Let me save you from any nerd-raging Dr. Who fans out there and say that you meant "Tarsus," not "Tardis." Love that Privateer intro video by the way - so many memories. "And what is it eh? Is it a smuggler far off the normal space lanes? Maybe a bad smuggler with some nice contraband, he he."

Haha! I'm a conservative Christian and I've never heard that and it is AWESOME! I also love Dinosaurs. Deinonychus FTW!

Thank you for your comment. My wife just finished canning a whole bunch of pears and peaches as a matter of fact! I don't know that they'll last 30-40 years, but yeah we do have a big "self-reliance" emphasis in the Church, and part of that includes food storage in case of an emergency to provide for your family and…

Awesome! Thanks for linking to the update - that was a quick turnaround. My utmost kudos to DirkLoechel for this fantastic project. I'm amazed at how big the Hvar'Kann Dreadnaught really is! He also has some stuff on there that I'm not even familiar with from the Wing Commander universe (like the Midway-class fleet…

I would like to see the K'Tithrak Mang as well but I think that falls under the same "space station" exception as the Death Star, but there are plenty of other awesome ships they could include. I hope he does a revision that includes some of them, and it would be great if he included some ships from WC:Saga as well…

Agreed! I mean, besides the Millennium Falcon and USS Enterprise, the TCS Tiger's Claw was one of my first space ships, and was the only space carrier of the bunch. I mean, I love that they have Halo ships on there (I'm all for including more rather than less) but Wing Commander is a bona fide space sim. I hope he…

I would have loved to see some Wing Commander thrown in there. The Kilrathi have some iconic ships, though they do have a certain mid-90s early polygon aesthetic to them. I would love to see how a Hvar'Kann-Class Dreadnaught stacks up against a Galaxy-Class Federation starship or an Imperial Star Destroyer. I feel…

Seconded in the most emphatic way possible! This is like the Black Mesa for Wing Commander games. I can't believe this game hasn't gotten more press. Maybe I'm old (WC II and Doom were my first computer games ever if you don't include Lode Runner and Missile Command on our old two-tone Mac) and maybe space sims are…

I am stuck on that too. I've tried a Power Within/Charcoal Pine Resin combo; an Iron Flesh/Sunlight Blade combo; and a bunch of other stuff. I keep getting nailed by their dang horizontal backswing that takes off like 3/4 of my health as an afterthought. I tried it with Witch Beatrix several times but read that…

The closest to a Nope-moment I had was with Sen's Fortress on my first playthrough: I didn't know about the cage shortcut, the second bonfire, kindling bonfires with humanity (so only 5 Estus), or summoning NPCs for boss battles. I had to play that freaking level from Andre's bonfire to Iron Golem so many times -…

I played Demon's Souls first and fell in love with it. From the get go with Dark Souls I actually felt like it was a step down in terms of the crispness of the graphics and overall atmosphere. The Tower of Latria is, I think, a peerless piece of nightmare fuel. The Valley of Defilement—which I despise with a fiery…

I, too, am a big story gamer, ever since Final Fantasy II on the SNES when I was a kid. Dark Souls has a phenomenal story, but you would have a hard time noticing it at first. The first time I played through I was kind of "meh" to the story, but I had loved the gameplay and atmosphere so much I was going for it. …

So glad to see so many Fallout 3 and NV fans in here! Before Fallout came into my life it would have been my SNES Final Fantasy II & III (aka IV and VI) - Those games consumed (in a good way) so much of my childhood. But even if you don't count the tens of hours troubleshooting conflicting mods (so much…

This just in for all the doubters, straight from the Roberts Space Industries website:

I think that if Roberts stays true to his "rock, paper, scissors" approach that there won't be a need to make any of the ships, save capital ships, excessively expensive. If I remember correctly, you could jump right from the Tarsus (starting ship in Privateer) to the Centurion (high-end dogfighter and most expensive…

Chris Roberts has explained on several occasions that he's shooting for a "rock, paper, scissors" approach to the game so that each ship is a viable option for a player looking to play a certain style. He gives the example of how a larger but less maneuverable ship (i.e. Constellation) may be difficult to take down…

I am so excited every time Star Citizen gets mentioned on Kotaku. As someone who has been with Chris Roberts since Wing Commander II (Jazz, you dirty traitor!) I was ecstatic when I heard about this project and I have been a bit disappointed with the lack of coverage on this site for it. But I think that if this…

And if you do not want to see me again I would understaaaaaaaaaand.

I think if you were to look a bit more into the lore of the overall Fallout universe (which is what I did in preparing this article, courtesy of The Vault: The Fallout Wiki) you'll find that there is a lot of intermixing of the "new world" (i.e. post-apocalypse) with "old world" (i.e. pre-apocalypse). There are lots…

Ugh, me too. It reminded me of all of those bratty, broody, self-absorbed JRPG characters that hang like anchors around the figurative necks of otherwise decent character ensembles (I'm looking at you Cloud, Hope, Squall, Tidus, etc.). Please let us fire/kill/sell him like unwanted companions in Fallout. That would…