Well, I first started off with "StarLancer", the first game released before "FreeLancer". I though that was an amazing game at the time, and you could even play it on MSN Gamezone also.
Then FreeLancer came out, I bought the game more or less, as soon as it hit the shelves (but more by pure accident really). As I didn't know at the time, it was a made by the same people who made StarLancer. But after reading the box, I realised it was and bought it ASAP.
Prior to all this, I was a big fan of the Egosoft game called: "X-Beyond The Frontier". And I'm even old enough to have played "Elite" when that first came out also. Geez, memories eh!
Anyway, on getting FreeLancer. I quickly got into playing the single player aspect of the game, and in some respects, I felt StarLancer was a little better than FreeLancer as a single player game. But looking back now, I'd say they were both about the same. Both very good!
Believe it or not, a year past after completing the single player aspect in FreeLancer, I never even gave any thought to the MP aspect of the game at all then. Until one day, I decided (when bored) to install the game again to play, this time round, I checked-out the MP side of the game and was instantly hooked.
WOW, this was the best, nothing else even came close to online gaming like Freelancer offered. For about 3 years I played FL online, the first year solid. I ran a clan called the "6th Pirates" for a while, and became good friends with some other members in the clan. Like DeadShot, Ash, Duce, and many others. We used Teamspeak for in-game chat (man it was great back then).
Sadly though, as with all games. Freelancer started to die as an online game. MS closed there servers and people playing the game dropped off. Over time, I to started to realise I'd played the game to death, and no longer was I hooked by it anymore. Those days were gone, never to return again.
Freelancer is the best online game ever, and I really wish the company who created would create a FL2 for the PC. But I agree with others, that it will never happen. I know the full story of what happened, and sadly FL is end of the saga.
For me (being a space gaming fan). It sad to see that, in all these years gone by. Nothing since has come along as a worthy sucessor to FreeLancer as an online space game. That offers anything like the kind of gameplay FL did.
I don't post as such about Freelancer anymore, but I came here on the off chance and read this post. And decided I wanted to add my little bit of Freelancer hsitory.
It was nice while it lasted, and Hi to you all here. Sadly, I've done all the mod thing, playing on different servers etc to prolong the game. Now though, only an FL2 could bring me back to the good old days.
So here's wishing for something, that we'll most likely never happen.
