Freespace 2: Still Awesome

Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
edited October 2007 in Games
I've been playing through this game again and I'd forgotten how awesome it was, and how much is sucks that the space-sim genre seems to have gone the way of the point-and-click adventure game as of late. Still, even if FS2 was one of the last of its kind, it still went out on a high note and is even better now that the engine's been open-sourced, upgraded graphically, and ported to operating systems that don't suck.

Anyway, the game's free now, so you have no excuse not to play it. Although I would recommend you get your hands on a proper, full-sized joystick first. The game's playable with just a mouse and keyboard, and I've heard of people getting good results playing it with an analog gamepad, but to get the most our of this sort of game you really need a proper flightstick.

Comments

  • illithid235illithid235
    edited October 2007
    Urgh. It seems to be a pattern that whenever I find something free on the internet, it usually doesn't work. Bah.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited October 2007
    What's going wrong for you? What OS are you trying to install on?
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited October 2007
    Windows XP. It said something funky like "Can't run from root drive" or something. I don't know. Compared to normal people, I'm great with computers, but compared to nerds, I suck.

    It's not a big deal anyway. I've got plenty of other games I need to get through.
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited October 2007
    YESSSSSSSS

    Freespace 2 is my favorite game of all time. I love it so much...

    There's an open source version of the game that has new features and multiplayer. Its kind of a pain to set up, but I had it working for awhile and it was nice to be able to play online again.

    Also, screw joysticks. I beat the game on hard with nothing but my good old fashioned keyboard!

    EDIT: Ah, it seems DI has already linked to the open source version. Now with a convenient installer that removes most of the above-mentioned difficulty!
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited October 2007
    Is the installation supposed to take hours?
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited October 2007
    Well, the installer has to download the game content from the Internet, and it's quite large. Depending on your connection speed it could take a long time to get it all.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited October 2007
    Oh well. At least it's working now. Thanks for the link, sir (madam?), free games are always fun.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited October 2007
    I remember playing Freespace 2... I still have it installed among my vast labyrinth of games I never really play. I would consider playing it again. It was as good a game if flying around in space is what you are looking for.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited October 2007
    Okay, maybe you guys can help me. I installed the FreeSpace installer and then installed the game and waited many hours for it to get all the files. I put it in C:/Program Files.

    When I start up the game, I get the startup menu that includes 'play', 'setup', 'uninstall', and all that. But when I get click play, I get two messages. The first reads, "Please configure your system in the launcher before running FS2. The Launcher will now be started!"

    When I click OK, I get a message that reads, "Freespace2/Fred2 cannot be run from a drive root directory!"

    I'm really damn confused. Any ideas?
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited October 2007
    All I know is that it works fine in Linux.
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited October 2007
    illithid235 wrote: »
    Okay, maybe you guys can help me. I installed the FreeSpace installer and then installed the game and waited many hours for it to get all the files. I put it in C:/Program Files.

    When I start up the game, I get the startup menu that includes 'play', 'setup', 'uninstall', and all that. But when I get click play, I get two messages. The first reads, "Please configure your system in the launcher before running FS2. The Launcher will now be started!"

    When I click OK, I get a message that reads, "Freespace2/Fred2 cannot be run from a drive root directory!"

    I'm really damn confused. Any ideas?

    Don't click on fs2.exe or whatever. Click on launcher.exe instead. you have to set up some stuff before it works.

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