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[ElkinFencer10]

I'm starting to think I'm the only person here who's never played any of the Wing Commander games....lol

[Ack]

I'm starting to think I'm the only person here who's never played any of the Wing Commander games....lol

Yes, you are.

Also, Kilrathi rule.

[Exhuminator]

I put some time into WC1, WC4, and WC5, and Privateer. I never finished any of them though.

[Ack]

Oh, me neither. Truth be told, I've never really put that much time into any one space sim(with perhaps the sole exception of beating Descent: FreeSpace), but they are still some impressive games. My brother was always a bigger fan and has continued playing them, especially the X series.

[Exhuminator]

The Colony Wars space sim series were my jam. I need to go back and beat those over again, I wonder how they hold up.

Eurogamer did a nice little piece about them not long ago:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... olony-wars

"Psygnosis was the graphical powerhouse of its era, even prior to its association with Sony, and few things speak to the studio's mastery of PS1's GPU like the spectacle of a capital ship biting dust in Colony Wars." -Eurogamer

"It is with no small honor that Colony Wars gets what it deserves. If you don't own it, buy it, even if you have to go hungry for a week." - http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/colony-wars

[Sano]

Xenoblade Chronicles X is fun fun!

[Sarge]

Yes to Descent: Freespace. Good stuff there.

(I actually had to order a replacement disc, though. Years ago, I had the disc on a spindle, and my cat knocked it down, and the spindle shattered the disc when it hit the floor. That can happen if it's a 100-CD stack. )

[Gunstar Green]

I beat all of the Wing Command games and their expansions way too many times, especially the first two. Could never get into X because the universe itself was too dry and I got bored quickly. I only played the first Colony Wars which I liked but I never got around to the others.

The Freespace 2 engine was used to make an insanely impressive Wing Commander fan game called Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn.

It was almost a decade's worth of work for these guys with fifty missions, a fully voiced story, uses Freespace 2's fantastic flight model and it's a free standalone program. I implore any space sim fans to check it out. It's a true labor of love.

http://www.wcsaga.com/

[Tanooki]

I'm starting to think I'm the only person here who's never played any of the Wing Commander games....lol

Uhh nope. A friend I had in 1990-91 got the boxed original game. Of course I made a copy. I was hooked instantly, got my own, then the sequel, I won't lie I 'found' the addon packages and WC2 speech pack through various circles. I wasn't on BBS's really much yet, but had some friends who had stuff, and I did, and we made it shareware.

I've replayed the hell out of the first two for years, even when PCs got faster I had to find MOSLO.EXE to clock things down so it wouldn't run like it was on speed balls. Eventually at Price Club(remember them?) I found the Kilrathi Saga which had 1+2 for Win9X speed fixed and WC3 too on 5 discs. I had WC3 prior to that on its own for DOS/Win95. I never got 4, no interest in it nor 5 in all those years.

I eventually through efnet #oldwarez tried out Armada (ok), Academy (less ok), and privateer which I disliked a lot. So I saw a slide, quit on it, again never did 4 or 5. Later with GBA I got Prophecy which is considered WC5 (and the huge gold addon is like 6 I read to fans.) Loved that. So then in the present a year back there was one of those 75% off sales on bundles, snapped up WC1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (Prophecy Gold) and installed the lot of them and tossed the installers on my backup drive.

I go back and forward on it but overall despite my love of Star Wars movies and a few games, while Tie and the X-Wing games plus their add-on campaigns are like candy to a fan WC1+2 always I felt had the more compelling stages, characters, and design elements even if they were earlier titles. Currently I still do have Kilrathi Saga but have been trying to sell it for a long while now, probably going to just give up and keep it as someone is working on repairing the crappy installer on it so it works in a DX9+ environment. WC1 is done with add-ons, WC2 w/out add-ons is running now too. (google wcdx + wing commander cic aka wcnews.com as it's on their forums.)

[TSTR]

I ain't never played no Wing Commander.