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I practically fell out of my chair the first time I tried Standoff, shot-up a pirate, and heard "THIS CRATE'S ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!" Something I didn't like about Privateer's voice acting, though, was how the generic male and female characters from each faction would have identical lines (sometime...

Yes, you could use an external program such as Xpadder or Pinnacle Game Profiler. They're very useful (though not perfect) for Wing Commander games you're not emulating, but for the DOS titles it might be better to use DOSBox's built-in mapper. First of all, you need to make sure that...

I think the original Halo had a good backstory (its prequel novelization The Fall of Reach reminded me of Action Station, actually). The later games didn't have as good a narrative. Halo 1 PC has never given me trouble, BTW. Back on topic, I notice the WC2 manual lists the Kamekh as having...

The Hhriss flying escort sure didn't help. I should've said Rapier, though, not Hornet. Nice to see this mirrored and news'd. The Snakeir deserves to do more than just sit there and look intimidating.

It's deep foreshadowing of Tolwyn's chronic blindspot involving Blair, the blindspot that will lead to his downfall. So biased is old Geof that he not only refers to Blair with the wrong rank, he uses a rank that doesn't even exist in the service branch Blair is in. So prideful is Tolwyn that...

I liked Mortal Kombat and Doom.

I'm pretty sure that no one here is posting in anger, danr. I'm sure not. It's actually a pretty interesting discussion. I think they looked through the games and used what made for an interesting story and ignored what didn't, without any efforts towards maintaining some kind of strict...

It's possible to come up with an explanation to fit almost anything into Wing Commander continuity (Ultima! Sonic the Hedgehog!). Can anyone honestly look at the scenes in the movie relating to Bossman and say they're trying to suggest anything other than that he's dead, though? The ships' name...

"You cannot defeat the heir to Kilrah!" - Thrakhath, the heir to Kilrah, shortly before his defeat. Another weird thing about WC2's voices is that Thrakhath and Jazz each seem to have two different voice actors portraying them. Listen to either character talk in the cinematics, and compare that...

WHO ARE YOU THAT FLIES SO GOOD?!?!?1?

You're forgetting Jazz. Don't forget Jazz. He wouldn't forget you.

Tolwyn bumped his head and forgot that Kilrathi cloaking devices existed! He did! He said it so many times everyone else went along with it, just to humor him! Good point.

Though it doesn't explain why Doomsday says the only survivors from the Tiger's Claw who aren't on the Concordia are Paladin and Maniac, or why Jazz says the only survivors are Blair, Angel, Paladin, and Maniac. Or why the flashback at the beginning of Special Operations 2 shows the...

Yeah. Going by what Chris Roberts has said, it seems that during production the movie wasn't intended to be part of the same fictional universe as the games. The original relationship between the two was apparently like the relationship between the Spider-Man comics and movies, where the later...

Uh... yeah, that's what I was referring to in my previous post. Fleet Action reveals Hunter survived - he left on a furlough the day before the Claw was destroyed - only to kill him off a little later as Hunter sacrifices himself to protect Paladin. I'm not sure whether Iceman was always...

On the losing track of Wing Commander II, Blair indicates that Knight died when the Tiger's Claw went down. He also mentions that Hunter and Iceman died there, and of course later material gave them different fates, but no such luck in Knight's case. In the WC3 novelization, Blair thinks back...

"A lot of good ships and a hell of a lot of personnel had died in six attempts to retake the planet." My reading of it is that there were six previous battles and the one just beginning in the book would be the seventh. The passage doesn't seem totally clear, though.

I felt the same way about corvettes when I first tried WC3, but they're actually incredibly easy. Attack them from the same plane they're traveling on, not from above or below. Only two turrets can target you at a time if you come in flat from the flanks. Their fire is only accurate when you're...

Yeah, that is kind of odd. The Grikath seemed pretty helpless against fighters to me, like the Paktahn, and in both cases I usually only caught fire from their rear turrets. The Grikath seemed to be more like a bomber than the heavy fighter the game documentation made it out to be. Anyway, the...

Thanks a ton! I was starting to think no one had backed it up before the site went down. *Loads SM2 and watches his Hornet get annihilated by the Snakeir's firepower* Beautiful.