Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but he'll always jump at the chance to cover emulation and Japanese games.
, for example, features challenging combat but is otherwise an easy to grasp third person action game. That wasn't how Star Wars rolled in the early 1990s. Before George Lucas's prequel trilogy brought the films back into the mainstream, game developers largely had free reign to adapt Star Wars however they saw fit. And on PC, LucasArts saw fit to make some seriously hardcore space flight sims.
"Anything that I thought would make the game feel more authentic, more immersive," he said."While other games offered the fantasy of being a star fighter pilot, they were really action games with a space combat theme. The X-Wing games required players to develop the skills a real combat pilot needed: energy management, situational awareness."
Looking back at old Newsgroups posts from that era, which predated social media and message boards as we know them today, there are quaint signs that, yep, X-Wing was pretty tough.
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