Mon Mar 24, 2003 9:34 pm
wow...but....
well now, what can i say about Freelancer, well WOW. It looks great, it sounds great, it handles well and to be honest i could be quite happy about this game.
Now, i've heard people whining about the amount of work thats gone into the game, and hey i appreciate that, but this game has been a long time coming, with setbacks etc, and i really did expect a lot more.
The single player is fine and dandy, haven't got a problem with it. But i bought this game for the multiplayer, and i thought it would really open up once more people got on line. Then i actually went online and played. Imagine my shock when, well nothing really. It's single player with a chat option!! Every now and again you can go out on a mission together, or have a duel, but well, thats about it.
This game has so much frikkin potential it's scary, it could me a huge, massive, massive game, but alas Microsoft just don't seem to have taken it far enough for my liking.
I don't know if anyone here played Diaspora?? Now there was a multiplayer game!! The graphics sucked (if you could call a pretty much static bitmap graphics!!) but the actual game was brilliant, unfortunately the game went down a few years ago, but still lives on in the form of Rillaspora, give it a go, it's worth 5 minutes :+)
Now, i have some suggestions!! Yeah, yeah, most of ya will criticze them, well go ahead :+)
First off, we need some kind of Guild system. I dont know if this is coming soon, or if it's something nobody's thought of, but it needs to happen. The game is way to fragmented at the minute and the list of servers when you opne up the game is immense and confusing. I didn't know where to start, and once i did i had to stay there really, and Galactic Playground is pretty sweet.
Homebases need to come next, with a bank account, message system and hangar for other ships. This should also incorporate the guils system, with squad bank, rank system etc. This would then allow squads/guilds to buy stabases, planets, outposts etc. The bank system could then be utilised to buy protection for your base, your own stock market/investments etc.
I hope you all comment on my suggestions as i really think this game could go a long way, as long as it's not allowed to finish here and be assigned to the Elite scrapheep. I'm looking forward to a bright and expansive Freelancer future
see ya out there guys!!!
Now, i've heard people whining about the amount of work thats gone into the game, and hey i appreciate that, but this game has been a long time coming, with setbacks etc, and i really did expect a lot more.
The single player is fine and dandy, haven't got a problem with it. But i bought this game for the multiplayer, and i thought it would really open up once more people got on line. Then i actually went online and played. Imagine my shock when, well nothing really. It's single player with a chat option!! Every now and again you can go out on a mission together, or have a duel, but well, thats about it.
This game has so much frikkin potential it's scary, it could me a huge, massive, massive game, but alas Microsoft just don't seem to have taken it far enough for my liking.
I don't know if anyone here played Diaspora?? Now there was a multiplayer game!! The graphics sucked (if you could call a pretty much static bitmap graphics!!) but the actual game was brilliant, unfortunately the game went down a few years ago, but still lives on in the form of Rillaspora, give it a go, it's worth 5 minutes :+)
Now, i have some suggestions!! Yeah, yeah, most of ya will criticze them, well go ahead :+)
First off, we need some kind of Guild system. I dont know if this is coming soon, or if it's something nobody's thought of, but it needs to happen. The game is way to fragmented at the minute and the list of servers when you opne up the game is immense and confusing. I didn't know where to start, and once i did i had to stay there really, and Galactic Playground is pretty sweet.
Homebases need to come next, with a bank account, message system and hangar for other ships. This should also incorporate the guils system, with squad bank, rank system etc. This would then allow squads/guilds to buy stabases, planets, outposts etc. The bank system could then be utilised to buy protection for your base, your own stock market/investments etc.
I hope you all comment on my suggestions as i really think this game could go a long way, as long as it's not allowed to finish here and be assigned to the Elite scrapheep. I'm looking forward to a bright and expansive Freelancer future
see ya out there guys!!!