Obsidian has been going around telling anybody who’ll listen they want to make another Knights of the Old Republic-type game. And we’re all for it.
We’re also all for Disney getting into gaming with Star Wars in a big, big way. The Star Wars Universe is fairly ideal for games of all types, and here are a few that we think deserve another go on modern hardware.
Rogue Squadron
OK, so Rebel Strike had some bad ideas. But realistically, the dogfight game is overdue for a comeback in the first place. This is the era of online multiplayer and advanced graphical firepower: Let’s deploy some ships.
The Super Series
Fans of Star Wars growing up in the ’90s likely fondly remember the “Super” series: Super Star Wars, Super Empire Strikes Back, and Super Return Of The Jedi. They were fun, well-designed platformers that actually did right by the series. They were rereleased on the Virtual Console to fan celebration. True, Sculptured Software was killed in the Acclaim meltdown, but Avalanche came from it, and frankly, as much as everybody hates the prequels, they’d probably enjoy seeing platformers made out of them.
If nothing else, something good has to come from those movies.
Battlefront
Battlefront III’s code is currently sitting on a hard drive somewhere, just waiting for somebody to clean it up and ship it out. The entire franchise was massively popular and why, precisely, it was spiked remains something of a mystery.
Come on, Disney. We want to frag Gungans in new and interesting ways.
Empire At War
Why this nascent RTS franchise was never really given a chance is anyone’s guess. But it was a solid game, and honestly, RTS games are on the rise and Star Wars is a good universe to set them in. Done properly, this could be a new Command and Conquer.
A Lightsaber Game That Actually Works
If you’ve played Kinect Star Wars, you’ve probably found it profoundly disappointing. The truth is that there really hasn’t been a great Star Wars themed fighting game. In fact, whenever Star Wars goes hand to hand, it’s bad news. Aside from the aforementioned title, there’s also the memorably awful Star Wars: Masters Of Teras Kasi, which has notably joined the Holiday Special in the vault, never to be released again. So come on. Figure out a way to let us fight our friends with lightsabers and possibly Force powers. Really, it’s all we’ve ever wanted.
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Shadows of the Empire, please!
Yes! Just Yes! Lets get a whole Dash Rendar series going!
How is Republic Commando not at the top of this list? More of Delta Squad, or the Null Squad that was in the books.
Seconded. this game was great.
Battlefront III needs to happen. Those games were so awesome
Yeah it does. As Dan said, it’s absolutely stunning that they scrapped BF3 when it was like 99% finished according to the devs. It was such a beloved series, it just makes no sense that it got flushed like it did.
I thought Disney was trying to get out of video games.
If they are, they got a strange way of showing it. They just dumped a metric ton of cash on their Disney Infinity game, which is sort of a copy of those Skylander (or whatever you call them) games where you put the little statue/toy on a base and that puts the character in the game world.
I remember playing Rebel Assault on my PC as a kid and I remember it was hard as balls to get past the 1st few levels.
Disney has been…weird about gaming lately. They shut down Epic Mickey’s studio, but as Saosin noted, they’re putting a fortune into a Skylanders ripoff.
Disney hasn’t made a good game since the SNES generation. Did anyone play the Tron Legacy game. It was a joke.
I demoed Tron Legacy. It was aggressively mediocre.
Dark Forces or Tie Fighter.
Tie Fighter would have a hard time catching on to today’s console driven market. However a remake of Dark Forces as a Halo-esque FPS could make a splash. I think you would need to focus on the first of the series and not the later, lightsabers and jedi powers don’t translate well to console.
Not to mention that Dark Forces was pretty revolutionary for the time, multi-tier level design, objectives, and the need to escape the level to make it to the next level were all introduced by this game.
HD re-released of the Super series would get my money instantly.
Especially if they added a save system.
I think that lack of save system is what made it good, since it made it that much harder and sort of locked you into the marathon of the game.
I still have the Super series on SNES. I used to be able to beat the first and third ones like a boss. I gave it a shot again recently and I was apparently a way better gamer as a child because I just eventually rage-quitted.
Oh, also, Jedi Outcast is probably my favorite of all time. Someone built a mod for it called The Ladder where you fight one Jedi enemy, then two, then three, then four, then you fight varying groups of increasing skill and difficulty all while “Smack My Bitch Up” by Prodigy plays. So awesome.
Same here, I hooked up the old snes about a year ago to “play” super mario world with my 3 yr old son. I played Super Star Wars for like 15 minutes before setting a fine example by swearing and throwing a controller.
The muscle memory fades, and those games were all muscle memory. I’m playing Antichamber now and it’s reminding me why difficulty has taken a step back in gaming.
Dude, I freaking loved the Multiplayer on Jedi Outcast. Being in a big free-for-all and then suddenly getting drawn into a Duel always felt incredibly epic.
(Also, I had a mod that allowed me to play as Yoda, which was totally like being able to pick Oddjob with a lightsaber.)
@Evil Twin
If that was really you as Yoda… you owe me a controller… Sonofabitch.
I always liked Bounty Hunter
Bounty Hunter was a pretty fun game! A lot of Star Wars tie-in games were actually really solid: Star Wars Racer was a lot of fun.
Rogue Squadron please and thank you.
Rogue Squadron for N64 was unbelievable. I’m not much of a gamer and was usually just content to beat a game on any level, but I swear I reached Fleet Admiral in that game. I actually think the Rogue Squadron comics / novels would be a great source for other ventures beyond the video games.
Tie Fighter is a must as well.
Tie Fighter is definitely up there.
Xwing/TIE Fighter and maybe one where you command a ship like in Silent Hunter or Aces of the Deep!
HELL YES to all of these, especially the Super series. Honestly I’m surprised that Lucas Arts at some point didn’t remake the series with a new coat of 3D pixel paint and call it Super Star Wars: Special Edition.
You and me both. Those games were beloved.
I’d like to see a new Jedi Knight game. Jedi Academy was pretty great and after that the series just ended. In a related story: a few weeks ago I played the Star Wars arcade game, the one with just one joystick. I never could get very far in that but I sure had fun.
Yeah me too, the light sabers in Jedi Academy worked more like light sabers instead of in force unleashed where they are more like the police clubs in Futurama.
Every time you mention “Masters of Teras Kasi” God kills an Ewok.
… Good.
Why not a game where you just run around as Han Solo ala Grand Theft Auto? I know this isn’t a “new games” thread, but dammit, I would play the hell out of that.
… Me too, actually. Pay Harrison what he wants for voice acting and it’s pretty much a “shut up and take my money” situation.
BRING ME BATTLEFRONT!
Don’t get in my way
I want X-wing/TIE-Fighter back dammit! Rogue Squadron is weak. Its much more fun sit in the thing and have to manage your systems in a simulator type game than watching the little ship fly around in third person like its friggin mario kart or star fox or something.
Managing your systems? Maybe you would have liked Mario Kart more if there was a garage level where you could scour burnt banana peel from the radiator grill with a wire brush
Mario kart is fine for beer drinking multi-player on the couch, but for single player immersion and “realism” are what are important. Also your post reminds me, they should remake Street Rod 2 also!
The “Super” games would probably be at the top of my list. Battlefront, somehow, I always thought was an RTS, haha. Got it mixed up with EAW I guess. I’d like to see them release that third one… gotta be pretty easy.
As for Rogue Squadron, I don’t know. I never bought the third one, but I had a pretty ambivalent relationship with the first two (and Battle for Naboo). Cool games, and hella pretty, but ultimately not fun enough to me to justify the great difficulty. (It wasn’t just me, right? Those were really hard games.) I’d rather they made another TIE Fighter, or better yet, the sequel to X-Wing Alliance that we so sorely need.
Yup
Would be so awesome to finally get Battlefront III out so I can play as darkside Obi Wan. MAKE IT HAPPEN MICKEY.
Am I the only one who feels like FTL is begging for a Star Wars Universe mod complete with a fight with the Death Star at the end?
I just had to come make sure that piece of garbage Desktop Adventures wasn’t mentioned.
My favorite was Obi Wan!
I liked all the shitty PC games like Rebellion and Galactic Battlegrounds. I wasted so much time playing Rebellion and it was awesome.
how has nobody mentioned rebel assault? sure, the second one was mostly trash, but i wasted hours upon hours taking out star destroyers with my x-wing in the first one
woah woah woah no love for Force Unleashed? It was all kinds of awesome in my book.
they ruined it by making an awful sequel that was short and didn’t make sense
I’m not going to argue with that but still the first one was amazing.
Pod Racer!!!! (Star Wars Episode I: Racer) I have a soft spot in my heart for that old game