Master of Orion 2

[Lindley]

Man, the comments here are pretty much identical to the commentary I'd make on the Star Control franchise....

 

[Chaos Descending]

Man, the comments here are pretty much identical to the commentary I'd make on the Star Control franchise....

Speaking of which, a free version of "Star Control 2" is available.

It's called, "The Ur-Quan Masters".

 

[Iasius]

And probably unplayable on my current PC anyway. Oh well...

MoO2 is running just fine for me under Vista 64, without any compatibility settings. The only thing I had to do was fix the "dplay.dll not found" error ... which is as simple as creating a copy of dplayx.dll in SysWOW64 and naming it dplay.dll.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Surprisingly I couldn't get the hang of GalCiv, but I loved MOO2.

 

[Iasius]

I've owned a copy of GalCiv 2 for a year now. Unfortunately, every time I get an urge to play a space exploration game, I play MoO 1 or 2.

 

[Holdfast]

And probably unplayable on my current PC anyway. Oh well...

MoO2 is running just fine for me under Vista 64, without any compatibility settings. The only thing I had to do was fix the "dplay.dll not found" error ... which is as simple as creating a copy of dplayx.dll in SysWOW64 and naming it dplay.dll.

Thanks for the tip! I'll see if I can track down that disc then...

 

[The Doctor]

Love, love, love Master of Orion 2. One of my all time favorites. I was also disgusted by MOO3. Horrible game. I actually ended up returning it after a few days.

Sins of a Solar Empire actually scratches my Master of Orion itch these days. It's a real time strategy game, so it plays quite differently than MOO, but it manages to capture the feel of it for me.

Sins of a Solar Empire is farkin' amazing. I lose hours on that game.

 

[Plecostomus]

Man, the comments here are pretty much identical to the commentary I'd make on the Star Control franchise....

Star Control Three was "ok" but it felt a bit rushed. I wish they'd pick up the original storyline where they left off in two.

 

[Lindley]

Star Control 3 was okay the first time I played it. However, many of the best parts were (as I later figured out) direct lifts from SC2. And since some events were time-based, you could never be sure if you'd done everything you needed to do to trigger them yet or not. Of the 3-4 time I've played through SC3, I think I've only figured out how to re-unite the Vux and Vyro-Ingo once.....because the key event in that objective just didn't happen the other times.

On the other hand, when I'm walking somewhere with nothing else to do, I still occasionally find myself whistling the SC2 hyperspace music.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Forget Star Control, what about the original? Starflight!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Forget Star Control, what about the original? Starflight!

I must be the only person in the world that loved Starflight 2.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Forget Star Control, what about the original? Starflight!

I must be the only person in the world that loved Starflight 2.

Nope, I loved it too.

 

[Plecostomus]

Star Control 3 was okay the first time I played it. However, many of the best parts were (as I later figured out) direct lifts from SC2. And since some events were time-based, you could never be sure if you'd done everything you needed to do to trigger them yet or not. Of the 3-4 time I've played through SC3, I think I've only figured out how to re-unite the Vux and Vyro-Ingo once.....because the key event in that objective just didn't happen the other times.

On the other hand, when I'm walking somewhere with nothing else to do, I still occasionally find myself whistling the SC2 hyperspace music.

With me it was dealing with the main arc, I kept missing something to get the antimatter equipment from the frozen-world doods. I managed it twice, the rest of the time I'd get stuck on that part.

 

[Lindley]

Ah! Yeah, that part got me for a while too, but I eventually figured it out. Damn if I can remember how now, though.....and of course the online guides are no use.