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Offline TopAce

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What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Other than FS, of course.

I am a big fan of the X-wing series, especially X-wing Alliance. I don't really know other space sims, though.

What about you?
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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Order of favouritsm,

Wing Commander
I-War
Starlancer
Freelancer
Xwing Tie-Fighter XWvsTF Alliance etc.......
Nexus
Random plop ones that just pass through my hands
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline MetalDestroyer

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
X Wing Alliance
Independance War 2 : Edge of Chaos
Darkstar One
Freelancer
Starlancer
X Wing vs Tie Fighter
Balance of Power
Babylon 5 : I Found Her
Wing Commander IV : Price of Freedom
X3 Reunion

 

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Starmaster -> Elite -> Utopia -> Warhead -> K240 -> Wing Commander -> Colony Wars -> Freespace 2 -> TBP -> X2
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Offline Fury

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
The games I have played longer than just briefly.
TIE Fighter
X-Wing
Wing Commander 2
Wing Commander Privateer
X-Wing Alliance
Independence War 2
Freelancer

 

Offline Mefustae

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
TIE Fighter. The alpha, and the omega. If you haven't played it, you're not a space-sim fan.

 

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
X-Wing
TIE Fighter
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter
Wing Commander 1, 3, 4, Privateer and Privateer 2: The Darkening
Elite and Frontier: Elite 2
Hardwar

Oh, and demos for X2 and Freelancer, but never got around to buying them despite wanting to do so. Of the above list, TIE Fighter is definitely the best. There's just no competition to that masterpiece without drawing the Freespace games into the lineup.
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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
all the old LucasArts one(Xwing,XWA, TIE,etc.) and freespace 1,2
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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
I'll break it down thus:

I am currently playing:
X3 - The Reunion

I have recently played:
FreeSpace 2

I have once played - but not for a while:
Independence War 2
FreeSpace
Wing Commander Prophecy
Wing Commander Secret Ops
Babylon 5: I've Found Her
Freelancer
Starlancer
X-Wing Alliance
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (with Balance of Power pack)
X-Wing
Tie Fighter

Comments:
I've not played FS2 in a while as - shame on me - I've been rather FS2'd out after a while of playing it a lot. Hence the move to X3 which has been a nice breath of fresh air... a new set of races with new weapons and places to explore etc.

Of all the space sims I've ever played, I've put most of my efforts into FreeSpace and FS2 followed by X-Wing vs Tie Fighter and X Wing Alliance. Sadly X-Wing Alliance didn't feature the customisation options of X-Wing vs Tie Fighter so I only played the campaign a couple of times and then got bored waiting for the high-detail models to come out for it (it's a shame they weren't with the game originally, as the engine is clearly capable of more than it was asked to do at the start).

FreeLancer was average and I found Starlancers graphical style and presentation to be a lot more enjoyable if shorter. To this day it has some of the nicest damage models on ships that I've ever seen, and the torpedo runs simply rawked. It succeeded in being one of the only games to capture "naval battles in space" well.

  
Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Does Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2 count? Cause that is the only other one I've played.  :D

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Colony Wars series
X-Wing
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter
X-Wing Alliance
Freelance
Wing Commander series
X-1 and X-3

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Offline Gortef

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
At the moment I'm not playing any space sims, but I just recently bought meself the Saitek x52 so I think that things are gonna change soon ^^

What I have played are:
X-Wing
TIE Fighter
Elite
Freespace
Freespace 2
Freelancer
Babylon 5 - I've Found Her (I progress actually)
Indepence War 2 (I need to finish this though someday)
Jumpgate
EVE (If that counts)
Wing Commander Armada and Prophecy... I think... it's been a while

And maybe some others I can't remember at the moment...
Habeeb it...

 

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Incredible! I found another memebr who played with Colony Wars!

you re talking abiut space sims,not general flight simulation games...

Complete games
Starlancer
Colony Wars 1,2,3.
<a Star wars game,token for a while from a friend,I don't remembr its name(after seven years...)>
Star Trek:Invasion
Star Wars:Rebel(or Rogue)Assault II(now broken)

Demos
<Another Star Wars game,six-seven years ago>
X-Wing
Tie Fighter(I hope this is the correct name)

Most games I played were flight simulations:
Ace Combat 1(Air Combat),2,3,4,5(now waiting for the sixth epsisode!)
Eagle One:Harrier Attack
Iron Aces 2
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1,2,3

Played for a while:
Deadly Skies II
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Offline Night Hammer

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)

Most games I played were flight simulations:
Ace Combat 1(Air Combat),2,3,4,5(now waiting for the sixth epsisode!)


best series of air plane game, i wouldnt really call it a sim though  80someodd missles on an F-15, not realistic
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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)

Most games I played were flight simulations:
Ace Combat 1(Air Combat),2,3,4,5(now waiting for the sixth epsisode!)


best series of air plane game, i wouldnt really call it a sim though  80someodd missles on an F-15, not realistic

My nick comes from that series  :lol:
In FS2 you have unlimited shots for lasers and the opportunity to rearm yourself.In that series you have a big number of missiles...I needed to achieve my incredible amount of kills.

It's not a simultaion becuase it's for PlayStation and it's controls are semplificated,ok,but on the other hand more realistic games(I have played some of them,like F-18)do not have a story.
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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Stop... Hammertime :hammer:

 

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
LieutenantGeneral was the highest rank in Ace Combat 2,Mobius is the squadron of Ace Combat 4 and the protagonist of the subgame Operation Katina in Ace Combat 5.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
Wing Commander, got started waaaay back in the day when WC2 was new. I got it when it first came out on CD (for Christmas, as I recall). I followed Wing Commander religiously up to WCIV; after IV I dropped out of it. Prophecy held no appeal for me.

Then I got X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, then TIE Fighter (the collector's edition CD-Rom), finally X-wing Alliance and X-Wing itself at the same time.

FS1+Silent Threat got picked up as a random purchase from the bargin bin at Fry's Electronics. Several years passed before I got FS2 came next, acquired through less-then-legal means :nervous:, and a year or so passed before I became an HLPerson.

I picked up Battlecruiser Millenium (:nervous:) awhile after I appeared here. After that comes Starlancer, which I had a good bit of fun with until I hit a brick wall at the Saturn ion cannon, then Freelancer.

Oh, and Asteroids. :p Can't forgot Asteroids.
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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
I-War 2
X-Wing Alliance
Freelancer
Colony Wars Series
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Re: What other space sims do you play? (Did you used to play?)
uh, Super Aleste & Axley on SNES last week  :nervous:
Tell ya what is a good flight game, using the Apache in San Andreas. I can play that for ages, doing the "Brown Thunder" Vigilante mission.
Never played X-Wing or Tie as it happens, before my (PC) time. I imagine I could get on ebay if I have a look though
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Most games I played were flight simulations:
Ace Combat 1(Air Combat),2,3,4,5(now waiting for the sixth epsisode!)


best series of air plane game, i wouldnt really call it a sim though  80someodd missles on an F-15, not realistic

I liked the Quasi-futuristic planes in Ace Combat 3.