Examiner:
Thirty-two years ago this week, Star Wars was released in movie theaters across the county. In honor of this anniversary, I sat down with a group of experts to come up with a list of the Top Ten Best and Worst Star Wars video games-and by "sat down with a group of experts" I mean my Sunday Night gaming group and I put our dice down, went to a local Chilis and composed these two lists on the back of cocktail napkins. Our credentials include being Star Wars nerds and spending hours upon hours playing these games-plus several "experts" have worked for game retailers and have either highly recommended purchasing or avoiding these titles to customers. What better people to ask than the people who actually play and sell these games?
Nightdive Studios announced Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster and Sector had the opportunity to try the game in a demo and talk to the authors.
Played this a lot on PS1 as a kid, great to see another 90s boomer shooter being brought back by Nightdive!
Boomer shooter is a retarded take on calssic FPS, boomers were in the 50's, not 90's.
It released in the early 90s so boomers were in their 30 to 50s and were the ones buying these games for their genX kids. A retarded take would be saying someone born the year a game releases is the target audience.
@Brain, more like in their 50's onwards, gaming wasn't anywhere near as popular then as it is now, so the majority of people playing those games would have been Gen X.
Boomer shooter is retarded.
@NoFan I know what a baby boomer is, the fact that shooters from the 90's are called boomer shooters is retarded.
okay? not sure why you seem so pressed about the term boomer shooter, it's often used to describe shooters in that style from the 90s as I'm sure you're aware, being among the first iteration of more mainstream FPS games, don't see the need to get so worked up over it lol.
Boomer-shooter = Non-job-having, live-at-home, youtube-content-making, man-cave dwelling loser’s attempt to coin a term for classic and 90’s era FPS.
If you are calling old FPS Boomer-shooters, #1 you suck for being influenced by a ‘‘was never cool, grown-ass-man and cringe-inducing gaming edge-lord’. (This is correctable, there is still time!). #2 you need to get off youtube, watching middle aged men with no direction in life who make videos about games and their gaming “lifestyle” (aka no future).
Be a gamer, be smart and don’t follow lame ducks who swing Steven Segal levels of made up shit in attempt to be cool to a tween audience.
Following Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's conquest, it's the prime time to resurrect the Force-fueled action of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Coming soon on the UE4 Engine, preorder to guarantee access to the Force Stutter ability available exclusively on PC before it gets removed after the launch window.
I am not a Star Wars fan but I enjoyed the Force Unleashed and the sequel. Shadows of the Empire was another Star Wars game I also enjoyed.
I had Shadows of the Empire on N64 and I used to finish that game basically weekly. LOVED that game.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed took the Star Wars setting from a Space Opera to a Shonen anime, and did lasting damage to the franchise as a whole.
Then came Jedi: Fallen Order to revive it.
Jedi Survivor is truly amazing to experience, nothing better out there when it comes to Star Wars games.
That's a bit of a stretch. I loved the game, it was an amazing action filled pack and you could do so much weird shit (admittedly the sequel wasn't as great). However, under no point did I ever have any trouble separating it from Star Wars canon. The game has exagerated force powers because it's fun, everyone knows it's not lore-accurate. It's the same as the final boss of The Matrix game. The game almost ends as the movie, but then we get a message from the Wachowski sisters, explaingin how a the martyr ending works great for a movie... but a game should feel more epic, so instead you get to face a final mega Smith formed from all his clones. My point being, people can separate the epic exagerations of a game from the more grounded rules of canon/lore.
Edit: Just to add, that I aknowledge The Rise of Skywalker was a shitshow, but there were millions of other reasons for that, TFU is hardly to blame there...
Starkiller - the original Mary Sue (after Luke Skywalker bent a molten blaster bolt around a corner, and through a tiny hole in The Death Star, while flying an X-wing in space. And all despite having next to no training in how to use The Force.)
It did help ruin the franchise, but it was already ruined by silly novels and badly-thought-out comic book adaptations. The EU did enough damage to the universe that the trajectory was bound to hit “JEDI SUPERHERO WHO CAN WRESTLE STAR DESTROYERS OUT OF THE SKY” territory.
It’s part of why The Force Unleashed and The Last Jedi had such a negative backlash. The Force Unleashed copied and pasted the structure of A New Hope, which was enough for some people to buy, but I heard countless musings from people, whining that the characters were not as jumpy or powerful as Starkiller - with Starkiller being the one character mentioned for reference. The Last Jedi, for some people, is their favourite Star Wars film, for others, it wasn’t. What I didn’t like about TLJ’s backlash is how much people were moaning about it being different to the rest of the franchise, when it is about as derivative as The Force Awakens was.
"after Luke Skywalker bent a molten blaster bolt around a corner, and through a tiny hole in The Death Star, while flying an X-wing in space. And all despite having next to no training in how to use The Force."
Not to mention having next to no experience in piloting a fighter
Force Unleashed? You mean that tech demo they made for Psi-Ops 2? :p
Seriously no way this lady is a true gamer, The Force Unleashed, Lego Star Wars (wasn't bad but way to buggy with stupid AI IMO), etc don't deserve to be on this list. Where is KotOR 2? Obsidian was only given less then a year and that game for the development time frame was really good, much more in depth when it came to a few mechanics then the first, had Lucas Arts just given them more time it could have been epic. :(