#4414465 - 04/03/18 01:09 PM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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I still have that one, speech pack included I even got my forum name from one of the pilots you had to team up with for some missions. Kodiak. And yes, hard to believe it is already 25 years ago, but what a joy to play it was, loved it!
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#4414478 - 04/03/18 02:35 PM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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Good memories from that title. Think it was my first MiG21 kill in that simgame. Flying using keyboard was a true skill
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#4414534 - 04/03/18 08:04 PM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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My effectively most expensive game ever. Had a 486 DX 33 at the time (which was still well above average at a time when most of my PC co-owners were on 386-25s), and everything was fine with maxed out details until I ran into the missions over downtown San Francisco, so I ultimately plunked down 1200 Deutschmarks for that DX/2-66. Ouch. But man, it played just fine after that...
I still have the manual.
And I think that from a game perspective Strike Commander did a lot of things better than combat flight sims that came after it, namely being accessible and delivering a decent story combined with a - at that time - solid, but not overly complicated model of flight dynamics and avionics. Flight sims ever since drifted more and more into technical simulation while neglecting what drew in people that were primarily interested in a good game, until they entirely lost that connection. I understand of course why this happened, and I'm somewhat complicit in that trend (if not for flight, but land combat simulation), but I still wouldn't call it a good trend.
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#4414560 - 04/03/18 11:49 PM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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Great game! I loved the story.
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#4414793 - 04/05/18 01:07 AM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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A remake would be awesome... indeed!
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#4414834 - 04/05/18 11:19 AM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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I loaded it up from CD and used DOSBOX to get it running about a year ago. Not very successfully Graphics looked FAR Worse than I remembered and I couldn't get the controls working well with my COUGAR.. Always meant to go back and try again...but it seemed better to cherish the memories...
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#4414931 - 04/05/18 11:55 PM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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Just to imagine this game with War Thunder/DCS 2.5 graphics today would be an instant buy... along with a remake of Red Baron 3D, Microprose F117, EAW, Aces over...., and Tornado with a 2018 graphic engine.
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#4415183 - 04/07/18 06:27 PM
Re: 25th anniversary of Strike Commander
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I would love an update/remake of F-19 Stealth Fighter and F-117 Stealth Fighter 2.0.
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Exodus
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