oh spoony you do know how to tease us with you're upcoming videos XD

Is warrior spoony going to be with linkara? :0 !!! ( again !? )
I LOVE warrior-spoony xD
You're awesome, man, keep up the good work.
PS: I was hoping you would review shutter island :( (vlog style)

I own the Kilrathi Saga and it plays on Windows XP with no major problems. Yes GET IT! Very fun, very awsome games!

I remember reading your reviews in Knights of the Dinner Table, they were funny!

Wow, I didn't even get that “spell your name” joke until I had the commentary point it out to me. I'm such an idiot.

What's the worst video game movie? Isn't that like asking who the stupidest kid is in the remedial class? Other than the first Mortal Kombat movie, I can't think of a good video game movie!

Got 2 Say that you are really good at playing Terl & using his accent appropriately. I also cant wait to see him again in maybe a Lets Play of Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger? Plz?

'It's a trap!' – would've been a great line, cliched as it is. Excellent review with lots of laughs. Looking forward the next.

This was interesting, thank you.

How I loved Wing Commander when I was a kid. I remember the first time I played with a sound blaster, good times, good times. I only played the first two, Armada, and Privateer I never tried 3 or 4, and I didn't even know there was a 5.

You can get the DVD version of WC4 running by downloading DXMCi from:
http://www.si-gamer.net/gulikoza/

My WCIV DVD came with a Creative Labs DXR2 and the game is coded to insert FMVs using MCI command which windows dropped a long time ago. This patch converts those to commands a current machine can understand.

I believe Kilrathi saga is the best option for playing on windows. All the games are remade to work in windows and to work with Directx/direct input with no work. At least I remember playing it until XP. Haven't tried KS under win7 yet.

The nice change is that it adds throttle and rudder support to WC3 IIRC. The issue that bothers people is that it doesn't use MIDI for music and the music it does use can sound worse than what your old DOS computer sounded like, or what your current computer could do with a good sound font.

Thankfully though, there's always DOSBOX. BTW, the DXMCI site has the build of DOSBox that I use. It has a few options not included in the CVS including MUNT (MT32 emulation) which was great for me since my P166 machine with the LAPC-1 died about the time this was added as an option.

“Will Final Fantasy X be among them? Agh, the suspense!” Ah, Spoony, you devil ! You know we are all waiting for FFX ! ;)

“Will Final Fantasy X be among them? Agh, the suspense!” Ah, Spoony, you devil ! You know we are all waiting for FFX ! ;)

‘It’s a trap!’ – that would’ve been a great line, still is. Overall terrific initial review, lots of laughs and I look forward to the next video. No no no, not Wing Commander, just review.

Ummm… When you say you want a remix of the theme song, do you also include covers? My band is looking for little projects here and there…

Spoony you dont want to play X3 theres a lot of kh'ah in there you will be literally swarmed by kh'ak and this game will leave you underwhelmed and unimpressed by the Caw'ck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi8n6uN091E

I played both WC3 and 4 at a friends house back when they were released (my friend even had some special edition of WC3 that came in an actual movie reel canister) so when WC Prophecy came out I picked it up. It was all right, but without Hamill as the protagonist it did kind of suffer in quality compared to the others. I probably just liked the Lucasarts flight sims more at the time.

“Oh bite me, it's fun.”
For some reason, that cracks me up every time xD.

Aww, Spoony's gay for Jürgen Prochnow.
I always enjoy your commentaries.

Nothing to do with the video but i have a question
in the random sentence thing you have at the top of the site i seen this line “i’m just a cook!”
is this a tribute for the series Nadesico?
the main character Akito keep yelling “i’m a cook!” whenever he doesn’t want to confront something

Cool man. I love your commentaries. I also liked the commentaries of your old episodes too. I was bored and pretty much went through the entirety of your news one day all the way back to some of your oldest stuff where you posted that you had done commentaries for your original nes episodes and they were very entertaining. I believe you had planned to include them with your Spoony Experiment dvd that never did come out.

Anyway keep it up man! I liked your new introduction, I just didn't really need to see Zelda from GameCrazy. She was unbearable haha but at least she may be out of a job now since all GameCrazys are closing.

Sounds like fun! I'd love to hear remixes and covers of “Break Me.”

This movie had potential. Too bad every time someone takes a video game to make a movie, they seem to ignore that another writer already sat down and wrote a story that has everything that you need for a movie. I mean what was 8+ hours of game play can be compressed into 1.5-2 hour movie. And yet we get trash like this that seems to take the story and toss it into a fire.

Spoony, Dude. Instead of finding the PC versions of WC3 and 4 and trying to get them to run under modern Windows, it's easier to pick up the PS1 versions of the games (with scanline-less FMV) and play them on a PS1/2/3 or on a PC with an emulator (still easier than fucking with DosBox trying to get it to work properly and play the FMV properly).

I didnt see this on the other video comments or here, so I dont think anyone has brought it up, but did anyone feel like this had a sort of weird attempt for this generation's Star Wars? Here's what I mean. You have two white guys, with no accents(or you can say just American accents) with all these people with a variety of accents, who join this whole crew seemingly out of nowhere. Not only that, but you have Blair who's this somewhat calm, young, naive, yet very special person who didnt really know about his background or parent's that much until he was told by an older, wiser soldier. Then you have Maniac who is loud, obnoxious, womanizer, crazy, but a hell of a pilot that you want on your side all the time.

I really hope I'm not the only one that thought of this. For me, once I heard that everyone except for the two male leads had an accent, it immediately reminded me of Star Wars.

Freddie Prinze jr. Sucks in 24 too. He has the same stupid look, and does not act like a secret agent. He sucks.

Actually, now that I read some of the reviews for these books they actually seem to be GOOD-even the novelization of the original movie. It still might be worth having Spoony check them out only to riff further on how much BETTER the movie itself could've been.

Spoony:

Your comments on Prophecy were accurate, in terms of it being an intended reboot of the series with a new alien race, new hotshot pilot, new flashy hotshot pilot friend, etc.. While I don’t remember the sales figures or anything, people really didn’t take to it. The new hotshots were 20-something actors who didn’t do much before or after doing Prophecy, the older characters were generally given limited screen-time and *acted* old and worn out. The final nail in the coffin was the FMV Game’s demise itself.

I agree, Maniac looks almost like some rabid Jack Russel terrier with his head flailing around screaming for a medic- I was trying not to laugh out loud when I watched the review since I was in an internet cafe.

I got in touch with The Irresponsibles about perhaps remixing “Break Me.” Turns out, you can't – 'cos the original audio files of the song are lost. I would have loved to do an industrial/punk-remix of the song, but … them's the breaks.

Now, let me start off by saying that I completely agree with the general consensus on this movie. I hate this movie. This movie is responsible for burying the entire Wing Commander franchise. The thing that really makes me sad about this whole thing is that I can actually understand where this abomination CAME from. This is what really kills me, like someone took one of those worthless little pilgrim cross things and drove it into my heart with a sledgehammer. THIS is what Chris Roberts originally wanted for the series. THIS IS CHRIS ROBERTS' WING COMMANDER!

Now, throughout the entire Wing Commander series, from 1-3, they never really made any secret that this was a Sci-Fi version of the Pacific Theatre of World War 2.

The Kilrathi are the obvious Imperial Japanese analog, with how they have that code of honor they live by and fight by. The battle tactics are similar to what they were in the Pacific, with torpedo bombers being the main offensive weapon against capital ships, and guns being the main anti-fighter weapon both in dogfights and in capital ship defense turrets, as opposed to guided missiles.

In Wing Commander 3, the two main fighters are even called the Hellcat and the Thunderbolt, which were respectively the US Navy's main carrier based fighter, and the US Army's main land-based fighter in the Pacific. But it was still subtle enough, and was put in the context of a very compelling sci-fi environment. The ships looked great, the costumes were great, everything was this very appealing blend of contemporary and futuristic design.

Now you see this movie, written and directed by Chris Roberts, and every single thing about this movie just takes the World War 2 angle and beats you over the head with it. The fighters look like World War 2 fighters, right down to the rivets, the size of the aircraft, and the gatling guns in the front look like a radial engine housing like on WW2 fighters. The costumes look like futurized versions of WW2 navy uniforms too, with the dopey hat and everything. There's the infamous WW2 submarine hunt scene, god help us.

It's like Chris Roberts is telling us 'Hey, I know I created this really awesome video game series that a lot of you grew up loving, and describing as the best space sim series of all time, but you see, the only reason it was like that was we didn't have the technology or budget to make everything look like WW2-retro stuff, and if I had your beloved video game franchise would have looked like this steaming pile of donkey manure right from the get-go.'

God I need a drink.

I think they showed a kilrathi priestess in on the firekan saga. I believe they did have three rows of breasts.

guess this movie should have been called Dune meets Das Boot meets the worst SciFi cast ever…

Love the commentary and review, hated the movie.

the wing commander box set that you talked about at the end works on xp vista and if you try hard it will work on windows 7

It’s funny, but NOW I can see why Spoony doesn’t like Battlestar Galactica.

Thanks for mentioning the Guild Navigator thing.