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Quite remarkable that you've managed to make a Colonization turn based strategy game in an engine designed to make point & click adventure games. Sid Meier's Colonization was one of my favourite games back in the day. So much so I run the Col fans Facebook, Reddit and Discord groups!

Doing a great job here @TheTMD , thank you for emailing me to help fill some of those remaining gaps on my old QFG fan site! I don't visit here as much as I used to sadly but I can see I've previously posted not once but twice in this very thread over the last decade or so asking for the lost Quest for Orgy games so thank you for your help finding QFO1! The sequels probably never got made sadly but ya never know. Either way I'll have to update my old Quest For Glory fans games hunting thread here soon!

Speaking of which I've got another thing to add to the list which might interest you. I've just emailed you this but I may as well stick it here too. I've been trying to find the original Quest for Infamy AGS project demo (not the excellent and very different final game they made that's on steam & gog etc) that the infamous adventures guys did in the early 2000s. After being touched by my Blake's Sanctum - Quest For glory fan site tribute to their original project Klytos released it publicly in 2010 and I got a copy... yet then somehow lost it!!!! Then they took their old forum down and moved to a new one when they made the new game so I couldn't get it from the thread and have been trying to re-find it for years, I spoke with Blackthorne and Klytos a few times in the years since but they couldn't find their copies anymore either. However would you believe I just found it, as I thought I'd tried webarchive in the past but apparently I hadn't lol! I just tried and it worked, and yes even the demo download was backed up too!
https://web.archive.org/web/20140327142926/http://www.infamous-adventures.com/forum/index.php?topic=3719.0
It's a simple demo but another nice little piece of AGS history to add to your preservation list of demos and full games.



I have great appreciation for what you're doing here mate as I've been doing my own preservation project over the last few years rescuing old Civ2 mods (in fact I just remembered I even have a thread on this very forum about it haha). It's taken years of my life so when you commit to doing this kind of thing it's a huge sacrifice so much respect! In fact I notice you're using meganz for rescues so I'm guessing the ASG site no longer hosts games itself in its library and they need to go elsewhere? If so then meganz doesn't usually last forever so I recommend you take a look at the Internet archive org. They've been around for a couple of decades now and as well as having the huge webarchive we use for find old lost websites like I did above it also has a ginourmous library of lost books, software and games. So I've been using them for my Civ2 rescue work and as well as the free file hosting I really also like how they allow me to display each mod with a nice picture creating a nice visual library catalog of everything. Something like that for all the old AGS projects you're rescuing would be pretty cool, so you guys might wanna consider them if you're struggling with reliable free hosting issues.

[Civ2:]

Hey guys, figured it's time for another project update. No new search categories added this time as I've given myself too much work already lol, however there's plenty of new scenarios found under the existing scifi & fantasy categories (listed in the top post)! I'm pleased to announce that I've pretty much reached the (foreseeable) the end of my Civilization 2 MGE preservation project and have uploaded hundreds of individual scenarios and a bunch of super collections containing thousands of scenarios to CivFanatics, ModDB & Archive Org ensuring they don't get lost again! I was going to post this weeks ago however an anonymous donor gave me a ginormous collection containing some of my most wanted lost scenarios based on cool stuff like Final Fantasy, Starcraft & Dune so I've been busy sorting them out! Naturally all these new finds are in the update list below and download links can be found in this projects original thread over at CivFanatics.

Speaking of classic Civ games I put a call out across many sites to try and get more GoG wishlist votes for adding Civ1&2 to GoG & Steam as it's crazy that the 2 big Civ games that started it all are not legally sold in any stores (& can only be found on archive & dodgy warez sites) while other classic Microprose games and all later Civ games are all being digitally sold. Presumably the pre Firaxis Civ games seem to be stuck in some sort of licensing hell they need to be rescued from. Only fans voting and making themselves heard can possibly change that. Yes some classic Civ fans probably still have their original discs & CDs like I do and don't need another copy, but plenty probably don't now and these games should really be back in stores, easily accessible, ready to run without config hassle, and getting more attention again! More fans returning to these classic Civ games injects new life into their modding scenes!

Anyway now that my Civ2 MGE preservation work has come to an end I can finally get back to making my Civ2 videos showing some of these great old scifi and fantasy mod projects to the world, and also working on my own Civ2 mod projects and finally releasing them! Then I can start focusing more on finding, rescuing & cataloging mods for later Civ games as I know I've only just scratched the surface of them. However as you'll see below I've still managed to find a bunch of new mods for them too!

CivFanatics (CFC) Search List updates...

Civ2:
- Star Trek - Have obtained missing download for Jeelen's Star Trek Voyager scenario (thanks Thunderfall) & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added Jeelen's Star Trek: First Contact scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added Jeelen's Star Trek: The Next Generation scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added Jeelen's Star Trek: Warp 9 Dominion War scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added TimothyFowlkes's Star Trek: The Earth Romulan War scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added Barthi's Star Trek Galaxy scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added PaulHeron's Star Trek Universe modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added MetroPolis's Ultimate Star Trek modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added MetroPolis's Star Trek scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added MrDo's Star Trek 2600 scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek - Added MrDo's Star Trek Civ2 scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek + Star Wars - Added MajedAnani's Galaxy modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek + Star Wars - Added FrankJohnson's Space! scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Trek + Star Wars - Added Andrew&Chris's Space Civ2 modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Added oRGys's Star Wars scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Added BrandonDunaway's Star Wars - Hoth Battle scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Added Star Wars - SOTG scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Added LordFabiano's Star Wars: Dark Side modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Added Eyn's SW Guerre Des Etoiles II scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Added DanKaleta's Galactic Empire modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Have obtained missing download for FilipCarlsson's Star Wars The Dagobah System scenario (thanks MetroPolis) & preserved it on CFC.
- Star Wars - Have obtained missing download for JBelanger's Star Wars Tatouine scenario (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- Babylon 5 - Added Coolguy529's Babylon 5 Shadow War scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Stargate - Added ChrisSaulder's Stargate scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Final Fantasy - Updated Final Fantasy VI (III US) Allies vs Empire scenario entry with it's proper name & preserved it on CFC.
- Final Fantasy - Have obtained missing download for Jomb's Final Fantasy 1 scenario (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- Final Fantasy - Have obtained missing download for FrankJohnson's Final Fantasy 4 (2 US) modpack (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- Final Fantasy - Have obtained missing download for DustinDunn's Final Fantasy 6 (3 US) Alpha modpack (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- Final Fantasy - Added honourable mention of Jomb's Crystalis scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Dune - Have obtained missing download for IsaacAshdown's Dune The Battle for Arrakis scenario (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- Dune - Have obtained missing download for JamesDahl's Sands of Dune scenario (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- Dune - Have obtained missing download for NChautru's Dune - Pour l'epice! scenario (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added CharlesMagee's 1640 North America scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added NickHolzapfel's The Ascendance of Europe scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added Guilopez's European World: Era of Colonization scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added GaryLongo's Colonization of the New World scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added BeErIzGoOd's Discover The New World scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added TimRowe's Native Americans scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added Jeelen's 1492 scenarios to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added Eyn's Conquest of the New World 1492-1591 scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Colonization - Added ChrisWilkinson's Colonization of the New World scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- HoMMagic - Added honourable mention of StLeo's Dual Europe scenario to the list which uses HoMM & Age of Wonders assets.
- Apocalypse - Added Lycerius's The Eternal War scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added ChristophSaulder's Dasein - Fight for survival scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added MikeFisher's BattleTech Refusal Wars scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added NeilGuenther's The Revolt of 3000 scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added MichaelDaumen's Earth 3000 - Awakening (Fallout Inspired) scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added ChrisWilkinson's Colonization of an Ancient World 3K scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Apocalypse - Have obtained missing download for Blackclove's Dawn of the Dead scenario (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- LOTRing - Added Tolkien scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- LOTRing - Added Adult Mittelerde (Middle Earth) scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- LOTRing - Added JonTyler's The War of the Ring scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- LOTRing - Added ChristophSaulder's The Fall of Beleriand scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- LOTRing - Added ChristophSaulder's Der Herr der Ringe scenarios to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added Moon - A Dead World scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added JohnBerkeley's The Colonisation of the Moon scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added Low G Battle modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added Space scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- MoOrion - Added Barocca's Master of Orion 2 Jr Variant scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- MoOrion + AlphaC & Alien Col - Have obtained missing download for Orion Alpha Centauri scenario (thanks Anonymous) & preserved it on CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added AlbertoBerardi's Absolute Space scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added JeffHead's MoreReal scenarios modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added DorianCrede's Beta Centauri scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added FredericMeunie's The ADVANCED-ONE modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Starcraft - Have obtained missing download for Aland007's Starcraft: Terran War scenario (which Blake is currently enhancing) & preserved it on CFC (thanks Anonymous).
- Warhammer - Added LaurentXavierLamory's Warhammer: La Naissance des Empires scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Warhammer - Added Shockwolf's Warhammer Orks scenario to the list.
- Warhammer - Added Warhammer 40k: The Hyperborean Crusade scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- Warhammer - Added Sporeboy's Warhammer: Fenris 40k scenario to the list & preserved it on CFC.
- CivCrossover - Added Wiron's PlayStation Civ2 graphics modpack to the list (which Blake is currently enhancing).
- CivCrossover - Added honourable mention of JohnValdez & AndrewLivings's SMAC Project scenario to the list which is unfinished.

Civ2TestOfTime:
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added Nicheal's Lalande 21185 Deluxe scenario to the list.
- LOTRing - Added Kobayashi's Lord of the One Ring scenario (Enhanced for ToT by Gapetit) that Knighttime told me about to the list.
- LOTRing - Added HarlanThompson's Lord of the Rings scenario (Enhanced for ToT by Gapetit) that Knighttime told me about to the list.
- Star Trek + Star Wars - Added honourable mention of Civinator's Galactic Conquests Beta mod to the list which is unreleased.
- Warhammer - Added honourable mention of Tanelorn's Warhammer 40k Units pack to the list which deserves a scenario!
- CivCrossover - Added Leif&Faye's Civ4 Empire Earth modpack to the list & preserved it on CFC.

Civ3:
- HoMMagic - Added Tom2050's Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Hell Terrain mod to the list.
- Mars & Lunar - Added Tholish's Solar System Planets mod combo series (Part 1 - Planets, Part 2 - Lunar, Part 3 - Solar System, & Part 4 - Rule Titania) that Ozymandias told me about to the list.
- Star Trek - Have obtained missing sound & music addon download for Logitec's Star Trek mod & preserved it on CFC.

Civ4:
- Colonization - Added TChristensen's Age of Discovery mod to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Apocalypse - Added FromAustria's Zombie Invasion mod to the list.
- Mars & Lunar - Added Tholish's Future Mod (sequel to his Civ3 Solar System Planets mod above) to the list.

Civ4Col:
- Colonization - Added FratelliMarconi's Dawn of a New Era mod to the list.

Civ5:
- C&C & Red Alert - Added Usernamehere's CNC Red Alert Civs mod combo series (The Allies, The Soviet Union, & The Psychic Corps) to the list.
- C&C & Red Alert - Added Usernamehere's CNC Tiberium War Civs mod combo series (The Global Defense Initiative, & The Brotherhood of Nod) to the list.
- Dune - Added Mathetes's Dune Civs mod combo series (House Atreides, & House Harkonnen) to the list.

Civ6:
- Colonization - Added Adamiy's Colonization scenario to the list.
- Dune - Added RyeGuy's Arrakis (Dune) scenario to the list.
- Warhammer - Added joto92's Warhammer Mod to the list.

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[Warhammer Franchise (Fantasy & 40K Scifi)]

You will be remembered as one of the saviors of games media that would have otherwise have been lost a few centuries from now. Your name will be in textbooks.

And I AM NOT being sarcastic. These are treasures that need saving!

Thank you sir! Yup so much has been lost over the decades so hopefully this work will stop that from happening!

It's been a while since the last project update again as I've been continuing work on my huge Civ2 search & rescue preservation project (which is why Civ2 mods dominate below) which is in its final stretch now as soon I'll be moving onto to Test of Time, Civ3 & newer Civ games. I also took time away to finally start releasing my video series that all this preservation work feeds into which anyone interested can see the first episode on Playing Civ1 in HD with mods & scenarios over at CivFanatics. While Civ2 dominates this update below don't worry guys, newer Civ games haven't totally been neglected thanks to people replying to my threads with great discoveries and I've found a few on my own too!


I swore I wouldn't add anymore categories to the search list but I have bowed to popular demand haha as many people across different forums asked me to add the Warhammer Franchise (Fantasy & 40K Scifi) and while I've sadly never played any of their games I can't help but notice there's some really really good Warhammer scenarios out there for various Civ games so I've added them to the list! This will likely annoy diehard fans of each respective franchise (I've seen some of the "they stole this off us" arguments lol) but I've combined the new Warhammer category with the existing Warcraft & Starcraft section to save space, sorry lol.

Oh and I've also added a new Missing scenarios & mods section to the bottom of the original thread post over at CFC to better display the projects I've been unable to rescue so far. If you have one of them, please let me know!

List updates...

Civ2:
- Star Trek - Added JohnValdez's Star Trek Generations (5 scenarios) modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek - Added KevinGilbert's Star Trek (7 scenarios) modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek - Added JohnValdez's Star Trek TOS modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek - Added JohnValdez's Star Trek TNG Colonies modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek - Added MatthiasPitz's Bajor The Cardassian Occupation scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek - Added MichaelMcCart's Star Trek AT WAR modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek / Star Wars - Added ACoates+CEyre's Space Civ 2 (Star Wars & Star Trek) scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added JohnValdez's Star Wars Colonies modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added Draco's SuperWars scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added Chris+SteveWalpole's Star Wars Tatooine scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added Justin Giles's Tatooine scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added BenShragge's Aliens On Mars scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added JohnValdez's Mars modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added JohnValdez's Lunar - Apollo Mission modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added JohnValdez's New Moon! scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added JesusFernandez's The Conquest of Mars scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added LukaRejec's Dead Worlds modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Mars & Lunar - Added BowTieGuy's Prospero Now! scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added Donnqa's Alpha Centura scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added RickLeeII's Space Colony modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added MichaelMcCart's Freedom AT WAR II Off World modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added JohnValdez's Desert Planet scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added JohnValdez's Ice Planet II scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added JohnValdez's Water World modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added GiantSquid's Starsaga II - Where The Stars Meet scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added BenShragge's Solar System Battle scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Colonization - Added JesusMunoz's Colonies IV The Expansion of Europe scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added Jamestout's Colonialism scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added Jamestout's Empires scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added Kobayashi's The R*** of Nations scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added JohnValdez's Birth of America scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Colonization - Added StLeo's Imperial Ambition scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added StLeo's Fictional Americas scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added AllardHofelt's The Age of Discovery scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added CarlFritz's Struggle for Empire French & Indian War scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added Prometeus's Asiento scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added JesusBalsinde's The Quest for Eldorado scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added GeeForce's The World of 1600 scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Colonization - Added GeeForce's Colonize scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added JesusBalsinde's Alba De America scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added MacarioReyes's The Fall of the Aztecs scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added JesusMunoz's The Spanish Odyssey scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added MichaelDaumen's The Birth of America scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added JesusBalsinde's The Conquest of Mexico scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added ShayRoberts's Age of Piracy scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added CarlFritz's Pitt's War at Sea scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added GaryLongo's Revolutionary War scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added ShayRoberts's Sacrificial Blood (5 scenarios) modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Colonization - Added DanScheltema's Slash & Burn scenario to the list.
- Colonization - Added StefanHartel's The Lost Paradise scenario to the list.
- MoMagic - Added Dwingert's Master of Magic modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Babylon 5 - Added TimothyFowlkes's Invasion of Narn scenario to the list.
- Apocalypse - Added JDShepherd's Rebuilding the world after WWIII scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added WarVoid's Heavy Metal Earth 3000 scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added WarVoid's Air War 3000 scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added JohnValdez's Planet of the Apes modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added MarkLaanen's Barron's Earth 3000 scenario to the list.
- Apocalypse - Added Techumseh's Millenium 004 scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added BerndBrosing's SubWars scenario to the list.
- Apocalypse - Added PatrickWilliams's Mad Max scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added MrTemba's Sagan's Earth 3000 scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added RyanCaruso's U.S.A. 3500 A.D. scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added Foster's Earth 3000 - Jump Trooper scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added JosephDaughtery's The Fall of Civilization scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added PaulHeron's Terminator Future War scenario to the list (which I AM REMASTERING).
- LOTRing - Added AndrewG's The Lord of The Rings scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- LOTRing - Added GeeForce's MYTH - Fall of the Gods scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- LOTRing - Added NicholasWordsworth's Tolkien modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- LOTRing - Added JDixon+SSchmeling's War of the Jewels scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- LOTRing - Added NellSmith's The Battle For Middle Earth scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Warhammer - Added ManuelPalma's Warhammer Athel Loren scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.

Civ2ToT:
- Colonization - Added SebastianMelde's Age of Colonialism - 1680AD scenario to the list.
- Star Wars - Added Kobayashi's Star Wars Insurrection scenario (Enhanced for ToT by Gapetit) that Civinator told me about to the list.

Civ3:
- Final Fantasy - Have obtained missing download for DJBonebreaker's Final Fantasy mod (thanks Fortis1) and preserved it on CFC.
- MoMagic - Added Haluu's Tides of Crimson Fantasy mod to the list, as it's very MoM like.
- Warhammer - Added Mrtn's Warhammer Fantasy mod to the list.
- Warhammer - Added Fortis1's WH40k Battle for Armageddon scenario to the list, & have uploaded a copy of it's file to CFC.

Civ4:
- Dune - Added Deliverator's Dune Wars Revival Villeneuve Inspired patch (converts Dune Wars mod to thew new Dune film) to the list.
- Elder Scrolls - Added Smortt's Elder Scrolls mod to the list.
- Elder Scrolls - Added honourable mention of Ramzay1945's Tamriel mod (made from ES mod above) to the list which is in progress.
- Warhammer - Added PsychicLlamas's Warhammer Heart of Chaos mod to the list.

Civ5:
- C&C & Red Alert - Added the Usernamehere's CNC Generals Civs 3 mod combo series (The United States of America, The People's Republic of China, & The Global Liberation Army) to the list.
- GoThrones - Added the Winter is Coming to Civ Deluxe mod that R3P0 told me about to the list.
- Warhammer - Added Civitar's Warhammer Battles of Eternity mod to the list, along with NomadOrWhat's addons Skaven Pack, Lizardman Pack, Dark Elf Pack & Goblin Pack.

Civ6:
- C&C & Red Alert - Added the Mastodonmk2's C&C Generals - America Generals mod to the list.
- Colonization - Added Blkbutterfly's Colonization of The New World scenario that Blkbutterfly told me about to the list.
- Colonization - Added Blkbutterfly's Colonization of The New World DELUXE (WIP) scenario that Blkbutterfly told me about to the list.

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[C&C]

Hey guys,

Big update as it's been a while! I've been busy doing lots of searching and tracking down long lost mods & scenarios to rescue and upload. I've also added some new search categories of interest to me and made some big changes to existing ones...

- Merged C&C and Red Alert together to save space.
- Merged Doom with Fallout & Mad Max under a new main Apocalypse category to save space & also added new Terminator, Judge Dredd, Zombies, & After WW3 to the Apocalypse category too.
- Added a new Starcraft category and combined it with the existing Warcraft one to save space
- Added a new Lunar/Moon category to the existing Mars Colonization one.
- Added a new Final Fantasy category
- Added a new Civ Crossover category (Mods that make a Civ game look like another Civ game) as I've been finding some good stuff for these and wonder if there's more out there!

Regarding that rescue work keeping me busy I recently started a huge new scenario catalog & rescue project creating proper download pages at CivFanatics (even rescuing lost scenarios that are not part of this search cause I'm nice like that lol), as well as extra scenario download mirror pages on ModDB and Internet Archive Library to ensure they don't get lost again as both those sites are long living & offer free hosting. At the moment I'm setting up Civ2 scenario libraries on these other sites but I look forward to setting up these library file mirrors for other Civ game scenarios in the future. Uploading to these sites is not hard (I've written guides over in my CivFanatics project thread) so hopefully others in the Civ community eventually follow my example and add to all these collections in the future to ensure all these great old pieces of work live on!


List updates...

Civ2:
- Final Fantasy - Added FrankJohnson's Final Fantasy II/IV modpack to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Final Fantasy - Added Jomb's Final Fantasy NES Civ scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Final Fantasy - Added honourable mention of the Final Fantasy III/VI scenario to the list which has no custom graphics but is the only surviving FF Civ2 scenario!
- MoOrion - Added Jeelen's Master of Orion Jr Remake 4 scenario, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added MichaelDMcCart's Judge Dredd - I am the LAW modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Apocalypse - Added ParVahadar's Fallout for Civilization scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Apocalypse - Added honourable mention of Skulb's Fallout City Background graphic to the list, which would go great with a Fallout scenario if we can find one!
- Apocalypse - Added Blackclove's Dawn/Day of the Dead scenario to the list (Apocalypse), however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Mars & Lunar - Added JBG's Colonisation of the Moon scenario to the list.
- Mars & Lunar - Added FredericMeunie's MoonLand modpack, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added JohnMavin's Alpha Centauri scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added honourable mention of JohnValdez & AndrewLivings's SMAC Project scenario to the list which sadly appears abandoned (Blake is considering fixing up).
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added CarlosDiaz's Alpha Centauri modpack to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Warcraft & Starcraft - Added Aland007's Starcraft: Terran War scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Dune - Added N.Chautru's Dune - Pour L'epice! scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Dune - Added IsaacAshdown's The Battle for Arrakis scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Dune - Added JamesDahl's Sands of Dune scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Dune - Added DavidGreenfield's CivDune scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek - Added Skulb's Star Trek 2018 modpack to the list.
- Star Trek - Added DirkWeber's ST Mission on Vesta scenario, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Trek - Added StLeo's Star Trek 7of9 (Voyager) scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Star Trek - Added Jeelen's Star Trek Voyager scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Star Trek / Star Wars - Added TomChoinski's CivSpace (Star Trek, Star Wars & more crossover) modpack, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added NikolaKuprešanin's Star Contact Part I: The Star Wars scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added Markus Schegel's The Battle of Endor scenario, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added PaulCaldwell's Star Wars scenario modpack, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Star Wars - Added Ambra's Star Wars scenario, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Babylon 5 - Added the German Babylon 5 scenario to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- C&C & Red Alert - Added C&C2 Red Alert scenario, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- C&C & Red Alert - Added Wonx2150's Command & Conquer scenario to the list (which I AM REMASTERING).
- Crossover - Added Blake's Demaster of JohnValdez's Civ1 modpack to the list.
- Crossover - Added KasiusKlej's Civ1 modpack (uses some of Blake & John's work) to the list.
- Crossover - Added Blake's Remaster of VWPsycho1984's ToT Graphics modpack to the list which is in progress.

Civ2ToT:
- Mars & Lunar / AlphaC & Alien Col - Added Kestrel's Escape From Sol scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added Kestrel's Extended Original Game 4-Worlds modpack to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added Kestrel's Unit-Mania Addon 4 World scenario to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Elder Scrolls - Added honourable mention of Dadais's TES The Stormcloak Rebellion scenario to the list which is unfinished. He's also made a Skyrim Map!
- Warcraft & Starcraft - Added honourable mention of CatFish's Starcraft scenario which sadly appears abandoned.

Civ3:
- Apocalypse - Added the AMAZING Vuldacon's Escape From Zombie Island 2 Elite scenario to the list.
- Mars & Lunar - Added Hunterkiller's Mars: Alien Invasion scenario to the list.
- Final Fantasy - Added Magus77's Final Fantasy 7 mod to the list, & have uploaded its missing file to CFC.
- Final Fantasy - Added DJBonebraker's Final Fantasy mod to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Crossover - Added Matrix's Civ1 Terrain modpack to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Crossover - Added Sims2789's Civ1 Units modpack to the list.
- Crossover - Added honourable mention of Theov's Civ1 Clone modpack to the list which is in progress.
- C&C & Red Alert - Added honourable mention of Xiaoxiaoa's Red Alert 2 mod to the list which sadly appears abandoned.

Civ4:
- Star Wars - Added Star Wars Final Frontier Plus mod to the list.
- Star Wars - Added honourable mention of Dumanios's Star Wars modpack that LouisTheXIV told me about to the list which is unfinished.
- Apocalypse - Added mention of the Official Firaxis Afterworld BTS scenario that LouisTheXIV told me about to the list.
- MoMagic - Added the Master of Mana Modpack (built from FFH) to the list.
- MoMagic - Added the Ashes of Erebus Modpack (built from FFH) to the list.
- MoMagic - Added the Fall from Heaven Modpack to the list.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added Monaldinio's Conflict on Chiron Modpack (built from Planetfall) to the list.
- Final Fantasy - Added agentsmith952's Final Fantasy Tactics mod to the list, however its CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know!
- Mars & Lunar - Added JBG's The Song of the Moon scenario to the list.
- Crossover - Added Flobi's Civ1 Terrain modpack to the list, and have also managed to obtain its missing download file (thanks GeneralKillCavalry) and preserve it on CFC.

Civ5:
- Colonization - Added mention of the Official Firaxis Conquest of the New World Deluxe scenario that Pfeffersack told me about to the list.
- AlphaC & Alien Col - Added the 5 mod combo (FramedArchitecture's AlphaC Civilizations, AlphaC Policies, AlphaC Maps + HandyVac's Centauri City States + Arbogli's Beyond the Future) that creates an Alpha Centauri experience that Beetle told me about to the list.
- Final Fantasy - Added MrCookie's Eorzea - Final Fantasy 14 scenario to the list.
- Final Fantasy - Added honourable mention of MSW2010's Final Fantasy 2 map to the list.

FreeCiv:
- Crossover - Added ComradeOleg's Civilization 2 modpack for FreeCiv to the list.

AlphaC:
- Mars & Lunar - Missing download for GeoModder's Mars Survivor scenario has been rescued by Geo himself! Thanks to Darsnan for fixing the link.

FreeMars:
- Mars & Lunar - Added mention of the really cool Civ/Col/AlphaC hybrid FreeMars Project game that's not finished but quite playable.

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[The Elder Scrolls]

Big update as I widened my search to get help from more communities out there and had some AWESOME responses from people so many thanks to everyone who's contacted me publicly and privately! I'm also starting to look more at newer Civilization games (4-6) and finding some good stuff. Someone pointed out that I should include a The Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim etc) section and gave me several Civ scenarios for it I'd never heard of! I'm a huge TES fan so how could I say no! People also gave me some Warcraft scenarios so yup, we've got a new Warcraft section on the list too, hell maybe I should look at Starcraft while I'm at it too lol!

Note: Project links over in original CivFinatics thread (link in top post) as for some strange reason most forums don't like people coming in and posting 100s of offsite links lol.

List updates...

Civ2:
- Have added PaulHeron's Babylon 5 Modpack scenario to the list.
- Have added AltF18's Azeroth (Warcraft) scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added EvilKnevil's Dune: The Battle for Arrakis scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added NathanDawson's Battle For Adoij (Star Wars) scenario that axx told me about to the list (I actually already host it myself on my Star Wars scenario ModDB page but forgot lol!).
- Have added MarkusEklund's Death Star Attack (Star Wars) scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added JoshAdams's The Battle of Endor (Star Wars) scenario to the list.
- Have added JaredKoger's Dominion (Star Trek) scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added DirkWeber's ID4 The day of the Borg (Star Trek) scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added Academia's The Age of Númenor (LOTR) scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added CarlFritz's Darklord (LOTR) scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added GabrieleQuaglia's Angmar - War in Arnor (LOTR) scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added JoséMartinez's Señor de los Anillos (LOTR) scenario that ETTiNGRiNDER told me about to the list.
- Have added Shelly's The Martian Scenario scenario that axx told me about to the list.
- Have added John Ellis's Colonies III - The Struggle for Empire scenario to the list.

Civ4:
- Have added the Fallout: Tame The Waste Modpack (built from FR) that LonelyLurker told me about to the list.
- Have added the Fury Road (Mad Max) Modpack that LonelyLurker told me about to the list.
- Have managed to obtain Dale's Age of Discovery scenario missing download file (thanks Dale & Solver at WePlayCiv) and preserve it on CFC.
- Modied existing mention of Firaxis Civ4 Colonization game to state that I'm giving it a seperate category in Colonization section (see below).

Civ4Col:
- Have added the We The People Modpack (built from R&R) to the list.
- Have added the Religion And Revolution Modpack (built from TAC) to the list.
- Have added the The Authentic Colonization Modpack to the list.
- Have added the Colonization: 2071 Modpack to the list (in SMAC & Alien Col section).

Civ5:
- Have added The Elder Scrolls BNW Modpack that Gez told me about to the list.
- Have added Spatzimaus's Alpha Centauri Modpack that Darsnan told me about to the list, however its download file is CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know and I'll put it on CFC!
- Have added mention of Firaxis Civ Beyond Earth game to state that I'm giving it a seperate category in SMAC section (see below).

CivBE:
- Have added the Beyond Centauri (SMAC) Modpack that elektrizikekswerk told me about to the list.
- Have added The Unity Project (SMAC) Modpack that elektrizikekswerk told me about to the list.

Civ6:
- Have added The Elder Scrolls Modpack that Gez told me about to the list.
- Have added the A Civ of Ice and Fire (GoT) Modpack that Damien told me about to the list.

FreeCiv:
- Have added Azeroth scenario (not a total conversion scenario though) to the list.
- Have added Mars Terraformed scenario (not a total conversion scenario though) to the list.
- Have added The Americas scenario (not a total conversion scenario though) to the list.
- Have added Caribbean Colonization 1634 scenario (not a total conversion scenario though) to the list.

AlphaC:
- Have added GeoModder's Mars Survivor scenario that Darsnan told me about to the list, however its download file is CURRENTLY MISSING so if anyone has it let me know and I'll put it on CFC!
- Have added mention of the SMAC repository that Darsnan told me about in the SMAC like scenarios (even though I'm technically looking for SMAC themed Civ scenarios) section too.

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[make sure you check my list in the link below BEFORE making suggestions]

Hey guys

I’m on the Hunt for big Civilization game series total conversion mods & scenarios with a particular focus on Civ2 & Civ3 (but am now expanding to Civ4, 5, 6 & spinoffs) relating to a whole bunch of my favourite fantasy & scifi movie/TV/gaming franchises (of course there's no bloody trace of any Sierra or Lucasarts P&C adventure game related Civ mods sadly). Been posting in a few different Civ forums and getting great feedback, plus whenever someone has told me about an awesome scenario that’s disappeared over the years I’ve managed to track it down and bring it back from the dead to CivFanatics/ModDB/InternetArchive hosting, so helping me has helped the community. Hell in some rare cases I’ve even filled a gap by making the scenario myself haha!

Anyway I figured it was finally time to hit some of the other communities out there for help too (since fans of Civ and these franchises are everywhere haha). Many have already been found so make sure you check my list in the link below BEFORE making suggestions to save yourself time & effort lol!

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/scenario-hunt-mars-alphac-c-c-ra-dune-mom-col-moo-doom-b5-strek-swars-sgate-homm.657805/

At this stage I'm looking for Civ scenarios relating to...

- Mars / Lunar Colonization
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (& other alien world colonization)
- Command & Conquer / Red Alert
- Dune / Arrakis
- Master of Magic
- Sid Meier's Colonization
- Master of Orion
- Heroes of Might & Magic
- Babylon 5
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Stargate
- Apocalypse (After WW3 / Fallout / Mad Max / Judge Dredd / Doom / Terminator / Zombies)
- Lord of the Rings
- Game of Thrones
- The Elder Scrolls
- Warcraft & Starcraft / Warhammer & W40k
- Final Fantasy
- Civilization Crossover Mods (Make a Civ game look like another Civ game)

If you're unable to help then that's fine, as maybe my list will still help you find something cool!

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Final Episode 10 rant..

Spoiler

Kinda glad its all over as in these last few weeks it felt like I was just waiting for them to find new ways to disappoint me lol. Now that it's done I don't have to worry about it lol.

So.. that last episode.. once again we've got some good things but mostly things that annoyed me lol..

I enjoyed the Picard noble sacrifice to save Soji (from her fears) scene.. tugged on the old heart strings a bit so well done there. Was also nice to see Picard flying a ship and being himself a bit more instead of the usual helpless old man in the back seat stuff. Liked the Picard maneuver (the ship one not the shirt one lol) reference too..

Sure enough my prediction of Picard becoming an android, or more accurately an organic synthetic came true. Felt a bit weird though as lets face it, it's kinda like cloning in that they made an electronic copy of his mind meaning the Picard we know and love has just actually died lol. Not really sure how to feel about that other than it sucks a bit.

People who may remember my earlier posts here will know that my hope was that this series was all about resurrecting Data and undoing the damage Nemesis did. I was almost willing to accept all the other BS that had happened if that was the target. So I really hoped the golum would be for him and not a quick Picard resurrection. So when Picard bought it I knew what was coming...

But then he woke up in the simulation and there was data saying exactly what I had posted in previous posts that I'd hoped would happen. They combined those residual Data memories Maddox had generated for his synths with B4's backup of Data's brain to make a pretty much complete resurrected Data (from the moment he did the transfer a day or so before his death in Nemesis). I was so excited! The moment I'd been waiting for! But of course this is a Michael Chabon show and he wants to make Star Trek and its fans as miserable as possible lol so naturally a matter of seconds later this amazing resurrection that so many of us had dreamed of happening for almost 20 damn years was shown to be nothing more than a tease because Data asks to die. Picard then mercy kills him just like 7 of 9 mercy killed Icheb. Michael watched his father suffer & die slowly on life support while writing these new shows which is a horrible thing to go through (I dread having to go through something like that with my mother) and unfortunately all this stuff is probably him creatively dealing with that pain but unfortunately he's dealing with it using the Star Trek universe and characters loved by millions people. I get it, they wanted to give a data 'beautiful death' instead of the cheap one he got in Nemesis hence why I've seen people out there touched and happy with it. But as someone who pretty much was dying (pun not intended lol) to watch this series believing it was all gonna be about Data's resurrection I feel cheated. To tease him being back like that only to take him away just makes me wanna hop over to Michael's twitter and throw some 4 letter words his way (I won't though cause I don't wanna be a d*ck lol). Judging by this article he wouldn't care anyway and for those excited that he's not the main guy behind season 2 well guess what, that article confirms he's written 2 eps and also brainstormed the other 8 for season 2.. so yeah expect more attempts to make us miserable (if we watch) in the future lol.

I wish they could have brought Data back.. yes I'm not stupid.. I know Brent doesn't exactly look like Data anymore hence the mountain of makeup and weird camera angles of him sitting or standing to hide his belly making it half impossible to have him around all the time. However they could have brought him back and then have him go back to starfleet or earth or go on his own ventures or something. You know just send him off into the galaxy with happy "All Good Things" like moment to finish his ark. Let us fans think of him living on forever going on adventures and continuing his question to evolve. Let that be the last thing we see of him.. not him dying AGAIN. The face growing old (doesn't make any sense unless they programmed the event) and a virtual duplicate Picard in the red uniform standing over him, even though Picard had been extracted already (another copy lol??) all painted to give a beautiful death triggering an emotional response that makes some forget the weirdness and lack of science and sense behind it lol. However there's nothing stopping them from resurrecting Data again so screw you Michael I'm going to choose to believe that Dr Soon Jr Jr Jr Jr being the sneaky guy he is backed up another copy of Data's mind, waited for Picard to leave then stuck Data in another golum and now he's out there living happily every after lol. Picard's "my gain is your loss line" implies Soong Jr Jr Jr Jr can't make another golum but get stuffed.. Maddox did the brains and Soong Jr Jr Jr Jr did the bodies, nothing stopping him from making more lol.

Anyway back to Picard's death and resurrection wtf was with them rush skipping over most of the casts reaction to him being back again. Once again Michael's story telling has us in pain watching everyone cry for like 10 damn minutes and then doesn't bother to cover everyone seeing him alive again except for Dr Death, Soong Jr Jr Jr Jr and Soji. Literally straight back on the ship like nothing happened lol.

Speaking of that final ship scene I've seen some people confusingly posting "are Raffi and 7 of 9 lovers?" well that 2nd article I linked I linked to above has Michael confirming it.. action jackson 7 of 9 had a thing with that crime lord chick she vaporized and she's got a thing with Raffi or whatever her name is (I just cannot remember these new cast member names haha), so expect more of the stuff we've seen from Discovery in Picard season 2 (poor Chakotay haha). I'll leave that for others to debate the merits of all that as it doesn't really bother me, other than to say I find their 'all or nothing' approach a bit weird as does this mean the other shows coming (ST Section 31, ST Pike, ST Lower Decks) will do the same?

Oh and speaking of 7 of 9.. how did the Romulan evil chick get back on the cube to fight 7 of 9??? she left the cube with the fleet several eps ago didn't she???

I saw some article a few days ago which I can't seem to find now sorry but it talked about plans for a crossover series that would involve casts members from all the different new trek shows.. pretty much the marvel avengers of new star trek lol. I really don't know how to feel about that lol. I mean if this had been 30 years ago and we had Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway and Archer and other cast members all in one big crossover event series that would have been epic (hell I think there's a popular Novel series out there that sort of did that isn't here?) but massive crossover series with new trek people.. I'm a bit meh.. but hey ya never know lol.

Anyway back to the Picard finale.. the whole fleet stand off didn't really excite me much at all (other than Picards noble sacrifice I mentioned earlier).. we saw those damn space flowers you saw me moaning about last time again haha, then they used that 'magical plot hole device' to generate duplicate Dr death faces and then the ships all with warp core illusions. Come on man this a advanced Romulan fleet, not those idiot half primitive Kazon in the Delta quadrant that fell for voyagers holograms but anyway.. this all lead to a rather amazing sequence where the evil commodore half Vulcan chick just kept preparing to fire and retargeting.. I think after the 5th or 6th time I actually yelled out (no BS I kid you not) at the TV "STOP PREPARING AND JUST FIRE THE F******** WEAPONS AT SOMETHING ALREADY!!!" hahahaha.

Then Riker shows up to give us some fan service. Kinda cool but once again just like with Soong Jr Jr Jr Jr 's reveal in the prev episode the delivery just.. felt.. wrong! Urgh. I mean I know he said he's on the active service list still but he's been retired for years and they just give him command of a huge fleet right off the bat, no admirals needed lol? They wouldn't even give Picard a crappy old science vessel but they'll give Riker a friggin fleet lol! I expected the admiral who swears a lot to be in charge of it to be honest. But hey's there's some fan service to be given here and I guess I should be happy Michael didn't try to kill him off too lol! I've seen people on the internet making fun of the obvious CGI background behind him too.. I can see why, as it doesn't look any better than the ones in the fan film Star Wreck, a movie made by a bunch of Finnish nerds in their bedrooms 20years ago lol (great film though haha). If we're wrong and that's a redressed discovery set or something then boy did they mess that up as it really looks fake lol.

And what the hell was going on with all the ships?? The entire romulan fleet was made out of 1 ship design plus a special capital command ship. These guys lost their homeworld and the vast majority of their population yet apparently they can afford to throw out all their old ships (except for that 22nd century Rom ship in ep 4 lol) and have a brand spanking new fleet lol. I mean this was the PERFECT opportunity to give more fan service and fill the fleet with old Valdors and D'deridex's.

Copy and paste a lot of that for Riker's fleet too. He warped in with 200 friggin ships that look the same.. what the hell!! When I think back to the giant federation fleets used in the Dominion war that were filled with old ships.. by then excelsiors would have been about 90 years old (at least the design anyway) and reliants and saratogas would have been over 110 years old. So why not stick some old galaxys, sovereigns and defiants in this fleet??

For a show that has a budget the old trek shows could only dream of I'm amazed that they literally built 2 giant fleets of the same ships using copy & paste.. Also was it just me or did the ships also look rather fake CGI looking.. they must have accidentally blown the budget out and run out of money.. that has to the be the reason for calling it in surely? The CGI DS9 fleets looked better than this for christ sake. This video pretty much confirms it lol.

Anyway then he just left... a dying Picard is like "oh yeah I can handle it from here Will".. and Wills like "sure bro.. I'll take all these ships we had to pull from vital missions and just turn around after being here for all 5 minutes" lol. If I was the Vulcan commodore chick I would have said "hey the federation is abandoning the planet again lets turn around and blow sh*t up before they come back again.. EVERYONE PREPARE TO FIRE SOME MORE!!!" lol.. Someone that obsessed aint gonna care about the treaty of Algeron. Also she's responsible for the deaths of everyone on Mars and most of the Romulan homeworld (by destroying the rescue fleet).. but nah its cool you can fly off lol.

Oh well.. I could pick at a bunch of other things but I'll stop complaining haha.. time to move on! I'll probably still cop the hater title from some people who loved it but like I said before normally I love all scifi and am super tolerant and am often the one taking on the haters lol but this show (much like the new main star wars films) just rubbed me the wrong way from ep5 onwards.. I guess its because these characters that I grew up with mean a lot to me and I don't like seeing them having to run the Michael Chabon gantlet of death and misery.

At this stage I now actually prefer Discovery over Picard. Probably because they're not screwing with my beloved childhood characters as much haha which means I can tolerate more plot and technology gaffes. I thought they handled Spock and Pike pretty well in s2 and it really made the show so much better having them and the Enterprise there. So I worry a bit about Disco s3 as they won't have those improvements anymore.. however I'm super excited about the ST Pike show. At least they listened to the fans on that one!

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Well you're not alone mate but there's no many of you haha.. most people in the forums I lurk were horrified with that ep lol.

I haven't posted here since I blew up a bit over Ep5 haha. I have kept watching the show though but was less invested in it to continue posting my episode round ups. I said after ep 5 that they'd really need some good eps to undo the damage that did, so...

Here's my thoughts on eps 6-9..

Spoiler

They sort of did as Ep6 was really good. I love any story line that deals with Picard's trauma from the Borg, eg some my favourite powerful moments in classic Trek include Picard braking down in front of his brother at the chateau after Best of Both Worlds and Picard loosing it and smashing the ship glass case in First Contact. THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE! So that moment when he saw his own face as locutus and his reaction was cool. Seeing him on the cube and the way the ex-Bs reacted to him was interesting too. I'm glad Soji got activated as I was getting a bit over the innocent girl on the cube with her cool badass lying boyfriend storyline. The queens chamber was cool and I liked the nod of the head to Voyagers Sikarians and the Borg using their teleporter tech after assimilation.

Ep7 was enjoyable due to us getting some nice fan service and seeing some beloved characters again, but some of those annoying things started to creep back in again. Troy & Riker lost a child due to a reason that just seems so silly.. a disease that is only cured by taking stuff from an android brain.. give me a break.. and once again WHY DOES EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN PERSON IN THIS SHOW HAVE TO BE MESSED UP FROM TRAUMA??? why can't anyone at all be okay lol. I'm sick to death of it. People loved Star Trek because it painted a picture of this near perfect Utopian human future where greed, money, racism, poverty, addiction and all the other nasty stuff was either eliminated or barely there and therefore was usually projected onto the alien races, this giving people hope for the future and some nice escapism from all the news that tell us we're gonna destroy ourselves. However these writers seem to be intent on bringing the misery of their own lives into Star Trek making it not really escapism at all, now its just what we see on the news and todays flawed humans but with spaceships lol. Don't get me wrong, I love my dystopian dark future shows too but as for Star Trek unless its an alternate universe than I dont like them screwing up the prime timeline and characters we know and love. and don't even get me started on the smoking addiction BS.. I'll just leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BesKS-bCDbo

Also clearly Kurtzman seems to have forgot Inner Light where Picard raised an entire family but oh now apparently now he knows nothing about teenagers so he gets schooled by Riker & Troi for it.. Urgh..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaj_ypAbN_Q

Oh and surprise surprise another old character has bought it.. but that's okay.. we've got these great new ones to replace them so who cares lol. The fact I just struggle to remember the names of the new characters really does show how great they are lol. RIP Hugh. Also wtf.. she's a evil lady pretty much killing everyone but she won't touch Hugh because he's a federation citizen. He helped Picard escape but she still has to hear him say that he's not on her side before she can kill him.. ugh come on..

Anyway on to episode 8 and its okay I guess.. but still some annoying stuff.. our Vulcan commodore is apparently half Romulan which I guess explain the sunglasses gaffe a few episodes back as vulcans don't need them, although clearly she has retained her Vulcan ability to mind meld as I've never seen a Romulan do that. The mind meld is what made Dr Death kill her lover and act all weird for ages.. but now she's fine and won't hurt anyone cause she and Soji talked about mucus lol. We see the source of the vision is from an alien artifact and we get further explanation on the main plot. Action Jackson 7 of 9 returns and kicks some more ass. She takes control of the cube which was kind of cool although apparently she doesn't have control of the airlocks and the Romulans do lol, plus apparently the Romulans can just stand there on a balcony and watch just fine (It'd like Pike watching the torpedo explode 2 meters away via a glass window all over again, or Spock watching Vulcan go into a black hole on a another planet with a thick cloudy sky lol). And somehow Borg are useless in a vacuum despite us seeing them operate in space just fine in First Contact although I guess it was more the venting that got them as Voyager vented a few Borg into space back in the day too. Anyway not much else to say about this ep as it was mostly plot moving and setup for final eps.

So I've just done Ep9.. yeah hmm.. I feel like I should have felt more and connected more with this episode but just didn't.. back in my first comments I predicted that there was someone else behind these androids and it wasn't just Bruce Maddox and I was right. I was just wrong about who it was lol. I predicted Lore, but it turns out there's another generation of Soong, another brother of sorts to Data. When Dr Soong Jr Jr Jr Jr Jr whatever (remember there was the one in the eugenics wars ep of Enterpise too haha) walked out the music didn't seem to change much, it was very fast, and he just took off into dialogue straight away.. the whole delivery felt wrong.. I should have been like WOOOOOWWW.. but instead I was like.. oh.. okay.. cool I guess.. as it was nice to see Brent back.

Then something really really stupid happened.. Soji's mum or whatever you wanna call her, an earlier android model and seemingly some sort of leader there has somehow taught herself to do Vulcan mind melds.. because you know she likes Vulcans n stuff. Yes I kid you not.. an android that just magically learned telepathy because she likes the aliens that can do them. Are you freakin kidding me???.. stupid f****** bloody writers.. omg!! I mean Data did a vulcan neck pinch in TNG but that was a nerve pinch that presumably just requires a lot of strength hence why no one else ever did it. But android learning an alien races telepathy as a hobby???.. arrggghhhhh

Anyway she melds and sees the vision.. now she's corrupted by it too.. possibly kills that chick and frees (all sexually lol) Nerek or whatever the hell his name is and is gonna 'ET call home' and bring an android alien invasion exterminate everyone thing to stop the massive Romulan warbird extermination fleet that is somehow just out there despite the fact that most of the romulan survivors seem to be refugees living in squalor camps and no one knew about the Zhat Vash. But hey maybe its the surviving romulan fleet being manipulated by the Zhat Vash. I don't know.. we see the commodore has apparently left her rather important Federation position and is now commanding an entire romulan fleet.. bit of a jump but yeah sure.. whatever..

Oh and how could I forget that they somehow grew giant flowers that can fly through space and drag down spaceships and borg cubes.. giant flowers bigger than cities and that fly into space.. grown by maddox in his lab.. while one of his android daughters was busy taking up Vulcan telepathy as a hobby..

It really is just like the new star wars films.. why do writers these days treat us with no respect and think that we're so stupid that we'll follow anything.. sometimes its so dark you think it's not suitable for children (eg Icheb eyeball rip) then other times like this where we're expected to take giant leaps of faith over plot holes, technical gaffes and bad writing like a child would..

Thanks to covid-19 the Melbourne Formula 1 race was cancelled and in the giant slots that were allocated to what would have been the tv race coverage they filled with old episodes of TNG, VOY and even some TOS.. so I thought why not and sat there watching them.. and my god.. the universe.. and the writing.. there's just so much more intelligence behind them..

We live in an age where people that grew up watching these scifi shows and films is now old enough to get into hollywood and create their own spin offs, remakes and sequels to these great old shows. All they had to do was bring back the same quality of writing and acting and we'd be living in a golden age. However instead of feeling like I'm watching actual sequels I just feel like I'm just watching fanboy films/eps that are filmed on hollywood sets with big budgets instead of Dad's shed with some toilet paper rolls, mops and bed sheets for props lol.

Anyway.. I seemed to be more relieved that there's one episode to go in Picard than I am excited to see what happens next with the story. Sort of just want it to be over so I can move on again. I didn't even feel that way about Disco (well maybe a bit in season 1 lol but not season 2). To feel that way about a Star Trek show really sucks.. especially as normally I'm the super tolerant scifi obsessed guy defending stuff like this to the haters.. yet here I am becoming one.. but a couple of threads keep my interest still to see this thing out and probably watch future seasons too lol.

Dr death is helping Dr Soong Jr Jr Jr Jr  Jr whatever with that Golum so maybe it will be Data. I just hope I.. feel something.. when he appears cause that's meant to be the pay off for all this surely lol.. Apparently this neuron thread thing stuff talked about back in ep2 means some of data's memories can be restored but some memories would not really be him would it. So it makes me think how on earth can these writers really bring him (the full Data we know and love) back and can they do it in a way that isn't stupid lol. Which then makes me think maybe they won't bring him back and this is as good as it gets lol.. but hey todays writers love recycling old stories and rearranging them (ST Into Darkness lol) so if Soji's evil mum can mind meld then why not just do a Star Trek 3 and mind meld Data backed up memories out of B4 and into a new body.. I might even tolerate that nonsense if it leads to datas return lol.. but plugging in a usb cable like Data did in Nemesis seems like a better way haha.. hell maybe that's what they're gonna do haha.. i dunno lol..

Will also be interesting to see how Picards brain disorder is dealt with too.

Oh and one of my mates is convinced that Picard is an android because you see him being 'put together' in the show's intro, so he's counting down to the 'big reveal' lol. We all laughed at him but hell with this show any crazy cr*p is possible haha. So I dunno about that theory but the convo between Dr death and Dr Soong Jr Jr Jr Jr Jr whatever about transferring human consciousness across into androids (like the actual Dr Soong already did with Data's mother, although the writers probably don't remember that lol) being close plants an interesting seed on this subject that I wonder what it will lead to (otherwise why did that scene happen?). Eg Picard is prob not an (failing) android now but maybe they'll stick him into one before his poor human brain gives out haha.

Either way.. weeks ago I was telling you guys that I liked the show but that I was still needing to see more to really decide. Well now I've seen like 90% of the show and I can say I don't love it, I don't hate it, it has bits I like, it has bits that annoy me, so I'm just somewhere in between all that sticking with it to see what happens with Data and & Picard.

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Yeah.. episode 5.. wow.. If people here disliked it you don't have to worry about me arguing with you on this one guys. As this episode broke me too, or more precisely it broke my enjoyment of the show. I didn't enjoy that at all. I thought maybe if I sleep on it I'd feel better but nope, today I'm even grumpier about it haha. Up until now I've only had little nitpicks and have really enjoyed show and have defended it when people have complained about it "not feeling like star trek" but there was next to nothing Star Trek feeling about Ep 5. Those people who complained about past eps not being star trek are gonna looooooove this one lol. I don't wanna walk away from a Star Trek episode feeling frustrated and miserable. When they played the exciting trailer for the next ep and all the cool Borg stuff at the end I didn't even give s***. I was like.. whatever. They're gonna have to work hard in the next few eps to undo the damage that one just did. I can only hope that they had to go that dark and callous to setup the audience to be brought back to the light and happy ending lol. But I can't help but think that if it turned me off that badly then all those people out there who's really not been that into the new show and were barely holding on will probably be like "stuff this!" and be done with it after seeing that ep lol.

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For starters the acting felt a bit weird and wooden in this ep. Picard & 7 scenes felt weird, felt more like the actors were catching up more than the characters haha. 7 felt a little too different and Patrick didn't feel very 'Picardy'. His french gangster over acting rouse was funny but just didn't feel like something Picard would do, felt like I was watching one of Patrick's stage plays lol. For a French born character his french accent was pretty bad haha!

Can't remember what forum I was talking in but there was a guy who was all annoyed about how upset Raffi was about loosing her security clearance lol, well he's gonna love this ep and it pretty much says she turned into a alco & drug addict and messed up her family after that incident lol. Messed up drug addicts and alcoholics on earth, I'm sure Gene would love that lol. But hey I'm sure she'll have her recovering addict redemption story a happy ending with her dr son at some point and people will wonder if they're watching an episode of Chicago Med & not Star Trek lol.

But lets get to the real jewel of the episode.. I liked Voyager a lot but its not my favourite old trek show, probably more 3rd fav behind TNG & DS9. So considering how much this ep annoyed me I feel bad for all the super Voyager fans out there. You're NOT in for a good time here guys, I REALLY do feel bad for you guys and say sorry. Pretty much straight off the bat poor old (now grown up) Borg kid Icheb is utterly and brutally tortured/dissected and then murdered. Obviously the former was by the 'bad guys' but the later was by his Borg mum 7 of 9! Yes that's right, die hard voyager fans who love 7 of 9 and have been waiting for her return will literally get to see her shoot her own adopted son in the first 20 seconds of seeing her lol. He does the whole "im too far gone, put me out of my misery" thing everyone's seen a million times and she obliges. Get f****** mate! I get it, he's probably missing a few vital cybernetic organs but if he bleeds out or dies on route so be it, but at least try to throw him over your shoulder and carry your sons ass out of there. I mean I'm sure she didn't exactly have a nice state of the art medical bay next door ready to go or a big starship to beam up to but still it.. just.. felt.. wrong. Oh and apparently she just left him there too giving the black market guys EXACTLY what they wanted anyway as the crime lord chick brags later in the ep about dissecting him. Wtf??

But don't worry Voyager fans there's more character assassination coming for your enjoyment haha. 7 of 9 is definitely not the one you know anymore lol.. now she's PTSD Aragorn ranger'ing around the galaxy shooting lots of people vigilante style.. in fact I think they even call her a vigilante in one scene lol. You know all those boring episodes of Voyager where we got endless Janeway and 7 of 9 scenes (funny now considering how much the actors disliked each other) handcrafting her into a civilized 24th century human being? Well say goodbye to that folks cause now she's a messed up Bourbon drinking badass assassin for hire! She's helping those in need who can't help themselves and is more than happy to kill a few hundred people in the process if they get in her way *cue dramatic 80s action music* lol!

So what now then.. I mean in her final scene she lies to Picard, beams back down and offs the crime lord chick and then starts mowing down the place and it cuts away. The end! So that's answers the question of will she be a regular.. nope.. she's gooone. Maybe she'll come back later? Maybe she's return in a future season? Maybe they'll even be a nice happy ending redemption story for her down the track too (although that doesn't bring poor Icheb back does it lol)? Or maybe not lol and that'll be the end of her story and every time Voyager fans re-watch the old show they'll be like "oh look there's Icheb, when voyager gets home he joins starfleet and gets brutally tortured and murdered for spare parts.. and oh look there's 7 of 9, she's the one that kills him and leaves him there to be dissected for said parts lol, and spends the rest of her life miserable and shooting up half the galaxy in revenge." It's like the new Star Wars films.. I don't enjoy seeing my favourite childhood characters being brutally murdered in front of me. Because now when I re-watch the original stuff I just see their cheap deaths. Data's death in Nemesis had a similar effect on me so that's why I was so happy about this show as it gave me hope that they'd "do a star trek 3" and find a way to resurrect him. But now I find myself wondering how many other beloved characters are gonna get killed or messed up on the road to that happy ending, assuming thats even what happens, we may not even get that lol.

Anyway sorry.. back to the slaughter.. Bruce maddox.. they found him.. and he was all a messed up stressed alcoholic too of course.. cause everyone's messed up these days.. aaaaaaand then he was dead. All he bloody did was tell them her name and that shes at the cube and next thing we know he's getting offed by his own girlfriend (20 or so years younger than him I might add, yeeeaaahhh way to go on office romance bro! pulling those youngers chicks aint easy bro.. high 5!) giving us our innocent clumsy girl is actually working for bad guys shock moment at the end of the episode.. fake gasp.. yeah.. like I said before I was already completely disconnected by that stage and just didn't even care.

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Urgh.. end of rant. Breath Daniel.. Just breath... lol

Like I said.. they're gonna need to work hard to undo the damage this episode did. I think I'd rather rewatch most of the episodes in discovery season 1 than ever watch that episode again lol.

Everywhere I go so far I've seem pretty horrified responses to ep5. I've seen a couple of dudes say they loved ep5 though, I was like WAAAT lol.

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I will pay the episode one compliment though.. their attention to detail on past Trek events once again is impressive. Eg they acknowledged Picard's Borg past which I was worried they wouldn't. They mentioned Quark in the bar sequence. And the biggest one would be during the horrible Icheb torture surgery scene where the lady callously says "where's your cortical node buddy?" as shes ripping stuff out of him. In season 7 of Voyager Icheb risked his life and gave his to 7 of 9 when her failed and they realised she couldn't survive without one while he might, which of course he did.

Meanwhile some self appointed comedian just thew this hand grenade into a Voyager facebook group. I'm sure you can image how well that went down with them lol. Too soon? Yeah just a bit lol.

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I kind of enjoyed the first of the two of the recent trilogy of films but they didn't feel like Star Trek, I think JJ Abrams wasn't really a trekkie and wanted to make more of a Star Wars film. Karl Urban nailed McCoy in my opinion.

Speaking of that trilogy of films, is it just me or did all three kind of blend together?
I honestly can not remember what the third film was about! 

Yeah 3rd film star trek beyond felt like an episode of the week with movie length and effects haha.. as for the story.. it was about... ummm.. stuff.. you know.. and things.. and they were all angry about those guys n stuff..

Anyway Picard episode 4 seen (belated).. WE'RE OFF!:

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Well things have finally taken off! Enjoying the fact we're back in space.. loved the look of the Romulan refugee colony (particularly in the flashback sequences) with the giant 'world tree' background, although in the opening planet shot I wish we'd seen the Enterprise E approaching (considering they made some interesting modifications to the D I'd be interested to see what they do with the E). Backstory of the Romulan Samurai dude & his history with Picard was interesting, although Picard now walking around with a Elf looking dude that slices off heads feels a bit weird lol, but no doubt they'll be some big fun action bits with him down the track (which will aggravate oldschool trek purists to no end I'm sure haha).

Enjoyed the space battle, sure enough it was a classic 22nd century Romulan Bird of Prey (nice tip of hat to old Trek), retrofitted for lawless system warlord related activities lol. Interesting to see all these different hologram crew member variants captain Chris has. 7 of 9 has arrived! Will be very interesting to see how much they delve into her past and backstory post Voyager return. Also the holodeck stuff explains why she's in Patrick's 'home' in the trailers. I know people were complaining/making fun of the Picard sword scene in the original trailer, but it was fine, they even made him took kinda tough before he did the expected 'I'm not fighting you/playing your games' thing. Although his comment about having bad knees annoyed me, I don't care if you're 95yrs old, it's 24th century, people aren't gonna have 'bad knees' lol (we're already getting into 3D printing/replicating joints & cartilage now so it's only a matter of time), would rather they just continue to try and hide any difficulties RL Patrick might have, although I still maintain he seems to zip around just fine in real life on talk shows and stuff though lol.

Anyway we're already off to another planet in the teaser for the next ep so things are definitely moving along now lol! Although I'm a little worried about all that silly dress up stuff.. I swear to god if the next ep is like the Casino planet sequence in Ryan Johnson's cr*ptastic Star Wars film and black eye patch gangsta Picard is throwing dice with cheesy overly excited cgi aliens I'm gonna throw my Tv lol.

Oh and I'm probably off the mark with the Lore theory previously posted.. sounds like they're going for something bigger.. harbinger of doom stuff lol!

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Guess I better hurry up and watch Ep 5 now instead of reading comments as that's just asking for spoilers haha.

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I enjoyed discovery season 2 a lot more than the first one. For me it added at least two star trek feeling things. That's optimism, and trustworthy crew members. Oh and the Klingon hair was a step in the right direction. I could almost accept them as Klingons now.

Yeah that's exactly how I felt about STD (  ) season 2. WAY better than the first and I loved all the Pike, Spock and Enterprise stuff. Wish they'd make a Pike on Enterprise show. Not that excited about STD season 3 as I know my favourite things from S2 will be gone.

As for Picard I'm liking it more than STD. My thoughts on what's led to some peoples frustrations with ep 1 & ep2 (once again has spoilers):

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It's funny. Am involved in a number of Picard forum discussions around the net and I see some people complaining about too much exposition yet I see others complaining about being confused due to not enough info lol. Makes me think they probably should have just done Ep 1 & 2 together as a pilot movie (that would have avoided some of the anger about confusing things in ep1 that were explained in ep 2) then they could have had the big trailer at the end of the 2hrs showing that the adventure kicks off next episode. Instead we got a ep1 that confused people and an exciting trailer at the end of it that implied the adventure was about to begin when in reality the next ep was still farting around on earth lol. So yeah I reckon a combined double ep pilot would have pissed off/confused far less people.

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Anyway I'm still enjoying the show but am still unsure as to whether I actually really really like it or not. Still need to see how story pans out lol.

Episode 3 seen: (spoiler alert)

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Not thrilled about how they continue to make Picard look slow, weak & frail. You watch him on talk shows and he zips around just fine lol! But I love the fact that in ep 3 it appears writers are trying to address one of those funny never explained issues from old trek.

When I was young it always annoyed me how in TNG supposedly a Borg who got his individuality somehow broke a friggin cube and caused a rebellion on it of sorts when assimilating individuals is what the Borg do lol. Voyager & FC ended up adding a lot of info on how the borg worked, how they connect, and made it pretty obvious that assimilating ex borgs (eg 7 of 9, the borg kids, locutus etc) back into the fold wasn't going to break anything lol, in fact they wanted them. Yes Hugh was a Borg test tube baby and not a previous individual unlike those others I mention but it shouldn't really matter HOW they became an individual when you're grabbing someone and pumping nanites into their blood and connecting them to the hive lol.

However it looks like the new trek writers are carving a story where in reality, Hugh went back to the Borg they reassimilated him no probs but then a few hours later on the trip back to delta they found a nice little yummy Romulan intelligence vessel on the way to assimilate, they start 'processing them' and then 'something' goes wrong (Romulan virus? weapon? racial nanite rejection like the Denobulans?). Hugh presumably wakes up and pops out of his alcove again thinking its somehow caused by him (hence why he later tells Picard in Descent that it was his fault), all the other borgs who don't know how to be individuals start goin nuts and they kick off a nice little rebellion which then at some point Lore arrives on the scene and takes control of them and they escape on the light cruiser which we see in Descent (small borg ships inside big borg ships is nothing new). In fact this new obvious Romulan ex-borg fears of Dahj's sister (ie synthetics) could very well be relating to trauma from what Lore did to many of them when he took over things which once again gives me hope Lore will somehow come into this new story at some point. Probably a long shot though haha..

Am I way off.. we shall see haha.

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Episode 2 of Picard just seen. Glad it explains some of the mysteries & fan complaints about the first episode.

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A few fans complained about the weird Starfleet HQ 'rooftop cleanup' job & leave Picard on his couch with no questions asked scene jump moment in ep 1 but now we see the Commodore reviewing the battle cleanup footage (questioning it's effectiveness) and discover this fascinating Starfleet conspiracy with secret Romulan sect plot. I remember people in the past getting so upset about the English writing in the Romulan Borg research post but there are a lots of humans there which explains that one.

We see that the Androids that destroyed Utopia planitia were 'hacked' presumably by this secret synthetic hating Romulan faction. And holy moly they actually acknowledged Picard's Irumodic syndrome that afflicted him around now in the alternate future seen in TNG finale All Good Things. I'm impressed with their attention to detail (regarding old Trek events), which makes me hope the writers haven't forgotten Lore & Lal after all.

The only real gaff I saw was Laris saying Romulans never had a cybernetic program which contradicts the awesome TNG S3 ep the defector where Admiral Jarok tells Data that he knows a number of Romulan cyberneticists that would love to get their hands on him. Although then again maybe its not a gaff as we saw Romulan experts pulling apart dead Borg. You cant really study Borgs without some good cyberneticists lol. Probably just more Romulan secrets lol.

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[SPOILER ALERT]

So what does everyone think now that the show has started?

My thoughts (SPOILER ALERT):

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I loved the opening shot with the camera closing in on the Enterprise D (which had some interesting design modifications) and going through the window into to the room.. the kind of shot you always wanted to see as a kid watching TNG but knew they couldn't really do effectively (well not without spending some heavy money lol, which is kind of ironic considering the 60s failed trek pilot sort of has a camera through bridge window shot)..

I enjoyed the whole episode but I feel like I can't quite give judgement yet. I need to know more about what's going on and need to see how things pan out story wise.

Also the zero mention of Lal and Lore seems a bit strange in a world where the daystrom institute desperately wanted to replicate Data. I mean what happened to their parts after they were disassembled? B4 was in a drawer so where's the Lal and Lore drawers haha?

First thought was.. did the writers forget them?.. but that seems unlikely consider they brought Hugh back which means they clearly remember Descent 1 & 2 which Lore was in. The whole Daughter 2.0 storyline suggests the Lal episode is something they know too. Plus Frakes directed that one and he's involved in Picard.

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[Quest for Orgy I: She Thought She Was a Virgin]

Does anyone have copies of the old Quest for Orgy games? I've seen them talked about years ago in this thread but none of the links work.

I have that old tiny Demo of Quest for Orgy I: She Thought She Was a Virgin.

However I've been unable to find the bigger Quest for Orgy I: Sodom, Graham and Gomorrha or the apparently even bigger Quest for Orgy I: So You Want to be a Porn Star.

Also notice 2 sequels were in the making but I'm guessing they never got finished? Or are there demos out there?
Quest for Glory II:  Sex Slaves of Shapeir
Quest for Orgy III: Castle of Dr. Pain

Want to do proper tributes to them on my Quest For Glory Fan Games Tribute Website which I talk about on the forums here:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=41948.0

Baggins from the Quest for Glory Wiki was also recently asking me if I have them so he can do a proper tribute on the wiki too:
https://questforglory.fandom.com/wiki/Fan_Main_Page

Looks like you won't get funding.. sorry to see that mate. Looks awesome!

Although I fear if your project had got a lot of attention you would have got sued by Disney lol. Your assets still look a bit too much like Fate of Atlantis assets and they do enjoy going after Lucusarts related fan games (even the free ones).

[New QFG related projects added:]

Happy new year guys! It's been a while but I've been working on my site and have made the following additions to the QFG related games list.


New QFG related projects added:
Quest For Glory IV 3D - Massive new section! My total conversion mod for ZDoom Hexen taking you on a 3D action packed adventure in Mordavia.
QFG6: Hero's Legend - Full tribute page created! Creator of QFG2.5D is working on a 3D QFG sequel based in Silmaria & Tarna.
Quest for Glory I Extended Edition - Full tribute page created! QFG1 remake with many new areas (eg open mountain pass like in QFG4.5).

Changes made to existing QFG content:
General - Contents menu added.
General - All back buttons changed to utilise HTML bookmarks. Now users don't have to re-scroll down the entire page constantly!
General - Fixed some missing slashes in code.
Heroism: The Art of DeFence - New HD screenshots and GREATLY enhanced demo now available.
Quest for 3D - New awesome screenshots of his amazing realistic recreation of Spielburg.
Destiny: The Lost Soul - FINALLY the long lost demo has been found & made available by the Hero6 team!
Quest for Infamy (classic) - Finally found the original Brigand theme song I used to use (forgot it was also hero selection track), now the original 2010 tribute page is finally truly restored.


As always, let me know if something is missing.

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

This is super cool. I diubt it'll work in my laptop but I'll jolly well try it when I get a chance.

I'm sure it'll work if you use DosBox... if you can figure out how to use that.

And I'm sure it won't, so don't anyone do that please lol. Full details are on my downloads page but basically my mod requires either ZDoom or GZDoom which greatly enhances the original limited Doom engine (3D acceleration, OpenGL effects, coloured lighting, slopes, bridges, rooms above rooms etc) and allows you to play Hexen/Doom in windows at any resolution you want. If you try to run my mod with original vanilla Hexen in dosbox it won't work at all as it was built to use ZDoom features that don't exist in vanilla Hexen.

Oh and the other project I worked on isn't related to QFG, Sierra or AGS gaming but if there's any trekkies here they may enjoy it. I've been working on a Star Trek - The Next Generation Doom level where you fight against the Borg and Species 8472 which I'll be releasing in a few days too. Demo video here:

[Blake's Sanctum]

Hi guys

I figured it was finally time to drop by and publicly announce my Quest for Glory IV 3D project. After years of tributing other peoples awesome QFG AGS fan games at Blake's Sanctum I decided to have a go at making my own QFG fan game.

QFG4 3D is a total conversion single player 19 map mod for the classic game Hexen with the ZDoom enhancement. The mod contains new levels, textures, decoration, weapons, monsters, NPCs, cutscenes, music & sounds taking players on an old-school linear 3D action adventure set in the world and story of the great classic Sierra game Quest for Glory IV - Shadows of Darkness.

Before anyone else says it I'd like to say that QFG4 doesn't need to be in 3D, nor is my project an attempt to convert every single part of the game to 3D (if you want to do everything in QFG4 then go play QFG4 haha). I created QFG4 3D just for fun and to see if I could actually do it lol. Plus it was rather fun to create new areas/views not seen in the original game (eg I show more of the town & give you 360 degree views of each original game location). So if others happen to enjoy this project too then that's a bonus, but if you're not a fan of retro gaming & graphics then this probably isn't going to be of much interest to you.

I used the old Hexen/Doom engine as I lack the graphic & programming talents to use a modern game engine, plus I wanted it to retain the look at feel of the era when QFG4 came out. However the ZDoom/GZDoom extension updates the old engine quite a bit to use true 3D, OpenGL effects & now in 2016 it even supports VR! So if you ever wanted to walk around Mordavia as if you were there then this is your chance (at least until someone else does a much better job haha).

Hope you guys enjoy this first demo below. Be warned that it will likely be a long time before there's another demo, I've spent nearly 2 years on this & another project and have sacrificed a lot. I'm burnt out & want to do other things, including getting back to PLAYING games instead of making them lol!





For more information, more screenshots, animations+descriptions of all weapons & monsters you'll face, and of course the download links for the demo and required files check out my QFG4 3D website here:
Blake's Sanctum – Quest for Glory 4 3D





If you just want to see it without all the hassle then here's a playthrough/walkthrough video series I made..

Part 1 - Character Selection, Dark One Cave, Swamp, South Western Forest & Rusalka Lake.


Part 2 - Rusalka Lake, North Western Forest, Borgov Castle Gate, Town Gate, Exploring Town, Burgomeister Office, General Store & Adventurers Guild.
https://youtu.be/tD8SwPYLuQc?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFYPoZDeuw0YobE6gBd_w9Z9

Part 3 - Adventurers Guild, Thieves Guild, Monastery, Monastery Basement, Exploring Town, Dr Cranium's Lab & Hotel Mordavia.
https://youtu.be/DXTXZzOG3cU?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFYPoZDeuw0YobE6gBd_w9Z9

Part 4 - Hotel Mordavia, Exploring Town at Night, Nikolai's House, Town Gate, Central Forest at Night & Graveyard Wraith Battle.
https://youtu.be/4PbrDEsst-M?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFYPoZDeuw0YobE6gBd_w9Z9

Part 5 - Graveyard Wraith Battle, South Eastern Forest, Eranas Peace & Storming Borgov Castle.
https://youtu.be/vuOBCFzsd38?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFYPoZDeuw0YobE6gBd_w9Z9