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"Angus" <angus@_ANTISPEM_angusm.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:MPG.252725f6402ab211989682@news.demon.co.uk...
> In article <6a40d39b50.jades@d.thurlwell.btopenworld.com>,
> nospam@jades.org says...
>>
>> On the 30 Aug 2009, "Angus Manwaring"
>> <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> >>> I'm an Amiga guy, soon to get a pc, but I've played I-War and
> thought it
>> >>> was great.
>
> pc now here and in use.   :(
>
>>
>>
>> > You still see the budget release of IW2 Edge of Chaos knocking about
>> > sometimes. From what I played of the game I was very impressed
>>
>> Wasn't it more freeform than I-War 1? I played the demo of the first
>> one but never got round to getting either of them.
>>
>
> Well, I've not played I-War 1, but certainly in the second, you seemed
> to get a good indication of which way the plot was going and how to
> follow it, but you were (I think) fairly free to do your own thing.
>
> Its been a while though, and I didn't play the game in great depth.
>
>
>> > also Hardwar, which kind of Elitey but set on a moon with a mining 
>> > facility.
>> > Very cool game.
>>
>> Yeah, I've got that one. Amazing game, the whole moth concept was
>> unique together with having a day/night cycle that actually meant
>> something. Trading system and the way all of the AI ships got on with
>> their own agenda was fantastic.
>
>
> Yes, and I even thought the video footage was well done - the guy who
> ran the hardware place, and was slowly going down with radiation
> sickness was great.
>
> I still miss him.  :)
>
>>
>> > The various X games
>>
>> I enjoyed X1 and its expansion pack X-Tension immensely but never got
>> round to getting the sequels due to a combination of not having the
>> system specs at the time and intermittent PC problems (now fixed).
>
> I hear a lot of conflicting stuff about the X games - I recently saw a
> very funny US TV review of X3 on Youtube, worth a look if you can find
> it.
>
>> Elite 4's in development, but that's not going to be out any time
>> soon. No rush really, and they can't afford another repeat of what
>> happened with FFE.
>
> I'm still waitiing for the promised Amiga version!!
>
> I suspect, I'll have been forced to buy another computer before that
> game is seem.
>
> I just hope my spacestation is still in it.
>
>
>> > What's the status of your FFE project Graham?
>>
>> I'm working on an update for my FFE site, having got back into the
>> game recently - I had stopped playing for quite a while due to having
>> a lot of other games I wanted to play more and losing my Dubya save
>> due to having to reformat my XP machine (recovery wouldn't work).
>>
>
> I'm hearing that Acronis Perfect Image (?) is supposed to be good for
> that.
>
>> Another factor for resuming work is it gives me something productive
>> to do with my little A9home (http://www.thea9.info) that I got last
>> year.
>>
>> Probably have something new put up in the next week or so, including
>> updated Guide and Trade pages (which I've been working on today)
>> updates to a couple of ship reviews, complete Equipment Reviews and
>> maybe a couple of other bits and bobs.
>
> Sound good, please keep us posted.

Has to be Frontier Elite for me not too closely followed by X-Wing and Wing 
Commander. I also quite liked Space Shuttle and First Encounters. Privateer 
wasnt bad but it lost some of the Wing Commander magic for me. Hardwar was 
ok but was more futuristic than space themed. Nothing cvame close to 
Frontier for me though, I played that game for years constantly - Ive never 
done the same since with any game.