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JayOwnAss

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I came to the sad conclusion that nobody is making new games in the style of Wing Commander, Starlancer or X-Wing Alliance.

To honor this almost dead genre I would like you to post your favorite games of this kind. My favorites are the ones stated above.

Maybe I can even find out about some jewels that I missed.
 

GundamSentinel

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Freelancer. Great open-universe game with friendly controls. I still play it a lot.

Hmm, now I wish Starlancer would run on my laptop.
 

Radeonx

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GundamSentinel said:
Freelancer. Great open-universe game with friendly controls. I still play it a lot.

Hmm, now I wish Starlancer would run on my laptop.
Yeah, Freelancer is really fun. I'd highly recommend it.
 

Thwarted

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freelancer was and is absolutely brilliant. I wish someone would make another one.
 

JayOwnAss

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I played Freelancer as well as Dark Star One and X2, but Freelancer was not enough "Battle against BIG-Spaceships and defend your own from torpedo-attacks", the same Problem that Dark Star One had. the fights were always the same: Enter a System/a mission, baddies are coming in, fly in circles an destroy them - the end.

Maybe i should give the X-series another try because I was never really able te get into it very much. It was always too much economy-stuff in my eyes.

The thing is, I would really like to see something that resembles the style of Starlancer again: Youre a Fighterpilot starting from a carrier and you have to fight against other carriers/space stations who launch fighters themselves and while not beeing able to destroy the whole thing without heavy ordnance (which is where torpedobombers come into play)you can destroy things like shieldgenerators, communication, parts of the enginge etc. and you have to guard your bombers and destroy torpedos/bombers beeing launched from enemy crafts.
Yeah, basicly i would really like to see a kind of space-figth simulator. And none of the listed games in the other posts really fulfill these criteria.
 

JayOwnAss

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GundamSentinel said:
Freelancer. Great open-universe game with friendly controls. I still play it a lot.

Hmm, now I wish Starlancer would run on my laptop.
well, if freelancer is running, why isn't Starlancer? It has much lower hardware requirements.
 

GundamSentinel

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JayOwnAss said:
GundamSentinel said:
Freelancer. Great open-universe game with friendly controls. I still play it a lot.

Hmm, now I wish Starlancer would run on my laptop.
well, if freelancer is running, why isn't Starlancer? It has much lower hardware requirements.
It was never patched for newer operating systems. After a little tinkering it'll work fine on my old XP PC, but on Vista or W7 it just won't work for me. Compatibility mode does nothing. I don't know why.
 
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X-Wing, TIE-Fighter, and Wing Commander get my vote. Also Descent 1&2 more than deserve a mention here, even though they're not space shooters as such (you're flying around inside asteroid mining facilities - but the asteroids are in space, so that counts). I'll even put forward Terminal Velocity, even though that was more of a futuristic flight sim than traditional space sim.
 

AyreonMaiden

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Got an iDevice?

You should get Galaxy on Fire 2. It's packed with content, looks fantastic, and it's portable! It's so far my favorite Space Sim, but I was also too young and stupid to play the older ones in their heyday, so this one might be a bit streamlined for a lot of people. But I still adore it.

That's the kinda space game I prefer, sorta the more trading/open-world inclined. What I wouldn't give for ports of Privateer and Freelancer to iDevices...the Space Sim is surprisingly well suited to handheld devices.