Oh wow! I missed that! Must've just been too knackered to notice!
Yeah, I get it. It's tough to get everything working, especially when working on such a tight schedule. Thanks for putting out this video though, you did a great job with it! :D
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DF Retro : Star Wars Shadows of the Empire.
- Thread starter Corleth the Fey
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Oh wow! I missed that! Must've just been too knackered to notice!
Yeah, I get it. It's tough to get everything working, especially when working on such a tight schedule. Thanks for putting out this video though, you did a great job with it! :D
"This was the first fully 3D star wars game with free movement developed for any platform at this point"
Star Wars Arcade had been released in 1994 on the 32X and had free movement in full 3D.
Star Wars Arcade had been released in 1994 on the 32X and had free movement in full 3D.
Oh, trust me, I thought of that game when writing that but I can see your point. I feel like Star Wars Arcade was rather constrained most of the time, though, but that's just my (possibly) flawed take. Star Wars Arcade is excellent.
After reading that snippet of the postmortem, I went ahead and read the whole damn thing. Based on both the excerpt and the whole shebang, Mark seemed like a really smart developer and I hate that pancreatic cancer took him from us at age 43. RIP!
Watched the video on release but didn't comment. It was a good one, i'll never not enjoy a classic style DF Retro.
Shadows of the empire was the first N64 game i rented along with Mario Kart 64, i can't say i really enjoyed it but it left an impression on me, the cinematic narrative style felt like a novelty and the "realistic" graphics played the part. It's neat to see it running on PC, but i feel like it's one of those games designed to run on the muddy N64 video output, it just looks too clean.
Years later Rogue Squadron gave me the exact same impression
It just doesn't look that good.
Btw Dark1x , any chance of you tackling this game some time in the future?
Shadows of the empire was the first N64 game i rented along with Mario Kart 64, i can't say i really enjoyed it but it left an impression on me, the cinematic narrative style felt like a novelty and the "realistic" graphics played the part. It's neat to see it running on PC, but i feel like it's one of those games designed to run on the muddy N64 video output, it just looks too clean.
Years later Rogue Squadron gave me the exact same impression
It just doesn't look that good.
Btw Dark1x , any chance of you tackling this game some time in the future?
I thought Star Wars Arcade 32X had less freedom but it was a nice game. Star Fighter on the 3DO, Frontier Elite II (Amiga) and Guadian (CD32) had more freedom than both Star Wars or Shadows IMO. That said Shadows did also have to handle other gameplay styles too but didn't find them very good.
Yeah, Mark worked on some amazing games and contributed a lot to the industry. It's a damn shame. :-(
Great video! I was planning on playing this game again around christmas, because I want to play N64 games this year :D
I don't think it was mentioned in the vid (it would probably be a bit off topic) but a bit of trivia that I like about the game is that the soundtrack was actually made for the novel (and the novel was great, one of the best of the old EU imo)
I don't think it was mentioned in the vid (it would probably be a bit off topic) but a bit of trivia that I like about the game is that the soundtrack was actually made for the novel (and the novel was great, one of the best of the old EU imo)
This game was so hard as a kid. Also, it kind of scared the fuck out of me. Some of the levels were creepy as hell.
Holy Smokes... just watched this...I mainly played on Consoles at the time...but man, if you were a kid in the mid 90's and you got fooled by marketing and bought a graphics card that didn't support most games properly...you were fucked no?
Maybe I'm over exaggerating here.
I just can't imagine telling my parents.... "um I think I want that other expensive card instead."
Maybe I'm over exaggerating here.
I just can't imagine telling my parents.... "um I think I want that other expensive card instead."
this thread is full of people who like this game even in 2019, so therefore it must have had people who considered it good in 1997. I recall it having some positivity even back then myself. If your argument is that "games that didnt exist yet at this point are better" well that's pretty irrelevant in a DF retro thread.
You not liking it doesnt make it shit nor are you actually adding to the discussion by so hyperbolically negative. John likes it warts and all and that's what this topic is about.
Not super soon but, it all goes to plan, Rogue Squadron will receive very special treatment.
I absolutely loved this game back in the day. All I can say is thank goodness for the tiny TVs of the past, though...
Not to go off topic... but ever think about doing a huge (to me it was a huge experience) project for Colony Wars on PlayStation 1?
In comparison to PC Space Shooters at the time?
I thought it was Amazing what they were able to do on that hardware, at that time. Maybe it was all smokes and mirrors, but it was one hell of a result.
Here's a great article by Gamasutra.
And maybe.... just maybe... with a little DF attention to Colony Wars.. with a few retweets here and some trending there... maybe just maybe.... *sigh* nevermind.
...I'm I right to assume Julian Eggebrecht or Chris Huelsbeck as guests?
Now that's a good tease. ;)
As always, thank you for putting so much effort into your work. I loved the breakdown of the debug mode. When I was a kid, I don't think I ever appreciated or understood the significance of it (although it did tickle my mind's curiosity).
I can only imagine how child-me would have reacted to these videos. So many questions that no one knew the answers to... not amongst my peers at least.
I second this. Colony Wars was so incredible. To this day I don't know how they managed to produce that game on the PSONE