Comments on: Project: Origin (No, Not That One)

By: Banjo

Banjo — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:35:53 +0000

BIOFORGE PLUS!?!? I was just reinstalling Bioforge to play today, and was grabbing a patch off the net when I stumbled on this site and post… I remember talk of the Bioforge add-on all that time ago and when it never came out, figured my mate had been pulling my leg. Later, I found out it was canceled… I had NO idea it was not only at least partially complete, but would actually be FOUND one day! The thought of uncompressed WC3 videos just makes this post even more awesome. I’d happily pay good money for a ‘retrospective’ archive dvd of this stuff!!! I also hope the right finds might even – as another poster suggested – see WC3 and its fellows updated to a new flight engine (keeping the same videos/story/etc). But all that aside, if I could have just one thing from all this stuff, it would be Bioforge Plus!

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:07:50 +0000

Man did I love Origin back in the day. This is a great find.

By: tholal

tholal — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:27:03 +0000

Makes me kind of sad to see all of those awards and posters. I was working at Origin systems when they got folded into EA’s Redwood offices. In Austin, all of this stuff was hung up on the walls and in display cases around the offices and many of the long-time employees had collections of their own. It really gave the place a historic feeling.

By: Ergates

Ergates — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:01:27 +0000

“the cybernetic augmentation of dinosaurs for mission-based combat”

Win!

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:32:26 +0000

I’ve got a DVD version of Wing Commander IV. Came free with an old Creative DXR2 DVD decoder and drive. There’s even a fan created patch now to get it running without the decoder, as it relies on an older API to display the video.

By: NoNamePls

NoNamePls — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:09:21 +0000

Wonder if they still have uncompressed videos of Wing Commander 3. That would awesome.
They already released MPEG2 versions of Wing Commander Prophecy.

By: Albides

Albides — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:02:27 +0000

Ohmigod! Bioforge Plus! That’s fantastic! In the old “what sequel would you like to see” thread, I remember being careful to mention Bioforge. That game was awesome, and hardly anyone’s played it.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:44:35 +0000

what amazing nostalgia RPS brings to me everyday :)

By: Harlequin

Harlequin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:48:18 +0000

I would love nothing more than to see the Wing Commander series get an overhaul. Don’t change the plot, don’t change the script…just update the engine a bit.

Absolutely loved those games.

By: JulianP

JulianP — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:23:13 +0000

Harvey Smith is overrated.

By: Grey_Ghost

Grey_Ghost — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:22:55 +0000

Bioforge Plus? Was that the expansion that was advertised in several magazines that never came out? Bioforge was an awesome game, with what seemed like a novel’s worth of writing to be read in the game.

By: Rob Merritt

Rob Merritt — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:28:12 +0000

I wonder if they did the same for Bullfrog?