[Goober5000]

Well if you're so intelligent to point out the 'problem with these polls', why would you compound the problem further and get mad because I accidently left someones favourite? 

Dude, you take offense far too easily.  Calm down.  The other guy wasn't mad, and neither was he singling you out.

[Stormkeeper]

Alkabeth, your 'noob' comment was uncalled for. If VC simply forgot to put FoW in, it does not make him i noob.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Alkabeth, your 'noob' comment was uncalled for. If VC simply forgot to put FoW in, it does not make him i noob.

        Well, if Vasudan Commander took offence, I apologize.

        Though people take offence a little too easily in my opinion. On the Off Topic boards, someone asked me "where the hell have you been the last 5 years? Living under a rock?" with regards to Video games, but because I have been out of the loop, I agreed with the question and give a damn. Similarly if someone had called me a noob after my 3 year hiatus from this place, I probably wouldn't have cared too much because I had been away for a while and didn't know what was going on. But whatever, that's just me. And that's my opinion, not my justification.

[TrashMan]

Honestly, I don't even think the voting is done right.

I mean, some campaigns fall into completely different categories - some are made as horrors/thrillers, others as comedies and others still as action flicks or dramas.
How do you even compare them?

Shouldn't campaigns be sorted into their..."genres"?

[ShadowGorrath]

Yea, and have a seperate poll for each? And add up ALL campaigns that exist? No thanks.

It's a poll out of which most appeals to you. You aren't supposed to compare them, just to know which you enjoyed playing the most.

[TrashMan]

then the poll as such is mostly useless, as it lacks the proper context.

[NGTM-1R]

I've played Transcend only recently and in my opinion, Blue Planet exceeds it.

I noticed you didn't actually attempt the challenge, however, and even rendered no actual opinion on my statement.

FRED'ing
Cutscenes

More than anything, this statement betrays a deep ignorance. Transcend is the most FRED-effort-intensive campaign I've ever seen released (PI and Alakabeth's "Meditations" following very closely), and while BP had some impressive uses of the cutscene engine, no visual effect in FS has ever matched that of the Transcendant's exploding Pegasus tumbling past over my head in slow-mo as I pitch up.

For that matter, Transcend is as far as I know the only released user campaign that includes an actual cutscene as opposed to ingame footage.

hell it even introduced new small clips of 'command' speaking. Never seen a campaign do that before.

If you find one that does, let me know.

The head ani's? Not hard. Babylon Project has new ones taken from clips of the show. WC conversion has new head anis whose origin I am uncertain of. Inferno SCP's supposed to have all-new custom render ones. TopAce released a campaign featuring at least one all-new one. Shivan ones exist but they are still the property of those campaigns which generated them and have yet to be released to the general public. And finally, if you didn't recognize the head anis from SupCom, that's...a little sad.

[IPAndrews]

I'd like to vote for Dark Children, with JAD narrowly missing out.

[Vidmaster]

guess it's a Freespace-only show again 

[Colonol Dekker]

Onoz, Derelict isn't first 

[General Battuta]

Transcend. Aside from the writer's bias of storytelling uber alles, the campaign was considerably better constructed on a FRED level then BP, or for that matter anything before or since, because it was considerably more complex.

In fact, I challenge everyone who voted BP to go back and play the last mission of Transcend again and tell me that's not pure unadulterated awesome on a scale never achieved anywhere else.

I've played Transcend only recently and in my opinion, Blue Planet exceeds it.

Things ive taken into account are ;

Visuals (e.g New star backgrounds)
Sound (inc new music)
FRED'ing
Cutscenes


hell it even introduced new small clips of 'command' speaking. Never seen a campaign do that before.

If you find one that does, let me know.

Sorry, NGTM1R, but even though I adore Transcend I thought Blue Planet was superior.

Transcend is crippled by its filler missions and plodding pace.

[Kie99]

There are four I can't set apart, Derelict, Homesick, Sync and Transcend, nothing else even comes close in my view.  Blue Planet lost me once it go to some new race with an ÜberJuggernaut, then I became a ship or something, couldn't get into the story. Proycon Insurgency was too bloody difficult.

[General Battuta]

To be fair, the uberjuggernaught wasn't very uber at all.

[Molybdenum]

Considering that it later

Spoiler:

got one-shot pwned by a regular Juggernaut

[Darius]

Considering the number of campaigns released and the variety of stories that they all tell, a poll is not likely to make a fair representation of what is actually out there. It's also possible that one enjoys playing two or more campaigns equally as well as each other, or that different people look for different things in campaigns. For example, I'm a big fan of RA's campaigns for storytelling and technical sophistication, but if I'm looking for a five minute distraction watching things blow up, I'll be playing a campaign that places this as its emphasis.

I'm of the idea that there is no be-all-end-all campaign out there (which having such a poll suggests) but that each one is the author's own take on the Freespace universe.

[Mongoose]

Exactly.  There are times when you're looking for excellent storytelling or technical mission design...and then there are times when you want to fire up GW2P2 and blow up twenty cruisers in one mission.

[Goober5000]

I'm of the idea that there is no be-all-end-all campaign out there

I am.

You can probably guess which one.

[CP5670]

I am.

You can probably guess which one.

Favourite released campaign

[Goober5000]

Dude, I've released a campaign.

[Solatar]

PI seems to me like a perfect sequel to Freespace 2. Don't get me wrong, I love Inferno, but PI just has that Freespace atmosphere (feels official to me).

I loved Blue Planet for its storytelling even if it was a bit odd (becoming a ship, etc.) at times. I still loved the story.

Sync and Transcend were also awesome stories.

I agree that Freespace has been out long enough and the complexity of campaigns enough to justify different genres. It's like comparing Gladiator to Schindler's List (or something). Both have violence and engaging storylines but they are used for two highly different purposes.