Who would be interested in a Moo3 - Fiction thread?

Mellian · December 7, 2002, 17:39

I know i do

-Mellian

PriestOfDiscord · December 7, 2002, 20:51

Ditto!
I can't express how happy I am to hear the MOO team developing a through background for the game to be set in. This hopefully will wake more strategy game designers up, especially in space-empire building, that immersiveness works wonders for game enjoyment.

Mellian · December 7, 2002, 22:31

indeed. planning to start one story base on my first game....

-Mellian

Kc7mxo · December 8, 2002, 16:50

The bridge was lit by an eery red light, debris littered the floor. Distant explosions could still be heard somewhere within the hull. Amongst the wreckage, one form still moved.

His face was a mess of blood, and one arm hung useless at his side; his one remaining eye was fixed on the barely functional tactical display. His enemy, that demon who had haunted his soul for decades was out there, coming closer. What was left of his own ship was drifting now, and plasma fires glowed in the eternal night of space.

Somewhere amongst the wreckage, a reciever chirped out a message ". . . Commander . . . .surrend. . . vessel. . . . respond"

One ace still remained in his hand though. Crawling through the wreckage, the captain headed for a control console, different from the others in the bridge. Reaching it, he turned, and looked again to the ship of the man who'd destroyed his life.

"No Kirk, the game's not over. . . "

Heh.

Mellian · December 9, 2002, 13:38

cool

-Mellian

habadacus · December 10, 2002, 19:20

Looks like the MOO3 strategy guide is the biggest piece of fiction out there right now

Kc7mxo · December 10, 2002, 20:27

Well, its always nice to read a strategy guide for vaporware, right?

Harry Seldon · December 10, 2002, 23:30

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Originally posted by Kc7mxo

"No Kirk, the game's not over. . . "

From Hell's heart I stab at thee...

H Tower · December 12, 2002, 02:32

Kc7mxo · December 16, 2002, 16:44

Some more moo3 fiction. . .

It was a cold day, the kidn of day where icecles reach down like cold daggers in the air. I was waiting, just like always. No matter what mission I'm on, I aways end up waiting, ya know? Alone on some dark corner in the fading sunlight. With just a few flakes of snow drifting idly by.

But there, in the distance, i saw it. It was white, like the snow, and moving fast. Dangerously fast.

I moved into the shadows, where i'd be safe. You can't be too careful thse days. The beast slowed to a stop not ten feet from me, its muttered growling seemed to match my heightened heart beat as the Rider climbed down, and began to unload its cargo.

And there it was. The package I'd been sent to "acquire." But I was patient. I could have taken it then, and damned be to the consequences, but that wasn't the plan. And you know what a stickler I am for plans. The Rider began to carry them down into the depths of the old bunker, and I slowly followed. Shadows were plentiful, and I had no intention of being seen.

Waiting near the entrance, I watched through a fogged window as the Rider handed the packages off to someone else. And yes, my objective also passed into the hands of that oh so "trustworthy" person. I laughed softly to myself. . . it always suprised me how little it took to buy off such people. A single small piece of colored paper, and anything could be yours.

The Rider's own mission was done now, and he was moving fast again, striding forward with purpose. His dark uniform strode out into the steadily increasing snow, and I slipped into the too slowly closing door behind him.

The person who now had the package greeted my quietly as I handed her the payment. In an single moment, package and paper changed hands, and my mission was nearly finished. All I had to do was evac, and I'd be done.

I slipped out quietly into the snow, a blizzard of white flakes covering everything in sight. Like hope covering up dissapointment and disaster, they covered me, and I strode out into it a lone possesor of the coveted Master of Orion 3.

H Tower · December 16, 2002, 19:44

Skanky Burns · December 16, 2002, 21:12

Very nice.

RolandtheMad · December 16, 2002, 21:30

I don`t know about moo3 'fiction' but I really like those aar posts that ChaosAvatar has been posting on the infogrames forums.

Comrade Tribune · December 17, 2002, 19:54

Moo3 itself could well turn out to be fiction.

Have you noticed that all previews of the game are now seriously dated, and there has not been any much real information about the nuts-and-bolts of the game for many months? The impressive former open-doors policy was totally reversed. This is a bad foreboding. I would not be much surprised by a new CivIII-type-flop.

Zed-F · December 18, 2002, 11:20

Hmm, as I recall, Civ3 had pretty respectable sales figures. I would think QS would not be at all unhappy to have similar ones for MOO3.

Comrade Tribune · December 18, 2002, 19:05

Sadly, this is quite true.

Skanky Burns · December 18, 2002, 19:16

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The impressive former open-doors policy was totally reversed.

... around the time that certain QS staff members were fired, and massive pressure was put upon QS to get MoO3 ready for going gold.
Its not that much of a surprise.

Kc7mxo · December 18, 2002, 19:56

Yeah, the whole battle over moo3 came as quite a surprise, though I always thought that the whole "you can do anything but not everything idea" really didn't fit with this sort of game.

But from the reports I've read and the bits of info that have been leaked lately, it sounds like the game is going to be pretty sweet.

Wahngrok · December 18, 2002, 20:29

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Originally posted by Kc7mxo
But from the reports I've read and the bits of info that have been leaked lately, it sounds like the game is going to be pretty sweet.

Wasn't it vaporware to you just a week ago?

BTW: Check out the new preview at Gamespot.

Kc7mxo · December 18, 2002, 20:36

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Wasn't it vaporware to you just a week ago?

Yeah, ya got me.

I tried to be strong, i really did. But . . . I . . . just . . . can't . . . help . . . it. They're pulling me in. . .

Augh!

Wahngrok · December 18, 2002, 20:50

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Originally posted by Kc7mxo
Yeah, ya got me.

All in a days work for... MOO3addictman.