chezybezy: i know right thers just something about a REALLY bad scifi movie. Iv decided its due to Sci-Fi fans being left out in the cold for so long that well accept ANYTHING ANYTHING AT ALL if its even remotely Sci-Fi related.

keeveek: But they won't even say thank you afterwards. Bastards.

Thespian*: *shivering because of the cold*: Totally this! :D

keeveek: This is never going to happen. Just download Starlancer from somewhere, they don't care about their old games anyway.

just for your info, Starlancer focuses pretty much only on ACTION :P but is way better at simulation than TurdLancer.

tinyE: Even "Sharknado"?

tinyE: Oddly enough Ian Ziering is the star of that movie and of course Mr. Ziering is the voice of the main character in...wait for it...Freelancer.

Fever_Discordia: The other day I saw that 'Yahtzee' Zero Punctuation guy bemoaning the lack of backward compatibility of the next generation of consoles and he was suggesting that they were doing it on purpose to force people to buy more new gen games and not just play their old ones so MS and Sony's attitudes to their PC back catalogues might be similar - not so much uncaring as openly hostile, sadly!

keeveek: So, I am a big, huuuge fan of Starlancer. Great game, nice visuals even for today, superior voice acting and all that.

So after many years I decided to play Freelancer, which is some sort of a sequel, at least it says something about the great war in the intro. (the intro infuriated me as well, because it's a kick in the nuts. It says Ruskies won the war, so nothing you did in Starlancer even mattered)

And what do I get.

A story about some fucking EGG I don't even care about. I've played it for 10 hours and the whole story is about this motherfreaking EGG. Voice acting is half amateurish, but that would be ok.

If not the space battles. WHO ON EARTH though that firing space ships should all sound like "pew pew pew!". There is no POWER in those ships, unlike in starlancer, where torpedo launch gave you shivers every time, and blasting the enemy with full guns felt powerful as well.

I would like the free roaming aspect of the game, if sidequests were not the same FOUR quests over and over again. FOUR.

God damn it, Microsoft, you let me down.

XYCat: There probably is no space game with realistic sounds unless you turn the sounds off and you don't have to do the sidequests because you progress with collecting money so the quickest way to progress to another story point is getting yourself a ship with huge cargo hold, buying tons of some cheap shit and selling it for lots of money and that's it.

keeveek: I never said I want realistic sounds in space sims. I want BADASS sounds.

Not "pew pew pew".

tinyE: I love the mouse control, the different ships,

XYCat: [...]
what's a "BADASS" sound? I can't remember any game with lasers not going pewpewpew

XYCat: what's a "BADASS" sound? I can't remember any game with lasers not going pewpewpew

jjsimp: That's why I never played that game. If I remember right it had no joystick controls. I liked starlancer and the X series where I could use a joystick. I'd rather play a flight sim (space or not) with a flightstick. It just seems so unfulfilling to use a mouse and keyboard to control a ship.