/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1661724]

greatest star wars game of all time? yes

[Anonymous No.1661745]

>>1661724
Not even close. But it wasn't bad.

[Anonymous No.1661747]

Not sure if best of all time because I haven't played them all, and I think on the N64, Rogue Squadron and Racer are better from a gameplay stand point. But Shadows was pretty variated, and had really cool levels.

Soundtrack was great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffgl2FcU4L8

[Anonymous No.1661748]

>>1661724
The music was really good. Some of the best on the N64.

[Anonymous No.1661758]

Had so many good levels. Loved that one where you gotta fight Jango Fett or whatever his name was. Spent so many hours getting far into that level then giving up

[Anonymous No.1661776]

>>1661758

Boba Fett, and yeah that level and the sewer were usually the ones that got most of us. The junkyard level with the IG-88 or whatever its name was boss fight was crazy too. That train.

[Anonymous No.1661783]

This game felt closer to the original trilogy than the prequel movies. Incredible how they got everything feeling "right" but Jewrge Lucas couldn't.

[Anonymous No.1661784]

i was deathly afraid of that spider in the sewer

[Anonymous No.1661816]

Move aside, best Star Wars game coming through.

Speaking of which, anyone know if it's possible to play it in multiplayer these days?
We used MSN to play against eachother a few years back, but that was a bit on the inconsistent side.

[Anonymous No.1661824]

>>1661816
CK2 mod when?

[Anonymous No.1661837]

>>1661824
Soon
Actually nevar

[Anonymous No.1661846]

Easily one of my favorites, I just wish it had a better shooting and aiming setup rather than the "just keep firing, it'll lock on eventually" setup that it had.

[Anonymous No.1661850]

Some people with bad taste ITT. Pic related is the correct answer.

[Anonymous No.1661857]

>>1661758

>Jango Fett

How's being born in the mid 90's working out for you?

[Anonymous No.1661858]

>>1661850

And who are you to judge other people's tastes?

Rebel Assault II was fun though, I played it on PS1. Wouldn't call it the best SW game though, the shooting stages were bland, and in many ways Shadows of the Empire did the flight combat better.
But, much like Shadows, Rebel Assault II provided variety in levels so it was never tedious to play.

[Anonymous No.1661862]

How is this even up for debate?

Greatest : X-Wing
Honorable mention: Super The Empire Strikes Back

SotE is mediocre at best.

[Anonymous No.1661897]

>>1661862
Tie Fighter is my personal favorite.

[Anonymous No.1661904]

>>1661850
They are in completely different genres, man.

[Gor No.1661928]

My favorites were Shadows of the Empire and Obi-Wan.

I know Obi-Wan was Xbox, but still.. that game was amazing. Lightsabers actually did damage instead of being blunt objects.

>Dat Shadows
>It being the battle of hoth
>Opening a door only to have a Wampa start attacking you
>fucking running for my life
>Now there's two
>are they multiplying???

Also the sound effects in that game were great.

[Anonymous No.1661940]

>>1661850
>>1661850
>>1661850

[Anonymous No.1661945]

>>1661724

The best games in the franchise is a toss up between Jedi Knight Dark Forces II, Rogue Squadron II, and Star Wars Episode 1 Racer. It really just depends on what genre you enjoy the most as one is more FPS, one is "SPACE BATTLE" and the other is a racing game.

Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron (1), Rebel Assault, etc... I mean these games are really not fun to play.

[Anonymous No.1662129]

>>1661783

Yeah SOTE has the best feel of almost any game I can remember from that era. Difficulty was solid too for an 10-11 year old kid like me.

[Anonymous No.1662235]

>>1661783
There are a lot of SW books that feel completely legit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_books

[Anonymous No.1662250]

I liked Galactic Battlegrounds despite it being AOE 2 with Star Wars characters

[Anonymous No.1662252]

>>1662235
I knew about the expanded universe shit. Lucas shat all over it and retconned everything with the prequels, it's all pointless now.

[Anonymous No.1663154]

>>1661945
your opinions are objectively wrong and you should feel ashamed.

[Anonymous No.1663157]

>>1661724
controls have aged poorly but the story, settings, music etc are superb.

[Anonymous No.1664286]

>>1662250
>tfw my disc scratched
>tfw AOE2 is on steam but Galactic Battlegrounds isn't.

[Anonymous No.1664320]

It's pretty good.

It may seem very crude now but I think it had the best old school Star Wars flair at least.

After Jedi Knight 2 everything was suddenly acrobatics, force magic and light saber bogaloo..

In my opinion Star Wars died creatively around 2000.

[Anonymous No.1664321]

The SNES trilogy is godlike.

[Anonymous No.1664332]

>>1664321
Really? It's been a long time that I played them but compared to the Indiana Jones trilogy on Snes they were pretty terrible.

[Anonymous No.1664348]

>>1664332
They were ok but really hard

[Anonymous No.1664350]

>>1662250
you could basically take aoe2 and replace all the scenery, buildings and characters with some squares and circles and it would still be fun

[Anonymous No.1664354]

>>1664332
I feel the opposite. I can't stand the Indy games but I love the Star Wars ones

[Anonymous No.1664363]

Is this a best retro star wars thread? Because Kotor/2 belongs in every best of star wars franchise thread

[Anonymous No.1664384]

>>1664363

It's just a thread to talk about Star Wars vidya, OP was just stating his own opinion.

And yeah it's /vr/ only naturally so KOTOR doesn't belong here.

[Anonymous No.1664391]

>>1661724
glorious game with so much variety. I only ever played through it once and never touched it again.

[Anonymous No.1664398]

>>1661850
wasnt that just an on-rails shooters with some flying segments? big deal

[Anonymous No.1664403]

>>1664391

I replayed it recently and the first level (battle of hoth) still holds up IMO. The 3rd person action levels, which are the majority, have stiff controls, but the level design and atmosphere is still solid.
It was a good nostalgia trip, and as many have said, the game encaptures well that classic Star Wars feeling that I never felt in newer games or Star Wars products from the new millenium.

[Anonymous No.1664409]

>>1664403
I remember the first time I saw that game at my friend's house he playing that flying level and I didn't really care for it. Later on I saw him doing the third person action segments and I checked out what he was playing to find out it was the same game. I was blown away and knew I had to play it then.

[Anonymous No.1664413]

does anyone remember that shitty "cinematic" camera angle you could choose that made gameplay absolutely impossible?

[Anonymous No.1664423]

>>1664413
no but i remember your mums puss m8

[Anonymous No.1664424]

>>1664413
Haha, fuck, I totally forgot about that. I can't remember if it would change at random or only if you went off-camera.

[Anonymous No.1665243]

>>1664424

It was a toggleable option.

As for SOTE, it's very good in terms of atmosphere and getting the Star Wars "feel", but in terms of gameplay it's very mediocre. The controls and movement are clunky, the combat isn't particularly exhilarating, and the bossfights often degenerate into tedious circle strafe matches (excepting the Giant Dianoga, which remains an interesting and terrifying fight).

I will say though, it's still very memorable, if not for how varied the actual gameplay was, between being on foot, riding a swoop bike, flying a speeder or operating the guns on the Outrider. I'm also thankful the developers gave you a jetpack for half the ground levels, since while it may have been awkward to use, it was still pretty damned fun.

On a side note, I actually replayed the game a few years ago, and something really odd happened. I recall, in my childhood, being really saddened that Dash bites it in the final battle. (when I was like 9 or so I even made a little badly drawn comic fanfiction thing about how he escaped the Skyhook's explosion. I might still have it somewhere...) Now, I'm not sure what causes it, maybe something to do with how many of those silver Rebel tokens you pick up, or maybe it was because I never got a game over in the whole playthrough, but after beating the final level I got a sooper sekrit ending that shows Dash and Leebo escape into hyperspace, with Dash remarking that with the Empire (and the Rebels) believing him dead, he'll have an easy time staying alive. It was really surreal to see the "real" ending so many years later, and to learn that poor old Dash Rendar was actually alive.

[Anonymous No.1665263]

Ya'll niggas don't even know

Rogue Squadron II is the eternal GOAT Star Wars game.

[Anonymous No.1665265]

What was that game on gamecube where you were boba fette just being a bounty hunter?

[Anonymous No.1665295]

>>1665243
I remember that, after the scene with princess lea and luke mourning his death.
I think you see that extra bit if you clear the game on a higher difficulty.
I also recall getting all rebel collectables as a kid, damn I spent so much time on this game.

[Anonymous No.1665316]

>>1665243
The ending in EASY mode is where everyone thinks he's dead.
On NORMAL you get the actual ending.
At least that's how I remember it.

>>1664384
The Kotor games are mediocre dungeon crawlers that don't really feel like Star Wars.
It's more like generic space opera with magic and light sabers.

They do a good job at making the jedi feel exactly like the jedi from the prequel trilogy though.
They're bland, unlikable douchebags.

>"Do you want to become a jedi?"
>"Hell no. You guys are douchebags!"
>"Well too bad for you, you gonna be one anyways."
Why do they even ask then?

[Anonymous No.1665375]

>>1665243

Speaking of surreal experiences involving this game.

Like most people I only ever knew about the N64 version. It was really interesting to find out years later that all the cutscenes in the N64 version had actual movement and voice acting in the PC version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0n5RdSI-TA

They're alright, I guess. I have a lot of attachment to how those were done in the N64 version though.

[Anonymous No.1665376]

>>1665295

Speaking of the Rebel collectibles, does anyone here recall the one that was inexplicably shaped like a cartoon rabbit head? As I recall it was placed behind a small maze of walls on the swoop bike level, immediately to the player's left after you exit Mos Eisley.

Maybe it's supposed to be an "Easter" Egg?

[Anonymous No.1665397]

>>1665263
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Anonymous No.1665432]

>>1661724
I can taste the nostalgia in this game. For a year or two my only games were Mario 64 and this. Loved that Tatooine level. Starts with some sloppy platforming across caverns, shooting the occasional stormtrooper. Avoiding the Wampa, jumping for those special silver doodads. Then you approach a big empire structure and open those massive doors. You ascend the big building, shooting your way through ugly empty rooms, then reach the top to find the jetpack. I loved that jetpack. You hover across the chasm and reach another building only to face of against an at-st. Then it's time to face Boba Fett. All in all a rather long stage.

[Anonymous No.1665512]

I think you gotta look at it from a mid-90s perspective.
Back then this game was absolutely amazing.

Very varied gameplay in a single game, from 3rd person shooter / platformer over the Hoth sequences and space battles to the speeder bike racing. This game had all that you could have wanted from a Star Wars game back then.

The jetpack was something that was rarely seen in games yet and the boss fights were really intense and memorable.

On top you got the classic SW feel, a great soundtrack and great atmosphere.

The controls feel crude now but they didn't back then (except for the speed bike racing).
It was a great game for the 90s and it still holds up well enough today.

[Anonymous No.1665587]

>>1665376
It's Sam from Sam and Max also made by Lucasarts

[Anonymous No.1665598]

Even in the 90's PC reigned over consoles.
Sure, Shadows of the Empire was a fun little romp, but it doesn't even come remotely close to Dark Forces 1 or 2.

[Anonymous No.1665605]

>>1665512
If you used the first person view for the shooting segments, the game controlled exactly like Goldeneye. Then switch back to third person for platforming.
I kinda wish they used this kind of camera approach for Turok 2.

[Anonymous No.1665639]

Shadows of the Empire was cool.
SNES Super Star Wars Trilogy was also good, even if they could never get the balance right. The mode 7 levels in Super Jedi looked kickass.

X-Wing and Tie Fighter were both cool but the best of the PC simulator titles had to be X-Wing Alliance. By far.

[Anonymous No.1665716]

>>1661724
I never managed to beat Slave 1.

Year ago while I was still high school however my super casual youngest brother found the game somewhere and he managed to beat it.

I probably should have committed harakiri when that happened.

[Anonymous No.1665724]

>>1665716
>letting your little brother beat your at videogames

[Anonymous No.1665736]

No.

This is the greatest Star Wars game of all time.

OF ALL TIME.

[Anonymous No.1665740]

>>1665736
MOTHERFUCKING SHITTING DICK NIPPLES FUCK 4CHAN AND ITS REPLY BOX TABBING FROM THE GODDAMN SHITCUNTING CAPTCHA INPUT SHOULD NOT TAB TO FUCKING POST IT SHOULD TAB TO FUCKING BROWSE

FUCK YOU MOOT AND FUCK YOUR SHIT SITE

Anyway, this is the greatest SW game of all time.

[Anonymous No.1665747]

>>1665740
>mad

[Anonymous No.1666046]

>>1665243
>>1665295

Yeah, this is so much than the novel's ending. Dash just bites it randomly in a space battle, and this is after some nonsense where he gets shaken after not being able to shoot down some "INDESTRUCTIBLE MISSILES" or some bullshit. Dash was just an asshole in the book.

[Anonymous No.1666202]

>>1665512

Gotta agree with this post.
At the time, the controls didn't feel as bad as they do know, simply because we didn't knew that much better in terms of 3D games with 3rd person perspective. There was Mario 64 (which had much better gameplay, but then again, totally different kind of game), Tomb Raider... and yeah, not much else.
I do remember getting frustrated with the controls sometimes, but it still felt awesome to be playing that in 1996. And thanks to the plot, atmosphere and music, the game is still fondly remembered by many people here too, I see.

>>1665316
>The Kotor games are mediocre dungeon crawlers that don't really feel like Star Wars.
>It's more like generic space opera with magic and light sabers.

These KOTOR games are from a time I wasn't playing that many modern games anymore, and while I went to the theatre to see all 3 prequel movies (as I did with the original trilogy too back when they re-released them on cinema in 1995), my interest in Star Wars just wasn't as big as it was back when I was a kid.
I just see KOTOR always being regarded as the "best SW games ever" by many people on /v/.. but when I checked some footage it seemed very generic, didn't get any urge to play them to be honest.
I honestly don't know which game would be my "favorite" of the Star Wars games, in fact, Racer might be, gameplay-wise, I thought it was a very original and awesome racing game that could rival the likes of F-Zero or Wipeout, while still being its own thing. Then again, Episode 1 is my least liked SW movie, but that game was awesome on its own, movie or not.
and Super Star Wars ESB for SNES was awesome too, albeit too hard.

Also, surprised nobody mentioned Star Wars Arcade yet.

[Anonymous No.1666254]

>>1665740
I agree best star wars game of all time, it's way before my time but damn that game has AWESOME sound samples and amazing visuals. Being too stoned and blowing up the deathstar is the best shit ever.

[Anonymous No.1666457]

I love me some Star Wars: Dark Forces. It is fucking Doom with storm troopers. Absolutely marvelous. Soon enough, I am going to try out the arcade Star Wars, TIE Fighter, and X-Wing. Those three look fantastic.

[Anonymous No.1666485]

>>1661745
It really is not bad, in fact I think it's fairly underrated as far as Star Wars games go, but just as a 3rd person action game everything is solid. Especially any time the jetpack came into play, I loved that thing.

And it's first level basically served as the Inspiration for Rogue Squadron.

[Anonymous No.1666508]

>shadows of the empire
>no one mentions the nightmare fuel that was IG88

Cmon guys, those fucking sounds.

[Anonymous No.1666528]

>>1666508
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJ3v2swJBg&feature=youtu.be&t=8m11s

>WRBWRBWRBLWRBLLRBWLBL

[Anonymous No.1666537]

>>1662250
I loved playing as the Empire, and building a gigantic force of AT-ATs filled with a variety of ground troops and sending them at my opponent. It was just this wall of death. It was so fun watching that army slice through their defenses.

[Anonymous No.1666539]

>>1662252
Who cares if it's canon or not?

[Anonymous No.1666541]

>>1664384
But he only asked about best Star Wars vidya. He didn't say anything about retro or not.

[Gor No.1666543]

>>1662250
Oh man I so wish this was on steam.

[Anonymous No.1666594]

>>1661862
Tie-Fighter is better. It's like they didn't even playtest X-Wing, a bunch of the levels in that game are almost unbeatable.

Also, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight were great.

[Anonymous No.1666647]

This one was my favorite, and the best of the SNES trilogy.

[Anonymous No.1666663]

>>1666541
>But he only asked about best Star Wars vidya. He didn't say anything about retro or not.

We're on a retro video game board where you can't discuss newer games. So obviously it was implied.

[Anonymous No.1666729]

>>1661862
you are objectively wrong. sote is best, and the rebel assault games are all better than xwing. the super nintendo games are fun and good looking but slightly over rated.

[Anonymous No.1666732]

>>1661850
>shit tier interactive movie
>best
7/10 made me respond

[Anonymous No.1666738]

>>1661945
dark forces 1 is better than 2. playing as a jedi is lame. liking episode 1 racer confirms you are under 15. rogue squadron 2 is awesome.

>sote, rogue squadron not fun
nowthisisshitposting.jpg

[Anonymous No.1667018]

>>1666738
Rouge squadron 2 is also not retro. Quit being a whiny cunt about other people being "underage" when you obviously are yourself.

[Anonymous No.1667043]

>>1665263
How do I get Rogue Squadron and X-Wing Alliance to run on Win7 64 bit? I bought them again a while ago because I played illegitimate copies a friend gave to me, but I couldn't install because lol 16bit. Also my disc drive seems to not like copying the contents of the CD onto my pc for manual install.

[Anonymous No.1667047]

>>1666663
>it was implied
why not just fucking say, "GOAT retro SW game? yes"

not that goddamn hard

[Anonymous No.1667050]

>>1666738
>dark forces 1 is better than 2

Gotta disagree with you there. Dark Forces was great but it's basically a really good doom clone. JKDF2 had better, more varied levels, a better variety of weapons and enemies, and awesome multiplayer. I dunno why you don't like the Jedi stuff -- lightsabering and force powers are both lots of fun, though one could argue Outcast improved on both aspects considerably.

And come on, SWe1 Racer was a great game.

[Anonymous No.1667054]

>>1665265
Star wars bounty hunter

[Anonymous No.1667117]

>>1667047

While I agree OP should't have used "of all time", he was obviously just being silly for the sake of it, stop arguing semantics. The point being: only retro SQ games should be posted here because of board rules, plain and simple.

[Anonymous No.1667125]

>>1667117
>SQ
Solar Quarrel?

[Anonymous No.1667132]

>>1666594
>>1661897
Mah negroes

SOTE was really good, especially the Hoth and Asteroid Field levels. But then it's a totally different type of game.

[Anonymous No.1667140]

>>1661945
>Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron (1), Rebel Assault, etc... I mean these games are really not fun to play.

Solid post there, kid.

[Anonymous No.1667489]

>>1661724
Counting only retro games.

>top tier
X-Wing and TIE Fighter
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith
Star Wars Arcade 1998
>great-tier
Dark Forces
Rogue Squadron
Episode I Racer
Super Star Wars trilogy
Star Wars Arcade 1982
>good-tier
Rebel Assault 1 and 2
Shadows of the Empire
Rebellion
Empire Strikes Back 2600
>meh-tier
Star Wars NES
The rest of the 2600 games
Star Wars Arcade 1993
Battlegrounds
Episode I
>shit-tier
Yoda Stories

[Anonymous No.1667495]

>>1667489
You sorter your list
3
4
5
2
1

[Anonymous No.1667545]

>>1667489
>Yoda Stories
>shit tier

I'll fight you IRL

[Anonymous No.1667546]

>>1667050
i just think being a soldier/ bounty hunter / smuggler makes for a more interesting game in the star wars universe. jedis were more interesting when they were rare and they weren't unstoppable demigods. dark forces 1 captured the feeling of the original trilogy much better, the same way sote was able to. maybe i should give pod racing another go, i just hate the aesthetics of the new movies.

[Anonymous No.1667548]

>>1667018
didn't say it was retro. said it was fun. please do your best to restrain your autism.

[Anonymous No.1667550]

>>1667117
Kotor
Rogue Leader
Oh noes.

[Anonymous No.1667557]

>>1667489
X-Wing Alliance belongs in god tier.

though it did have a few missed opportunities, like how pilots just float out there for no reason, would be cool if you could save them for extra points and so.

[Anonymous No.1667632]

>BF2 not being the best Star Wars game
I played Shadows after Rogue Squadron and was disappointed. It was good for an early N64 title. For best story I'd go with either Kotor or Republic Commando

[Anonymous No.1667651]

>>1667550
rogue leader is /vr/

[Anonymous No.1667654]

>>1667651
>gamecube
>/vr/

Pick one.

[Anonymous No.1667669]

>>1661862
>Honorable mention: Super The Empire Strikes Back
That game always pissed me off because of how ridiculously hard it was. I've never been able to beat even the first level. Super Star Wars wasn't as hard but was still difficult, and Super Return of the Jedi had the fairest difficulty of all three. I was actually able to beat SRotJ.

[Anonymous No.1668471]

>>1667557
I always fly up to them and let them have a good hard look at my blaster cannon before evaporating them.

[Anonymous No.1668571]

i'll never forget that last mission.
that three way battle between the empire, rebels and xizor's forces with that music playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YhRNk0qiIQ&index=24&list=PL000B1B12BE123A36

[Anonymous No.1668592]

>>1666738
rogue squadron 1 is just really rough to play after playing 2. it looks great and has some really interesting scenarios (racing neck and neck against the imperials on a rainy planet to recover a downed ship was particularily cool), but it's just so clunky and slow paced. also those fucking missile turrets on just about every level really suck the fun out of everything

[Anonymous No.1669526]

>>1667654

Uh... yeah I was thinking about Rogue Squadron, my bad.

[Anonymous No.1670353]

Is Battle for Naboo any good? I only vaguely remember it from a long time ago, and it gets almost no mentions compared to the other 3 N64 Star Wars games.

[Anonymous No.1670398]

>>1661724
Best ever star wars game was TIE Fighter for PC.

[Anonymous No.1670408]

>>1662252
>it's all pointless now

Just because Lucas decided it isn't canon doesn't make the books NOT good.
The X-wing novels are still the best Star Wars anything. Those books are better than all the movies.

[Anonymous No.1673302]

>>1668592
Agreed. It feels so slow, too.

[Anonymous No.1674193]

Thanks to this thread I went back to try and finish this game once and for all. When I was a kid, I could only get to the 5th level where you get the jet pack but gave up before even reaching Boba Fett. Some years back, I got this game again when I started rebuilding my N64 collection, got to the sewers and abandoned it.
Now I finally beat that horrible tentacle boss, and am now in Xizor's palace. I can defeat the gladiator boss's first form by spamming seeker rockets, but his second hoovering form wreck my shit in no time. Still trying to figure out how to dodge his own seeker rockets.

Anyway, game controls are clunky and the aiming is not very precise, but all in all, I'm having fun with the game, level design is solid and using the jetpack is very helpful.

Anyone ever got all these challenge points? I just checked and I got 0 of them on the bike level, that shit is impossible.
I only got 6 out of the 9 on the sewer... I looked around but I could only find 6 of them.

[Anonymous No.1674669]

>>1667557
Would've counted that if I'd remembered it. Haha.

>>1667545
I would've put it higher if it were freeware.

[Anonymous No.1674914]

>>1674193
Referencing my playthrough from childhood, you can beat the head form by using disruptor ammo. (That's how I did it, from what I remember)

[Anonymous No.1675000]

>>1674914
Yeah, I remember destructor ammo being like BFG ammo: save it for the bosses.

[Anonymous No.1675038]

>>1664286
And physical copies are way more expensive than they should be.

[Anonymous No.1675061]

>>1667489
>meh-tier
>Battlegrounds
Probably true but I'll still fight you.

[Anonymous No.1675654]

>>1674914

hmmm... yeah I'm saving 4 disruptors but I still can't beat it.
I've tried 10 times or so already, I can breeze through the level in 15 minutes and can reach the boss with 100% health, haha... but still, he takes all my 4 lives very easily.
I might watch a video to see how other people beat him, I feel my main problem is not what weapons do I use (I do save all 4 disruptors for his final form), but that I can't dodge his attacks, also his telegraph is kind of weird, or rather non-existant, I don't know which weapon he's going to use next, and he barely gives me time to react... anyway, gotta keep trying, but I'm taking a rest for now or I'll get burned out from playing the same segments so many times, kinda wish it had a save point right before the boss.

[Anonymous No.1676076]

Please help me /vr/. I have been trying to get TIE Fighter to run all fucking night, and morning now, with no satisfactory results. I got the game from
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6060495/Star_Wars_XWing_Trilogy__TIE_Fighter_Collectors_CD_ISO_Win7_%5BTuz
which boasts how it works in Windows 7. Has all the patches and such, et cetera. Well, it runs, after you put yourself in Windows 95 compatibility mode, but there are many graphical glitches. The entire space is yellow. I tried .bat files to kill explorer.exe and I later manually killed explorer.exe, and this fixed the graphical glitches, but now the game crashes when you try to get into a mission or a tutorial. Then I tried opening resolution tab, nothing. I tried enabling all the compatibility mode options, nothing. I tried the directdraw hack, and the game crashes on startup. I tried disabling display adapter and the executable refuses to run. I have tried googling for general answers, and specific, to no prevail though admittedly my googlefu is weak. I also cannot manage to get windowed mode working with it, but would love to try if some anon could tell me how to do so without alt enter, as it doesn't work with this game. I am going to reinstall the game, as I think I might have just fucked it up, but in the mean time am going to drop this post before I kill myself just in case someone has the solution to my problems.

[Anonymous No.1676078]

>>1676076
try the gog version it will save you lots of troubleshooting!

[Anonymous No.1676092]

So I see all of these posts about X-Wing and TIE Fighter, but I only ever played X-Wing vs Tie Fighter as a kid. I also vividly remember the Balance of Power expansion pack and how retarded B-Wings were to fly.

So why don't more people talk about XWvsTF, and only the individual games? I admit I've never played either of them by themselves.

[Anonymous No.1676121]

>>1676078
There is no GoG release of the game.

[Anonymous No.1676130]

>>1676092
XvT was miles ahead of its time; designed for multiplay in a time when internet wasn't reliable enough for it. Used to lan it, it was awesome.
Also there's a mod for xwing alliance for better graphics and another that converts the storyline to the x-wing tour of duties

[Anonymous No.1676194]

>>1676076
So, uninstalling and retrying worked like a charm. Never ever run the game directly through TIE95.exe. Always use the launcher TIESTART.exe. Set both TIESTART.exe and TIE95.exe in compatibility mode to Windows 95, nothing else. Kill explorer WITHOUT setting it to start back up after an application closes, as you NEED to run TIESTART.exe first, and it will automatically close before TIE95.exe runs, therefore explorer.exe WILL reopen immediately afterwords aswell, making it pointless. It should run, though I haven't done a real in depth test. Just did the tutorial. Have an important question though, as I am new to the game.

How do you reload?

[Anonymous No.1676204]

I loved that debug code that let you do all sorts of crazy shit. It was like you could use Jedi mind control and force one of the enemies to kill all the other ones.

[Anonymous No.1676348]

>>1676194
>How do you reload?
Rebump. Want to play this game, but feel like it is pretty pointless without this knowledge.

[Anonymous No.1676394]

>>1676348
Figured it out, have to change laser recharge rate.

[Anonymous No.1676603]

>>1661897
Ok two question where do i get it and how do i get it to run on windows 7?

[Anonymous No.1676679]

>>1676603
I just wrote exactly how to do so not even a page above your post.
see >>1676076 for where to get it
see >>1676194 to get it to run

[Anonymous No.1676725]

>>1661945

what are you talking about? Rogue Squardon 1 is better than 2

[Anonymous No.1676938]

>>1676679
thank you.

[Anonymous No.1678967]

>>1675654

Samefag here.
I was just watching some gameplay videos on youtube, and damn... the boss has a 3rd form?
No way. Also the guys I see on youtube can't beat him without losing at least 5, 6 lives.. and I only have 4. I also don't have the flame ammo, and I only have 4 disruptors.... I think I'm kinda forced to start the game from the beginning and try to save as many disruptors and lives for this guy alone, damn. Also, I'm playing on medium difficulty.

Any tips will be welcome, I'd really like to finish this game.
I keep trying but seriously his second form keeps fucking me over, I still don't know how to dodge his missiles, and youtube videos aren't helping either, guys just tank him because they have over 30 lives so they don't care about dying.

[Anonymous No.1678982]

>>1678967

Well just reading some FAQ they say its almost mandatory to have at least 20 lives because you will also need them for the final level, so I guess I'm re-starting the game from the beginning and try to not die ever.

[Anonymous No.1680598]

wow i actually started this thread as a joke. i think shadows of the empire is kind of shitty honestly

[Anonymous No.1680626]

>>1680598

It wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst for sure, it had its charm.

[Anonymous No.1680637]

>>1661862
Agreed, xwing rocked.

[Anonymous No.1683185]

>>1667489
>Star Wars arcade 1998
That game was GOAT. Best and most realistic lightsaber battles with vivid action and great graphics.

[Anonymous No.1683189]

>>1670408
>The X-wing novels are still the best Star Wars anything.
Grand Admiral Thrawn would like to have a word with you.

[Anonymous No.1683239]

>>1676725
This is one of the most impossible statements to understand I've ever seen on /vr/.

[Anonymous No.1683254]

>>1683239
But Rogue Squadron 1 is better than 2.

[Anonymous No.1683839]

>>1661862
That's not even a screenshot of the original X-Wing.

[Anonymous No.1684389]

>>1661724
The controls in this game pissed me off so badly that I had to quit, third person controls back then were pretty bad without two analog sticks, I mean I know there were those yellow keys on the N64 controller, but it just isn't the same.

[Anonymous No.1684405]

>>1684389
P.S. my personal opinion on a great StarWars game has to be Dark Forces.

[Anonymous No.1684490]

>>1665716
Star Wars SotE turned your little brother into a man. How are you NOT proud?

[Anonymous No.1684620]

>>1665716
>>1684490
That was a tough fight, at some point I figured out a way to sit between his ship's blasters and kill it effortlessly. You sure did die fast if you didn't get in there correctly.
The worst thing was that the level was 40 some minutes, then had possibly the hardest boss fight in the game.

[Anonymous No.1687318]

>>1661724

I think I played this at Circuit City when I was a kid. I got bored of it then played Jet Moto on the Playstation kiosk.

[Anonymous No.1687329]

Shit, I played the last battle/dogfight so much.

I used to just fly around and see how long I could kill TIE fighters and bombers until I had to blow up the station.

[Anonymous No.1687524]

>>1670353
Battle For Naboo is one of my favorites and I don't get why it isn't talked about more.

[Anonymous No.1687589]

>>1683254
Repeating it doesn't make it easier to understand.

[Anonymous No.1687715]

>>1676092
It didn't have campaign mode.

[Anonymous No.1687779]

>>1687715
Yup, this sucked. I wanted so badly to play it multi-player and couldn't figure out how in that day.

[Anonymous No.1690149]

>>1683254
>More retro means more better xD

[Anonymous No.1690226]

>>1690149

You could ask him why does he think that instead of acting like a retard with implications that don't fit on /vr/

[Anonymous No.1690228]

I always preferred Dark Forces, but that's probably because I played it first.

[Anonymous No.1691121]

I never liked Star Wars but I really enjoyed that Bounty Hunter game on the PS2.

[Anonymous No.1691179]

>>1678967
>>1678982

Well some practise and patience and I beat the fucker and only lose 1 life.
Final mission is pure crazy, alliance vs empire vs xizor space combat, it's sure a great reward after going through so many frustrating foot-mission levels.

[Anonymous No.1693854]

I like Rogue Squadron the best

[Anonymous No.1696568]

What about this one?
I know it's shit, but I only had a PS1 and I hated the fact that Racer wasn't on PS1, so I tried to convince myself this one was a good game.

[Anonymous No.1696572]

>>1696568
I loved this game as a kid.
Despite it being one of the biggest buggiest messes I have ever had the pleasure of playing.

[Anonymous No.1696624]

Getting SotE to work on W7x64 is such a good feeling.
I remember watching my friend who used to live on a narrow boat play the game when it first came out. Back then I only had a prebuilt computer, so playing was basically out of the question.
>>1696568
I used to enjoy blowing up Obi Wan with a thermal detonator and watching his gibs spin around on the floor.

[Anonymous No.1696829]

>>1662250
>There are people who genuinely think this is just a bad version of Age of Empires
>There are people who are not aware that it does nothing but add content and improve on it

Gungan master race, enjoy not having any access to water

[Anonymous No.1696849]

You will never get to experience this games multiplayer ever again.

[Anonymous No.1696869]

>>1696568
This game had a ton of problems but also had a lot of cool things, like the open-ended levels on tatooine. It was buggy as fuck and hard as nails though, i never managed to beat it without cheat codes

[Anonymous No.1696873]

>>1662250
>despite it being AOE 2 with Star Wars characters
you say that like it could possibly be a bad thing

[Anonymous No.1697061]

IG-88 used to scare me.

[Anonymous No.1697985]

>>1697061
That fucking droid was scary as shit. He wasn't even that hard, but it was so easy to lose his spindly ass in the junkpile. Then he'd bounce out at you with no warning but a gear-shredding noise as he did that weirdly slow moon jump and then jam a pulse rifle up your ass. Seeing him unceremoniously keel over onto his face in the end cutscene was probably the best point in the whole game.

[Anonymous No.1698206]

>>1661724
Oh, I'm sorry but we all know that this is a RETRO games page. though the greatest star wars game was in fact star wars battlefront 2

[Anonymous No.1698218]

>>1661747
oooh, i agreed with OP until I remembered the 2 years of my life that I dedicated to rogue squadron.

[Anonymous No.1698221]

>>1698206

I'm not going to disagree on that but let's keep this retro, shall we?

[Anonymous No.1699067]

>>1665243
>>1666046

I have never read the novels, but on the comic-books by Dark Horse, Dash only randomly appears for a brief moment to lead Luke and Leia to where Boba Fett is, then he just flies away with the outrider, not giving a fuck about them, he's like "you just paid me to lead you to Fett, I'm outta here LEL".

But I believe he appears again later, I only have the first issues from when I was a kid but not the complete collection.

[Anonymous No.1699081]

Best /vr/ Star Wars games

1)Super Star Wars
2)Dark Forces 2
3)Dark Forces 1
4)Tie Fighter
5)Episode 1 Pod Racer (yes, I feel dirty for putting anything with Episode 1 in the title in a top list of anything, but sorry)

Shadows is ugly and slow.

[Anonymous No.1699396]

>>1665243

Samefagging again. I recently replayed the entire game a few days ago, in only two sessions (it's not a particularly long game, took me only about 4 - 5 hours total), and I guess I'll have to partially rescind what I said earlier about the bosses being terrible.

The IG-88 bossfight is actually very well-done. The droid is equipped with some rapid-fire lasers and pulse-weapons for when you get close up, and if you stay out in the open too long, you're toast. This, coupled with the mess of an area you have to fight him in, as well as the constant whirring and clicking of his gears and servos, means you have to be constantly on the move, and it's always a huge shock when you peak around the corner, expecting to pop a few shots at him, only to hear his mechanical walking noises and realize he's actually turning the corner right behind you.

The Boba Fett fight is also pretty frantic, since it has you constantly on the move as well, but given the verticality of the environment you are in, as well as the jetpack both you and Fett are equipped with, it makes the fight feel entirely different from IG-88. My main problem with the fight, however, is the second-half. After you blast Fett, he returns to his hangar, only to emerge in his ship, the Slave-1. The bossfight then degenerates into a boring circlestrafe contest in which you have to nail the ship in the back to hurt it (annoyingly, there's no indication this is its only weakness; firing at the front of the ship will have all your projectiles pass right through the geometry, which made me at first believe the game was glitched).

[Anonymous No.1699408]

>>1699396

(continued)

There is also the Giant Diagona fight, which is easily the most unsettling part in the game, given the underwater environment, the need to occasionally re-emerge from the water for air, the mess of tentacles constantly trying to slam into you, and the fact that the Dianoga's only weakness, it's eye, looks very similar to its tentacles, and so must be hunted around for while trying to dodge its attacks.

The Gladiator is effectively the game's final boss, and while it's not quite as memorable as IG-88 or the Dianoga, it's a good fight if not for how it is effectively the climax for all ground battles in the game. It is very heavily armored in all its forms, and possesses some extreme firepower (I frequently got killed by its barrage of seekers and its tracking eye-laser). However, if you're smart, you can stockpile special weapons from throughout the game for this fight (the game is especially generous with the amount of seekers it gives you), and it's extremely satisfying launching a disruptor blast at its final form, and seeing the boss vaporized for good.

The game has a definite low-point, though, in the form of the Loader Droid bossfight, and arguably the entire Freighter level that it takes place in. The boss is just a borish circlestrafe match, as it has only a single attack (moving up close to the player, and then trying to launch its grapples at you), and so the entire battle will just involve constantly moving around the boss and jumping to avoid its attacks. It's a little frantic, but completely repetitive, and the fact that the entire level that preceded it was a massive corridor shooter does not help this fact at all.