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Title: Whats your favorite Wing Commander game?
Post by: Polpolion on December 02, 2006, 03:47:47 pm
Whats your favorite Wing Commander game?
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Post by: Ghostavo on December 02, 2006, 04:05:15 pm
Privateer
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Post by: Nuke on December 02, 2006, 04:39:09 pm
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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Post by: Ferret on December 02, 2006, 05:06:30 pm
I like 3 the best.
Probably biased due to it being the one I played most as a kid.
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Post by: Fineus on December 02, 2006, 05:17:44 pm
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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Post by: Flipside on December 02, 2006, 05:22:28 pm
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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Post by: NGTM-1R on December 03, 2006, 01:43:42 am
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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Post by: Starman01 on December 03, 2006, 02:01:18 am
WC3

and of course WC-SAGA :D
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Post by: Overlord_pt on December 03, 2006, 03:51:29 pm
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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Post by: brozozo on December 03, 2006, 04:15:19 pm
Wing Commander II

The atmosphere and ship design were what really grabbed at me.
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Post by: Cobra on December 03, 2006, 04:43:53 pm
I've only played one WC game, and that was the Wing Commander Prophecy demo. I kind of liked it. :)
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Post by: Scooby_Doo on December 04, 2006, 01:12:27 am
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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Post by: karajorma on December 04, 2006, 05:17:00 am
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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Post by: NGTM-1R on December 04, 2006, 12:05:36 pm
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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Post by: Sphynx on December 04, 2006, 12:50:39 pm
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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Post by: brozozo on December 04, 2006, 12:56:33 pm
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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Post by: karajorma on December 04, 2006, 02:43:46 pm
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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Post by: Ace on December 04, 2006, 02:53:58 pm
Privateer beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Then a tossup between WC3 and WC2.
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Post by: Mongoose on December 04, 2006, 04:27:12 pm
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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Post by: phreak on December 04, 2006, 09:56:25 pm
I played Prophecy + Secret Ops.  They were both really well done.
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Post by: Deepstar on December 05, 2006, 03:43:39 pm
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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Post by: Grizzly on December 06, 2006, 08:09:35 am
Wing Commander 1 and Privateer.
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 06, 2006, 08:12:02 am
Privateer.

Which is incidentally the only WC game I ever played.......
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Post by: IPAndrews on December 06, 2006, 08:14:05 am
I only played the first one. It was very good.
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Post by: Andreas on December 06, 2006, 06:37:10 pm
Wing Commander 2, definately. :yes:
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Post by: Polpolion on December 08, 2006, 02:34:51 pm
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. :)