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I miss the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, especially the awesome X-Wing vs TIE Fighter game. I would have loved to see a modern remake of those games.

throwaway1979 13y ago
The space fighter genre seems to be lost. I did some research a few years ago trying to understand what happened. Not enough market demand was the answer. The same goes for Mech games and flight sims. We live in a cold world some days :(
- ArtB 13y ago
  There is MechWarrior online in a freemium open beta and another mecha but more FPSy game in development I can't recall right now.
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  - gknoy 13y ago
    Hawken. It's fun. :) Low complexity, but seems to reward skill.
- SoftwareMaven 13y ago
  I'm still wishing I could find a helicopter simulator to equal Janes AH-64 Longbow. A friend and I spend many, many hours after work playing that game. "Sorry, sweetie, I have to work late again..." I still have controllers in my basement, just hoping to get pulled out.
  - damncabbage 13y ago
    I pulled my old joystick out I'd kept for the last ten years, only to realise my PC doesn't have a serial port. Warning! (I've no idea how long I haven't had a serial port. Which makes it worse.)
- saraid216 13y ago
  Low market genres like that could be addressed by open source, perhaps? Or a Kickstarter?
  - ijk 13y ago
    Technically, they already have, since the Freespace 2 code was open-sourced.[1] And there have been multiple space-flight Kickstarter projects, such as Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and Limit Theory. [1] http://scp.indiegames.us/ http://scp.indiegames.us/
- EvanKelly 13y ago
  I had the Jedi Starfighter game for the original xbox. It was fun, but completely lacked the enjoyment I got from X-Wing. It could just be nostalgia, but I still get the same enjoyment from firing up X-Wing in DOSBox. The Rogue Squadron games achieved high popularity, but they felt more like spiritual successors to the Rebel Assault games, rather than X-Wing. I want my sprawling space battles with Correllian Corvettes and Frigates and all the different TIE variations, Y-Wings, B-Wings, A-Wings. Aw man, I'm going to reinstall X-Wing when I get home. Just need to find a cheap joystick that works with DOSBox now.
  - gknoy 13y ago
    Try TIE Fighter as well, if you can: the game engine is better, and the storyline is excellent. Thanks for the tip about DOSBox. I'd pay money to get that game in a modern package that would run on my system. (Same goes for SFC3 and NFS: High Stakes, mind you - both old games that I can't even get to run properly. Perhaps DOSBox is the answer?)
    - EvanKelly 13y ago
      It's a little hard to get running sometimes, but there are plenty of guides online. On an older PC I was able to successfully get peripherals working. Right now I think DOSBox is the best way to play the older games. I would fork over a good amount of money for an easy to use platform for playing older PC games and a marketplace that sold them. Good Old Games www.gog.com has a nice selection, but it doesn't completely scratch the itch.
DerekL 13y ago
But those games were developed by Totally Games, not LucasArts.
- eropple 13y ago
  The distinction, before about 1998 or so, was pretty much immaterial: Totally Games was "independent" but was composed of ex-Lucasfilm Games people and only published through LucasArts. I cannot say for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lucasfilm (then LucasArts) had an ownership stake in it at one point, as Nintendo did with Rare during the mid-90's. Contrast this to, say, Raven Software doing Jedi Knight 2 and Elite Force right on the heels of one another. (Of course, Totally Games did do Star Trek: Bridge Commander, but that was seven years after they split from Lucasfilm Games.)
yareally 13y ago
I miss them too. I make up for it playing the X series[1] and Freespace mods[2]. X series is more like a single player Eve (also has lots of mods like Freespace), while Freespace is more like X-Wing/Tie Fighter. There's even a Star Wars mod for Freespace (might be one for X, but have not checked). [1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/2820/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/2820/ [2] http://www.gog.com/news/freespace_2_open_source_code_project_spotlight http://www.gog.com/news/freespace_2_open_source_code_project...

throwaway1979 13y ago

The space fighter genre seems to be lost. I did some research a few years ago trying to understand what happened. Not enough market demand was the answer. The same goes for Mech games and flight sims. We live in a cold world some days :(

ArtB 13y ago
There is MechWarrior online in a freemium open beta and another mecha but more FPSy game in development I can't recall right now.
- deleted 13y ago
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- gknoy 13y ago
  Hawken. It's fun. :) Low complexity, but seems to reward skill.
SoftwareMaven 13y ago
I'm still wishing I could find a helicopter simulator to equal Janes AH-64 Longbow. A friend and I spend many, many hours after work playing that game. "Sorry, sweetie, I have to work late again..." I still have controllers in my basement, just hoping to get pulled out.
- damncabbage 13y ago
  I pulled my old joystick out I'd kept for the last ten years, only to realise my PC doesn't have a serial port. Warning! (I've no idea how long I haven't had a serial port. Which makes it worse.)
saraid216 13y ago
Low market genres like that could be addressed by open source, perhaps? Or a Kickstarter?
- ijk 13y ago
  Technically, they already have, since the Freespace 2 code was open-sourced.[1] And there have been multiple space-flight Kickstarter projects, such as Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and Limit Theory. [1] http://scp.indiegames.us/ http://scp.indiegames.us/
EvanKelly 13y ago
I had the Jedi Starfighter game for the original xbox. It was fun, but completely lacked the enjoyment I got from X-Wing. It could just be nostalgia, but I still get the same enjoyment from firing up X-Wing in DOSBox. The Rogue Squadron games achieved high popularity, but they felt more like spiritual successors to the Rebel Assault games, rather than X-Wing. I want my sprawling space battles with Correllian Corvettes and Frigates and all the different TIE variations, Y-Wings, B-Wings, A-Wings. Aw man, I'm going to reinstall X-Wing when I get home. Just need to find a cheap joystick that works with DOSBox now.
- gknoy 13y ago
  Try TIE Fighter as well, if you can: the game engine is better, and the storyline is excellent. Thanks for the tip about DOSBox. I'd pay money to get that game in a modern package that would run on my system. (Same goes for SFC3 and NFS: High Stakes, mind you - both old games that I can't even get to run properly. Perhaps DOSBox is the answer?)
  - EvanKelly 13y ago
    It's a little hard to get running sometimes, but there are plenty of guides online. On an older PC I was able to successfully get peripherals working. Right now I think DOSBox is the best way to play the older games. I would fork over a good amount of money for an easy to use platform for playing older PC games and a marketplace that sold them. Good Old Games www.gog.com has a nice selection, but it doesn't completely scratch the itch.

DerekL 13y ago

But those games were developed by Totally Games, not LucasArts.

eropple 13y ago
The distinction, before about 1998 or so, was pretty much immaterial: Totally Games was "independent" but was composed of ex-Lucasfilm Games people and only published through LucasArts. I cannot say for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lucasfilm (then LucasArts) had an ownership stake in it at one point, as Nintendo did with Rare during the mid-90's. Contrast this to, say, Raven Software doing Jedi Knight 2 and Elite Force right on the heels of one another. (Of course, Totally Games did do Star Trek: Bridge Commander, but that was seven years after they split from Lucasfilm Games.)

yareally 13y ago

I miss them too. I make up for it playing the X series[1] and Freespace mods[2]. X series is more like a single player Eve (also has lots of mods like Freespace), while Freespace is more like X-Wing/Tie Fighter. There's even a Star Wars mod for Freespace (might be one for X, but have not checked). [1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/2820/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/2820/ [2] http://www.gog.com/news/freespace_2_open_source_code_project_spotlight http://www.gog.com/news/freespace_2_open_source_code_project...