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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Shining_Saber on July 30, 2007, 11:19:26 pm
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I played Darkness Rising, as it came with my Windows 98. Recently, about 2 months ago, I got up and bought FS1 + Expansion new from Amazon, then I downloaded FS2. I have to say, this is the best space game I've played. Besides EVE online, of course. ;)
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A demo of freespace 1 shipped with an old dell barge I bought many a year ago.
Actually, I didn't know it was a demo until it abruptly ended after capturing the taranis or some such thing, had to chase down a cain with stilettos.
After getting halfway through, I had to finish, so i bought 1.
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Having been in the Descent community for years, I had heard of FreeSpace, but hadn't actually played it. When I heard about a sequel, I gave the FS2 demo a shot, and figured there were worse ways to spend fifty bucks. In retrospect, I've gotten many, many times the value out of FRED2.
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A friend of mine showed me Freespace 1, it was the first time I'd seen anything running under Glide, and I was utterly blown away, I think only seeing Unreal 1 for the first time had the same effect on me. I loved the atmosphere, the graphics, for all my complaints about 'shiny' games, were amazing.
I'd grown up playing games like the original X-Wing with software rendering etc, so I bought a (I think) Banshee purely so I could play it.
Ah.. those were great days, Dungeon Keeper 1, Freespace, Syndicate Wars....
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I got Darkness Rising with my old Dell. Played it, put it down for a few years. Found it again, played it, and searched for "freespace" on some file sharing program. That got me the HoTU version, and then I started googling FS, and wound up here through Karajorma's FAQ. Shortly thereafter I bought FS2 on eBay and installed the SCP.
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I used to play Tachyon: The Fringe, and I loved it. Then, when playing online, some dude said that FS2 Online was better.
So, I asked my friends if they had FS2, and one dude had "FS2: Collosus". I played it, loved it, and got FS2 Retail.
Arrived at teh SCP scene recently.
Funny thing was that the first time I played FS2, I thought they copied everything from Tachyon. Its the other way around.
Every damn thing in Tachyon except the buying stuff and the glide thing was copied from FS2. The Interface has the same features in the same place.
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I'm kind of in BlueFlames' boat. I remember seeing the FS1 box at a friend's house (said friend also introduced me to Descent, come to think of it...), and I remember thinking, "Huh...another Descent game? But not? Bwuh?" Eventually, I learned exactly what the game was from other people in the Descent community, so I decided I'd give it a shot. I was utterly hooked instantly (and so was my younger brother; he used to sit in the room and act as a copilot, calling out status updates :D) and tore through the game. I wound up buying a second copy of the game just to get Silent Threat; thankfully, the fan-made missions were worth the price. Even after I found out about FS2, it took me forever to get my hands on it (though I certainly wore out the demo in the meantime); I didn't trust eBay, and even if I did, the prices on there were outrageous. I was finally about to bite the bullet and give it a shot, when Interplay announced the 20th Anniversary release. $50 later, and I was finally the proud owner; the way I see it, I've gotten my money's worth a thousand times over.
(Oh, while I'm thinking of it, BlueFlames, do you ever check on PD every once in a while? We're trying our best to keep the place running, though it's really not what it used to be at all.)
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Dad bought me the FS1 and Silent Threat bundle for Christmas one year, and I thought to myself, "oh here we go, another dizzying, lame Descent game..." But needless to say, it FAR exceeded my expectations. (FYI I have nothing against Descent, it was just so frustrating to me at 7 years old I couldn't stand another one.) When I heard FS2 existed, I searched and searched and searched, found the HotU version, was massively disappointed by the streamlined quality of it, searched some more, found some guy with images of the disks, played with those for a few months then forgot about em, and dug em back out again when I discovered HLP.
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my mate has been raving about how good it is and i really respect his opinion when it comes to games so i thought i'd give it a go, he brought all his Freespace stuff over including mods and media vp updates and installed it all on my computer today
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I got the Mac version off of MacGameFiles and played it for awhile, then I moved on......... I then rediscovered FS2 and played it on my Windows laptop and the ReadMe directed me here........ I then remembered about FS2 on my Mac.... LOL
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i got the demo for FS1 of the PC mag PCZone then that was me hooked and still am hooked.
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I got Darkness Rising (the first mission act) with my Dell. Played it over and over again, found out that it wasn't the end, and then got the white label release.
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It came free with my first PC in 2000.
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I got FreeSpace2 - Colossus free with a Voodoo2 Orchid graphics accelerator card!
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The full version of FS1 came as a DVD on my IBM Aptiva(?) comp.
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I found Freespace through Descent
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Got FS1 free with my computer several years ago. There were a couple of features missing (i.e. the ability to patch the game) but it didn't harm my experience. Bought FS2 a couple of years later.
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just searching the internets.
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Saw Freespace on demo at a local computer store. The only way to truly reel in a bystander.
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My dad owns a computer store, and he made a deal with me that if I got two good report cards, I could get a game. I saw Freespace on the shelf and randomly picked it. The rest is history :)
Oddly enough, when I first bought it I thought the 30 mission campaign was going to be too short. Boy was I wrong, haha.
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I got Freespace because it was awesome.
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In my case it all happened almost exactly a year ago. The only Finnish gaming site that I check out daily had an article about FS2. I read it, followed the link to HotU, downloaded (on my scale) the huge file, acquired a RAR-capable extraction program, fought fierce battles with my firewall, and eventually got to play the game.
Six months later the need to get the cutscenes, mods and graphical enhancements to work encouraged me to familiarize myself with SCP.
I think that's pretty much it.
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Downloaded the FS1 demo for reasons I can't recally, played it, liked it.
Downloaded FS2 demo, thought it was really good.
A while later...
FS2: Colossus came free with a joystick.
Much later:
Wondered whatever happened to that game when I decided to check up on it. Searched, found HoTU and HLP, Dl'd HoTU, looked closer at the HLP (forums). Dl'd MediaVP's and SCP.
Eventually, I borked the game, created an account, and asked about derelict.
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I was searching for descent 3 on gamespot and found freespace 1.
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I played Darkness Rising when my bro who worked at a computer assembly company bought it home. I beat the game 3 times before I realize it was only a demo, even though it was a really long, fun and excellent demo. Anyone else agree with me with that Darkness Rising is the perfect demo? It lasted just long enough for you understand the plot, the gameplay, but not the entire story.
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I agree.
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FS1 came free with my old p3 back in the day. after that i had to have FS2
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Forced myself to play the Demo (cause: sheer boredom) after running away from it like a vampire from the sun.
And thus I have indeed seen the Light and mended my ways. From that day on there was to be only 1 space shooter in my shirne - thine holy maginfisence [gregorian chant]FREESAPCE[/gregorian chant]
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Darkness Rising is the perfect demo?
I agree. It was a very nice demo that showed off a good part of the game.
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Whats darkness rising?
Google shows nothing.
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My dad's boss's... nephew? gave a burned copy of FS1 to me, since he had played through it and was pretty much done with it at that point. I played through the training and the first five missions on his laptop in the basement, and I was hooked.
Later, I bought a legit copy and gave the burned ones to a friend to play.
A few years later -- after a somewhat lengthy dark age in which I was stuck on a vintage '93 Mac -- I ran across FS2 in the store. My "MUST HAVE!!" instinct popped up. I bought it and had no regrets. :D
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Whats darkness rising?
Google shows nothing.
/me wants to know, also.
*cool, /me switch works in forums, too! XD
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Whats darkness rising?
Google shows nothing.
/me wants to know, also.
*cool, /me switch works in forums, too! XD
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=search2
Nothing that explains WHAT Darkness Rising is.
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Click here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php), then use the search. Search results vary depending on what thread you're on.
EDIT: And Google, like this (http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=freespace+darkness+rising). Apparently, Darkness Rising is the OEM version of FS1, like FS2 Collossus.
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Apparently, Darkness Rising is the OEM version of FS1, like FS2 Collossus.
Yeah, it basically follows the campaign up to the capture of the Taranis, so you get hooked on the story and want to know more.