X2 -vs- Freelancer

[Saint_Proverbius]

Hardwar is the only space trader I've enjoyed as much as I liked Elite.

That said, I'm itching for more EVN like games. MORE.. MOOOOOOOOORE. The problem with most of the EVN-like games that people make is that they're way, way too hard. There's a reason I saved up from trading and bought a piraty carrier in EVN as opposed to one of those sleek combat fighter vehicles.

 

[wesleyclark]

Edit: what the fuck is a "cruschiki"?

A powder-sugar coated fried dessert, shaped like a pig's ear - Hungarian, I think.

 

[Shagnak]

Interesting. Sounds yummy.
Thanks :wink:

 

[CrusaderTemplar]

soooo..... wat about Nexus The Jupiter Incident???

 

[Seven]

soooo..... wat about Nexus The Jupiter Incident???

That's a game about space tactics and combat.

 

[Sol Invictus]

You know what I want? GTA in space. With a ton of upgrade options (e.g. a permanent ship) and special abilities in either a skill tree, or from the ship upgrades themselves.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

soooo..... wat about Nexus The Jupiter Incident???

Nexus is an awesome game, but like Seven pointed out, it's all about strategy and tactics. There's no freeform exploration or business style simulations to be found there. What is there however is one kick ass mission based strategy title that not only has wonderful gameplay, but beautiful visuals as well that surprisingly play extremely good on a low end system. Helluva game.

 

[Oyarsa]

Vindictive vindaloo

You know what I want? GTA in space. With a ton of upgrade options (e.g. a permanent ship) and special abilities in either a skill tree, or from the ship upgrades themselves.

Both should be available. One idea for the skill tree could be use of basic skills or ship components cause skill tree items to become available. Basically as you practice something you eventually get the opportunity to upgrade it in new ways or simply become more proficient at the basic level. Example, if I practice playing a musical instrument I can after gaining basic proficiency choose to hone those skills by perfecting the same few basic pieces or I can put some of my time into learning new pieces that involve greater complexity and help me learn new approaches.

 

[Fez]

You know what I want? GTA in space. With a ton of upgrade options (e.g. a permanent ship) and special abilities in either a skill tree, or from the ship upgrades themselves.

That would be good. I expect that we shall see more games take inspiration from GTA in the future. It's too successful and highly rated to ignore.

 

[PennyAnte]

You know what I want? GTA in space.

Absolutely. Perfectly said.

 

[shasla5]

Freelancer, though almost simple enough to make it on the xbox, had a beautiful universe. Nobody seems to mention the joy of exploring all the various systems. I have never had more fun in a game in my life because of that. X2's sectors were nothing but small boxes with a random (albeit pretty) background slapped on, and a bunch of stations floating in an unsitely blob. Freelancer had ice clouds, asteroid fields, radiation zones, neutron stars, killing fields, strange, errie Edge Worlds, and a decent story. Yes, the story was decent. The environment more than made up for the lack of a horibbly utilized dynamic economy in my opinion. At least in Freelancer, the economy made common sense.
That said, at least Egosoft gives a damn about their fans, unlike DA, and most certainly not microsoft.

 

[obediah]

You know what I want? GTA in space.

Absolutely. Perfectly said.

The closest I can think of to this is The Gap Series by Stephen Donaldson. Oh wait, you both probably wanted a video game rather than book. And you probably wanted absolute freedom, rather than absolute freedom to rape, steal, and kill.