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The atmosphere for WC1 and 2 is very different from the following games. Some people who started with those are use to how those games were, and used that as the standard by which to judge WC3, and often people didn't like the changes. I can understand how this writer felt that way, and I've read similar feelings from WC forum posters who started with WC1 and 2.

I started with WC3, then WC4, then WC1.. so those set the tone for my WC expectations. I prefer the live actors to the animations, but that may be because I had the opposite experience from the author of that article.
 
I understand where you are comming from. However, I started with WC2, then played the fisrt one. When the third one came out I was floored. I was a little pissed cause of the long load times (I think I was playing on a 486DX66 at that time or a Pentium 100, it was a long time ago).. The other thing I did not like is you could not carry over your charachter kills like in the first two, and you had to conform to the name of Blair rather than name your own pilot, and callsign. But I liked the encorporation of the choose your own adventure aspect of the game. In the end Wing Commander is still one of the Best Games Series to date.
 
Well, with the live-action cutscenes, you kind of have to have a default name like Blair because otherwise throughout the whole game nobody would say your name...
 
maniac89 said:
Well, with the live-action cutscenes, you kind of have to have a default name like Blair because otherwise throughout the whole game nobody would say your name...
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Didn't Blair evolve from blue-hair?
 
We've recently seen some evidence that they picked out 'Blair' *very* early -- we found a 1991 Point of Origin that calls him 'Arturo Blair' (Our Hero Bluehair).
 
I loved WC1 a lot (still do). It was my first PC game. And I was completely amazed with WC3. I understand why people may have been disappointed with it (the reasons mentioned in the article), but I, for one, was not one of those people. I like every single WC game a lot :)
 
I like WC3 and 4 a lot, but something was missing. The fact that Blair was a mostly silent protagonist, and that we could use our first name, last name and callsign gave an immersion that simply couldn't exist with the video format. Since I played the games in order, I did feel it at the time.
 
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