*** Elite- FRONTIER II ***

[Cygna]

Hi All,

Since a lot of you guys/girls have a lot in common in Space Sim/shoot em Ups, as do I, Here is my Tribute to the Grandfathers of FREELANCER, The people who in my honest opinion got it all started
back in the day, David Braben and Ian bell, We salute you...




Brought a Tear to my eyes..

Respects.

Cygna

ps. if its already been posted b4, sorry for the BBC repeat.

[Gibbon]

Quite right too, the original ELITE was what got me started back in '83. Pioneer, the game Geraldine is getting all excited about is basically Elite II with sparkly bits on with a totally modern game engine and gfx. I still have my Fronter Elite t-shirt lol

[Cygna]

Jul 14, 2012 16:16:43 GMT Gibbon said:

Quite right too, the original ELITE was what got me started back in '83. Pioneer, the game Geraldine is getting all excited about is basically Elite II with sparkly bits on with a totally modern game engine and gfx. I still have my Fronter Elite t-shirt lol

Well I was gonna mention Vic20, Com64, Spec48k/128k, Amiga1200 ST, Amiga CD, Nintendo 64, Sega Mega Drive/cd, Play Station (all), then finally PC/Laptop,( all in order of buying over the years ) But that would be showing my age. ;D

Oh i forgot my first console, Binatone Pong, feel really old now.

LOL

Cygna

[Geraldine]

What me, excited!?! ;D Well maybe a little around Alpha release time
As for the vid, I believe that is the Miggy version you posted. I play Frontier on my A4000 with a 68060 Cyber Strom MkIII and it is awesome. Pure gaming nirvana!

Here is another remake of the intro by coolammo, this is what I want to see (and hear) one day in Pioneer

[vardek]

Hi
The old Elite on the BBC computer was awesome,and the missiles...oh, I remember
launching missiles in the middle of a fight,and 5 mins after the fight was over
seeing one of my missiles in the left view finally catch up to its target an BOOM..
that's what I call a homing missile,but Freelancers missiles don't seem to work as well,on the Crossfire Mod I couldn't seem to hit anything with missiles.
What will the missiles be like in Genesis?.
Vardek.

[Gibbon]

You get two answers to that question Vardek. With Elite, i remember firing a missile, cursing that it missed its target, i killed the ship, to find my own missile locking onto me... lovely

With Genesis hopefully made them a bit better, given them larger targeting cones, so hopefully will stay homed on a bit longer. Downside is a gave the npc's the ability to use countermeasures lol

[Cygna]

Jul 14, 2012 19:37:01 GMT Geraldine said:

What me, excited!?! ;D Well maybe a little around Alpha release time
As for the vid, I believe that is the Miggy version you posted. I play Frontier on my A4000 with a 68060 Cyber Strom MkIII and it is awesome. Pure gaming nirvana!

Here is another remake of the intro by coolammo, this is what I want to see (and hear) one day in Pioneer

A nice re-make of the Original Elite-Frontier II Intro Vid.
But to be honest as it was for the A1200ST, and at the time it was
concidered by many a break through in graphical history, i tend to
go with Original not a Sequel.

Just like movies, people prefer the first film to the sequel.
But as i say all that Geraldine, it still amaze's me.
The Music in the as you put it The Miggy one, is better, even tho the
A1200 ST had 4 Stereo midi outputs to sound, in other words 4 instruments only.
It had more oomff, snare drum all the way except on the planet then it was back again,
the sequel started well had a lot of atmosphere at the begining, then tailed off.
But thats my musical taste preference.

But is it me, that music on both still sounds current, and could be vamped
up and used on future projects...Chills me to the bone.
As i write music, i might give it go, be interesting to see what i come up with...lol
Ships in the sequel look awesome Geraldine, nice work.


Cygna

[Geraldine]

Jul 15, 2012 0:34:38 GMT Cygna said:

But is it me, that music on both still sounds current, and could be vamped
up and used on future projects...Chills me to the bone.
As i write music, i might give it go, be interesting to see what i come up with...lol
Ships in the sequel look awesome Geraldine, nice work.


Cygna

Hey if you want to have a go at the "Frontier Theme", speaking for myself of course, I think it should go straight into the next build of Pioneer! The game really needs it in my view The current music is nice, but for an Elite II re-make, the "Theme" would go down a storm with its fans, especially Frontier vets like me

Oh, and here is another re-make of the intro by the inquisitor, music is not quite as good as the other one in my view but the animation is much more accurate with regards to the original

[Cygna]

Jul 15, 2012 10:58:34 GMT Geraldine said:

Jul 15, 2012 0:34:38 GMT Cygna said:

But is it me, that music on both still sounds current, and could be vamped
up and used on future projects...Chills me to the bone.
As i write music, i might give it go, be interesting to see what i come up with...lol
Ships in the sequel look awesome Geraldine, nice work.


Cygna

Hey if you want to have a go at the "Frontier Theme", speaking for myself of course, I think it should go straight into the next build of Pioneer! The game really needs it in my view The current music is nice, but for an Elite II re-make, the "Theme" would go down a storm with its fans, especially Frontier vets like me

Oh, and here is another re-make of the intro by the inquisitor, music is not quite as good as the other one in my view but the animation is much more accurate with regards to the original

Rofl, you could say that the music is not good, it hurt my ears,

I see what you mean by the ships tho, I especially liked the way the ships blew up and chunks of the destroyed ship remained floating in space, cool effect.


Cygna