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On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 21:43:43 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 9/7/2024 12:46 PM, Anssi Saari wrote:
>> "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Yes, yes it is.  And I still haven't played it!
>> 
>> I'm waiting for it to drop below 30 euros. Mixed reviews on Steam is
>> never a good sign. Some of the comments make it sound like that old
>> Microsoft space soup game, free something? Oh, Freelancer.
>> 
>> That game where people you met in different places said one of the few
>> different lines over and over. And space modeled like soup. I remember I
>> had fun trying to guess which line generic person #5678 of generic
>> faction #123 would utter but that got boring after a while.
>
>"space modeled like soup"?

I mean, I don't know exactly what Anssi Saari meant by that comment,
but it's as good a description of Freelancer as any. 

That game had /very/ cloudy space, and planets and bases scattered
about like the random pasta- and veges in alphabet soup. That -and the
tramline FTL- helped destroy any sense of being in deep space. I know
it's a favorite of some, but I never thought very much of the game. It
didn't have exciting combat, its exploration/trading compared poorly
even against the original Elite, and it had an unfulfilling narrative.
Just a poor effort all around.

Soup-space. I like it. Good description.