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Re:The Ur-Quan Masters by VonGuard on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:35PM (#30067185)
It did, indeed, have amazing alien races, extremely unique and original. Everything from the crystaline Chenjesu to the Used-to-steal-humans-and-probe-them-but-they're-not-aliens-they-are-pan-dimensional-beings Arilulaleelay, to the cowardly Spathi, to cryptic Melnorn.

Play it again. It holds up. Maybe even more so!

I recently did an interview with the lead maintainer on this project, for the MADE's podcast. Very timely, and coincided with a major update last year, the first in a long while. https://art19.com/shows/the-madecast/episodes/f64c139a-5d76-...

Re:The Ur-Quan Masters by afavour on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:41PM (#30067227)
Oh man, I’d kind of forgotten the Arilou plot. What an incredibly smart play on the “little green men” trope.

I suppose another reason I haven’t played is that I already know the plot back to front. I want to know more about the Orz (another subplot that fascinated me). Hell, I wanted to know if there was anything more to be learned about what happened to races like the Gg (the fact that I remember such minor plot points twenty years later speaks volumes). I was very disappointed when I heard that the sequel wasn’t going to touch any of that.

Re:The Ur-Quan Masters by fho on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:01AM (#30069370)
Iirc you could actually lose by not doing anything? [spoiler]The UrQuan advancing more and more up to a point were you basically just got a game over screen?[/spoiler]
Re:The Ur-Quan Masters by thesuperbigfrog on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:12PM (#30067446)
Did you ever find the Black Spathi Squadron?