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Wing Commander III: "Isn't that the guy from Star Wars?"

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Agent_Karyo@piefed.world⁩ to ⁨retrogaming@lemmy.world⁩

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/wing-commander-iii-the-game-kind-of-sucked-but-the-experience-blew-me-away/

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wing Commander was absolutely my favorite game franchise as a kid. Armada was my favorite, but Privateer was also fantastic. The first one had this branching structure, where you could fail some objectives but still complete the mission and that would lead to different endings, and it blew my mind. That franchise is why I played video games with the y axis inverted into the late aughts.

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    • Tulwinn@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I bought WIng commander blind and loved it, I was irrationally unhappy I didn’t have a hand to control the joystick (if you know, you know. 2 was another level again and my computer struggled, the spirit cutscene slowed to a slideshow unfortunately which killed the impact a bit.

      It was a while later when I walked into a store to see the opening cutscene for 3. I amazed and bought it straight away. I was unhappy with the spy reveal though, I loved that character and felt it wasted the them. The cutscenes were amazing for the time, I lost just to see the alternate cut scenes. If only they could’ve realised that vision in the movie.

      4 was ok but I the kilrathi.

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  • armandoenlachamba@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the guy from Star Wars?

    This is in reference to a blooper, right? I tried to find it on youtube, to no avail. If you have it somewhere, could you please share the link? Thanks!

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  • itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also Biff from Back to the Future and Sallah from Indiana Jones.

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Tom Wilson, and John Rhys-Davies.

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  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kilrathi guts pilot

    Kid me: D:

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I remember one of them had Malcolm McDowell as Admiral Tolwin.

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    • Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Two actually, III and IV.

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      • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nice! I only played one of them. Whichever one has him say the line “The price of peace is eternal vigilance.” It’s been a loooong time but I remember that very cool quote.

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  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Always wanted to kill that dude, but then I’d get stranded. I think I usually got stuck at some point later but can’t remember where

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