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Hey I was wondering who in this forum is a Wing Commander fan? And what did you think of that sucky movie they made that screwed the franchise up (or whats left of it)
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*raises paw*
And yes, the movie sucked. As did Prophecy. It all went downhill when Roberts left Origin to pursue his own goals.
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Roberts quite obviouslly wanted to make movies, not games though.
Which reminds me, exactly how much of his input has Freelancer actually ended up with? Is he even credited?
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do you not remember that movie called "Wing Commander" with Freddie prinz Jr. and that chick from deep blue sea?
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How many lights do you see?
Freelancer became a completely different game than Roberts had envisioned, because Microsoft more or less forced DA to cut corners and get it out the door before the turn of the 22nd century... so yeah, he's credited, in an Alan Smithee sort of way...
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If your talking about me I see 4. In my last reply I was talking 2 Omega not Psy. My post and his are a second apart
Thanks for all the feedback all!
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Dammit, WC sucks ass FS all the way!!!!
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My post was intended to evoke the impression that the Wing Commander movie was such a traumatic experience for me that I refused to acknowledge its existence. Cartmaniac's post was a reference to Chain of Command. "There are five lights behind me. How many lights do you see?" "THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!" *ZZZZZZZTTT* And so forth.
There, now that all the humor has been sucked out of this thread, thankyouverymuch...
WC sucks ass
Does not. The RECENT WC sucks ass. The first, oh, five games were really cool. I'd love to see Armada redone with a touch more flexibility.
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I can kind of go with Microsoft on that decision. Freelancer was already 7 thousand years late. Any later and they'd have gotten to the "we're finished, but now we need to spend another two years redoing the graphics so that the game doesn't look like shit, comparatively" stage.
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Sorry Omega didn't get it there you'd think at 13 youd have a sense of humor already right? Nope, years of being teased bout Star Trek makes everyone seem like stalin LOL
any way Omega is right. Prophecy is a whole load of crap from the get go. I beat the entire game in a day on the nightmare level (the highest one). Wish they did a WC where you can be a Kilrathi Pilot....
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Sry 4 the double post but I thought Prophecy was the fifth game? Wing Commander Armada...
Was it as good as III?
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I have Freelancer. And I'm only disapointed with the freelance non-story line missions, shoot this, capture him, blow this up. thats it, the storyline in the game is good, the graphics are good, and the combat isn't too shabby, i've played better, I've played worse, if they spent more time refining the smaller missions than that'd really make the game better in my eyes.
As for Wing Commander, I used to play the original on the Commodore 64, and i loved it, i also played WIng Commander IV, but didn't like it as much.
As for the movie: I wish i hadn't seen it. they bloody slaughtered the whole thing.
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do you not remember that movie called "Wing Commander" with Freddie prinz Jr. and that chick from deep blue sea?
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