Favorite Game of All Time by David Braben

[MINDWIPE]

Thought I'd use this as an opportunity to dust off this old thing!
My variation on the original Frontier: Elite II theme that I wrote a couple of years ago.

https://soundcloud.com/jamie-treacher/frontier-elite-2-theme

Wow, this is great!

i loved Jamie's track so much i did this video for it :

[video=youtube_share;cRtbwKW2afw]https://youtu.be/cRtbwKW2afw[/video]


(ok its not the FE2 intro video but it fits for the moment till the community get around to making the REAL recreation video)..

.oO(incidentally speaking of ELite 2 cough cough 17days till Abbey Road YAY! @jamieboo)

 

[ZeeWolf]

Thought I'd use this as an opportunity to dust off this old thing!
My variation on the original Frontier: Elite II theme that I wrote a couple of years ago.

https://soundcloud.com/jamie-treacher/frontier-elite-2-theme

I still have that picture from your other claim to fame at the start of Wing Commander the movie

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[Alric]

Yes Frontier Elite 2 is pound for pound one of the best games ever.

 

[jamieboo]

I still have that picture from your other claim to fame at the start of Wing Commander the movie

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Eek! Ancient and mortifying!
I was young and I needed the money!

 

[CmdrJacks]

Except you couldn't explore that much of it before your drives died. So frustrating.

That's what the wormhole bug/feature was for. Maybe that was just the Amiga though, I seem to recall mention of that being fixed on other platforms.

 

[ZeeWolf]

Eek! Ancient and mortifying!
I was young and I needed the money!

14 episodes of Eastenders Jamie?

You probably shouldn't have told me because now every time you post your fine musical accomplishment I might be tempted to chime in with some cheeky comment about that episode of Lovejoy you were in

 

[Quineloe]

On time spent it has to be EverQuest for me. Best game ever

 

[ShadowWolf Kell]

On time spent it has to be EverQuest for me. Best game ever

Played that too in the top guild on my server. Kind of apples and oranges though. EQ at it's core was very much a team oriented game and exploration solo was limited.. unless you were a rogue like me.

 

[Koen]

Ah, finally a thread about Zarch!

 

[Sergio Smegolia]

Ah, finally a thread about Zarch!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Zarch_screenshot_2.png

It was Virus when it landed on the ST. But yeah, a great game but rock hard to control. I had a go at doing a clone in Unity recently, really must get round to finishing that.

 

[jamieboo]

14 episodes of Eastenders Jamie?

You probably shouldn't have told me because now every time you post your fine musical accomplishment I might be tempted to chime in with some cheeky comment about that episode of Lovejoy you were in

Oh god!

 

[louks]

Frontier: Elite II on the Amiga 500 is still the most influential game in my life, despite it's 7 frames per second and near minimum detail. There was something magical about the way FE2 portrayed people and place...I could imagine the faces were 'real' characters and not just a pasted quote from the Mad Libs-style, random-quote generator. Planets felt solid and massive, stations felt desolate and remote, and ships felt like they were mine. It was a really special world they created that went beyond "game".

Frontier: Elite II was a universe in my pocket, and I will be hard pressed to find something so transcending again.

(I had a bunch of stuff about how Elite: Dangerous is getting closer and closer to making me feel the same way, but I strayed too much from the thread topic so I deleted it.)

 

[Alric]

On time spent it has to be EverQuest for me. Best game ever

Would be right up there for me too overall.. not that we can credit DB with that one though

 

[deMangler]

1: Elite
2: Frontier
3: Darxide EMP
4: Elite Dangerous
5: Frontier First Encounters

Early days but I am expecting Elite Dangerous to work it's way up that list - maybe even to the top one day.