Game or Show?

Which did you get into first?

  • Huge fan of the show and so I just HAD to play the game!

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  • I enjoyed the game so much I went and watched all the series! Boy am I glad I did!

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  • Ive seen the show but am not really a big fan, the game I LOVE though!

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  • Im not really a big fan of the game but I LOVE the show!

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  • Not played the game yet

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  • Never seen the show

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  • Total voters
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I remember watching an episode or two of B5 when I was in when I was back in 6th form (that's the last year of high school for our curious 'merican friends :) ), Season 1, I think.

I remember not thinking very much of it at all...it was really, really bad television. (or so I thought at the time.) I didn't get back into it.

Then years afterwards - older, wiser, more (as in some) disposable income - later. Reaverman brought some EA ships he had just painted round to my place that looked so cool (I like spaceships and sci-fi) and some wierd looking blue thing (a Sharlin) for the Minbari (or space elves as I had it described to me.)

The game was cool even if I got my ass whupped by Minbari (my first impression of the game was bad actually, along the lines of - it looks cool but Stealth is hideously broken and unbalanced...this actually influenced my first choice of fleet!)

Anyway, drifting off on a tangent here...I never liked the series much, never watched more than a few episodes until a few months ago when I forced myself through the tedious stuff that in Season 1...then I was hooked! There were still some bits that were very rough around the edges but I could overlook them as the main story line was awesome - ancient intelligent races? Forces of light and darkness, the President Clark / Nightwatch plotline? Fantastic and compulsive viewing....until....until...Lorien.

I hate him.

HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE etc

The whole concept of the 1st uber being completely relegated both Shadows and Vorlons to moronic children crazy with power - all their ancient and ingenious ploys, their subtle manipulations, their insidous power plays washed aside by this dude and his 'revelation'

I couldn't take the Shadows and Vorlons seriously after that.

However - the rest of the EA stuff was still great, if a little rushed. I loved what happened to Garibaldi and all the Mars episodes were great. Then....it just got lame again. (apart from one episode in Season 5 that stood head and shoulders above every other episode in that Season - Day of the Dead...funnily enough written by one of my favourite authors, Neil Gaiman.)

All in all - B5 was a good show, great setting and background but was marred by extremely inconsistent acting (some v good some v bad points) and indeed the same can be said for the plot (some bits superb others just disappointing and seemed to me quite nonsensical.)

I much prefer playing ACTA than watching a B5 episode....

This just my opinion, take it or leave it ;)

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Burger said:
Who didn't like the game??? And... why are you on these forums? :P

I actually thought about answering that way. I'm not a huge fan of the game. I'm also not against the game. I probably wouldn't have bought the game if it weren't B5 based; between Starmada, BFG, Full Thrust and Hard Vacuum there's plenty of light spaceship combat games already in my collection. But with it being a decent game and the B5 tie-in, Mongoose racked up a few sales.

As for why I'm here? Well, why not? No one around here actually wants to play ACtA any more, so I might as well talk about playing it...
 
Burger said:
Who didn't like the game??? And... why are you on these forums? :P

Actually that would be me. I've found b5wars and although its not comparable to ACTA as they're geared differently I found myself disliking ACTA for what happened to many of the b5war ships. Not to mention I personally like the smaller skirmish style scale of b5wars and the various weapon cycles and movement.

Also with the Drahk releases, the recent bigatures, and now armageddon I'm seriously disliking the direction mongoose is heading in.

As to why I'm here, its still babylon 5.
 
Got into B5 from the start, noticed a flyer for the RPG in one of the DVD boxes when I got them, bought that and then got ACTA.

As for a fan name for B5 fans, JMS himself suggested IDIC, which stands for Incredibly Discerning In Crowd, and just to rub it in the Trekkies faces, IDIC is also a term used in ST.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDIC

LBH
 
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