Talk:Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom

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This article makes a reference to being the "single most expensive video game ever produced" at $10M.

However, Shenmue is in the Guiness Book of world records with a $20M cost (at least).

[edit] Ship names italicized and various other minor fixes

Italicized all the ship names I could find, and also touched up some of the info bytes for various Characters and fighters.--Raguleader 20:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redshirts

WC4 was also the first game to have "redshirt" pilots, who had their own identities but were not important to the plot (as opposed to the flight groups of the previous three games, which contained at most ten pilots). These redshirts can be killed permanently in combat, but main-character pilots will always eject unless their death is mandated by the game's plot.

This paragraph is confusing, at least to someone like me who hasn't played the game. What does the part in parenthesis about flight groups having ten pilots have to do with having non-important characters? It should also say if this is the first game where main-character pilots can't be killed in combat. The fact that "redshirts" now exist doesn't imply that. --70.143.43.245 16:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

  • I reworked the paragraph a bit for clarity.--Raguleader 04:03, 21 February 2007 (UTC)