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Offline General Battuta

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #60 on: March 14, 2010, 04:13:19 pm
I wonder what banimation is.
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #61 on: March 14, 2010, 04:15:51 pm
IT'S A TYPO LOL
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #62 on: March 14, 2010, 07:17:45 pm
Aw, I don't think I have my original box any more :(

And I never had the box for FS2, 'cuz I got it on Amazon.
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #63 on: March 14, 2010, 07:27:58 pm
Typhon? Is that why the 'Lucifer' didn't look very much like a Lucifer? :lol: I guess I just figured it was deformed concept art or something.

I believe I have both my FS2 and FS1 boxes squirreled away.

EDIT: Or I may have noticed, and then forgotten that I had noticed.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2010, 10:05:22 pm by Timerlane »
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #64 on: March 15, 2010, 08:42:57 am
I played the demo for FS1 but I don't think my parent's PC was really up to handling it so I never got into it until I got my own PC and Freespace 2 came out. I played the demo for Freespace 2 over and over for a few days and it offered a different experience to the X-wing games, which I'd been playing since 1993, big ships with big beam cannons. I was sold and bought a copy. I didn't play Freespace 1 until picking up FSPort 3.1 last year after having a copy of FS1 sitting on my hard drive which I had downloaded when it was up as freeware for a short period before GoG happened.

I think Freespace has always had a grander scale of warfare than the X-wing series ever did, yeah it had both the Death Stars and the Endor battle but larger battles just didn't seem to match the impact that you got from Freespace (FS2 especially). It's a shame LucasArts won't release the code for any of their games expecially after seeing what Volition has enabled this community to achieve.
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #65 on: March 15, 2010, 02:34:17 pm
I got the Gold Games 4 edition (I think it was 4, I don't have the packaging anymore) as a present, I think for Xmas '98.
Played FS1 and loved it.
Bought FS2 immediately when it came out.

... many years passed, lost interest in PC games for a while...

I then discovered FS2 Open when searching for Battlestar Galactica games last year and stumbling upon Diaspora. Reinstalling FS2 and playing the mods with the new eyecandy was a real treat, I was hooked immediately.
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #66 on: March 16, 2010, 10:03:23 am
A friend told me about FS2. He told me that it was a good space simulator and that it had a great story. Then after i played Freespace 2, a few mounths later i bought FS1 and i realized that it was a masterpiece like it's sequel.
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #67 on: March 16, 2010, 10:57:10 am
...I'm not sure anyone has said this yet, but...

WELCOME TO THE HLP!!!

Good to see you back around, arjuna 1.

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #68 on: March 16, 2010, 11:13:36 am
Quote from: Thaeris on March 16, 2010, 10:57:10 am
...I'm not sure anyone has said this yet, but...

WELCOME TO THE HLP!!!

Good to see you back around, arjuna 1.

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Do you mean............

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #69 on: March 16, 2010, 11:42:59 am
Silence!

I don't have beamz...

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It's the Duke Nukem Forever of prophecies..."


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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #70 on: March 16, 2010, 11:46:41 am
Hey, some guys here have never been beamed.


Not that I'm bitter or anything....
If I'm just aching this can't go on
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There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #71 on: March 16, 2010, 11:47:51 am
Quote from: The E on March 16, 2010, 11:46:41 am
Hey, some guys here have never been beamed.


Not that I'm bitter or anything....
I only got a half assed beam after I asked for it.

Not that I'm bitter or anything....
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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #72 on: March 16, 2010, 11:50:54 am
Quote from: The E on March 16, 2010, 11:46:41 am
Hey, some guys here have never been beamed.


Not that I'm bitter or anything....

:welcome:

Please proceed to the support forum where you will ask people to post log files for the next three years.
 

Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #73 on: March 16, 2010, 12:38:57 pm
Quote from: The E on March 16, 2010, 11:46:41 am
Hey, some guys here have never been beamed.


Not that I'm bitter or anything....

that sounds like a personal problem to me.....
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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #74 on: March 16, 2010, 12:51:20 pm
As you can see in the post above yours, I have been beamed now, and everything is OK in the world.
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #75 on: March 16, 2010, 03:53:18 pm
I remember buying Fs1 at Fred Meyers for $10. I have no idea what happened to the discs.

There's no going back. FSPort is brilliant, but it doesn't capture the feel of the original.
 

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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #76 on: March 16, 2010, 05:01:40 pm
;-)
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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #77 on: March 17, 2010, 01:40:51 am
I have my original FS2 CD's with the quick-start guide, but the box and rest-of-manual got chucked out :(

Maybe I can make a box...or maybe I can't be bothered...
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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #78 on: March 17, 2010, 01:47:50 am
;-)
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Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
Reply #79 on: March 17, 2010, 09:09:31 am
I started playing Descent 3 back in 2002. At that time, I went to have a look inside CD 2 and found the old self-executing FreeSpace 2 Trailer. I played that trailer at least 20 times in one sitting, because I thought it was awesome. However, I was on dial-up back then; getting the 62.x MB demo was out of the question.

Eventually, when I got a fast enough connection in 2005, I managed to try out the demo, and I liked it.

Quote from: Thaeris on March 16, 2010, 11:42:59 am
I don't have beamz...

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