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Jedi Knight series on Steam this week News
PC News by Robert Purchese
LucasArts plans to release the entire Jedi Knight series on Steam this week, from Wednesday 16th September.
And yes, that includes Dark Forces and Mysteries of the Sith, as well as the more recent Jedi Outcast and presumably Jedi Academy.
There's no word on price, but the LucasArts Twitter urges us to remember it has "been good in the past, right?"
Pop into our Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy reviews for an idea of what to expect.
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I love the first Jedi Knight (or should that be Dark Forces 2?). I was never even into Star Wars until I played that. It got me addicted! The music, the level where the ship is exploding, even the dodgy real-life cutscenes. I've also got a thing for men with beards. Ticks all my boxes!
The most fun I had was picking off Storm Troopers from high ledges with a single blaster shot and watching them fall to their doom. Wonderful stuff! |
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StooMonster
14/09/09 @ 11:21
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Dark Forces was the tipping point in me buying my first PC and leaving Apple Macs behind, for ten years anyway; might not be able to resist in on Steam.
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peak_performance
14/09/09 @ 11:45
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Fucking finally, Lucasarts. These are among the best shooters ever, from a time when almost everything LA touched turned to gold.
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jefranklin18
14/09/09 @ 12:02
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I am trying to work out whether the "been good in the past, right?" quote is a reference to the price or the fact that there have not been some "stellar" titles from LucasArts recently...
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cianchristopher
14/09/09 @ 12:03
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Woah! I remember when Dark Forces II came out back in 97 - I downloaded the demo on my old 28.8kpbs (or maybe it was 56.6kbps?) modem. I waited all day for it to finish...
It was worth it, though! Bloody great game! Steam is turning out great for retro PC gaming, I picked up the Fallout collection recently and I'm enjoying it. Really getting back into PC gaming these days - it's great!
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cianchristopher
14/09/09 @ 12:05
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@kingmob: I have a couple of old games now on Steam and they all work fine on my Vista 64 PC. Could just be lucky though, you never can tell with PCs ;)
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Dark Forces is going to be a big shock for people who think that just because its a pure shooter, you can't get lost.
Also there is an excellent Dark Forces mod for Jedi Academy here: http://darkforces.jediknight.net |
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Hmm.. is it my memory failing me or did Dark Forces have mouselook? I kind of remember it having the same control scheme as the first Doom, i.e. all keyboard.
It's nearly impossible for me to go back to all keyboard FPS's. But I suck at console FPS's for the very same reason so it might just be me. |
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@mkreku: Yep it did have mouse look! But only left to right, not up and down lol. This didn't cause as big a problem as you may think though as the game would automatically aim the weapon up or down in order to pick off storm troopers above or below you.
I still have my original Dark Forces CD (first game I bought on CD too!) and all the other games that came afterwards. Have used DOSbox and other virtual machines in the past to play and all worked on XP. Currently using Windows 7, will try digging them out and seeing what the compatibility is like. I wonder if I can install and add them to my Steam account..... |
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I can't wait to get into DF again. I remember looking in envy at my boss of that time. He was a cool dude who smoked weed and played games. I always loved/hated going to his house as he was a PC gamer (at the time I was off amiga and back to consoles so looked in "I can't afford that" envy). DF was so cool - doom with storm troopers and blasters whats not to love?
I was giddy when a PS1 version was announced.....then I played it..... Damn if these are cheap I know I'll crack and have EVEN MORE PC backlog. I've still got my eye on KOTOR :)
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Micro_Explosion.
14/09/09 @ 17:42
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7/10?!
I really hope EG was marking games a lot harder back then than they do these days. |
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TheBlueShmoo
14/09/09 @ 20:32
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+infinity for the Xwing / Tie Fighter stuff. Please LA do the same sort of compiliation for them! Original XWing + expansion, Tie Fighter + expansion, XWing vs Tie + expansion and XWing Alliance please. All in a nifty package thats Vista/Win7 compatible, and with updated graphics and updated imuse.
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Jedi outcast got 7/10, i remeber that game as being stellar. Definietly one of the best SW games to be released.
Also i loved Darkforces 2, more FMV in games today please :D Edit\ Jedi Outcast got 89 on metacritic so it seems, it wasent just me who loved that game.
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