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graigsmith
June 3rd, 2005, 03:24 AM
i noticed the ur-quan masters .40 was released around may 27. can we get an updated version for the apt-get ? :)
evilmrt
August 5th, 2005, 12:31 PM
I second the request! .40 was released in May, its the first "mature" release. Prior releases don't even have the game ending. Can we get an updated version? Or at least someone clue us in how to install the normal .deb (dependancy hell). \\:D/

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
charlieg
August 5th, 2005, 05:36 PM
Gotta say I tried UrQuan Masters about 4-5 months ago and it was awful. How anybody can proclaim that as a great game is beyond me. I can appreciate some people might get nostalgic about it, but it really has not aged well nor is the gameplay particularly fun.
graigsmith
August 6th, 2005, 03:58 AM
Gotta say I tried UrQuan Masters about 4-5 months ago and it was awful. How anybody can proclaim that as a great game is beyond me. I can appreciate some people might get nostalgic about it, but it really has not aged well nor is the gameplay particularly fun.
i guess the game takes some imagination. but it is fun. when you meet your first alien friends and save them, you start to get hooked on the story.
Chuckaluphagus
August 12th, 2005, 08:49 PM
Gotta say I tried UrQuan Masters about 4-5 months ago and it was awful. How anybody can proclaim that as a great game is beyond me. I can appreciate some people might get nostalgic about it, but it really has not aged well nor is the gameplay particularly fun.

I'm sorry, I just can't agree with you there. The single player has an interesting storyline that drops you in the middle of weird alien races that are funny, gun-crazy or both, and you have to play one off the other in order to get their support/fool them so they go off to get whalloped by a far-superior species/hoodwink them into giving you something cool. Gameplay is simple but well-designed.

Multi-player, on the other hand, is an absolute riot. I have few game-related memories of my teenage years that compare to playing SQ2 Melee (or HyperMelee, where strategies change drastically) against my brothers and friends. It was the absolute perfect game for round robin tournaments, and you could play for five minutes or hours.

I'm sorry if you don't think much of it, but it's a real benchmark of the 2D gaming era.