Thread 713373493

Gatekeeper stands before you.

What… is your name?
What… is your quest?
What… is your favourite colour?

Sci-fi thread on /v/? I bump. Simple as.

Twice in my life, I almost watched all of Stargate SG-1 (the second time being after I had forgotten most of the plot), and both times I lost interest around when the spin-offs started because I didn't want to fucking watch them and I felt like I was missing shit if I didn't.
I kinda wish there were a Stargate video game. But only if it were based only on SG-1 and only if enjoying the story didn't require watching hours and hours and hours of shit outside of the game's own cutscenes.

>no games capture the vibe of stargate
it's over

>>713376840
xcom games closest thing

>>713376893
i want firaxis to make xcom but its stargate.
everything fits.

>>713377095
No, Stargate has more in common with things like Silent Storm and Jagged Alliance than it does X-Com. Any base building or research done in Stargate is to provide a plot hook for an episode or an excuse to film on a new set, they're not fundamental to the show the way they are to the games.

*sip*
Yup

>>713378080
They keep saying that research is a big part of it, they keep trying to develop things and you just don't see results early on because US bureaucracy and military is just...
..A bit slow.
I mean, the splinter faction that says fuck this and actually tries to make things is a big plot point for most of the show

>>713376840
Atlantis is better than like half of SG-1. Universe is trash at least for the first season, dropped at the end.

>>713378284
"The Trust" I think it was.

>>713378631
>Atlantis is better than like half of SG-1
Fuck no. The interactions between the cast and the cast itself are all weaker than the main show. Wraiths had a really good introduction but they fell off before the first season was even over.

gould?

>>713379794
Goold?

>>713373878
What do we know about the upcoming Expanse game, bros? Any hopes? Any chance this'll mean we'll get a proper conclusive season?

>>713379741
Rodney alone is worth watching Atlantis for. It definitely has a very rough start but unless you have a hateboner for the muh people tribal chick it's better than half the episodes in SG-1. SG-1 has lots of bad ones.

>>713379860
thank you

>>713379863
No hopes on my end. Writers are too retarded nowadays. Not to mention the anti-fun gameplay.

I hate how STO is still the only Western Sci vidya of those era that I'm still playing.

>>713378631
nah son, sg1 is much better overall though atlantis improved after the ford side arc got canned. Universe season 1 was very up and down but season 2 became much better. Too bad it didn't get a chance.

>>713379863
There was talk of a new series regarding that family (forget the name, but the girl and her brother), but the story concluded just as the book did, so it is proper.

It wasn't perfect, but I respect that they played it the way they did Killing Alex was bullshit, though

>>713377963
I don't want them to make it, but otherwise agree.

>>713373631
o'neill. two L's.
search for advanced technology to advance earths defense capabilities.
red, white and blue.

>>713379863
It looks alright so far, like it wants to be a Mass Effect type of game which I think suits the setting and series well. The devs have seemingly never made any third person shooters or any large RPG-type games so that gives me some doubt. Coming from a smaller, European studio (Owlcat, Cyprus-based), it has the potential to be some decent Eurojank. I'm a sucker for the Expanse so I've got my fingers crossed, personally.
>the second Expanse game so far since the series ended
If they don't fuck it up maybe there's a chance for something in the future, there's a lot more from the books that could be adapted.
The special editions give me something of a bitter taste, since they're locking a bunch of cool, Miller-specific gear behind a $79.99 "Miller's Pack". I like Miller, you're telling me I'm going to have to buy a special edition to unlock his stuff? The game takes place during the first few seasons as well. With all this focus on Miller items, I wonder if his character will be in the game? Or will we just be looting all his stuff and LARPing as him? I don't think any big characters from the show/books otherwise have been mentioned thus far.

>>713380816
How... many fish are in your pond?

>>713380914
Man, Miller is one of my favorite sleazy cops. We need more like him

>>713380935
ha! there are no fish in my pond.

>>713380680
So you're a "drama first" kind of fan? Figures. Son.

>whats going on at the other side of the gate???
>doesnt just dial out and stick a camera on a stick through

>we got the iris code but the iris is jammed, they will die if they come through!!!
>doesnt just have a simple >receive code >give confirmation iris is open, then come though procedure
they have some really dumb plot holes

>>713381418
your face is dumb fucking snake lover.

>>713381418
Most of SG-1's episodes fall apart real bad under any measure of scrutiny. They're fun to watch if you don't think too hard about it.

>>713381384
no? how did you get that from my reply? the later Atlantis was a lot less drama and more sci fi.

>>713380914
who tf would buy this? you're not getting 80 dollars for this. anyone buying this unironically is insane.

>>713379863
I'm just not sure how much of an RPG it's supposed to be. It's following the timeline of the show/books where certain big stuff are happening in specific places so it doesn't allow them to move around much story wise which makes me doubtful about your choices mattering that much. It's also a TPS and one in a universe where you don't have much wiggle room on what you can do, especially in combat so even if it's Owlcat it's kinda scaring me. I don't want it to be a really linear shooter.
There better be characters as based as Amos and Miller in, though.

>>713373493 (OP)
I'm off to explore the Galaxy.

>>713381418
oh and my fav
>oh no, there are bad guys on the other side of the gate
>doesnt just dial out, point everything at the gate and fucking unload every weapon they have through it

>>713381619
that's most science fiction shows desu

>>713381418
>whats going on at the other side of the gate???
>doesnt just dial out and stick a camera on a stick through

Yes they do it's called a MALP and it can't be on a stick because it wouldn't be transported until it's fully through.

>we got the iris code but the iris is jammed, they will die if they come through!!!
>doesnt just have a simple >receive code >give confirmation iris is open, then come though procedure

Yes they do. Send the code, walter confirms, open the iris. If they can they radio in. The real plot hole is codes can be compromised, all it takes is one snake in the head and you can slip a naquada nuke straight into the SGC

>>713381418
>doesnt just dial out and stick a camera on a stick through
that's not how the horizon event works, you can't have something partially emerge from one side while the rest is on the other side. It's fully submerged, decomposed, then recomposed on the other side.

>>doesnt just have a simple >receive code >give confirmation iris is open, then come though procedure
they literally do have a confirmation code and often mentioned it, but depending on how perilous shit is they could try to cross before receiving it.

>>713382615
This is why I'm saying Atlantis is better. It has much more autistic attention to little details for a while before it starts pouring on drama all over common sense. They dial it back a bit but the larger inconsistencies continue happening.

>>713382615
>>713383434
But only better than about half of SG-1 overall. So I'm comparing half of one show to whole of another. It's not a fair comparison. Still got at least one anon upset because he can't read.

>>713383434
I got sick of Atlantis because it relies so heavily on the ZPM McMuffins

>>713384076
>zedpm
I got sick of rodney mentioning how a problem is impossible to solve then stopping himself in his track because he has a eureka moment

>>713379863
Did they remove the Jeet out of the game because of the actor being too free with his hands, and his willy on the women on set?

>>713384076
SG-1 has the same shit with sarcophagi then with finding friendly ayys and getting them to actually help humans then with naqwhichever (just one was not enough apparently). There has to be a mcguffin.

>>713384204
It was still better than SGU, though

My god what an interesting premise for such a MISERABLE show

>>713384204
The Rodney vs. Shepperd RTS episode was fucking kino

>>713384784
Sarcophagus was from the movie but yes there are many arse pulls in SG-1 and although it was kinda cool that they managed to do it and I enjoyed some of the episodes, when they developed Prometheus that was the end of Stargate as a concept for me and they had turned into Star trek.

>>713384964
the soap opera just didn't work. Also fuck whoever mentally disabled nigger thought those stupid random camera zoom in zoom out were a good idea. Still loved Young and Rush.

>>713384596
I thought the game was supposed to have its own story and characters, just concurrent with the show instead of just being the show.

>>713379863
>Any chance this'll mean we'll get a proper conclusive season?
Why would you want one when the series implodes after the timeskip?

>>713385290
>the series implodes after the timeskip?
I thought people really liked the latter books

>>713385175
Snapzooms were all the rage back then. It was just as stupid then as it is now but that didn't stop them

>>713385139
The good episodes of SG-1 do make up for the bad ones. As I've said several times, that statement only holds if you compare a half and a whole. One on one and it's much more difficult. Prune/fix all of the bad episodes from both and it's even more difficult. Either way both Stargate shows are easily in top 5 sci-fi shows made for me.

>>713385251
That makes sense, gives scope for new stories is the player character a named character like in the Witcher where you play as Geralt where it's narrowly defined or like in Mass Effect where you play as Shepard but you can customise the sex of Shepard and the appearance?

>>713385450
I don't think they explained anything further than what I just said, we just don't know. Or maybe I missed something

>>713376840
I didn't watch Atlantis back when SG-1 was airing and never felt like I was missing out. There are only a few quick references here and there about whatever Atlantis is up to which you can easily ignore.

>>713385443
SG-1 is by far my comfort show not series 1 or 2 but when they get comfortable in the roles and stop trying to replicate the movie, when it becomes fully it's own concept and they start to get a decent budget is, it's absoultely worth watching.
I remember watching back on SkyOne on television coming back home from school and watching Star Trek Voyager and Stargate 1 back to back, good times.

I don't know if anyone played it or will know what I'm talking about but around the mid 2000s there was an online browser game in the Stargate Universe where you could play as the Tau-ri, the Gou'ald, the Replicators or the Asgard, you would build your army and could ally or attack other real players.
I don't remember the name of it or if it even exists anymore.

>>713385443
there isn't that many bad episodes. The only ones i can think of from the top of my head that I instantly skip are the ones with the cavemen infection (the light and dark world i think) and the hathor episode where she makes daniel his bitch. This shit episode always stood to me because you could see the stunter casually get out of the blaming bath and walk away to a back door.

>>713376840
you don't miss much from sg1 point of view, it's atlantis itself which stands to gain from watching sg1 concurrently.

>>713373493 (OP)
BRING IT THE FUCK ON BOI

>>713386131
Have at thee foul Chaos taint.

>>713382083
>end up on that one mining colony that mind wipes you and makes you think you've always worked there
I'm fine not playing stargate roulette actually.

>>713385838
The first episode or so after Children of the Gods with the goddamn Mongorians was pretty shit

They also tried to be more realistic and have them not speak English but the writers quickly discovered just how irritating it is to write around that and gave up

>>713387292
Hopefully lil bro isn't going to the black hole planet

>>713387718
oh yeah that was a very weak episode. Can't remember anything about it beside carter being made into the bootleg khan's bitch and beating him in a duel at the end or some shit.

>>713378631
>>713379741
SG-1 after about the first 4 seasons was a show you watched because you liked seeing the cast go on sci-fi adventures more than anything else.
Atlantis was a show you watched because you liked the idea of a expeditionary force needing to survive mostly isolated against a greater threat in unknown territory.

>>713388019
wait i misread your reply as mongolians lol. The enemy within that was the episode where oneill's friend get infected by a goauld and teal'c kills him at the end?

What do they eat?

I forgot, do these thing exist in Stargate?

>>713385838
How about the episode where they go to a christ fearing planet and have to treat that god as real so as to not piss off the christ cucks? Incredibly stupid episode and the devout monk was about as interesting as spoiled milk.

>>713391157
the one were they drown teal'c?

Daniel Jackson

>>713373878
>pic
That was the real ending of ENT.
A shame they didn't have some kind of finale to wrap things up, but at least it ended on a cool high note.

>>713384964
The only thing I remember about SGU was that everyone yelled a lot in the early episodes. I understand the stress of being in that situation, but holy ahit if they don't want drama.

>>713383126
There was a episode where tielc went through on a rope cus the gate was laying on its side and it worked.

>>713385109
Its funny how they just luck into this tech in season 1 or 2 and its just there.

>>713394521
it was an exception and it was never explained why it even worked so it safe to say it was a mistake from the writers