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Re: Wing Commander 6 coming soon

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From: Ineedmoney
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:54
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"Karl Frank" <karl@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
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> Ineedmoney wrote:
>
> >>Maybe you shouldn't compare WC games as long as you don't know all of
> >>them...
> > Why do I have to? Ive played WC2, 3, 4 and Prophecy and Secret Ops...
and I
> > know how Secret Ops made me feel.
>
> Well there you start... You do not know WC1 and its addons, which
> Prophecy tried to remake to some point. You also don't write if you have
> the addons to WC2? If not you don't have addons to any WC game, yet you
> compare Secret Ops to something. You also missed the awesome Privateer 1
> which is a real shame (WC4 and P1 are considered by far the best 2 WC
> games). P1 OTOH for example (and to a lesser extend WC1) does have its
> story very much delivered like Secret Ops does. You can count the
> rendered sequences on one hand, most story is delivered by talking heads
> with subtitles. You problem IS your lack of WC games as you only own
> those that either have filmed footage (WC3, WC4, WCP) or have extremely
> many rendered stuff like WC2. About every other game (besides Privateer
> 2) in the WC universe that you don't have, would remind you much more of
> Secret Ops.

All fair points. But as a gamer, that admidtedly hasnt played all the Wing
Commander games, Secret Ops did make me feel like I was playing an addon. Do
I really have to justify my opinion anymore?

Ed
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From: "Ineedmoney" <mail@atmycomputer.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Wing Commander 6 coming soon
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 01:54:16 -0000
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