Star Wars Video Games - a general discussion thread

anybody here have any favorates and any terrible ones?
 

favs are:-

starwars batlefront 1+2
x wing/tie fighter
dark forces
supremacy/rebellion
 

hate:-

none

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Like:

• X-Wing series, XWA & TF are the best
• KotOR
• Dark Forces series (Jedi Academy was pretty poor though)
• Rebel Assault series (nostalgy for me)
• Battlegrounds
• Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
• Battlefronts are okay
• Rogue Squadron is okay
• Republic Commando

Dislike:

• KotOR II (I don't hate it but it's a big a disappointment, okay to play though)
• Force Commander
• All prequel games except Republic Commando, the worst by far is Obi-Wan

LexX said:

Like:

• X-Wing series, XWA & TF are the best
• KotOR
• Dark Forces series (Jedi Academy was pretty poor though)
• Rebel Assault series (nostalgy for me)
• Battlegrounds
• Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
• Battlefronts are okay
• Rogue Squadron is okay
• Republic Commando

 

Dislike:

• KotOR II (I don't hate it but it's a big a disappointment, okay to play though)
• Force Commander
• All prequel games except Republic Commando, the worst by far is Obi-Wan

Pretty Much this. :)

Although my favourite would have to be Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, mainly because the story feels alot more cinema-y than some of the other games. And also it's lots of fun. :D

CP3S said:

Nero said:

Rebel Assault games (very nostalgic and somehow flying though Beggar's Canyon with an uncalibrated joystick was a pain)

Flying through Beggar's Canyon with a calibrated joystick, a mouse, or a keyboard was a pain as well. I swear, there were no good controller option for those games. The shitty controls had to have been an intentionally part of those games' difficulty. I'd never put up with something like that today, but as a young SW hungry lad living in the pre-revival days of the early to mid nineties, I ate them up and loved every frustrating second of it. Kids these days don't realize how lucky they are to have the Rogue Squadron games.

Ouch!! Sorry, I just kicked myself really hard. I completely forgot to mention X-Wing and Tie Fighter among the SW games I really loved over the years. Those deserved mention toward the top of my list just under Dark Forces. Countless hours of great fun destroying enemy frigates and escorting shuttles. 

Favourites:

 - the original Atari arcade games for SW and Jedi. (ESB was a conversion kit for the original SW, and was pretty rare; I think I only ever saw it once)

 - Sega's Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (emulation discussed in my thread here)

 - Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (great for co-op play with the kids - it's just a shame that R2's flying ability is essential to complete the game...)

Not so keen on:

 - a FPS I played on the PC in the late nineties, think it was Dark Forces. Too many buttons put me off (I like something I can pick up and play out of the box)

 - The Force Unleashed on the Wii (meh.)

 - Another Wii game, some clone wars lightsabre fighting game. Also meh.

Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith. Especially with the Saber Battle X mods (JK | MotS). It's mostly meant for multiplayer, but it's worth it in SP just for the awesome looking Sabers.

Really liked the two Battlefront games, too.

Wanted to like Dark Forces, but it just makes me motion sick, and it's really hard to go back to 320 resolution these days (and I couldn't get any emulators to run the Mac version at full speed). Wanted to like Jedi Outcast, but the AI was terrible =/

Always wanted to try Bounty Hunter, but haven't had the chance yet.

CP3S said:

Nero said:

Rebel Assault games (very nostalgic and somehow flying though Beggar's Canyon with an uncalibrated joystick was a pain)

Flying through Beggar's Canyon with a calibrated joystick, a mouse, or a keyboard was a pain as well. I swear, there were no good controller option for those games. The shitty controls had to have been an intentionally part of those games' difficulty. I'd never put up with something like that today, but as a young SW hungry lad living in the pre-revival days of the early to mid nineties, I ate them up and loved every frustrating second of it. Kids these days don't realize how lucky they are to have the Rogue Squadron games.

 

LOL, yeah. Rebel Assault was my first PC game ever and it was ridicilously hard. I was a kid then, now I've completed it on all levels, but it sucked back then. Also the way you needed to play through 3 levels at one time to get the code so you could continue from later levels made it damn hard. For me it took years to play it through. Beggar's Canyon was easy but that A-Wing level... Jeez!

Edit: also the need for calibrating the joystick every time you started the game... don't miss those days.