge you to try it, it's available for free from The Ur-Quan Masters sourceforge project for various platforms. If you do get it, let me know and we can try to set up network melee matches, I'd love to try my melee skills against other hunams ;)

Ever try Star Control for the Genesis with the Game Genie attached?  You could give Ariloolay (sorry for the spelling) as many crew as the Ur Quan had.  It was very hard to defeat such a ship!

 

Sorry, I've only played Star Control and Star Control 2 on PC, though I did have a hack program for Star Control that allowed editing pretty much all attributes of the ships... but even with the crew of 6, the Arilou (or Arilou Lalee'lay as the whole name reads) skiff is so hard to hit that if it had 30 crew, it would be borderline impossible to destroy it, and most probably the other player would just give up. Unless he had the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah Marauder or the Chmmr Avatar, of course.

Oh man, the melee alone in SC2 has such incredible depth and different strategies to master, not to mention the main game and storyline. Actually, I should look up some memorable quotes from SC2 for the quotes thread :)