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Maybe if it was the 1978 version..

No, I made that up. The irony got lost in translation.

Maybe if it was the 1978 version..

What's cool about changing Starbuck into a chick?

No newtonian physics flight model. Fuk dat.

Why you people didn't complain in 1987 when they made a new, silly Star Trek?

Not to mention that TNG wasn't exactly a purported remake of the original series. BSG was them taking a fun, cheesy Star Wars ripoff space opera and turned it into some half-assed character study for people who think Dragonlance is literature.

Not to mention that TNG wasn't exactly a purported remake of the original series. BSG was them taking a fun, cheesy Star Wars ripoff space opera and turned it into some half-assed character study for people who think Dragonlance is literature.

Quote from: Modern Angel on June 12, 2010, 05:37:23 pm

BSG was them taking a fun, cheesy Star Wars ripoff space opera and turned it into some half-assed character study for people who think Dragonlance is literature.

I'm just going to post here and say this:

The new Battlestar was an amazing series (no matter how bad you thought the ending itself was) and about a billion times better than the original.  I mean literally, every single actor in the new series is greater than any actor from the old series in every single way.  They were all shitty inferiors.  The worst thing the new battlestar had going for it was the fact that it had the name "Battlestar Galactica" in its name, a well known shitty series.  It would probably have done better if it had been named differently.  The new battlestar is the ONLY Battlestar, and I'll forgot there was anything before it from here on.  You can all go fuck yourselves. 

The new Battlestar was an amazing series until it turned into Days of our Lives in space.

What's cool about changing Starbuck into a chicktranny?

Fixed that for you.

Fixed that for you.

I'm saying I've seen manly trannies that are hotter than Katie Sackoff.

The new Battlestar was an amazing series until it turned into Days of our Lives in space.

My friends were beginning to bitch "So, where are the Cylons/space battles/action?" even in the second half of season 1. Hate to stun you but the emo was there from the start.

My friends were beginning to bitch "So, where are the Cylons/space battles/action?" even in the second half of season 1. Hate to stun you but the emo was there from the start.

You can safely say that only 1 in 3 episodes of the original series were good, but those good episodes were very good, and the whole thing was fun. At least it didn't have the Cylons as emo immoral nymphomaniacs.

Now Galactica 1980. THAT was pure shit.

Wait, there's people who prefer the 70's BSG to the remake, and not in a "secretly ironic" way?  :uhrr:

GI Joe had more depth and story than the original BSG.

I'm holding out for Firefly online  :awesome_for_real:

How many of you are even old enough to have watched the original run of BSG?   :geezer:

It was decent for the time.  I watched the whole run, and while I can't say it was excellent, it wasn't outright terrible.  At least compared to whatever else you could watch on TV.

I did!  Also wanted a Cylon.

Jesus Christ, what's next: Buck Rogers Online?

Star Trek Online: FAIL

Star Wars Online: FAIL

If you can't make it work with those licenses, why not just use a little creativity and make a failure with your own name on it.  That was the recipe for Tabula Rasa. 

If they can digitize Erin Gray (circa 1980) in a cat suit I'm all for it.

Bigpoint Games, a successful publisher of many casual free-to-play MMOs in Europe, was recently revealed as heading up a new MMO based on the Battlestar Galactica IP. We literally knew just about nothing else about the game until the reveal of the game's first trailer just before E3 , where we learned that we'd be able to play as either Humans or Cylons.

Needless to say we were intrigued to find out more about the game when E3 rolled around, and so I stopped by the Bigpoint booth on the E3 show floor to find out what the game was all about.
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To start, Battlestar Galactica is not a full fledged traditional MMO that you might be expecting from such a significant IP. Instead, the game will be a fairly casual free-to-play browser-based MMO developed on the extremely versatile Unity engine that appears to be so popular with developers these days.

For the uninitiated, Battlestar Galactica is based off of the recent reboot of the popular 70's sci-fi series of the same name where humans create robotic beings known as Cylons to assist them as soldiers of war. In true sci-fi fashion they eventually turn on their Human masters. The Cylons were actually quite successful in their near genocide, eradicating all but roughly 50,000 humans who escape along with the Battlestar Galactica (an aging human warship) to settle elsewhere in the galaxy, but are subsequently pursued by the relentless Cylons.

The game is set following the events of season two of the 2003 re-imagining of the series and is focused primarily on combat, though there will be a number of minable resources and economy features, however our Bigpoint rep was unable to provide any further details here. Battlestar Galactica Online features a hybrid skill based and level based system, where players can eventually learn just about any skill but will also be able to ascend various ranks. Like EVE Online (at least for now), Jumpgate Evolution and Black Prophecy, Battlestar Galactica Online will not feature any ground based interaction as players will be restricted to their ships, which by the way, will be customizable in a number of ways.

I was given a brief demo of pre-alpha BSG:O gameplay, which I was genuinely surprised to see as I'd honestly expected a brief introduction to the game, but I was pleasantly surprised that Bigpoint was confident enough to show off their game. The person demoing the game was flying a medium sized starfighter that appeared to have an action-y control scheme similar to Jumpgate Evolution. We weren't shown too much of the game, but we could see the Battlestar Galactica itself out in the distance. I also noticed an experience bar and some hotkeyed abilities.

Given the fact that BSG:O is a free-to-play title I had to ask about how Bigpoint plans on going about implementing the item shop with this game. The Bigpoint rep revealed that your typical item shop trappings will be available containing convenience items and fluff, but that we'd also be seeing gameplay affecting items in the shop as well. I raised this as a concern, given that while Western games are slowly warming up to the Free to Play model, many of us are decidedly against items that affect gameplay. I was told that in Europe, players are fairly accepting of this sort of thing, and they don't anticipate it to be a huge issue here in the US. I guess we'll have to find out when the game launches later this year.

The game is set following the events of season two of the 2003 re-imagining of the series and is focused primarily on combat,

Like EVE Online (at least for now), Jumpgate Evolution and Black Prophecy, Battlestar Galactica Online will not feature any ground based interaction as players will be restricted to their ships, which by the way, will be customizable in a number of ways.

Anyone complaining about new Galactica needs to re-watch original to refresh your mind on how awful most of it really was.

Anyone complaining how old Galactica is more awful than new Galactica needs to go back in time and flip through the 8 available channels.

At that time I had 2. Your point?