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Title: What if Freespace 2 was a sucess?
Post by: Cabbie on July 28, 2004, 06:32:00 am: Okay lets have some fun! What if in a parallel reality Freespace 2 did not bomb but sold millions of copies becoming a run away hit. What are the spin offs and things you would want the franchise to spawn (Besides the most obvious Freespace 3). What are the possibilities would you like to happen in the Freespace franchise?

As for me I would love to see some really detailed model kits and die cast models of Freespace ships. I’d love to have a 1:48 diecast model of the Perseus and Valkyre on display on my shelves! Also a nice open ended Elite style game spin off in the FS universe would be really interesting (a complex open ended game with the FS user friendly controls and combat system would really be great).
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: castor on July 28, 2004, 07:34:11 am: PXO lobby full of peeps 24/7 :)
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Post by: Kie99 on July 28, 2004, 12:19:01 pm: a 4000:1 ORION and a 10000000:1 COLOSSUS Both ending up at 0.5 Metres
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: Mr. Vega on July 28, 2004, 12:50:34 pm: Quote
PXO lobby full of peeps 24/7

Not to mention 10 threads in a row, all with the title "The b33ms don't work!"

There are benefits to being part of a small community, you know. At least stuff gets done here.
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Post by: TopAce on July 28, 2004, 12:52:06 pm: More fans, more modders.
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: magatsu1 on July 28, 2004, 12:58:48 pm: I wasn't aware FS2 was such a failure.

I came late to this party BTW, before you all start.
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: Swamp_Thing on July 28, 2004, 01:01:39 pm: I was under the impression that FS2 was somewhat of a sucess!
Maybe not in terms of copies sold, but it´s the best space sim ever made, without a doubt. The problem is that the space sim community is small, as most gamers like FPS "shoot´em up" better...
There are 2 space sims that i hold in a special place in my heart, Freespace being one and Starlancer being the other.
I guess FS2 might have done better had it got better publicity.

There is one upside for this lack of commercial sucess: we have access to a lot more freebies now. Better for us, too bad for anyone else.
;7
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Post by: Cyker on July 28, 2004, 01:55:57 pm: Models would be cool - I'd love to put a model Collossus next to my model Executer, or maybe a Deimos to stick next to my Nebulon B... and a model Perseus next to my model X-Wing for comparison ;)

Maybe there'd even have been a TV show! (Hey, if Wing Commander can, so can we! And it'd have CGI! :p)
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: magatsu1 on July 28, 2004, 01:58:42 pm: does anyone know if that Freespace Shop is still going ?
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Post by: Lynx on July 28, 2004, 02:05:48 pm: FS2 sould about 25 000 copies initial, and total(with rereleases and stuff) about 85 000 units IIRC. Not really a grand success, sadly.

And the WC movie had CGI, tons of it! The only gripe was that it didn't look anything like WC.;)
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: Cabbie on July 28, 2004, 06:34:54 pm: Not a commercial success but fortunately not because of the merits of the game itself. I guess Freespace 2 flopped because of a lot of outside factors (How Interplay handled Freespace's promotion, saturated the space sim market back then, some internal problems between Volition etc.)

- I read back then that a writer in Volition really wanted to do a Freespace novel. It would be nice if they would have actually published it.

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Originally posted by Cyker
Models would be cool - I'd love to put a model Collossus next to my model Executer, or maybe a Deimos to stick next to my Nebulon B... and a model Perseus next to my model X-Wing for comparison ;)

Yeah, and imagine Hardlight boards would even have a Toy/Modeling forums for these.
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Post by: jdjtcagle on July 28, 2004, 07:22:42 pm: Fs4
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Post by: Cabbie on July 28, 2004, 07:25:59 pm: Quote
Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Fs4

-Better yet, Freespace Tournament! Ala UT which focus on purely multiplayer. Of course the FS games with story is separately developed.

- HLP with 20,000 members ;)
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: jdjtcagle on July 28, 2004, 07:33:42 pm: HLP would probably not even be here... :p
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Post by: Flipside on July 28, 2004, 07:43:39 pm: Freespace Universe Online ;)

Start off as a lowly freightlugger, and work your way up to Military, Pirate, Smuggler, Trader, Mercenary or a mixture of any or all. Build fleets of escort ships for your convoys, and, of course, fight off the odd Shivan incursion, People design their own special missions on a version of Fred, which then, once validated, get included as possible paid jobs. Teams could create missions for Shivan incursions, where the whole online community has to react. The GTVA hands out bounties indescriminately for killing Shivans ;)

Wonderful pipe dream :D
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Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on July 28, 2004, 08:12:45 pm: Mod it flipside. it would rock.
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Post by: Taristin on July 28, 2004, 08:27:00 pm: Sounds like what Mr Smart wanted to do... :rolleyes:
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Post by: Cabbie on July 28, 2004, 08:56:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
Sounds like what Mr Smart wanted to do... :rolleyes:

Actually its more of the ideas of the people who posted in Mr. Smart's Anvil forum thread. :)

I think the walking around the battleship thingie and flipping a zillion switches then changing the light bulb before you get into space is what Mr. Smart wanted to impliment in Freespace :)

Filpside that idea was gold.

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Also once in a while it would be cool to have a huge shivan invasion where everybody has to drop their daily jobs and be forced to fight the Shivans/evacuate civilians and supplies (if your class is not the fighter jock type). Then make it end by letting one or two stars sytems go super nova

:D
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: Flipside on July 28, 2004, 11:15:22 pm: hehehehe Well, the first obvious answer would be Freespace 3, but the question asked was basically 'what would you like to see stem from the series?'.

Besides, the gameplay would have to remain similar to what is available now :)

I was never against Mr Smarts 'idea' as such, but not as Freespace 3 :D

Besides, what I always dream about would be fully moddable, including the map, it just had to be verified to be included in the game. New ships, missions, weapons etc would be appearing in the game. You could do boarding actions, but it would be marines that did it, so no FPS environment either.

As for invasions, I thinking that the movement of battlegroups were scripted, so that you could have set missions that GTVA pilots are sent on, their own ship is 'docked' and they select ships as normal. However, if a Mercenary group sneak in and take out two wings of Mara before the scripted battle takes place, the Shivan force would be weak by two wings of Mara during the mission :)

Anyway, I've been thinking about this waaay too much ;)
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: Singh on July 28, 2004, 11:51:40 pm: We'd be seeing a lot more Bosch Beer sold (not to mention the company buying a liscense to have the face on the bottle) :P
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: Cabbie on July 29, 2004, 12:03:25 am: It would be cool to be a merchant support ship wondering around the edges of space providing fuel, ammo and sheild recharge to those ships that need it (for a fee of course). :)

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Originally posted by Flipside
hehehehe Well, the first obvious answer would be Freespace 3, but the question asked was basically 'what would you like to see stem from the series?'.

Yup!
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Post by: Dough with Fish on July 29, 2004, 12:04:45 am: I'd like to see what happened to HALO happen to FS. A ton of figures, and in FreeSpace's case, a ton of ships, and maybe a Terran or Shivian action figure, and a series of pretty good books.
Title: What if Freespace was a sucess?
Post by: Janos on July 29, 2004, 06:59:05 am: - Freespace: Tactics, or some other RTS game
- a ****load of franchise
- PXO ending up as a worse version of battle.net or CS community (OMG SO UNFAIR NUB NUB NICE HAKC)
- Some FPS shooter
- sequels going down the ****ter
Title: Re: What if Freespace 2 was a sucess?
Post by: Setekh on July 29, 2004, 07:25:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by Cabbie
I’d love to have a 1:48 diecast model of the Perseus and Valkyre on display on my shelves!

I'd like a 1:48 Perseus on the shelves of my 1:1 GVA Setekh. :nervous: