[Akalabeth Angel]

I'm totally okay with taste, perfectly fine with it - I don't need everybody to like everything! I just don't want people to stop playing certain things. Spoon, for instance, has been really worried that his uber-impressive megamod Wings of Dawn isn't getting enough play just because it's too much of a departure from FS.

I quit playing WoD because I kept getting my ass kicked on a particular mission. But I'll probably go back to it. After I'm done farting around on Xbox for a while.

[Galemp]

I suspect that he's more commenting on the fact that ... they depart quite significantly from what [V] did in FS1, FS2 and Silent Threat. Old School just, I suspect,means a preference for a style of play where the storyline plays out around the player, rather than happening to the player (or, more accurately, the player's character).

Indeed. Anyone who's played ST:R or Vasudan Imperium knows what flavor I like my FreeSpace. My point is that while I may not enjoy it as a FreeSpace campaign, the level of craftsmanship in every way makes it excellent in its own right.

[General Battuta]

Thank you!

I like to think FreeSpace as a setting is robust enough to support a lot of different stories in a lot of different styles. I think BP's value is in part what the article points out - it gets to ask the questions that the core FS narrative style, by its nature, can't. AoA asked 'what if Alpha 1 had a past and had relationships?'; WiH asked 'how does Alpha 1 keep on going without going insane?'

The best interpretation of WiH I ever heard from a player was the idea that Laporte's schizophrenia was Alpha 1 - not Alpha 1 the character, but Alpha 1 the faceless and tireless ability to kill, the sort of gestalt warrior that we were in FreeSpace 2 and most of FreeSpace 1.

This doesn't make it better or worse, and I definitely recognize the value of the faceless style - like Jason Scott said in that interview, it lets you feel like a bug on a windshield. But I like to think of the styles as many angles on the setting.

[-Norbert-]

First off, congrats with the review! (I would have posted before, but I was being leet for a day)

I will admit to not having the same level of excitement for WoD - the anime style settings not my thing - but I'll get to it.

Way too many people are probably missing out on a lot of fun and awesome (if you don't believe me, believe battuta!) Simply because they go "hmm, anime themed? not my thing, pass." before hand.

The problem is that many people don't know that the term "anime" as as generic as "movie" or "TV series". That can mean anything from tele tubbies equivalent to porn, from huckleberry fin equivalent to mass slaughter, from extremely deformed style to almost photo realistic drawing style...
The majority of anime that get over to Europe and the USA are part of a few genres within anime and because of that people assume that all anime has to be like that unfortunately.

[redsniper]

More people would play WoD if they knew about the CAS-9 (IMO)

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Way too many people are probably missing out on a lot of fun and awesome (if you don't believe me, believe battuta!) Simply because they go "hmm, anime themed? not my thing, pass." before hand.

Actually, I was scared off by the fact that your mod made FS2_Open divide by zero and crash. No, seriously, that was exactly what the Apple report said, and I've never been able to replicate the crash.

[Spoon]

 

I'm just going to write that off as an Apple thing 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Probably.

As it happens, I'm also bogged down by RL and about ten other FS-related things as well. Once I'm done with those, I might try playing through WoD again.