Star Wars game retrospective

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

I played the campaign many times, and I always had problems going back to the unshielded ships. Ah yes ...

Intrepid froggy levels off for a head on pass at a pathetic Z-95 headhunter, calm and confident. She's done this a thousand times. Hold the trigger down for four seconds and the Z-95 will be no more than a fireball in the void. It's showing off, yes. Unneccesarily taking damage to luxuriate in how awesome the Imperial navy's finest ships are. These rebels don't deserve the respect of a proper dogfight. The distance closes, the targeting box lights up, and the exchange of fire begins. But what's this - instead of the hiss of shields taking fire froggy hears the wrenching splutter of hull damage! Her sensors blow out, her targeting computer smashes. One second later she glumly watches her TIE Fighter pinwheel through its death throws. Ooops.

Breathe on those TIEs wrong, and they would come apart. One of my biggest problem was collisions in a dog-fight. Spinning around and looping like crazy trying to track a rebel fighter and BAM!, a wingman zips in front and takes both of us out. Somewhat satisfying from the rebel standpoint, you'd hear a thunk and your front shield disappeared, but at least you knew some poor imperial was sucking vacuum.

X-Wing Quiz: The final objective of the mission is complete. Your shields are down, but you have used your wounded ship well. The enemy TIEs are swarming around, and you hit the hyperspace key. The number of seconds it takes for your ship to orient itself into the right facing and escape the pounding is:
a. Random
b. Indirectly proportional to the usefulness of your wingmen.
c. Directly proportional to the number of TIEs in your vicinity.
d. Exponentially proportional to the number of times you have retried this mission.
e. Sorry, there appears to be a star destroyer in your way. Please move several kilometers to the side and try again. We apologize for the 10 seconds of laser fire you took while we were figuring this out.

f. 1/2 a second longer than it takes for the mass of enemies to shoot you to bits.

Originally Posted by drone

X-Wing Quiz: The final objective of the mission is complete. Your shields are down, but you have used your wounded ship well. The enemy TIEs are swarming around, and you hit the hyperspace key. The number of seconds it takes for your ship to orient itself into the right facing and escape the pounding is:

g: As I recall the exit was in a specific direction and as long as you where pointed pretty much in the right direction it was pretty quick, otherwise yoiu had to wait through the whole orintating your self thing first...

One over gross noobish question here, but what is the Star Wars retrospective?

Did you click the link in the first post and watch the videos?

Yeah, they didn't really work but I shall try them again.

Turn off any ad-blocking programs you have (Firefox's Adblock Plus, etc).

Sometimes I have problems with their flash movies, in that they start playing, immediately finish, and randomly turn into another movie from the site, whereupon the process repeats. The WMP format ones always work reliably. You can select your player via the buttons under the movie window.

Part 5 is out at last!

This one was not so good for me. They spend ages talking about the Battlefront games, and then jam games like Supremacy in with barely 2 minutes of coverage.

It's the first of the videos which covers the point where I gradually drifted away from the Star Wars games. I loved Supremacy, flaws and all. Force Commander was disappointing and clunky but I enjoyed it. Mostly. Galactic Battlegrounds was the game which taught me once and for all that I am done with RTS games and Age of Empires clones. I tried the demo of Empire at War and found it claustrophobic and cramped, and never brought the game. Battlegrounds doesn't appeal to me in the slightest; I don't do multiplayer.

Part 6 is the Dark Forces series. Ah, the memories ...