Gaming From Menace to Mouse: Classic Star Wars Gaming (1999-2014) Discussion Thread

MOD EDIT- Expanding thread's scope for use beyond this initial topic once we merge the forum. This thread will be for discussion of all classic Star Wars games released between 1999-2014 (X-Wing Alliance is technically a 1999 release, but we're counting it as part of this companion thread being put aside for all the pre-TPM game releases).

This thread will essentially cover everything released between TPM game titles up to before EA's main run begins with Battlefront in 2015 after the canon rebooted.



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I see a Post about this [The Phantom Menace video games 20th Anniversary] on Twitter and thought id create a thread in the same vain.

I remember playing the Video Game and Jedi power battles. The Video Game was enjoyable and at times felt like a prototype KOTOR i thought. while Jedi Power Battles was a frustrating pain in the butt!... that i didn't play very long.

I never played Obi Wan and i don't think i ever played Pod racing. mostly due to the lack of Xbox and whatever Nintendo console was out at that time. think it was gamecube.


Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Video game) ^


Jedi Power Battles ^


Star Wars: Obi-Wan ^


Star Wars Episode I: Racer ^


Star Wars Starfighter ^


Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo ^

 

I really enjoyed The Phantom Menace, Podracer and Starfighter on the Playstation systems.

 

Podracer was on N64 and Dreamcast. But there was a sequel that came out later on PS2, about the same time as the release of AotC called Racer: Revenge.

 

I had the chance to play the Racer arcade game once. It was pretty cool.

 

I liked the Huttese swearing.

 

I has Knights of the Old Republic on my Android phone and it plays better, smoother, looks better, and runs easier (and doesn't crash) unlike the version I had on my PC 10 years ago. And about 50 bucks cheaper too. Going full darkside this time cuz canonically it doesn't exist in main Star Wars canon (I went with Lightside 10 years ago cuz that was the Legends canon answer). Takes me, like, months to play though it cuz only a few minutes a week but cranking through. Oddly, it's way more annoying to try to get your health up when you're Dark Side, although I'm pumping stats into the Drain Life power.

 

It's a bit awkward on a phone because the menu text icons are really small to strain to move things around and sometimes clicking around the map can get difficult (And I have large fingers) so gets sometimes to be kinda like this



Not unplayable, though! just gotta get used to it.

 

Eep. Is that IP address thing something that applies to the PS4 version as well? Because that's where I bought both Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast. Never played either before.

 

Yeah that's just the cheapest kind of cheating. Although I don't know if I plan to play the multiplayer, I'm mostly interested in the main game.

 

That is nowhere near the cheapest kind of cheating. It is arguable whether it is cheating at all. Just PC players of the game discovering they were able to crash a party to play with a whole new group of players. That they are far more practiced and having a possible controller setup advantage being just an unfortunate fact, and the majority not having seal clubbing being their motive to play the console players.

 

What was unique for me about this particular era was while I played Dark Forces and Jedi Knight on PC windows for Jedi Outcast I actually played it on GameCube of all things. Never really played Jedi Academy although I did buy it as a gift for my cousins and played like 6 minutes.

 

I was a big fan of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series. Each game improved upon the previous version and it got better and better. So I was hoping the Phantom Menace game would be an even bigger step up. I was really disappointed in the game. From the overhead cam, the clunky controls, weak light saber battles, and lousy story it was a huge letdown. I thought the music was the highlight and about the only enjoyable thing from the game. It would have been great if the gameplay was in the same vein as Dark Forces.

 

A fan apparently remastered Jedi knight in unreal engine. Star wars theory and collider gaming played it recently on their channels