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EA and their old games

WORFWORF The Burninator
[URL="http://kotaku.com/5335354/ea-trademarks-populous-road-rash--squeal-wing-commander"]Interesting[/URL]


Although I think that Kotaku writer is getting a bit excited, it seems more likely to me that EA are planning to do the same thing as Lucasarts and release the old games on Steam.

Not that I'd complain about a new Wing Commander :)

Worf

Comments

  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I have no complaints about a chance to buy Wing Commander at last.
  • MundaneMundane Elite Ranger
    Syndicate and Wing Commander would be nice...
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    i would kill for a new Wing Commander or X-wing, maybe there will be a good PvP space combat portion of Star Wars Old Republic MMORPG when it comes out....
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    [QUOTE=Entil'Zha;183530]i would kill for a new Wing Commander or X-wing, maybe there will be a good PvP space combat portion of Star Wars Old Republic MMORPG when it comes out....[/QUOTE]

    I'm going to call you on that one. Go around killing game company execs, leaving a note that you want a new Wing Commander or X-Wing game. Sooner or later, they will comply. That, or you get the chair. Either way, it should be pretty entertaining for all of us :)
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    I think Curz is on to something there ;)

    And yes, Wing Commander would be nice. I never played it when it first came out, so it would be nice to see what everyone's been on about all these years!
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Typical, people raving about games they never played. :D

    The good old days sucked, ok. No ifs or buts about it. Deal with it. :D
  • FreezeFreeze Disguised as a Trainee
    Wing Commander VI: Back to Babylon :D

    Edit: I've played almost the complete series, staring from WC 2. WC IV was breathtaking on video, while WC: Propehcy was a good gaming experience.
  • MundaneMundane Elite Ranger
    Played everything. Wing Commander 1 on Amiga, rest on PC, including the secret missions and the downloadable mission packs that came after Prophecy.
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Prophecy was my only real expenience with the WC series and I did enjoy the game. I always imagined that a ITF would have felt similar, only with better physics and more open gameplay. IIRC the only real choice you faced was whether on not to kill the Kilrathi and even then it was like flipping to the "You died" page in a Choose Your Own Adventure book...

    Jake
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Those were the good old days when games were released on floppy disks and your PC was always underpowered. You had to fiddle with your config.sys and autoexec.bat files to get your multiple boot configurations just right and get every single drop of base memory free. Yeah and the low-res visuals truly kicked a$$. Yeah back then it was all about gameplay. Those days when you were bragging about your Soundblaster card and the processor clock cycles were still displayed on green on red LEDs in MHz. Yeah, those were the good old day.

    Gimme an effing break. :D
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    I think it might be time to dig up the old Wing Commander games and have a play through :)

    Worf
  • WC IV was amazing with the visual storytelling. I swear they should re-release it as compressed hi-def video and either re-release the existing game or update the graphics engine. Then it could be really sweet.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE=Stingray;183537]Those were the good old days when games were released on floppy disks and your PC was always underpowered. You had to fiddle with your config.sys and autoexec.bat files to get your multiple boot configurations just right and get every single drop of base memory free. Yeah and the low-res visuals truly kicked a$$. Yeah back then it was all about gameplay. Those days when you were bragging about your Soundblaster card and the processor clock cycles were still displayed on green on red LEDs in MHz. Yeah, those were the good old day.

    Gimme an effing break. :D[/QUOTE]

    We can argue all day about whether or not all the shit we had to do just to get a game to run properly was "good" or not, and whether or not current games are worse, as good as or better than games from back then, but that doesn't make games from back then any less good than they are. :)
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    The poll results [URL="http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3573"]here[/URL] are kind of depressing.

    Worf
  • [QUOTE]WC IV was amazing with the visual storytelling. I swear they should re-release it as compressed hi-def video and either re-release the existing game or update the graphics engine. Then it could be really sweet[/QUOTE]

    I totally agree.The price of freedom was my favorite in the series.
    WC3 was also really fun,especially at the end standing in that elevator knowing
    that whatever you clicked on one of those women were going to slap you hard! :D
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE=Biggles;183541]We can argue all day about whether or not all the shit we had to do just to get a game to run properly was "good" or not, and whether or not current games are worse, as good as or better than games from back then, but that doesn't make games from back then any less good than they are. :)[/QUOTE]

    We can? Yes, we can!! :D Don't get me wrong, there were true gems back then too, but as I've stated elsewhere, I'm not going back. Some games can survive the passage of time, but many won't. It'll be interesting to see how well the re-released Monkey Island game will do. New graphics, same plot, same gameplay.

    [QUOTE=WORF;183542]The poll results [URL="http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3573"]here[/URL] are kind of depressing.[/QUOTE]

    Woohoo, I win! :D I didn't even vote. I rest my case. (Or, they are just messing with EA...)
  • We never got WCIII to work :(

    That poll is depressing. I'd choose Populous though :)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE=WORF;183542]The poll results [URL="http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3573"]here[/URL] are kind of depressing.[/QUOTE]

    Why was there no "None of the above" option?
  • Because "None of the above" is not a option
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    There was an article I read (I believe from the escapist) where the author claimed that many old games were as not as good as we remembered. Cell phone "game developers" often just do flat ports of many old games and often find their sales figures to be lower compared to games based on the classics but with new modern twists.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    That might be a reflection upon how good the game is and how it is marketed, rather than new features added. And there are a number of ways to play classic games on phones for free which makes people less likely to re buy them.

    For example, I can run ScummVM on my phone, why would I buy Lucasarts adventure games again (if they were to be sold on the phone) when I can just transfer the files from my existing copies?

    And I have to disagree with that author. I'm sure there are plenty of kids now who would refuse to play something like X-Com or TIE Fighter because "OMG GRAPHICS ARE CRAP GIVE ME BATTLEFRONT!"

    And yes I have seen comments like that with the whole Lucasarts rereleasing old games thing going on. And yet TIE Fighter is a much better game.

    And yes old games I didn't play when they were new are still enjoyable now.

    Worf
  • I had a co-worker who didn't want to buy the new Fallout bundle pack (Fallout I, II, and Tactics) because the graphics sucked, since he was a fan of III.

    I mean.....seriously?

    The whole "nostalgia bias" doesn't exactly apply to many cases. I never played X-Com until 2000, a good 6 years after it came out and we were already on the way to high resolution 3D games by that point, and I thought it was one of the greatest games ever made. I go back to play SMAC on a semi-regular basis and I have yet to find any game that's as engrossing and addicting.
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