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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Polpolion on December 02, 2006, 03:47:47 pm
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Whats your favorite Wing Commander game?
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Privateer
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the only one i played in full was privateer 2. i want to go back and play them all, but getting most of them to run on xp is damn near impossible.
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I like 3 the best.
Probably biased due to it being the one I played most as a kid.
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If I had to pick one it'd be Prophecy with Secret Ops running close second.
This is largely due to the graphics though. Wing Commander never did much for me in terms of gameplay, it seemed somewhat basic.
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I quite liked 1 and 2, at the time they were incredibly advanced, but keeping Maniac alive in 2 was an utter nightmare.
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That's why you send him home.
2's expansions, because I actually completed them. The Bloodfang and I kept stalemating in the main run. I want to know what genius gave me two IFFs and all those torps on my Sabre. Give me four torps and four IFFs and I would have him cold in the first pass, but noooo...
The same thing kept happening to me with Flash in WC3. We'd stalemate. I couldn't kill him, he couldn't kill me.
My copy of The Kilrathi Saga for some reason would never let me save in 1 so I never got very far.
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WC3
and of course WC-SAGA :D
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Privateer
I have to agree. That Steltek gun banded with 3 Plasma cannons mounted on a Centurion where quite amusing!!!! :P
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Wing Commander II
The atmosphere and ship design were what really grabbed at me.
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I've only played one WC game, and that was the Wing Commander Prophecy demo. I kind of liked it. :)
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1 and 2 mostly for nostagla... I greatly dislike Privateer (or at least Privateer Remake). Someone get those fighters antiskid tires PLEASE!
Bombing runs in 2 was hard :shaking:
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I quite liked 1 and 2, at the time they were incredibly advanced, but keeping Maniac alive in 2 was an utter nightmare.
Why on Earth would you keep him alive? In the first game I got so pissed off with his constant backchat that I shot him and flew all the missions solo. :)
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I was tempted to do that in 3, but settled for flying with Hobbes or Cobra instead. He wasn't so bad in 2 to my recollection.
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It's a tough call. I think I would have to vote for 3, although 2 comes in a very close second.
What I appreciated about 4 is that I actually felt moral dissonance in my dogfights with everyone but pirates and Black Lance because I knew that I was just fighting against pilots who were being manipulated as pawns by larger political forces. That was very well done.
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Bombing runs in 2 was hard :shaking:
I think that was one of the strongest aspects of the game. Those torpedo runs were tense.
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I was tempted to do that in 3, but settled for flying with Hobbes or Cobra instead. He wasn't so bad in 2 to my recollection.
Never played 2. Ironically enough I only ever played the first one (on the Amiga) and the last one (Prophecy + Secret Ops on the PC).
And he was a pain in the arse in the first one. Always going on how he was the best. Eat full guns jerkwad! :D
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Privateer beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Then a tossup between WC3 and WC2.
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Only one I have is the Prophecy port for the Gameboy Advance, and I never really started playing that. I'd love to get the chance to give them a try, though.
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I played Prophecy + Secret Ops. They were both really well done.
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My favorite is Wing Commander IV :)
But i never played Privateer 1, Academy and Armada, so i can't say how good/worse they are.
And Privateer 2 hasn't a connection to the WC Universe. I'm not sure that this game plays in the WC Universe, at all.
But i like all Main-Plot Wing Commanders, so WC1 to Prophecy - Secret Ops.
Wing Commander I was my second game after Frontier - Elite 2 i play at an Amiga 500. So i have a special connection to this series, because it was my second game, at all :)
The only thing i dislike is, that they cut the cockpits out of the game after Wing Commander 3. Only a FS-like HUD in WC4 and Priv2 and a FL-like Cockpit in WCP and WCSO :(
But for the Story, WC4 was the best. It was a good movie. Okay, maybe it need a few more missions. But it was a good game. And i like that this game a multiple endings and you can decide if you join the border worlds now or later :)
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Wing Commander 1 and Privateer.
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Privateer.
Which is incidentally the only WC game I ever played.......
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I only played the first one. It was very good.
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Wing Commander 2, definately. :yes:
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Okay since I don't want to make another WC thread, I'll ask here: I just got Wing Commander Prophecy, and it runs fine except for the movies. They are all skipping and unwatchable. I am running on XP. Any help?
EDIT: Never mind. I found this file on the CIC called 'video_skip_fix' and I am pretty sure that just might help. :)