Wing Commander Prophecy GBA

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-05 09:44pm

Yay, I'm too lazy to think of anything to say so I'll just quore TC:

Hooray!

http://www.wcnews.com

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-06-05 09:57pm

To quote me: egh. Unless they're going to produce an all new game any time soon color me apathetic.

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-06-05 10:08pm

What?...how the hell can they even expect to capture what they created on the pc?..it's a waste of good programming time...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-05 11:50pm

Damn, it must have taken a lot of work to compress that game down into 32MB or so.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-05 11:51pm

Stormbringer wrote:To quote me: egh. Unless they're going to produce an all new game any time soon color me apathetic.

Wing Commander is effectively dead.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-06 06:19pm

It's surprisingly playable, actually. The controls are a bit quirky, but they're a lot better than I expected, and it captures the feel of Prophecy on the PC quite well.

In fact, the biggest problem may be it's too faithful to the PC version. There's some tweaking though, mostly to shields and weapons, that I think really enhances the experience - I never liked Prophecy's "5000 hits to kill" baddies, expecially whent here's dozens onscreen. Obviously there aren't as many in here, but it's still a thrill when you see the Midway for the first time in glorious 3D.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-06-06 06:32pm

phongn wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:To quote me: egh. Unless they're going to produce an all new game any time soon color me apathetic.
Wing Commander is effectively dead.

Yeah. I know it. (Damn them killing it with that peice of shit movie!

) Which is why I'm particularly apathetic. I hope the game does well and maybe clues people in to the fact there are lots of eager Wingnuts out there.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-06 06:38pm

Interesting, but then WC Prophecy is the only one I've played and I didn't like it very much.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-06-06 06:39pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Interesting, but then WC Prophecy is the only one I've played and I didn't like it very much.

It had some serious flaws. For my money Wing Commander 4: The Price of Freedom was the best of them.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-06-06 07:59pm

Stormbringer wrote: It had some serious flaws. For my money Wing Commander 4: The Price of Freedom was the best of them.

Storywise, you mean, Yes.

Playwise, no. It was fucking impossible to get a lock on the enemy with
guns, I ended up using missiles 95% of the time...

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-06 10:10pm

Hmm, that's odd ... I don't think I know anyone else who ever really had a problem with it ... maybe you should switch difficulty off Nightmare <G>

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-06-07 12:26pm

MKSheppard wrote:Storywise, you mean, Yes.

Playwise, no. It was fucking impossible to get a lock on the enemy with
guns, I ended up using missiles 95% of the time...

Really? I never had that problem. I rarely used missles, the guns were so much easier.

TC · Post by TC » 2003-06-08 05:05am

[quote="Stormbringer" (Damn them killing it with that peice of shit movie!

) Which is why I'm particularly apathetic. I hope the game does well and maybe clues people in to the fact there are lots of eager Wingnuts out there.[/quote]

I hate it when people blame the movie, since it's demonstrably true that it wasn't because of the movie that the series has yet to be continued. Development on Wing Commander related things at EA actually increased after the movie's release. It fell off when it was noticed that the space sim market wasn't doing too well and they'd make more money focusing more on other things.

Also, even now Wing Commander isn't stone cold dead, with rather serious discussion happening every once and a while at EA about developing a new game, unfortunately nothing's come of this sort of thing as of yet.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-08 06:38pm

PC Gamer did an article about a year ago noting that if the FPS shooter trend slowed down, spacesims could be the Next Big Thing.

It's not like this "slump" is any worse than the RPG one of 1994-1998 or the current adventure game one (where we get things like the Longest Journey every now ant then).