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There is a whole generation of people who haven't played XVT and that is a real shame. XVT has aged well over the course of time. I once dreamed of the day LucasArts was going to release XVT for the 21st century. Once they hosed that studio I gave up on the dream.

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I'm having high hopes for both Star Citizen and the indie game Rogue System - the later one is very simulation heavy and could bring back the warm feeling of getting a damaged craft under control, only on steroids this time. None will have the SW licence, but hey - can't have everything, right?

Btw. how come nobody really cashed in on the Battlestar Galactica hype?

I worry that SC is way too ambitious. I never really thought Wing Commander ever delivered on it's hype, and I think SC is more of the same. I look forward to being proven wrong though.

BSG online has a bit of a following, but being browser based I gave it a miss

WC4 is still my favorite spacesim - don't know about the hype beforehand, but for me it was just a very well told and engaging space opera.

WC3 is one of my favorite games of all time. Everything was done so well in that game, for its time.

Not to mention that the cutscenes look much better than the Wing Commander movie ;-)

I still have that game on six CDs somewhere; I wonder whether they're still unscratched enough to be playable ...

Did you ever play X-Wing or Tie Fighter? Tie Fighter was an incredible game. You could spend days in the training simulator.

X-Wing Alliance was also exceptionally good, including Em-Kay shouting "Check your mail!" and "There's no point even TRYING any more!"

Tie Fighter was marvellous. All in 3 floppy disks if I remember correctly.

As someone who's always hated the Star Wars movies (except Empire, natch), I've nevertheless lost a lot of my life and worn out at least two joysticks to Tie Fighter. Fantastic piece of work.

I have yet to find a joystick that is half as nice as the (Microsoft!) one I had back then. Now it seems like either the springs are too hard or force feedback makes the dead zone all sloppy. I feel like the Goldilocks of joysticks.

Yeah, all 3! I loved those games

I'm told the new Galactic Starfighter expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic has a lot of the things people liked about XVT in it. It's free-to-play now, might be worth checking out: http://www.swtor.com/galactic-starfighter

Disclaimer: used to work on that project, still have friends who do.

Sadly it has not.

I was very hoping for this. But the (few) maps are horrible for a "space" sim. The MMO fighter/item-part killed the rest of my possible motivation.

I really hope Disney will come up with something real in the future. I've been building Maps vor TIE-Fighter, X-Wing and XvT back in their days for The Emperors Hammer (that still exists out there!) so I hope they won't forget about the creativity in the community.

SWTOR forgot completly.

I'm looking forward to Enemy Starfigher, which make some references to TIE Fighter on the one side, and Homeworld on the other side.

http://enemystarfighter.com/

I felt like Freelancer was a good, more recent game, that was a lot like XVT. I guess even that's 11 years old now :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer_(video_game)

Well, except it replaced any level of skill you needed in XvT with clicky-the-thingy-oh-looky-it-explodes. XvT was the Quake of spacesims, garnered with some real sim elements like tuning your energy consumers. No game since has delivered on this again - for some reason all publishers thought there is no market for this - looking at Robert's kickstarter I think this has clearly been proven wrong now.

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