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Best Star Wars game ever for you

I'd have to throw in for TIE Fighter too. Great story with plenty of plot twists and turns throughout missions, not just between them or in cutscenes =p. It was great starting out in a fragile T/F and working your way up :D
 
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast

One of the best games ever created. Seriously...and I was amazing at it too :D (Spinning DFA FTW!)
 
I loved Jedi Knight so much... I have no idea why I never got around to playing the sequel. The expansion pack was pretty awesome as well and was heavily inspired by the Hand of Thrawn book trilogy, the only good Star Wars books I've ever read.
 
My favorite:
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Tie Fighter. I mean flying with darth vadar! and the game had like 40 billion missions.


Runner ups:
Dark Forces
Jedi Outcast
 
Yeah, X-Wing Alliance was pretty ace (heh heh), too. But It didn't have the coolness of flying with Vader/Emperor's Secret Order/or taking out defectors.
 
Zzoram said:
Knights of the Old Republic 1, the Bioware game.
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yup...I agree...the story alone was better han the movies that lucas was putting out at the t ime. I felt great when I finished the game playing the evil side. awesome game.
 
Grayman said:
Tie Fighter. I mean flying with darth vadar! and the game had like 40 billion missions.


Runner ups:
Dark Forces
Jedi Outcast
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It's not so much that TIE Fighter has lots of missions (although there are plenty!), it's that the missions are so well balanced, diverse and entertaining.

Just about every scenario you can ask for is represented. There's very little feeling of repetition for a game where the interactions boil down to scanning, destroying or disabling ships.

Each mission has depth. You can have a wonderful experience just fulfilling the primary goals for the campaign, there's the secondary goals provided by the Order of the Emperor, and beyond even that there are the bonus objectives.

Replaying a mission until you understand how to collect all primary, secondary and bonus objectives is the single finest experience in gaming.

This game is GOTY, every year. If you haven't played it, BUY IT NOW. There are patches so it runs just fine on XP machines w/ hardware rendering, it'll play great on your computer even if your computer is weaksauce. Whatever other game you were going to spend that money on simply wasn't as good.
 
Will TIE Fighter run on XP? I think I have the CD-ROM around here somewhere.

Is the game still sold, if I can't find it?


edit: nm I see post above, what about buying it?
 
Two for me.

Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is I think the first game that got me away from Nintendo platforms to be honest. I had played Halo before, but that was about it. Started playing Outcast online with my neighbor when he first got it and I've never played a more entertaining online game. Good shit.

Then when I got my Xbox for the first time, the game I instantly purchased was KotOR. One of the best RPGs I've ever played, hands down.
 
Warm Machine said:
You didn't throw you controller into the floor when you were on the taun taun trying to jump over gaps and getting hit from off screen thus resulting in a direct drop into the deathly void below?

Ninja Gaiden games on NES were never that cruel!
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:lol There are some parts that go beyond challenge into unavoidable death range, but it wasn't that frequent. I had the toughest time with Return of the Jedi, which should have been easier considering I beat the first two games prior. I get the feeling they rushed that one.
 
It's a lot hard to choose than I though it would be. The Super Star Wars games were favorites of mine as a kid. Shadow of the Empire was probably one of my most played N64 games outside of Golden Eye and Mario Kart 64. Knights of the Old Republic was so much damn fun I played through it three times: good, evil and evil again. Rogue Leader was probably one of my most played Gamecube games outside of Super Smash Bros Melee. But I'd have to say that Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is probably my favorite Star Wars games. No other games have made you feel like a bad ass Jedi Knight quite like that series.
 
TwinIonEngines said:
It's not so much that TIE Fighter has lots of missions (although there are plenty!), it's that the missions are so well balanced, diverse and entertaining.

Just about every scenario you can ask for is represented. There's very little feeling of repetition for a game where the interactions boil down to scanning, destroying or disabling ships.

Each mission has depth. You can have a wonderful experience just fulfilling the primary goals for the campaign, there's the secondary goals provided by the Order of the Emperor, and beyond even that there are the bonus objectives.

Replaying a mission until you understand how to collect all primary, secondary and bonus objectives is the single finest experience in gaming.

This game is GOTY, every year. If you haven't played it, BUY IT NOW. There are patches so it runs just fine on XP machines w/ hardware rendering, it'll play great on your computer even if your computer is weaksauce. Whatever other game you were going to spend that money on simply wasn't as good.
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:D I can patch my DOS version to the rerelease quality?
 
Grayman said:
:D I can patch my DOS version to the rerelease quality?
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Sadly, no. Buy the "collector series" version and enjoy the consolation of the e-peen that owning the diskette or collector's cdrom version brings.
 
Shocked at all the Jedi Outcast love here.

Schafer said:
To answer otherwise is to admit you've never played [Tie Fighter].
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I've never played Tie Fighter. Hell, I've never played a real space combat "sim" outside of the Elite games and Line Wars II, and I'm faced with deciding between the X-Wing series and fucking Freespace. That's like choosing a left or a right nut, from what I hear.
 
EDIT - Damn it beaten by a full 30 minutes while I was doing other things!

[Podracer game]

Maybe not the best, but I enjoyed racing 2 others at GameWorks when it was there.
 
The first two Dark Forces, the first two Rogue Squadron's and the two Kotor's are all excellent. If I was pressed for an answer then it would still end up as a stalemate between Jedi Knight and the first Kotor. I never played Outcast but the other Jedi Knight game was an abomination.

Oh, I also loved Star Wars Arcade (the early 90's one) and Star Wars Trilogy.
 
Another vote for Shadows of the Empire. For its time, the scope of the levels were amazing, not to mention the variety, great music, fun weapons, challenging bosses, and a story that was very well written and tied into the movies perfectly.
 
Tain said:
Shocked at all the Jedi Outcast love here.
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Not enough love in my opinion! The game in multiplayer to me is revolutionary and still hasn't been matched.

You actually feel like a Jedi, wall running everywhere, jumping huge gaps and with the full force arsenal at your fingertips! I loved meeting noobs actually using conventional weapons at me; Fire a rocket at me? Woosh, straight back in your face! Whipping out the lightsaber and deflecting millions of projectiles everywhere, no other game comes close.

Even the great single player gave you this experience, nothing says "OWNED" like pulling the blasters from a troop of Stormtroopers and then knocking them flat on their asses :lol

This is why I'm really hyped for the "next gen" Star Wars game, I'm just sad they're not bringing it to PC...
 
either the flight sim games like tie fighter and x-wing, or the kotor games. Don't make me choose!
 
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