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Privateer Remake Complete
flyboy writes "In a similar vein to the remakes of the Origin's Ultima series games reported in 2001 and 2004 a group of Wing Commander fans has remade Wing Commander: Privateer. Unlike the Ultima remakes, the Privateer remake is finished at version 1.0 with 3d graphics and the whole storyline. For the new kids on the block, WC:Privateer was a much loved trading game similar to the more venerable Elite, which appears also to be in the process of a remake. As a linux fan I was most happy with the remake's use of GPL 3d engine software and release of Linux, Macintosh and Windows versions. See Screenshots here."
I have noticed that I tend to get better FPS and smoother performance with same version releases of commercial Windows and Linux games, like Quake 3, when running Linux as opposed to running Windows.
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
As the last poster said, are you using good 3d drivers for your card or are you on an ATI and using the kernels DRI drivers??
I've been playing the pre-1.0 release on Linux and have not seen what you described at all.
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The STORY was linear, but you were free to move around. There wasn't much to do other than trading though.
It is pretty much a graphical version of the old BBS door, tradewars. Except single play. And non-ASCII.
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Just because the original was released twelve years ago doesn't mean everybody played it. I know your sarcasm was an attempt to be funny but not everybody watches or plays something when it comes out, especially if they were just a youngster when it was originally released.
What if you wanted to watch a movie that was released a decade ago? Would you be pissed if somebody gave away the twist in conversation with you just because it was that old.
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Freespace wasn't all that much. Freespace 2 was one of the best games ever. Shame that Volition doesn't seem to care about wrapping up the plot with a Freespace 3. Seems to me any game involving a joystick is pretty much dead -- I bought my gaming PC sans stick and haven't needed one yet...
Exult deserves kudos. They took the best RPG ever made, and perfected it.