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That is actually very interesting - as I said, I rather enjoyed the gameplay, but it may well be that I simply didn't have much to compare it to, since it was basically the first space sim I'd played in about a decade. So, I guess I just didn't notice any of the AI shenanigans you mention. I...

To be fair, Arena doesn't actually *look* top-down :). The camera is positioned behind and a bit above your ship, so it looks really nice and 3D, it's just that you only fly on a flat plane - hence I say it's top-down. As for Squadrons, your comments are interesting in that your experience is...

Well, the way I see it, Arena is precisely the problem. Yes, lots of us had a blast playing it - but there isn't actually a lot of us. Arena was clearly intended as a gentler way of rebuilding the franchise, and, while I have no idea about its sales data, the results were clearly not...

Ah, if only that were true! There is, unfortunately, a very good reason why people at EA seem to continually toy with the idea of bringing back Wing Commander, but never end up actually doing it. That reason is that Wing Commander is, sadly, not a gold mine. From the mass market perspective, WC...

Hmm, that reminded me of something else that I overlooked earlier because I actually managed to forget what a big issue it was: namely, the engine. For a developer today, making a game for the Xbox and then porting it to the PlayStation is just a non-issue - whether they're using Unity or...

This was a very different time. Digital distribution was just starting out. Microsoft at that time had set up their Xbox Live Arcade service, which was intended for smaller games - it's hard to believe today, but there was a strict 50MB size limit on XBLA games. These parameters were the very...

I certainly hope so! And you're right, the ultimate fate of the DOS games should be cause for optimism in this regard. And I know that already, people are emulating a lot of consoles from the NES to the PS2. I am dead certain that in the future, there will be X360 emulation - why wouldn't there...

I voted for the WC2 Strakha, naturally. But looking at the results so far, I find myself feeling very sorry for Arena's ships. Not because I think they deserve more votes, mind you. Rather, because I don't think about them at all. And because most people don't think about them at all. Because...

Funny, seeing this discussion on the once-every-few-months occasions when I actually look in on the forums and read anything. But I since you ask what the guys behind the mod were thinking, I guess it's up to me to respond... :) Twenty years down the track, it would be hard to explain all of...

Oh, I know what you mean there. Look at me, somewhere around thirty games under my belt, and hardly any of them worth even mentioning, even today it feels like Standoff is the biggest and best thing I'd ever done ;) . And given that I'm currently sticking mainly to university, with only a little...

Congrats to everyone! Looking at the list of projects this year, I find myself thinking that this is a radically different bunch than back in the days when there just wasn't much else of significance beyond Standoff and Saga (sheesh, I sure hope I'm my obviously biased memory is not forgetting...

Actually, those cutscenes DO exist in the English version as well - as I recall, however, it was only available on one of the disks (the third disk...?). Ages ago, I tried to rewrite the WCP campaign script to incorporate these additional cutscenes into the system. I was up to my neck in...

(yeah, I know I'm replying to a three-month-old post) I bought Star Wars Squadrons almost right after its release (to be precise: the first time it had a 50% discount)... and then I only got around to playing it two years later. That's how excited I was about it ;). What persuaded me to finally...

Random thought... (also, hi everyone - I do still read the news regularly, and occasionally lurk-check the forums, even if I post so abysmally rarely...) The other day, I found myself thinking of Wing Commander for some reason or another, and it occurred to me, that the world of today really...

Hey, that's great, congratulations! And yeah, I can imagine there's a lot of continuity across the series. Their design philosophy evolved a lot, but it was evolving, not undergoing huge revolutions.

Oh, yeah, that was more of a joke on my part - I'm pretty sure Chris Roberts wouldn't have revised the gameplay based on one question in an interview. My point was more about how curious, how very 1990s it seems to be, that the journalist would be basically saying "hey, the game wasn't hard...

Hey all - it's been a good couple of years since I've visited the forums, and that's probably not about to change. Life's keeping me busy, there's a war next door (yeah, not exactly words I ever expected to write...), and all that. However, my thoughts do still occasionally return to Wing...

Yes, well, my opinion is surely the only one that matters ;). No, but seriously - it's far from only my opinion, and you know it :). You've been at these forums long enough to know how divisive P2 was, and it certainly didn't all come down to the "it's not really Wing Commander" controversy. You...

Which, of course, opens a really fun can of worms - what if this Haga Kaligara was as truthful as Mitsuo Fuchida? 😲 Obviously, there's not going to be any more WC novels, but if there were, I'd really love to see Forstchen take that concept and run with it, writing another novel in which we...

Man, I get such cognitive dissonance when I read Privateer 2 people looking back on their game with such fondness. As a developer, I can totally understand that even bad projects seem pretty great in retrospect. Nonetheless, it was an objectively bad game, shipped in a half-finished state. This...