Star Wars : Republic Commando (older game)

[Havoc10K]

I still love this game, brings out a lot of humor, lots of neat battles where you just have to use some brain to it, keeps up a good challenge, and is very enjoyable, anyone else feels the same about this title ?

[JoonasTo]

Played through it once not good enough to play twice.
Battlefront however, now THERE's a jewel!

[Havoc10K]

yeah, but Battlefront is very large in missions, but very small in tactics, I can't tell my men what to do, however as a story of a small squad in Republic Commando, the control of an entire squad of specialists, now that is sweet.

[AceHigh]

<3 Sev

One thing though, campaign was very short.

[Ixarku]

I didn't expect Republic Commando to be as good as it was.  I enjoyed it quite a bit, enough to play it all the way through to the end without taking a break from it.  (For some reason, I have a habit of playing games almost all the way to the end, then I get bored and drop the game for months, sometimes never to finish it.)

[bleaver]

yes Republic Commando was such a gem.  Star Wars games lately tend to focuss on Jedi but I can still remember back in the dark forces and x wing vs tie fighter days when the games focused more on the republic soldiers and space battles.  This was a game that I didn't expect much out of but ended up really enjoying it alot... too bad it was so short

[sdedalus83]

It felt like a mediocre Star Wars themed mod of Halo, not even good enough to finish.

[adameve]

Commando was a good game, suprised me also. I am sure the new MMO that Bioware is making will be great, possibly the best SW game yet..but we will see. I have just about all the SW games that LucasARts made and many of the older ones like X Wing and TIE have been upgraded and updated for modern systems by massive community efforts..just as KoTOR I and II have been now also.

[bleaver]

Commando was a good game, suprised me also. I am sure the new MMO that Bioware is making will be great, possibly the best SW game yet..but we will see. I have just about all the SW games that LucasARts made and many of the older ones like X Wing and TIE have been upgraded and updated for modern systems by massive community efforts..just as KoTOR I and II have been now also.

yeah I am looking forward to the new SW MMO but I am worried about the monthly cost for it considering how huge this game is going to be.
upgraded versions of x wing and tie fighter are great but I would really like to see someone renew the franchise and give us some new SW space sims, I think with today's graphics they could make for some great games

[Sosseres]

Commando was a good game, suprised me also. I am sure the new MMO that Bioware is making will be great, possibly the best SW game yet..but we will see. I have just about all the SW games that LucasARts made and many of the older ones like X Wing and TIE have been upgraded and updated for modern systems by massive community efforts..just as KoTOR I and II have been now also.

yeah I am looking forward to the new SW MMO but I am worried about the monthly cost for it considering how huge this game is going to be.
upgraded versions of x wing and tie fighter are great but I would really like to see someone renew the franchise and give us some new SW space sims, I think with today's graphics they could make for some great games

Either those or another pod racer game. I love the pod racer game.

[adameve]

We did manage finally to get LucasArts to release some of the classic space sims for modern systems, so there may be hope, I know people are taking a new look a them in the light of the success of EVE Online and the X Universe which keeps getting better and better mostly again thru mod efforts, XTended mods exist now for both X3 Terran Conflict and X3 Reunion and are vast improvements on the base game. EgoSoft did say they would only do a new universe tho. Back to Star Wars the new animated series of the Clone Wars is the most activity other than the Bioware MMO at the moment but at least things are alive and there is interest.  Another pair of games I forgot to mention that are superb are Jedi Knight Academy and Jedi Knight Outcast ..both the games themselves built on the fine Quake Engine but the Mods some of which are spectacular  esp the ones by Michael May, and another modder named Revolutionary.

[Guru Zeb]

Yeah Jedi outcast was the shits back in the day .... i still regard it as one of the best multi-player experiences in the known universe. The awesome combo of guns, sabres and force powers meant a continuing evolution of tactics and play styles. Did the whole 'more than just shooting' better than any game has since.
Its shocking the garbage being put out under the Star Wars franchise now. Tried out Star Wars The Force Unleashed II, lasted about 3 hours of gameplay before i deleted it from my HD. Battlefront was the last decent Star Wars game.
The Star Wars MMORPG game is just gonna pwnz your bank account ....... no thanks. I see no sane reason to pay the price of a decent internet account just to play an online game, thats just bending over and inviting them to reach all the way up until then reach your wallet. Am not that blinkered a fan boy.

[Sosseres]

Yeah Jedi outcast was the shits back in the day .... i still regard it as one of the best multi-player experiences in the known universe. The awesome combo of guns, sabres and force powers meant a continuing evolution of tactics and play styles. Did the whole 'more than just shooting' better than any game has since.
Its shocking the garbage being put out under the Star Wars franchise now. Tried out Star Wars The Force Unleashed II, lasted about 3 hours of gameplay before i deleted it from my HD. Battlefront was the last decent Star Wars game.
The Star Wars MMORPG game is just gonna pwnz your bank account ....... no thanks. I see no sane reason to pay the price of a decent internet account just to play an online game, thats just bending over and inviting them to reach all the way up until then reach your wallet. Am not that blinkered a fan boy.

Don't most MMO games cost the same as a normal game if you only play it for a month? Say you play as little as an average of 2h a day, that is still 60h worth of game time. Not many games that go longer than that.

[Guru Zeb]

Don't most MMO games cost the same as a normal game if you only play it for a month? Say you play as little as an average of 2h a day, that is still 60h worth of game time. Not many games that go longer than that.

If your happy to buy on that basis then good luck to you ........ But in reality if you buy a MMO then you really want to be able to play it when you want say a couple of times a week, playing for a month isn't really getting into a MMO as its as much about community as anything. I would also point out though that paying an exorbitant monthly charge which in ToR is likely to be excessive, greedy and exploitative IMHO. Like paying extra for 'platinum editions' with extra weapons etc, just encourages developers to see gamers as idiotic cash cows. More than willing to be parted from ever larger amounts of cash whenever devs toss the digital bread crumbs. I more than understand the need for 'A' charge with a MMO large infrastructure and continued development, but when one considers the potential scale of the user base for a Star Wars MMO its very clear that monthly charges could be low or the initial game free and huge profits would still be guaranteed.

Quotes
"CEO John Riccitiello also said that the game will be "substantially profitable" if it achieves a subscriber base of 500,000 players, but the publisher is hoping for more."

"Anything north of one million subscribers is a very profitable business," he explained.

"Essentially, it turns on a dime from being ... quite sharply negative in terms of its earning per share impact to positive the day the product ships."

I see a star wars MMO doing MUCH better than 500,000 .... when you consider that late last year WoW was at 12 million subscribers and still rising.

Being asked to both pay full disc price and pay a highish subscription, would leave me feeling violated ........ as stated am not that blinkered a fan boy. Fingers crossed that Lucasarts decide to cleave to the light and low monthly pricing rather than get seduced by the darkside. But with how they have handle the franchise lately i wouldn't bet my Deathstar on it.

[Havoc10K]

selling potatoes to more than 50 people a day is also very profitable, no one does anything for free mate, you want enjoyment and entertainment, you pay for it, even for sex

[Sosseres]

If your happy to buy on that basis then good luck to you ........ But in reality if you buy a MMO then you really want to be able to play it when you want say a couple of times a week, playing for a month isn't really getting into a MMO as its as much about community as anything.

See, you think an mmo is one thing and then complain about it being that thing since it is expensive. I think it is another thing and see the price as reasonable. I won't buy it at release though, I will most likely buy it after the first major patch when the starting areas don't have too many people.

[Havoc10K]

If your happy to buy on that basis then good luck to you ........ But in reality if you buy a MMO then you really want to be able to play it when you want say a couple of times a week, playing for a month isn't really getting into a MMO as its as much about community as anything.

See, you think an mmo is one thing and then complain about it being that thing since it is expensive. I think it is another thing and see the price as reasonable. I won't buy it at release though, I will most likely buy it after the first major patch when the starting areas don't have too many people.

or the amount of bugs is tolerable, WoW Cataclysm bugs vs game ratio is atm :
bugs|game
300 :1

[Guru Zeb]

selling potatoes to more than 50 people a day is also very profitable, no one does anything for free mate, you want enjoyment and entertainment, you pay for it, even for sex

Thanks for stating the completely obvious ........ But thats not the point. The point is at a certain price point your being taken for a ride. If your ok with that ... alls well, am not if i judge it excessive. If you wanna pay for sex thats your buisness
The free kind works best for me 

See, you think an mmo is one thing and then complain about it being that thing since it is expensive. I think it is another thing and see the price as reasonable. I won't buy it at release though, I will most likely buy it after the first major patch when the starting areas don't have too many people.

No i know exactly what an MMORPG is. Am not complaining, more COMMENTING, since i don't actually mind personally what lucasarts charge for their product, they have a perfect right to charge whatever they want. But as stated above, at a certain price point am not willing to boost their profits.
Am just too old for the "oh i must have at any price" to work on me any more.

Though having said that, this is all just speculation until Lucasarts release solid pricing info, but as stated am not banking my deathstar on a lowish sub fee.

[Havoc10K]

I would actually prefer a fee than a money shop, every game that has it is completely ruined.