Any good space flight sims out there?

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » May 3, 2005, 12:45 am

So, are there? ala Wing Commander of the 90's?...

Post by **Xouqoa** » May 3, 2005, 12:49 am

I've looked, and been unable to find anything that is anywhere near as fun as Wing Commander 4: Prophecy was.

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » May 3, 2005, 1:00 am

Prophecy was the last game? I saw that there was a PS:WC4 release after Prophecy... but thought Prophecy was the last PC release

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 3, 2005, 3:35 am

Uranus

Breagen · Post by **Breagen** » May 3, 2005, 5:59 am

I found Freelancer enjoyable, although I can't compare it to the WC games as I have not played them.

My only qualm with Freelancer was it was fairly linear and it was difficult to get geared up until after you had already beaten the storyline, although you were than free to go and do anything you liked.

Tegellan · Post by **Tegellan** » May 3, 2005, 7:53 am

Starlancer was really good, never played Freelancer though. But those games are both several years old.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » May 3, 2005, 11:31 am

I remember Independence War being a good one. I keep meaning to reinstall it, but I have not gotten around to it yet.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » May 3, 2005, 9:20 pm

Freelancer was pretty fun. And it plays well without a big stupid joystick. There's also a decently active online community and quite a few good mods.

Breagen · Post by **Breagen** » May 3, 2005, 11:11 pm

Interesting, I never thought of looking into mods for Freelancer...

It does play well with just a mouse and keyboard, I never even hooked my joystick up to play it.

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » May 4, 2005, 12:08 am

Well, for $16.99 at Tigerdirect I guess Ill give it a try...

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » May 4, 2005, 8:32 am

Wow, theres a 5 year old space flight SIM that is still selling for $125 on Ebay... wtf?!?!

Thanks for the suggestion Dak, if I can pick this up I definately will... but "hell no!" for $125

http://search.ebay.com/Freespace-2_W0QQ ... Z1QQfsopZ3

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » May 4, 2005, 8:36 pm

Freespace 2 is the best space fighter game ever made.

Jice Virago · Post by **Jice Virago** » May 4, 2005, 11:36 pm

X-Wing Alliance, especially with all the community mods, is not too shabby of a game and it runs fairly well on an average machine. Basically, because Prophecy was so lame (compared to WC3 and WC4) and the movie blew ass, there will never be another Wing Commander game.

Post by **Xouqoa** » May 6, 2005, 1:13 pm

Jice Virago wrote:X-Wing Alliance, especially with all the community mods, is not too shabby of a game and it runs fairly well on an average machine. Basically, because Prophecy was so lame (compared to WC3 and WC4) and the movie blew ass, there will never be another Wing Commander game.

Actually, I think there will never be another WC game because Origin is no longer around.

I mean, there's EA: Origin but the people who created WC don't even work there anymore I don't think.

edit: nm, Origin is completely gone now... too bad

http://internetgames.about.com/b/a/068378.htm

Janx · Post by **Janx** » May 6, 2005, 1:46 pm

Freespace 1 & 2 are beyond jesus for space flight games. Can take like 5 mins to fly from one end to the other on some of the alien cap ships.

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » May 15, 2005, 1:05 pm

Been playing Freespace 2.... wow, this game does rock.

Thanks all