More excited for this than any game ever released, and even more so if it turns out to be a true Wing Commander sequel.

Teaser here: http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/g...itizen-trailer

Full trailer and more info out at 10 AM EST today.

Lots of lore, updates, etc. available here:

http://robertsspaceindustries.com/

I'd be really shocked if it actually is a Wing Commander sequel because EA (shockingly) has been obnoxious about the game rights, but I'm still hoping.

Screenshots that hint at it possibly being Wing Commander-related:

"Kilrathi" on the radar along with the Kilrathi fleet symbol


Sure looks like a Kilrathi pilot here:

OMG, Wing Commander rebooted? Sign. me. up.

They are doing a Kickstarter like thing to get going.
tons more info here (including an interview thing with Chris Roberts), apparently the main site was overwhelmed and crashed: http://backup-na.robertsspaceindustries.com/

official trailer:



I guess it's not technically Wing Commander, but obv lots of the same names are used (Vega Sector, Kurosawa System should be instantly familiar, etc.) and the feel should be similar since it's by Chris freaking Roberts.

I'd be in for some C. Roberts inspired space combat.

A mod should probably update the title to say Star Citizen.

Now the question is, what level to support at, lol.

What was the gameplay like in Wing Commander? How does it compare to, say, Freelancer or Descent (which are prob nothing like it but are the last space combat games I played)?

good call, thanks goofy (I assume)

Wing Commander 1-4 (there was a 5th that was slightly different and not made by Chris Roberts) were based on fairly linear story lines. The cool thing, though, was that if you did well or did poorly, your missions would change. The game branched into different missions. WC 3/4 had live action video and (especially WC4) were almost movies that had gameplay put in as opposed to games with movies in them. The actual gameplay itself was probably similar to Freelancer (although you were in the cockpit, not 3rd person like Freelancer--yes I know you had the option to switch it in Freelancer, but that wasn't how the game was designed) except not as open.

Oh, and real men used joysticks, not the ****ing mouse. This is very important.

There was also Wing Commander: Privateer, which was basically the earlier version of Freelancer, set in the WC universe. That was WC's gameplay set in an open world where you upgraded your ship, etc. with a storyline thrown in that was pretty meh. Still an awesome game though, obv.

btw for huge fans like me, this was recently released

Original Proposal for Wing Commander

It was called "Squadron" and had tons of features that obviously couldn't be in the original game for technical reasons...many of these features have resurfaced in Star Citizen. Cool to see how Roberts' really is trying to make what he envisioned WC would be like in the first place.

am interested only if there's multiplayer

Just read this. loved wing commander. this has me really excited if they do a decent reboot.

there will be a separate multiplayer persistent universe type thing, but don't bother clicking on the links or anything if you are actually interested

personally, I'd rather all the multiplayer resources go into making a bigger, better single player campaign, but I understand it has to have multiplayer to be successful

oh also, I recently started a playthrough of all the games again...gog.com makes this fairly cheap and easy for people that don't have copies of the games or can't get them working on modern PCs, just a heads up for anyone wanting to relive former glory

agree with more expansive single player.

i'd rather they nuke the single player campaign all together and focus on multiplayer :P

as for the links, their website is one big ****ty request for funding, AIDS to my eyes.

Admit it, you're just mad you can't be a general

I'm seriously considering donating. If he can pull it off the game looks to be everything I've dreamed of in a space sim since I first played Trade Wars.

Holy crap. Finally had time to sit and watch the vid.

The industry really needs a game like this.

Wife and I donating a hundred bucks. Let us gogogo!

wow they raised 500k the first day before the site crashed, pretty awesome

Like that it's going to have Newtonian physics. There aren't many space combat games that do. It can make the combat a lot more interesting.

omg this. This is finally the thing that would get me to upgrade this POS I'm using.

Main site is back up. $645,000 raised so far out of the target $2,000,000.

Over $1M now.

They added a Kickstarter option today, and their website crashed again.

Not a surprise this thing is well on it's way.

Roberts has an AMA on reddit about this. Says there will be an FPS aspect while on space stations and starships and a lot of other cool things.

Something along the lines of Mass Effect type gameplay would be amazing.

One of the best series ever made. I'm glad to see that they're going with the Kilrathi as the villains again, as they were by far the best. I think even if it's not a direct sequel, it will still be a great game just for being based in that universe.

Really incredible how much character development and great showdowns occured in this series given the style of play.