Who likes the Star Wars Jedi Knight games? A lot of people, apparently. I'd be willing to bet if you started up Jedi Academy right this second, you'd be able to find a match online. Then again, the same could be said of quite a few Star Wars titles that have an ongoing following so many years after launch.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Steam has added the Jedi Knight series to its massive collection of downloadable games. The games are pretty affordable individually, but you can also get them all for $19.99 and save yourself a few bucks as always.
In other Steam/LucasArts-related news, there's a great promotion happening now. For $9.99, you can be the proud owner of LOOM, The Dig, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and The Last Crusade. Uh, can I get a "hell yeah"?
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2:00 AM on 09.17.2009
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But, Yeah... jedi knights game, awesome. Who wouldn't want to play them again? Good stuff.
Beware mate, the games ain't been optimised or anything so there are problems on Vista of course. Lucasarts posted a few links on Twitter to the forums, cant remember which games are the worst but the fact they say quick save ALL the time - a la KOTOR on Vista - says it all.
Also Dtoid you are a day late with this news they were released yeaterday.
Still hoping for another Jedi Knight, or a spiritual successor. Perhaps some decent sales here will help.
Jedi Knight just plays so perfectly, even today. Can't wait to play JK2 as well.
Jedi Academy was only ok...
Also, I can't resist supporting evil old Lucasarts financially to make sure they release Day of the Tentactle and Full Throttle on Steam as well..
Gonna pick up Dark Forces 1+2. Back in the days, I only played the demos I got from some magazine. Loved 'em. Never played the full games though. Maybe because you had to be 18 to buy them here, and ol' daddy was not too fond of "violent games".
Unfortunately, unlike Doom and others, Dark Forces has no mod/conversion to make it more modern looking, so you will be playing it old-school style if you choose to do so. It works, but man... things like GZDoom have spoiled me.
Luckily the later games all support high resolutions and look wonderful.
I never liked the "modernizations" of Doom. Using them, it retains the (compared to later games) blandness of the leveldesign and graphics, while losing its oldschool/retro/whateveryoumaycallit charme. I stick with the original graphics.
I totally get that, really. I usually never use graphics mods other than widescreen hacks because I prefer the classic style and developer intended look. I guess I just view old FPS games like Doom differently because the 2D->Fake 3D effect makes me a bit ill, if you get me. The modded versions like GZDoom are actual 3D.
I still have my original Dark Forces, DF: 2, Jedi Outcast, and Jedi Academy discs. They don't work in Windows 7, but they are nice to have...I guess. Jedi Outcast was one of my favorite games ever back in the day.
A wonderful collection of games from when the star wars games were still top notch. They are all kinda blah nowadays.
except Battlefront. Battlefront was [i]tight{/i]
However, it would have been nice if they had at least provided some kind of compatilibity upgrade for Jedi Knight 1. All the other games in the bundle works fine but JK1 can be a complete mess, especially in 3D accelerated mode...
I don't know what happened to all my old discs, so this is great!
I'm totally buying this.
Yeah, it works perfect for me, but I know a lot of people are having trouble.