Im pretty sure Digital Anvil aren't even sure of most of your question. They are probably deciding all that stuff as we speak.

mustang, really really kewl sig. btw i presume that u won't be able to transferthe files, in all other demos u couldn't so... just speculation.
Phoenix out


From this celestial bough all but one did fall into the pitiless fires of reach.
A soldier’s ignominy to have dreamt while his brothers bled. But oh, for the rest of us his shame was our salvation.

There are no details as to what the demo is going to even contain. So, because of that, we cant say whether or not the saved games will be transferrable.

Thanks for your responses

RESPECT lol, PRIVATEER 2 was excellent.

Privateer 1 was excellent....privateer 2 had beautiful cutscenes for its time, but it was no marvel of game play. sorry.... you are entitled to your opinion...here is mine.

Your right WingC3...Privateer2 had much better cutscenes and game play graphics..but the game play and story sucked. Better graphics do not allways mean a better game. Hopefully Freelancer will be a worthy game in the Privateer style. That is really how it will be compared by most old Privateer fans atleast.

I don't know, I thought Priv II was an excellent game. I loved the dark gloomy cutscenes and backstory. Nice sleek interfaces, new innovations, (email during a mission? Genius!) use of capships, things like that made Priv II earn a special place in my gaming heart. Sure, it wasn't truly a sequel to Privateer, but it was an awesome game in its own right. I think Privateer II would have been better named as Freelancer and Freelancer named Privateer II. JMO.


"We're almost there." - Jorg

Priv 1 was the original, and such a very good original too. If you want to see my true feelings read my post on the Privateer vs Freelancer thread.

I actually really enjoyed Priv 2 though as well. I agree with the cutscenes vs gameplay comment, but I still loved it.

Speaking of which, I have never been able to get Priv II to play on Windows 98/ME/2000 machines. I haven't tried XP yet, and I know I used to run it on Win 95.

Priv II was one of the last DOS games, and every time I try, it always says "Privateer II requies full DOS version to install". though not sure how to put a full DOs on a machine with later Windows versions. Any advice?

"If this is what you want to do, you'll do it, no matter how long it takes..........and usually the longer it takes the more fun you've had!"

Yeah you can run Priv II on win 98. Visit Origin's website for full details, but basically you have to configure your windows dos prompt to force it to run the programs as DOS.

"We're almost there." - Jorg

Thanks, read through the material and seems like it might just be a little too much hassle. Think I'll dig out the old computer and get it running for kicks.

"If this is what you want to do, you'll do it, no matter how long it takes..........and usually the longer it takes the more fun you've had!"

Yea, I had to pull out my old P200 shell of a machine, old 1Gb HDD, and a sound card and had Privateer II running in about an hour.

Priv2 did have a "Deluxe Edition" that was Direct X 5.0 compatible so that you did not have to mess with the pif files (dos config via windows). However, I tried purchasing the "Deluxe Edition" on eBay for about 4 months and gave up since they still went between $40-$60. Talk about keeping it's resale value

I did like the first Privateer very much.

The Priv2's story line was a little too hokey, like geared more towards a 13 year old vs an adult. I did enjoy the trading and the gameplay.

Later!

Just for S&Gs I checked eBay for the Deluxe Edition and found one three days left for $15.50 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=11047

Not that I would purchase one now, but about a year ago when trying to get both Privateer and Priv2 working w/XP was just tragic.

Edited by - Bogie on 12-02-2003 07:29:44

SInce when can you save in game demos anyway? Would be the first i run into.

I loved Privateer2. I even made myself a complete book with pricing statistics (including graphic representation) for each system. This way i could find out right away,what to buy and where to go with it. I could scan some pages and show em here if someone should be interested in how they looked like.

Ever since no other game sucked me in this well... but as of March that's gonna change for sure

"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed."