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It's true. It was deep enough to require some brains, but not too much of a simulator to be boring. It's got a fun story, your character even gets to join a secret order of the Emperor and get a badass tattoo. What's more fun than flying around in a shielded TIE Fighter making mince meat of X-wings and Mon Cal cruisers? Nothing. You can still buy it and play it today. Do it.     
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That's loving beautiful.
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I bought a flight stick just for this a couple of years ago and it rules.
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Roth posted:I bought a flight stick just for this a couple of years ago and it rules. So real talk, which version TIE Fighter? The Collectors CD that runs on DOS or the Win95 version? If it's the DOS version, can you point me in the right direction for configuring a flight stick (and which one to buy). When I played it back in the day I just had a 4 button Gravis Gamepad. edit: I'll add this here, DO NOT play the Win95 version. It loving sucks. It uses the same engine as X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter and it's loving awful. You want the Collectors CD-ROM Edition.
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Jose Oquendo posted:So real talk, which version TIE Fighter? The Collectors CD that runs on DOS or the Win95 version? To be honest, I just picked up the the flight stick that I saw in the Super Bunnyhop video on the game. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009OY9U/ref=dp_cerb_1 I haven't had any real issues with it, but I played the Collectors CD version.
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Roth posted:To be honest, I just picked up the the flight stick that I saw in the Super Bunnyhop video on the game. I actually may have one of those in a box somewhere. I'll have to dust it off and see if I can get it running.
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loving LP classic right there
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It's very very good OP the only thing that might be better is if KOToR 2 had been released in a completed state
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I remember hoping X-Wing Alliance was gonna be like what Freelancer turned out to be. I still dig XWA but TF is still the best one all around.
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No joke when I saw the new movie I thought the opening crawl was way too smooth, like they turned on motion interpolation, but I looked on YouTube, I guess the originals were like that too. I have become so used to TIE Fighter I was expecting it to look like that! Also if you're playing TIE Fighter for DOS the joystick will have 2 buttons and X and Y axis only. You could use dosbox keymapper to map the R key and stuff I guess. I still like X-Wing Alliance a lot too.
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Charles posted:No joke when I saw the new movie I thought the opening crawl was way too smooth, like they turned on motion interpolation, but I looked on YouTube, I guess the originals were like that too. I have become so used to TIE Fighter I was expecting it to look like that! I wish X-Wing Alliance got a sequel or at least a story expansion pack like Balance of Power. It's been like 20 years and I still want to know what the hell Antaan Azameen was up to with his big dumb double cross in the third act which he then skips away from and out of the plot with no consequences. rear end in a top hat needed some comeuppance hard.
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Ms Adequate posted:It's very very good OP the only thing that might be better is if KOToR 2 had been released in a completed state swtor sith warrior light side=pwnage
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well why not posted:g_saberrealisticcombat  helpusobi 1
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Yes. The starfighter combat in Battlefront 2 (the new one) is pretty fun, just use all those assets, make the first person cockpit view standard and let you press buttons and give it a campaign. Throw in VR/headtracking support too I guess. They did a one off mission for the first battlefront in VR on playstation, just flesh that out, make the flight controls a bit more 'realistic' and get a bunch of actors to do all the cutscenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rm8sbstvr4&t=124s
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Roth posted:I bought a flight stick just for this a couple of years ago and it rules.  Except it was over 20 years ago.
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Mooey Cow posted:
yeah same but it was x-wing for mac
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I forgot how good this LP was. nine-gear crow posted:I wish X-Wing Alliance got a sequel or at least a story expansion pack like Balance of Power. It's been like 20 years and I still want to know what the hell Antaan Azameen was up to with his big dumb double cross in the third act which he then skips away from and out of the plot with no consequences. rear end in a top hat needed some comeuppance hard. Hell, same.
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A good essay on Dark Forces games vs. Doom games from the graveyard of the internet You may remember Dark Forces as the Star Wars Doom clone from the 90s that went on to spawn classic sequels such as Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, and Jedi Outcast: Jedi Knight 2: Dark Forces 3, and of course who can forget: Jedi Academy: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Knight 3: Dark Forces 4: A Star War Story.
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I just got the steam version working with a game pad and I’m loving thrilled. Not quite as good as playing with a joystick but gently caress me those got expensive and I’m not spending $50+ on a peripheral I’ll use for a small handful of games.
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I haven't played this in about 20 years, I'll have to try getting a gamepad to work with it. I still remember the mission briefing for the final mission- don't recall if it's the final mission of the main campaign or the expansion- was just "DESTROY EVERYTHING! KILL! KILL! KILL!" hell yeah, for the glory of the Empire
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The way the final debriefing caps everything off in one line is pretty great. (Spoilers for those who have never played this or have played but forgotten) Thank you for your service to the Empire. You’ve punished all the traitors and routed the rebels. Your chest is full of medals and you’ve reached the highest levels of the Emperor’s secret order, earning praise and notice from the man himself. Now we await word of our victory at Endor! 
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I agree OP. The second best is probably dark forces 3: jedi knight 2: jedi outcast, or maybe the kotors
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Looks like someone forgot about motherfuckin' Star Wars Episode I Racer
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I remember the whole Treachery at whatever mission halfway through blowing my 10 year old mind and thinking "this is kickin rad  "
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Mooey Cow posted:A good essay on Dark Forces games vs. Doom games from the graveyard of the internet Dark Forces is the FPS Star Wars game I remember the best.
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I said come in! posted:Dark Forces is the FPS Star Wars game I remember the best. Dark forces still plays surprisingly well. You can find it on Steam for something like 99 cents whenever lucas arts stuff goes on sale.
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I played KOTOR 1 for like 30 hours straight so it gets my vote.
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Roman Reigns posted:The way the final debriefing caps everything off in one line is pretty great. (Spoilers for those who have never played this or have played but forgotten) lol
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Gonna slice the poo poo out of some terminals. Maybe plant a bomb. Hitting the exact same two buttons repeatedly for 15 seconds. Hell yeah!
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I said come in! posted:Dark Forces is the FPS Star Wars game I remember the best. The best part of Dark Forces is the level design doesn't treat you like a baby.
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Tie fighter is true star wars, everything else is a spin off including the movies.
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The only worst thing about TIE Fighter is that you can't roll and dive at the same time. When you hit the roll button, any X input engages your throttle. How the hell am I supposed corkscrew away from the bullshit A-Wings?
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Yeah I hate that and it sucks you can't rebind controls to something more modern. But it's still a better game than any other modern space game
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We just have to wait for XWVM to finish up and then move on to Tie Fighter! Or somebody bug the Totally Games people to release the source code to speed things up!
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We need to get the estranged granddaughter of Chris Roberts to convince Lawrence Holland to come back and make a new X-Wing series
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Serious Post: If you bought X-Wing Alliance on Steam or GOG, then you should check out the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade Project or XWAUP. It's a still-ongoing total makeover of the game that takes all the janky 1990s models and replaces them with new highly detailed and textured ones and makes the game look great on modern systems. Sad that it's only for XWA and not the original X-Wing/TIE Fighter/XvT, but it's better than nothing. Check it out. For your health.
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