[Cabbie]

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).

[castor]

PXO lobby full of peeps 24/7

[Kie99]

a 4000:1 ORION and a 10000000:1 COLOSSUS Both ending up at 0.5 Metres

[Mr. Vega]

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.

[TopAce]

More fans, more modders.

[magatsu1]

I wasn't aware FS2 was such a failure.

I came late to this party BTW, before you all start.

[Swamp_Thing]

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.

[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

Maybe there'd even have been a TV show! (Hey, if Wing Commander can, so can we! And it'd have CGI! )

[magatsu1]

does anyone know if that Freespace Shop is still going ?

[Lynx]

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.

[Cabbie]

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.

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.

[jdjtcagle]

Fs4

[Cabbie]

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

[jdjtcagle]

HLP would probably not even be here...

[Flipside]

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

[ShadowWolf_IH]

Mod it flipside.  it would rock.

[Taristin]

Sounds like what Mr Smart wanted to do...

[Cabbie]

Originally posted by Raa
Sounds like what Mr Smart wanted to do...

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  

[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?'.

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

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

[Singh]

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)