I'm afraid I agree with you - yes, it was because of the China angle. However, I will add that I would heartily agree with their policies *if* content was indeed not an issue. I would wholeheartedly approve a policy that bans people for protesting about Brexit (from whichever side) as for...

Well… I never actually finished Saga. I played it on and off from 2012 to 2013, and then ended up breaking off. I certainly intended to continue playing, but didn't. The thing that stopped me was first, a really unenjoyable mission that I kept failing, with the consequence that I kept putting...

Freespace 2 at its best… and at its most awful :). I can imagine the feeling of it (I can only imagine, though, as I never got around to playing FS2), but that endgame video (which I did watch)… man, what an awful thing that was. "We pay our respects to the great, heroic pilot... Alpha One."...

Yep. Since my previous post, I read up a little more about FS2, and it seems like it was basically a product Interplay didn't want. They had funded it, obviously, and they were the publisher, but they didn't seem to believe the game would sell well enough to justify any marketing money. They...

The thing with FS2 is that it was up against every possible barrier to success. I don't want to say "doomed to fail", because obviously, a lot of people thought it could be successful, and they must have had their reasons. But there are two big reasons why it was in serious trouble right out the...

The trigger for the movie wouldn't be an issue. Either event would be easy to code. I suspect it's mostly a balancing issue. Armada sidelines capship attacks in favour of fighter dogfights. They basically give the player every possible opportunity to avoid torpedo runs at all. It seems clear...

Freelancer's storyline didn't have sidequests, but it had an understanding with the people who do ;). You could get randomly generated missions pretty much everywhere, but there were no proper sidequests in the sense of pre-designed optional storylines. No expansions, either. It would be...

Oh, yes, yes, yes. I was really getting into the story up to that point. It was such a pleasant change, to have no aliens, just human politics. And then, suddenly, glowing eyes. And it all goes downhill from there. But apart from being silly, Freelancer's story had a much bigger problem. Way...

It seems to be standard procedure these days for me to miss CIC birthday parties - I don't even remember the last time I got to attend. Regardless, happy birthday, and as usual, thanks for all the work you continue to put into keeping this community alive!

The Super Ferret is interesting in and of itself, because it's a clear step towards making the Ferret equal the Epee in terms of armament. I can't help wondering if this isn't a sort of tacit admission on the part of the designers that the Epee didn't turn out to be as fun as they hoped. Once...

No one has ever denied that the Epee is a flying coffin. The only "but" about it is that the Epee works genuinely well in WCP, where shields bounce you off, and horridly badly in WC2... and unfortunately, WC2 is the canonical Epee experience. However, the Epee may be a death trap, but it's by...

Hey, I have lots of love for the Hellcat. To be precise, it's a ship I love to hate ;).

Great stuff! First time in years I've learned something new about how much damage a ship can take in WC2 :).

Hey now, that's an avatar that looks rather familiar ;). You are correct - shields cover their respective halves of the ship. After armour is breached, there is also a ship core which has a set amount of health (IIRC, it's the equivalent of 5 cm of armour, but it might be more than that for...

Looking sharp! I think I'd go for a stronger (more saturated) shade of blue, though. And possibly stronger shade of gold, too. That thing should look like it's literally plated with gold. Oh, and if you really want to go crazy with it, why not make the big glass ceiling transparent, and put a...

That looks nice! The trouble with it is that when you take the Hellcat in that direction, you end up with something oddly similar to the SWC Rapier. I do really love the backward spiky things over and under the wings, though! No idea what purpose they could possibly serve, but they do look cool...

Looking at these images, I find I am not entirely unpleased ;).

That's the thing. I'd heard so many times about the Top Gun sequel, that I'd come to assume it's basically one of those films that's always in development, but never actually comes to fruition.

Holy shit. I can't believe this. When I wrote this a couple of months ago, I was blissfully convinced that any talk of a Top Gun sequel would remain just talk, because, you know, it's just such a stupid idea. And then I see this trailer: So I open the trailer, convinced that it's some...

...Right after you make a Firekkan claw, right? ;)