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YES, there should be definitely a cross-generational Wing Commander combat simulator :) Think Academy meets Armada meets Prophecy Multiplayer...

This is of course true for real-life. But here we're talking about fiction. And there it's up to each individual what he/she will adopt into "his/her" universe of the franchise in question. Somewhat like when you read a novel based on a science-fiction franchise. When you open the book, in...

It wasn't me. In fact I didn't vote for anything, as I've not played all of them. The only ones I've played enough to warrant such a judgement would be WC1, WC2 and WCP, while I've never ever once played Privateer 2, Armada, Academy or Arena. I know the plots of WC3 and WC4, but I haven't...

The old X-COM games on Steam are using DOSbox.

The bilinear versions looks much too blurry for my tastes. The half/half-approach looks intriguing though.

Not quite. He was missing a long time and suspected to be dead, but nobody really knew. Later, in WC2, she found out he was still alive, while it is not clear if that was even true or just set up by the Mandarin to get her to defect; That aside, I also think there was some "tension" between...

When it came out, they talked about it being a kind of "reboot" of the series. You start with a fresh character, just out of the Academy, while Blair is still around a a senior officer. Also they talked about making it more like Wing Commander (1) again, and all in all I always thought they...

Sitcoms going down? Finally! Everything about them feels soooo old-fashioned and trite. Of course it doesn't help when they have re-runs of sitcoms that are already decades old all the time.

Wasn't the WC3 part of Kilrathi Saga just some kind of "conversion pack" which you fed your DOS WC3 CDs to? (That doesn't mean it can't be different in DOS and KS versions anyway.)

Maybe some people here will find this interesting: In the German language version of WC Prophecy, the word "Kn'thrak" is pronounced differently than in the English original. What's more, it is pronounced differently in the Intro (Kilrathi Prophecy) and the rest of the game. In the intro, the...

From my ears I'd say neither "tollwin" or "tallwin" are quite correct (concerning the vowel in the first syllable), but in reality it's somewhere in between... So it's like "toll" with the o having tendencies towards a, or you could also say it's like "tall" with the a having tendencies towards...

That's where the ominous "klick" comes in handy... "kps" in the cockpit? does mean "klicks per second". An unlike in today's military jargon, one klick is not the same as one kilometer... Strangely enough, the other display shows distances in a unit called "m"... Again, these can't be meters...

From what I heard, this is true.

The Kilrathi were known to be brutal slaveholders and possibly even genocidal in the first Wing Commander as well...

Huh? Does anyone else get that same impression?

I'd say those tactics are universal, not only for all WC games, but any space dogfighting game. But I also think, there's no real point in memorizing them, but it helps to have read them and gotten and understanding of how they work, so you can go from there, having increased the horizon of your...

The trench run isn't really much of a trench run as there is no trench, it's more like random hills...

Well, no, I take that back, that wasn't very well thought out. Please ignore this; if I still have something to say about it after I thought it through I'll post it.

As far as I can tell: None. This happens at the Windows-side of the whole deal. Just try all of them and see which seems to work best for you. In my case its ddraw.

Does anyone know what the 10 stars are for?