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What is your favorite cannon campaign?

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What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Descent: FreeSpace FTW!!!

 

Offline Mars

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
FS1 > FS2

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: What is your favorite cannon champagne?
Yeh, I'd say FS1. FS2 is good, but... you know. And I sometimes get the urge to play Silent Threat but during the second missions, if not earlier, I remember why the damn thing is so annoying.
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01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

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14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
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Offline Mars

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
First three Silent Threat missions are good, and it gets progressively worse from there.

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Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Descent FreeSpace was the best campaign ever. Though the first Act was the best. You notice, after First Strike there is a lot less dialog and the missions are less action-packed. But there are a few good missions in the other 2 Acts. Like Exodus (FS1).

ST was ok if you ask me. It was at least as good as the user-made campaigns being released around that time (like Road to Victory, DW, Nubian Conflict, etc.). But I agree, it was pretty incoherent. There were a few nice missions in there though.

Templar I've never played.

FS2 was good, but not as atmospheric as FS1. I wrote a long thread about that about a year ago which I got flamed for.

 

Offline ShadowGorrath

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
I played only FSPort, not the original FS1, so can't really say much. But if FSPort qualifies, I enjoyed FS2 more.

 

Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
FSPort does not qualify. FSPort is not FS1.

 

Offline Flipside

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Freespace 1 had a great storyline and was really an 'experience' at the time because no other game came close to it, people need to bear that in mind when comparing the two, by the time Freespace 2 came out, it wasn't such a graphical and gameplay revelation as the original.

That said, I thoroughly enjoyed FS1 for those very reasons, the graphics, at the time, were utterly mind-blowing, and the storyline was incredibly dark, and whilst not exactly as original as some people think, it was executed brilliantly, and was a breath of fresh air in the video game market.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Oddly, I thought Freespace 1 was really dry and lacked most of FS2's atmosphere...no movement between squadrons, terse and uninteresting plot events, no beams or flak to make capital ships impressive. Most importantly, no Bosch or Petrarch, the two poles of the FS2 narrative and acting cabal.

 

Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Compared to FS1, FS2 seemed tacky.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
The one where you learned to spell?
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

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Offline eliex

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Oddly, I thought Freespace 1 was really dry and lacked most of FS2's atmosphere...no movement between squadrons, terse and uninteresting plot events, no beams or flak to make capital ships impressive. Most importantly, no Bosch or Petrarch, the two poles of the FS2 narrative and acting cabal.


Exactly. Unlike FS2, Freespace TGW actually had real feeliing to the story even if it had rubbish graphics and no beams.

FS2 is just like a set of three missions: assault, SOC, and convoy defending with a range of reasons. Very boring at times.

 

Offline Mars

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
This is Captain Becket *sigh*

Freespace 2 had a more developed story, overall, you're right.

The feeling of the story, however, comes out much more clearly is FS1. And the story in FS1, is, of course "OMFG we're doomed"

 

Offline eliex

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
The Lucifer killing the Galatea with you just helplessly watching . . .

 

Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
* Androgeos Exeunt votes and sees a spelling error.

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The only thing I didn't like about FS2 is that there are a few inconsistencies and that, like the Galatea, you can't save the Colossus, only that the Colossus had its engines killed by time constraints, while that of the Galatea is pure canon.
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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
FS1 had a much better atmosphere

I find it hard to believe that there are people here who have never played FS1

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Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
In FS1 it was:
It's the Tarais! OMG!
In FS2 it was:
Oh, look, another Cain cruiser. Blow it up, will ya?

 

Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
FS1 had a much better atmosphere

I find it hard to believe that there are people here who have never played FS1

Well, try taking it from my point of view. I played FS2 before FS1, so when I finally got to play FSPort, the only thing that impressed me was Playing Judas and the GTF Apollo.

However, I do note that FS1 feels a lot longer than FS2. For some reason, I always find that the FS2 campaign is too short. After three missions, you go into Squadron A, then after another three missions, you go to Squadron B. It's too truncated, in my opinion.
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
FSPort does not qualify. FSPort is not FS1.
Not even if we're talking about campaigns, not games?
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
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Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Not even if we're talking about campaigns, not games?
Well the Port didn't do as well to capture the atmosphere of FS1, which is what I assume we're talking about. If we're just talking about in terms of mission design, then yeah the Port counts. IMO, of course.