TIE Fighter - The Best Star Wars Video Game
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- While Disney is talking up the new Star Wars merchandise for 'Force Friday' let's rewind to 1994 and look at what is arguably the best Star Wars game - TIE Fighter. A game for the PC which didn't shy away from escort missions which are often derided in modern games. It still stands up well today, and honestly the games deserve a proper remake.
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An elegant game for a more civilized age
startide hahaha awesome
i love you
i dont think you have an idea of how much i love you
seriously have my kids
Sounds like Jedi talk to me, report for Imperial screening.
Lego starwars is more civilized though
X-wing and Tie fighter games made me feel I was actually part of the battles from the movie... full of joy in the 90's... I remember the hardest, trickiest mission of all: The Trench
Me: builds a very powerful gaming pc
Also me: plays this game.
Don't feel guilty. That video also made me want to relaunch that game on my old Win 95 PC. Ah, nostalgia.
My computer is a dinosaur so this is probably the best it can do. And I am not dissapointed.
Played X Wing Alliance to death, such a fantastic series of games!
Now THAT is the best Star Wars game to date. Wasted so much of my life setting up custom dogfights and huge battles.
XWA was the best of the series technically. TIE Fighter just had the best plot.
Edit: It also has a graphics update mod and it's possible to get headtracking to work through mouselook so it's the most enjoyable game to revisit.
There's also a mod that converts TIE Fighter's campaign into XWA, so you can play through it in the new engine. Highly recommend.
the later games over did the capital ships. they became impossible to destroy
Dan V I never had any issues...
Fun Fact: When the X-Wing Collector series came out a few years later, it included XvT's graphics as an upgrade for the OG X-Wing and TIE Fighter games.
However, do note that the '98 releases... lack a lot of detailed heart available in the Collector's CD-ROM Edition. Believe me, better gameplay graphics doesn't always equate to definitive gaming experiences.
I played X-wing, TIE Fighter, X-wing VS, Balance Of Power... My absolute favorite to this day is X-Wing Alliance. I loved that game, and played it constantly. For years after its release I kept pace with the community modding and upgrading my local copy. There was some incredible work done by people who released entire new imperial campaigns complete with high-res textures and models.
I'd be completely down for a remaster of each of these games built off a common engine.
P.S. I think that hitting the apostrophe key targets the nearest incoming missile so you can turn and shoot it down.
I'll never forget the first time I got given the keys to an Imperial super-weapon, the TIE Defender. When I found out they were made canon in the Rebels show I almost choked.
And then feel sorely disappointed to see it not having ion cannons, not have a shockingly smaller speed limit, and the absence of a Maarek Stele/Baron Fel kind of ace pilot skillfully flying the bad girls, correct?
All I want is a DCS like simulator, for these spacecraft.
try out Rogue System
Someone made a SW mod in dcs
got a news for you budy...
@4:35 it's said that there are "three series of missions and a fourth that comes with the expansion" and that's wrong. There are four battles (of 5-7 missions each) to begin with, and three more unlocked as you progress in the main game. Expansions added more battles afterwards, bringing the total to thirteen.
Executor and a lot of the fighters seen in the opening were added in the cd-rom version to the game. Original version opening had less stuff flying around, though the script was the same. The game engine, however, was able to handle an amazing amount of objects without a hitch.
I loved this game. When I wanna burn my eyes I would install and play it. The last Tie ship was the best,
I, too, find this the best Star Wars game ever.
I had these games on my old 486, which believe it or not still runs. Good times! May have to try it again.
Freaking amazing game. I remember playing it incessantly when I was like, 11.
Then when Descent Freespace 2 came, wow. Favorite :)
If you want a modern TIE Fighter game, look into the SWG(Star Wars Galaxies) expansion, Jump to Lightspeed. It was hands-down the best space dogfighting game I ever played. All the private servers running the game have been promising to get it running for some time, and last year it was looking like it could happen. Keep your ear to the ground on that, it was the spiritual successor to all these games and it was amazing (It was the only reason I bought a subscription to SWG)
Man, I played that game so damn much. I suddenly feel old.
I still have my TIE Fighter CD-rom. I loved that game. I wish that I could play it on my current laptop.
TIE fighters were basically metal crates with guns and engines attached to them. Apparently they didn't even have proper life-support systems so the pilot has to wear a pressure suit to survive.
Scott! The small and fast rebel fighter was the A-Wing, not the Y-wing as you said twice. But I'm sure you knew that. ;) There was also the B-wing, which was my favorite looking ship. These games hold up surprisingly well in 2017, once you get the controls sorted out that is. I can't say I ever beat a level without cheats on. The game was hard!
My favorite game as well. I distinctly remember feelings of guilt when I first shot down rebels, but I *quickly* got past it.
Totally agree it was a benchmark all others had to strive for. This was the game I wanted for the Star Wars old arcade game in the Trench run. Spent way to much time playing it.
I love X-Wing.
Played the shit out of that game on my old 486DX back in the 90s... used the internet connection at my middle school to pirate it (because the computers in the classroom were always on) and I took it home 1 floppy at a time.
Reminds of the first Freespace, absolutely loved that game.
This game family was my favorite of all Star Wars games. I really liked the one that connects up to Return of the Jedi. Wish they would make them again beginning with the prequels all the way to the latest films.
I miss a good space combat sim like this. I feel that the new star wars games are over simplified. I finished x-wing, tie fighter, xwing vs tie and xwing alliance back in the day and they were so much fun!
What a trip down memory lane!
probably the 1st game i worked through and completed properly as a kid. i agree, it's the best game in the star wars franchise!
love this video
so many memorys :) this was my first PC game
Still remember the intro. Awesome game.
I bought my first analogue PC joystick for this game, great times ;)
I played this on pc back in the day. It rocked.
nailed it with the title
Oh the Nostalgia, it's painful.
We are finally getting a new Star Wars Tie Fighter game.
Quite incredible what they were able to squeeze into 15MB of space back in the day!
My fav Stars Wars game soooo much!!
I preferred XWA, I think - TF was certainly great though. I remember staffing the London press launch of XvT & getting Darth Vader's autograph ( ok, it was Dave Prowse ), sadly lost that pic over the years :S
Freespace 2 is the other one I'm trying to get running again.
I played this with a joystick. I felt like a fucking baller back in the 90s
Remember this being so refreshing fun to be able to fight against the annoying tree-hugging terrorist rebels. The only thing missing from this game was the possibility of shooting ewoks.
I often find myself mindlessly humming the version of the Imperial March from this game, all these years later 😅
Totally agree that this is the best SW game ever. Wishing for a new flight simulator before I die.
There are games journalists who think playing the Empire is new?
God DAMN we're old.
In Force Commander you also play an imperial who defects to the rebellion during the Campaign.
I can understand game journalists forgetting that game though.
it seems a lot of people don't know or forogt about it, my past childish mind enjoyed it very much. tho I never beat it.
I've got it installed at the moment, works okay on 7 with a custom patch but was never the most stable of games.
The camera is a lot worse than I remember but it still feels way more Star Wars than Empire at War's ground battles for some reason.
I sense "journalists" will also forget the Lucas Arts era Battlefront games where you could play as Imperial and CIS forces, or Empire at War with it's Forces of Corruption expansion where you can play a campaign as the Imperials or the Consortium, or how about that one Age of Empires-styled game where you can control the CIS Episode I battledroids Imperials or the Gungans? ...Or, the Star Wars MMO games where you can choose to be on the dark side?
Still one of the best space games ever.
Oh those were the days skin dancing with your a Wings Over Star Destroyer beating the crap out of it because they were so much easier to kill then those damn frigates
Scott you should do a series on this
Lt Gruber is your commanding officer...
But without the iMuse soundtrack, this game reaches only 50% of its awesomeness
Microprose and LucasArts games occupied most of my PC time in the 90s
I’ve always preferred x-wing over tie fighter myself.
Finaly! A crawl without the incessant overbearing propaganda of the Rebel vermin! Just a frank, and accurate description of current events!
Wish they would do this now on console not all of us have pcs
I never got to play these god I missed out
I think I died more to starship debris, then enemy fire in this game.
There's a mod for this that changes the music back to the original dynamic imuse! Give that a shot sometime!
Nevermind, you did it already XD
I loved that game, and xwing before it.
I loved this game!
I appreciate your opinion but the best Start Wars game was Star Wars : Galaxies, fact. And after they came out with vehicles it was even better and when Jump To Lightspeed addition came out that made legendary. Just so you know. I get all my facts from, um, me. Cheers.
If you have the original discs of SWG you can still play online on the SWGemu.
The best Star Wars game is Tie-Fighter Collector's CD-Rom from 1995, not the one you are playing in the video, that's the 1998 release.
I wish.. I WISH.. they would bring these games back with modern day graphics. I spent so much time playing these games back in the 90's
i would love a tie fighter remastered
Vindicator Jones TBH they would try to update/change things or make them multi-format (like elite dangerous with its gimped rudder controls and lack of directed content) and ruin it.
Still, a remaster would be lovely.
X3 Albion Prelude with Star Wars mod comes very close to it. It bring back good memories.
Vindicator Jones X-Wing Alliance is the most recent game and fan websites have provided much improved graphics to take advantage of more modern computers.
TBH the missions aren't too varied. You do the same thing over and over. shoot down enemy fighters. intercept bombs before they hit your capital ships. thats the gist. yes there's more but it so fun to play and it told an interesting story.
they don't have to remaster tie fighter. make a new game. it would be a cash cow still. they could even milk it by making each battle paid dlc to continue the story (like subscription mmo style). just give us a SW space combat sim
My god, this game was nuts. Trying to take out nebulon b frigates with a simple tie was so damn fun.
This is where the fun begins!
yeah, one of the best games ever.
thank you
"Alright, Gamma 1, show us how a great pilot clears a minefield!"
That's the mission that made TIE Fighter the best SW game for me.
"enough of this charade, Gamma 2 destroy gamma 1"
@@Ulyssestnt omg that was one of the best turns in the game, shame it couldn't be explored as an alternative path :)
In an Interceptor without any shields.
I remember that mission well.
One of the best missions, for sure. The feeling of handling the Interceptor against traitor TIE Advanced... What a slap in the face that was and also made the Interceptor my fave TIE
I spent SO MANY hours playing this and X-Wing back in the day. It was such an advance over the Wing Commander games and they were amazing in themselves.
Me too. And this exposition of these games was really well presented.
Ya I played WC as well, but it always felt second part to the Lucas Arts games. Lucas Arts back then though was like top PC game dog.
this was one of the first games i played on my first pc. still the best game ever
At first I wasn't even sure if I did play it, it's been more than 20 years now, but the more I watched and and the way Scott commented; yeah I remembered and therefore: thanks for reminding me :)
Fighting against vector based objects was so much more impressive than having to fly towards those pixel graphics of WC in their poor resolution.
Title says it all, fucking awesome game. No space combat game to date can best this.
Agreed, but Freespace 2 comes close to matching it, IMHO. In fact, Freespace 2 is arguably a better game, but it obviously doesn't have the cachet of being set in the Star Wars universe...
Freespace 2 was amazing. Its source code was released and the graphics engine has been updated to modern hardware.
bungholio81 came to say I completely agree with the title.
It was actually TIE Fighter that made me interested in Star Wars at the late late age of 13
Freelancer*
Star Lancer
Yeah I played the hell out of X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, they were definitely badass games. I also loved how you could record your battles and then go and watch them back, observing from any perspective you liked. That was pretty awesome.
I feel like demo recordings are one of those great things that's just been lost to time. CS:GO has good support for them but beside that you don't really see it around much.
It's funny because when you watch them you realize how many close calls you had never even seen and you can see the chaos of the battle that you as a pilot only have a vague understanding of in it's entirety.
Designer: So how many epic missions do you want in the storyline?
Lucasarts: *Yes*
Lol
76 campaign missions and 28 Combat Chamber sims isn't exactly deserving of a Mathematician's Answer.
Sooooo many good memories of this game!
Kevin Powell thx so I know what to expect haha
Playing as the bad guys? You've been listening to too much rebel propaganda.
I really miss the music in the 94/95 version, the 98 version should have kept the original adaptive music. Also the Tie Interceptor is tougher than the Tie Fighter, it can take a couple of extra shots.
Yeah, I remember from X-wing. Sure they were being used for target practice, but interceptors were just plain better in every way.
They could take about 5-6 hits instead of 3-4, had 4 laser cannons instead of 2, turned faster, and moved much faster.
Better in every way.
Still not much of a match for an X-wing though.
On the other hand, could cause serious problems to a Y-wing.
Yes, I had the original (+expansion? I remember 13 battles, up to the resolution of the Vorknyx Project) on floppy and loved the way the music would seamlessly rise and fall as things happened, with tracks being merged into eachother magically. I'm sure Lucas Arts had a technology with a funny name that did that.
When I got the CD version a few years later, it seemed to me that it just cues up the next audio track from the disk, complete with a short pause while it goes hunting for it. It was not quite the same atmosphere as a result.
it was called iMuse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE and you're right, it flowed with the action of the game so nicely
The system was called iMuse I believe
Geoffrey Banks The first CD version (which is bundled in the steam and gog.com digital releases) still had iMuse, they just added more voiceovers, all the expansions and bumped the resolution to 640x480 (graphics otherwise unchanged but the higher resolution is a great improvement already), what you are referring to is the windows version that came out later packed in with the same version of X-wing. At the time cd audio streaming was the hottest thing and every game had it so when they made the second updated re-release they decided to keep it with the times, though it was also a limit of the X-wing vs Tie Fighter engine used for the windows version. X-wing alliance later brought back iMuse but using mp3 snippets of music instead of MIDI music.
The "Training Simulator" was just an arcadey tunnel thing, but the Combat Chamber provided a series of very well-made guided tutorials that I'd highly recommend to anyone starting out with this game.
10:30 The original Battlefront 2 had you as an Imperial, even having you enact Order 66.
Yeah, I don't understand how even the least competent journalists could miss that.
A movie or literature journalist can go to an academia where they teach them of the past stuff, a game journalist is mostly a random gamer that became a journalist because he could write coherent sentences, it's obvious that every single one of them has a bunch of holes in their background.
Watch those wirst rockets!
Just like the simulations
We captured a command post
I loved this game, especially with how incredibly long it was. The CD version had over 100 missions, had you flying with Darth Vader as your wing man before transferring to be Thrawn's top pilot, etc.
But yes, they did make a game of that caliber. X-Wing Alliance in 1997(8?) Had an even better engine, solid story, and multiplayer.
I would dearly love an updated modern Star Wars flight game of this calibre. Just port the original games to a modern engine and I'd be so so happy.
I remember the briefing advising you not to try to give any orders to Darth Vader.
AS IF YOU WEREN'T AWESOME ENOUGH, you also know which SW game is best SW game :D
Okay, how many people spent hours practicing to do the ultimate 'omfg' optional goal: Sweeping the big minefield in a Tie Interceptor. *Raises Hand*
Oh thank The Emperor for that. There's at least two of us :D
And one more. yea, I played every mission too the hilt. good memories.
Actually... one of the last few optional tasks I had was killing the three Corellian Corvettes in the stock Tie Fighter in one of the initial missions (might even be the first one). You could survive one hit, but not two. It took me a hell of time to get.
I got all the optional missions completed, even for kicks one time I took down a Star Destroyer in a TIE Fighter.(one of the missions the enemy one did not jump out for a really long time). was not a mission goal, just for kicks. had to deal with them keep telling me to return to base.
Did it all. Got many pats on the back from the Emperor. And this fancy tattoo......
This is the first game I played with a joystick on a PC :D I had this old Microsoft Sidewinder 3D or something, one of the ancient ones. Lovely game, thanks for covering it Mr. Manley! :D
One of my all time favourites. Love the series. Wish they would reboot the series without making it lame. (Hard thing to do today...)
Not making it lame would mean simplification to achieve best sales figures. After all it's owned by Disney. :/
Oh how I loved this game. This series and wing Commander and MechWarrior were some of the best games ever made. Kids these days have no idea how shallow and lame their games are.
FAK YEAH! No bloody doubt about that choice.
I utterly loved the Tie Interceptor. It was thrilling to fly due to it's fragility, but it had enough firepower to make it really fun offensively. Once the shields got common, the game lost a bit of the scare factor.
I prefer to face corvettes with a gunboat shuttle, Tricky but can be done.
It's a shame the T/I only showed up for 4 campaign missions, compared to the 6 T/F missions and 7 T/B missions.
Loved playing the TIE Defender, though it was really OP vs the Rebel Crafts, which where only in numbers a thread... Loved the game, soundtrack was superb (yes I was lucky to have a Soundblaster 16 !!!), also the cutscenes were awesome. Though had to upgrade my machine from 4 to 8 MB (!), which cost like ~150 EUR at that time (adjusted!).
out4space Oh yeah, Tie Defenders were the best. The most OP stuff ever :D
nah, most OP was the Missle Boat. It could shoot down TIE Defenders like they where nothing :)
The Missile boat was an incredible killing machine. It's strange seeing him using the cannons in this video. It was all about the missiles and the outrageous speed it could reach when laser power was directed to the engines. If I remember correctly it could even out run concussion missiles. Such a monster.
I think the Missle Boat could reach 450 speedunites with SLAM (or whatever they where called^^), the Adv Concussion Missle launched at 280 units, but got faster during its flight but I think the Missle Boat could indeed outrun a missle, for a time until the energy run out. having up to 80 missles was insane, tho :D. Or 20 heavy rockets and 40 missles and it could kill an entire fleet, especially with a reload (exploit)
That too! The Missile Boat was just OP^2 ;)
Legends Thrawn>Canon Thrawn
Legends Chiss > Canon Chiss
There is only EU Thrawn.
@@rebelstrategist no Thrawn is canon in rebels
@@youngbutretro4228 I will reiterate : there is only EU Thrawn. Any other media on Thrawn is fan-fiction at best.
@@rebelstrategist Not trying to be nitpicky, but the old EU was, technically, fan fiction as well, as it wasn't made by Lucas.
10:49 Marek Steele :) and my box included a shortstory. Aww the memories... flying between a Mon Cal Cruiser and a Star Destroyer, broadsiding eachother - in a nimble TIE Fighter.
This game cost me so much study time when I was in college. Definitely one of the most playable games I've ever played, and it was generally superior to the X-Wing series.
If anyone likes this I suggest checking out Freespace 2, the pinnacle of the sapce dogfight genre. It's even been modernized by modders since the original source code was released when the original studio folded. google for freespace open
Scott S. It's available on GOG.com too, that's where I got my copy.
Scott S. Also, keep tabs on the Fate of the Galaxy conversion for Freespace 2. It hasn't been released yet, but it looks amazing.
Would also recommend Tachyon: The Fringe.
I remember playing this on "very easy" first, since it was one of my first computer games and one of the first simulators and I had no clue what I was doing (keyboard vs console controllers like the SNES). . I liked it so much, that I replayed it over and over and finally finished it (once) on hard mode. In that era of gaming, when they wrote "hard", it was effing hard! (Of course also to mention, playing Falcon 4.0 later, which was so technical and down to detail, 99% of current gamers would give up before taking off the air strip! ) I remember X-wing was even harder, even on medium difficulty, which I got tired replaying over and over, I kept getting blown out of the sky..or space to be correct!
Absolutely love Tie Fighter! This is the first time we got a glimpse of Coruscant. Absolutely a huge geek out moment!
This game would move VR headsets
Shut up 15 MB were like 5 (compressed) floppy disks! ^_^
5.25 floppys held about 1.2 mb, when my cousin bought it there were 8 discs and took about an hour to install, this was before the extra content so it wasnt 15mb in total either. just over a year later cd rom became available which was higher capacity but im not sure how much more
I'm pretty sure the floppy version didn't have dialogs audio either
Closer to 7. Double density floppies were about 1 meg
your probably right, my memorys not what it used to be ;) im quite possibly a dos version of a human :p
and no it did not have dialog, but it never stopped us playing it ;)
Love this game, decided to search UA-cam for Tie Fighter Game videos! One of the best games I had ever played. Looking forward to see if the new StarWars Squadrons reignites my love for spaceflight sims. I really liked the tactical aspect of the game, energy/shield management and I liked the secret order of the empire stuff too. Thanks for the video.
Yes! I have been saying the same thing as the title of this video for 22 years! I have never played a better space combat game. I remember when you installed the original version from the disks it asked you what type of RAM you wanted to use?! WHAT?! ROFL
Last time I was this early, it was a trap.
We cannot repel expediency of this magnitude!
We saw it. All craft, prepare to retreat.
I dont get the joke
danrg26
Search "it's a trap"
MoodayTV okay, I literally laughed out loud
Elegant game, from a more civilized age.
This game was made 6 years before I was born, and games made since then have been 10x worse. I love it!
7:27 "Very fast y-wing" ?!
He meant A-Wing
I love this game. This is definitely one of the best games ever!!
I think X-Wing Alliance was better. And I'm talking about the feeling, not graphics.
Man, was this game great. Was this game well designed. I wish they would still do games like this today. A pity the subsequent X-Wing games didn´t have this standard anymore.
I don't know, X-Wing Alliance at the very least leaned more on the TF formula.
*LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE*!
I'd love to see a re-imagining of this game for modern PC's! Loved playing this back in the day.
this game brought the most feeling of being there. The sequence of interconnected missions was so well done!
I personally prefer _'X-Wing'_ over _'TIE Fighter'_ myself. I have always loved the X-Wing and it is my favorite starfighter in the SW universe. That being said, _'TIE Fighter'_ is an awesome game as well as _'X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter',_ and _'X-Wing: Alliance'._ It's a shame that most people who see the graphics will pass these games up for "prettier" games like EA's "Battlefront" series but, make no mistake, those games don't compare *_AT ALL_* when it comes to the sheer immersion and feel of really being a Rebel or Imperial pilot and flying all the different ships offered on both sides (which also offer *_WAY MORE_* ships to choose from than EA's games). If you want a casual SW shooter, Battlefront (by Pandemic) is what I would recommend. On the other hand, if you want the most immersive experience of what it would be like to actually fly Rebel or Imperial starfighters in tense and tough space combat? Only the _'X-Wing'_ series of games will do...
Shortly before Tie Fighter came I recall an article that touched on the vulnerability of the Tie's and how that might carry over from X-Wing. LucasArts, from the get go, had no intention of tweaking the Tie's. They were expendable and you had to deal with that. Lucas Arts was solid in the early-mid 90's. They created some of the most engaging games I have played.
First game I ever beat as a child... I saved all pennies as a to buy a flight stick. Thank you Scott for bringing back memories of a simpler time.