@Mace That's true, and a good point. However, I don't think that is what is really guiding my dislike of Prinze. To be honest, I never thought of "me" as "Christopher Blair". I always thought of Christopher Blair as the canonical character that took the place of "me" in the canonically...

Good post. I mainly agree on Transformers. The fact that the CGI-generated robots were better and more emotive actors than the human characters says volumes. And the low-brow humor simply didn't work at all... On the WC movie, my main complaint (other than Freddie Prinze Jr.) is that...

The pirate base mission is one of the hardest you'll fly in a while. I remember the first time I beat it...my wingmen had been all shot down, my ship was shot up, and then I ran out of AB fuel right around the time the Militia showed up to help with the last wave of pirates. I limped over to...

Welcome to the club of Standoff players! Standoff is way harder than any of the official Wing Commander games, which is part of its charm. You actually have to get good at it to progress through the game, so it's not like any kid can grab a joystick and save the universe. Combining the...

Difficult question, because I liked them all. I think I'd have to say WC4. For me it breaks down like this... I tend to like storytelling first, gameplay second, and pretty flashies (graphics, etc) last. WC1 was of course the game that started it all...but like many "origination games" it...

This probably isn't terribly helpful, but from a cursory Wikipedia search, it seems like the forgat for .obj files is pretty straighforward (I assume they're ASCII?). .3ds files are binary and a little more complex, but nothing crazy...the fundamental way 3d objects are stored is the...

Something I've wondered. The CIC currently makes a fully playable version of WC1 available for free download, with EA's permission, if I recall correctly (it was the version bunded with a copy of PC magazine, or something like that?) If WC1 is one of the games that GOG releases...do you...

An incomplete list of things to do or not to do if you're worried about your personal data getting data mined: 1). Get rid of your cell phone 2). Cancel all credit cards 3). Stop using debit cards. ... 5). Cancel any Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking accounts ... 8). Cancel...

I'm actually playing through Privateer for the first time ever right now (thank you GOG!), and I just bought and outfitted a Centurion to be exactly this role. I added afterburners, maxed the engines, beefed up the shields and ECM's, and am running past everything I encounter on full burners...

So the issue of the Kilrathi being derived, at least in part, from Larry Niven's Kzinti came up in the other thread, which gave me the idea for this thread. I thought it would be a good topic for discussion, and maybe people could learn from others in the know. What elements of the Wing...

Is that a coincidence? I always just assumed that the Kilrathi were directly and shamelessly derived from Niven's Kzinti, as an homage, so to speak, to sci-fi that had gone before (along with naming a planet "Niven" in WC2). Regarding the Firekkans, couldn't it have been possible to just...

Now that would be a great hack for the game...if you could link it to your phone so that texts would show up as in-game comms... :-)

Heh. So "Ranger class" was scrapped and replaced with "Yorktown Class" because Action Stations implies that the Ranger class was old but not small...and the Victory was supposed to be old AND small? So Yorktown was chosen instead because, historically, the Yorktown came right after Ranger...

What about the Yorktown? Isn't there a Yorktown in Wing Commander? The Victory is a Yorktown-class carrier, isn't she? (Or is she a Ranger-class? I'm still confused about that...) If she was Yorktown-class, that at least implies that there was a TCS Yorktown at some point, right?

Another fun historical note: There's actually two designations for the Avenger. The TBF Avenger was manufactured by Grumman. All the Avengers at Midway and in the early war were TBF avengers. Late in the war, because Grumman didn't have the production capacity to support both Avenger and F6F...

Actually, if they had been in California, they likely could have been close to Silicon Valley, and we might have ended up with the Hornet. CV-8 (also Essex Class) is docked at Alameda, and open for tours. Very cool thing to do if you're ever in the Bay Area.

Yes, you could just as easily write the line as "Those fools blame the very pilot that almost save the Tiger's Claw!" One game series that has always done a pretty nice job with the gender option is the Knights of the Old Republic series. The player can play male or female, and it changes a...

Except what the heck does this mean? Um...every main line WC game dating back to WC1 had wingmen. And I don't remember any innovations in WC4 about wingmen that would cause confusion (i.e. there was nothing new in the game engine about wingmen). Yes, you had wingmen that you could give...

You left out Pilgrim Stars. Or, am I talking about a novel that never existed?

I noticed another coincidence. Eagle 5 kind of looks like a Winnebago! :)