The only inmature here is the one that call me "TROLL" because he don't respect other people tastes
I'm a musician and i have never called "TROLL" to somebody that told me about other musical tastes.
I don't respect any opinion that is stated as poorly as yours was. You didn't back up your point, you cried like an offended twelve year old. Look at the rest of the thread -- people are talking perfectly intelligently about why they do and
do not like Prophecy's artwork.
THAT'S INMATURE: TO INSULT SOMEBODY BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW.
If the shoe fits - if you don't want to be called a troll, don't troll. It was clearly not intended as an insult, but as a proper label - I explained exactly why I thought you were a troll. Perhaps you could address those issues instead of protesting too much?
And yes, i had played all the games since i had a Sinclair ZX-81 (16 kbytes). I have played with Spectrum, Collecovision, Commodore 64, Amstrad, MSX, Master system, Nintendo 8 Bits, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Supernintendo, Megadrive, SegaCD, Nintendo 64, Saturn... All the games in all the systems.... yes i'm a lucky man
Is somebody old enough to remember games like "CODENAME MAT" or "3D STARSTRIKE" ????
Wow, all the games for those consoles. That's amazing - it must be tens if not hundreds of thousands of titles. As an amateur archivist of some small part of that pantheon, I would certainly love to see your collection.
But yes, we all grew up with those systems and those games - at least, I certainly did... there's also a younger generation of people who grew up with 3DOs and Playstations. I certainly have no ill will towards them for having been born later than I was. Having had an additional decade to think about the evil enemy triangles in Space Vikings gives one no special insight into ship design.
About the Alien Capital ship screenshot..... Is that a screenshot ???... That's a beautiful render (maybe from a video) but NOT a screenshot
A screenshot taken from a video is still a screenshot. For someone with an impossible mastery of all things video game, you're a little weak on terminology. Besides, this is a useless technicality for someone who is here to bitch about the ship *design*.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... Are you saying that the BARRACUDA design can be compared with the GIGER Designs for the Alien movie ????? AHAHAHAHAHAHAAH .......WHAT A JOKE !!!!!!!!!!
Uhm, no, you brought up Giger. I just pointed out that he has nothing to do with whether or not something looks 'organic'. The Alien aliens are really darned neat, but they're not the single universal example of pretty living things upon which everyone should base their artwork.
(Although, yes, I'm sure there's an H.R. Giger versus Syd Mead fight going on *right now* in some better equipped art community.)
I know the topic of age was already brought up by Chris - but do you really believe this guy is 39 now?
It doesn't seem like a big issue. Yes, his story is crazy and impossible... but on the internet we can all be whatever age we want. A number buys you no respect here -- a fifteen year old who makes a great point will always be the superior of someone who says he's thirty nine and doesn't.
Someone elses arguments, facts and evidence means nothing when it comes down to personel taste. Like i said above, you either like something or you dont.
I believe Chris has already explained why this is a load -- address his post, please, before you continue repeating yourself.
There is a very, very, very clear difference between Heavy intentionally ranting to start a fight and Major Striker having a similar position posted intelligently.
It was unpleasant LeHah. Loaf could have been polite and decent, (dare I say civilised?) towards heavy.
Heavy was just putting his point of view about the prophecy fighters across. Isn't discussing different points of view on WC games what the CIC forums are for?
What's the point in having a forum if you cant say what you think without getting attacked/insulted for it. It puts people off.
Eh, you're being generic. I know it's cool to attack the guy in charge, and I'm perfectly willing to defend my being unpleasant when justified (as I often and sometimes am, respectively)... but the post in question wasn't like that at all. I very patiently explained why he was wrong. I mean, you're being more of a public jerk towards me over this than I ever was to him. Of course, no one thinks about me -- my opinion doesn't matter, just the guy who hates Wing Commander... he should be given every opportunity to make his point!
This is a silly attack on power, not some legitimate defense of a poor mistreated user. I mean, what about *my* reply? Why should my opinion be censored for the sake of... I'm not even sure what the goal is. Because I'm too scary in my larger amount of experience here, because I'm better known, because I argue better, because I have a terrifying icon and title, I should... not post what I think and let other people who I disagree with travel undaunted? What would be the point of *that* forum? Everyone post one opinion, no one reply ever! A forum exists for *exactly* the kind of interaction Heavy and I had above.
It's sad that we've come to this. There was a time where it was more than okay to stand up in front of the flag and defend Wing Commander. The fact that we let people like this post at all - well beyond when they've lost any ability to argue their point (see Heavy's further posts above) - should be proof enough that anyone can express their opinions. We simply won't promise that we agree with or have some pre-established respect for what they say.