[Darksider]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1010641p1.html


Please let this be true.

First Mechwarrior, now this? C'mon Freespace 3! Let's go for the hat trick.

[Scotty]

To quote General Battuta:

AND I

JIZZED

IN

MY PANTS

I think that sums it up quite well, if this comes to fruition.

[Mongoose]

Oooh.  I've never played either of those classics, but I've heard enough gushing praise about them to be interested.

[Angelus]

What the **** is wrong with some of the game developers these days?
Did some of them really decided "hey, lets do something really unusual, lets release actually a good game for a change, you know, something people gonna really like..."?


From the look of the MW5 trailer it seems it's going to be a awesome game, and now Lucasarts seems to revive on of THE best space sims ever, yay!

[SpardaSon21]

I seriously hope LA doesn't pull a TFU and make it X-Wing: Arena, only for PS3 and XBox 360.

[Darksider]

Erm TFU is coming out for PC, and the PC release gets new content as well.

[StarSlayer]

AND I'M

CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC

IN

MY PANTS

A worthy successor to TIE Fighter and X Wing would be shiny as far as i'm concerned, however, LA of late has left me a little pessimistic.   

[SpardaSon21]

Erm TFU is coming out for PC, and the PC release gets new content as well.

Wha?  Really?  I must have missed the memo.

[Commander Zane]

I seriously hope LA doesn't pull a TFU and make it X-Wing: Arena, only for PS3 and XBox 360.

Yeah, way to piledrive Wing Commander deeper into the grave it's already been in.

[MR_T3D]

AND I'M

CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC

IN

MY PANTS  

same,
except i'm not wearing pants....
....where is the LCD screen cleaner?

[Demitri]

Happy days, if its turns out to be true. Still have the original discs for X-Wing and for TIE Fighter. Preferred the latter tho, X-Wing was bloody solid!

[Vidmaster]

NONE OF YOU WANTS TO SEE THAT HAPPENING!!!

come on, what did LucasArts make right after 2000? Bad games, worse games, flawed games, a stupid policy, ...
Do you really think they would make another real Space Combat Simulator? You'd get a game CALLED X-Wing but that's about it.

Expect a wishy-washy arcade like shoot-em-up monster (including console versions).
Kinda like StarWars Starfighter and those things.

Activate your brain cells and I am sure you'll agree to that.
The real space sim genre is still dead, only we, the fans, are keeping it alive by building games ourselves.

[Colonol Dekker]

I have to say hookw read the original linked story. . .
 
There's nothing really conclusive in what he says at the end. Is there ?

[Fury]

Source

As part of a follow-up interview with LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez about plans for the months ahead, I asked Rodriguez for thoughts on a return of the company's lauded X-Wing and Tie Fighter flight sim series.

His answer?

"We don’t have any announcements now, but stay tuned," said Rodriguez. "We will soon….."

If any, Tie Fighter / X-Wing series has the potential to resurrect dead space sim genre.

Edit: More rumors.

[Fury]

Well ****, someone already posted a topic with stupid topic title.
Which was edited to say what this topic is actually about.

[swashmebuckle]

If it really is a XvT remake I predict it will push back FotG's release by at least a year as Chief will be playing it obsessively.  Our models will still be nicer and more accurate though!

[Knarfe1000]

Okay, than hurry up and release it before the remake.

[Darksider]

Expect a wishy-washy arcade like shoot-em-up monster (including console versions).
Kinda like StarWars Starfighter and those things.

You know, starfighter wasn't that bad.

Sure, it lacked the depth of X-wing or Freespace, but at least the fighters weren't slow as ****.

I remember how excited I was when I first played X-wing alliance 'cause I got to relive the harrowing escape from the death star, but I got bored with it at the five minute mark when I was still a quarter of the ways through the escape.

X-wing was fun, but damn, those ships sure could use a speed boost.

[JGZinv]

<-- used an A-wing to destroy an entire fleet of VSD, ISD, and one SSD in Alliance.

Was fun though, I still have all the discs and most of them are in my rack in front of me.

[Turambar]

please please please no dumbed down console bull****