Hi guys! In regards to the lightsaber question and it being controlled by the force, we can rule it out because General Greivous from Ep III can't use the force, he's mostly a droid and he can wield up to 4 lightsabers at once.
Kyle Simmons Also didnt finn (the ex-stormtrooper) use it briefly in episode 7? But disney seems to have no grip on star wars lore anyways so greivous is probably a better example
I guess I'm in the minority, but I actually loved reading the instruction booklet as a kid. There were pictures, and it told you and prepared you about the game, gave you back story that might not get mentioned in the game.... I don't know, I would still read manuals if games had them anymore. It was satisfying holding that booklet.
Some instruction books were much better than others, depending on the games/system. I remember Sega Genesis manuals were garbage, black and white and cheap looking, compared to SNES/N64 manuals.
This is one of those Star Wars which actually would have made a great Star Wars movie in reality. Shadows of the Empire had a really good story which was in between Empire Strikes back and before Return of the Jedi.
@@toxicmanbaby1069 I think this could have made it as a live action series or spin off movie easily to be honest. A lot of things from the books and Star Wars expanded universe would work well.
I kept thinking when I was a kid that Shadows of the Empire was actually gonna be Episode 1 as well so you're totally not alone in that boat. Dash Rendar totally needs to show up in a movie at some point
Dash was such a boss character for me when I was a kid. Total badass I thought. There just wasn't much of him shown sadly. He seriously need his own story outside of Shadows of the Empire.
I like how everyone talks about the Han shot thing. Fun fact: Harrison Ford was asked about that scene being changed. All he said was: Don't know. Don't care.
Probably because he doesn't identify with the series. It was just a job for him. So who cares what he thinks? The dude is practically senile now anyway. The Han/Greedo alteration changed the tone of the character--it was significant (the Ewok song changed nothing significant, btw).
+lum0s filmmakers and actors can't focus their career on just one big project. Artist and creators have to move on to other things once they are done and start the same process all over again. That's the beauty of it, and that's where you get your adrenaline going again. Shooting a movie is like climbing a high mountain and once you get to the type you realized that it is the on of that and have to start all over again to claim that mountain all over again with another movie. It's like a normal person staying flipping burgers all of his life time. Eventually he would like to do something else in the company or move on to other things.
This is the only thing I hate about Harrison Ford. He never is cool with the fans and treats the whole thing like he is above it all. Sure its much different for him because he was making the movie and he is extremely lucky doing it but never throws a bone to fans.
I know I'm late to the comment party, but I think I read somewhere that the beam part of the saber is a very tight loop of energy that goes out and back into the hilt.
I have to disagree with James and mike about the instructions. I miss the old instruction booklets. I use to sit down and read them, alot of the time on the way home from the store, getting all excited to play the game. Then by the time we got home I already knew the basics of the game and how to play. Not to mention some of the booklets had some decent back stories and lore thrown in, etc. Now you just get either nothing or just some pc code and an ad for some other game. I just got DAI and something like that would have had a nice sized book back in the day filled with story etc. One of the big criticisms on DAI was the idea that if you were new to the story you might not know who some of the people or factions were. Back in the day you never had that issue cause you had the book filled with it. Nowadays you have to pay top dollar for some extra package version to get any of that. Its kind of sad really.
That AT-ST is no joke. I remember playing this game at launch and, up to this point, thinking that it was cake. NOPE. The lasers tear you to shreds if you're in front of the walker, and constantly repositioning to stay behind it (hit-and-flee) was a tough task-- especially using the blaster, which is weak. It's an epic battle, though, and you can feel your pulse getting faster as you're trying to beat this boss. One man against a walker? Dash Rendar was the Solid Snake of his time! (Minus the talking.) Can't wait for Part 2 next week!
Stay at the door to the giant room. When the AT-ST turns his back, unload on him. Hide behind the wall when he turns your way. You can tell by the audio of its movements if it's facing or turning. . . Makes the battle a lot quicker and easier. I don't know why other people didn't think to do this. XP
The worst boss was that giant mouth with tentacles in the sewers level. Scared me so much I actually cheated to skip this boss and proceed to next level.
I couldn't read them, cause I couldn't understand English yet at the time, but I loved looking at the pictures and tried to deduce the story from them xP. I still have the manuals and boxes for my old games, except the N64 games that were also my brother's... He lost them or they got torn up.
me too. guess it's too challenging for most though, cuz it gets an absurd amount of hate for such an amazing game. rogue squadron is pretty cool and is visually more impressive, but i never got into it the way i got into shadows.
Shadows of the Empire should really have been a movie. It's got a cool story, neat characters and one of the most realistic and three-dimensional stories in all of the Star Wars universe. There are no bad guys in it; you feel somewhat sorry for Xizor because his family was killed by Darth Vader, yet you know that Vader himself isn't pure evil and it shows multiple times in the story - he's a fallen hero fighting to retain his last senses of humanity. Dash Rendar is a badass, like Han Solo without a heart. It's just an all-round good idea and a neat concept - it's a shame it never became a film; heck, I think it could have outdone Return of the Jedi (which is, really, just a rehash of Star Wars; not saying it's bad, though!)...but instead, we got the prequel trilogy. Talk about a letdown.
Yeah. It's one of the only ships that I think out-badasses the Millennium Falcon. The StarVipers that fly for Xizor Transport Systems are pretty awesome as well.
Yeah. The Trilogy after the original should have been VII: Dark Forces, IIX: Shadows of the Empire, and IX: Jedi Knight. Does anybody even know those games anymore?
The worst change in the special edition to me is the fucking Jabba's palace dance scene in Return of the Jedi, everytime it starts I just fucking skip it.
Agreed the music hell nothing needed to be changed. Why did we think the prequels would be so good after seeing what he went back and did to his best work?
I remember this game so well. It was the second game I owned for the N64 after Mario 64. It was extremely intense to me as a kid. I was so into it. I remember the Boba Fett fight really got me going especially.
One big reason Shadows of the Empire stands out to me is that it actually has a third major faction distinct from the rebels and Empire, giving a more complex conflict than the same old light vs dark 99% of Star Wars stories seem to be about in the end.
Very true, the idea of how a criminal organization would function in a galaxy as sprawling and diverse as the SW one is has limitless storytelling possibilities. I wish they would've done more with it, there's so much potential there.
I was going to write the same thing man this game was deep it showed me that there was more to the Star Wars World other than Darth Vader versus Luke Skywalker and the damn Ewoks also just gave it a much more grittier feel for the Star Wars universe more so than the movies ever did
Honestly it had one of the best side stories and spin off tales in the Star Wars Universe. The story in this game is really good enough to make a film with itself.
I loved rogue squadron and shadows of the empire as a kid. They were so damn fun. It took me 2 whole days to know about the harpoon. Of course, the harpoons were in the movie, but the z button wouldn't activate the harpoon until you were super close. This was before most people had internet so you couldn't simply look it up. And I feel James for the Ewok Celebration music. Return of the Jedi is my favorite movie, so I learned the music on the piano when I was 10. Then I went to the 1997 special edition hit theaters. I was super excited to hear the soundtrack, especially the Ewok celebration. Nope. Changed it so pissed.
This game was so fucking expensive when it came out. I remember some stores selling it for $120 during Christmas of '96. It was one of the few decent games on the N64 at the time, so nobody gave a shit how expensive it was.
Nerd moment in coming. Lightsabers loop back on themselves they go up and then come back down, sort of how a solar flare does that big loop following the magnetic field of the Sun. Only a much tighter loop and they are so bright that you cannot see the two individual filaments of plasma. Bonus nerdy fact, this is why lightsabers last so long between charges they only expend energy as they slice through things. Just turning it on and leaving it on requires almost no power.
I saw this game back in the day at a friend's house and it utterly blew my mind. But looking at it now, with those smeared, muddy textures, it's hard to believe I genuinely felt this looked as close to the reality of a Star Wars movie as I did. The graphics have not aged well. Still, it was the game that convinced me to buy an N64 over the PS or the Saturn.
Turrican4D My PC at the time wasn't anything special. Just an ex-display bottom of the line P90 that my dad bought for work and the Internet. I don't think this game needs the expansion pack. You might be thinking of the later Rogue Squadron, which is a better game anyway, imho (Didn't really like the awkward third person sections. Why they put a third person mode in Rogue Squadron III, I'll never know).
I have a suggestion for you Mike, why don't you upload the edited version of the video and also provide the unedited version? That way the people who want to watch the whole thing can and the people who don't can watch the edited? Just a thought. =]
I remember when I got this along with the n64 for my birthday in 97. It was all I asked for for months on end. We got it set up and my grandfather was like "does it look any better than your other system?" referring to the Sega genesis. When we turned it on he was amazed. Such fond memories of this game
This was one of the coolest Star wars games i ever played.After The Super Star wars trilogy on SNES i played it when i was 11.Such a treasure from my childhood.
The Thrawn Trilogy (Heir to the empire, Dark force rising and The last command) of books released from 1991 and up were essentially considered honorary episodes back in the day, so I never had issues with imagening post-ROTJ stories. I do worry that Abrams may not be able to outdo Zahn's visions of the future, but I'll keep an open mind.
Zahns books aren't considered canon and Zahns view of the future of SW went out when the Prequels came out. The trailer for Ep7 looks much better then anything in the Thrawn Trilogy
Mike Matei, maybe consider publishing both versions: cut and extended. Wil Wheaton does this with some of his tabletop episodes, and personally I love watching the extended versions.
When my cousin would rent or buy a new game, he would always make me read the instruction manual while he played the game. When it got time for me to play, he'd turn the game off and say he'd want to watch TV.
I bought this game of the stand & thought god it looks so cheap. Turned out to be fantastic & addictive. A true unsung treasure of the Star Wars universe.
Oh man I must have powerslammed everyone with Kevin Nash about 1,000 times. Tried it once with a kid at school, he landed on his head but I think he's okay now.
Yeah, Yub Nub was a bit corny but I loved it as a kid. I also loved the contrast of the ewok song and the ending theme. It made the end title all the more epic.
Yeah, the Ewok song was like my favorite song in all the movies. Didn't they also change the song in Jabba's Palace, or was it just expanded? Been a while since I've watched it - usually just watch the laserdisc version
16:27 No. I think the light saber only adjusts to it's usual limit. There was a part in Empire Strikes Back when Luke was out in the freezing cold and then he got badly injured by a yeti. Han Solo came and rescued Luke and he used Luke's light saber to cut open the camel to stuff Luke inside it to keep him warm. I doubt any force power came into play because that yeti knocked Luke senseless. The whole time Luke was saying "Ben... Ben.... .... ...Ben."
there's star wars books that explain the lightsaber length. there's merely a adjustable screw/pin like thing that adjusts the blade length. it's all admitted through kyber crystals
Yes it has to do with Kyber crystals focusing the beam somehow? The iidea that its a tight arc not a beam makes the most sense in keeping it at a set length. Also other crystals can be used to color the blade. You can even have adjustable lengths and settings. ie. They can be set to more of a stun mode for training.
The controls are bullshit, but you CAN strafe and aim at the back of the AT-ST nearly constantly, instead of walking 4 steps, aiming, shooting 3 times, and repeating. There's also ways to sprint and jump, James.
@@Markell1991 I thought something similar I always looked at it as basically being all in the kyber crystal which power the sabers. As they are force attuned. So I just figured the length of it is due to that. Basically the Crystal added with the hilt puts out a certain amount of energy which makes it so the lightsaber blade only goes to a certain length. Kind of make sense to me when you think of the fact that Kylo's saber has a cracked Kyber Crystal in it which is why it looks different compared to it just being a straight beam of light it instead looks different like the beam of light is crackling.
Good episode, learned a lot about Star Wars! And omg the boss battle...good thing games on PC use a mouse to aim...was horrible to aim with a controller.
Cinemassacre Gotta love when you look at your subscription box right before you go to sleep and you see a Cinemassacre vid. Its like the only channel that uploads at this time lol
Most of what George Lucas claimed about his movies is untrue. He never originally planned there to be more than one movie, he never intended for Darth Vader to be Luke's father or Leia be his sister, he didn't think that the Clone Wars was something to be expanded upon, he just made it up as he went along. That's not to say the original old three movies aren't good - on the contrary, Empire is the best out of all Star Wars movies in my opinion, but I wish people would stop pretending that everything was part of some grand master plan. We can clearly see that the prequel trilogy was not well thought-out and that many plot-threads don't work with the old trilogy.
Hahahahahaha I have an answer to the lightsaber, each lightsaber has a containment field controlled by the crystal in the lightsaber, I looked way too into it hahaha
hearing two fans of starwars who aren't well versed in the lore is actually kind of refreshing. It brings things back to a simpler time, like when I was young, as opposed to having read so much star wars that I know all the answers to every question they'd ever ask .-.
the way i see it, james is kind of right about "nothing happens after 'return of the jedi'" but i believe "force awakens" focuses on "neo-dark force" troops, where enthusiast and supporters of the dark side, revamp the whole imperial army, and like an ISIS thing, they recruit and manipulate young teenagers to joining the stormtrooper army, making them believe "hey this shit is all cool, you'll be fighting against a hypocritical alliance" and thus in the teaser, you see Finn in a stormtrooper uniform popping up and freaking out like he just got out of an accident and had a huge realization. so most likely, the new trilogy is going to be what it gives away, the dark side makes a comeback and the force is truly awoken to stamp it out. the dark side could be this thing that is beyond physical and can awake within anyone who wants power over humanity.
Michał Skup I also enjoyed Outcast. My favorite Star Wars game? That's a hard one. I loved Jedi Academy, Rouge Squadron series, Shadows of the Empire; each game provides something different, so I can't come up with a favorite.
Stars Wars was good but never because of George Lucas alone. He steals a lot of ideas from Dune. Tatooine is Arrakis, the Jedi are the Bene Gesserit, Luke Skywalker is Paul Atreides, the governing body of the Galaxy is an empire, and even princess Leia sounds like Princess Alia, who is also a simbling to the protagonist, Paul. I'm sure there's still even more parallels between the two.
OMG!!!! My mom rented this for me when I was a child. Constantly think of this game when people talk of good Star Wars games but I never knew what it was called. Yes!
Am i the only one who thinks the original ewok music... kinda sucks. Of course its the original, but the new music is a lot better.... and more fitting... and more victorious somehow..
did they watch the movies? even han uses a lightsaber fine, the force has nothing to do with it, they're really just pieces of technology like a blaster. before you ask why only jedi use them then, it's because the force amplifies their abilities and senses so only they can really use them effectively. general grievous for example used them because he had a fairly capable body, but was obviously still pretty shitty compared to actual jedi
i still got the PC version of this... i wonder if it can do 1080p and widescreen... //edit: booohoo can't install it, incompatible with 64bit OS //edit2: got it to install with an .exe from the internet, but the game just crashes instantly... ok i think this is not going to happen lol
edit3: well, I just got home from the computer repair shop. They say that the -dick- disk drive is fucked, so yeah I'm gonna have to get a new gaming llllllaaaaappppttttoopppppp.
Lucas was *clearly* making it up as he went along. Isn't there that scene in the making-of featurette for one of the prequels where the movie's already in production, but he admits that he hasn't even finished the script for it?
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Cinemassacre this game kicks major ass...
I like the original trilogy and episode III, the new ones could be watched in reverse order thats how little the story matters.
Hi guys! In regards to the lightsaber question and it being controlled by the force, we can rule it out because General Greivous from Ep III can't use the force, he's mostly a droid and he can wield up to 4 lightsabers at once.
Kyle Simmons Also didnt finn (the ex-stormtrooper) use it briefly in episode 7? But disney seems to have no grip on star wars lore anyways so greivous is probably a better example
You should play star wars battle front 2
I guess I'm in the minority, but I actually loved reading the instruction booklet as a kid. There were pictures, and it told you and prepared you about the game, gave you back story that might not get mentioned in the game.... I don't know, I would still read manuals if games had them anymore. It was satisfying holding that booklet.
Some instruction books were much better than others, depending on the games/system. I remember Sega Genesis manuals were garbage, black and white and cheap looking, compared to SNES/N64 manuals.
Even the old Playstation 1 and 2 manuals were usually pretty detailed and pleasing to the eye.
They meant the system manual I think.
To be fair I can't think of any of the systems manuals that are actually interesting, now that I think about it...
I loved them too. I would buy a game at the store, and read it on the way home to prepare. It's ridiculous that they're hardly included anymore.
I remember getting this for Christmas. Most amazing day ever.
when i was a Kid and bought a new Game i read the instructions at the way home
yep totally, back seat of the car flipping through and studying everything
@@KorbenCountyJr lol
Ditto. I immediately would read the manuals. Especially on the john lol
smash brothers manual broo was awesome.
The only time I studied in the car and was excited to do so.
This is one of those Star Wars which actually would have made a great Star Wars movie in reality. Shadows of the Empire had a really good story which was in between Empire Strikes back and before Return of the Jedi.
@@toxicmanbaby1069 I think this could have made it as a live action series or spin off movie easily to be honest. A lot of things from the books and Star Wars expanded universe would work well.
I remember obsessing over this game as a kid!!!!!
Childhood memories❤❤❤
The scariest thing in the game is IG-88. That was the most terrifying boss battle ever.
Wompas man.....in the cells...
Indomitable at least the wampas didnt make horrid sounds. It was like a manatee getting put into a blender.
Wow wow wow, you're forgetting swamp monsters and the swamp boss underwater- that was scary!
That was pretty terrifying.
I think when I was younger I found the whole game was pretty creepy actually...
*****
RS2 was incredible! Sucks that your GC broke :(
I kept thinking when I was a kid that Shadows of the Empire was actually gonna be Episode 1 as well so you're totally not alone in that boat. Dash Rendar totally needs to show up in a movie at some point
Dash was such a boss character for me when I was a kid. Total badass I thought. There just wasn't much of him shown sadly. He seriously need his own story outside of Shadows of the Empire.
Hah alpha omega sin
Damn it Alpha your everywhere!
***** More like Jedi Knight: Arena.
i hope he doesn't, the ending where he survives by jumping to light speed was smart.
Dash stayed clear of a terrible franchise.
I like how everyone talks about the Han shot thing. Fun fact: Harrison Ford was asked about that scene being changed. All he said was: Don't know. Don't care.
Probably because he doesn't identify with the series. It was just a job for him. So who cares what he thinks? The dude is practically senile now anyway. The Han/Greedo alteration changed the tone of the character--it was significant (the Ewok song changed nothing significant, btw).
+lum0s filmmakers and actors can't focus their career on just one big project. Artist and creators have to move on to other things once they are done and start the same process all over again. That's the beauty of it, and that's where you get your adrenaline going again. Shooting a movie is like climbing a high mountain and once you get to the type you realized that it is the on of that and have to start all over again to claim that mountain all over again with another movie. It's like a normal person staying flipping burgers all of his life time. Eventually he would like to do something else in the company or move on to other things.
***** nothing wrong with that. Blade runner is a good movie who Harrison starred
hes such a fucking asshole. if it wasnt for lucas he'd be a fucking nobody. fuck ford
This is the only thing I hate about Harrison Ford. He never is cool with the fans and treats the whole thing like he is above it all. Sure its much different for him because he was making the movie and he is extremely lucky doing it but never throws a bone to fans.
Whoo boy, if only they knew the horrors that await them in the sequel trilogy.
Disney destroyed everything
"Reading for a game is stupid, its like school"....Later pulls out the strategy guide...
to be fair though, that was james, who pulled out the strategy guide..
Han Solo used Luke's lightsaber in Empire Strikes Back to cut the Tautaun's belly though.
And update to that:
Finn uses a lightsaber to battle Kylo Ren.
I know I'm late to the comment party, but I think I read somewhere that the beam part of the saber is a very tight loop of energy that goes out and back into the hilt.
I have to disagree with James and mike about the instructions. I miss the old instruction booklets. I use to sit down and read them, alot of the time on the way home from the store, getting all excited to play the game. Then by the time we got home I already knew the basics of the game and how to play. Not to mention some of the booklets had some decent back stories and lore thrown in, etc. Now you just get either nothing or just some pc code and an ad for some other game. I just got DAI and something like that would have had a nice sized book back in the day filled with story etc. One of the big criticisms on DAI was the idea that if you were new to the story you might not know who some of the people or factions were. Back in the day you never had that issue cause you had the book filled with it. Nowadays you have to pay top dollar for some extra package version to get any of that. Its kind of sad really.
I'm in full agreement.
I agree completely.
That AT-ST is no joke. I remember playing this game at launch and, up to this point, thinking that it was cake.
NOPE.
The lasers tear you to shreds if you're in front of the walker, and constantly repositioning to stay behind it (hit-and-flee) was a tough task-- especially using the blaster, which is weak.
It's an epic battle, though, and you can feel your pulse getting faster as you're trying to beat this boss. One man against a walker? Dash Rendar was the Solid Snake of his time! (Minus the talking.)
Can't wait for Part 2 next week!
I Love Star-Wars
Stay at the door to the giant room. When the AT-ST turns his back, unload on him. Hide behind the wall when he turns your way. You can tell by the audio of its movements if it's facing or turning. . . Makes the battle a lot quicker and easier. I don't know why other people didn't think to do this. XP
Mara Cabrera No hyphen.
The worst boss was that giant mouth with tentacles in the sewers level. Scared me so much I actually cheated to skip this boss and proceed to next level.
Seekers. best friend of AT-ST killers everywhere.
I loved reading the manuals, because there was usually some sort of story, artwork, etc.
I read the instructions to all N64 games, when im grounded. the pictures make up for when im not playing
I honestly though I was the only one.
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I couldn't read them, cause I couldn't understand English yet at the time, but I loved looking at the pictures and tried to deduce the story from them xP. I still have the manuals and boxes for my old games, except the N64 games that were also my brother's... He lost them or they got torn up.
Now that Disney is doing non-episodic movies I would LOVE to see this story brought to the big screen
Would you watch it with your soy latte?
@@sunnyztmoney 🤣🤣🤣
This didn't age well lol
@@sunnyztmoney I'd watch it with your mother 🤷🏼♂️
@@thecommercialarchive kinda based ngl
Man this was my shit! Still remember getting it on Christmas morning 96 lol
Me too
Great game!
Play Goldeneye
^This^
GRANT Evans When? I thought they only played nightfire
GRANT Evans What other goldeneye is there?
no they should play conkers bad fur day
Mike should play Goldmember
I miss james & mike mondays...
man when this game came out i knew i had picked one of the best 64 games ever. just the right amount of challenge too.
me too. guess it's too challenging for most though, cuz it gets an absurd amount of hate for such an amazing game. rogue squadron is pretty cool and is visually more impressive, but i never got into it the way i got into shadows.
Shadows of the Empire should really have been a movie. It's got a cool story, neat characters and one of the most realistic and three-dimensional stories in all of the Star Wars universe. There are no bad guys in it; you feel somewhat sorry for Xizor because his family was killed by Darth Vader, yet you know that Vader himself isn't pure evil and it shows multiple times in the story - he's a fallen hero fighting to retain his last senses of humanity. Dash Rendar is a badass, like Han Solo without a heart. It's just an all-round good idea and a neat concept - it's a shame it never became a film; heck, I think it could have outdone Return of the Jedi (which is, really, just a rehash of Star Wars; not saying it's bad, though!)...but instead, we got the prequel trilogy. Talk about a letdown.
I cannot agree more :D. I like Dash's Outrider ship.
Yeah. It's one of the only ships that I think out-badasses the Millennium Falcon. The StarVipers that fly for Xizor Transport Systems are pretty awesome as well.
agreed. IMO this is the best star wars game ever made
For sure the best adventure-style game. I prefer X-Wing Alliance for space combat, though - it's hard to top the X-Wing trilogy for space battles.
Yeah. The Trilogy after the original should have been VII: Dark Forces, IIX: Shadows of the Empire, and IX: Jedi Knight. Does anybody even know those games anymore?
The worst change in the special edition to me is the fucking Jabba's palace dance scene in Return of the Jedi, everytime it starts I just fucking skip it.
Fucking yes. That was unbearable and really awkward to watch.
Agreed the music hell nothing needed to be changed. Why did we think the prequels would be so good after seeing what he went back and did to his best work?
5:45 holy shit i'm dying at the "yes James" with that face
haha
Glad I wasn't the only one XD
I can remember Shadows of the Empire made me lose sleep at night it was so good. I'd spend hours playing the last mission.
I remember this game so well. It was the second game I owned for the N64 after Mario 64. It was extremely intense to me as a kid. I was so into it. I remember the Boba Fett fight really got me going especially.
One big reason Shadows of the Empire stands out to me is that it actually has a third major faction distinct from the rebels and Empire, giving a more complex conflict than the same old light vs dark 99% of Star Wars stories seem to be about in the end.
Crowley9 the yetis on the second stage were my favorite lol YARRRR (falls off the cliff) lol
Very true, the idea of how a criminal organization would function in a galaxy as sprawling and diverse as the SW one is has limitless storytelling possibilities. I wish they would've done more with it, there's so much potential there.
I was going to write the same thing man this game was deep it showed me that there was more to the Star Wars World other than Darth Vader versus Luke Skywalker and the damn Ewoks also just gave it a much more grittier feel for the Star Wars universe more so than the movies ever did
@@haha-hg6yq This was normal in a lot of the books. Although many aspects of this game do suck, it nails the expanded universe vibe.
Honestly it had one of the best side stories and spin off tales in the Star Wars Universe. The story in this game is really good enough to make a film with itself.
I loved rogue squadron and shadows of the empire as a kid. They were so damn fun. It took me 2 whole days to know about the harpoon. Of course, the harpoons were in the movie, but the z button wouldn't activate the harpoon until you were super close. This was before most people had internet so you couldn't simply look it up.
And I feel James for the Ewok Celebration music. Return of the Jedi is my favorite movie, so I learned the music on the piano when I was 10. Then I went to the 1997 special edition hit theaters. I was super excited to hear the soundtrack, especially the Ewok celebration. Nope. Changed it so pissed.
This game was so fucking expensive when it came out. I remember some stores selling it for $120 during Christmas of '96. It was one of the few decent games on the N64 at the time, so nobody gave a shit how expensive it was.
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I've always owned this game parents probably rented it and never returned it lol
I actually have the book of shadows of the empire. It's really good.
Same here. I've read it a couple times but it's been almost 20 years since the last time I read through it
Nerd haha jk I’ll probably read it now lol
It was so good
Mike 'blow up the boxes - get some health' Matei
Nerd moment in coming. Lightsabers loop back on themselves they go up and then come back down, sort of how a solar flare does that big loop following the magnetic field of the Sun. Only a much tighter loop and they are so bright that you cannot see the two individual filaments of plasma.
Bonus nerdy fact, this is why lightsabers last so long between charges they only expend energy as they slice through things. Just turning it on and leaving it on requires almost no power.
I saw this game back in the day at a friend's house and it utterly blew my mind. But looking at it now, with those smeared, muddy textures, it's hard to believe I genuinely felt this looked as close to the reality of a Star Wars movie as I did. The graphics have not aged well. Still, it was the game that convinced me to buy an N64 over the PS or the Saturn.
Pretty much all games of this era were like this. Sprites are a lot more timeless.
The pc version looks much better.
cygil1 Don't all?
Turrican4D My PC at the time wasn't anything special. Just an ex-display bottom of the line P90 that my dad bought for work and the Internet.
I don't think this game needs the expansion pack. You might be thinking of the later Rogue Squadron, which is a better game anyway, imho (Didn't really like the awkward third person sections. Why they put a third person mode in Rogue Squadron III, I'll never know).
I have a suggestion for you Mike, why don't you upload the edited version of the video and also provide the unedited version? That way the people who want to watch the whole thing can and the people who don't can watch the edited? Just a thought. =]
Wait, you aren't Mike!
JAMES! MIKE! PLEASE DO THIS!!! ^w^
I was thinking the same thing.
"Directors cut"
That's the thing I thought, good sir.
I remember when I got this along with the n64 for my birthday in 97. It was all I asked for for months on end. We got it set up and my grandfather was like "does it look any better than your other system?" referring to the Sega genesis. When we turned it on he was amazed. Such fond memories of this game
The ending to this episode is legendary. They go from "heh heh dumb fan" to "Nooo!" in an instant.
This game WAS considered canon until Disney bought Star Wars and erased Star Wars canon as we knew it.
Thanks a lot, Disney.
This was one of the coolest Star wars games i ever played.After The Super Star wars trilogy on SNES i played it when i was 11.Such a treasure from my childhood.
agreed i love that game so much
The Thrawn Trilogy (Heir to the empire, Dark force rising and The last command) of books released from 1991 and up were essentially considered honorary episodes back in the day, so I never had issues with imagening post-ROTJ stories.
I do worry that Abrams may not be able to outdo Zahn's visions of the future, but I'll keep an open mind.
Zahn's books will always be the true continuation of this story and The Force Awakens will be some alternate universe in my opinion.
Man, Those books were so great,
Zahns books aren't considered canon and Zahns view of the future of SW went out when the Prequels came out.
The trailer for Ep7 looks much better then anything in the Thrawn Trilogy
I recently started replaying this game. I forgot how fucking good it is.
Omg! I found Hank Hill! XD
stoodle bop Agreed
stoodle bop it’s amazing
stoodle bop really I remember it being trash rouge squadron was good I recall
When I was I kid, I'd always read the instructions on the drive home because I was so hyped to play the game I just got.
Mike Matei, maybe consider publishing both versions: cut and extended. Wil Wheaton does this with some of his tabletop episodes, and personally I love watching the extended versions.
There would be a lot of spans of time where we're just playing the game, with no commentary. It would be boring and pointless.
-Mike
Well at least he mentioned both of your comments in Part 2, your voices has been heard!
When my cousin would rent or buy a new game, he would always make me read the instruction manual while he played the game. When it got time for me to play, he'd turn the game off and say he'd want to watch TV.
Scout Moser you're like the baseball kid that grows up to be a villain in meet the robinsons
Dude your cousin was an ass
And how did that make you feel?!? Lol!!
@@eightyblox6829 goob
Bastard
I used to love using the tow cables in the original Battlefront on PS2 lol
I really liked every star wars game I played on n64.granted, it was only two: rogue squadron and episode 1 racer but they were the mutts nuts.
I bought this game of the stand & thought god it looks so cheap.
Turned out to be fantastic & addictive. A true unsung treasure of the Star Wars universe.
for some reason this video always reminds me of thanksgiving.
John Mark Aiken Strange. Now that you mention it, I'm kinda getting that feeling from it too!
+Cinemassacre - you know what would be great? A 4 co-op of WCW/NWO Revenge on N64 :) That would be awesome!
Now that was a game, best wrestling game in my opinion.
Oh man I must have powerslammed everyone with Kevin Nash about 1,000 times. Tried it once with a kid at school, he landed on his head but I think he's okay now.
So glad I'm not the only one who hates the special edition music at the end of Return Of The Jedi
Yeah, Yub Nub was a bit corny but I loved it as a kid. I also loved the contrast of the ewok song and the ending theme. It made the end title all the more epic.
Yeah, the Ewok song was like my favorite song in all the movies. Didn't they also change the song in Jabba's Palace, or was it just expanded? Been a while since I've watched it - usually just watch the laserdisc version
The Victory Celebration Music is so much better.than Yub Nub. Yub Nub is about as Epic and "grand" as an Ewok Rap. Fuck that
The music was amazing in this game. I still get goosebumps from the title screen music.
16:27 No. I think the light saber only adjusts to it's usual limit. There was a part in Empire Strikes Back when Luke was out in the freezing cold and then he got badly injured by a yeti. Han Solo came and rescued Luke and he used Luke's light saber to cut open the camel to stuff Luke inside it to keep him warm. I doubt any force power came into play because that yeti knocked Luke senseless. The whole time Luke was saying "Ben... Ben.... .... ...Ben."
there's star wars books that explain the lightsaber length. there's merely a adjustable screw/pin like thing that adjusts the blade length. it's all admitted through kyber crystals
It's more of an arch than a stick.
Yes it has to do with Kyber crystals focusing the beam somehow? The iidea that its a tight arc not a beam makes the most sense in keeping it at a set length. Also other crystals can be used to color the blade. You can even have adjustable lengths and settings. ie. They can be set to more of a stun mode for training.
Minleyx1 yeah everyone who says only Jedi can use it tend to forget that han used one and so did the kid who stole Asokas saber
Some sabers have length adjusters for the wielders height
The controls are bullshit, but you CAN strafe and aim at the back of the AT-ST nearly constantly, instead of walking 4 steps, aiming, shooting 3 times, and repeating. There's also ways to sprint and jump, James.
How far off are the James & Mike Mondays which are/will be shot in the new location?
New location?
Joe is giving us hints of the future!
captainnutella67 I hope you are right! Joe and Dave (Game Sack) are my favorite gaming UA-cam channel right now. ☺
Is*
Billy Disaster Mine too! :D
Han used Luke's lightsaber when luke was almost unconscious. I don't think it's the force, just "it's not a real thing" haha
+David Ford I always thought it was like magnets. They work, but only at a certain distance. Same with the machinery in the hilt of a lightsaber.
@@Markell1991 I thought something similar I always looked at it as basically being all in the kyber crystal which power the sabers. As they are force attuned. So I just figured the length of it is due to that. Basically the Crystal added with the hilt puts out a certain amount of energy which makes it so the lightsaber blade only goes to a certain length. Kind of make sense to me when you think of the fact that Kylo's saber has a cracked Kyber Crystal in it which is why it looks different compared to it just being a straight beam of light it instead looks different like the beam of light is crackling.
N64 had some great Star Wars titles! I use to love that stage with the speeder bikes!
one of the best, if not the best, J & M monday
I actually liked instruction books when they were written as actual pieces of the game's universe.
Their accents really come out when they're excited.
One of these days I'll watch them play General Chaos on Sega! Maybe even Comix Zone!
One of my greatest memories of all time
Dear James and Cinemassacre. I Love you all. Thank for all the videos...they're all fantastic. Thanks again!!
use the fucking strafe button
Good episode, learned a lot about Star Wars! And omg the boss battle...good thing games on PC use a mouse to aim...was horrible to aim with a controller.
Thanks! More Star Wars geeky-ness coming next week! -Mike
Cinemassacre
Gotta love when you look at your subscription box right before you go to sleep and you see a Cinemassacre vid. Its like the only channel that uploads at this time lol
lol i beat jedi knight dark forces 2 using only the keyboard to aim and shoot...
This game just looks like a crappy version of star fox if you ask me X_X
Brekner Catalin I could do straight headshots on Goldeneye 007 with the aim assists turned off.
Most of what George Lucas claimed about his movies is untrue. He never originally planned there to be more than one movie, he never intended for Darth Vader to be Luke's father or Leia be his sister, he didn't think that the Clone Wars was something to be expanded upon, he just made it up as he went along. That's not to say the original old three movies aren't good - on the contrary, Empire is the best out of all Star Wars movies in my opinion, but I wish people would stop pretending that everything was part of some grand master plan. We can clearly see that the prequel trilogy was not well thought-out and that many plot-threads don't work with the old trilogy.
The nostalgia of seen this cartridge is totally overwelming ❤️
The Cinemassacre guys know Stingray?! They've just earned a new respect from me!
Q: How dose the light saber work? How dose the beam stop?
A: Space Opera.
Loved this game. I'm going to play it tonight!
just when i thought you guys were the real-life bevis and butthead i notice the ac/dc shirt.
😀😁😂
shadows of the empire hands down one of the best n64 games. that and the pod racers game that was also badass
Hahahahahaha I have an answer to the lightsaber, each lightsaber has a containment field controlled by the crystal in the lightsaber, I looked way too into it hahaha
Any one else can't sleep and you have school tomorrow?
Me
Don't have school till Tuesday
Finnish independence day so no school tomorrow, whoo!
Not for another few weeks, gotta love college
If i go to college....
What a disappointment the Disney Star Wars were. I agree, "Return of the Jedi" is the end of Star Wars.
James can relate to George Lucas through his Snix movies? Wow.
hearing two fans of starwars who aren't well versed in the lore is actually kind of refreshing. It brings things back to a simpler time, like when I was young, as opposed to having read so much star wars that I know all the answers to every question they'd ever ask .-.
the way i see it, james is kind of right about "nothing happens after 'return of the jedi'" but i believe "force awakens" focuses on "neo-dark force" troops, where enthusiast and supporters of the dark side, revamp the whole imperial army, and like an ISIS thing, they recruit and manipulate young teenagers to joining the stormtrooper army, making them believe "hey this shit is all cool, you'll be fighting against a hypocritical alliance" and thus in the teaser, you see Finn in a stormtrooper uniform popping up and freaking out like he just got out of an accident and had a huge realization. so most likely, the new trilogy is going to be what it gives away, the dark side makes a comeback and the force is truly awoken to stamp it out. the dark side could be this thing that is beyond physical and can awake within anyone who wants power over humanity.
I've been alive for 19 years and I STILL CAN'T FUCKING DO THAT TOW CABLE BULLSHIT
how old are you?
Best star wars game is, hands down, Jedi Outcast.
An amazing game, yes, but not the best :P
KOTOR for the xbox I think is the best.
Matthew J. Boone matter of taste - I love Outcast, but I'm curious - what game you consider to be the best?
Michał Skup I also enjoyed Outcast. My favorite Star Wars game? That's a hard one. I loved Jedi Academy, Rouge Squadron series, Shadows of the Empire; each game provides something different, so I can't come up with a favorite.
I dunno about Jedi Academy - good mechanics but story was weaker than in Outcast. But RS is just mind blowing.
"Gredo shot *preemptively* " maybe?
Got this with my N64 and immediately took it with my family on vacation. The graphics blew everyone’s minds.
This one still remains one of my top 5 favorite N64 games.
I call them R and L but with the inclusion of the 360 controller, the triggers are Right and left Trigger.
You should do conkers bad fur day multiplayer.
yes u guys need to play this game
Victory celebration > yub nub
All the way.
Special edition final music better than original one on so many levels.
Loved this game... One of my favs from N64
I would watch 4 hours of you guys sitting on a couch playing a game. It is a great bonus material for your Blurays!
Stars Wars was good but never because of George Lucas alone. He steals a lot of ideas from Dune. Tatooine is Arrakis, the Jedi are the Bene Gesserit, Luke Skywalker is Paul Atreides, the governing body of the Galaxy is an empire, and even princess Leia sounds like Princess Alia, who is also a simbling to the protagonist, Paul. I'm sure there's still even more parallels between the two.
and eve more to Akira Kurosawa but those are just influences
Could the button pressing have BEEN ANY LOUDER?
Could your comment have BEEN ANY DUMBER?
Where did you learn to tow the cable?
I liked the new song that they added at the end of Jedi. I thought it was better, it felt more epic and it always makes me cry
OMG!!!! My mom rented this for me when I was a child. Constantly think of this game when people talk of good Star Wars games but I never knew what it was called. Yes!
Am i the only one who thinks the original ewok music... kinda sucks. Of course its the original, but the new music is a lot better.... and more fitting... and more victorious somehow..
Iki Routa Hell no dude the original is the original for a reason!
Zachary Collins Becuase it was the best they could do until something better came along?
Wampa Stompa
did they watch the movies? even han uses a lightsaber fine, the force has nothing to do with it, they're really just pieces of technology like a blaster. before you ask why only jedi use them then, it's because the force amplifies their abilities and senses so only they can really use them effectively. general grievous for example used them because he had a fairly capable body, but was obviously still pretty shitty compared to actual jedi
Checking the lightsaber like a flashlight.
That is how many young padawan found their end,
this game was so badass when it released....**memories**
one of the best star wars game ever made! a clasic! so many memories
i still got the PC version of this... i wonder if it can do 1080p and widescreen...
//edit: booohoo can't install it, incompatible with 64bit OS
//edit2: got it to install with an .exe from the internet, but the game just crashes instantly... ok i think this is not going to happen lol
edit3: well, I just got home from the computer repair shop. They say that the -dick- disk drive is fucked, so yeah I'm gonna have to get a new gaming llllllaaaaappppttttoopppppp.
PC beggar race
Try running it in compatibility mode. If that doesn't work, try DOSbox.
***** shhh, plz don't be smarter than me :D
MasterFancyPants does DOSbox work for Win95 DirectX 5 games???
Lucas was *clearly* making it up as he went along. Isn't there that scene in the making-of featurette for one of the prequels where the movie's already in production, but he admits that he hasn't even finished the script for it?
Listening to James’ thoughts on the unneeded Disney trilogy we got that ruins the ending of RotJ makes me smile.
I had so much fun with this game. That speeder level through Mos Eisley was brutal.