Recent content by TheAD

Officially sanctioned? THat's a bit of the stretch. THe original intervew has the Saga guys thanking EA for basically turning a blind eye. That's a pretty far stretch from any kind of sactioning.

I think the art style holds up fairly well. The low resolution does hurt the game a bit though you can tweak some of the filters in dosbox to smooth it out a bit... I'd argue it doesn't really look better that way though. The issue I have with the gameplay though is more that the ideal control...

This sentence doesn't compute. Open domain? I might lend you my lawnmower. Just because I'm not using it right now doesn't give you the right to just take it though even if I don't intend to charge you to use it. I actually don't really care what you do or don't do, but lets not pretend it's...

I got pretty fed up with the save system in Mirror's Edge. I got stuck on a level where I was trying to do a non-shooting runthrough, but one particular segment was overly difficult without pulling out your gun. I did it over and over and gave up and went to bed only to discover that not only...

First, the Origin sale was September 10th, 1992. The original Privateer was released a year later is September of 1993. Privateer 2 was 1996. Those are both after the buyout. Same with every Wing Commander game other than the first one. Same with Strike Commander. Savage Empire and a...

This just isn't true at all. I understand that people like getting stuff for free. Free stuff is great. The fact is though that Origin Systems was bought out by EA back around 1992. EA owns the copyright on pretty much all of the old Origin IPs. That includes Wing Commander and Privateer...

Just coincidence... Really. I mean, the movie makes a good excuse but it just didn't happen that way. It didn't help, but it didn't really hurt it either, except maybe in the minds of people who had never played the games anyway. To some degree the series was a victim of it's own success...