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Offline Deepblue

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Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6139782/index.html

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Sci-fi flight sim games are deader than a doornail, at least on the PC. Although there are still blips on the proverbial radar, such as X2: The Threat and Freelancer, it seems that the sun has set on one of the premier gaming genres of the 1990s, a decade that brought us a number of fantastic entries into the Wing Commander and X-wing series, and which was capped off by one of the finest PC games ever (of any genre), Freespace 2...

All in all, Freespace 2 isn't one of those games that's remembered as being particularly innovative, but the sheer quality of the presentation and the gameplay makes it a fitting sunset to a once-beloved genre, and one of the greatest games of all time.

The Babylon Project gets a nod as well. Too bad they seem to have missed the SCP project...
« Last Edit: November 15, 2005, 02:16:14 am by Deepblue »

 

Offline Flipside

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
I'm a member of GSpot, I could always post something on their general forums?

 

Offline Bobboau

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves..
make it so, include screen shots.
get one of my herc :D
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Offline Fenrir

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves..
You could probably E-mail the article writer and give him a little heads-up about the SCP.
Who knows? It might get answered...

 

Offline Flipside

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
Can't find an Email of the writer, I'll grab a SShot from the forums and use that, give me 2 mins.

Done, I linked them to WMC's screenshots, hope he doesn't mind :)
« Last Edit: November 15, 2005, 02:38:50 am by Flipside »

 

Offline Bobboau

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves..
maybe you should have linked to this thread
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,25406.0.html
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Offline Deepblue

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
Nice one.

Gamespots forums always make me appreciate HLP that much more...

 

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Offline Bobboau

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves..
Bobboau, bringing you products that work... in theory
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
Can't find an Email of the writer, I'll grab a SShot from the forums and use that, give me 2 mins.

Done, I linked them to WMC's screenshots, hope he doesn't mind :)

Not at all, good to see that they're getting some use. Although the PNGs are a little bulky.
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Offline IPAndrews

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
Now let's get this straight. It's a "greatest games of all time" list, and it mentions The Babylon Project? :D
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Offline Sigma957

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
I certainly can't see a problem in that LOL
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Offline Nuclear1

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
Well, this is certainly excellent. :D
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Offline Gortef

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
It's allways nice to see FS2 and TBP praised like they deserve to be.
Habeeb it...

 

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
make it so, include screen shots.
get one of my herc :D

and your orion (the modelling, of course ;)). your best works. :D

well, SCP, The Babylon Project and Inferno should all be mentioned by them. Inferno basically continues FS2's storyline without being you-know-what, and the others take advantage of the source code and make it cool. :D
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Offline KappaWing

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
Sunset... this is moving.

I am in tears right now. Seriously.
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Offline Carl

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Re: Freespace 2 gets the recognition it deserves....
Freespace 2 has always gotten the recogintion it deserves, actually. Nearly every reviewer has given it 9/10 or higher, and it won a whole bunch of awards. It has received huge critical success, but sadly not financial success.
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