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Offline Goober5000

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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
The two go hand in hand, I think.

 

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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
Regardless of their FREDing skills, I appreciate the work and effort they put into Freespace 2.

I don't think any of us would be here if we didn't. :)
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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
I'm not at all critical of their FREDding skills as they may apply today. I'm upset that they forgot how to play the game entirely.
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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
To be fair, the game's not exactly meant to be played on a couch using a gamepad with a keyboard nearby :P.

 

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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
To be fair, the game's not exactly meant to be played on a couch using a gamepad with a keyboard nearby :P.

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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
Yeah, that Prom R- Prom R loadout gave me cancer. Might also explain why insane was all over the place in retail, nobody at Volition ever played it  :lol:
[19:31] <MatthTheGeek> you all high up on your mointain looking down at everyone who doesn't beam everything on insane blindfolded

 
Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
I definitely doubt they did much playtesting on Insane.
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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
Yeah, or if they did they decided to ignore it as it was too much trouble to tweak missions to work on insane. The difficulty curve is pretty much inverse, with the Myrm missions being harder than endgame missions and some missions being completely self-playing due to the beam refire rates.
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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
I get it all, but this was still a downer for me to watch.
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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
Honestly, I'd like to see any of you behind the wheel of a motor vehicle after a 15+ year absence.  :p  I'm gonna go out on a limb and say even when they were actively developing FS2, they didn't get much playtime in.  Coding != playing, although I'm sure they did do that to some extent.  Now their playtesters, on the other hand...

 
Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
At 1:04:35, I love how they mention that in meetings they often put "FreeSpace 3" as a bullet point as a joke, and that there was a "magic" about this that they rarely see in their other projects.


 

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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
I watched some of this last night, along with the Descent video. It's pretty hilarious how they don't remember the most basic things in their own games. :D I can sympathize with them though, they have worked on numerous other games in the meantime and have long since moved on. It's common knowledge that game developers today hardly ever play their own games.

 

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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
*whispers* Alt-H... Alt-H... Alt-H...
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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
What was the command that made those two guys popup from the corner's of the screen?

 

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What was the command that made those two guys popup from the corner's of the screen?

Enable cheats with:  www.freespace2.com

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Re: Volition plays Freespace 2
I watched some of this last night, along with the Descent video. It's pretty hilarious how they don't remember the most basic things in their own games. :D

And yet they did remember the cheat codes!
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