Thanks for the tips. I'll give it a try. I'm enduring the GOG default resolution videos so far (just made it to T'lan Meth). I assume the upgraded ones are superior? Or does GOG already have the greatest videos?

Hey all, I decided to give Prophecy a run through again, and since I'd never done so with the high res videos (even back in the day, I had the CD version with the interlaced videos, not the DVD version), I thought I'd give it a go. But I also wanted to use the new opengl graphics. Other...

Cool. It's fun to see what Arena actually looks like. I never played it because I've never owned an X-Box and it was never released for PC or PS, but it actually looks like a fun little game (although not space-simish at all...)

Wow! That's gorgeous!

Wow, so Standoff is especially impressive at 61 missions. (More than half of which an average player will never see). Of course, they had the benefit of time: not working for a company that was beating on them to meet a given release date.

Except... Did anyone else feel like Prophecy was really short? At least, after playing WC3 and WC4? I remember finishing it and thinking "that's it?"

Agree. This is a very well put together site. It looks cool, it's clean, everything that must work works, and the hosts are constantly improving it. Of course, it has a couple of advantages going for it that many other sites on the web don't have. First, it's user flow is (I imagine)...

Anyone know why they went with the alternate design? Was it a function of what was available (or cheap) from a set-building standpoint? To make cinematography easier? (All those wings and vertical fins might have made filming around it challenging)... Or was it a more pragmatic reason...like...

The grittier lightsaber battles make a lot of sense. In the prequels, the Jedi were using "ancient weapons for a more civilized time" and practiced highly refined swordfighting styles developed, refined, and handed down over generations. Obi Wan, Vader, and to a lesser degree Luke (who was...

I second (third...fifth...Nth?) the GoG recommendation. When I revisited the games, I used the GoG versions and they all worked without a hitch. Well...almost. Had to tweak a few settings to optimal, but it was fairly painless. I also second the idea of looking at some of the excellent...

If I recall correctly, there is a mention later, after she is "fired", where she is taking some kind of legal action against the President. So she continued to do her best to cause problems and disrupt the process. But we never see her "on screen" again, and I don't recall any regret from her.

I wouldn't be surprised if the carriers didn't carry missiles. Making a jack-of-all-trades ship that can do everything is not efficient (that's presumably why we see most of the ships are specialized ships like cruisers and carriers and lighter escorts; only a very few are "do everything" ships...

It's pretty analogous to the problems we have with our modern naval force disposition. We're investing billions building a small number of huge Gerald Ford class supercarriers to project our air superiority; and adversaries are investing in cheap tactics to bring them down. Some interesting...

Wow, thanks! I remember the first post (but couldn't find it); it was in response to when I brought up this issue years ago, but I couldn't remember what the answer was, other than it was not satisfying, as it didn't explain how Blair was able to pick up his body. (As an aside...I was kind of a...

This is a little off topic, but it's something I've wondered about. I was always unclear about what ship Iceman was serving on when he was killed. The Tiger's Claw is the obvious answer. But because Prophecy places Hawk on the flight roster with Iceman and Blair when Iceman was killed, this...

Overall, I have to give WC3 the nod, but WC4 has a scene that makes my top 5 list of best moments in sci fi ever: As the BWS Intrepid is closing on the TCS Vesuvius approaching the Sol jump point, Tolwyn orders the Vesuvius to come about, much to the surprise of his helmsman. McDowell delivers...

More a comment on the general negative reviews out there than this one specifically, but I always thought that criticism of Lilliard were misplaced. While Prinze couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, in Wing Commander or any other movie, I was actually very impressed by Lilliard. So much...

I beg to differ. Well, I guess, technically, this may be the world's most *powerful* laser, by the scientific definition of "power" (energy transferred per time, or rate of energy transferred), but that definition of power is not what the layman thinks of when they hear "powerful". What most...

Well, selection bias may be working against you. No one is going to post YouTube videos of them sucking. They could try the mission ten times and fail the first nine of them, and they would only post the tenth, successful time. That said, the difficulty of WC1 was strongly dependent, in the...

Very cool! Thanks, Klavs! Would it be difficult to do this same view from the top? And yet more evidence that the 22 km length of the Hvar'kann is just silly, however canonical it is.