I completely agree with Ed. Back then Star Wars was old news and occupied a real niche, not a commonplace industry giant. I loved me some Dark Forces, X-Wing, and Jedi Knight II!
More recently, I was really pleased with Star Wars: Battlefront. While it wasn't exactly like the old games, some of the classic era excitement was there.
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Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Fwd: [Geeks] Star Wars: The Old Republic
From: Edward Crosby <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, June 07, 2011 11:16 am
To: [email protected]
One thing was the magic of Star Wars. Star Wars doesn't hold that same magic for me like it used to in those days. Also, it was the newness of video games. In those days all those types of PC games had a freshness to it, ya know, kind of like that new car smell. When Dark Forces came out we had only been introduced to the FPS games of Doom, Wolfenstein and such. With Dark Forces, we could assume the role of a new Star Wars character, Kyle Katarn, going around the Star Wars universe shooting Storm Troopers (not Clone Troopers) with a blaster. With X-Wing and Tie Fighter, we were flying Star Wars ships in the form of an actual flight simulator where it was truly beneficial to have a droid navigator called Patrick Pence.It was magical then mostly because of the newness of PC video games but also because it was during the dry season of Star Wars. It was 10 years or so after Return of the Jedi and several years before the remastered versions. I guess these days there's just an over saturation of Star Wars, mostly pertaining to the whole Clone Wars stuff. Even though it's rare to see something innovative in video games these days, I would love to revisit those old days of Lucasarts when they made really good video games. It would be neat if they came out with a FPS or flight simulator game again that pertained to the Rebel Alliance years that we love so well from the original trilogy.--
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote:having never played them, what is it about them that you miss? (insert poor graphics joke here)
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Edward Crosby <[email protected]> wrote:
Ya know what I miss about Star Wars games? They being more like the old days (not Old Republic) before the prequel trilogy. I miss games like X-Wing fighter, Tie fighter, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight and such.--
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote:--Scott (Of the St Pete Geeks) found this and it is a fun game trailer...kind of makes SW fun again...
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From: Scott Hamilton <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Subject: [Geeks] Star Wars: The Old Republic
To: "St. Pete Geeks Group" <[email protected]>
--I'm beginning to wonder if Bioware has some new business model that lets them make money by just releasing trailers to games that never come out, but here's a new one for Old Republic.As always, the action is great. My Star Wars nerd heart is a little troubled by this story not fitting anywhere into established Sith history, and with the technology looking very close to Galactic Empire era instead of thousands of years before that. And I wish they could have gotten some new music rather than reusing old John Williams cues. I'm guessing they can't afford new John Williams music, considering the Bioware equivalent of Harrison Ford is the voice of Bender.
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