Star Control 3 - The Precursor Tells All 3

[@awkwardcultism]

I wonder if the whole "see the future and past" thing is meant to explain how the player is able to save and reload, making different decisions.

[@Elfodelosbosques]

Gee, I like at 1:20 the way to solve problems of the Precursors: send the evil guys to another galaxy -preferably the farthest possible of the ours-, so the guys there will have to contend with that menace.

[@Veke99]

Aww, I hoped you would ask him "Why does the bridge turn purple." :P

[@Gravedigger.]

I thought the precursors were supposed to be shaggy?

[@tarponpet]

In this game it's mentioned that they had some variation, some were shaggy, some weren't.

[@Zotesoap]

for all of the issues that people take with sc3, I think when developers have a mysterious precursor race and then eventually chose to reveal them, it's generally disappointing like an ending to a series you've been waiting for years for only for it to not live up, yet in this case I thought they had a great idea on the "why" of it. The idea that the precursors De-evolved themselves to avoid a threat they would then re-evolve from and continue working on a solution for seems clever, even if a lot of the other things mixed in there are wack.

[@neglesaks]

@circecalypso Artistic license allows you to compromise on scientific rigour. :]

[@localhearthian2387]

Honestly, I don't buy the Arilou needing human DNA for a second. I mean, if only the Arilou knew a species that specialises almost exclusively in Biotech. Like the Umgah. Besides, I don't think the ancient Egyptians had nuclear weapons. And another thing, the Precursors seem to confuse intuition and button mashing for psionics. I want to believe that this is due to some bonkers predestination thing they suffer from, but that would require an effective use of language beyond this games understanding

[@noop9k]

Assuming that evil guys are less smart than their automated probe and can't check if they got the right destination after arriving there.

[@neglesaks]

@Shavarnarak More or less the same thing; space monsters and mutants of the 60's were the then equivalent of genetic/DNA/gene-splicing fantasizing of the 80s and 90's.

[@a.dykeman1980]

And of course, the guy with all the answers is aa sssllooooooooooooow taaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllkerrrrrrrrrrrr.

[@tguns1]

No. The Ur-Quan were slow talkers (via their Talking Pets) in the previous game.

[@lucacitroen9178]

Admittedly, while the overall story is Sh** I do think that how they dealt with the Rainbow worlds forming a arrow towards the galactic core was clever..... Also, am I the only one slightly unnerved by the aliens? I mean, who was thinking that it was a good idea to have PUPPETS be used? (just stick to pixels, you guys.) Also Can we ask the Precursor to explain the rules of Frungy?

[@SpathiCaptainFwiffo]

I know how to play frungy, With Gusto!

[@vertigofy6699]

i was so on board with everything this guy was saying until he started talking about arilou wanting human DNA. They're buddies with the umgah! It's all a bit too chosen-one

[@gavinbalter9464]

How do you translate Orz Precosrs

[@tguns1]

Trying to translate the Orz is **frumple** at best.

[@RealParadoxBlues]

All I can keep thinking during his talking is "Bullshit!" over and over...

[@WildFungus]

This explains why the orz call the arilou Quickbabies. cuz the arilou are babies in comparison to the orz who are the eternal1s

[@neglesaks]

@BLARGHALT Evidently you haven't seen Matrix Revolutions. :P

[@Dirtyblue929]

@StarControl69 I was trying to joke... :(

[@Dirtyblue929]

perhaps evolution DOES work that way, and we're just not on the right plane of existence to understand how!

[@gavinbalter9464]

My mind implodes because of stupid thoughts!

[@lukeb247]

God, Elcor emote more than this guy

[@noop9k]

I'm not a geneticist, but If we go with software analogy, then buggy over-engineered codebase can be called stale and can be easily succeeded by new one, done almost from scratch. This happens rather frequently. Still, the story of SC3 is lame.

[@BLARGHALT]

He talks a lot for somebody who's dying.