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Check out these cut scenes from various old school Star Wars games. Some bits of background info have found their way into the EU in the past

Star Wars - X-Wing - Cutscenes

Original TIE Fighter DOS intro

Star Wars - XvT BoP - Destruction of a Super Star Destroyer

Star Wars - XvT BoP - The trap

Star Wars - XvT BoP - Raid on a Imperial fleet

Star Wars - XvT BoP - Destruction of the Rebel base

Star Wars - XvT BoP - Assault on convoy

Star Wars - XvT BoP - The smuggler base

Oh, how I have fond memories of that.

I hate cheap and nasty CGI that makes a 17km ship vanish in a single fireball. Even Empire at War's /in game/ ship destructions are better than that, bits snapping off the hull until finally it shatters into huge chunks of persistent wreckage in a flurry of medium-sized explosions.

Starglider wrote:I hate cheap and nasty CGI that makes a 17km ship vanish in a single fireball. Even Empire at War's /in game/ ship destructions are better than that, bits snapping off the hull until finally it shatters into huge chunks of persistent wreckage in a flurry of medium-sized explosions.

Oh you mean like how the Executor blew up in ROTJ?

Even Freespace has proper explosions: even Homeworld 2 has 'big flames that obscure the model while it's magically deleted and replaced by 2 rocks' explosions.

But the days before 'sith this' and 'sith that' in SW game plots was a good time.

Ah yes, I've put some of these scenes to good use in wookieepedia articles.

Even made a whole article out of that pre-Yavin SSD in the X-wing cutscene, since it's never stated to be the Executor herself. 8)

Ah the memories.

I never managed to complete the X-wing game.

What? No Alliance cutscreens?

I still liked Jedi Knight's cutscenes.

"A pity. Then you will die!" *Force Destruction*

nice. I watched some of those a few months ago

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:I never managed to complete the X-wing game.

At least you got to play them, I didn't even have a PC in my house when they all came out and for love nor money I couldn't find them when I did.

The TIE FIghter part is missing the part where the A-Wing fuselage comes out of fucking nowhere and kills you.

Vympel wrote:I still liked Jedi Knight's cutscenes.

"A pity. Then you will die!" *Force Destruction*

Absolutely. That remains my favorite Star Wars game of all time - except for Maw, who sounds like a New York cabbie.

Incidentally, am I the only one who enjoyed Star Wars: Rebellion? I know a lot of people didn't care for it, but I liked it, although I was a young'un when it was released and never managed to beat it. So I saw the above cutscene many, many times.

Knife wrote:What? No Alliance cutscreens?

I seem to recall there being a couple of very interesting tidbits in the XWA cutscenes. IIRC, the opening scenes had hyperspace course-correction. I seem to recall some scenes onboard the Executor being really interesting, but I can't recall why.

Ah, the memories... I liked the original X-Wing and the expansion packs that followed (especially B-Wing), but I loved TIE Fighter. It's hard to believe that it's almost 15 years since X-Wing was released...

ArcturusMengsk wrote:Incidentally, am I the only one who enjoyed Star Wars: Rebellion? I know a lot of people didn't care for it, but I liked it, although I was a young'un when it was released and never managed to beat it. So I saw the above cutscene many, many times.

I liked Rebellion as well. I recall that a reviewer here said that it was more fun to rearrange a file cabinet than to play that game.

Mange wrote:Ah, the memories... I liked the original X-Wing and the expansion packs that followed (especially B-Wing), but I loved TIE Fighter. It's hard to believe that it's almost 15 years since X-Wing was released...

ArcturusMengsk wrote:Incidentally, am I the only one who enjoyed Star Wars: Rebellion? I know a lot of people didn't care for it, but I liked it, although I was a young'un when it was released and never managed to beat it. So I saw the above cutscene many, many times.

I liked Rebellion as well. I recall that a reviewer here said that it was more fun to rearrange a file cabinet than to play that game.

I like Rebellion too. I guess because its not a game that you can win in one sitting its hard for some to play. I liked the challange of the game. The game does take a bit of micromanagment but once you get things set up that's not as bad.

Isolder74 wrote:

Mange wrote:Ah, the memories... I liked the original X-Wing and the expansion packs that followed (especially B-Wing), but I loved TIE Fighter. It's hard to believe that it's almost 15 years since X-Wing was released...

ArcturusMengsk wrote:Incidentally, am I the only one who enjoyed Star Wars: Rebellion? I know a lot of people didn't care for it, but I liked it, although I was a young'un when it was released and never managed to beat it. So I saw the above cutscene many, many times.

I liked Rebellion as well. I recall that a reviewer here said that it was more fun to rearrange a file cabinet than to play that game.

I like Rebellion too. I guess because its not a game that you can win in one sitting its hard for some to play. I liked the challange of the game. The game does take a bit of micromanagment but once you get things set up that's not as bad.

I was never able to get my economy set up to produce the big ships (SSD's, Death Stars). My attention span wasn't long enough to invest the hours required to get to that point.

ArcturusMengsk wrote:Absolutely. That remains my favorite Star Wars game of all time - except for Maw, who sounds like a New York cabbie.

I loved the JK cut scenes. Emperor Katarn for the win!

ArcturusMengsk wrote:Incidentally, am I the only one who enjoyed Star Wars: Rebellion? I know a lot of people didn't care for it, but I liked it, although I was a young'un when it was released and never managed to beat it. So I saw the above cutscene many, many times.

That was such a cool game. I still regularly play it. You can use RebEd (look it up on Google) to change stats so you can finally play that SSD and Death Star. In fact, you can make a whole fleet of 1/1 cost Death Stars if you choose.

Are any of the SW listed here playable on WinXP?

If you mean 'SW games', they all are. XWA and XvT are new enough to work and there are patches for TIE and X-wing.

Stark wrote:If you mean 'SW games', they all are. XWA and XvT are new enough to work and there are patches for TIE and X-wing.

thanks

Stark wrote:If you mean 'SW games', they all are. XWA and XvT are new enough to work and there are patches for TIE and X-wing.

SW Rebellion will also work on XP, though you apparently have to work at it to work in Vista (though it's apparently doable).

I should try Jedi Knight and see if it works on XP.

I should try Jedi Knight and see if it works on XP.

I have run Dark Forces : Jedi Knight on XP service pack 2. It works perfectly well.

It's not a game with cutscenes, so on a slightly off-topic note, did anyone elese enjoy the crappy little Yoda Stories? You went around as Luke on a few planets collecting random items to screw over the Empire with. But it doesn't seem to work on XP.