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Master of Orion 2

Hey hey hey!

In November we featured the amazing Master of Orion 2, as suggested by our trusty co-host Florian. He's been wanting us to play this one ever since we started DOS Game Club, so we're very excited to finally talk about one of his favourite games.

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Jozef ("jozy"), who was previously on the Monkey Island episode, and also Ynze ("bitrot") who is joining for the first time.

Enjoy!

[ download mp3 ] (131 mins, 106 MB)

RELEVANT LINKS:

* Free download of "Star Lord", prototype of what eventually became the first Master of Orion game

* Soundtrack of Master of Orion 2 on YouTube, with a comment by the original composer Laura Barrett

* Master of Orion 2 strategy guide, including some great tips for getting started and how to design effective custom races

02 Jan 2019

2 Replies to “Master of Orion 2”

Corgibuttz says:
February 21, 2019 at 7:55 pm

Great PODcast guys! I really enjoyed giving it a listen. I played a bit of 1 when I was a kid, as well as Masters of Magic which was also mentioned 🙂

I tried to play the 2nd one when I was in high school on an old mac I bought to play the Marathon games on… but it was just too slow.

Was fun getting to hear about what I missed out on all those years ago. 🙂

DJ_HiP says:
July 4, 2023 at 6:01 am

What an incredibly complex ecosystem they have programmed into the game, sounds like it really was before it’s time.

Also great to hear Florian still learning new things about the game all these years later 😀

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