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TIE Fighter, for those old enough to remember it, must be the top 3 space shooters ever created. The campaign, the secret objectives, the little touches here and there. I don't remember playing anything close to that game. Freespace 2 was kind of but not quite there (it also is a great game, though!)
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I would think a cockpit VR experience would be much superior to a FP one.
I've heard Elite: Dangerous is meant to be fantastic in VR. Although the latest expansion which adds a first-person shooter element doesn't support it (yet?).
TIE Fighter, for those old enough to remember it, must be the top 3 space shooters ever created. The campaign, the secret objectives, the little touches here and there. I don't remember playing anything close to that game. Freespace 2 was kind of but not quite there (it also is a great game, though!)
The most amazing trick it pulled was how quickly it converted players to the imperial side. I was initially a bit hesitant playing for the bad guys, but by the end of the first campaign I couldn't wait to blast some traitorous drug trading rebel scum!
... I bet if he ever played WoW he'd have been Alliance too.
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The most amazing trick it pulled was how quickly it converted players to the imperial side. I was initially a bit hesitant playing for the bad guys, but by the end of the first campaign I couldn't wait to blast some traitorous drug trading rebel scum!
Absolutely! I loved shooting down Y Wings in particular.
TIE Fighter, for those old enough to remember it, must be the top 3 space shooters ever created. The campaign, the secret objectives, the little touches here and there. I don't remember playing anything close to that game. Freespace 2 was kind of but not quite there (it also is a great game, though!)
The most amazing trick it pulled was how quickly it converted players to the imperial side. I was initially a bit hesitant playing for the bad guys, but by the end of the first campaign I couldn't wait to blast some traitorous drug trading rebel scum!
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Games remade that come to mind, some from the same people or reusing the old codebase: * Warcraft 3 remastered * Theme hospital -> TwoPoint hospital * Dungeon Keeper -> War for the Overworld * Jones in the Fast Lane -> No time to Relax * System Shock * Descent -> Overload and also Descent Underground
Nice to see Descent getting remade. I remember the extra DoF (and later, indoor / outdoor environments) blowing my young mind. Also, TIL Volition was a spin off / successor of Parallax Software. Descent is still one of my favorite 90s-era boxes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover...
Unfortunately, as the team said themselves, Overload didn't do too well in sales, and so they've largely ceased development. The game had a number of patches though and it's quite stable. The community still runs frequent events and new levels are being made for it. The creators are active in the Discord as well.
"Descent Underground" took a much different path, and bore little resemblance to the original except for 6DOF and the name. It was going to be a team shooter as I recall, but after their kickstarter, they missed release dates and never went into early access (that I recall). The title eventually was pulled from Steam and last I heard, was still in perpetual limbo.
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The missile boat!!! I haven't played that game in decades but I remember that being the best one. That game was awesome.
Despite being six years old at the time, I still have fond memories of being instructed on how to systematically destroy Rebel forces using the Missile Boat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax68wZX9ZQg#t=1m05s Starting the video from the beginning is also highly recommended; TIE Fighter's clickable menu system was incredible!
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/SubLight_Acceleration_Motor...
The trick was to allocate all power generation into laser/ion cannon recharging since that’s what recharged the fastest, then continuously transfer the accumulated power reserves from laser/ion into engines or shields as necessary. To engines when a SLAM boost was needed, or to shields when defense is needed.
And once you were a good enough pilot, you could use SLAM boosts to avoid all incoming attacks, both lasers and missiles, and thus not have to waste power on shields and lasers. Fly around with no shields, using SLAM plus missiles/torpedos/bombs to destroy your targets lightning fast, then bug out.
You could even use the SLAMs to get in behind some missiles or torpedos that were targeting you and shoot them down, basically dogfighting against missiles and torpedos.
That was so fun.
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Games remade that come to mind, some from the same people or reusing the old codebase: * Warcraft 3 remastered * Theme hospital -> TwoPoint hospital * Dungeon Keeper -> War for the Overworld * Jones in the Fast Lane -> No time to Relax * System Shock * Descent -> Overload and also Descent Underground
Warcraft III Reforged (not remastered) is one of the biggest tragedies. It was released completely buggy, without about half of the promised features, featured an IP restriction that any map made using their map editor is Blizzard's to own (see: the entire MOBA genre that was created only due to blizards map editors). The worst part was this: Warcraft III Reforged was made into a PATCH for the original game. So if yo…