Firefly vs. Privateer
POSTED BY: Victor54
UPDATED: Friday, February 3, 2006 18:06
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I booted up an old Dos version game this morning. It was the original Privateer series from Origin. I had another old game that was simular to Privateer that collected crew members as well as cargo by various means.
I think it is time that the Firefly fans have their own game that combines the planet hopping commerce, pirates, theives, good guy, bad guy, and everything we enjoy in Serenity. Just as long as they keep the blah blah blah stuff to a minimum and let us try to get jobs and cargo without going to jail.
Comments?
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Freelancer is a very close approximation to the Firefly universe (but with weapons). You're a captain and you've got to ship goods between planets or go bounty hunting or work for the military... Its set after a war in our solar system so we left and set up digs in a new bunch of systems in another galaxy. If I remember correctly, the bad guys are even called the Alliance.
check out my WIP firefly roleplay system at www.estador.co.uk/firefly
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Ironically - it was Firefly's very similarity to Privateer that drew my attention to it in the first place.
Just nothing quite like rolling a maxed out Galaxy with holds fulla brilliance through the ole Troy sector.
Not sure which is worse tho, Retros or Reavers...
-frem
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Privateer was an awesome game. Way ahead of its time. Earth and Beyond online is similar. Also, anyone remember 'Elite' for the C64? It was the original 'Privateer' game.
Memories...
-Dark
Keep Flyin'
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Privateer is my all-time favorite game!
As far as I'm concerned, Firefly could be Privateer with added intrigue and possibilities.
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Oh yeah, first thing I thought of when I started watching Firefly. If you notice, Serenity almost looks like a Tarsus. (For those who don't know, a Tarsus is the first ship you get in Privateer.)
Mal-bad...in Latin.
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Originally posted by DarkArchon:
Privateer was an awesome game. Way ahead of its time. Earth and Beyond online is similar. Also, anyone remember 'Elite' for the C64? It was the original 'Privateer' game.
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"Elite" was designed by 2 young Brits and *first* came out for the BBC Microcomputer in 1984. I know - I had a copy which I got from England! It was a sensation, and soon was ported to the C64.
http://www.hooplah.com/encounters/version.htm
To overcome graphical limitations on the BBC Micro, it split the screen & ran in 2 different graphics resolutions simultaneously, using interrupts. Technically brilliant, and a great genre-defining game.
(Wish I still had that boxed copy - it'd be worth quite a bit now)
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I remember that, and if I'm not mistaken, I still have it around somewhere. I loved just about everything Origin put out. Anyone remember the Crusader series? 
But if someone really wanted a Firefly game that was based on a Privateer like game, one should look into modding Vega Strike and it can be found on sourceforge.
I'd do it but I suck at graphics/3D stuff/etc. There's already a mod out for it, also on sourceforge, so figuring out how to do it would be easier than starting from scratch 
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Actually the closest game universe to Firefly is a game I worked on - Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos
You play Cal, head of a small band of freebooters who do dodgy jobs for shady organisations in a remote cluster of space. This all takes place many years after an Independence War between the commonwealth and the indies.
There are a lot of parallels and similarities. In fact there's a crew shot that looks very much like the one in Firefly when the alliance board Serenity. There's also a few shots in the TV series that are very similar to CGI in the original Independence War game.
The website is http://www.independencewar.com/home.htm
I'd love to do a proper game based on Firefly though.
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