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Really great video with good descriptions, only issue is the music volume was rendered in way too loud, especially at 17:00 in, tough to hear with the epic music going lol I would love to see more videos about freespace or anything from you, this was well done

Luckily I found out can fly using my thumb sticks on my ps5 controller with the open free space ports

I still nearly shit my pants with that "Dive! DIVE! Hit your burners, pilots!" right at the start of a particular mission is FS2. Even though it's been over 20 years since I first played that mission, it still gets me lol. Never had my pulse spiked like that since, either.

i just finished the fs2 again for the 30th time. one of the best games still, and best space combat games to date. Going to play Blue planet next. I like the lovecraftian description you gave. To me, it's very Mass effect feeling. Except as you said it's a space horror. It leaves you feeling angst and dread, even after saving humanity twice.

All these years later and this is still one of the games that follows me from computer to computer. Along with Jedi Outcast and Max Payne. It's half the reason I still have a Thrustmaster HOTAS stick. The other half being MechWarrior. FreeSpace is awesome and I really love the work people have put into making it prettier.

I went hollow at O&S

Freespace is one of the best game series.

Shivans are in fact the guardians of the universe. When one race becomes too powerful and starts invading other races or civilizations they intervene and destroy the culprit hence keping a balance in the universe.

Great series!

That don’t you dare do hollow hits hard I saw another video about that quote and it reminded me of best friends play

I absolutely love this game series awesome video

Nah ichigo has come a long way 😔🙏

I wish you'd gone further with this series. I loved it.

Ds2 hater so I'm done watching you. Hypocrite.

Cool video, Im glad i found it. Don't You Dare Go Hollow!

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I love this series! Make more stuff!!!

I fell in love with this series and I'm sad it's over. It had so much potential as a story and as a genre.

And thats why dark souls has always been the superior story telling game throughout the past two decades

Very well made video my man. I've always looked at the souls games as a challenge, something I went in to beat for the sake of beating it, even if it was a replay. It was always more about experiencing the bosses and keeping my reflexes sharp. But from now on I'll definitely have a second view of the things I do in the games. Thank you for this perspective. Great work!

The fact that the mod community made it so the Galatea can actually use their turrets and use them all effectively. I remember scrambling all over before mods going crazy as only like 2 turrets worked for me and here I only had to get like 7 since they handled it themselves.

The sheer no hope approach is amazing. You get enough steam to think you're getting on an even footing finally and then they go NOPE. You don't win these games, you survive these games and depending on FS2 and how you choose. You don't even do that.

loved this. well done

"I found my meaning. I found my purpose. I'm not a hollow" 16:26 Words potent enough that I'm tempted to say them every morning

5 years I spent in that cell.

fucking amazing video bro you deserve so much more from making this

The destruction of that one Shivan craft in their introduction mission is a microcosm of the rest of the game. Yes, the Shivans can be beaten, but only with extreme effort and at great cost. You can't rescue the Plato, and while the crew can be saved, the loss is real. Same with the Galatea later on.

Um well.... I played in the swamp. As Shrek. Naked.

Dekker approves this Orestes Tactical loves it.

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This is one of the best videos I've ever seen in CZcams, thank you a lot

Man there such creeps. I hate them so much

this game and story was so awesome, specially the introduction of the shivans ... they where real horror in the first playthroughs.

The Shivans are one of the most terrifying enemies in any video game if not the most. When we first learn of them, you couldn't even target them or communicate with them and their shields made their small craft almost invincible without minutes of sustained fire. They just came out of nowhere in the middle of a battle and wiped out the Vasudans and left. Briefly you're left confused and then they came back and went after you. Over time with gaining better weapons and shields of your own you are able fight them on equal grounds and seemingly overcome them. Then the Lucifer comes out of left field and just crushes all hope. It's by chance a weakness is discovered and they stop it. Fast forward to FreeSpace 2 and when they appear again everyone's scared but they also have hope with the advancement of their technology after 30 years. After many victories in the following skirmishes the terrans feel they have surpassed and conquered their old foe. Even when the Santhanas appears, the destruction of it by a coordinated assault and the Colossus leaves the Shivans seemingly driven back, which reinforces the idea the terrans have nothing left to fear of them and become an afterthought as the campaign reverts back to defeating the NTF. Next thing you know you're in the middle of a battle defending the Colossus and another Santhanas jumps in and just crushes it. Then you learn of countless other Santhanas ships gathered around Capella, which in some missions you can see them in the distance around the sun. All hope seems lost and now you're the ones being driven back. Reality sets in that the terrans are not superior to the Shivans nor are they even equals. The Colosses took decades to build and yet the Shivan's Santhanas seemed like a dime-a-dozen. The game doesn't end with you somehow beating the final boss with some convenient twist either. Instead you're left fleeing with your tail between your legs, fighting all the way to the last node before Capella goes supernova by the Shivans, and even then a lot of ships didn't even make it in time and were engulfed by the supernova. The terrans don't win. They only survived. In hindsight for FreeSpace the terrans thought they were fighting the Shivans force at full strength and it took all the terran's muster to fight them off, but it turns out all it was was just their scouting party. They were never going to be a match for them. They were out of their depth they just didn't know yet. I like how the game had a balance of the forces. The Shivans were superior when it came to numbers and anti-ship beams, but it seemed with weapons like the Kayser and ships like the Perseus and the Erinyes is where the terrans were more advanced than even the Shivans. Hell, even the reversed engineered Maras were superior to the Shivans standard ones. I like that the Shivans weren't just completely superior in everything, but enough where they clearly were something to fear still. I love how the developers created the atmosphere of the game. For example the Black ops mission where you're surrounded by Shivans in the Mara and your enemy targeting alarm keeps going off, and you see these giant devices and you have no idea what they are for and you never find out either. Overall the game treats you like you're a pilot and you only know what you're allowed to know. I love that the game doesn't cheapen the experience by revealing what the Shivans want or how they came to be. You don't know what really happened to Admiral Bosch. An underrated game for sure.

This game completely obliterates my self esteem, I can't do it to myself any longer

where's the rest? i'm left hanging!!!

No I will, I gave up. It helped me beat Cuphead though.

They took a lot from babylon 5

love this in depth commentary look at the campaign. looking forward to more

When it finally dawns on you that lurtrec wasn't such a bad guy after all.

5y later and chillin in my recommendation, since elden ring is the main topic at the moment this was perfect

Thx for the in depth analysis. It's great! I hope you will get more exposure :) hope you will sometimes post more of what love

Dark souls and fromsoftware in general have helped me crippling depression and I am forever grateful. Thank you for thin insight. Wish I found the series earlier.

Damm this is good stuff

Man, if I only had enough time for this fkng franchise I'm slow to push forward without coming to a complete halt due to many irl factors ;-;

first video essay I ever listened to without getting bored! Nice work and very thought provoking. Thanks

Underrated as fuck 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Would love to see a video about Freespace 2!

I can't believe I'm just now discovering this! You did a well done analysis and your story is incredible! You got yourself a new sub. Do you think you'll be doing anything for Elden Ring?