Wedge009
Rogue Leader
<sigh> After all these years, I finally got around to finishing Privateer 2... well most of it, anyway. Unfortunately, it's turned out to be one of the most annoying and frustrating games I've played, and the worst Wing Commander game I have ever played by far.
Please don't misunderstand me. I actually enjoyed the story part of the game, and the actors and actresses did a great job in their roles. No, my frustrations had to do with the actual game play experience.
Being one of the dozen people in the world who don't play PC games with a joystick, I found the mouse controls difficult to work with. It certainly wasn't anything like the nice mouse control in Freelancer. Nevertheless, I could have put up with the twitchy controls if it wasn't for two main things: the inability to flee overwhelming forces (no chance to observe descretion as being the better part of valour), and the sheer number of (software) crashes I suffered during the game.
I initially played the Windows patch on WinXP some time ago, but for some reason when I started playing again recently, the game would crash on any attempt to launch. (Although I've tried to keep my system clean in terms of software, lately I've noticed some things starting to fail.) So I resorted to installing the game on an older Win98-based computer and playing in pure DOS.
For the most part, the game played all right, with the odd mid-flight crash (resulting in a crash dump written to the screen in brown DOS-style text). The major cause of frustration was when the game crashed with the screen shot I attached to this post.
This particular crash occurred the most often in three separate cases:
Please don't misunderstand me. I actually enjoyed the story part of the game, and the actors and actresses did a great job in their roles. No, my frustrations had to do with the actual game play experience.
Being one of the dozen people in the world who don't play PC games with a joystick, I found the mouse controls difficult to work with. It certainly wasn't anything like the nice mouse control in Freelancer. Nevertheless, I could have put up with the twitchy controls if it wasn't for two main things: the inability to flee overwhelming forces (no chance to observe descretion as being the better part of valour), and the sheer number of (software) crashes I suffered during the game.
I initially played the Windows patch on WinXP some time ago, but for some reason when I started playing again recently, the game would crash on any attempt to launch. (Although I've tried to keep my system clean in terms of software, lately I've noticed some things starting to fail.) So I resorted to installing the game on an older Win98-based computer and playing in pure DOS.
For the most part, the game played all right, with the odd mid-flight crash (resulting in a crash dump written to the screen in brown DOS-style text). The major cause of frustration was when the game crashed with the screen shot I attached to this post.
This particular crash occurred the most often in three separate cases:
- Completing Bill Maddox's optional mission of escorting his freighter from Bex to Anhur - crashed on landing, I eventually gave up on the mission.
- Crash on landing at Hades after rescuing Rhinehart (several times! Grr...). I thought I resolved this by disabling video transitions.
- Crash upon completing the (presumably) final plot mission. I eventually gave up this altogether - I suppose I have to be satisfied with the video available in the Holovids section.
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