What do you all think of Freelancer?

ihatejacknjills · Post by **ihatejacknjills** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:19 pm

I was just wondering, what do all you Vega Strike people think of Freelancer?
I've played both and I have to say I preffer Vega Strike. I thought freelancer was fun but didn't seem to place you at the controls of a spaceship. I thought it was just holding down fire and placing the mouse over a target. Also, it hasn't got the freedom of vega strike. Still it was quite playable for a while (although I only played the demo) and not bad.

FlyingAce · Post by **FlyingAce** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:43 am

Vega Strike is great but it needs some more gameplay. a new hud would really help, along with more plots.

Duality · Post by **Duality** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:50 am

Freelancer was a good game if you were a big fan of space shooters and not space sims like rogue squadron.

Freelancer would be absolute rubbish for a hardcore space flight sim privateer fan.

Post by **dandandaman** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:27 am

what about a "never played it/don't want to play it" option

Dan.a

Bazza · Post by **Bazza** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:29 am

Freelancer was like Diablo in space. Good for a bit of fun, but you can't compare it to Vegastrike. Freelancer is arcade, Vegastrike is more Simulation (or at least it's a hell of alot closer than Freelancer).

Freelancer had some good parts. The over-drive bit to fly to places faster was good, as was the jump gate system. It would make a reasonable on-line game, simply because there isn't much lost time flying nowhere.

If your after some arcade fun, Freelancer is good. If you want real space strategy and flying, Vega Strike wins hands down. Freelancer just isn't in the same league.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:36 am

One of the recent updates at SomethingAwful.com mentioned Freelancer. Apparently the writer challenged people to send him a good game that he couldn't talk shit about. One of them was Freelancer.

Basil Fawlty takes a break from hotel management to wonder what could possibly be wrong with Freelancer.

1998, Chris Roberts Rumpus Room

"Hey guys, let's make a new Privateer game"

"Awesome Chris, but we can't, we don't have the rights!"

"That's okay, we'll change little details and give it a different name, but the fans will know!"

"Okay, like what details?"

"Oh, I don't know, like everything that made Privateer fun. Yeah, let's take all of that out. The dynamic economy, the setting, hiring escorts, the freedom to spend as long as you want just flying around and doing shit, a reason to get better and better ships. Hell, I'm so high from huffing paint thinner I think we should just go ahead and have people control their ship with a mouse!"

"YOU TRULY ARE A VISIONARY."

Silverain · Post by **Silverain** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:55 am

I personally found the mouse control very good.

The game was good, but lacked the final finishing touches. I didn't like losing the freedom to do what, where, how, when and with whom, BEFORE doing the linear game.

stampsm · Post by **stampsm** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 1:23 am

not sure still looking for a place to download it from

usually i download a game and if i like it i buy it (thats how i started playing tribes and tribes2 (great game) )
crappy games get deleted from my hardrive (VS has been on my drive for more than 2 months longer than most comercial games

)

Rabiator · Post by **Rabiator** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 2:01 pm

While Freelancer is more mature and has the nicer eye candy, I think Vega Strike has more potential. Larger galaxy, more equipment to choose from for updating your ship, and that's only what I've noticed so far.
Capships are more realistic in Vega Strike, with massive shields that are not easily breached by a piddly fighter.
I also disliked the mouse-only control in Freelancer. It works, but a joystick is better for this kind of game. The Freelancer promotion system plainly sucks: when I have the necessary money, I want to be able to buy the ships that are available.
In the long run, I expect Vega Strike to become the better game in every respect. Like Mozilla is better than IE these days

jump gate hypocrate · Post by **jump gate hypocrate** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 5:27 pm

I can't vote so i'll tell you. freelancer is ABSOLUTE RUBBISH.
it doesn't give you the sense of actual flying around. You move the ship with a mouse. simpletons, aren't they?

jump gate hypocrate · Post by **jump gate hypocrate** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 2:06 am

The thing I put before was before I tried the game. Now that I have tried it, I still think it is absolute rubbish. (a tiny little fighter can rip a capship to pieces)

Black_Wraith · Post by **Black_Wraith** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:03 pm

My friend told me it was good...I might download it.......... what's it about?

Duality · Post by **Duality** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:34 pm

Freelancer actually costs 16.95 now these days.

You can get it cheap.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:17 pm

Duality wrote:You can get it cheap.

And legally.

boeser.wolff · Post by **boeser.wolff** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 7:26 am

the option

- never played it is missing

I just read about it. Isnt it "windows-only"?

jump gate hypocrate · Post by **jump gate hypocrate** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:50 pm

boeser.wolff wrote:the option

- never played it is missing

I just read about it. Isnt it "windows-only"?

Bingo. It's about to leave my hardrive (demo). My sibling wants to get it.

Rabiator · Post by **Rabiator** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:37 pm

Second post in this thread:
Meanwhile I've noticed that Freelancer is pretty modding-friendly, most of its configuration is in XML files and there are tools available for doing new models.
If you look at www.lancersreactor.com, you will find that some fans do amazing things with it. They might even fix most of the shortcomings in the original game.

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