Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:21 pm
Hey tagos
Granted, I understand what you are saying, but despite the fact that I hugely enjoy this game, the fight scenes for me are redused to point and click in space.
Starlancer set a standard which many people were expecting to continue, and it was wholly involving. Freelancer needs a JS option, because certainly for me (and no doubt thousands of other flight jockeys) in a battle instead of enjoying it and actually feeling like I'm there, lining up the shot, being hit around by return fire, everything depending on your skill and reflexes, it becomes a case of focussing on the red cross and following it with the mouse.
I don't know about you lot but that rather ruins the fun a bit for me - you don't see any of the eye candy or get into the game as much, because if you do the red cross has buggered off the side of the screen. The mouse works, and kudos to them for developing it so well, but at the same time I find it unecessarily unwieldy to combine it with flight and shooting. I don't mind the lack of targetting etc, it's nice to be able to relax and look around, but the actual FEEL of flight is one thing I enjoyed. Once again, a game that promised so much has only delivered half the Elite template we all desire! Why is it games only do one or the other?
This is the big crux of it all: if JS support, as everyone keeps saying, is so easy to add, WHY can we not have BOTH? WHY force people to one option or the other? If it's so bloody easy to implement, drop it in in a patch and makes those of us who are whining feel better. I remember a game called Epic, years ago when I had my Amiga. beautiful game, looked amazing... youcould only fly with the mouse and it failed. I don't see why they can't give people the choice, imho - keep everyone happy, mousers and jockeys alike.
I know it's not a true sim but then again neither was Rogue Squadron and imagine playing THAT with a mouse. Whatever combo your joystick is in, it is still a tactile and personal way of flying that I find far more involving than the removed and distant mouse. (Mice belong with FPS for me really, it's my religion
). I've caned the demo and yes, I want the game, but I am disappointed in that respect, and although it is amazing and highly addictive what I have yearned for, and thought I had found, was an intricate game of details like elite, starlancer, freespace etc, mixed with the scope and beauty of freelancer and again elite. The search goes on...
Your patch ideas make sense, but don't you agree it would make life easier if they just made everyone happy and let us CHOOSE? Fantastic game though.
Who loves the atmospheres on the planets? A shame we can't fly on in ourselves!
Laters
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Granted, I understand what you are saying, but despite the fact that I hugely enjoy this game, the fight scenes for me are redused to point and click in space.
Starlancer set a standard which many people were expecting to continue, and it was wholly involving. Freelancer needs a JS option, because certainly for me (and no doubt thousands of other flight jockeys) in a battle instead of enjoying it and actually feeling like I'm there, lining up the shot, being hit around by return fire, everything depending on your skill and reflexes, it becomes a case of focussing on the red cross and following it with the mouse.
I don't know about you lot but that rather ruins the fun a bit for me - you don't see any of the eye candy or get into the game as much, because if you do the red cross has buggered off the side of the screen. The mouse works, and kudos to them for developing it so well, but at the same time I find it unecessarily unwieldy to combine it with flight and shooting. I don't mind the lack of targetting etc, it's nice to be able to relax and look around, but the actual FEEL of flight is one thing I enjoyed. Once again, a game that promised so much has only delivered half the Elite template we all desire! Why is it games only do one or the other?
This is the big crux of it all: if JS support, as everyone keeps saying, is so easy to add, WHY can we not have BOTH? WHY force people to one option or the other? If it's so bloody easy to implement, drop it in in a patch and makes those of us who are whining feel better. I remember a game called Epic, years ago when I had my Amiga. beautiful game, looked amazing... youcould only fly with the mouse and it failed. I don't see why they can't give people the choice, imho - keep everyone happy, mousers and jockeys alike.
I know it's not a true sim but then again neither was Rogue Squadron and imagine playing THAT with a mouse. Whatever combo your joystick is in, it is still a tactile and personal way of flying that I find far more involving than the removed and distant mouse. (Mice belong with FPS for me really, it's my religion
). I've caned the demo and yes, I want the game, but I am disappointed in that respect, and although it is amazing and highly addictive what I have yearned for, and thought I had found, was an intricate game of details like elite, starlancer, freespace etc, mixed with the scope and beauty of freelancer and again elite. The search goes on...
Your patch ideas make sense, but don't you agree it would make life easier if they just made everyone happy and let us CHOOSE? Fantastic game though.
Who loves the atmospheres on the planets? A shame we can't fly on in ourselves!
Laters
Copula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum
