Part of what made Freespace 2 so immersive was its usage of actual stars as the locations for jump nodes - as a kid, being able to actually point to Gamma Draco

Part of what made Freespace 2 so immersive was its usage of actual stars as the locations for jump nodes - as a kid, being able to actually point to Gamma Draconis in the night sky as the setting of a game I just played added a whole new dimension to it.