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Boy, you're going to really love the Rostov system, then... (grins evilly). The Rapier is an excellent ship, but it's not perfect. You've already discovered one of its chief flaws--it is so fast and maneuverable, with acceleration so much better than other ships you've flown, that you will...

Not to mention if you want to play the *losing* path of Episode 5 (which you should...it's AWESOME. The missions are in my opinion much funner than the winning path ones). But trying to jump in cold to a mission like Grand Entrance or Rearguard Duties, let alone Too Much Company (arguably the...

Awesome. I'm a (relatively) new dad, so I have *very* little time to play games anymore, and have to ration the titles I choose to play carefully. However, I think Saga just made the list (the last ones were the GOG WC3 and Starcraft II, and before that...Standoff). Looking forward to the...

Love these articles. Thanks. One point, though... Technically, didn't the U.S. forces ALSO have a warning (and from much the same source as the Confed warning...a partially broken code)? The U.S. knew the Japanese were about to try something, although the intercepted transmission to the...

I find it interesting when they say the cmobat engine hasn't aged well. My theory is that it hasn't aged ENGOUH. In the early days of full 3D polygon graphics (say, around the era of WCIV), the thinking was that WC1 and WC2, with their little pre-animated cells, hadn't aged well. Now they're...

I want to go back to LOAF's comment about ships from other sources being in the early game. I had always thought that the Raptor did indeed look just like a Rylan Gunstar, but I had never noticed a Firefox...is that the Morningstar? Any others? The Salthi resembles the player ship from...

I agree with many of starfox's general points, but have a few quibbles: Not sure what you're driving at here, but it's not correct. The Dralthi in WC3 is a Dralthi IV, which is *not* the same class of ship as the Dralthi I and II we saw in WC1 and SM1+2 (that was the Dralthi II). The...

LOAF already covered this, but, as mentioned in the spreadsheet readme, the stats (other than the ones observable in-game) all came from four sources...Victory Streak, Warbirds, the Origin Official Guide, and the Authorized Combat Guide. All four come bundled with the GoG version of WC3 (along...

Anyone else notice that the Banshee in the third image is unpiloted? Either the Hellcat pilot has really bad aim and can't hit a stationary, unmanned target, or the Banshee we see is actually a secret Black Lance drone meant to incriminate the UBW.

FFVII was a little spoiled for me, because I had a roommate who was more into console gaming than I was and talked endlessly about the big tragedy. In general, however, the Final Fantasy game line wasn't shy about actually killing a major character. The aforementioned VII, Shadow in VI, Galuf...

I suppose it's possible he contributed to Iceman's death...he could have sabotaged Iceman's fighter the same way he sabotaged Spirit's...or leaked information about Iceman's patrol route to the Kilrathi, or something like that... Just speculation, though... Maybe on the losing path, the...

Actually, I was thinking more about this. Is it reasonable to believe that Knight was killed prior to the Second Enigma campaign (i.e. WC2)? When I said so, I was going off the implications in WC2 that Knight was not among the surviving 'Claw pilots. First, in the rec room, when Blair...

I was just thinking about something. The mortality rate among pilots we see in the Wing Commander universe, especially in the Kilrathi war, is amazingly high. This post is necessarily going to contain game spoilers, so don't read if you don't want... Think about all the pilots we meet in the...

I think it would be Vaquero for me. Excellent pilot (only one on the Victory that I had a hard time keeping up with on kills when I took him out with me), always follows orders, and his comms are awesome (Andale! Let's Dance! Eat s*** and die, gato!) Vagabond, Hunter, and Primate are close...

Two quick comments. First, about the nursing shortage. You're right--it IS hard to get into a nursing program right now. I have two friends that just tried (one succeeded, one failed). But that doesn't mean there's not shortage. In fact, that's part of the cause of the shortage. The nursing...

This is the biggest thing, I think. The entire point of WC4 was that Tolwyn had kind of lost it, and the once noble officer was now willing to resort to crimes against humanity because he was certain they were right and necessary and even noble. Tolwyn might have thought Blair and Eisen...

I'd be really surprised if we ever saw a major FMV game in the near future. With games like Starcraft II, among others, succeeding with "full motion video" except that it's animated instead of filmed, I think no studio is going to pay for actual actors and sets and film, when they can pay what...

I doesn't surprise me that space warships might have smaller crews than one would expect from looking at comtemporary warships. In a spacecraft, every person you add is another person you have to worry about providing oxygen to, another person whose waste you have to dispose of, and another bit...

Just going on memory here, but I'm pretty sure the reference to the Confederation class being turned away from (0r at least, to having the PTC removed from it) was in Victory Streak (the WC3 manual). And that it was definitely related to a problem with the PTC. In fact, until I read the added...

So I've been looking over all the neat source materials that come with the GOG WC3 release. I have an eye to make a WC3 version of my Excel WC1 ship comparer, so I'm looking at ship stats. Unsurprisingly, the different source materials don't entirely agree when it comes to ship stats. Some...