I’m tell you this and I would love to know if anyone agrees; Starfield’s entire ship combat mode is stunningly similar to the Wing Commander series. I’d very the farm some lead devs or PMs were fans of WC.

Granted you are always going to be limited within a genre however to me;

• the views feel the same
• ship handling is very very similar
• the way you transfer power between systems is identical in practice and visual design
• weapons are similar in function and feel
• enemy ships come at you in similar counts and formations

you can’t control individual shield direction and you can’t ram enemies and do damage but otherwise every time space combat starts i expect a little PIP cat to start talking shit.