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MindFever <MindFever@blowme.org> wrote:
> Freelancer (friggin awesome MP support) and Tachion. I mean,the story was so 
> friggin compelling...

For me, Privateer, hands-down.   It was perfect in every way.  I still have 
it on my hard disk.  (Yay, DOSbox!)

The closest anything's come to recapturing that feel was Freelancer.. but it 
sort of lacked...soul?  Adding a dynamic economy, more variety in the 
auto-generated missions, and in-flight voice sets for each house would have 
made quite a difference.  (It also feels like they cut stuff out to make it 
fit on one CD...)

Tachyon was decent (My, that's a... big gun!), but also seemed to be missing 
something that kept it from becoming a truly great game.  The same went for 
Privateer 2.  Too much emphasis on the FMV, but the space combat was 
squirrely.

More recently, Darkstar One was a good attempt, but it placed too much 
emphasis on the story too and there wasn't really much to do once the story 
was complete.  The game mechanics were also dumbed down too far; there was 
never any real challenge and too much hand-holding.  (Tachyon was quite good 
on that front)

TIE Fighter was in a league of its own; I think that was the most totally 
awesome space sim ever.  Deep, complex, and difficult.

> Indipendence Wars was a prime example.Though i hated the fact that in the 
> 2nd one you were a lame kid ...but okay,it was a great story and the 
> interface just rocked the world.

I picked up the 1st I-War game not too long ago, but it has problems 
running on modern systems (too much memory, ironically..) 

 - Solomon
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