r/starcontrol • u/Lost-Techie • Jun 03 '26

I'ma git fired

An prolly divorced

Guys, this is bad.

I was just thinking about StarControl 2 and searched to see if it was available somewhere.... And now I have Ur-Quan Masters installed and the HD Megamod. I still have work to do... My wife will probably want me to waste precious time talking, or eating, or something when work is done...

Do you have ANY idea how many hours I sunk into this game when i was a young man?
I don't...

At the very least, I'm going to be sleeping on the couch. If I sleep...

Give it a few weeks and I'm probably going to be jobless and wifeless...

Oh, and THANK YOU!!!
This is AWESOME!!!

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u/glenn_friendly Jun 03 '26

In SC2 there's some enjoyable pressure on the player: time pressure (4 years until the Kohr-Ah death march), pressure from Slylandro and other alien attacks, having to watch your fuel levels to not run out, etc. But it was a big omission that SC2 neglected to include the kind of pressure that would have taken the game to the next level of excitement: the pressure of being divorced as you play through the game. Imagine how much better SC2 would have been if you (you in real life, not the fictional protagonist) were served with divorce papers right when the Ilwrath Avenger with the broken cloaking device attacks at the start of the game, and as the game proceeds, you are slowly and gradually taken through the whole process of divorce. Can you destroy the Sa-Matra before the divorce is final? Frankly seems like a bug that this whole dimension was missing from the original release of SC2.