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Tyrphanax
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What is/was the best SW Game ever, on any platform?
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13-Aug-2014, 12:32 AM

Loved both KotORs. Haven't played the Restored Content mod yet, but I'll get around to it.

Loved Rogue Squadron. Loved the Jedi Outcast demo I played.

I got into Star Wars during the heyday of Shadows of the Empire, so I can't listen to the ESB soundtrack without lovingly remembering Shadows of the Empire on N64 (I love that cue, it always makes me wonder what Williams was scoring it to; does anyone know?).

I also grew up with The Phantom Menace, so I loved Battle for Naboo as the continuation of Rogue Squadron. Episode I: Racer was fun and different. Once we got an Xbox, I played Star Wars: Obi-Wan which was a lot of fun and seemed like a predecessor to Bounty Hunter, and was worth it for the Trainspotting spoof during the end credits.

When AotC came out, I was kinda out of luck, because everything was either for the Xbox or the PS2, neither of which I had for awhile. Once we got the Xbox, I played The Clone Wars, and I played a bit of Bounty Hunter on a friend's PS2, but never got to finish it. AotC was weird, because most of the games were on handhelds like the GBA, there were only a couple big console games.

This was around the time I was transitioning to the Glorious PC Master Race, so I played Galactic Battlegrounds and its expansion, The Clone Campaigns, which were lots of fun but total ripoffs of the Age of Empires series.

I also enjoyed Force Commander, despite its flaws, and the music is still awesome.

Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were huge fun for me, moreso for the multiplayer experience with mods and friends in Jedi Academy than anything else.

Republic Commando is an incredible game despite its setting and content and the ruination it went through under Karen Traviss later on.

Today I've gone back and played a lot of games I missed, especially the old Dark Forces series. I'd love to get into the X-wing/TIE fighter series, too.

Pretty much everything else has been lackluster with the bright spots of Battlefront and Battlefront II and likely a couple others I'm forgetting. Today I play Tiny Death Star and Assault Team on my phone here and there and am really excited for the future of OT-focused games coming up.

*Edit, forgot to say that TFU was fun but garbage, TOR was just meh, and Star Wars: Galaxies, though incredibly flawed and woefully wasted potential is the best Star Wars game of all time.