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From: Karl Frank
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:21

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Ineedmoney wrote:

> So WingCommander has to be like every other game? FMV's had become a staple
> of WingCommander after Wing3 and something I for one looked forward to.

No, it hasn't but you cannot ignore where the whole industry is heading 
when looking at Wing Commander. And the industry has spoken against FMV.

> Oh yea that game. First of all, YES it did in fact have FMV's. They were
> with in-game graphics I'll grant you, but at least you could see characters
> instead of just a ship with voices in the background.

Which is merely an artistic difference. Some of SO's cutscenes had been 
pretty cool IMHO.

> SO was much more fun
> than Halcyon Sun which I actually took back to the shop to get my money
> back.

So the seriously crippeled game without FMW is better then the one which 
is. As I said earlier - you have a bad basis for comparision with your 
set of WC games. Try comparing SO to the games you miss or to any other 
space sim on the market.

> It was released, with the copy I bought anyway, with some low budget
> SCI-FI cable film, which was a lot more entertaining than the terrible game
> that it came with. I had high standards when I compared it to Wing
> Commander, after all. And Im pretty sure if the makers of Halcyon Sun had a
> bigger budget they would have made FMV's.

Well I got it for free (well actually I had to 'pay' by watching ads at 
freeloader), so I am not complaining. It is still better then Freespace 
in my book however.

--
"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to
be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
                                                Lily Tomlin

[Delete the karl after the @ to avoid my spam trap]

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From: Karl Frank <karl@karl.frank.name>
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Subject: Re: Wing Commander 6 coming soon
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:21:49 +0100
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