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Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.

 

Offline Rhymes

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
We be internet famous yo
If you don't have Knossos, you need it.

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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Cool!

 
Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
:yes: :yes:

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Here's to the next twenty  :yes:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
WoD mentioned on a big gaming website (for the first time ever). 

What a good article.
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[02:42] <@Axem> critically wrong
[02:42] <@Axem> im happy with these missions now
[02:44] <@Axem> well
[02:44] <@Axem> with 2 of them

 

Offline 0rph3u5

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Congrats to everyone who got a mention.

WoD mentioned on a big gaming website (for the first time ever). 

What a good article.

Don't let it go to your head, mister.
"As you sought to steal a kingdom for yourself, so must you do again, a thousand times over. For a theft, a true theft, must be practiced to be earned." - The terms of Nyrissa's curse, Pathfinder: Kingmaker

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"...because they are not Dragons."

 
Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
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[Of Blue Planet] including a decently written story

For what it's worth, and to the credit of the BP Team, IMHO I feel that the writing is better than 'decently'.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Don't let it go to your head, mister.

Actually do

 

Offline HLD_Prophecy

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
y they no mention Lost tho

its clearly the bestestsest mod

i want to be famos like wing commander and bp

 :lol:

 

Offline Mongoose

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Didn't mention The Search for Bosch, 0/10.

 

Offline Spoon

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
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[Of Blue Planet] including a decently written story

For what it's worth, and to the credit of the BP Team, IMHO I feel that the writing is better than 'decently'.
The article overall could have been written a teensy bit more positively imo. Like that mentioned bit about BP being just... 'decently written' feels a bit diminishing.

Don't let it go to your head, mister.

Actually do
Getting mixed messages here!
Urutorahappī!!

[02:42] <@Axem> spoon somethings wrong
[02:42] <@Axem> critically wrong
[02:42] <@Axem> im happy with these missions now
[02:44] <@Axem> well
[02:44] <@Axem> with 2 of them

 

Offline Firesteel

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Writing in Blue Planet -decent-

:thinking:

Also that complete lack of Derelict.

Oh well, at least they still were willing to say FS2 is one of the best space combat games.

Also that's not much of a guide for starting from 0 (I guess we're still responsible for doing the leg work there :P)

Overall I'm happy FS and HLP are still getting noticed every so often but the tone here was definitely weird.

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Offline PIe

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Writing in Blue Planet -decent-

:thinking:
Not to say that it's not better than decent but some of BP's writing can be kinda inaccessible.
Also that complete lack of Derelict.
By modern standards, Derelict doesn't have very good gameplay and it's not particularly polished either.  While it and INFR1 have been quite influential, I don't think either one belongs on a noob's guide to FS.  Yeah WCS doesn't play very well either, but it has voice acting and briefing cutscenes and it's completely free so I can see why it was included.
For me, the largest omission is BtA, which has VA and a lot of worldbuilding along with good gameplay.  Personally I'ld love to see Vassago's Dirge on there but I completely understand why it didn't make it.
[6:23 PM] PIe: why do I have the feeling that I shouldn't be able to give orders to 22nd armored hq
[6:24 PM] Axem: 22nd armored hq, i order you to get me a cup of coffee
[6:24 PM] PIe: and donuts
[6:24 PM] PIe: BECAUSE THIS IS THE GTVA POLICE
[6:25 PM] Axem: :O
[6:25 PM] Axem: am i under arrest
[6:26 PM] [`_`]/: no, just please step out of the myrmidon
[6:26 PM] [`_`]/: you have so much to fred for

[9:50 PM] Sottises: wait did you do vassago's verge?
[9:50 PM] Sottises: .. dirge?
[9:50 PM] Axem: yes
[9:50 PM] Sottises: ohh
[9:50 PM] Sottises: well I have that and JAD too
[9:50 PM] Axem: :)
[9:50 PM] Sottises: what a contrast of themes lmao
[9:50 PM] Axem: isnt it
[9:51 PM] Axem: super grimdark thriller about unknowable alien intelligence and over the top colorful action about friendship
[9:51 PM] PIe: jad is grimdark???
[9:51 PM] Axem: :skull:

 
Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
HLP has stuff that performs well against many AAA games especially on the writing side; BTA could be shipped as a standalone game if there wasn't any FS-knowledge requiered. Derelict is from 2000 and as influential as it had been back then I don't think it's that much stinging out compared with more recent stuff, just compare retail FRED with FRED_2019.

 

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
And what of Shattered Stars?
Maybe someday God will give you a little pink toaster of your own.

 

Offline Colt

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
Ohh, this is pretty neat!

 
Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
And what of Shattered Stars?

All Mortal Engine fans would be disappointed that they'll never know about that their story takes place in a FS universe.

 

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Re: Rock Paper Shotgun featured HLP, Knossos, mods.
And what of Shattered Stars?

All Mortal Engine fans would be disappointed that they'll never know about that their story takes place in a FS universe.

One fan already knows, but it is sad that the other one may never know.
Maybe someday God will give you a little pink toaster of your own.