ITS COMING!!! FINALY!!! (And its about fucking time.)

Jaged · 2004-05-28, 12:37 AM

If you asked me what my idea of the best possible hypothetical game would be before I heard of Planetside, I would of said an MMO space shooter with real time combat. When I saw Planetside I thought that would be close enough... It was fun for a while, but It diddn't last. Now I just read an artical in PC gamer about SWG: Jump To Light Speed. It is like the devs read my mind and made a game. Real time space combat. Customizable ships. Large multi-person cap ships. The list goes on and on. I can't wait.

edit: If anyone is interested in scans of the article tell me.

edit 2: here are the scans.
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EineBeBoP · 2004-05-28, 12:40 AM

One thing that'd make it amazingly awesome, would be clan carriers.

One giant ship that can house your entire clan + items + personal spacecraft + other shit like that.
Then have clan vs clan matches with the carriers. Squadrons of personal craft each other, and carrier vs carrier.

That'd just be awesome.

Plus an ability for pirate ships to create gravity wells and pull ships out of hyperspace.

Jaged · 2004-05-28, 12:43 AM

EineBeBoP · 2004-05-28, 12:44 AM

Hehe, I thought of this a LOT when Earth and Beyond was just coming out.

AztecWarrior · 2004-05-28, 12:47 AM

What about Freelancer?

Jaged · 2004-05-28, 12:47 AM

Yeah but E&B sucked. I knew as soon as I heard it wasen't real time combat that I wouldn't like it. I am an old school space shooter fan at heart. Damn developers keep neglecting people like me. Finaly someone decided to come out with a good (knock on wood) space shooter that just happens to be an MMO. Its a dream come true for me.

Originally Posted by AztecWarrior

What about Freelancer?

That was a good game. Its main problems in my mind were lack of Joystick support and it not being an MMO. I would probably still be paying my montly if they made that game an MMO.

AztecWarrior · 2004-05-28, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Jaged

That was a good game. Its main problems in my mind were lack of Joystick support and it not being an MMO. I would probably still be paying my montly if they made that game an MMO.

It is good, and I wholeheartedly agree with you on not having joystick and not being MMO. I still play it, albeit the "Level 2" mod. Rumor has it that Freelancer 2 got canned.

Dharkbayne · 2004-05-28, 12:50 AM

The big ships will probably cost ya up the ass for maitenance, power, etc. ingame.

Jaged · 2004-05-28, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by Dharkbayne

The big ships will probably cost ya up the ass for maitenance, power, etc. ingame.

If this game is half what I hope it will be I will be playing it enough to pay for that.

Originally Posted by Gohan

Better not be SOE ^_^

It is. I still have high hopes though.

Originally Posted by Dharkbayne

Star Wars Galaxies.

It's the Xpack that adds ships to SWG.

Yeah, I know.

Indecisive · 2004-05-28, 12:53 AM

Better not be SOE ^_^

Dharkbayne · 2004-05-28, 12:57 AM

Star Wars Galaxies.

It's the Xpack that adds ships to SWG.

Indecisive · 2004-05-28, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by Dharkbayne

Star Wars Galaxies.

It's the Xpack that adds ships to SWG.

WHAT????

Bah. Forget that.

EineBeBoP · 2004-05-28, 01:02 AM

SOE has actually done fairly well on SWG, but likely because of Lucasart's participation.

Of corse it'll cost a lot for maintance, which will keep it so that only the bigggest/best/richest clans can afford one.

Makes sense right?
Hopefully they can also implement that If you dont own a personal ship (you hitch a ride or take a xport up to the carrier) you can man a turret or some position upon the
bridge.

Jaged · 2004-05-28, 01:06 AM

Acording to the article I read, there will be gunner positions on the cap ships.

EineBeBoP · 2004-05-28, 01:07 AM

so wait-- there WILL be capital ships?

I was just throwing out a hope!

..r33t...

/me goes digging for his PC gamer.