I actually first played it when I borrowd a couple of games from my neighbor - one of them was Freelancer.
He played it for only about the first few minutes and never even got into space, so he told me it's a point and click detective game. You could imagine my amazement when I hit the "launch" to space and saw Manhattan out of orbit:P
That was a long time ago, in about 2004, methinks.
As for Discovery, I simply got bored with SP when I played it again in 2009 and searched for a couple od Mods, with Discovery having the most appealing map, story and server load for me, as well as being an RP server
I once was looking at a live broadcast of Fallout 3 on Xfire. multiple, but I ran into a guy that also played freelancer, named Rayner. he always talked about how fun it was to get banned on this freelancer server, which was at a time I didn't even know it was possible to play FL online. he didn't just got me here, but also in FL online. blame him for bringing me here:)
I was searching Microsoft Game Studios for multiplayer game demos for a LAN party.
Rest is history.
Zealot Wrote:Just go play the game and have fun dammit.
Treewyrm Wrote:all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.
my friend come to me with some cd's from gaming magazines and there was demo of freelancer
i instaled it and get hooked but on demo you can only fly in new york
about year latter i remembered the game and get full version then i played single player for long time and when it geted bored i found discovery
also i have been in search for similar games like this but trust me noone is good as freelancer
i hear that eve is good but you need to pay to play it so i didnt try it
wasent doing to great in life had a couple addictions so i locked my self in a room with a cpu my buddie asked me you star trek you will love this game been playing ever since and been sober for 7 years
First there was Starlancer. Nothing but Starlancer for 8 hours a day. Eventually, after killing Admiral Kulov for the 200th time, the novelty wore off. Then, sometimes in 2002, I saw a short article about a game called Freelancer in my fave game mag. A trial version was soon included on one of it's cds. After exploring every part of the NY system, I desperately wanted more. Then I saw it installed on a friend's pc, so I got a copy. I played fiercely, but I couldn't beat Hovis in a bret HF. So the game stood still. After a year or so, I realized I can use a LF, and it was suddenly too easy. After finishing it several times, I found Lancersreactor. A whole new experience. Up until this time, I played SP exclusively.Then I got internet connection, and was eager to try MP. After a profound search, I ended up with crossfire, but it was kinda meh. Some time later, I stumbled upon disco. And here I am.