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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Forinec on August 29, 2004, 12:38:24 am

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Forinec on August 29, 2004, 12:38:24 am

So, what exactly IS the relationship between Descent and FreeSpace? Was it merely the name or was it more?

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Knight Templar on August 29, 2004, 12:48:35 am

Advertising. Nothing more.

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Galemp on August 29, 2004, 12:53:01 am

The company that developed Descent and Descent ][ was called Parallax. This company later split into two seperate companies: Outrage, which created Descent 3, and Volition, which created Freespace, Red Faction, Summoner, and their sequels.

So Descent: Freespace is essentially saying 'An open-space combat sim from the creators of Descent.' There's lots in common between them, as far as coding and rendering methods go, and there's lots of similarities in the fancy explosions with lots of debris and innovative re-working of the same engine to create a sequel.

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Knight Templar on August 29, 2004, 01:05:12 am

..... That's what I meant.

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Hippo on August 29, 2004, 07:39:37 am

Very little of the plots are aligned however...

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Ransom on August 29, 2004, 08:37:50 am

In Descent 3 the station that got blown up at the end was called Shiva. :eek: omgomg LAEM COPYERZ!!11

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Forinec on August 29, 2004, 12:37:20 pm

Ah, thanks for clearing this up for me. I remember when I got FS1 and was trying to find the connection between the two games. :lol:

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: StratComm on August 29, 2004, 01:39:23 pm

Actually the "Descent" part of Freespace was to resolve a trademark conflict with a disk utility called "Freespace".  Descent: Freespace cleared that up, though there never really was any plot connection between the series.

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: aldo_14 on August 29, 2004, 01:57:02 pm

It was called Conflict:Freespace in the UK (and presumably europe), so it smells strongly of marketing to me.  Possibly something to do with including an advert for Descent 3 on the disk........

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: kode on August 29, 2004, 02:31:23 pm

yes, it's all advertising.
just like, ehh... britney spears dance game.

Title: Descent and FreeSpace
Post by: Hippo on August 29, 2004, 03:23:45 pm

noooo!!!!