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Update! A quick update: the Secret Missions page has been completed. I welcome any comments, thoughts, or suggestions, negative or positive. Http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/tuck/sm1.html

I've been seriously considering Standoff. How do I go about getting the whole thing?

Thanks for the heads up. I figured it might be a little long, like the first Privateer. It took several days of just flying random missions around the Troy sector for enough cash to get decent ship upgrades, which I had to have before I could even have a fantasy about cruising around the space...

Ok, whoever put me on the front page: thank you! I'm floored. :D:D:D

I was thinking more along the lines of playing the games in the order they came out. I figure if I played WC4 next, I'd play Privateer 2 after that, since I don't want to wait until after Prophecy and Secret Ops to do it. I liked playing Privateer and taking a break from flying for Confed. I...

As I first posted in this thread, I am writing a chronicle, of sorts, of my re-acquaintance with Wing Commander as an adult, after having first played it as a kid in the early 90s. I plan to write a page of material with photos, commentary, comparisons (childhood to adult) and such for each of...

I've owned the page for years. :D Yes, I have only done WC1 so far. I'd been busy playing all the other games, so I didn't get too much done. ;) However, now that I am done with WC3, I will devote more time to the page. Since it seems as though the general consensus in my poll thread is that I...

Since I just finished Wing Commander III, I am trying to decide where to go next. I have played, in this order: (expansions are marked with [.]) Wing Commander [.]The Secret Missions [.]The Secret Missions 2 Wing Commander II [.]Special Operations [.]Special Operations 2...

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Even the games use sound. WC3 has all kinds of sounds while the player is in the cockpit. That's how you know you're being fired upon, etc. I think that can be chalked up to use of sound in space for the player's benefit, but still. As for Old School Dogfighting; yes, I understand that it's the...

Can't I be disappointed with the movie and be tired of hearing the same "doesn't match the source material close enough for my liking" and "sound/explosions in space" arguments at the same time? I keep saying this, and it keeps getting glossed over. Dig it: Spoony picks and chooses what...

I love Speed Racer, but hate the Star Wars prequels. Go figure. I always skipped my own funeral in WC1, because it bugged me. Any time a wingman was killed, I replayed the mission. It's funny you should bring this up, because I am actually writing several pages worth of stuff to document my...

And as far as rewards, they are virtually meaningless. Popular internet rant personality Maddox has not won any awards, but has a huge following nonetheless. An internet award doesn't make someone important all of the sudden, and more qualified to talk crap than the next person. A master's...

AW, I understand the "if you haven't seen it, it's new to you" mentality, I really do. Again, I am not saying Spony's material is old TO US WINGNUTS, but that it is old PERIOD. You could read almost any professional review and find the same talking points repeated ad nauseam. I am saying that...

The Niven reference is why WC has a system named after him in WC2. Wasn't Descent made after WC1? Unless you mean that Descent was influenced by WC.

If someone's going to complsin about sound in space, they might as well reference the "old school dogfighting" trope, as well. I'm on my phone so I can't link, but check out tvtropes.org, and search old school dogfighting. It just explains how terrestrial flight is different from space flight...

Sighter, if you're going to compare Spoony to a stand up comic, then let me present this: a stand up comic's career depends upon him coming up with new, original material to fuel whatever topic they are going to talk or rant about. I hate to break it to you, but new and original material IS...

Personally, I would love to see Privateer done as a movie.

The guy registered here just so he could yell at us. He doesn't care about the community in the same way that you and I do, even though we are newbies.

Interesting! I've found that tailing them and flying "scissors" as Farbourne suggested works well, too, so maybe that's kind of the same thing like in the book.