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Freespace seriesAwesome game with great value but, one huge caveat.(4 posts)(4 posts)
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Posted October 08, 2008
Freespace is a great game. Newer games just don't feel the same when you play them and I'm not talking about nostalgia. The music, gameplay and story are fantastic. And the brilliantly executed inclusion of capital ships really adds a feeling of scale to the game that is second only to it's own sequel. The gameplay is a near perfect mix of arcade style navigation with the depth of control available to you in the form of wingman comm commands, mid-fight resupplies, countermeasures, weapon selection, energy management, shield management and subsystem targeting.
If the GOG.com version of the game was a bit more friendly to high-resolution and widescreen displays I'd have rated the game a 5. Unfortunately it's very frustrating when the text is so damn difficult to read and there doesn't appear to be an option to change the game's resolution.
Posted October 13, 2008
AVATAR:/_t2 #Q&_^Q&Q#USERNAME:smedstadc#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4If the GOG.com version of the game was a bit more friendly to high-resolution and widescreen displays I'd have rated the game a 5. Unfortunately it's very frustrating when the text is so damn difficult to read and there doesn't appear to be an option to change the game's resolution.

Unfortunately that's something that you have to handle on a system-by-system basis. Most computers have a setting somewhere as to how to handle low-res programs. If you have a laptop, check the BIOS for a "Stretch to fit" option, and if you have an NVIdia card, you can override the system's default by going to the NVidia Control Panel, and changing the setting there.
Posted October 13, 2008
AVATAR:/_t2 #Q&_^Q&Q#USERNAME:smedstadc#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4If the GOG.com version of the game was a bit more friendly to high-resolution and widescreen displays I'd have rated the game a 5. Unfortunately it's very frustrating when the text is so damn difficult to read and there doesn't appear to be an option to change the game's resolution.

Well... combining at least freespace 2 with freespace open will rid you of the problem. And adding Freespace mod will in effect enable you to play freespace 1 with better graphics.
There is a post with step by step instructions for installing the F2O (you may of course be aware of this already):
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/Freespace_Series/gog_freespace_2_freespaceopen/11
Post edited October 13, 2008 by Zer0
Posted October 17, 2008
Hey, we can reply to each others reviews. Neat.
I am actually aware of the F2O project and I think it is a collection of excellent work, however, I think a proper review should only concern the experience a player would have "out of the box" so to speak and F2O isn't part of GoG.com's product. You wouldn't write a review about the recording quality of an album based on the quality of a 64KB MP3 rip, would you?
Also, using resolution scaling features of GPU's or monitors doesn't work with most of GoG.com's titles in my experience. It seems like some of them use a D3D wrapper program that scales the low resolution game up to modern resolutions automatically. This essentially breaks the "stretch or don't stretch" settings of your own system. Ideally this would be configurable but, it is my belief that GoG.com would rather have the wrapper be completey transparent to the user and require zero configuration.
Thanks very much for the replies, of course. They'll probably help somebody else even if they don't help me much.
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