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Nebalebadingdong posted:He's an old man, maybe he wasn't yet aware he'd been captured "Where are we going?" "Just get in the Edit: Where's my co-marketing deal with Saitek / Logitech / Thrustmaster?
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Sure Palps can throw lightning around, but he couldn't do poo poo to stop Lando and Wedge from destroying the Death Star. It would have gone kaboom regardlss of how much torture and scenery chewing he did. I can totally buy him being vulnerable on a pleasure liner.
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That's the SECOND rescue-Prelude to Endor. The first(The final mission of the first game) he's been snatched by Zaarin from Coruscant and he's on one of a bunch of Assault Transports, you need to find him, disable it before they hyper out, and keep it safe until friendlies capture it(As the enemy is perfectly willing to kill it if they can't have him). As to how? Pick your reasoning-overwhelmed, insulated armour, whatever. Though how the Imperial Royal Guard slipped up that badly is a bigger question, especially if you consider they're all meant to be utter bad asses. How they got past the fleets kept at Coruscant is another. Still, it's a fine capstone to your career at that point. You flew with Vader and Saved The Empire! Bloodly fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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when I was a kid I remember one year (this was like 1998 or something) for Christmas my parents bought a two volume Lucasarts collection for my older brother, sister and myself. In this package came Dark Forces, Full Throttle, The Dig, Afterlife, both Rebel Assaults, that Behind the Magic Star Wars CD, Monkey Island 1 & 2 (with Curse demo), a big demo CD that had demos for things like Indiana Jones and XvT but most importantly it had the demo for Outlaws. All of these were included but the diamond of the collection was the TIE Fighter Collector's CD  It wasn't until I was older that I learned how old TIE Fighter was but man was that game sooooooo much fun. The thing that really sucks about this is that my brother took all of those games at one point about 8 years ago and most of the games have disappeared  I mean, I'm not shook up about the loss of The Dig since I never actually got very far in that game, or Full Throttle because I beat that game so many times that I can remember it still but I will always miss TIE Fighter. See I wasn't very good when we first got it, mainly because I was still like 8 years old at the time so flight sims were kind of difficult and not too long afterwards we got a new computer that had issues running the game. Because it was still the DOS version we had to install it juuuust right on our new Win98 computer or it would just give us a nice STACK OVERLOAD message everytime we would fire it up, that and if we did get it running it was usually my brother's turn so I would just watch him play. I guess what I am trying to say is that if the version that I grew up with is not what is available for purchase right now, I will gladly sit back and wait for that one to come along.
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You must be misremembering because I got that same collection and it does not have Tie Fighter. That was the volume before or after that one. Still an excellent collection though.
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Oct 31, 2014 15:31
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Bloodly posted:Still, it's a fine capstone to your career at that point. You flew with Vader and Saved The Empire! "We expect word of our victory at Endor soon!" Poor debriefing officer.
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Oct 31, 2014 15:35
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Especially after all the work you did to set it up.
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Oct 31, 2014 15:36
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I do wonder if the release of these two games might give us a new one. It has to be selling shitloads and the successes of EVE Online and Star Citizen (lol) prove that there is a valid market for space shooter sims. The fact that Disneys gaming division almost immediately signed on for releasing the older stuff after the buy out shows that they think differently than Lucasarts. Now I just need Alliance. While Tie is certainly the better game I still prefere XWA for the proper story. Also it's so much prettier and you can roll without holding down a button. 
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Bloodly posted:That's the SECOND rescue-Prelude to Endor. The first(The final mission of the first game) he's been snatched by Zaarin from Coruscant and he's on one of a bunch of Assault Transports, you need to find him, disable it before they hyper out, and keep it safe until friendlies capture it(As the enemy is perfectly willing to kill it if they can't have him). I'm sure that the Emperor was scheming something up that involved a complex plan and probably Mara Jade. He was only PRETENDING to be captured. That or he forgot his space Metamucil that day and they caught him with his pants down
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Lodin posted:I do wonder if the release of these two games might give us a new one. It has to be selling shitloads and the successes of EVE Online and Star Citizen (lol) prove that there is a valid market for space shooter sims. The fact that Disneys gaming division almost immediately signed on for releasing the older stuff after the buy out shows that they think differently than Lucasarts. There was a Star Wars space sim in the work that got canned before it really got anywhere. Admittedly it was a MP only joint and primarily PvP, but that still doesn't exactly bode well.
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Anyone else play TIE Fighter as a child before ever hearing of Star Wars or even knowing what it is? Weird experience to see the movies years later and realize you were playing the bad guy all along.
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Orv posted:There was a Star Wars space sim in the work that got canned before it really got anywhere. Admittedly it was a MP only joint and primarily PvP, but that still doesn't exactly bode well. It was loving terrible, I was in the beta. You played the galactic starfighter mode in TOR? Like that, but significantly worse.
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Oct 31, 2014 16:04
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Space sims all went to being sand box games for some reason. I dunno if anything good came out after the Freespace 2.
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ShineDog posted:It was loving terrible, I was in the beta. That's a damning comparison if ever I've heard one.
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This re-release makes me wonder if Rebel Assault will ever get released. I know it's not a great game, (I'm pretty sure over half the missions are "fly into the super-structure/interior of this big ship/space station/factory to destroy it a la Return of the Jedi"*) but I had fun playing it because it was the first game I ever played on CD-ROM. We had an old, crummy, Gateway 2000 when I was a kid. a 3x86, 4 MB of RAM, and ran Windows 3.0 (yeah, 3.0...not even good enough for 3.1.) It could run the floppy versions of X-Wing and TIE Fighter...barely. One day, my brother bought Rebel Assault, not knowing it was a CD-ROM game. So it sat on our shelves for literally YEARS before we could finally play it. It was 1996/1997. That old crummy desktop was still around, but my parents bought a computer for my brother when he went off to college, so when he came home on winter break, I could finally play that drat game, as well as all those other cool games he had (that's also when I learned about emulation and was in absolute shock and awe that there were actual Nintendo games right there on his computer.) FTR, I was still using that same old Gateway computer in 1999/2000 when I was a senior in high school. By this point, it no longer even had Windows 3.0 (an accidental format of the C: drive by myself...), and the printer had long since broke so I couldn't even use it to type/print out stuff for school, but it ran Dos 5.0 (maybe only 4.0?) and I only used it for playing old games I downloaded from abandonware sites from my high school's computers. *Edit: Actually, that may have been more Rebel Assault II...that's the one with the absurd "stealth TIE", right? DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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Rebel Assault was a pretty big deal when it was released for PC, so I could see it being released by GOG.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Rebel Assault was a pretty big deal when it was released for PC, so I could see it being released by GOG. I could never get past the third level in that game, no matter how hard I tried. Personally, I'd hope if they do release it, they just package it with RA II and call it a day. I wouldn't mind paying ten bucks for them together, but sure as poo poo wouldn't buy them for ten each.
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Handsome Ralph posted:I could never get past the third level in that game, no matter how hard I tried. I played Rebel Assault II first and man did I love it. I hope they're both in the next batch. choobs fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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I'm looking forward to an x wing vs TIE fighter re-release in the hopes of some multiplayer dogfight action the likes of which I haven't seen since 56k modems were hot poo poo.
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From what I recall when setting up X-Wing Alliance with a wired 360 controller there is a bit more flexibility with assigning the axes (whereas Tie Fighter only recognizes 1 specific set of flight and throttle axes) On the driver side of things I use BetterDS3 and made the left and right flights of the right stick into buttons, as well as all the shoulder buttons. Then back and forth on the right stick are a manual throttle, while you can assign full/zero/match throttle hot keys.
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Can't seem to find an answer on GoG or any other site, maybe you guys can help. I'm running Windows 8 (unfortunately) and every time I launch the game, it runs perfectly except that my desktop flashes in and out. It's extremely prevalent on the menus, and happens every so often while in the actual game. Also, is there a way to run the game at a higher resolution/in a window? Really looking forward to playing these again, X-Wing was my favorite as a kid even though TIE is objectively better in almost every way.
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Is anyone able to confirm that X-wing comes with the CD collectors version and not the disk version? The OP and a few people here say that it is the CD version, but on the GOG forums people are saying it's only the disk version. Unlike most of, all of my nostalgia is reserved solely for X-wing. I probably played that game more than any other as a kid, breaking more than one joystick along the way. I never bothered picking up TIE Fighter, though, as I didn't have any interest in playing as the bad guys and I didn't realize it was a sequel that had a number of improvements over X-wing until years later. I'll probably get them both to finally experience TIE Fighter for myself, but I really want to relive some of my memories flying for the rebels first.
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GoldenNugget posted:You must be misremembering because I got that same collection and it does not have Tie Fighter. That was the volume before or after that one. Well like I said we got two collections, the adventure game one and then I guess a more Star Wars oriented one since I believe that was the collection with the Behind the Magic tour CD and the Rebel Assaults. Shame X-Wing wasn't really mentioned in the collections, but then again quite a FEW Lucasarts games I didn't learn about till I was in high school, like Sam and Max Hit the Road, IJ and Fate of Atlantis and X-Wing
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davecrazy posted:The 360 gamepad works right out of the box. Ohmygod ohmygod YES!
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Hannibal Smith posted:Is anyone able to confirm that X-wing comes with the CD collectors version and not the disk version? The OP and a few people here say that it is the CD version, but on the GOG forums people are saying it's only the disk version.
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Lodin posted:It comes with the original floppy version and the version from the 98 collection that uses XWvT graphics and crap music. It does not have the original CD version. I just bought X-Wing and found this. I updated the OP to reflect that.
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I can't wait for GOG to rerelease Starwars Rebellion so once i have captured all the systems except the alliance base planet again, i can go around the galaxy with my three death stars just destroying all the planets except Coruscant and watch the "insufficient maintenance penalty" randomly destroy one of the 2000 droids inside death stars at the insane speed of ONE random unit per day*. Worst un-modded starwars game ever but so close to be a decent game. *well, sometime the computer get lucky and randomly destroy one death star. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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Toplowtech posted:I can't wait for GOG to rerelease Starwars Rebellion so once i have captured all the systems except the alliance base planet again, i can go around the galaxy with my three death stars just destroying all the planets except Coruscant and watch the "insufficient maintenance penalty" randomly destroy one of the 2000 droids inside death stars at the insane speed of ONE random unit per day*. Worst un-modded starwars game ever but so close to be a decent game. Ah, Rebellion...so fun to play multiplayer until someone figures out how overpowered commandos are, and then it becomes a lesson in scorched-earth combat.
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I still have my Rebellion disc around here somewhere, not that it'd be worth the hassle to get it running.
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OAquinas posted:Ah, Rebellion...so fun to play multiplayer until someone figures out how overpowered commandos are, and then it becomes a lesson in scorched-earth combat. I am still convinced that the game was rushed to release, with the unmodded game having stuff like all-randomized hero stats going from 0(poo poo) to 100(godlike) regardless of the character (and you can end up with an army of totally useless heroes, that's always fun), the force being a random roll for each recruited hero and the total unbalance in term of recruitment with the empire being poo poo at recruiting because Vader is the only recruiter on the darkside and Palpatine is only good to sit on coruscant to give the galactic wide fleet commander bonus, mysteriously unable to recruit heroes or even train new discovered dark jedis. And with the tech research heroes being found like all the normal hero you can basically spend 200+ in-game days recruiting before having your first research hero while mon mothma and luke could be super lucky and recruit all their research heroes in 50 days. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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There are a couple of more-or-less indie space sim shooters out there in development, one even with a pseudo-2D engine. Plus one or two *really* well-made mods for OpenFreespace. But no, the indie/kickstarter/steam golden age has sadly not yet revived the sleeping beauty that is this genre  Star Wars Rebellion was totally rad, hilariously buggy (gently caress if I could ever figure out how to use the tacked on "3D" combat engine properly) and with plenty of unbalanced poo poo that never got fixed. But oh man, oozing with theme and cool poo poo.
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Pimpmust posted:Star Wars Rebellion was totally rad, hilariously buggy (gently caress if I could ever figure out how to use the tacked on "3D" combat engine properly) and with plenty of unbalanced poo poo that never got fixed. But oh man, oozing with theme and cool poo poo.
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Toplowtech posted:Well, how else would you blew up those dual planetary shields and be able to bombard planets with 6+ stormtroopers/calamari troopers. Rebellion was basically "Turtling the game". I really wanted to love Rebellion but gave up on it early because it was so poorly executed. Awesome idea and I totally pre-ordered it but just couldn't deal with the bullshit. Was there ever a mod community out that tried to fix the game?
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Rhandhali posted:I really wanted to love Rebellion but gave up on it early because it was so poorly executed. Awesome idea and I totally pre-ordered it but just couldn't deal with the bullshit. Was there ever a mod community out that tried to fix the game? You could also basically replace all the characters with heroes from the EU if you wanted to. Couldn't add more characters to the hero limit sadly. And you couldn't add more events like the Luke and Leia ones.
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Atomizer posted:
I have all those games (not the boxes), and I had a Packard Bell 50MHz 486SX with 4MB of RAM  I had the special demo floppy. Before you could play the game, you had to sit through an ad screen for a Dodge Neon. I played XvT on MSN Gaming Zone. Too bad there's no replacement for that. I could never get X-Wing Alliance working on my computer by the time I got that. Maybe in VMware these days or something.
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Our first PC was a Packard Bell 50 MHz 486DX with I think 2 MB RAM (later upgraded) and a 400 MB HDD. Ah, those were the days....
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Man, I played Tie Fighter when I was like 10 or something. The Assault Gunboat was forever in my mind as the raddest thing around, and I always lamented it not showing up in any other Starwars game I played.
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I genuinely did not like the Assault Gunboat. Not a great fighter or something to assault cap ships despite having shields and ion cannons.
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Party Plane Jones posted:I also remember in the manual for Rebellion they had Han Solo get captured by bounty hunters. I never, at any point, had him get captured by them successfully. He always killed them. Rebellion was really criminally easy once you knew what to do.
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