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i just don't want to have to run a goddamn virtual machine on my desktop to drive a guddamn podracer
that game - to this day - still has the best illusion of AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHITTTTTTTTTTT speed i've ever played
EDIT: did some googling and apparently NO MODERN GRAPHICS CARDS will actually run the game anymore, so even if i DID have an older operating system it wouldn't work
PC backwards-compatibility, you have failed me.
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In any event I honestly think those of you expecting things like another old republic game are maybe being too optimistic. I would be 100% certain that with Disney focusing on the new trilogy, that they will be handing down instructions to EA to make games that integrate into the new trilogy in some manner. So I would think a new X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter (unless it fits into the new trilogy of course) or Old Republic Game are probably right out of the question.
But I have to say, I am not adverse to someone injecting some new ideas into Star Wars in some way. A focus on a new era could be what they need?
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Totally not like that one game where you played a squad of competent Clone Troopers.
It could be like a prequel to the new Star Wars!
Totally different.
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That said, I feel like KoTOR I, while it hasn't aged well, still better captured the feeling of Star Wars then TSL did.
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What I'm secretly hoping for is that EA recognizes what an enormous miss not having real space combat in SWTOR was, what an enormous unsatisfied appetite there is for space combat (see: Star Citizen), and by following their noses they go about making space combat games. And since they're all up in making everything online always, the game they make is about gigantic fleet battles with tons of players.
The only thing that hasn't aged well about KOTOR is the graphics, and even they're serviceable.
A new RPG would also be amazing, and KOTOR was by far the best single player star wars experience I have had. I doubt we'd be lucky enough to get KOTOR 3, but any sort of RPG or even more story focused games would be great.
Also, despite what others have said, I am in no way tired of playing as a jedi. I'm not a huge fan of shooters either and setting them in the star wars universe only helps so much. But I'll probably buy any high quality star wars game EA can put out.
But any jedi games - and there will be jedi games - will most likely be yet more where they act as nothing more than glowing whiffle bats. A shame.
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The strength of Republic Commando is that your teammates come to feel absolutely vital to playing, as opposed to being trailing appendages you have to herd and protect. If they cross your line of fire, they duck down to avoid blocking your shots. If you get downed, they're perfectly capable of clearing the current enemies (if you tell them to) before getting you back on your feet. Need to get them all healed up? Position the lot near a bacta dispenser and they will all automatically heal themselves up.
It was bizarrely competent AI design that I very much doubt EA would be able to recognize as valuable or replicate.
Heck, consider that in most of the Unreal engine third person shooters, crouching outside of cover isn't even an option.
If they were more durable, it wasn't by much. I think they just benefited from the AI being able to place them in good cover while still shooting, unlike people who can easily get distracted into standing in the open. It's entirely possible to hurt them pretty bad with a lousy grenade, or for them to get downed real fast by big droids. I also think the enemy AI tended to favor the player as a target a fair bit, but if you got downed, you could start losing squadmates quick as the enemy picked new targets.
And a further positive point to the game is that there was no Jedi stuff. Ever. The closest it comes to Jedi is a transmission from Yoda, I think; otherwise, it's just mundane non-Force enemies, through and through. The most "Jedi"-esque enemy you face are Grievous' personal guard, and they're just fancy droids. It's actually pretty amazing that Lucas let Republic Commando slip past without trying to make the player a Force-user or something.
No, just me?
I mean, if I were EA battlefront would scream a game that you could put a free to play model around and churn out badly.
When really they need to make battlefront 3 as a 20 pound budget game to get everyone going 'I have nostalgia!' and buy it instantly.
I've said this before but I think the idea of lightsabers cutting through everything with extreme ease is something they added into the prequels. In one of the Luke-vader duals, Luke slashes his saber into Vader's shoulder pretty hard and it just sparks, makes a shallow cut and bounces off. I kind of imagine that's the case with light sabers when they don't one-hit kill in games.
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I had thought that that was something special to Darth Vader, as opposed to something typical with lightsabers in general. After all, he could block blaster shots with the palm of his hand.
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Wampa Arms on Hoth and Luke's Hand disagree with this assertion, unfortunately.
I think one of the major assertions that the Star Wars universe makes that games have trouble coping with is that Force Users are by their very nature unstoppable in melee combat. To cope with this, you either had to be extremely well trained and innovative, as exampled by Boba Fett's tactics, or, use attrition, as even the best Jedi often couldn't stand up to 50 mooks with blasters staring at them.
This was an acceptable trade off for the longest time, that Jedi were vulnerable at range (but not cripplingly so), until Game evolution introduced the concept of the Consular style class. Having a Jedi that could suddenly dispatch things at range with ease now threw the entire Rock-Papers-Scissors combat system into disarray, as the original incarnations of the Consular never really displayed any vulnerabilities whatsoever (Partially because they were too heavily based on a Palpatine concept of Force-User).
That, and, power decay. Force Users have gone through a really shitty amount of it. I mean, we used to work under the assumption that competent force users were good Sabre Wielders, Force Push / Pull, and little more. Palpatine was considered an outlier because he was the Sith Lord, and very clearly had abused some dark arts to live well beyond his years not to mention acquire other powers. However, nowadays, not a single game can be made with Jedi unless every Force User has umpteen million abilities that would even make Yoda jealous.
Oh wells, I've digressed a lot.
On the EA thing, I think there is a lot of hash being passed around with regards to these far-fetched ideas for possible Star Wars games. I think any notion that EA won't use Star Wars for anything more than a way to re-skin FPS games is a pipe-dream. This is not a company heralded for innovation in the last 10 years. They take an IP, milk it, do it again. (Citation: EA Catalog) Innovation rarely happens. What innovation does happen I will mostly attribute to Disney requiring EA to tie games in to the new Trilogy / Canons, and the "Bioware Effect," wherein the first game from a newly absorbed developer brings a lot of great innovation to the table, then stagnates for 10 years.
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I'd hardly say that 2 and 3 were any grand innovation upon 1. 2 and 3 added little in terms of gameplay or technology that weren't pioneered by 1. Their popularity I'd largely attribute to writing, of which EA / chosen developer would have its hands tied in any Star Wars based writing. Also, the effects EA has had on development pre and post release of 2 and 3 are quite obvious, and account for many of the complaints against both games.
"Admiral, what is best in life?"
"To defeat the rebellion, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lack of faith in the Force."
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1. There's no way Disney can fuck up Star Wars more than Lucas already did. They could literally put Donald Duck in as a main character, and it wouldn't be worse.
2. LucasArts has been pretty crappy for a long time now. Republic Commando happened eight years ago. The Force Unleashed was...meh. And they were mishandling the license. The fact there have been no Star Wars shooters this gen is their fault.
3. EA's studios are, in my opinion, pretty solid, much more so than Activision's or Ubisoft's (who else is there, really?). DICE? Solid. Visceral? Solid. Bioware? Solid. Criterion? Solid. Even the much-maligned Danger Close is pretty solid IMO. And they do a pretty good job of picking solid independent developers to publish. You look at a list of the games they've published over the last five or six years, and while there is a small number duds, most of the games are solid. No, they're not really into publishing little innovative niche titles that no one buys, but you know, Star Wars isn't exactly a weird little niche IP, either.
People like to find one or two prominent EA games they really hate (like that LotR game Pandemic made, also, Pandemic doesn't exist any more) and bitch about Origin, but they actually develop and/or publish a lot of good stuff.
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ME2 was the first time I ever thought Bioware was capable of making a fun game aside from just a well-written one, and then 3 iterated on that and added surprisingly good multiplayer, so I disagree.
It didn't sound like Bioware was going to make anything beyond TOR, though, which would be a waste if true. Whoever they hand it to, it's not like there's been a lot of great Star Wars games in the past decade anyway, with, I guess, the exception of the Lego ones which people seem to love for some reason. At worst it'll be no worse than before and at best, there's a lot of talent in these studios and they might swing a few decent titles.
Did you even play Mass Effect 1.
It plays like hammered poop.
You cannot tell me with a straight face that there wasn't a vast leap in quality from 1 to 2. Graphically, game play wise, and in terms of pacing. And ME3s mulitplayer is really fun.
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Sit down and play ME in reverse order.
No seriously, do it.
ME3 plays differently than ME2, not to mention the addition of a multiplayer mode that's was surprisingly awesome. And they're both leaps and bounds above ME1 in terms of gameplay.
By fun do you mean lagging so bad I want to kick my router in its metaphorical testicles, a service about as reliable as stupid decisions in the first 2 series of Game of Thrones and a RNG system that makes things extremely fucking boring?