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Lone War posted 02-15-99 06:23 AM ET
After playing SMAC 6 times through now, I have found that there is one thing that disappointed me out of everything in the game. The non-trancendance endings. My very first game I won a Transcendance Victory and was absolutely astounded by the end game movie and story, so I decided to play enough games to win one of each type of victory. Well, my next victory was Diplomatic, and imaging my chargrin when no movie popped up, but it did have a neat story to it. Then I went on to win Economic and Military Victories and imagine my frustration when not only are there no movies for those endings, but the ending text is the exact same as the Diplomatic Victory. What a let down. After playing through all those games, and watching the wonderful Secret Project movies and listening to the awesome quotes fro Secret Projects and Tech Advances, there was nothing new to the endings. The least that you guys and gals at Firaxis could have done is given different text for each of the different endings. But the endings need a unique movie for each type just to maintain the flavor that you have so successfully built throught this great game.
PersonaNonGrata posted 02-15-99 06:43 AM ET
Well, I wouldn't count that as a "disappointment", but rather something which could have been improved and adding flavor to an already great game. Then again, a lot of games do have bad endings (Half Life and Unreal, in my opinion). The point? We all get entranced by spectacular FMV, but they don't really make or break a game.
iratheous posted 02-15-99 08:02 AM ET
Mabee you could edit the winning victory text file for the speech it gives you. Instead of the winning text you get now, you could make yoru own intriguing story
"Your leader takes over the world and nerve staples all of the other faction leaders to work in your factories days before killing thier populations and feeding them to your mind worms."
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-15-99 12:43 PM ET
It was a time issue. Diplo and Economic victories were added at the request of our public beta testers late in the cycle. Given more time, we'd have loved to do flics for them, but the clock ran out.
jkm
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Author	Topic: My one disappointment with SMAC.
Lone War	posted 02-15-99 06:23 AM ET After playing SMAC 6 times through now, I have found that there is one thing that disappointed me out of everything in the game. The non-trancendance endings. My very first game I won a Transcendance Victory and was absolutely astounded by the end game movie and story, so I decided to play enough games to win one of each type of victory. Well, my next victory was Diplomatic, and imaging my chargrin when no movie popped up, but it did have a neat story to it. Then I went on to win Economic and Military Victories and imagine my frustration when not only are there no movies for those endings, but the ending text is the exact same as the Diplomatic Victory. What a let down. After playing through all those games, and watching the wonderful Secret Project movies and listening to the awesome quotes fro Secret Projects and Tech Advances, there was nothing new to the endings. The least that you guys and gals at Firaxis could have done is given different text for each of the different endings. But the endings need a unique movie for each type just to maintain the flavor that you have so successfully built throught this great game.
PersonaNonGrata	posted 02-15-99 06:43 AM ET Well, I wouldn't count that as a "disappointment", but rather something which could have been improved and adding flavor to an already great game. Then again, a lot of games do have bad endings (Half Life and Unreal, in my opinion). The point? We all get entranced by spectacular FMV, but they don't really make or break a game.
iratheous	posted 02-15-99 08:02 AM ET Mabee you could edit the winning victory text file for the speech it gives you. Instead of the winning text you get now, you could make yoru own intriguing story "Your leader takes over the world and nerve staples all of the other faction leaders to work in your factories days before killing thier populations and feeding them to your mind worms."
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-15-99 12:43 PM ET It was a time issue. Diplo and Economic victories were added at the request of our public beta testers late in the cycle. Given more time, we'd have loved to do flics for them, but the clock ran out. jkm firaxis games