WING COMMANDER 3 SERIES

WING COMMANDER 3 SERIES

The GuardianвЂ™s origins and all the background that came with it feels like an obvious, because they had had this long strong origins and bakcground stuff written, that was tying everything in the series back to Ultima I and beyondвЂ¦ and they basically simplified it to the extreme and summed it up as вЂњThe Guardian is your evil magical twinвЂќ which was always part of it, but a LOT more complex than that. Now I donвЂ™t necesarilly take all rumors at face valueвЂ¦ but you look at some of the cut elements of the game, itвЂ™s hard not to think there must me some light of truth in it. ItвЂ™s hard to tell to which extent it was intentional in Ultima IX, though perhaps forced upon might be a closer truth? ThereвЂ™d been these rumors after the switch to 3D and the admited more mass market approach of вЂњUltima AscensionвЂќ that EA was pretty much requesting the developpers to cut on making too direct references to previouses installments of the series basically in order to bring a new audience to the series and no confuse them. But basically the Hobbes betrayal gives a sense of вЂњSorry guys, we ARE all evil actually!вЂќ, especially with the explanation thrown it. I would say though that itвЂ™s more that the Kilrathi were rendered juste вЂњjet blackвЂќ while WCII did quite a bit of work through Hobbes and other Kilrathi rebels to make give them more shades or gray or perhaps make it human that theyвЂ™d seem at first. IвЂ™d guess calling WCIII Black&white would be exageration true and if anything the Confedration is clearly painted in a not so noble light (altough IвЂ™ve found rather funny how everyone looked disgusted and troubledby TolwynвЂ™s Death StarвЂ¦ but when itвЂ™s time for Blair to go Luke Skywalker on Kilrah well, itвЂ™s okay!). IвЂ™m not sure I would describe Hobbes as cutesy, but I see your point. UIX just feels muddled to meвЂ¦ like they realized they needed a bigger audience far too late in the gameвЂ¦ and they somehow forgot that they should be leveraging Ultima Online to create more serious Ultima fans while the game was in developmentвЂ¦ It is similar to Ultima 9, exceptвЂ¦ more intentional? They knew going into a four million dollar film shoot that they had to sell X-many-copies more than they did of Wing Commander II. (I donвЂ™t even think Wing Commander III was really black and whiteвЂ“I mean, it waxed soul searching about the genocide throughout the gameвЂ¦ it just came to the odd resolution that it was *okay to do* once you were mad enough. After all, ChrisвЂ™ original proposal that he had to be talked out of for WC1 was a game where youвЂ™re serving a вЂTerran EmpireвЂ™ and arenвЂ™t ever sure youвЂ™re really the *good guys* in the war with the KilrathiвЂ¦ I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s so much a desire to be more black and white as it is to drop that specifically. My guess is that he objected more to the more вЂcutesyвЂ™ elements of the Ellen Guon/Stephen Beeman stuffвЂ“Firekkans, Kilrathi-as-buddies, that sort of thing. Yeah, Chris Roberts has something like an executive producer credit on Wing II, but he wasnвЂ™t there running the project. (You can track a lot of the stuff he immediately threw out, especially more fantastic elements like the Firekkan bird people.)

He was off doing Strike Commander and came back to WC to find he didnвЂ™t like the direction the universe had taken. ThatвЂ™s part because it had to appeal to a massively different audience and couldnвЂ™t be bogged down with much continuityвЂ¦ and part because Wing Commander 2 wasnвЂ™t a Chris Roberts project. The problem is that it works in the context of Wing Commander III aloneвЂ“the game pretty much ignores Wing Commander II on most levels. (And talk about politically incorrectвЂ“part of that is guilting you into thinking itвЂ™s the equivalent of racism to think Hobbes could be the traitorвЂ¦ with the reveal that no, he really was the bad guy.) YouвЂ™re given the opportunity over and over again to indicate that you suspect him, but the way the game presents it makes the player think thatвЂ™s always the wrong choice. The script is actually very clever about Hobbes you donвЂ™t realize it as youвЂ™re playing, but a great deal of the video in the first half of the game is written to force you to *choose* to defend Hobbes.

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