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#1 DaytonaUSA OFFLINE  

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Posted Today, 5:56 PM

I was watching the SW marathon on Spike just now, and they had a commercial for, and also a running ticker on the bottom for a new SW game. Apparently it will be getting introduced first on Spike TV. It's a new Star Wars franchise... which is a good and bad thing. That means, (good) it's not another Unleashed game, and (bad) and it's a new Battlefront or Xwing VS Tie Fighter.

I guess we'll see. I'd like to have a more original trilogy based game, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. SW games are either absolutely terrible or mindblowing. Rarely is there anything in the middle.

Some previous franchises I liked and disliked. What did you enjoy?:

Liked:
Rogue Squadron series
VS series on the PC
Battlefront series
SNES Super series
Jedi Knight series
Racer series
Knights of the Old Republic series
SW Arcade (the cabinet)

Disliked:
Unleashed series
Empire at War
Lego series
Rebel Assault series
Anything ever released for the DS or GBA
Jedi Power Battles
Obi Wan
SW Arcade (the 32X game)

#2 raskar42 OFFLINE  

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Posted Today, 6:09 PM

maybe they're finally rebooting masters of teras kasi

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Posted Today, 6:12 PM

View Postraskar42, on Sat May 26, 2012 6:09 PM, said:

maybe they're finally rebooting masters of teras kasi

Remember, new franchise. And no one would want that game...

#4 raskar42 OFFLINE  

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Posted Today, 7:21 PM

i would

anyway i hope whatever they do it's flight sim/vehicle combat. who plays a starwars game to walk everywhere?

Edited by raskar42, Today, 7:24 PM.


#5 King_Salamon OFFLINE  

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Posted Today, 7:34 PM

Wouldn't mind seeing something of a Tie Fighter vs XWing with a single player campaign. Maybe they can do a game like Privateer or something that has Star Wars as a backdrop. I love Star Wars games... I'm just hoping it's a good one. Please post any information that you can get from the Spike release.

#6 raskar42 OFFLINE  

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Posted Today, 7:44 PM

maybe they finally took my game idea from 3rd grade for a stealth action game

Wicket: Defendor of Endor

#7 DaytonaUSA OFFLINE  

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Posted Today, 8:51 PM

I love the vehicle combat games like Rogue Squadron. I don't think, on any console, that the lightsaber type games really work. You either deal with annoying motion control or bad camera controls on a controller. Also, most of the more exciting moments happen in vehicles.

Though, I will say, Battlefront was a HECK of a lot of fun. But it doesn't seem that game will be coming anytime soon, unfortunately.

And masters of teras kasi sucked horribly, I'm sorry. It had some of the worst controls for a fighter and was extremely frustrating. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and I really wanted to like it, but it just was a bad game through and through.

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Posted Today, 10:19 PM

There's been more Star Wars games than Mario games. Seriously, well over a hundred:
http://en.wikipedia....star_wars_games

I've gotten a kick out of a great many of them. I'll go over a few of my favorites:

Tie Fighter: I never played X-Wing, so this was where it was at for me when it came to Star Wars flight sims. Playing as the "bad guy" with then-ridonkulous 3D graphics was mind-blowing. Also, I think this game kicked the shit out of the Wing Commander games. But not StarLancer, which remains my favorite space combat sim of all time. Sorry, Lucas.

X-Wing vs. Tie Figher: I got this game and Tie Fighter at the same time. I liked Tie Fighter better, because I've always been a single player guy and XvT was really meant for multiplayer and little else. Still a very fun game anyway.

The Super Star Wars Games: I like the first one best. I can't beat any of them. They kick ass. Nuff said.

Jedi Power Battles: I have a confession: I enjoy bad games. I enjoyed this one. Sure, the graphics are bland (even for the Dreamcast port, which I played), the animations are garbage, the hit detection is... questionable, and the game reeks of ho-hum, but it's simple, dumb fun, and I played it for a long time.

Star Wars Demolition: This one, on the other hand, was beyond redemption. It sucked. You cruised around at something like 5 miles per hour in a bizarre assortment of Star Wars vehicles, and broke stuff. This game should have been awesome. It put me to sleep. Aura Sing sucks.

Racer: I played the PC build of this game back in the day, and it kicks the hell out of all the other ones. Racer is probably the only good thing that ever came out of Episode I. Bullseye Navior was my man, through and through. Did you know that racer is the best selling sci-fi racing game of all time, beating out the likes of Wipeout and F-Zero? You do now.

Lego Star Wars: I loved these games. As straight up action titles they are mediocre. But taken as a sort of sandbox exploration game crossed with a humorous guided tour through the Star Wars games, the first two Lego Star Wars games really shine. I'm a sucker for collecting crap, and these games offer a lot of crap to collect. Beach Troopers still make me laugh.

Star Wars Force Commander: It was ugly as sin and ran like crap on contemporary PCs, but I played this game to the bitter end, because it was the first RTS Star Wars game at the time. To get one thing out of the way, the Rebels suck. Not only did the game have to invent their entire ground arsenal, giving us ugly tanks, they're really just not that good compared to all the toys the Imperials get to play around with. AT-ST rush. End of game. Command points were an interesting idea. Overall I enjoyed this game. It should have been 2D. The free-roaming camera in an RTS game was an offensively stupid feature. I spent the whole game zoomed out to a bird's eye perspective, like the other hundred people who bought and played this game. The music is really goofy.

Jedi Knight: I never played the vanilla JK: I only played Mysteries of the Sith. But that game kicked so much ass I don't even know where to begin. Probably the best FPS game at the time this side of Quake.

Jedi Outcast: You know what? This one wasn't as good. The zoomed-out lightsaber camera was too floaty, the level design was bland, and the game just didn't satisfy in the same way its predecessor did. Jedi Academy is a little more fun, but the original Jedi Knight beats the hell out of both.

Rogue Squadron. I sank so many hours into the N64 original trying to get the medals. I got damn nearly all of them. The release of the Naboo Starfighter cheat code 6 months after the game came out made me shit bricks. Turning the V-Wing into a 69 Buick Electra was pretty funny, too.

Rogue Leader: I loved this game even more. Despite being a Gamecube launch title, the game looks good enough to pass for a 360 game. The ship models are sick. Rogue Squadron had slightly better controls. But only in Rogue Leader can you wreck both Death Stars, and kill a Star Destroyer or two for good measure.

The Empire Strikes Back (2600): To be honest, I don't get the appeal of this one. I found it boring. Shoot the walkers. Big deal. Just stick with Defender.

The Force Unleashed. To be honest, I kind of liked it. Like Jedi Power Battles, it's simple, dumb fun. DMM was overhyped.

Knights of the Old Republic: Best story since the Empire Strikes Back. Best hardcore RPG since Baldur's Gate II. Dragon Age feels a lot like this one.

Republic Commando: Sort of like Halo 3 ODST, but five years older. It's a pretty kickass shooter.




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