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[Gaven Lok ri]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

KOTOR, Rogue Squadron series and Jedi Outcast II all say hi.

For future notice: Mentioning Rogue Squadron positively in a thread in which people are lamenting that there are no more X-Wing and TIE Fighter games is unlikely to be received particularly well.

[Creep]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

KOTOR, Rogue Squadron series and Jedi Outcast II all say hi.

For future notice: Mentioning Rogue Squadron positively in a thread in which people are lamenting that there are no more X-Wing and TIE Fighter games is unlikely to be received particularly well.

LOL flight simulators. Who needs them when we have REAL ENTERTAINMENT?

[Lyn Farel]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

KOTOR, Rogue Squadron series and Jedi Outcast II all say hi.

For future notice: Mentioning Rogue Squadron positively in a thread in which people are lamenting that there are no more X-Wing and TIE Fighter games is unlikely to be received particularly well.

I did not play to rogue squadron, but the games looked pretty nice.

[Rok-Yuni]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

Knights of the Old Republic. The second one could have been good but they screwed that one up by releasing it for the Christmas rush with 25% of the content unreleased.

not sure if this has been said already, but the main issue with the content for KotoR 2 wasn't the rush... it was Lucas.
He reneged on the original agreement regarding 2 of the companion storylines and about 1/3rd of the main plot as he said it didn't 'fit' into his idea of the star wars universe... (the companions in question are the droids.)

considering that he signed off on a lot of the oddness from the expanded universe books, it always irritated me that he pulled the plug on a fair amount of the story from a game set so far in the past that it's little discrepancies could be ignored as historical randomness...

still.  lucas can't control such things anymore... so maybe it'll work out better than before. maybe.

and if EA give the games to one of their better developers (please not bioware..) then maybe, just maybe, we can get a reasonable game....

[Lyn Farel]

They have good developers ? 

Nah more seriously, even if they do that it's still EA deciding in the end so...

[Caellach Marellus]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

KOTOR, Rogue Squadron series and Jedi Outcast II all say hi.

For future notice: Mentioning Rogue Squadron positively in a thread in which people are lamenting that there are no more X-Wing and TIE Fighter games is unlikely to be received particularly well.

Psht, I was playing them since the days of Rebel Assault.

I fricking loved the Rogue Squadron series, the second one on the Gamecube has to be one of the most amazing games ever. Third one had too many ground levels for my liking.

[Gaven Lok ri]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

KOTOR, Rogue Squadron series and Jedi Outcast II all say hi.

For future notice: Mentioning Rogue Squadron positively in a thread in which people are lamenting that there are no more X-Wing and TIE Fighter games is unlikely to be received particularly well.

Psht, I was playing them since the days of Rebel Assault.

I fricking loved the Rogue Squadron series, the second one on the Gamecube has to be one of the most amazing games ever. Third one had too many ground levels for my liking.

And all three are total trash compared to TIE-Fighter.

[Silas Vitalia]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

KOTOR, Rogue Squadron series and Jedi Outcast II all say hi.

For future notice: Mentioning Rogue Squadron positively in a thread in which people are lamenting that there are no more X-Wing and TIE Fighter games is unlikely to be received particularly well.

Psht, I was playing them since the days of Rebel Assault.

I fricking loved the Rogue Squadron series, the second one on the Gamecube has to be one of the most amazing games ever. Third one had too many ground levels for my liking.

And all three are total trash compared to TIE-Fighter.

Gaven is correct. The dark lord wills TIE FIGHTER to be the best PC space combat simulator ever made. Perhaps 2nd only to the original Wing Commander or Wings of the Luftwaffe.

LucasArts through the 90s was and shall always remain one of the best studios ever to bless us with many hours of adventure and excitement and wonder.

[Creep]

Dark Forces, Shadows of the Empire...

Star Wars game nostalgia thread! Who remembers being scared of the Dark Troopers?

[Safai]

Star Wars game nostalgia thread! Who remembers being scared of the Dark Troopers?

* Safai raises hand.

[Caellach Marellus]

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

KOTOR, Rogue Squadron series and Jedi Outcast II all say hi.

For future notice: Mentioning Rogue Squadron positively in a thread in which people are lamenting that there are no more X-Wing and TIE Fighter games is unlikely to be received particularly well.

Psht, I was playing them since the days of Rebel Assault.

I fricking loved the Rogue Squadron series, the second one on the Gamecube has to be one of the most amazing games ever. Third one had too many ground levels for my liking.

And all three are total trash compared to TIE-Fighter.

Gaven is correct. The dark lord wills TIE FIGHTER to be the best PC space combat simulator ever made.

Rogue Squadron wasn't on PC. It was a Nintendo 64/Gamecube title.

[Morwen Lagann]

It was, actually, Cael. I have a CD for the Windows port.

[Lyn Farel]

As much as I spent so much time as a kid on the X-WING and the TIE-FIGHTER and as much as they were awesomesauce, I still have a weak spot for Alliance. The end, perfect product of the series.

[Wanoah]

The brutal truth is that EA is bad for everyone except EA shareholders. EA are anti-consumer and a cancerous growth on the industry. They are the equivalent of Nestlé or Walmart and one can only assume that it these companies that EA look to for inspiration when they are dreaming up their next moustache-twirling scheme.

With all that in mind, what are the chances of anything happening that redeems the Star Wars money machine? You'd think low to non-existent, but some very respectable developers are in the frame, so who knows? If the unthinkable happens and a decent game comes out of all this then it's a case of deciding whether to pirate on principle to enjoy it or boycott altogether.

[Silas Vitalia]

I'll hold up the last twenty years of movie tie-in games as evidence that no matter the developer, any games based off these upcoming Star Wars movies will be shite.

Guaranteed.

It's something like 99.9% of movie games are awful.

Chronicles of Riddick for XBOX was a surprise "WTF this is actually good?" But most movie-spin off games... :/