Star Citizen - Chris Roberts, lots of spaceship porn, lots of promises

[Desslock]

But Prophecy was just flipping great. I don’t think the Freespace games really won me over completely until 2 came out; I preferred replaying Prophecy to Freespace 1 pretty heavily (blasphemy, I know).

Don’t think it’s blasphemy at all. Reviewed all 3, and that’s the order I ranked them in. FreeSpace 2 was much better than the original game.

[Incendiary_Lemon]

Don’t think it’s blasphemy at all. Reviewed all 3, and that’s the order I ranked them in. FreeSpace 2 was much better than the original game.

Freespace had that great intro, but that’s just about the only thing that it did better.

[BrianRubin]

I’ve actually been revisiting Starlancer in co-op and it’s better than I recall. Not Freespace 2 good, but better than my memory of it.

[Incendiary_Lemon]

I’ve actually been revisiting Starlancer in co-op and it’s better than I recall. Not Freespace 2 good, but better than my memory of it.

I could never quite finish Starlancer. There was a two part mission that just killed me.

How does it hold up these days?

[BrianRubin]

I could never quite finish Starlancer. There was a two part mission that just killed me.

How does it hold up these days?

It’s surprisingly more competent that I gave it credit for at the time. Great dogfighting and a surprisingly great UI. Works amazingly on co-op too. The single player campaign can be played with several friends, and it’s the same as single player in how it plays out, which is surprising.

[Desslock]

It’s surprisingly more competent that I gave it credit for at the time. Great dogfighting and a surprisingly great UI. Works amazingly on co-op too. The single player campaign can be played with several friends, and it’s the same as single player in how it plays out, which is surprising.

The flight models and enemy pilot AI were below genre standards at the time, but the missions have decent scripting and storytelling (within the missions), and coop is a definite plus. I gave it a 7.7 for GameSpot back in the day (jesus, 16 years ago).

[RichVR]

Star Marine has been out for almost twenty years. We’re covered ;)

Tom Mc

I thought I had seen this before. It’s the cover of a Hammer’s Slammers paperback as well.

[BadSport]

Needs more Matthew Llilard.

[spiffy]

Man, I played so much Prophecy as a kid. I mostly missed the boat on playing a lot of the others in their prime (our home PC went from not being able to run anything in the series to being able to run Prophecy reasonably well one Christmas and I didn’t see a lot of value in looking back at the time, heh), though I did love the Wing Commander books by William R. Forstchen and Mercedes Lackey. But Prophecy was just flipping great. I don’t think the Freespace games really won me over completely until 2 came out; I preferred replaying Prophecy to Freespace 1 pretty heavily (blasphemy, I know).

Woo, the Forstchen novels!! They were such a great mix of politics, fighter ops and large scale naval action. The scene where the Kilrathi mega carriers are encroaching on the homeworlds and the human civilian ships are kamikaziing into them in desperation as they keep lumbering forward, really stuck with me.

Have to disagree about Prophecy though, the engine was fine, but the missions were bog-standard and I just couldn’t relate to the drama in fighting against plants. And the video was ho-hum. Contrast that to the experimental Brit-cyber-punk-pop aesthetic of the cut-scenes in Priv2, which were fantastic (I remember thinking, who is this guy Clive Owen! He should be in movies!). Combat-wise, priv2 was mediocre, but the navigation system stood out as (cumbersome) but engrossing, and the planet entry videos were second to none for the time.

[rhamorim]

I remember liking Privateer 2 quite a bit. Not sure how well it aged though.

[BrianRubin]

I remember liking Privateer 2 quite a bit. Not sure how well it aged though.

How… How is it even possible for ANYONE to like Privateer 2? The game is a blight upon the entire genre.

[rhamorim]

How… How is it even possible for ANYONE to like Privateer 2? The game is a blight upon the entire genre.

Beats me. ;)

[instant0]

Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes to see!

Great reference. Wish I thought of that movie before I spent 265$ on SC :-)

Speaking of which, having that sort of encounter in the middle of a sci-fi shooting/trading game would be pretty cool.

Any time trying to play the game all you get is “Server Full” so at the moment you do not really have the ability to play anything except for the shareware version of ‘Arena Commander’ or whatever it has been called. Course, you can visit your Hangar and look at the ship.

Dread awful loading times is so far the only SC experience.

[spiffy]

How… How is it even possible for ANYONE to like Privateer 2? The game is a blight upon the entire genre.

My statement “mediocre combat” is not an endorsement. But give the excellent cutscenes another watch. I just did, and they’re still great.

[Aszurom]

Given the state of what we see in game today vs what was shown “in game” a year or so ago it sure looks like the FPS element regressed considerably. Cough.

[BrianRubin]

My statement “mediocre combat” is not an endorsement. But give the excellent cutscenes another watch. I just did, and they’re still great.

Oh, I’m not gonna deny that Privateer has a STELLAR cast and some…ahem…fascinating cutscenes, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that the game itself was a steaming pile of monkey shit covered in infected cow spit.

[Synth]

I enjoyed playing Privateer 2. It was 1996, not like I had a huge backlog of other space games to play either.

[rhamorim]

I was even going to say that I enjoyed Privateer 2 considerably more than Tachyon: The Fringe, but then Brian would defenestrate me.

[BrianRubin]

It was 1996, not like I had a huge backlog of other space games to play either.

Had you already played Privateer, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Wing Commander 1-4 (and the Kilrathi Saga), Wing Commander: Armada, Wing Commander: Academy, Renegade: Battle for Jacob’s Star, Battlecruiser 3000, The Last Dynasty, Millennia: Altered Destinies, Star Crusader, Master of Orion 1-2, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Space Bucks, Star General, Star Control 3, Stars!, Gazillionaire, Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary, Star Trek: Judgement Rites, Frontier: Elite II and First Encounters, Alien Legacy, Microsoft Space Simulator, Star Reach and Prototype? Then yeah, I can see how one’s backlog might be a bit light and Privateer 2 might fit the bill…

[BrianRubin]

I was even going to say that I enjoyed Privateer 2 considerably more than Tachyon: The Fringe, but then Brian would defenestrate me.

This calls every opinion I’ve ever read from you into question, sir.