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[Mau ®]

Anyone remember the Jedi Knight games? Until KOTOR I thought those were the best Star Wars games and they were pretty cool.

I remmeber the first game in the series having cutscenes with actual people and stuff. That was a cool touch and overall the game was awesome. It also had an expansion which was cool too.

Then Outcast came out and was also great then Academy which was good but the engine had to go.

Anyway do you think we will see another Jedi Knight game??

Talk!

 

[thetrin]

jedi Academy was technically a jedi knight game.

Jedi Knight as it is is a Dark Forces game.

Dark Forces -> Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight -> Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast -> Jedi Academy.

Am I missing one in the series?

 

[Ristamar]

Fun for it's time, but multiplayer saber fighting still needs a lot of work (and I say this after having played 1v1 matches in Outcast for 100+ hours).

 

[PolyGone]

I'd rather not.

 

[Waku]

Kyle Katarn was probably the most Badass Jedi Knight ever.

Oh and Awsome Cutscenes for it's time back then.

 

[border]

Jedi Knight 2 was probably the best Star Wars game since the 2D era. If they could remake JK1 using JK2's engine and force powers it'd probably be better, though. Jedi Academy was pretty cool but it felt like it wasn't much of a leap over JK2. Multiplayer seemed a bit too wonky for my taste, but the single player campaigns were great.

I wish that they had stuck with live-action cutscenes for the rest of the series. It was pretty cool getting saberfights on film instead of in clunky in-engine sequences.

 

[blackadde]

best sw game series since tie fighter.

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is still one of my favorite PC games of all time. I'm not really a HUGE PC gamer, but of the games I've actually owned, it's the best.

For its time, lightsaber matches were fantastic and groundbreaking. Also, a great great great mod community. My god the maps! Especially the Duel of the Fates map.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Not only is JKII the best Star Wars game, but it's one of my favorite FPSs ever. It and HL are probably the top 2.

 

[Pimpbaa]

I always did like the series, except I've always hated the Kyle Katarn character. Seemed more like a member of the village people rather than a jedi. That's why I liked Jedi Academy the most, because I could create my own character.

 

[Bigfoot]

Dark Forces -> Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight -> Dark Forces 3: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast -> Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy.

Fixed

 

[Hydro_Alexis]

OH good old dark forces 2 the first game i ever played online.

 

[Teddman]

My friend played all of them. They were fun to watch, though it seemed every game in the series started out really weak and frustrating for the first few levels. Once you got the light sabers, things improved.

 

[radioheadrule83]

The original Jedi Knight (Dark Forces II) is still one of the most memorable experiences for this particular Star Wars fan. Its just awesome.

The sequel did a lot of things much nicer, particularly the saber effects, and force powers, general graphics and combat engine etc, but for its time, man, LucasArts REALLY nailed it. It was one of my first online games too.

Mysteries of the Sith rocked as well.

 

[MattKeil]

Jedi Knight was cool for its time, but hard to play now. Jedi Outcast was terrible, IMO, sunk by spastic lightsaber combat and horrible "find the switch" level design. Academy was far superior to either, primarily because each level was self-contained and offered different challenges.

I'd love to see a new one using the Doom 3 or Source engine, but Lucasarts seems to be running silent on their Star Wars titles. Maybe that long-rumored Darth Vader game will show up at E3 or something.

 

[Joseph Merrick]

Maybe that long-rumored Darth Vader game will show up at E3 or something.

Darth Forces?

 

[tahrikmili]

Anyone remember how god-fucking-awesome Dark Forces looked for its time?

It took Doom/Doom 2 and blew them away.. it was THAT good. I remember looking at the game, at a crappy 320x200 resolution on my 486, and saying. MY GOD THOSE STORMTROOPERS LOOK FUCKING REAL! GOD LOOK AT THAT BLASTER RIFLE! FUCK IT I'M IN STAR WARS!!!

Dark Forces was.. AWESOME. There's no better way to say it.

Now, Dark Force 2 was also AWESOME, and it's cool factor was magnitutely higher than DF1 because of the lightsaber, but Dark Forces still deserves more loving than you ungrateful gamers have given so far!

EDIT: NOW, it's time for Jedi Tales set in KOTOR era on.. the REVOLUTION!!

 

[Stench]

Fantastic games. The first one still stands out as the best in the series for me, though - I still remember reading the score inside PC Gamer for the first time.... my head nearly exploded in anticipation.

 

[VibratingDonkey]

I remember choking people. That was fun. But enough about me, let's talk about the Jedi Knight games. I remember playing Jedi Knight II. I remember it as a decent game, but nothing really spectacular. I remember it was cool to wield Force powers. "You over there! Die! You over here, die. You, die, you die, you die. And you...you die!"

When the first games were released I probably did not even own a computer.

 

[Sax Russel]

Jedi Knight II, although having a fun engine, wasn't anything compared to Jedi Knight I, that game was brilliant.

 

[Azih]

Outcast sucked, Academy was kinda cool. Saber combat needs some overhaul though.

 

[MattKeil]

Anyone remember how god-fucking-awesome Dark Forces looked for its time?

It took Doom/Doom 2 and blew them away.. it was THAT good. I remember looking at the game, at a crappy 320x200 resolution on my 486, and saying. MY GOD THOSE STORMTROOPERS LOOK FUCKING REAL! GOD LOOK AT THAT BLASTER RIFLE! FUCK IT I'M IN STAR WARS!!!

Dark Forces was.. AWESOME. There's no better way to say it.

I remember being totally amazed that it required 50MB to install. Surely no game would ever require more drive space, ever!

 

[buck naked]

Dark Forces was a little average. It didn't do a lot for the FPS genre, the Star Wars theme was its biggest draw card.

Jedi Knight was awesome though. Some great environmental challenges, epic levels (esp. compared to what other FPS's were doing), the force development and combat were all excellent - and the hokey FMVs were cool too. Mysteries of the Sith was almost equally as good. Really challenging, great levels, and a well implemented story.

Jedi Knight 2 was okay, but the 'detective' aspects to the game were a little cheaper. Still good fun, if shallow. The limited level sizes supported by the Quake 3 engine made it more like every other FPS-type action game on the market. In my opinion, JK2 and Dark Forces are on par together.

 

[Illuminati]

I remember being totally amazed that it required 50MB to install. Surely no game would ever require more drive space, ever!

I remember that too, I had to delete essential programs my parents used to fit this on my PC. And then Duke Nukem 3D came out and it was all over. I think in the end we just had Office on it along with my games on a 400MB HDD.

I liked Academy the best actually. The multiplayer was so refined compared to Jedi Knight II and the single player story was great, especially when you get to

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Darth Vader's palace

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