I had always been anti-gaming. The I had to install WOW on my sons PC. It had issues and found myself having to play it to be able to see what was happening when for the techs. STar Trek On Line came out at the same time. I was curious. That's all. I just wondered what it was like compared to WOW. SO I tried it, ya know. JUst took it for a spin.

It was okay. Then, this 'kid' starts chatting me up on a mission and has me follow him to Spacedock. He gives me...GIVES me a coveted Bat'leth that Feds got during the Beta stage. He says 'The Klinks get all pissed off when they see you using one of these." So I go into a PvP mission. Halfway through I am getting my ass kicked so I switch weapons and pull out the Batleth. Well, all 5 Klinks get riled and come after me. They're calling me names as I take em out. I was laughing my ass off because they were so pissed I had a Bat'leth.

I was hooked.

That sucker was billed as Freelancer 2.0. Confirm/deny?

If you can't (not having played Freelancer, maybe?) what's it like/what can you compare it to?

I got a M61 Vulcan Cannon sound to work/sound right in Flight Sim X [they don't sound like a machine gun].

Now my F105D Thunderchief sounds the part.

'Skinning' is fun...

Well I have heard a lot comparing it to Freelancer on the forums(mainly to bitch how SFRU isn't FL), but since I never played it I can't personally say how similar it is.

Also afraid I don't play many of these space combat sim type games, last I played i think was Starlancer on Dreamcast lol, so not much help there. I was drawn by the open sandbox setup, huge levels/systems and some fierce(and at time frustrating) dogfights. Like I said though manual and tutorials are useless, everything is learn as you go with some help from the forums, making it difficult to get going initially, but now worth it(to me at least)

. . .Can has? *Makes plane noises and goes off to get Flight Sim X*

I played...let's get 4 tablets a day down the cat's throat so she doesn't have a second stroke....   there was blood...there was gore...there was screaming...and running .....and hiding.....not sure who won.. but we both ended up covered in liverwurst....

Dawn of War "Soulstorm"

I'm certainly not anti-gaming... just don't like to play PC games.  I like to play simple fun games with my kids on the Wii.  I'll take a good game of Lego Star Wars or NBA 2010 over WOW or Star Trek anyday.  I did play Unreal Tournament online with my brothers back in the day... but my last 2 computers have never seen a game.

Lets see, Machinarium, class adventure game, really reminded me of my Broken Sword days.

League of Legends, from the guys who brought you DotA, could never get into Demigod myself (which is similar to DotA and LoL as well), but this is extremely addictive.

And last but by no means least Eve Online, on my 6th month ingame and still learning new stuff

Played Demigod LAN with my wife, tried to play Starcraft 2 with the unplayable patch 13, installed Fall from Heaven 2 for my very first time (while waiting for Elemental beta 2) and a little bit Titan Quest.

one thing about fall from heaven... it has lots and lots of resources... it really is a good idea to play with a race not bothing with magic at all at least once through for a little less to deal with... maybe play as Grigori to begin with, adventurers are strong and let you try out lots of things without requring you to go down religious paths (although immortal adventurers are impressive). The free experience for hero units means you can see what promotions are unlocked by research without randomly stumbling into fights.

egads! double post

Thanks for your tip. Greatly appreciated.