Freelancer

Katsumoto

Katsumoto

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Just sitting here and thinking about what a great game that was and what an equally great shame that the game Freelancer 2 was cancelled. Got me thinking. Anyone know a game that is similar to the mighty Freelancer?
 
-If you want combat and storyline (no trading), try Freespace 2 (better than Freelancer in those regards).
-If you want trading but the X series is too in depth, then maybe check out Darstar One.
I-f you don't need mouse controls, maybe look at the predecessor to Freelancer, Starlancer.
 
I loved freelancer back in the day. Used to be part of a community that had many guilds. Private bountys and battles were good fun!

It was very easy to get ambushed fast traveling through the jump gates :/
 
Freelancer was (and still is) a fantastic little game. Accessible, easy to play, but still managed to feel like a giant galaxy that you could explore forever and still keep finding new things. Some of the more difficult to find systems were pretty impressive. Sure it was a little simplistic in some ways, but for a quick blast of space fun without needing to master accountancy, it was excellent. NB: I've never actually played the X games yet despite having them sitting in my Steam account, so the accountancy comment may be a complete inaccuracy, but it's certainly the impression I get.

Getting difficult to find Freelancer now, I wish Steam or similar would pick it up, just as a backup option in case I ever lose my disk.
 
Some nice looking games suggested.

@Sit: Yes it was very nice. Things I really liked were the outlaw places. It still is one of the only games that properly rewards going against the good guys. Many games provide the option but it's just far easier to be good.
 
From my time trying them, the X games have a lot more depth or at least complexity than Freelancer.
On the other hand, they have less character & personality, the exposition is clumsy, sense of adventure seemed less, presentation worse.
But space is beautiful, music great, the feeling of slowly rolling in on a manual dock with the music going was great.
 
sjt269 said:
Freelancer was (and still is) a fantastic little game. Accessible, easy to play, but still managed to feel like a giant galaxy that you could explore forever and still keep finding new things. Some of the more difficult to find systems were pretty impressive. Sure it was a little simplistic in some ways, but for a quick blast of space fun without needing to master accountancy, it was excellent. NB: I've never actually played the X games yet despite having them sitting in my Steam account, so the accountancy comment may be a complete inaccuracy, but it's certainly the impression I get.

Getting difficult to find Freelancer now, I wish Steam or similar would pick it up, just as a backup option in case I ever lose my disk.
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X isn't like accountancy. It's actually kind of obvious in terms of the making money stuff. It just takes forever.

That game has no personality though.

I've never played Freelancer so I'm just going to say Freespace 2. It's nothing like Freelancer from what I've heard but... well, it's a damn brilliant game.

There is a fairly new indie one on steam which looks insanely complex, has excellent graphics, planet landing, real physics and all of that stuff. Evochron Mercenary I think it's called: http://www.starwraith.com/evochronmercenary/

Not sure how good it is though. I gave up in the demo when I looked at the list of controls.
 
The characters and story were very good in Freelancer and the controls felt very natural. because it was very story focused and the story was fun and engaging (imo) you really felt a part of that world.

The X games are great, but i feel no sense of character at all. story and dialogue are incredibly poor as if its an afterthought to the game. And it puts me off quite quickly. Also despite freelancer being similar in its navigation style (jump gates and square systems. freelancer feels much larger. 90% of your time in the X games is jump gates and it removes all sense of scale for me. Thankfully the next instalment changes this.
 
If you have a iPad or mac you would enjoy galaxy on fire 2. In many ways it is identical to freelancer. However it is not as detailed and not as big. But I got a good 20+ hours of fun out of it with its add on Valkyrie.

The issue with the game I found is the story is just very short and not of the quality of freelancer. But with that said I would recommend it. Looks very good on the new iPad, but can have some frame rate issues at times on it.
 
Loved Freelancer had many big games at LANs with it, back in the days of XP, I belive it wont do MP in 7 due to it needing a function in DirectPlay which has been removed or something like that, which is a shame.

If someone knows of a way to make it work on Win7 please do let me know :)

Kimbie
 
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