So much for a blue milk run

I kind of enjoyed the getting used to the weapons part. Probably the first game I had to use so many buttons for. 1-9 were guns, f1-f8 force powers, by the time I got to Jedi Academy having mouse buttons 4 & 5 mapped to specific force powers was a necessity

Hellll yeah, such a great community. Very few games come close to the experience I had with it

Joke's on you. I replayed Outcast and Academy just last month with the Team Beef VR mod.

Academy was so wierd, some parts were good, others were halfbaked. I do remember it as fun though

The controls/gameplay was amazing in both Outcast/Academy, it nearly ruined KOTOR for me if it wasn't for the story being so good there. Academy to me was just to short. I remember beating it in one sit down.... Like 20 times. Then again I was a kid who had the time to spend 5 hours playing a game, now I'm sure it would take me days to beat.

Gah, I need to do that one still- it got updated to work with PCVR as well, right?
I am curious how it works with the saber dismemberment set to max, so touching anything is an instakill. Playthroughs with that were so tense in the last few missions

Just did a run through Freelancer.

Might hop on the Dosbox and fire up EGA Trek later.

Ohh OFP Dragon Rising is great too if you get around to it. Red River is rubbish though

You were evil/good for the last mission only or something close to it right? Other than that I do remember it being VERY short, and that some of the puzzles could be challenging first time around, but easy second time around.

Everytime I fire up Freelancer I love love love it. It's an incredibly good game. Pity that Crossfire is such a monstrous increase in difficulty from the get-go, I am still stuck on the first missions because I keep giving up.

Have you ever played its prequel, Starlancer?

Oh - that was the prequel? No, as a matter of fact, I have not. Does it run as well on wine as Freelancer?

Not sure. It's pretty obscure, I think I was able to get it to run on my old Windows Vista laptop. No such luck in the Win 7 era though.

I'll take that as a "yes, likely it'll work fine on wine" g
Try wine yourself, it usually runs old games better than Microslop :)

Recently I've been playing through games that I couldn't afford as a kid, or my parents couldn't afford to buy for me. For example I never really played SNES because according to my parents I already had a nintendo (NES). I downloaded a SNES emulator and have been playing Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, Maui Mallard etc. I've been having fun.

I actually haven't played D:OS 2 yet. I haven't really had the free time for that kind of game since it came out, until now. I'm excited to try it after replaying DOS1 and remembering how phenomenal that game is/was. What is different about the armor system in the second one that you thought wasn't as good?

I think they hunkered down on they get double blades or dual welded lightsabers, they'll be happy.

That said, Outcast and Academy used to have multiplayer hangout rooms where you could practice how to perform moves and hang out with others, wish that had been expanded upon. An MMO with those controls would have been awesome.

I played Outcast like that, and it makes lightsaber battles a cakewalk when you have perfect control of the motions. A "reality ensued" moment for sure. For Academy I switched to "beef recommended" settings, and yeah, that was much better balanced.

It's where I learned that "XD" was a smiley-laughing face. Ah, to be a young preteen having his first introductions to certain internet slangs

I also enjoyed doing that trick where if you strafed right at the right time after the saber was coming back to you, it'd keep circling you.

He's not amused

I think the 2nd to last mission, you just chose to be good or evil by killing/sparing your douchey friend who was getting all dark side first. Then the last mission plays out mostly the same, but if you're evil everyone attacks you.

One of my favorite missions was the one where you piloted the swoop bike, the slowmo killcams when you sabered enemies were always fun.

I'm actually playing Shadows of the Empire on PC for the first time, am on the first Coruscant level (sewers). I think the worst the game had is behind me (Gall Spaceport and Beggar's Canyon).

omgeeeee, this game was the best!!

Ohhh no I never liked the sewers level. 😬 So much terror with the noises and the tentacles and the murky "water."

The train level was awesome though, and the soundtrack they picked was PERFECT.

Oh, the SNES has some amazing gems. If you like Chrono Trigger you should deffo try the old Final Fantasies as well.

Yes for sure. I'm a big Final Fantasy fan. I have the roms ready to go.

I enjoyed them a lot more than any modern version.

Have fun!

Exultation: Correct, Master! My memory cores whirr with satisfaction at your impeccable assessment.

I really should go back and finish Jedi Outcast.

I'm waiting for Aspyr to remaster Jedi Knight - Dark Forces 2.

Oh yeah... I haven't really paid attention to the newer ones. The last one I actually finished was IX. I did buy XIII but never finished it.

Kotor was life.

Oh, I wasn't even thinking about that new. I was talking more of 7 and above! :D

Ah Jedi Outcast! Good game!

Haha, excellent. I also still think 9 is shiny and new

I just played Doom 2016 yesterday. I can't believe that's ten years old now... both because damn, time flies, but also it has great graphics, better than most games today imho

Well I think the frustration is we want novel new experiences with old world quality. Not to play the old game. Nothing wrong with playing old games. But I understand the desire for something new AND good.

Hence Expedition 33 being as well received as it was. The game was clearly made with passion, despite what you may personally think of the genre or other subjective traits.

Look, humans are good at subconscious understanding. We can tell when something is made with love and something is made with greed.

Sometimes we can't articulate it. But we know.

I actually think they've just gotten worse and worse. X2 was quite fun (X wasn't), but after that I haven't been able to play more than 30-60 mins of the ones I've tried. Nowadays I don't even pay attention to them.

I'm slightly interested in the VII remake though. I never really got into the og. There was something about the graphics and environment that I couldn't stand.

FF7 is my favorite, I don't mind the graphics, but I think that's because it was pretty much the first game of my childhood that I really got into. I find myself playing it every few years or so.

I was going to get the remake but I became poor so I haven't lol. From what I've heard, it has some references to the original that might not make sense to you if you don't play it first.