You know, I decided I would take Setekh's advice. I went, I slept on it. Then I got to thinking, what if he gets it and makes a game worthy of the Freespace name?
Now I know, everyone goes on the BC series as an example. But let's think about it. Battlecruiser was a massive, open ended game designed to be a simulation of running everything from a battlecruiser down to an infantry squad. That's a HUGE difference from Freespace where you're worried about your fighter/bomber, and the mission at hand.
Everyone bases it off of Derek's other games. But those games were completely different from the way one plays Freespace.
And he's already stated, numerous times, too numerous to count, that he's not planning on making a Freespace: Battlecruiser. He wants to make it like the original, an action space game. Not a simulation, not a massive open universe, Freespace as it's meant to be played.
But what of the graphics you shout? Well what of them? Universal Combat, Derek's latest incarnation, was actually not bad graphically. I play it. But he's stated over and over that the graphics had to suffer because of the scope and size of the game.
The interface was complex. Well yes it was bloody complex. But that's for running a warship down to the intricacies of crew management and systems control. Where in Freespace do you ever need to worry about more then you, your primaries, your secondaries, and the best target to blow the **** out of or save?
If Derek does get the license, he gets it. But I say let's see what he can make. Hey, if it doesn't measure up then it doesn't measure up. We go back to what the people of HLP had dedicated themselves to doing knowing Freespace 3 wasn't going to be made. We go back to making Freespace mods that kick all kinds of ass.
Freespace 3 flops, well fine. Most of us were carrying on like it was never to be anyway.
If it turns out it kicks ass...then we've gained a new chapter in the Freespace universe. Sure the story may not be by V, but what one of the HLP mod stories WAS? Does it matter? If it's a good story in the Freespace universe, won't we all love it anyway? If it's a bad story, we go on with our projects and make our own, like we always have.
Yes I know, Eishtmo posted something similar to what I've just said, but I wouldn't be HeX if I didn't spit out my thoughts.
Take them as they are or not. I leave that up to you.
