Readit NewsSo it was with Windows Vista, Windows 7, even Windows 8. It's not an impossible ask for Windows either.
Windows is designed by a committee that tries to do as little as possible and has ulterior motives higher on the priority scale than UX. Like marketing copilot and other Microsoft subscription services. Microsoft software is always aimed to be just good enough for the users to not choose something better. They love just coasting on their marketshare without doing much to improve. Like they did with internet explorer and now do with office.
It didn't need more live action. It just needed a decent story and some animated cutscenes and more fun in the gameplay. Which WC 1 and 2 did very well. Their stories were exciting even though they were full of pretty stupid B movie tropes. But it worked. The sequels felt hollow.
Additionally they were so heavy they ran really badly on everything but the most expensive computers of the day. Not exactly a good way to sell a lot of copies.
Ps one thing I don't understand is why Chris Roberts doesn't just buy the rights of the wing commander name for Star citizen. He's collected billions by now.
It’s the exact same thing as a speculative story in the 1920s discussing supersonic flight, even though the jet engine hadn’t been invented yet.
For instance “Tunnel in the Sky” bypassed the whole issue in the 50’s, later imitated by “Stargate”…
It was just hard to engineer a manned plane that could do it. For example during WWII the V2 rockets travelled much faster than sound. They were just unmanned. Or more simple, bullets were supersonic for longer too.
What I mean is, nobody thought the sound barrier was a hard limit we could never break.
On the other hand, something like blade runner I still think is amazing. Or the matrix (original only)