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Does make you feel old when you know you actually bought the original WC in a store when it was released I want Origin Systems back so badly, I don't think EA could successfully re-launch the WC series without messing up this classic franchise.

Hello DarkoneYup it does. Now to be bluntly honest I didn't own the PC I purchased WC-1 for, it was an office machine. Sooooooo I played it late after work and on weekends . The really bad thing is that WC-2 bumped up the system requirements a bit and the office machine played it a really slow; combat at some points was like swimming underwater. Does anyone remember the pausing that used to take place mid-mission in WC-2. I really hated it but given the PC was below the system requirements I had to live with it. On your other point EA couldn't relaunch the thing without the Roberts' being there it just wouldn't be the same. Speaking of them, just what are they up to now???DarKenK
Darkone wrote:
Does make you feel old when you know you actually bought the original WC in a store when it was released I want Origin Systems back so badly, I don't think EA could successfully re-launch the WC series without messing up this classic franchise.

I owned WC1 on the SNES when it came out. Didnt actually own it on the PC till 98 when I bought the Kilrathi Saga pack. Now that was an awesome pack. I never had any problems playing any of the WC games on my superior cool PC at that time. It was a 133mhz with 16mbs of ram, and a 2mb intergrated graphics card. It was the bee's knee's man!

I loved WC4 for the videos. If you pasted them together, they would stand on their own as an exceptional movie. The atmosphere was very convincing and the story and dialogue were intelligent and mature, which cannot be said for WC3 or WCP. Truly a gem, this one.

Check these out unavowed, queeg did an amazing job making these videos.WC3 - http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing3/wing_commander_3_moviev3_queeg.aviWC4 - http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing4/wing_commander_4_movie_extended_queeg.avi

Wing Commander IV baby. It had, what I feel, is the best story in all of the games, infused the FMV very well and not in an annoying way as many games did at the time, and had my favorite fighter ever in any space game, the Dragon. Sigh, if I could port that fighter into every other space game, I so would.

Darkone wrote:
Check these out unavowed, queeg did an amazing job making these videos.WC3 - http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing3/wing_commander_3_moviev3_queeg.aviWC4 - http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing4/wing_commander_4_movie_extended_queeg.avi
Thanks, these are great! Although to play right, I had to manually set the aspect to 16:9 and A-V delay to -100ms in mplayer. Also, for some reason, the music and background noise seems to be rather quiet compared to voices.

I use VLC Player, it seems to work good in it.