[Darksider]

<-- used an A-wing to destroy an entire fleet of VSD, ISD, and one SSD in Alliance.

Was fun though, I still have all the discs and most of them are in my rack in front of me.

You must have been cheating, since it takes something like five-hundred heavy warheads to destroy an SSD, and an A-wing only carries four.

Plus, their combined fighter compliment should have slaughtered you by then.


To everyone worried about "dumbed down console crap" I have to ask, exactly what do you expect to be dumbed down?

I could do with a simpler energy management system that doesn't require me to operate my engines at half-power to recharge my shields or lasers

[aRaven]

I would be so happy with a next generation version of Xwing and TIE fighter. And the TIE fighter soundtrack should be orchestrated and enhanced!

I'm still playing these games with Dosbox and a nice soundfont .

The only games I love deeply.

[JGZinv]

You must have been cheating, since it takes something like five-hundred heavy warheads to destroy an SSD, and an A-wing only carries four.

Plus, their combined fighter compliment should have slaughtered you by then.

I probably was, but even so... you can run off and take the TIEs one on one easily.
Caps as long as you dive bomb and knock out the "shield generators" first, makes short work of them.

Long as you don't hit the mission triggers, they'll sit there indefinitely waiting to die.

You could edit the table files too I remember, fly as an SSD or whatever. Flying a Death Star crashed the game though.

[NGTM-1R]

please please please no dumbed down console bull****

I don't think it's terribly possible to dumb down X-Wing/TIE Fighter. They were pretty basic. A modern controller could do them easily

[Thaeris]

please please please no dumbed down console bull****

I don't think it's terribly possible to dumb down X-Wing/TIE Fighter. They were pretty basic. A modern controller could do them easily

Come to think of it... I think I saw that someone managed to mod FSO to play on the Wii...

-Thaeris

[TrashMan]

I loved X-W: Alliance. The AI was great and the battles really were big.

[aRaven]

The AI was great and the battles really were big.

And so is my Johnson.

Now I don't like Alliance as I used to a long time ago. I prefer the working cockpit of the titles before Alliance to a nonfunctional 3D one.

[Flipside]

I lost many hours to the original X-Wing & Tie Fighter games, great games, great stories. The difference is that they looked at Star Wars from a serious perspective, they thought about the strategies that would be used by the Rebels, they held in mind the if it was Republic vs Empire in a nose-nose fight, the Republic would lose, purely due to the level of resources the Imperials could call upon.

Nowadays, the games seem to have the same approach as the modern movies, which means they'll add a shedload of stuff that makes no sense whatsoever in the context of the original, and worry so much about making it pretty, they'll forget that a game is more than its graphics.

It's one of the very rare times in my life where I'll say the best thing they could do to it, is hand the original code over the the LucasArts equivalent of the SCP team, and say "Make it shiny, but don't make it ****".

[Thaeris]

I lost many hours to the original X-Wing & Tie Fighter games, great games, great stories. The difference is that they looked at Star Wars from a serious perspective, they thought about the strategies that would be used by the Rebels, they held in mind the if it was Republic vs Empire in a nose-nose fight, the Republic would lose, purely due to the level of resources the Imperials could call upon.

Nowadays, the games seem to have the same approach as the modern movies, which means they'll add a shedload of stuff that makes no sense whatsoever in the context of the original, and worry so much about making it pretty, they'll forget that a game is more than its graphics.

It's one of the very rare times in my life where I'll say the best thing they could do to it, is hand the original code over the the LucasArts equivalent of the SCP team, and say "Make it shiny, but don't make it ****".

Almost makes me think of the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade Project...

-Thaeris

[mxlm]

I lost many hours to the original X-Wing & Tie Fighter games, great games, great stories. The difference is that they looked at Star Wars from a serious perspective, they thought about the strategies that would be used by the Rebels, they held in mind the if it was Republic vs Empire in a nose-nose fight, the Republic would lose, purely due to the level of resources the Imperials could call upon.

When you look at Star Wars from a serious perspective you get KOTOR2/Karen Traviss/Matthew Stover.

Which isn't a bad thing.

[NGTM-1R]

When you look at Star Wars from a serious perspective you get KOTOR2/Karen Traviss/Matthew Stover.

Which isn't a bad thing.

I'm pretty sure Traviss wasn't serious when she numbered her clones, among other things. Perhaps you meant Timothy Zahn.

[General Battuta]

Stover, though...damn. I love Stover.

[BloodEagle]

If they take all of the gameplay elements from Rogue Squadron III, chuck them out the window, and make a game that is completely different. Then I'm sure that a new X-Wing/Tie Fighter could one day be modded into a passable game.

[Flipside]

I lost many hours to the original X-Wing & Tie Fighter games, great games, great stories. The difference is that they looked at Star Wars from a serious perspective, they thought about the strategies that would be used by the Rebels, they held in mind the if it was Republic vs Empire in a nose-nose fight, the Republic would lose, purely due to the level of resources the Imperials could call upon.

When you look at Star Wars from a serious perspective you get KOTOR2/Karen Traviss/Matthew Stover.

Which isn't a bad thing.

In all fairness though, Kotor didn't try to reference the movies in any real manner, just used the Universe as a basis, also Kotor was developed by Bioware, not LucasArts, they only distributed it,which probably helped.

I suppose LucasArts could go to Totally Games for the uprgades, but I'm not certain what the relationship is between the two companies these days.

[mxlm]

I'm pretty sure Traviss wasn't serious when she numbered her clones, among other things. Perhaps you meant Timothy Zahn.

Zahn? Nah. Good light entertainment, but that's about it (have you read his original IP stuff? Same deal there). Which, to be fair, is all anyone should expect from Star Wars.

I think we can all unite in our loathing of Kevin J Anderson, though. Right?

Stover, though...damn. I love Stover.

I'm going to drown in their smoking ****ing blood.

[Sarafan]

While this is just the rumours so far, I'll only be interested in any other Star Wars game if the main character doesnt have a lightsaber, dont include anything about Hoth and if LucasArts stop being lazy ***** and come up with a  completely original soundtrack (its already past the point of just ignoring the music, I downright hate listening to those same musics over and over again).

[redsniper]

While this is just the rumours so far, I'll only be interested in any other Star Wars game if the main character doesnt have a lightsaber, dont include anything about Hoth and if LucasArts stop being lazy ***** and come up with a  completely original soundtrack (its already past the point of just ignoring the music, I downright hate listening to those same musics over and over again).

This. This is why Tie Fighter was good, and all the more recent stuff is bad.

[Flaser]

While this is just the rumours so far, I'll only be interested in any other Star Wars game if the main character doesnt have a lightsaber, dont include anything about Hoth and if LucasArts stop being lazy ***** and come up with a  completely original soundtrack (its already past the point of just ignoring the music, I downright hate listening to those same musics over and over again).

This. This is why Tie Fighter was good, and all the more recent stuff is bad.

Except KOTOR which made Jedis "fun" again.

[Vidmaster]

THEY STATED TODAY IT IS NOT THE X-WING FRANCHISE.
So check these desires right now and trust me it's so for the better.

EDIT: Told they would announce it on Monday. I am curious...      ...my bets are on Jedi Knight.

[TrashMan]

" I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if a million fans cried in anguish and were silenced."