Star Wars : TIE Fighter (a great game from it's time, stll a great one, but...)

[sarahtasher]

I realized recently that my X-One pad would work as a joystick, and immediately bought on STEAM one of my favorite game ever, TIE Fighter-which remains, short of a quest in Galaxies and one appearance in ''Empire at War'', the only Star Wars non written media featuring a certain Grand Admiral....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xwcL1gojg

(Okay, granted, cutscenes at the time required to use your imagination, m'kay )

While not reaching Freespace depth, far from it, TIE Fighter was a very solid game, if one with questionable flaws.

For instance, first and firemost, the title is a misnommer : you are not actually flying that much the Empire eponymous flying deathtrap, presumably because the game would become insanely frustrating on long missions, when a single stray hit will crippple your craft (you are flying almost as much the even lousier TIE Bomber...) : even out of the four initial campaigns, you end up flying a lot of time a craft that is not exactly ''TIE like'' (fragile but agile), the assault gunboat.

It's not that I don't like that game-I would not have recleared it otherwise, but while it's certainly warrant it's spot in the ''best games ever'' list, it was a rough gem (remember WOW Vanilla escort missions ? Have fun trying to escort totally unharmed freighters....)

[stellvia]

I've always lamented that they gave up on the space sim genre right at the time where internet access was reaching speeds that would allow really cool things with it. Imagine a Battlefield-esque Star Wars space sim with 64x64 action going on or something. Instead all we've gotten are super arcadey handful of missions in other Starwars games or Hoth battle ad nauseum.

Now that Disney owns it, I don't expect they'd be willing to go out on a limb for a game like that either.

[Scufflegrit]

Man, I played both X-Wing and TIE Fighter, and not the remastered ones, the originals. It's been so long though, I don't remember much about them other than having a blast playing them. I'd seriously love a remake of both, or something like a combined version with X-Wing, TIE Fighter and X-Wing VS TIE Fighter all rolled into one.

If you're looking for a slightly more recent space fighter sim, I highly suggest Tachyon: The Fringe. It came out back in 2000, but it's still worth playing through. The main character is voiced by Bruce Campbell (Ash from Evil Dead, Army of Darkness etc.). So yeah, there are one liners a-plenty. It has 2 campaigns, with you choosing 1 of 2 factions so you end up on either side of the same conflict. Both campaigns are worth completing.

Just looked, and Steam has it for 10 bucks. I still have the original discs, but if you haven't played it yet: definite recommendation.