bkev said:
C3PX, what makes you dislike Jedi Knight?

Just barely noticed your post bkev. I was a big fan of the first Dark Forces, it was back in the dawn of the first person shooter, of which I am now a big fan. DF was like Doom, only much better refined and improved, it had a cool story, and took you through places you only ever dreamed of going in the SW universe.

It was also cool because you played as someone nobody knew, rather than one of the main characters. You were just some guy out in the SW universe trying to get by. Nobody special.

In Jedi Knight, which in its own right was a very good game for its time, though a bit dated today, decided it needed to take Kyle's story and turn him into something more important, a Jedi. He discovers his dead father's lightsaber, and decides to learn the ways of the force to become a Jedi like his father before him and seek vengeance against the Sith Lord who killed him.
Sound familiar? It is almost like the creators though man, how cool would it be if Luke was the main character instead of this mercenary guy? So they made the mercenary into a Luke rip off. I would have liked Dark Forces to have remained a first person shooter with a cool story line following an average citizen with a blaster living under the of the Galactic Empire. Jedi Knight could have been a really cool seperate game with a fresh story of its own, but instead I feel it took something with great potential and brought it down a few notches.

Also it had really cheesy live action scenes that make the prequels feel like Shakespeare.