Star Wars game retrospective

[Kekvit Irae]

I never did get around to building any Death Stars. Aside from the considerable resources necessary to construct them, I admittedly have never cared for superweapons -- they just don't feel very sporting to me. (Not a proper attitude for a Sith Lord, I know, but....eh.)

When facing a fleet of Mon Cal's and Frigates, it helps to have a Death Star on your side to instantly destroy one capital ship of your choice at the start of battle (especially one that has a whole bunch of Alliance officers on it).
I take one planet in a controlled sector and convert it to nothing but two level2 Shields and the rest into shipyards. You'll be able to make the Death Star much more quickly with 10-12 shipyards in a single system.

[Privateerkev]

Battles in Rebellion were frustrating until you got a gravity well projector.

The AI would just run for any reason.

[Spino]

Great retrospective! However I think it would have been better served if they did the entire series in chronological order as opposed to dealing with consoles and PC games seperately.

Episode IV brings back such wonderful memories. I was in heaven when the modding community came out with powerful mission editors for the X-Wing and Tie Fighter games. I loved creating massive fleet on fleet brawls sporting mutiple cruisers & frigates and hordes of fighters. I would set waypoints for the heavies and frigates so they would pass within firing range of each other. Man, there's was nothing like the feeling of chasing an enemy fighter along the hull of a heavy cruiser while massive ship to ship salvoes are firing all around you.

I'm rather surprised Lucasarts hasn't seen fit to bring this series into the modern era. With the horsepower of 3D cards the potential for high resolution, epic scale carnage is unbelievable. Yes, I know about SW: Battlefront 1 & 2 but they were weak substitutes for the real thing. Ship to ship combat in the 3rd person? Blasphemy!

To their credit the modders who created the Galactic Conquest mod for Battlefield 1942 did a phenomenal job of recreating the thrill of ship to ship combat in the X-Wing & Tie Fighter series. Pity it never got the attention it deserved but it was damn fun while it lasted.

[Geoffrey S]

Anyone played First Strike? What I've seen looks very impressive.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/6512/first-strike

[Vladimir]

Wow. Rebellion, TIE fighter, Force Commander, all great games.

The rebels in Rebellion were super easy to win with, just spam Y-wings. That's right, the same death traps in TIE Fighter will win you easy battles against the empire. While the empire had the leadership/supress revolt exploit the rebels were taking out your star destroyers in the opening game and using Han Solo to sabatage everything in sight.

TIE Fighter: It's never felt so good to work for the bad guys.

[Timsup2nothin]

Back in the day they lost me at X-Wing vs TIE Fighter...I was happy playing TIE Fighter until....jeez...I dunno...maybe I moved and couldn't get a good spot for the joystick and it just faded away...

If you can believe it, not very long ago I did the research on making TIE Fighter run on a modern box, but couldn't make it work. You need the CD-ROM version, and I had the old five floppy original.

So, question: Is there anything in the long line since that has the old TIE Fighter quality that will run on a modern box? I suppose I could track down a surviving copy of the CD somewhere, but that strikes me as somewhat extreme on the nostalgia front.