Star Wars game retrospective

**Kekvit Irae** · 05-21-2008, 02:39

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**frogbeastegg** · 05-21-2008, 10:01

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.

**Productivity** · 05-28-2008, 15:07

I would pay the price of a standard new game now to be able to play X Wing and TIE Fighter again. (Lost my discs, nowhere sells them, out of print).

**Kekvit Irae** · 05-28-2008, 15:30

Originally Posted by Productivity

I would pay the price of a standard new game now to be able to play X Wing and TIE Fighter again. (Lost my discs, nowhere sells them, out of print).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...1984935&sr=8-4

Buying used from Amazon can have its advantages when looking for old games. Just be sure to find someone willing to ship outside of the US.

**frogbeastegg** · 06-22-2008, 13:33

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 ...

**lars573** · 06-26-2008, 17:59

If you didn't play EaW you missed out. The space battles and galactic conquest mode alone make it worth the price. Battlefront 2 was a great game. It's story mode was ver well done. Storming the jedi temple was a blast.

**Kekvit Irae** · 06-29-2008, 01:31

I hated conquest mode with a passion.

**lars573** · 06-29-2008, 17:51

What's wrong with you?

**frogbeastegg** · 07-09-2008, 19:33

Part 6 is up. I shall be watching it once I've finished reading the org. This one's going to be a biggie; Dark Forces/Jedi Knight/Mysteries of the Sith are 3 of my most fondly remembered Star Wars games. If they devote most of the time to the quake 3 engine games I'll be unhappy.

Oh, and I brought the Empire at War gold pack. Heaven knows why; I'll probably never have time to play it. Happy now? :p

**Kekvit Irae** · 07-09-2008, 19:56

I absolutely loved Jedi Knight and the expansion, but for some reason I could never get into Jedi Knight 2.

**frogbeastegg** · 07-09-2008, 20:12

Mmm, I didn't like Outcast as much either. It was good, I played through it multiple times, and not once did I feel it stood on a par with its predecessors. I guess it was mainly the fault of certain sections, such as the forced stealth level, and the stupid jumping puzzle bit to send a com signal. They were so disappointing after the elegant force based puzzles of Mysteries. The levels themselves felt smaller and less inventive. There was nothing to compare to running through a dying space ship with failing gravity and structural problems, or the swamp and Sith temple.

**Praxil** · 07-22-2008, 08:42

That was nice about KotOR I & II. Though it was weird to point out the technical issues with first KotOR yet not saying anything about the second one. I don't know but my PC KotOR II is buggy as hell, the amount of CTD's is incredible in that game. KotOR I is one of those rare games I got on both platforms, XBOX and PC. Though I got it with Star Wars collection for PC. First KotOR still remains one of the best RPG gaming experiences I've had, definitely better than Mass Effect.

**Tratorix** · 07-23-2008, 00:23

Originally Posted by Praxil

That was nice about KotOR I & II. Though it was weird to point out the technical issues with first KotOR yet not saying anything about the second one. I don't know but my PC KotOR II is buggy as hell, the amount of CTD's is incredible in that game. KotOR I is one of those rare games I got on both platforms, XBOX and PC. Though I got it with Star Wars collection for PC. First KotOR still remains one of the best RPG gaming experiences I've had, definitely better than Mass Effect.

I agree. They pointed out the glitches in Kotor, but didn't mention any of the buggy sections or cut content in the sequel.