Matt Forney@mattforney
Zoomers are doing stolen valor again. MILLENNIALS played these games. Your average zoomer was in pre-K or hadn't even been born when most of these came out. Moreover, many of these games aren't even good. Let's go through the list:
1) STARFIGHTER: inferior version of ROGUE SQUADRON.
2) JEDI STARFIGHTER: inferior sequel to STARFIGHTER.
3) RACER REVENGE: who puts this game over EPISODE I: RACER?
4) CLONE WARS: mediocre.
5) SUPER BOMBAD RACING: lol.
6) BOUNTY HUNTER: terrible piece of shit with terrible level design, terrible shooting, and terrible hit detection.
7) OBI-WAN: never played but is recognized as one of the worst Star Wars games ever made, probably because it was rushed for the Xbox's launch.
8) EPISODE III: mediocre.
9) FORCE COMMANDER: ungodly terrible game. What kind of retard designs an RTS with flight simulator style camera controls? (Also zoomers playing an RTS, lol. They probably think MOBAs are too hard n stuff.)
10) JEDI POWER BATTLES: mediocre.
11) BATTLEFRONT: merely decent, glorified reskin of BATTLEFIELD 1942.
12) BATTLEFRONT II: same.
13) KOTOR: very good game dragged down by bad BioWare writing.
14) KOTOR II: overrated, still good, but weighed down by Obsidian's terrible design, inability to bug test, inability to meet deadlines.
15) Why is the same game listed twice?
16) JEDI ACADEMY: good, but inferior to JEDI KNIGHT II.
17) JEDI OUTCAST: good, but inferior to the original JEDI KNIGHT.
18) REPUBLIC COMMANDO: never played, but everyone says it's good, so I'll take their word for it.
19) LEGO STAR WARS: never played because I was a teenager when that came out.
20) LEGO STAR WARS II: same.
I don't know how you make a list about the "golden age of Star Wars gaming" and exclude half the Star Wars games that were both good and innovative. Where's DARK FORCES? JEDI KNIGHT: DARK FORCES II? ROGUE SQUADRON? SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE? EPISODE I: RACER? REBEL ASSAULT II? Any of the X-WING games? These games had a lasting effect on game design. The X-WING series defined the space simulation genre, while DARK FORCES and its sequel introduced FPS innovations like multi-level areas, multiple endings, and the ability to aim in 360 degrees.
The 2000s wasn't the "golden age of Star Wars gaming," it was when LucasArts lost the plot and started turning out turd after turd like OBI-WAN and BOUNTY HUNTER. It was so bad that they had to start hiring external developers and shifting their focus to original IPs. There's a reason why the best games on this list weren't made by LucasArts: Pandemic (BATTLEFRONT and BATTLEFRONT II), BioWare (KOTOR), Obsidian (KOTOR II), JEDI KNIGHT II and JEDI OUTCAST (Raven). The list also excludes two other good games from this era that were made by other developers: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS (Ensemble) and EMPIRE AT WAR (Petroglyph).
Get out, tourist.
