Black Market (video game): Difference between revisions

{{quote|'' "It’s a fair trade."''|'''The Black Market'''}}

 

 

The game also features a sizable campaign, which tells the story of Vincent Wake- a man with no memory, no hair, and a talking eyepatch. Guided by the incredibly untrustworthy ghost of a former trader and general pervert named Hardgrove, Vincent find himself swept into the conflict between an ambitious Megacorporation, a hostile Confederation, and a very angry robot. Things in the Galali system are about to take a turn for the worse.

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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Hardgrove- trapped, to his frustration, in a body that doesn't drink.

* [[Alliance Meter]]

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The flash version of the game comes with an encyclopaedia sidebar, which contains ludicrous quantities of background fluff.

* [[Animal Theme Naming]]: Interceptors are all named after types of insect.

* [[Artificial Atmospheric Actions]]: NPC ships are constantly shuffling back and forth along the tradelanes, occasionally offering the player deals. Important events sometimes happen to planetary ports, which the player is informed of on landing.

* [[Attack Drone]]: Combat Drones can be purchased. Interceptors and Bombers also fulfil a similar function.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Lambert Kera, supposedly. Thelma Nassad is also a force to be reckoned with, when she's in a bad mood.

* [[The Battlestar]]: Buy a Colossus. Buy lots of fighters. Win.

* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Apparently, the closest thing to law enforcement on the frontier. Molder and Sook are at the forefront of their profession.

* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: A mild Lovecraft parody pops up as optional reading material during the main campaign.{{spoiler|One possible explanation for the Black Market is that a group of interdimensional cosmic horrors has developed a taste for free-market economics.}}

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Averted by Tricorp which, while very shady, does not seem corrupt per se.

* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: They don't, but they might give you someone else's soul, which will try to get you drunk. Supported by the pirates, who love both cybernetic implants and hurting people.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hardgrove. Always Hardgrove.

* [[Derelict Graveyard]]: Huge clumps of starship wreckage will occasionally drift into the middle of battles.

* [[An Entrepreneur Is You]]: The player is a trader, after all.

* [[Escort Mission]]: {{spoiler|It doesn't go very well.}}

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Or rather, I-Patch of dubious advice.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]

* [[Ghost in the Machine]]: Hardgrove, in the main campaign- although he's more a Ghost in the Human Being. A few of the sidequests feature more literal examples.

* [[Gray and Gray Morality]]: Several sidequests offer options of varying immorality, with no real punishment for taking the less ethical path.

* [[Great Offscreen War]]: The Century War.

* [[Hostile Terraform]]: Apparently a common tactic in the Century War.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: By the end of the campaign, a sizeable cast has assembled.

* [[Intrepid Merchant]]: The traders, who largely consider themselves above petty concerns like planetary law.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Missiles are fired in batches.

* [[Mega Corp]]: Tricorp, though their desire to avoid repeating the (terminal) mistakes of past Megacorporations has led them to at least ''trying'' not to be actively evil. The Confederacy is not convinced

* [[Religion of Evil]]: The Brotherhood, who anxiously wait for the day when their berserker machine gods have consumed everything in the universe.

* [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]: The Thrace system.

* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Ships battle each other at a range of approximately three feet. The backstory makes some attempt to justify this by invoking electronic jamming.

* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Horr is an ice world, Turin is a desert world, Sigma Khan is a city world. Averted in other cases, where port information specifies that some planets do indeed have multiple environments.

* [[Space Clouds]]

* [[Space Is an Ocean]]

* [[Space Fighter]]: Player ships can deploy fighter support.

* [[Space Police]]: The Confederacy seem to think of this as their mission, more or less.

* [[Soul Jar]]: Literally.