BREAKING NEWS: Wing Commander IV on GOG (April 3, 2012)

Cool, thank you very much. Ah, it really is good to be back in the cockpit .

Hmm, another /stupid?) question though: when I fly, it's all in 4:3, while the rest of the game is in full screen. It didn't do that with WC3 - something else I'm overlooking?

Hehe, the virtual cockpit I meant of course.

It means HCl is cool. Praise him.

Ok then: All praise to HCl, he is cool!

But seriously, what do I miss?

I don't understand why the missing bearcat manufacture scene was not added from the cd version

Ah, thanks, so I am not missing anything.

What I meant "Am I missing a patch or enabling a function for WC4 that makes the inflight sections fullscreen?" because I reckoned that if WC3 was fullscreen WC4 could be too, the technical differences neved seemd that big to me. I didn't know that HCl had worked his magic with WC3 and that without it, it'd look like WC4. Sorry for the confusion.

All of the Wing Commander and Ultima on GOG are on for half price this weekend. So if you haven't picked them up until now, like me, we have no more excuses.

Just got myself a new Ultrabook. Nothing better than to inaugurate it with this purchase. Thanks for the info just bought WC1+WC2 pack (havent played the games for ages after my floppies were corrupted).

Some spoilers here.

Speaking of the GOG WCIV, I noticed something interesting when I played through. The scene where Seether kills Paulsen seemed to be edited...or rather censored. I don't remember what it was like on my original play through on the CD dos version, but on YouTube the videos you can see of that cutscene very clearly show Seether cutting his throat, whith the knife blade shown slicing his neck and lots of blood. But in the GOG version, it cuts to Seether's grinning face immediately after he pulls out the knife, and you just hear Paulsen gagging in the background, and then it zooms out and shows Paulsen(bloodlessly) slumped as Seether addresses the shuttle pilot.

Was the GOG version censored for some reason? Or was the DVD version censored, relative to the CD version? Where did the two versions come from, and what is the story there?

It's a little odd they would censor that scene, when the Telamon scene showing the dead settlers is there with all its graphic gore.

I remember the scene in the DOS version, and yeah, you can see Seether slitting Paulsen's throat. Might be too blatant of an act of violence for GOG's end-user policy or something like that; just a guess.

Went and looked it up...WC4 was released with an ESRB "M" rating - probably specifically for that one scene. The PS3 version was releated with the lesser "T" rating - makes me wonder if that scene was edited in that version as well.

It's awesome that you can get WC4 from GOG for only $3 during this sale. I'm hoping that any 'hedgers' on the game will decide to buy.

I went ahead and bought Ultima 7 Complete and both Ultima Underworld games.