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PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
The latest issue of the UK mag PC Gamer has done its top 100 best games ever in order and they have listed Freespace 2 as number 28! it was 72 last year. So FS2 is ranked above the gaint games like Mass effect 2 42, Grand theft Auto 4 100, BioShock 34, Fallout 36, System Shock2 30, Doom 41, Crysis 78 and Starcraft 86. It even beats Dragon age Origins at 40 which i think is bloody amazing and still shows how much it is loved.

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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Any love for the SCP? Hell, just scan the article if you can. :)
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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Was this the one with The old Republic vids and a free book? if so i need to read this though...
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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Nah its the issue with the world exclusive of Deus Ex human revolution, witcher 2, and Dawn of War Retribution reveal of 6 campaigns. Feb 2011 issue 223. I don't have a scanner but this is what it said.

"Atrociously overlooked when released, Freespace 2 is not merely a space sim masterpiece, but also one of the best written games ever. Geniune introspection is proffered in between space battles of a monstrous scale. Never has a game exceeded expectations so imperssively."

I think that is a nice tribute, but there was no mention of SCP, but i think PC Gamer have mentioned Blue Planet,  Wih a couple of issues ago. Should maybe write to them and re-inforce the exsitance of SCP and large Freespace community.
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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
They did!?

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Heres some photos i took, sorry about the quality, my phone cam is start to give up on me





As for photos of the Blue planet article, i can't seem to find at the mo, but i am 99.99999999% positive that PC Gamer has mentioned it.
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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Sure you're not confusing PC Gamer with Eurogamer?
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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Erm, i pretty sure its...... wait now you've got me thinking ( that hurts LOL :) )! It could have been Eurogamer. Anyway i am going to write to PC Gamer and recommend them to come here and play SCP and the great mods on here!
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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Is that the u.s pc gamer or the u.k pc gamer

I should learn to read posts properly its mentioned in the first post - Doh
nice to see it had jumped up the chart by so much
just a shame they didnt put in a quick sentence to say you can still buy this and with the free fs2 open update it looks just as good as any new game
« Last Edit: January 25, 2011, 09:01:28 pm by Davros »

 

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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Well i am going to email them and recommend that they take a peek here.
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This...

Is cool!

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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Homeworld is up there, too!

 

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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Yeah i know, i find it funny that a lot of the modern/newer games are nearer the bottom, well no i am not surprised a lot of the newer games try so hard on graphics, story whatnot that they forget to do important thing, make the game fun to play! I am glad freespace 2 is high up the list as its fun and still is fun to play and it is a masterpiece that didn't get the love it should have from interplay because of the crappy Klingon Academy ( that's the crime).

Never the less i have written the PC Gamer UK and told them to come here and have a look at the SCP, Blue Planet, Derelict, TBP, Inferno, transcend and all the other great mods and campaigns here, wether they do it i don't know but i hope they do.
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Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Its been a few years since ive read u.k pc gamer mag, but theyve allways shown fs2 a lot of love in the past and they are well aware of fs2 open

 
Re: PC Gamers top 100 games Freespace 2 ranked at....
Ok, not to go all fanboy (since I suck at the entire genre) but starcraft 86? Crysis Beat it out? Fallout 3 by a mile?  just the games you posted suggest a large rpgfps bias.
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How did Supreme Commander 2 get #29? Square Enix ruined SupCom.
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For some reason PCGamer praise Supreme Commander 2, i don't know why the game was a load of gob****e, heavily bugged, dumbed down and unit pathing was a nightmare. But i have got PC gamer for a long time and i rarely see FS2 mods mentioned in the mag
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