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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Polpolion on December 06, 2006, 02:11:53 pm
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When and how did you guys first experience freespace and come to enjoy it to the extent of joining this board?
It happened to me like this:
One day when I was in third grade or something, my older brother brought home some games he borrowed from his friends. IIRC, he brought HL:OP4, Fallout 1,2, Roller coaster tycoon, and Freespace 2. I played OP4 all the way through and spent a little while on Tycoon, but then I tried freespace. It was the best. I had it on two computers, and was playing it at different spots on both. Eventually on my computer that I have in my room, I got to the second to last mission, of course, I didn't know it was the second to last at the time, but then my brother had to give it back, so I was Freespaceless. Then my HD broke and had to get it formatted. Up until a bit over a year ago, I would off and on spend a few hours on the internet looking for it every few weeks. Then, one humble day, I stumbled across this place called 'The Freespace Oracle'. It pointed me to the HOTU, so I got that version. But then I had to format my HD again because it got a virus ::) . When I got the computer set up again, I got the HOTU again, but the FTP was down. It was then that I signed on to this forum for the first time, because I wanted to learn more about and join the modern FS community. So I finally decided a more ambitious method of procuring the game. This great person, Zman, had an FTP or something with the ISOs on it, but at the time I didn't know exactly how ISOs worked. I got it anyway, had some trouble mounting them and stuff, but eventually, with you're help, I finally got retail working. At my next birthday, after many failed expeditions into the SCP, I got a computer upgrade. I immediately got the SCP, and finally played with good graphics.
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Descent: Freespace came with my IBM Thinkcentre computer with Win98 on it. I got addicted to it, and a few years later re-installed on my new comp, then went looking for FreeSpace 2. I found the SCP site, then wandered over here and signed up.
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Let me also mention, beforehand, that one of the first FPS i ever played was D2.
My dad got me FreeSpace 2 for my 10th birthday (i believe). I installed it, played it, and fell in love with it almost instantly. i played it all the time until i beat it, and then I played through all of the missions that came with it (the Game of the Year edition), then I played it again, and again, and again, and you get the point. Incidentally, that was the first game that i ever played online, on PXO...
I've had installed on pretty much every computer ive had since then, and ive finished it countless times...still havent been able to survive the supernova :p
a little while ago (last semester) I started searching for more answers to the storyline, and [unmentionable] freespace 3 [/unmentionable]...and after some google , i ran into Karajorma's FreeSpace Oracle...
from there i went to the scp site got the upgrade...and im still playing freespace, and bringing initiates into the FS universe.
[/nostalgia]
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I actually read the strategy guide some years before I got the game, about the mission to escort the Plato specifically IIRC.
In this case, though it was several years ago, happened to be at the front counter as one of the bargin-ish things at Fry's Electronics in the form of FS1+Silent Threat CDs in just a case. Had spaceships on the cover. Was suffering from post-Kilrathi Saga withdrawal, so I grabbed it.
Found FS2 while trying to get a somewhat questionable copy of FS1 after my first FS1 CD went MIA. Found HLP two years later while I poked through the links on the offical FS2 site on a whim.
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A friend of mine showed me FS1 and then FS2 some time later. Is wasn't until a couple years later when I picked up my old Logitech WingMan Strike Force 3D (for the unimaginably low price of $50, at a Costco in Toronto) which came with the 1st act of FS2, called "Freespace 2: Colossus". Played that through several times, then went out in search of other FS games, found FS1+ST at a local Future Shop, and bought it. Played it a couple times before searching out FS2 again. Eventually, I downloaded it off of KaZaA, but it was mostly the same as the HOTU version, though the original HOTU version had no voicefiles and the last cutscene, and the KaZaA version I had before DID include voicefiles, but no cutscenes. Eventually, the friend that intro'ed me to FS, let me borrow his game for the purposes of copying, which is how I have my current copy. That was almost 4 years ago.
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Started out with D2, never played D1. At the time I was still running Win95 on a P166 with only 16MB RAM, and I didn't have a graphics card, so by the time D3 was long considered obsolete (and after I had access to a "better" computer), I could finally play it. The D3 I purchased had FS1+ST bundled with it. Some time later I ran across an FS2 strategy guide off PC Gamer (and one LONE advertisement), then heard a fellow schoolmate talk about it.
You could say that, while people racked up kills in multiplayer D3, I was stuck (and still having lame fun) with D2 solo and a demo level editor. While people either escaped or got blasted apart by the Capella supernova in FS2, I just started participating in the first Great War. And only FS2 appears to have the "proceed without penalty after failing 5 times in a row"...
Forgot about FS2 since then. A few years later when it came back to my head, I tried to find it at retail, no luck as expected. Surprisingly, D3 and FS1+ST were still being sold at the stores (no buyers - everyone had moved on to newer games like maybe Far Cry and so forth). Eventually I forgot about it... again.
Couple of months back, I started thinking of FS2 again (was it the lagginess and crappy combat of X2/X3 that influenced me to go back in time?). Obviously, with FS2 being so old, I couldn't find it in stores, so I scoured the 'Net. (Who appreciates old, hitherto games nowadays in this land of top-notch graphics and trend-following... :sigh:) I think I ran across somebody's ISO's (Freespacezone?), then I stumbled across HLP and Shivan's pack (which meguesses was newly released; it was still 367/368 builds).
That's how I got here...
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FreeSpace 2 was a present from the Christmas of 1999 (IIRC). It was my first space sim on the computer I had recently bought. I didn't play with it very much, I finished it six months later, fried by the supernova... :D
At the time, I didn't surf very much on the Net, so I didn't knew even about the 1.2 patch... :rolleyes:
A year later, a friend borrowed me FS1 (without ST), and played it (finished in 1 month).
When, 2 years ago, I bought the PC I am using now, I reinstalled FS2 and downloaded the 1.2 patch. I still used the retail FS. One year ago, when my father bought the ADSL line, I found this forum, and everything changed.
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A 10 mission FS1 demo came with this joystick I got sometime around '96-'98 (I don't remember). Anyways, I liked the game, and wanted to know what happened after capturing the Taranis, so I got the full game. I loved that too, but eventually forgot about the series. Some time afterwards while going off to buy some game that I don't remember anymore, I saw Freespace 2 on the shelves. I didn't have enough money to buy both, so I ended up buying the other game and thinking I'd come back for it later.
Well I forgot about it again, and when I finally remembered, the game was nowhere to be found, outside of ebay where the bids were going into the 60-70 dollar range. I gave up all hope of playing this game and moved on.
About a year ago I found this place. Amazed at the progress you guys made, I downloaded it and have been having a blast with it since.
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I first played FS2: Colossus, however mine came with a Voodoo2/3 (?) graphics accelerator card I had bought along with Carmageddon 2 and a few other games. I played it through and quite enjoyed it (Although I was a bit disappointed with the ending, thinking this was the full game). Any way I gave that graphics card away to my brother-in-law after I had built my own rig and built him one out of my spare parts. I stupidly gave him the disc with Freespace2 on it as it also had the driver that disc for his graphics card. That was four years ago. Earlier this year I had was a little fed up with the FPS's I had been playing and decided to go through some of my PCG and PCF demo disks I had collected over the years and came across the FS2 demo on one of them. I installed it and played it through. Wow! I thought, this is cool, I want it back. My brother in law had since changed houses and computers a number of times and now only really played football games on his PS2 and therefore lost the disc.
From that point I scoured the net looking for it and came across this site, found an FTP with the iso's on it (possibly Zman's) and had a friend download and burn them to a DVD for me. Once I got the DVD from him, I managed to burn the images to disks and then downloaded all the SCP stuff on to a memory stick (256mb) and slowly built up my FS_open file with various campaigns. :D
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Well, Conflict FreeSpace 1 was my first game. I bought it with game magazine in 1999 when i got my first computer. I was always into sci-fi and enjoyed this game from the beginning. When I got my second comp in 2003, one of the first games i installed was FS1. I always wanted to play FS2 but cant find it because i havent got net and noone of my friends liked scifi games. :( . Then we purchased dialup and i found Freespacezone cds, my friend downloaded it for me but they didnt work because of corrupted isos or what. :( . When we finally got DSL i downloaded fs2 cds from DC++ network, then found scp and hard-light. I cant stop playing this awesome game from then! :D
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About three or four years ago I wanted to buy a cloche for my birthday. I bought the Logitech Wingman with the FreeSpace Demo.
I haven't considered it a lot in the first period but then I started loving it. I wanted the full version and obtained it from another Italian with eBay. Now I'm here.
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For me...
About 4-5 years ago, I was starting to get into gaming. My uncle gave me an old Thrustmaster joystick that was on MIDI. I used that for a while, and eventually that old thing broke a bit (it works, but the rubber is old and brittle, and it interferes with playing). So, we went out to the local CompUSA to look at a new joystick. I liked the joystick I found; a Logitech Wingman Force 3D (force-feedback all the way, baby! I can't imagine playing WITHOUT force feedback). The stick was bundled with an OEM game... Freespace Colossus. I played it once, about half-way through, and then forgot about it.
Well, my hard drive was reformatted, so I needed the Driver CD for the joystick. I installed Freespace again, but forgot about it once again. I then got a PNY GeForce FX 5200 with my own money, about 3-4 years back. I readily played all games that I could, as graphics were much better (upgrade from ATI Radeon 7000/VE). So, about 2 years ago, I was playing Freespace Colossus on-and-off. I ended a few months ago with downloading SCP, the 3.6.9RC7 build. I still use that build on the same old computer.
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First got FS1 with my computer in 1998, got Freespace 2 about a year later after randomly seeing it in GAME. Found this place a couple of years ago, discovered my old POS computer wasn't good enoguh to run FSO, got a new computer a couple of months later, downloaded FSO and here I am.
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FS1 demo borrowed from a friend, just about the time FS2 was released.
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I first learned about Freespace when I read the review (in Pcgamer I believe), and saved up to buy it. Having only my parents computer (an old Parkered Bell [sp?]) a 233 mhz proccessor, no 3d card,64 ram, I beat it several times, played it to death and eventually learned about it's sequel Freespace 2. Let me say that I still have both Freespace1 and Freespace 2 retail and that I thought freespace 2 died a couple years ago. Just very recently did I find out that the community was still active when i got the internet finally at my apt. I decided to go to the official Freespace 2 website only to find that the webpage hasn't been updated in years, all of the links dead or abandoned.
However when i created a myspace account and searched for freespace 2 movies so I could put on my page (I found one called "Flail SCP") i clicked on a link for something called SCP. I then found the Freespace 2 source code project and to my delight saw that it was not only active but updated almost daily. That eventually led me here, but unfortunately I'm having trouble getting the fsopen downloaded and working. but that's a different thread.
I've loved freespace from the very beginning (i've used the handle "lordfreespace" for years now on every game,forum,blog,account I've been a part of) and I hope someday interplay gives up the licence to FS so we can have a proper sequel. But for now I'll live with the awesome user campaigns and mods (looking forward to playing the Babylon 5 [another great passion] mod).
Love this game and you guys are a great community!
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My father is an avid Descent fan, so he bought FS1 since it had the "Descent" prefix in the title. He got to perhaps the second mission before he got bored. So, I picked it up. That was something like seven years ago... anyway, I was browsing on-line a year or two ago, and saw FS2. I'd never heard of it, but I wanted it the moment I saw the title. Unfortunately, none of the computer stores I called had ever heard of it either. So, I went to eBay, and managed to get the 20th Aniversary Edition. While I'm browsing GameFAQs boards about a year ago, I saw people on them talking about Inferno. I thought at first that it was FS3 ( :rolleyes:), but eventually someone directed me here to check it out. And so... here I am! :D
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Wow! There are alot of youngies in here. Anyway, my Dad bought me my first PC as a graduation present from High School. This was 1999. The first games I bought were all Space Combat Sims. First I got the X-Wing 1995 Collectors Edition, which included X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and XWvT. Next I got X-Wing Alliance, then Freespace sometime around October or November of 1999. Somewhere around April of 2000 I got FS1. I didn't even know this site existed until about six months ago.
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Saw FS2 in PCZone's top5 space shooters. Ranked second, incidentally, but I couldn't find X3 - well Vigin didn't have it but they did have FS1&2 White label. Found the VBB, lurked for a while, went off-line for around 18 months, googled Freespace after the VBB had apparantly died and found HLP. Should have joined Freespace Watch too, but never mind. That was back in, I dunno, early 2001 ?
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A friend of mine had got a Voodoo graphics card, and FreeSpace was touted as one of th best games to run under Glide, so he picked it up, we were both absolutely blown away by it. Oddly enough, I bought a Voodoo 2 a couple of years later and bought FreeSpace 2 thinking it was FreeSpace. Imagine my surprise when I first saw the Beams....
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I first saw Freespace 1 in a demo video on some PC magazine CD, thought then that it would be perfect for a Battlestar Galactica conversion. ;) Never had FS1 or FS2 until years later when somehow I found the New BSG conversion for SCP, then I got the retail ISO's and after playing that a bit I got a new Athlon 64 comp with a naff Geforce 6500 PCIe videocard and just had to go with SCP on it.
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I think MaxPC was called "boot" back then, and on thier monthly demo disc, FS1's demo was on it. I was hooked immediately, though at the time I was looking forward more to Descent 3, cause I was a major Descent 1/2 junkie. Once I played "small deadly space" I was thrilled, which is still my favorite mission in both games. One of my friends bought it the first day it went retail and I got a copy of it, soon after that I bought a copy, played it start to finish over and over again. Then, I sorta went into a lapse of gaming and didnt realize FS2 was released untill someone mentioned to me that it was out there. I got a copy from him and got to be thrilled all over again. FS2 took me about six months to complete when I started playing it but it was good the entire time. I used to be a visitor of Volition Watch when it was active, not an active poster though. I remember getting the BWO demo, and playing standalone Derelict missions way back when they first hit the net. I had never played silent threat before, and found a copy of FS1/Silent threat on ebay for 5 bucks, about two years ago. I played through the missions at a LAN party one night, it was pretty cool. I came over to HLP as a lurker when Volition Watch decided to close down, and stop lurking when I needed help setting up FSO on my system. Since then, I've been a nuisance on these boards for some time, while still playing FS2/FSO a lot, new missions here and there, doing voiceacting for some of Blaise Russel's campaigns, and other stuff too that I'm working on now.
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Uh... it's a difficult question *trytoremember*
I think my first contact with PCs was very late, i think it was 1997. To this time we've (My Dad and I) still used our Amiga 500.
Our first games were Civilization II and Archimedean Dynasty.
But okay... in this years, we heard that Wing Commander reach it's fifth part (Prophecy). Because we played WCI at the A500, we look to it.. but don't find it, but we're able to organize WC IV, after that we find Prophecy and Privateer 2 and after some time we find WCIII, too.
But okay, this post should be Freespace related, right? ;)
Then Conflict:Freespace comes out, i saw it in multiple stores and was highlighted with "Better than Wing Commander!", but we don't buy it. I was 12 in 1998 so i don't have money and my father haven't a big interest to it.
But on a PC-Gaming Magazine i found a Demo of this game, and played it, when i remember correct it was a two mission demo, with the first FS1 Mission and another, with the GTC Orff, too. (When i look into the FSPort Forum, it should be the "Eve of Destruction" Demo ;))
I must say, i don't understand very much, my english was not very good at this time and it was only a english demo. But i like the effect, with this sparks in my viewfield, after my ship is heavily damaged. (This effect was removed in the full-version and get a little comeback in FS2 with the Lightning in the Nebula, the sparks in the FS1 Demo looks like this blue lightning there)
When i'm remember correct, i died multiple times and was unable to complete this first mission, the Vasudans kill me everytime. And when i survived the GTC Orff was destroyed.
So i delete it and forget it for a year.
My real contact with Freespace i have with Freespace 2.
A PC/Console Games Shop has opened in my city and we visited it.
In this shop you can rent games, too.
When we visited this shop, there we many current games. We find Freespace 2 and Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance which we want to test it, we rent both games.
Both games pleased us very well, we ordered them in the shop.
So, my first Freespace was Freespace 2.
We all know it, in Game they said in nearly every command brief.
The great war was 32 years ago, the explosion of the lucifer cut off the jump node in delta serpentis. No beam weapons, no shields, no flak in the great war (okay, this was a pilot conversation in "the great hunt" ;)) and all such things and of course the impressive Freespace 2 Intro ;)
This makes us interested... we want to play the great war... but in germany, Freespace 1 simply disappeared...
Only after further two years, we found it. In 2001!
A PC-Game Magazine has a included 2 CD-Full Version of Conflict: Freespace - The Great War.
So we bought it.
And after further one year, we found Silent Threat on a table with Low-Budget Products... we bought this, too.
But how i found the SCP?
This is another difficult question...
When i'm remember correct, i search for new missions. I found Volitionwatch before and play all downloadable campaigns from there, both for FS1 and FS2.
And then i come to the Campaign Boards at HLP and from there i get to the SCP and that's all. Today i'm still here :)
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It started when my dad bought game magazine with few CDs including Freespace 2 demo in 2000. I saw him playing it (yeah, he was horrible and threw it :P ). One day I decided to try it out (of course on Very Easy like all 9-year old children :D ). Belive me or not, I played it over 50 times. :P Next year parents finally bought full version of FS1. Year of completing main campaign few times (still on Very Easy :P ) and FREDding simple missions. Next year turn for FS2 came. Again few times of completion (last one was on Medium :P ) and more FREDding. However whole situation bored me, there was no FS3 and I hadn't internet. Three years later when I got internet I remined myself about FreeSpace, looked to ModDatabase and downloaded first better campagin (accidently it was Homesick :D ). Hit on SCP site, then here on HLP, from c914's link to freespace.pl and now I'm here. :D
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I actually have no memory whatsoever of when I first heard of/played Freespace. :p I do vaguely recall seeing the FS1 box at a neighbor's house with whom I used to play Descent II and 3 frequently; since I had no idea what it was about, I just thought it was some sort of spinoff of the Descent series. I also remember reading the FS2 advertisement in the D3 CD sleeve and pondering such strange names as "Shivan" and "Vasudan." :p At any rate, I'm just about positive that it was through my activity on Descent forums that I finally learned exactly what Freespace was, and I eventually purchased the first game. Needless to say, it was love at first sight of the intro movie; a testament to how good the game is is that my younger brother was perfectly content to sit and watch me play, even going so far as to act as co-pilot and call out status updates in-mission. :) Eventually, I happened to find a copy of the game packaged with Silent Threat and bought that as well; I found myself enjoying the seven-mission Destiny of Peace campaign that was included with the fan-made missions somewhat more than the ST campaign itself. :p
As far as FS2 went, I must have played the trailer for it dozens of times, and I played through those two demo missions several times; I was completely overwhelmed by the beautiful graphics, nebula, beams, and flak. I eventually made my way over here, as well, and read everything I could about it; this netted me a few spoilers about the campaign, as well as a distinctly different impression of how a few gameplay elements would turn out. (I vaguely remember having some rather bizarre ideas about Trebuchets and Helios bombs. :p) However, at that time, the only way I had of acquiring FS2 was via eBay, and the prices on there were so insanely high, I felt that there was no way I'd ever be able to buy it short of miraculously finding it in a bargain bin somewhere. Then, wonder of wonders, Interplay released the 20th Anniversary edition, and I snapped it up in a heartbeat; sure, it was $50 for a several-year-old game, but I felt that it was completely worth it, and boy, was I right. Once again, I was hooked from beginning to end, and my brother returned to watch me play through it. After learning about the SCP and all of its myriad improvements, I finally decided to take the plunge and attempt to install it; that's where I've been ever since. :)
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I started my search for a space shooter back in late 1999 when i was 14 on an old 400mhz emachine with 64mb ram and an ati rage 2c pro 4mb. I downloaded a bunch of sucky space sim demos. Then on zdnet i found freespace and gave it a try. It wasn't very big in size, and ran in software mode so i was happy. I was able to play with the keyboard and shoot missiles and lasers and accelerate my craft, and move around the way i wanted to. freespace 1 was exactly what i was searching for in a space sim. My older bro tried the demo, the gtc orff was cool as ****. Then i finally built my first computer with a 433celeron 64mb ram and a voodoo3 2000 pci when i found the fs2 demo. The fs2 demo was amazing. My bro was going wild with the fs2 demo on his machine of similar configuration actually using the mouse. I bought fs2 in early 2000, and started playing it with my gravis xterminator gamepad. Then i didn't beat the game until 6 months of neglecting it. A year and a half later i found fs1 with silent threat included for like 10$ at fry's in texas, and started playing and found it a much different experience than fs2 was (playing games out of order has a certain feeling to it). Then i while in highschool i was on pxo a bunch as S-99 a bunch, because fs2 was great for multi on 56k. I even had my computer as a server sometimes.
Then i lost my fs2 cds, purchased game of the year edition, and found the extra user campaign not that great at all, i thought it was made by V(it wasn't), and it was only like 3 missions long.
Then years later on my freshman year of college i'm downloading fs2 hotu, and was extremely dissappointed with the hotu release. So i torrented fs2 that had the user name prototype24 on each of the files and contained a link to the scp, which then i eventually found hlp in late 2004.
Then i lurked for half a year, registered, lurked 3 months more, than actually became a regular here when i was posting my pics of playing fs2 on a big hi-def :)
I'm still the normal S-99, and then my regular status sort of started when i was dominating the 3.6.8vp screenshot thread for several pages on end(i need to do that again) :P
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I got FS1 as a birthday gift in early 1998 (the box still has the $54.99 price tag :p) due to the Descent moniker, as I was known to be a Descent fan. It had nothing to do with Descent but I became hooked anyway. I played the game in software mode in those days and it was one of my main motivations to get a decent video card. I picked up ST near the end of that year. I remember there was an extended power outage at the time and I couldn't play it until a few days after I got it.
As for FS2, I found out about it in 1999 from the trailer on the Descent 3 CDs and ran into the VBB shortly after that. I got it the day it was released and, well, the rest is history. :D
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I got it the day it was released
Wow.
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Actually, you might say I got it the hour it was released. They were stacking up the boxes on a shelf at the local Babbage's (now Gamestop) when I entered the place, although I had actually gone there to get something else and didn't know FS2 had just come out. :p
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You lucky bastard...
Today I said screw the bandwidth limit-it must be at least 3GB (i thought it was 2gb but that seems unlikely now)... I have successfully downloaded all 3 disc images off Freespacezone. Right now I'm transfering Disc 2 Part 1 and the reconstruction EXE to my flash drive... I have Disc 2 Part 2 and all of Disc 3 (so far unsplit) on the hard drive... I'll carry those over once this damn-slow 460mb transfer gets done... too bad this computer only has USB 1.1...... my computer has USB 2.0 so it's a 1-minute transfer versus like 20 minutes here...
I'll run the splitter for Disc 3 once I have this transfer done...
Edit: Finished transfer of Disc 2 Part 2, now I'm copying Disc 3 Part 1 and the reconstruction EXE... ETF 7 minutes (i highly doubt that... probably more like 10-15 minutes)
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I bought a Logitech Force Feedback joystick. Shiped with it was a game called Freespace 2: Colossus. It is essentially the First Act of FS2 with all music and audio and everything. The game was awesome. I spend hours searching for it. I eventually found HOTU. HOTU linked me to Freespace Oracle, FSO linked me to HLP, and here I am. Downloaded the HOT version. That was a year ago. Then, this summer, got a new PC. My old machine was a very very very old laptop. As in 20GB HDD old. Unfortunatly, I had to make room on my laptop for some other games, and bye bye Freespace. I redowloaded FS2 a week ago. Now my company is making a mod for it. Fun stuff.
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I don't know where my grandfather got Darkness Rising, but that's how I got addicted to it, I played it about... 30 times (I was in 3rd grade) but eventually forgot about it because I lost the CD, after a year of playing Warcraft, one of my friends mentioned Freespace 2, and it all came back like... "WHOA, I remember that game, holy crap dude, thanks" quit Warcraft, and asked for it for my birthday (it was 5 days away and I was untrained in the art of Shareaza) and I've been playing it ever since, though I'll be playing less once I get the Wii.
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Played the original at a friend's house, and loved it. I think FS is the reason I'm hooked on all things space combat, now that I ponder it.
That, or the shiny, colorful lights.
ANYWAY! The very first time I booted up FS2 Open (with it working, mind you), I lasted ...hm. A very, very short time, even though I knew how to fly and all that from beating FS1 (I borrowed FS1 as soon as my friend would let me XD). I got OHK'd by a AAA beam from an ally ship. It was strangely reminiscent of the 'Dodge the beams and you won't get hit!' scene, except it involved me dying, not complaining about almost dying.
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Descent: Freespace came with a new computer my dad bought in 98 or so. I started playing it, not expecting much (I was fairly suspicious of any game that was "free") but it turned out to be one of the coolest games I've ever played, even though I'm not really into flight sims. I played the campaign probably 5 or 6 times every few months, and then eventually heard about the HOTU version of Freespace 2. Not wanting to play some crappy stripped down version, I held off on playing till some guy gave me a link to some ISOs. I played for maybe 2 weeks - a month and then developed tendonitis in both my hands (I thought it was caused by guitar practice, but actually it was something else... long story)... Anyways I stopped playing without even getting through more than a few missions in the campaign and then after a year and half of looking for a cure that worked for tendonitis I finally found one and started not only playing guitar again but playing games again. I just now FS2 again, and also d/led FS2 open. Can't wait for my joystick to arrive tommorow :)
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An OEM DVD version of FS1 came with my IBM Aptiva in 1998. It was a one disc DVD version that has slightly better graphics than FS1 retail (in fact, this was closer to FS2 retail graphics). It was my first game, along with Age of Empires II at about the same time. I played it nonstop for several years, when I discovered ST and FS2 by randomly searching "Freespace" one day on Amazon in 2001. I bought both the FS1/ST bundle and FS2: Game of the year edition for $15.
In 2002 I finally decided to go online, and I joined the SSC. In 2004, Lightspeed finally dragged me over here to check out this cool new thing called the SCP. :)
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my first encounter with this game came in 1998 in a disc with aload of other demo version games. i was well interested in it. at the time since 2004 ive been playing demo versions since but i went onto amazon and i knew there were games there so i bought it and ive played the game everytime since.
ive also played others but thats secondary.
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An OEM DVD version of FS1 came with my IBM Aptiva in 1998. It was a one disc DVD version that has slightly better graphics than FS1 retail (in fact, this was closer to FS2 retail graphics). It was my first game, along with Age of Empires II at about the same time. I played it nonstop for several years, when I discovered ST and FS2 by randomly searching "Freespace" one day on Amazon in 2001. I bought both the FS1/ST bundle and FS2: Game of the year edition for $15.
In 2002 I finally decided to go online, and I joined the SSC. In 2004, Lightspeed finally dragged me over here to check out this cool new thing called the SCP. :)
Yep, that's exactly what I got. Same computer, same DVD version.
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An OEM DVD version of FS1 came with my IBM Aptiva in 1998. It was a one disc DVD version that has slightly better graphics than FS1 retail (in fact, this was closer to FS2 retail graphics). It was my first game, along with Age of Empires II at about the same time. I played it nonstop for several years, when I discovered ST and FS2 by randomly searching "Freespace" one day on Amazon in 2001. I bought both the FS1/ST bundle and FS2: Game of the year edition for $15.
In 2002 I finally decided to go online, and I joined the SSC. In 2004, Lightspeed finally dragged me over here to check out this cool new thing called the SCP. :)
Yep, that's exactly what I got. Same computer, same DVD version.
ditto.
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The DVD version of Descent: FreeSpace came with my DVD drive. :)
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Descent: FreeSpace came with the IBM computer we bought in 1998. The first time I played the game, I tore through the training missions, but when I reached the fifth level- the one with the Vasudan wings in the asteroid field- I had no idea what to do. After something like twenty-three fruitless attempts, I gave up and stopped playing the game.
Six years later, my thoughts randomly drifted to the game (don't ask), and I suddenly realized how to beat the level (center the clustered blips on the radar). Since then, FreeSpace and FS2 have been my favorite video games by a long shot.
I only encountered Hard Light and FS2 Open recently. School has consumed my life for the past few months, but now that we're on winter break I finally have time to take a crack at installing Open.