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If anyone could point me to a spiritual successor to Privateer, I would be so extremely happy. Does such a thing exist?

by jat850 9y ago

larrik 9y ago
There's a ton of them. The "official" one was Freelancer, though.
- larrik 9y ago
  To expand on this, I feel like there's a lot of Privateer successors, but few-to-no WC successors.
everyone 9y ago
The X series. Try X3 reunion, or X3 terran conflict. tbh, there is a bit of a steep learning curve / bafflingly bad interface thing going on with them but theyre the best of those kind of games imo. Theres also elite dangerous, but I could'nt rally get into that. Because the galaxy is real sized with billions of stars everything is necessarily samey and bland. Also its sorta like an MMO you need to be checking out forums and engaging with the community to actually find out what to do. I do not want that from my privateer-likes. I want to just be able to completely immmerse myself in the game and explore on my own and find cool things and possibilities and implement my own schemes.
rmaus 9y ago
I think you could say that Star Citizen is the modern spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series (and is being created by the same person, Chris Roberts).
- tibbon 9y ago
  I wonder why SC has had such a prolonged development period. It seems a game that's bound to never fully launch; or have a Duke Nukem 3d-like end product. I bought into it early, but I've never been able to enjoy it once so far.
  - rmaus 9y ago
    FYI, in this comment section there's a lengthy discussion regarding Start Citizen's development; lots of good answers to your question there.
santoriv 9y ago
Also, there is Avorion, Starpoint Gemini: Warlords, Evochron Legacy, Rebel Galaxy, and Endless Sky!
hellcatv 9y ago
There's privateer remake https://sourceforge.net/projects/privateer/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/privateer/files/ (supposed to have a homepage here: http://privateer.sourceforge.net/ http://privateer.sourceforge.net/ ) Disclaimer: Ages ago I coded the GPL Vega Strike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ engine on which the privateer remake operates -- you might need to run in xp compat mode unless you checkout the data dir

If anyone could point me to a spiritual successor to Privateer, I would be so extremely happy. Does such a thing exist?

by jat850 9y ago

If anyone could point me to a spiritual successor to Privateer, I would be so extremely happy. Does such a thing exist?

larrik 9y ago

There's a ton of them. The "official" one was Freelancer, though.

larrik 9y ago
To expand on this, I feel like there's a lot of Privateer successors, but few-to-no WC successors.

everyone 9y ago

The X series. Try X3 reunion, or X3 terran conflict. tbh, there is a bit of a steep learning curve / bafflingly bad interface thing going on with them but theyre the best of those kind of games imo. Theres also elite dangerous, but I could'nt rally get into that. Because the galaxy is real sized with billions of stars everything is necessarily samey and bland. Also its sorta like an MMO you need to be checking out forums and engaging with the community to actually find out what to do. I do not want that from my privateer-likes. I want to just be able to completely immmerse myself in the game and explore on my own and find cool things and possibilities and implement my own schemes.

rmaus 9y ago

I think you could say that Star Citizen is the modern spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series (and is being created by the same person, Chris Roberts).

tibbon 9y ago
I wonder why SC has had such a prolonged development period. It seems a game that's bound to never fully launch; or have a Duke Nukem 3d-like end product. I bought into it early, but I've never been able to enjoy it once so far.
- rmaus 9y ago
  FYI, in this comment section there's a lengthy discussion regarding Start Citizen's development; lots of good answers to your question there.

santoriv 9y ago

Also, there is Avorion, Starpoint Gemini: Warlords, Evochron Legacy, Rebel Galaxy, and Endless Sky!

hellcatv 9y ago

There's privateer remake https://sourceforge.net/projects/privateer/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/privateer/files/ (supposed to have a homepage here: http://privateer.sourceforge.net/ http://privateer.sourceforge.net/ ) Disclaimer: Ages ago I coded the GPL Vega Strike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ engine on which the privateer remake operates -- you might need to run in xp compat mode unless you checkout the data dir