[asyikarea51]

I think Snail got it spot-on for the Bastion cutscene: anti-climatic.

Maybe the pilots in the scene didn't care because they weren't old enough to serve on that ship? Compared to us behind the 4th wall, we all knew what it was, and what we did (final launch to wipe out the Lucifer) while serving a tour of duty with it...

Perhaps the cutscene was directed more towards the player out-of-universe, and not towards any of the characters in it...

[Droid803]

I would have thought command would have had something to say about it.
I mean, it's the ship that launched the squadron that destroyed the Lucifer, meaning it basically was the ship that destroyed the Lucifer as far as history knows (and the pilots that did it were in Sol so the Bastion would have been the closest thing they had).

Well, maybe by that time they were so scared ****less by the Shivan Juggernaut Fleet that they didn't even care about a symbol of their history anymore.

[General Battuta]

Most great ships either get tossed in a museum or torn down for scrap.

The great thing about FreeSpace is how dark and utilitarian it is. As said, you're a cog in a vast machine.

[Droid803]

Yeah, I was thinking more of the museum route for it rather than. "Oh lets use it to blow up a node, whopee."
I guess it does help create the dark and utilitarian atmosphere.

[Dilmah G]

Most great ships either get tossed in a museum or torn down for scrap.

Or scuttled in the Scapa Flow.

[QuantumDelta]

Most great ships either get tossed in a museum or torn down for scrap.

The great thing about FreeSpace is how dark and utilitarian it is. As said, you're a cog in a vast machine.

They said that just to justify the massive failure tag ¬.¬

[NGTM-1R]

I think Snail got it spot-on for the Bastion cutscene: anti-climatic.

On the contrary. This is the perfect capstone to the Bastion's career of saving everything that can be saved. And as Battuta noted, the Bastion was given a chance to die well, which is more than most retired warships get.

[Dilmah G]

Yeah. Personally, I didn't find it anticlimatic at all, I thought it was bloody great to have stopped those bastards with the coolest Orion evar. I did kinda feel sad though, such a powerful ship going under.

[Snail]

You don't understand what I mean. I thought that the idea of the Bastion being used to blow up a node was a fitting end to a fine ship, but the way the cutscene did it made it seem really pointless.

[asyikarea51]

I'm just keeping an open mind. I never really thought that deep into it like you guys do.

[Dilmah G]

Yeah, neither did I until one day I got the stupid idea to join HLP.



Just kidding. I <3 you guys.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

You don't understand what I mean. I thought that the idea of the Bastion being used to blow up a node was a fitting end to a fine ship, but the way the cutscene did it made it seem really pointless.

Was it too short?

[Snail]

Watching it again I think the main problem I had with it was the dialogue...

[Mobius]

I think Snail got it spot-on for the Bastion cutscene: anti-climatic.

Maybe the pilots in the scene didn't care because they weren't old enough to serve on that ship? Compared to us behind the 4th wall, we all knew what it was, and what we did (final launch to wipe out the Lucifer) while serving a tour of duty with it...

Perhaps the cutscene was directed more towards the player out-of-universe, and not towards any of the characters in it...

Well, all pilots knew what the Bastion did at the end of the Great War even if none of them served aboard that ship. It was so important for both the Terran and Vasudan species... and that seemed irrilevant for the pilots who eyewitnessed its destruction.

[General Battuta]

I think Snail got it spot-on for the Bastion cutscene: anti-climatic.

On the contrary. This is the perfect capstone to the Bastion's career of saving everything that can be saved. And as Battuta noted, the Bastion was given a chance to die well, which is more than most retired warships get.

I'm with this dude.

Watching it again I think the main problem I had with it was the dialogue...

The fate of humanity was on the line. Again. The best benediction the Bastion could have ever had was the pilots escorting it focusing on their jobs.

There was no time for sentimentality.

[Mobius]

Not even after the noble destruction of the Bastion? Maybe the problem here is that the cutscene ends when the Bastion explodes, and no words of hope coming from the pilots can be listened.

[General Battuta]

The mission itself had a pilot reflecting on the Bastion's history.

She was told to shut up and focus.

I think it's apropos. This is FreeSpace, not Metal Gear Solid.

[Snail]

Whatever you say sir.

[potterman28wxcv]

The FS1 intro is really amazing    And I think it's the best intro I ever saw in a game

The fight in the Shivan cruiser is good too 

And another cutscene I like is the Briefing for capturing the Taranis

In FS2, I didn't complete all of the campaign (shame on me  ), but I like the Colossus introduction.

[Dilmah G]

The mission itself had a pilot reflecting on the Bastion's history.

She was told to shut up and focus.

I think it's apropos. This is FreeSpace, not Metal Gear Solid.

Exactly.


This is what I love about Freespace. It isn't about hopeless melodrama, or overly emotional wankers who should never have received a commission.

The pilots are professionals. And they act like it, 100% of the time. I'd be honoured to fly with them.