freespace 2

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:26 pm

i just replayed freespace 2 using the open source project and all of the associated graphical enhancements

it was even better than i remember it being

http://www.hard-light.net/

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:53 pm

I did the same thing about 2 years ago. It was as good as I remembered. The setup was messy, though.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:29 pm

theres actually an auto-updater that you can get now that allows you to check off whatever additions and enhancements you want and it downloads and installs them for you

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:22 pm

Yeah, the messy install was the only thing preventing me from using it, as quite frankly i couldn't get it to work. I might give it another go now.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:01 am

Cthulhugoat · Post by **Cthulhugoat** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:06 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6CLHgyR-QQ

Yep. FS2 owns. One of the few games I'd replay over and over again. Too bad the genre died.

LoneGunman · Post by **LoneGunman** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:38 am

For unexplained reasons i suddenly began to remember a very old game i played on a Mac once!

It was top down, you where in space (you being defined as a spaceship) and you had to fly through diffrent solar systems and trade goods, fight of space pirates (or attack cargo carriers and board the ship for its valuable cargo and sell it somewhere else, it was up to you), buy weapons, repair you spaceship (or buy a new and better one).

You could play it in any way you wanted to. Be a honerable tradesman, or be a pirate, be a mecernary or be a hero. Everything you did within a solar system affected your status in that solar system. When you got powerfull enough you could attack planets and actually end up owning them.

The controls were simelar to asteroids!

Gawd i wish i could remember the name of that game! i want to play it again so bad

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:47 am

That sounds awesome. Think hard dammit!

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:27 pm

Escape Velocity ?

I believe there is a reasonably faithful conversionÂ¹ of it available for the third game, Escape Velocity : Nova.

Â¹May not be the plugin that I recall.

LoneGunman · Post by **LoneGunman** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:11 am

WELL DONE BLARGH!!!

That was exactly the game i was talking about!

Some of the best fun ive ever had!

+10 for you

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:17 am

Tried it a few years ago but couldn't figure out how to turn because I was using a mouse and keyboard. Is it still playable with that or do you need a joystick?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:44 am

You shouldn't need a joystick or at least I didn't.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:56 pm

if youre referring to freespace 2, it can be played with a mouse. i actually prefer it

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:41 pm

I played it with keyboard only, pretending I was in the fighter, working the clunky controls on manual.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:06 pm

I finished all the Freespace games (including the expansion pack for FS1) with keyboard + mouse