I remember playing a ton of TESB on Atari 2600 as a kid, but I'm afraid to go back and play it again only to find out that it's horrible. I do remember thinking it was weird that the movie said the walkers' armor was too thick for blasters and the whole game consists of shooting at walkers with blasters.
There's also the arcade games: the famous vector graphics Star Wars where you fly around shooting TIEs who shoot meatballs at you; and the late-90s Star Wars Trilogy Arcade - not to be confused with the inferior early-90s Star Wars Arcade, which was later ported to 32X (one of the best games on that system, though that's not saying much).
Somebody mentioned Jedi Power Battles! My friend and I played the shit out of that game when we were kids. I remember we hated the Coruscant level. You had to make sooooo many completely bullshit jumps, you couldn't even see where you were supposed to land on a lot of them. That game had some of the worst platforming ever actually. I remember parts of Tatooine being a bitch for just that reason as well.
That was my only complaint about the game as well.
Well, I suppose driving around in tanks doesn't feel very Jedi-y, but it was fun on its own so that's just a technicality.
I'm gonna be honest, I'm offended that Dark Forces II isnt on the list. But I'll forgive you for including the other games...
Dark Forces II is a good game, but out of the Dark Forces series, it is probably my least favorite and least played of them all. The saber combat is pretty wonky and I never cared for the level design, especially the level where you return to Kyle's father's house. The architecture just makes no sense.
I knew someone would mention that, but I mean a GOOD game. And by a GOOD game, I mean a GOOD game.
EDIT: You're not a loser, I meant first loser in my little game. As in not the winner. The first winner is whoever agrees with me and says that Yoda Stories doesn't count.
Oooohhhh, you mean a graphical adventure game in the Lucasfilm Games / LucasArts style set in the Star Wars universe.
Why didn't you say so!
Never going to happen. That genre is pretty much dead, except for a few corpses that managed to disinter themselves and shamble onto Amazon.com.
I'm not really sure it's needed, either. Those games were about exploration and interaction. Star Wars tends to be about big, dramatic action.
Now, a TIE Fighter remake...
Flight Sims, especially space ones, are far deader than adventure games at this point. At least there are a handful of companies still producing the later.
Rogue Squadron 3 isn't that bad, if you skip the on-foot missions. Plus, it has the RS2 missions with coop. I still can't belive that they made RS2 in less than a year just to get it for the GCN launch.
Also, Rebellion is as much a turn based game as the kotors are
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Where's the love for Episode I Racer? That game was fucking awesome!
Hovercraft shouldn't handle differently on ice!
No, they shouldn't. But you know what else? Swords made of lasers or plasma shouldn't bounce off each other, but every Star wars game and movie are still fun to play/watch..
I'm gonna be honest, I'm offended that Dark Forces II isnt on the list. But I'll forgive you for including the other games...
Dark Forces II is a good game, but out of the Dark Forces series, it is probably my least favorite and least played of them all. The saber combat is pretty wonky and I never cared for the level design, especially the level where you return to Kyle's father's house. The architecture just makes no sense.
Well I'm probably biased because it and Lego Island were the games of my childhood. I love PC.
I loved me some Jedi power battles back in the day. Me and my friend used to stay up for days trying to beat that game, good lord was it tough. I think we eventually bitched out and gameshark'd infinite lives or something to beat it.
Once, I found a collectors edition TIE Fighter at half priced books for 5$, but passed on it for some reason. Does this make me a bad person?
I really wish Jedi Outcast and Academy were easier to find, every time Star Wars is mentioned, I want to get my hands on those games but it always ends in tears.
Also, don't know if it's been mentioned, but Jedi Outcast is in the Best Of collection. I know this kind of answers my above problem, but I don't want to pay 40$ for a collection of games when I own some of them already.
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My favorites are Shadows, Tie Fighter, Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Rogue Squadron II, and the best ever: Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. My favorite version of the Battle of Endor yet. I can clear it without dying.
I want to like Rebellion, but it's way more complicated than it has any right to be.
Is the Wii version of Force Unleashed an acceptable version? Because that's my best means of playing it.
Jedi Power Battles co-op was the bomb. Anyone remember that catapillar boss on the 2nd level? Fuck him.
Also going to see if kotor runs on my vista machine.
That boss sucked. If I remember correctly, you had to get under him or something to damage him, but then he would just smoosh you.
Did you ever make it to the end? The level before you fight Darth Maul was like a cliffside, I remember always falling off the stage. Then there was Maul himself, what a bastard. I'm curious if anyone has actually legitimately beat that game.
Jedi Power Battles co-op was the bomb. Anyone remember that catapillar boss on the 2nd level? Fuck him.
Also going to see if kotor runs on my vista machine.
That boss sucked. If I remember correctly, you had to get under him or something to damage him, but then he would just smoosh you.
Did you ever make it to the end? The level before you fight Darth Maul was like a cliffside, I remember always falling off the stage. Then there was Maul himself, what a bastard. I'm curious if anyone has actually legitimately beat that game.
Beat and Jedi Power Battles never go together in the same sentence. It was soul crushingly difficult. I think the farthest my friend and I got was the one where you return to the Theed palace and, in retrospect, fight things that look a lot like super battle droids.
Jedi Power Battles co-op was the bomb. Anyone remember that catapillar boss on the 2nd level? Fuck him.
Also going to see if kotor runs on my vista machine.
That boss sucked. If I remember correctly, you had to get under him or something to damage him, but then he would just smoosh you.
Did you ever make it to the end? The level before you fight Darth Maul was like a cliffside, I remember always falling off the stage. Then there was Maul himself, what a bastard. I'm curious if anyone has actually legitimately beat that game.
yeah, me and my friend got through the whole game, the only really terrible levels were Tatooine and the 2nd to last one, the last level was just annoying because of the weird maze near the end.
We got some of the blaster characters for beating it, but we were playing the PS1 version so we didnt get cool minigames and Ki-adi-mundi.
Is anyone actually going to play the star wars mmo? I personally wont for the very reason that I want another star wars fps to be released asap.
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So I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan, I actually LIKED the prequel trilogy, and loved the demo for Force Unleashed. I heard way too many negative things about the full game though. So, for people who have played it - I love action games like God of War, and I love Star Wars. Is there enough of an unbroken game in there to get enjoyment out of?
Edit: Jedi Power Battles is pretty good, if not incredibly hard.
Is the GBA one worth getting for a 6 year old that loooooves the Lego game?
Also, for the love of all that is holy why isn't there a Elite or Privateer like game set in Star Wars?
I have Jedi Power Battles on GBA, and it is fun, pretty simple combat, but is also very difficult. I haven't played it much in a while, but I remember there being a couple of annoying and stupid platforming bits that were just frustrating cause of the weird isometric angle the game is at. It's probably the one of the best star wars games on the GBA, outside of the LEGO star wars GBA game itself, which I've heard at least the first one is good.
So I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan, I actually LIKED the prequel trilogy, and loved the demo for Force Unleashed. I heard way too many negative things about the full game though. So, for people who have played it - I love action games like God of War, and I love Star Wars. Is there enough of an unbroken game in there to get enjoyment out of?
Yes. I had more fun with it than I did any other game released last year and have played through it five times now.
So I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan, I actually LIKED the prequel trilogy, and loved the demo for Force Unleashed. I heard way too many negative things about the full game though. So, for people who have played it - I love action games like God of War, and I love Star Wars. Is there enough of an unbroken game in there to get enjoyment out of?
Yes. I had more fun with it than I did any other game released last year and have played through it five times now.
Yeah, I recently picked it up on the cheap, and it is very good. Not Jedi Outcast, but the story is really good, graphics are quite impressive, and most of the combat is fun. Only complaint is that some of the arenas they set you up in for fighting have just the right combination of enemies to make is stupidly frustrating sometimes. (Damn snipers)
Rebellion is still fun and all. There is an advanced models and textures pack somewhere. The interface is clunky but works.
I still want a fully realized fleet sized tactical combat game...like big ship combat from like...Empire Total War meets Star Wars.
Star Wars: Total War will be a great game when they decide to make it.
Also...TIE Fighter ftw.
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I often consider LPing Empire at war. It's just so goddamn cool.
Empire at war is great, but without Forces of corruption it's really bland. It's like they got all the movie crap out of the way with the first game, so for the expansion they just went crazy with content. I mean you've got Ysalamirs, witches of dathomir, and friggin' Thrawn. Also having a third faction really helps the pace of galactic conquest. I remember having to purposely not attack the empire because I could have marched up to coruscant with a fleet of 10 mon cal cruisers in the first ten minutes. The fact that Zann gets badarse mandalorian battleships is just the umm... glitterstim on the... corellian cake?
I often consider LPing Empire at war. It's just so goddamn cool.
Empire at war is great, but without Forces of corruption it's really bland. It's like they got all the movie crap out of the way with the first game, so for the expansion they just went crazy with content. I mean you've got Ysalamirs, witches of dathomir, and friggin' Thrawn. Also having a third faction really helps the pace of galactic conquest. I remember having to purposely not attack the empire because I could have marched up to coruscant with a fleet of 10 mon cal cruisers in the first ten minutes. The fact that Zann gets badarse mandalorian battleships is just the umm... glitterstim on the... corellian cake?
I've only played with the expansion... maybe that's why I love it so
I just wish the Empire at War expansion let you play the galaxy maps from the first game in galactic conquest mode. A lot are easily big enough to allow the third faction a starting position.
Flight Sims, especially space ones, are far deader than adventure games at this point. At least there are a handful of companies still producing the later.
You're right. X3 and EVE are simply products of my deranged imagination.
OK, EVE was created by someone with a deranged imagination.
Also, I don't see why space sims are more dead than something like HAWX, which got stupid money and production value.
I think in the near future Space sims will reemerge as the semi-indie game that looks surprisingly gorgeous. I mean, the fact that X3 can look so pretty without being stupid-taxing it proof that really when the entire game is a skybox with a few models you can really create awesome pretty on a dime.
There's certainly demand for them, especially if they have reemergence with working with a 360 gamepad(which all serious PC gamers have at this point... or will gladly get).
Hell, HAWX's mechanics with TIE fighters story and feel would kick ass.
I often consider LPing Empire at war. It's just so goddamn cool.
Empire at war is great, but without Forces of corruption it's really bland. It's like they got all the movie crap out of the way with the first game, so for the expansion they just went crazy with content. I mean you've got Ysalamirs, witches of dathomir, and friggin' Thrawn. Also having a third faction really helps the pace of galactic conquest. I remember having to purposely not attack the empire because I could have marched up to coruscant with a fleet of 10 mon cal cruisers in the first ten minutes. The fact that Zann gets badarse mandalorian battleships is just the umm... glitterstim on the... ryshcate?
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Oh god, I got the ryschate reference. I'm such a Star Wars dork.
I really enjoyed the space battles in Empire of War. Never really got the hang of the ground battles. I would lose troops in droves.
Also, I'm still waiting to the successor to Rogue Squadron/X-Wing Alliance. Heck, I'd love a game done by Project Aces. They already got the overly dramatic stories and epic dogfights down.
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I often consider LPing Empire at war. It's just so goddamn cool.
I wish I could find the redeeming factor of EaW. I like it because it's Star Wars (hell, I own Force Commander), but I can't seem to find any compelling gameplay. All my shit dies instantly.
Really?
I find EAW to be very forgiving on the Rock/paper/scissors gameplay of most RTSs. Certainly more than, say, C&C3, where if you have a rock against paper you get shot in .1 second.
It still has some of it, but it tells you exactly what to use each unit against in its mini-description and most units can survive for a reasonable time against units effective against it.
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It's the best of the more recent games that actually run on modern computers without having to screw around with third party software.
And it doesn't have KotOR2, so that's the real cause of the lie.
Is the GBA one worth getting for a 6 year old that loooooves the Lego game?
Also, for the love of all that is holy why isn't there a Elite or Privateer like game set in Star Wars?
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
There's also the arcade games: the famous vector graphics Star Wars where you fly around shooting TIEs who shoot meatballs at you; and the late-90s Star Wars Trilogy Arcade - not to be confused with the inferior early-90s Star Wars Arcade, which was later ported to 32X (one of the best games on that system, though that's not saying much).
Also waiting to see if this sabacc game ever gets finished.
That was my only complaint about the game as well.
Well, I suppose driving around in tanks doesn't feel very Jedi-y, but it was fun on its own so that's just a technicality.
What's this? :P
Dark Forces II is a good game, but out of the Dark Forces series, it is probably my least favorite and least played of them all. The saber combat is pretty wonky and I never cared for the level design, especially the level where you return to Kyle's father's house. The architecture just makes no sense.
Rogue Squadron 3 isn't that bad, if you skip the on-foot missions. Plus, it has the RS2 missions with coop. I still can't belive that they made RS2 in less than a year just to get it for the GCN launch.
Also, Rebellion is as much a turn based game as the kotors are
No, they shouldn't. But you know what else? Swords made of lasers or plasma shouldn't bounce off each other, but every Star wars game and movie are still fun to play/watch..
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Well I'm probably biased because it and Lego Island were the games of my childhood. I love PC.
Impersonator, that game is Yoda Stories.
Once, I found a collectors edition TIE Fighter at half priced books for 5$, but passed on it for some reason. Does this make me a bad person?
I really wish Jedi Outcast and Academy were easier to find, every time Star Wars is mentioned, I want to get my hands on those games but it always ends in tears.
Also, don't know if it's been mentioned, but Jedi Outcast is in the Best Of collection. I know this kind of answers my above problem, but I don't want to pay 40$ for a collection of games when I own some of them already.
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I want to like Rebellion, but it's way more complicated than it has any right to be.
Is the Wii version of Force Unleashed an acceptable version? Because that's my best means of playing it.
Also going to see if kotor runs on my vista machine.
That boss sucked. If I remember correctly, you had to get under him or something to damage him, but then he would just smoosh you.
Did you ever make it to the end? The level before you fight Darth Maul was like a cliffside, I remember always falling off the stage. Then there was Maul himself, what a bastard. I'm curious if anyone has actually legitimately beat that game.
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Beat and Jedi Power Battles never go together in the same sentence. It was soul crushingly difficult. I think the farthest my friend and I got was the one where you return to the Theed palace and, in retrospect, fight things that look a lot like super battle droids.
yeah, me and my friend got through the whole game, the only really terrible levels were Tatooine and the 2nd to last one, the last level was just annoying because of the weird maze near the end.
We got some of the blaster characters for beating it, but we were playing the PS1 version so we didnt get cool minigames and Ki-adi-mundi.
Yeah, as long as we're doing mods, who could forget YodaHL? Great Half-Life mod, or greatest Half-Life mod?
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Yes. I had more fun with it than I did any other game released last year and have played through it five times now.
Yeah, I recently picked it up on the cheap, and it is very good. Not Jedi Outcast, but the story is really good, graphics are quite impressive, and most of the combat is fun. Only complaint is that some of the arenas they set you up in for fighting have just the right combination of enemies to make is stupidly frustrating sometimes. (Damn snipers)
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I still want a fully realized fleet sized tactical combat game...like big ship combat from like...Empire Total War meets Star Wars.
Star Wars: Total War will be a great game when they decide to make it.
Also...TIE Fighter ftw.
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Man you're crazy Lego Star Wars is superawesome.
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Empire at war is great, but without Forces of corruption it's really bland. It's like they got all the movie crap out of the way with the first game, so for the expansion they just went crazy with content. I mean you've got Ysalamirs, witches of dathomir, and friggin' Thrawn. Also having a third faction really helps the pace of galactic conquest. I remember having to purposely not attack the empire because I could have marched up to coruscant with a fleet of 10 mon cal cruisers in the first ten minutes. The fact that Zann gets badarse mandalorian battleships is just the umm... glitterstim on the... corellian cake?
It's unfortunate that Homeworld 2 handles turrets in such a wonky way that it makes the game unplayable after enough cap ships get built.
I've only played with the expansion... maybe that's why I love it so
Also, I don't see why space sims are more dead than something like HAWX, which got stupid money and production value.
I think in the near future Space sims will reemerge as the semi-indie game that looks surprisingly gorgeous. I mean, the fact that X3 can look so pretty without being stupid-taxing it proof that really when the entire game is a skybox with a few models you can really create awesome pretty on a dime.
There's certainly demand for them, especially if they have reemergence with working with a 360 gamepad(which all serious PC gamers have at this point... or will gladly get).
Hell, HAWX's mechanics with TIE fighters story and feel would kick ass.
I really enjoyed the space battles in Empire of War. Never really got the hang of the ground battles. I would lose troops in droves.
Also, I'm still waiting to the successor to Rogue Squadron/X-Wing Alliance. Heck, I'd love a game done by Project Aces. They already got the overly dramatic stories and epic dogfights down.
Really?
I find EAW to be very forgiving on the Rock/paper/scissors gameplay of most RTSs. Certainly more than, say, C&C3, where if you have a rock against paper you get shot in .1 second.
It still has some of it, but it tells you exactly what to use each unit against in its mini-description and most units can survive for a reasonable time against units effective against it.
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Super Star Wars games would be next, followed by Rebel Strike, Rebellion, and oh, a dozen other games.
Seriously there are at least twenty good SW games. Incredible for a franchise.
You have a dissapointing lack of even a mention of Kotor on that list. I can only assume you haven't played it before.
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Bioware isnt exactly an mmo brand name.