I was thinking back on all my years of playing this game and I was wondering how long you guys been around.
can you remember the excitement when jik's captain america mesh came out (thats was ground breaking meshing back then) or when the beyonder released over 20 meshes in one day, do guys remember meshforce or even the days when mesh force was just on a ftp server. does anybony remember the batman robin and iceman meshes that x-dud never released.

do u remember when mike ent and the boys discovered how to make fx (the birth of fxforce)

remember electric freedom (where's volt?)
what ever happened to the dc connect hub?

Now i just feel old....

I've been around almost since the beginning of FF. I remember those sites and the male_shield (which I still have) by JiK. I also remember the FF Center. I don't think there's ever been another FF site since that had so many skins to download. Remember my site when it looked like this?:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021024082327/http://www.geocities.com/jasonrpg/FF.html
Man, the site has evolved in many ways since I started it. That was back in Oct. 2002!

Yeah, and gamma patrol too:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040901221327/www.gammapatrol.com/index.php

Ya know, http://web.archive.org/ is good for visiting non-working sites.
Like Ren's toybox.

Oh yeah FF Center, and Electric Freedom...
Then there was the whole Marvel Skindex legal fiasco.

I still feel old...

QuoteYa know, http://web.archive.org/ is good for visiting non-working sites.
Like Ren's toybox.

Oh Snap!

I remember playing the FF1 demo. I had endless fun throwing fuel barrels at ice troopers, then watching them go hurtling across the map. Good times, good times.

I started playing the game about 2-3 weeks after it came out in 2002, I was walking through EB while the wife was clothes shopping and the cover of the box caught my eye.  I quit playing video games way before that but I always wanted a super hero game like this one so I went out on a limb and bought it, and along with a PS2 baseball game this was the only game I played since then.

While playing I got stuck on Shadow's level and decided to go online for help and I came across the original message boards (back 5 years ago).  Then from there I was introduced to the community center and all the other sites that were popping up. And I after seeing the male_shield mesh I just had to find out how to install meshes and skins, and so that was my very first post on the My freedom force message boards...."how do I install......."   and I remember Alex helping me out.

I have no idea, truth be todl but I think I started about a 8 months before I signed up here. so probs about Christmas 2004/5

And 3 happy years they've been too :)

i remember when there was just the character tool available to download. I was amazed when I could review new characters in that thing.

I bought the game pretty much as soon as it came out.  EF and Skindex were pretty much like crack to me.  Kraven's site was also one of my favorites.  Seems to me he was one of the first to do character specific meshes. 

I remember Freedom Force Center, Electric Freedom, and DarkJared's site as well.

Heck I even remember my first skin.....AoA Colossus on male_heavy. I even posted it on FFcenter. I wonder where it is now...hmmmmm. :?

I started probably around 2003 I guess... I know I was living in Boston already. I had some skins on electric freedom or whatever the big first site that hosted stuff for everyone was called. My first skins where all DKR related, Cassie, a female mutant (on a bald with guns mesh), mutant chaingunner, mutant slasher (made a knife on male alpha) and the leader of the mutants (male heavy). All those have been long lost, but maybe one day I'll try doing all of them again.

edit: Oh yeah, I also did Bruno from the series. Now THAT was a weird skin...

Man, I feel so out of place now.  I've only been playing since about October or November.  I've always been a comic junkie with my cousin (FLASH_22798), but I usually only played first person shooter games on my pc.  Then he introduced me to  :ff:, and I went out and bought  :ffvstr:, and I've been hooked ever since.  When he retired from the game (and almost everything else in life, thankfully he's doing a little better), he gave me all his burnt disks, now my soul pretty much belongs to Freedom Force. However, I still call him first though before I ask any question on the boards for help.

I started playing a year after the game came out.  I had never heard of the game, and was just browsing at a store when I saw it.  I was interested in it, and bought FF.  Sometime after, I found the FF comunity.  But I didn't join FR 'till much later.  I was a lurker for many months though.  But I eventually joined.  If fact, it it wern't for the FF comunity, I might have just dropped FF completely.

Me too I think.
Arrgh, I can't remember. :banghead:
Anyway started playing maybe 1-2 years it cameout?
My computer got stuck with a virus and had to get a new one.
3 years later I got a new computer and Found FF community.

This is the kind of thread the makes me feel like a newbie...

I started about a year and a half ago, I think. I knew about the game- I used to play the original Sims game, an frequented The Skindex. I saw a used copy of FF in a game store, and *BOOM* I was hooked. Good times.

I followed the development of the game in PC Gamer, before it came out, and decided I *had* to have it.  I played the demo that came on the PC Gamer disc around July '02, and it came with some of Gryphon's Egyptian skins, as well (my introduction into adding skins).  I finally picked it up around August '02, and would have had it sooner, but I waited until I was back in the States on leave (plus, wouldn't have wanted to pay Norwegian prices for it, and possibly gotten a non-English version......and yes, I know *now* that there were only three languages).

I played & played & played and got through it all (didn't even really have trouble with Shadow).  I don't remember how I found my first FF related site (non-IG), but it was that huge site, with content from just about anyone (including some odd skins.....Nikolai Tesla??), where all the zips were prefaced with numbers.  Once someone says it, it'll click.  ^_^  From there, I stumbled across EF, Alex's place, Firestorm's, and a couple others.  I can't remember how I found it (could have been a Google search, or just a link on another site), but once I found the Fantastic Force mod, I was hooked forever.  *That* was what caused me to stumble across FR (or a reasonable facsimilie).  I had so much trouble with Dr. Doom, I Googled for some answers, and came across some message threads about it.  That was the first time I'd seen or read anything by GG, MikeB7, and B A D (and it wasn't even an acronym back then!  :o).  But, I just got my hints or answers & moved on.  Slowly, as time went on, I'd stop by now & then, read a little bit, and just keep moving.  But once the Skindex got the Marvel C&D, I felt I finally had something to post about (along with more than a few others).  And they haven't been able to get rid of me since.  :lol:

Quote from: Panther_Gunn on August 10, 2007, 10:18:58 PM


I don't remember how I found my first FF related site (non-IG), but it was that huge site, with content from just about anyone (including some odd skins.....Nikolai Tesla??), where all the zips were prefaced with numbers.  Once someone says it, it'll click.  ^_^ 

I do believe it was the awsome Freedom Force center, we will never have another like it. <_<

I don't remember exactly how long I've been playing, but I know it was real close to when the original FF first came out.  This post is quite the walk down memory lane - I have yet to read a site, mesh, or skin that I don't remember.  I know for years I always wanted to see someone make a super hero RPG.  When I saw the box, I was thinking I would have to use their characters and almost didn't pick it up.  I then read the back of the box and saw that there were communities where you can download Marvel and DC characters.  At that point, I was hooked.  I played the first game part way through with the "in game" characters and some custom chars as soon as I could buy them.  I've been a CustomForce guy since the first version came out.

i remember  :ff:
first time i played the  :ff: demo, i knew that i'm gonna get the game
but what sux is that i never knew how to add meshes/skins or found this forum until  :ffvstr: came out :cool:

I remember drooling when I saw promos for  :ff: before it was released.

I bought it as soon as it hit the stores, and I played as much as my crappy video card would let me.  Then I got my roommate interested, and with his computer (much better than my own) spent countless hours playing.  But it still fell short of my desire to play as my favorite heroes.  Then I stumbled across Alex's Freedom Fortress, Gamma Patrol, and of course, Freedom Reborn. 

After I moved away I got a system that would run it, but other games and things in life distracted me from the game.  Just recently I reinstalled and started playing again, and I was totally stoked to find much of the community's projects still available.  I ordered  :ffvstr: online, and now more than ever I'm like a kid in a comic shop. 

Many thanks to the great talents that are keeping these games exciting, and much respect to those no longer with us

Quote from: Panther_Gunn on August 10, 2007, 10:18:58 PM
I don't remember how I found my first FF related site (non-IG), but it was that huge site, with content from just about anyone (including some odd skins.....Nikolai Tesla??), where all the zips were prefaced with numbers.  Once someone says it, it'll click.  ^_^ 

I remember that same site, and have the same problem remembering the name. Once I saw Shrike's skins of Elementals (Comico comic) characters on that site, I was totally hooked.

I remember following the progress of a Champions rpg computer game for a long time. After being disappointed so many times in Superhero game failures and false starts (like the Champions rpg), I had pretty much given up hope. A long time later, I would stumble upon Freedom Force. I had quit reading comics and wasn't really playing computer games. I looked over the box and put it back. That happened two or three more times, until I discovered the site above and the Character Tool. I was just amazed that you could load the meshes into Character tool and view skins. Even more amazed when I added some poor color fills over the top and made my first crappy skin.

At some point I would find one of the first forums, lurk, sign-up, start skinning, actually release a few skins, and spend hours in chat with fellow forum-goers, which got me to working on a never-unreleased-now-lost-in-a-hard-drive-crash base skin. Oh, back in the days! :P

Got the game as soon as the first reviews came out and gave me a pretext to buy it, as I was already highly interested, thanks to various previews. Got into FF Center, Skindex, etc and lost interest until discovering this site and, a while later, the Strangers and FFX 1.2.

Well, my friend knew I had an interest in superheroes and told me he had this great game called Freedom Force where you could make your own superheroes and play them in battles.
Once I'd seen it, I asked if I could borrow it and I still have his copy 2 and a half years later, :D

He's more of a 'one game a week' person and he can't understand why I've been playing his game for 2.5 years

From the very beginning :D
I still love it as much now as i did then, i remember trying to add my very first skin took me ages but when i figured it out bam it was like a flood gate had been opened ;)