Star Control 3 - The Precursor Tells All 2

[@HayTatsuko]

This conversation with the Ortog is what turned SC3 into a much better experience. I loved the exposition here.

[@tifforo1]

6:54 "how startlingly similar life forms could have evolved separately on so many planets" The aliens in Star Control are the most dissimilar to humans and each other of any work of fiction I've so far encountered.

[@awkwardcultism]

I think its talking about the sexy blue chicks.

[@localhearthian2387]

Mass Effect stole this twist and it worked way better for this reason. I'm genuinely impressed how badly SC3 wasted this concept.

[@IgnisInCaelum]

Wait, wait... The Spathi have been right all along? Gads!

[@alvinalvin4117]

I swear that the developer of this game must have been taking a phd in bio astronomy. I was a kid when first played it in 1996 and had no idea at all about the stories. Now i revisited this video and still awe with the detailit provides. Why there is no such a game like this now?

[@equismas_bas]

Cuz kids do meth now

[@zeroflowne]

The Eternal Ones are actually pretty cool villians

[@EMike07]

I'm going to assume that the formula involves dividing by zero.

[@zeroflowne]

It's the fucking Reapers!

[@npatrcevic]

There is a slight flaw in Precursor arguments here. If the Eternal1s destroy all life in all galaxies, they don't die, they just transcend yet again.

[@CollisionChaos6]

Let's see for Russian. Eternal Ones = Вечные (Viechnyje); Eternal1s = Вечный1с (ViechnyjOdinS). Nope, doesn't work. Does that mean that we Russians failed math forever?

[@airwolfman]

@EMike07 That would mean that the eternal one is chuck norris?!

[@Bobby90]

Starting to notice that.

[@NodDisciple1]

Isn't it 62? :?

[@WildFungus]

remember. The Orz are They.

[@Kissamiess]

Some ancient race that periodically comes to harvest all the sentient life in the galaxy? It's the Reapers from Mass Effect! There's even the Collectors/Heralds. I can't believe they lifted that idea from this turd of a game. Of course I might be wrong and they both got it from some older sci-fi story.

[@Mandemon1990]

The idea is even older than either games.

[@tifforo1]

A Star Wars novel from 1983 called Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu has it too. It had the same twist about a race making themselves stupid to escape and leaving behind artifacts to aid their re-evolution, too, although in that one they only had to reduce themselves to the level of cognitively impaired savages to escape and so were able to maintain legends and leaders to help with their re-awakening. The execution of this plot is so-so. This is a huge spoiler for that novel, by the way. There are like 400 other Star Wars novels from the old Expanded Universe (now called Legends), so I'm going to assume you wouldn't have heard of it if I hadn't mentioned it.

[@urquanoverlord2538]

Eternal ones? FANE WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE GAME!!! divinity 2 reference.

[@npatrcevic]

No, your logic is flawed, you're missing the premise which comes later, regarding the mischievous intent or the unknowable nature of the universe. Even without this premise, the abstract though of a number, lets say three - means the same thing in every language on Earth, even if it doesn't sound the same. I like the parallel with the Vorlon race from Babylon5 - a Vorlon without a protective suit appears as an angel from an ancient mythology for every race separately.

[@localhearthian2387]

3 is a fundamental aspect of reality. The Vorlons created the mythological angel. The Eternal1 is a joke that can't work in every language

[@MatiuCL]

as the cow

[@TheTomac]

no. mathematics has basically nothing to do with english, or any language.

[@NodDisciple1]

X_x Owie!

[@DeftCrowMk3]

"like how planet races grow meat-like brains.." Damn it. Supox was my favorite race in Ur-Quan Masters... but it was already "perverted" in 1996 because of (hat claims to be) Star Con 3.

[@Elfodelosbosques]

Sorry, but can't avoid to say this: given that the energy given by the stars is waaaaaaaaay higher than that given by the chemical reactions that power life, why they didn't switch to that?. They'd not have to worry about energy problems for many, many billions of years.

[@mmaldon84]

José Ramón they needed more rarified forms of sentience

[@TheCottonTop]

I fought his mom and his mom won.