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omgeeeee, this game was the best!!
Exultation: Correct, Master! My memory cores whirr with satisfaction at your impeccable assessment.
Well I think the frustration is we want novel new experiences with old world quality. Not to play the old game. Nothing wrong with playing old games. But I understand the desire for something new AND good.
Hence Expedition 33 being as well received as it was. The game was clearly made with passion, despite what you may personally think of the genre or other subjective traits.
Look, humans are good at subconscious understanding. We can tell when something is made with love and something is made with greed.
Sometimes we can’t articulate it. But we know.
I just played Doom 2016 yesterday. I can’t believe that’s ten years old now… both because damn, time flies, but also it has great graphics, better than most games today imho
Just did a run through Freelancer.
Might hop on the Dosbox and fire up EGA Trek later.
Everytime I fire up Freelancer I love love love it. It’s an incredibly good game. Pity that Crossfire is such a monstrous increase in difficulty from the get-go, I am still stuck on the first missions because I keep giving up.
Have you ever played its prequel, Starlancer?
Oh - that was the prequel? No, as a matter of fact, I have not. Does it run as well on wine as Freelancer?
Not sure. It’s pretty obscure, I think I was able to get it to run on my old Windows Vista laptop. No such luck in the Win 7 era though.
I’ll take that as a “yes, likely it’ll work fine on wine” g Try wine yourself, it usually runs old games better than Microslop :)
I really should go back and finish Jedi Outcast.
I’m waiting for Aspyr to remaster Jedi Knight - Dark Forces 2.
I’m actually playing Shadows of the Empire on PC for the first time, am on the first Coruscant level (sewers). I think the worst the game had is behind me (Gall Spaceport and Beggar’s Canyon).
Ohhh no I never liked the sewers level. 😬 So much terror with the noises and the tentacles and the murky “water.”
The train level was awesome though, and the soundtrack they picked was PERFECT.
Joke’s on you. I replayed Outcast and Academy just last month with the Team Beef VR mod.
Gah, I need to do that one still- it got updated to work with PCVR as well, right? I am curious how it works with the saber dismemberment set to max, so touching anything is an instakill. Playthroughs with that were so tense in the last few missions
I played Outcast like that, and it makes lightsaber battles a cakewalk when you have perfect control of the motions. A “reality ensued” moment for sure. For Academy I switched to “beef recommended” settings, and yeah, that was much better balanced.
Damn, Jedi Outcast used to be my favorite game for a looooong time. I remember so many online sessions and LAN parties with one on one lightsaber duels.
We’d always bow at the beginning of a duel. So many awesome memories, what a game.
It’s where I learned that “XD” was a smiley-laughing face. Ah, to be a young preteen having his first introductions to certain internet slangs
I also enjoyed doing that trick where if you strafed right at the right time after the saber was coming back to you, it’d keep circling you.
Hellll yeah, such a great community. Very few games come close to the experience I had with it
So much for a blue milk run
Retro Achievements man. Retro Achievements.
Kotor was life.
When they announced new star wars like 10 years ago I really hoped for a Kyle Katarn story. Seeing what they’ve done though I’m glad they left him alone
Unless Tony Gilroy is the showrunner
Plotwise, Andor kinda replaced Katarn though
If I’m not mistaken, Rogue One also did. Kyle Katern was the one who got the death star plans I believe, which Rogue One retconned
Vibewise Kanan Jarrus from Rebels kinda replaced the jedi side of Katarn.
Yeah, but the blaster bits before you get a lightsaber, ugh.
The ‘relative’ aiming system just really puts me off.
Yeah, storywise it makes sense and it sucks to play through
I kind of enjoyed the getting used to the weapons part. Probably the first game I had to use so many buttons for. 1-9 were guns, f1-f8 force powers, by the time I got to Jedi Academy having mouse buttons 4 & 5 mapped to specific force powers was a necessity
Academy was so wierd, some parts were good, others were halfbaked. I do remember it as fun though
The controls/gameplay was amazing in both Outcast/Academy, it nearly ruined KOTOR for me if it wasn’t for the story being so good there. Academy to me was just to short. I remember beating it in one sit down… Like 20 times. Then again I was a kid who had the time to spend 5 hours playing a game, now I’m sure it would take me days to beat.
You were evil/good for the last mission only or something close to it right? Other than that I do remember it being VERY short, and that some of the puzzles could be challenging first time around, but easy second time around.
I think the 2nd to last mission, you just chose to be good or evil by killing/sparing your douchey friend who was getting all dark side first. Then the last mission plays out mostly the same, but if you’re evil everyone attacks you.
One of my favorite missions was the one where you piloted the swoop bike, the slowmo killcams when you sabered enemies were always fun.
I think they hunkered down on they get double blades or dual welded lightsabers, they’ll be happy.
That said, Outcast and Academy used to have multiplayer hangout rooms where you could practice how to perform moves and hang out with others, wish that had been expanded upon. An MMO with those controls would have been awesome.
That’s what the Jedimaster mod is for.
This guy used to have the broccoli cut
Oh and he was live action
He’s not amused
That was just the standard attractive white male actor in the 90s. Even Pierce Brosnan had that cut when he was James Bond.
Also, I think the sides are a little too long and the top not nearly curly enough to be considered a broccoli cut, but I’m also quite blind to these sorts of fashion trends so maybe I’m wrong.
No you’re right. I thought Brosnan’s was shorter but maybe Jonathan Frakes would count as this too.
I retract my statement
Ah Jedi Outcast! Good game!
