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You bought games in your childhood, shame you weren't a pirate, like I was, so much fun to be a сriminаl. No logic in buying singleplayer games anyway.
I remember the first time I had a "free house" as a teenager, as my parents went away for the weekend.. We stayed up ALL night playing Timesplitters 2 and Burnout Takedown on the big TV lol - first time I ever played on something other than my 12" portable Oh Take me back 😪
Blows my mind that they've never attempted a modern version of this saber combat. This and the battlefront games playing local multi against bots was my childhood.
Tying combat to which movement key you pressed is messy as fuck. I only got into Jedi academy / outcast this month (specifically cause of the movie duels mod) and the combat is JANK. You have to be insanely accurate with timing strikes in hope of landing a hit. And against groups of 2-3 Jedi you’re gonna be getting knocked down before the animation finishes. Only way to play through the mod is to spam random attacks and force healing and pray you don’t get cut in half I had a better experience as a kid swinging the Wii remote around playing TFU.
@@alexello1189 Maybe you just don't mesh with it. Even the og simplistic fighting style in Jedi Academy used to have a lot of skill expression and some clans would dominate pvp with a variety of styles.
@@DamianSzajnowski this. I used to be a member of Knights Reborn around 2010-2011. you can get absolutely cracked at saber combat with enough practice. I never made it past padawan rank cuz of life stuff but man, good times
God dude, I remember playing this for the first time on my friends Xbox, then finding out it was also on pc and endlessly begging my parents to buy it for our home pc and finding the demo online and wearing it absolutely out, that Jedi tomb level on Chandrila will forever be my favorite level in a video game, so many happy memories 🥰
@@unbearifiedbear1885 remember those demo disks they would put out for ps1 back in the day and they would have like 8 or 10 random game demos on them?
Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast are so nostalgic. They're still so good after all these years. These along with the og Battlefront 2 and the ROTS game were my childhood.
With how the kotor remake stuff seems to be going, and the half assed remake of battlefront...yeah we have a ways to go, boys. It's either the dark ages or the end of good star wars games.
and the force unleashed the complete saga lego the clone wars lego the skywalker saga fallen order battlefront 2 2005 revenge of the sith they were great games too
I think Fallen Order and Survivor nail certain aspects the Jedi Knight games lack and vice versa. There are days in which I prefer the parry system and cinematic feel of the combo chains in Respawn's games, and others where it's just super satisfying to kill another lightsaber wielder with one good strike in a Jedi Outcast/Academy duel.
@@paradox4780 I understand where you are coming from, as it took me many playthroughs to grasp the combat, but there's more to it than that. Understanding when to use the stances, timing attacks, performing proper footwork and keeping distance are part of the process which make duels in these games quite nuanced. I played Academy and Outcast for the first time only a few years ago, so there's no nostalgia tainting my reasoning, although I agree it's not the ultimate and perfect lightsaber combat system to end them all.
What a memory. We grew up with all the Jedi Knight games. My brother and I pulled all nighters getting to 1000+ kills in multiplayer against bots by force gripping them off ledges in Jedi Outcast 2. We never got our hands on Academy, but we did get excited when we saw its announcement and everything you just talked about in an early 2000s gaming magazine.
I remember my dad showing me this game when it came out I was 7 or so and man was I hooked. I sucked at it for a while but I had so much fun. Now I'm 28 and still play it every once in a while on my xbox. Classic❤
This is one of my favorite games (still). It was the “Mass Effect” of its time. It’s a fantastic customizable action/adventure and it’s set in Star Wars. I love how it’s a FPS with guns AND third person with lightsaber. You can choose to be good or evil and it has various endings. Honestly, the story is so good it’s what should have been the sequel trilogy. It’s a mystery that spans some time and covers the galaxy with cameos from the original movie cast.
This is my favorite star wars game!!! Love kotor for the narrative, but when it comes to feeling like a jedi in combat?! This is it for me... I role played hard-core between each fight
JK Outcast was just as good and even better imo. Your right about Raven Soft and they supported the MOD scene. I had a blast remaking my house as a level back then.
This game was so amazing, even just playing against bots was great. I agree that it had some of the best lightsaber fighting available to this day. Character customization was a big deal back then for sure, same with the lightsaber
The online multiplayer was awesome. I remember getting jumped by like three Jedi and I killed all of them with a single lightsaber and force lightning.
Yeah and like how the Jedi Academy in Yavin 4 got created was first shown in the Jedi Academy Trilogy (Jedi Search, Dark Apprentice and Champions of the Force) of novels by Kevin J. Anderson in the mid 90s in case someone is interested in wanting to know where that academy first came from I mean there's a LOT of stuff in the EU Novels but honestly I really like exploring that side of star wars that I missed as a kid before they discontinued it despite some EU Stories tend to what some people would say "jumped the shark" in their own ways
Speaking of the campy dialogue... Kyle: Vjun? Isn't that just a big dead rock? Luke: It also happens to be the location of one of my father's strongholds. Kyle: Okay. So it's the big dead IMPORTANT rock.
imagine a Jedi Academy reboot in 2024 like this: 1. A more stylish HUD, with vertical and horizontal bars. 2. Being able to cling to wall edges. 3. New equipment such as Force-imbued armor and a grappling hook. 4. Manual blocking of both ranged and melee attacks. 5. Dash and a more controllable super speed. 6. A passive Force sense in the form of a minimap. 7. Being able to deflect blaster shots only if you press the block at just the right moment. 8. Greater ability to confront non-Force user shooters even if they carry heavy weapons. 9. Stealth in the form of stealth-oriented Force powers and a lightsaber that emits no light or sound when active. Recommended when greatly outnumbered, but useless against Force user enemies. 10. Remove Force protection and replace it with imbued armor, and remove Force absorption and replace it with QTE when attacked with offensive Force powers.
They’re really, really good! I prefer Jedi Outcast as it is a more direct sequel to the Dark Forces games and Academy is a little more disconnected. Both good, though!!
Nice to know the concept of _"the big TV"_ is just as relevant on that side of the pond as this 😂 BUT - do you call the main room light _"the big light"???_
When talking about the Jedi series I feel like Academy always gets forgotten or skipped over. I’m always hearing about outcast (which is still a banger), but this game is where my imagination with Star Wars truly began to wonder. Not even in a way that kotor did
This game was my entire childhood, and since retro rebound was started ive been waiting for this video lmao. I had this game on pc and you could hotkey any force power to any button. I actually hate the console experience of this game bc you have to scroll through your force powers. But oooh my god the multiplayer for this game just consumed me as a kid. I made friends on the servers and we would get on and go exploring the maps and checking out mods, man this game was just amazing. And jeezus that single player was just a fun ride especially once you get stronger powers! Thanks for the vid matty (:
This game was amazing on PC. There was a console cheat that increased the light saber dismemberment and you could suddenly turn it into a 1 hit kill swordfighter and the models actually had a lot of points on their body where they could be severed.
Same with Jedi Outcast. These were some of the first SW games to allow dismemberment through a console/Cheat command on PC. Rumors were out there you could do it with Dark Forces 2 also but I do not remember and haven't played it in years.
when i was a kid i would wake up every day early to play before school, and i played all day after school. i played it for around 2 years and i never beat it since i was horrible but i loved it. recently, i discovered the pirated CD my dad had it on, i started playing it again recently and i LOVE IT. great game
This game was such a cornerstone of my childhood, I must’ve played the whole thing through dozens of time. It really made me love the Star Wars universe and all of the vast potential it has. Kyle Katarn FTW!
Props for mentioning Movie Battles II. That mod had such a HUGE skill ceiling. I'll never forget getting taught how to saber duel by veterans and realizing they made the vanilla saber combat 10X deeper and more strategic.
Tried to play Jedi Academy multiplayer on pc recently but there are no vanilla servers with no mods, the only way to play is in heavily modded servers with experts who never stopped playing and call you a noob.
@@kevthepoet thats my issue with all of these fan servers and anything "unofficial". not just for this game, but al of them really. it generally only consists of extreme tryhards who have been mastering the game for over a decade and you just get bodied.
@@thanksgivingh6185yeah as much as people say the community is great, it’s honestly terrible. You have to kiss a lot of ass to get anywhere and most of the top people cheat just because they’re so bored and looking for any way to get ahead or get an edge at this point. So many people don’t even play the game anymore and instead just Admin on the servers for that extra sense of control and “relevance”. There are even rules in place that are meant to PREVENT you from fighting as much as possible, to the point where you’re not even allowed to kill people that don’t give you permission; they can turn their lightsaber off and if you hit them or mess with them in any way they will BAN YOU. So you end up with a lot of people just standing around chatting or dueling, and unfortunately chatting is much more common.. it’s kind of like a retirement home at this point. So many people unironically call it a “chatroom with lightsabers” which says too much about where their priorities are. They do a lot to resist getting with the times (on purpose) by actually encouraging “socializing” on the game itself instead of an actual social program, such as discord. Plenty of people actively avoid it to the point where people that have been active and playing for decades and are in “leadership” positions have at times never been actually heard once. The older players will help you to a degree but they’ll also specifically put systems in place to make it take forever or they’ll literally withhold information from you depending on who you are, or simply because they don’t want you to become a “threat”. In other words, actual competition and fairness went out the window a long time ago.
The bespin gas platform is one of my favorite levels. The worst was the sand worm as a kid it was terrifying. I still play this game every couple years.
I remember Jedi outcast on the PC. There was no dismemberment by default, you had to set console commands with different levels of dismemberment. So it was programmed in the game but like was disabled for normal play. It was weird but so satisfying when you enabled it.
Tried to play Jedi Academy multiplayer on pc recently but there are no vanilla servers with no mods, the only way to play is in heavily modded servers with experts who never stopped playing and call you a noob.
He pointed to the wrong weapon at 17:36 - 17:41 when talking about the sniper rifle. The rifle was at the bottom of the page, it was called tenloss disruptor rifle.
Dude! I saw your review for this game and thought it looked pretty cool. So I bought it and this game is fucking fantastic!!! I’m having a great time with it (even with It’s bugs and roughness it’s still great). Thank you man for doing this videos, I’m having a blast 🙌🏻🙌🏻😃
This is my favorite Star Wars game of all time. It used to be Tie Fighter but that really needs a flight stick and I don't have one anymore plus it doesn't hold up on modern PCs as well as Jedi Academy does. As for why I prefer this over the more acclaimed Jedi Outcast, there are many reasons but the biggest is, it doesn't kick my ass as much so there is less frustration even when I play them today.
17:38 if you pay attention, the actual sniper is located at the lower left corner exactly where you have your left thumb. That's the actual sniper you used.
There not a year thats gone by since 2004 that I havent played through this game. Has been and unless they make something damn near identical. Will always be my favorite star wars game
Jedi Academy still holds up on back-compat on XSX. A full remake by Raven/ABK/XBox could pick up the fumble by EA with Jedi Survivor, as there's a market for such a game, seeing as EA tried 2 singleplayer games in a row, & that's not EA's style.
I still have the disks and boxes (and manuals too I think) for KOTOR 1 and 2, Jedi Outcast, and Jedi Academy. one of my favorite mods was a Hockey Stick Lightsaber. It would knock opponents across the room, and the AI Bots would then walk off ledges.
This was my very first Star Wars game, and also the only Star Wars game I had for quite a long time. Combined with the fact that I was huge into Star Wars as a kid, you can imagine how much time I spent on it. It was only years later that I also got Battlefront and KOTOR, which eventually became my favorites and I haven't played Academy too much anymore after that, but I just might soon enough.
This video took me back man. I can’t explain the impact KOTOR, Jedi Academy and Star Wars Galaxies had on me all around the same time like 7-8th grade time frame. It made me such a Star Wars addict. It really saddens me to think about what potential could have followed after some of these games all the way from like 20 years ago . I wish we could have got that lightning in a bottle again like some of these games. It’s like Im reminiscing over a first girlfriend or something for these games 😂
To this day... this game, flaws and all, is a pinnacle of the Star Wars experience that I desired sooo badly as a kid. I'd read Jedi Academy and New Jedi Order books and wanted so badly for a game where you were learning new Force powers and being trained as a Jedi in Luke's academy. When KotOR came out, I used to replay the Dantooine section in the Jedi Enclave over and over again for the same reason. And when this game came out, I was blown away. I still replay this game at least once every couple years.
I used the same 20-30 bucks an exploited their used game policy. 7 days and you get full refund. I would just run through used games and trade it for a new one. It was like never ending game rental
Bro had a cool sounding dad. My dad bought a Xbox original when I was younger and told me if I touched it I would get in alot of trouble. Still played it when he was at work too lolol
Outcast and Academy are loaded on my computer to this day and I'll fire it up whenever the mood hits me. Along with games like Max Payne, Freespace and Vice City.
Jedi Academy was amazing. It was one of the few games I was really good in multiplayer-wise. Must've spent hundreds of hours online on the original Xbox back then.
Highly recommend the Movie Duels 2 mod, adds nearly every character from every movie and series and maps and single player campaign for all movies, plus much upgraded saber combat and a really nice graphic update for both Outcast and Academy.
Gamestop is the reason I got demons souls but I got it for FREE when it wasnt even 12 months old yet since it was used, gave them some games from a Wii my grandma sold on me and 20 bucks got a new copy of call of duty black ops so i could play with my friends man that was a really good day
This was one of my favourite games of all time and I played all the previous games was a hell of a build up and crescendo btw there's a hell of a pc moving community for it
One of the best Star Wars games of all time for sure. Some levels feel too short but that makes it good for replayability and doing things differently if possible. When you have the different fighting styles it was easy to slip through a dark force users attack by changing yours. Recently played through w/ mostly dark side choices but played all light side and ended fairly balanced. Too much fun to just use grip and then lightsaber throw to take them out.
Spent many a night on PC playing this and outcast before it. Didnt play a single minute of the campaign lol Online team deathmatch was legendary though. The clash of lightsabers, the back flips, the absolute spam of dark side force powers 🤣
Yooo there's quite alot of us still playing on the PC version multiplayer, alot of great mods that help keep it alive. And we had a few fun events last year during Jedi Academy's 20th anniversary!
Tried to play Jedi Academy multiplayer on pc recently but there are no vanilla servers with no mods, the only way to play is in heavily modded servers with expert gamers who never stopped playing and call you a noob. They were a holes to the new guy.
I played JKA multiplayer to death. Lugormod, Makermod, MBII, Siege.... thousands and thousands of hours. Played in clans, and did faction wars. To this day Some of us who I kept in touch with get together and hop on a server and mess around for a couple hours.
I met the guy who actually was the one who designed the lightsaber combat for Jedi outcast and academy I was literally telling my friend at work about how good it was and he comes and is like “yeah I agree it’s a good game but I’ll admit I’m biased since I helped make it!”
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You bought games in your childhood, shame you weren't a pirate, like I was, so much fun to be a сriminаl. No logic in buying singleplayer games anyway.
"Pizza and the big TV" boy those were simpler times
Dude.... Makes me a little sad missing the good old days lol
I remember the first time I had a "free house" as a teenager, as my parents went away for the weekend..
We stayed up ALL night playing Timesplitters 2 and Burnout Takedown on the big TV lol - first time I ever played on something other than my 12" portable
Oh Take me back 😪
On my momma, I didn't have a care in the world😂
This got me in the feels 😢
I’m usually the type who says “the past is the past” but man if I could go back and relive those days I absolutely would. Adulting sucks 🤧😂
Blows my mind that they've never attempted a modern version of this saber combat. This and the battlefront games playing local multi against bots was my childhood.
Tying combat to which movement key you pressed is messy as fuck. I only got into Jedi academy / outcast this month (specifically cause of the movie duels mod) and the combat is JANK. You have to be insanely accurate with timing strikes in hope of landing a hit. And against groups of 2-3 Jedi you’re gonna be getting knocked down before the animation finishes. Only way to play through the mod is to spam random attacks and force healing and pray you don’t get cut in half
I had a better experience as a kid swinging the Wii remote around playing TFU.
Just takes a bit of time and practice. Eventually you get accurate enough that saber duels in the campaign are nothing to you anymore.
@@alexello1189 Maybe you just don't mesh with it. Even the og simplistic fighting style in Jedi Academy used to have a lot of skill expression and some clans would dominate pvp with a variety of styles.
Try the Episode 3 movie tie-in game. It's really solid with unique combos per character + an unlockable Vs mode with classic stages 👍👍
@@DamianSzajnowski this. I used to be a member of Knights Reborn around 2010-2011. you can get absolutely cracked at saber combat with enough practice. I never made it past padawan rank cuz of life stuff but man, good times
Brother, you recounting playing on the big TV and having pizza, speaks to my soul.
God dude, I remember playing this for the first time on my friends Xbox, then finding out it was also on pc and endlessly begging my parents to buy it for our home pc and finding the demo online and wearing it absolutely out, that Jedi tomb level on Chandrila will forever be my favorite level in a video game, so many happy memories 🥰
I remember playing demos to death 😂
@@unbearifiedbear1885 remember those demo disks they would put out for ps1 back in the day and they would have like 8 or 10 random game demos on them?
Game is Goated
Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast are so nostalgic. They're still so good after all these years. These along with the og Battlefront 2 and the ROTS game were my childhood.
I just downloaded republic commando. I highly reccomend it.
@@Azriel884A bit janky, ported from Xbox but so climatic and good for its time.
@@DamianSzajnowski I'll take janky and created with love over polished and lifeless any day lol
Even if they don't remake Academy or Outcast, They need a game that combines the FPS and lightsaber combat the way they did.
Not going to happen now that Lucas Arts is dead
With how the kotor remake stuff seems to be going, and the half assed remake of battlefront...yeah we have a ways to go, boys. It's either the dark ages or the end of good star wars games.
Exactly 💯
Dark Force, Dark Force 2: Jedi's Khight, Shadow of The Empire, Jedi academy 1 & 2, KOTOR 1 & 2 was a great ride a quality games
There’s only one academy game, you meant outcast probably.
@@lexxnewton yup
and the force unleashed
the complete saga
lego the clone wars
lego the skywalker saga
fallen order
battlefront 2 2005
revenge of the sith
they were great games too
Jedi Academy still has the best Lightsaber combat and force powers ever.
That and maybe the best story as far as missions and character build up
Played the game for dozens of hours and it always boils down to flailing at the enemy this is some rose tinted revisionism right here
nah revenge of the sith the game, this is second
I think Fallen Order and Survivor nail certain aspects the Jedi Knight games lack and vice versa. There are days in which I prefer the parry system and cinematic feel of the combo chains in Respawn's games, and others where it's just super satisfying to kill another lightsaber wielder with one good strike in a Jedi Outcast/Academy duel.
@@paradox4780 I understand where you are coming from, as it took me many playthroughs to grasp the combat, but there's more to it than that.
Understanding when to use the stances, timing attacks, performing proper footwork and keeping distance are part of the process which make duels in these games quite nuanced.
I played Academy and Outcast for the first time only a few years ago, so there's no nostalgia tainting my reasoning, although I agree it's not the ultimate and perfect lightsaber combat system to end them all.
What a memory. We grew up with all the Jedi Knight games. My brother and I pulled all nighters getting to 1000+ kills in multiplayer against bots by force gripping them off ledges in Jedi Outcast 2. We never got our hands on Academy, but we did get excited when we saw its announcement and everything you just talked about in an early 2000s gaming magazine.
Have you had a chance to play academy since?
I remember my dad showing me this game when it came out I was 7 or so and man was I hooked. I sucked at it for a while but I had so much fun. Now I'm 28 and still play it every once in a while on my xbox. Classic❤
I want a new Star Wars game like this
Keep dreaming.
@@Chris_Thorndyke Will do, at least is better that eating the flop that Disney releases nowadays
The BIG TV 👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🔥😁😁
This game made me love the KelDor Race.
This is one of my favorite games (still). It was the “Mass Effect” of its time. It’s a fantastic customizable action/adventure and it’s set in Star Wars. I love how it’s a FPS with guns AND third person with lightsaber. You can choose to be good or evil and it has various endings.
Honestly, the story is so good it’s what should have been the sequel trilogy. It’s a mystery that spans some time and covers the galaxy with cameos from the original movie cast.
This is my favorite star wars game!!! Love kotor for the narrative, but when it comes to feeling like a jedi in combat?! This is it for me...
I role played hard-core between each fight
As did i! Never went for quick kills! I always did it very flamboyant like, made me feel like a Jedi!
I have this game on my computer. Played it when it first came out too. Such a fantastic game!
Played all of these on PC back in the day…the online multiplayer was incredible! Great community!
And it still is! ;-)
Mostly for Movie Battles II (a very popular Jedi Academy mod)
JK Outcast was just as good and even better imo. Your right about Raven Soft and they supported the MOD scene. I had a blast remaking my house as a level back then.
Yeah Jedi outcast had better singleplayer, the multiplayer is more popular in Jedi Academy but I enjoy playing both
This is easily my favourite Star Wars game. So many fond memories of this one.
This game was so amazing, even just playing against bots was great. I agree that it had some of the best lightsaber fighting available to this day. Character customization was a big deal back then for sure, same with the lightsaber
The online multiplayer was awesome. I remember getting jumped by like three Jedi and I killed all of them with a single lightsaber and force lightning.
I would say it’s *not* Luke’s academy from the sequel trilogy - it’s the academy from the Expanded Universe. The one that succeeded.
The real one.
Yeah and like how the Jedi Academy in Yavin 4 got created was first shown in the Jedi Academy Trilogy (Jedi Search, Dark Apprentice and Champions of the Force) of novels by Kevin J. Anderson in the mid 90s in case someone is interested in wanting to know where that academy first came from I mean there's a LOT of stuff in the EU Novels but honestly I really like exploring that side of star wars that I missed as a kid before they discontinued it despite some EU Stories tend to what some people would say "jumped the shark" in their own ways
Speaking of the campy dialogue...
Kyle: Vjun? Isn't that just a big dead rock?
Luke: It also happens to be the location of one of my father's strongholds.
Kyle: Okay. So it's the big dead IMPORTANT rock.
imagine a Jedi Academy reboot in 2024 like this:
1. A more stylish HUD, with vertical and horizontal bars.
2. Being able to cling to wall edges.
3. New equipment such as Force-imbued armor and a grappling hook.
4. Manual blocking of both ranged and melee attacks.
5. Dash and a more controllable super speed.
6. A passive Force sense in the form of a minimap.
7. Being able to deflect blaster shots only if you press the block at just the right moment.
8. Greater ability to confront non-Force user shooters even if they carry heavy weapons.
9. Stealth in the form of stealth-oriented Force powers and a lightsaber that emits no light or sound when active. Recommended when greatly outnumbered, but useless against Force user enemies.
10. Remove Force protection and replace it with imbued armor, and remove Force absorption and replace it with QTE when attacked with offensive Force powers.
A lot of this is already in the Movie Duels II mod.
@@Jorvaskrr I've played it but it's a mod and not a standalone game.
@@mysteryromanticgamer3336 I know. It's the next best thing.
I only ever played the original Dark Forces and Jedi Knight. Used to love those games, but I always wondered about the sequels
Jedi Knight 1 has the better story but the combat improves in the other 2
They’re really, really good! I prefer Jedi Outcast as it is a more direct sequel to the Dark Forces games and Academy is a little more disconnected. Both good, though!!
I'm glad you mentioned Moviebattles II in this, I still play it multiple times a week. I would literally kill for a Jedi Knight 4 with mod support.
I spent a LOT of hours in MB2 in high school.
I prefer the base lightsaber combat but it does improve the gunplay
Nice to know the concept of _"the big TV"_ is just as relevant on that side of the pond as this 😂
BUT - do you call the main room light _"the big light"???_
Came here for the game nostalgia, left here wishing my dad cared as much as yours.
Yeah Raven are definitely on some niche GOAT status.
A Death Star blast from the past, I still play this game on my XBox Series X today! Hell, I'm on an Outcast playthrough right now!
This game was a head of its time with the combat, easily my favorite star wars game.
When talking about the Jedi series I feel like Academy always gets forgotten or skipped over. I’m always hearing about outcast (which is still a banger), but this game is where my imagination with Star Wars truly began to wonder. Not even in a way that kotor did
This game was my entire childhood, and since retro rebound was started ive been waiting for this video lmao. I had this game on pc and you could hotkey any force power to any button. I actually hate the console experience of this game bc you have to scroll through your force powers. But oooh my god the multiplayer for this game just consumed me as a kid. I made friends on the servers and we would get on and go exploring the maps and checking out mods, man this game was just amazing. And jeezus that single player was just a fun ride especially once you get stronger powers! Thanks for the vid matty (:
This game was amazing on PC. There was a console cheat that increased the light saber dismemberment and you could suddenly turn it into a 1 hit kill swordfighter and the models actually had a lot of points on their body where they could be severed.
Same with Jedi Outcast. These were some of the first SW games to allow dismemberment through a console/Cheat command on PC. Rumors were out there you could do it with Dark Forces 2 also but I do not remember and haven't played it in years.
when i was a kid i would wake up every day early to play before school, and i played all day after school. i played it for around 2 years and i never beat it since i was horrible but i loved it. recently, i discovered the pirated CD my dad had it on, i started playing it again recently and i LOVE IT. great game
This game was such a cornerstone of my childhood, I must’ve played the whole thing through dozens of time. It really made me love the Star Wars universe and all of the vast potential it has. Kyle Katarn FTW!
Huge part of growing up was this game. Whenever I got stuck on Jedi Outcast, I came straight back to this one.
Same
3:22
Bruh I feel that so much :D The TV in my room was fine but when there was a chance to plug it into the big TV in the living room
I used it!
Best examples of force powers
This game gave me years of fun, friends, and inspiration. Mods kept it going for a long, long time. Both single player and multiplayer.
Props for mentioning Movie Battles II. That mod had such a HUGE skill ceiling. I'll never forget getting taught how to saber duel by veterans and realizing they made the vanilla saber combat 10X deeper and more strategic.
It's the multiplayer that was legendary. I still remember LAN parties with this game and later when better internet came, online multiplayer.
Tried to play Jedi Academy multiplayer on pc recently but there are no vanilla servers with no mods, the only way to play is in heavily modded servers with experts who never stopped playing and call you a noob.
@@kevthepoet thats my issue with all of these fan servers and anything "unofficial". not just for this game, but al of them really. it generally only consists of extreme tryhards who have been mastering the game for over a decade and you just get bodied.
@@thanksgivingh6185yeah as much as people say the community is great, it’s honestly terrible. You have to kiss a lot of ass to get anywhere and most of the top people cheat just because they’re so bored and looking for any way to get ahead or get an edge at this point. So many people don’t even play the game anymore and instead just Admin on the servers for that extra sense of control and “relevance”. There are even rules in place that are meant to PREVENT you from fighting as much as possible, to the point where you’re not even allowed to kill people that don’t give you permission; they can turn their lightsaber off and if you hit them or mess with them in any way they will BAN YOU. So you end up with a lot of people just standing around chatting or dueling, and unfortunately chatting is much more common.. it’s kind of like a retirement home at this point. So many people unironically call it a “chatroom with lightsabers” which says too much about where their priorities are. They do a lot to resist getting with the times (on purpose) by actually encouraging “socializing” on the game itself instead of an actual social program, such as discord. Plenty of people actively avoid it to the point where people that have been active and playing for decades and are in “leadership” positions have at times never been actually heard once.
The older players will help you to a degree but they’ll also specifically put systems in place to make it take forever or they’ll literally withhold information from you depending on who you are, or simply because they don’t want you to become a “threat”. In other words, actual competition and fairness went out the window a long time ago.
This game, jedi starfighter and kotor hit all my starwars needs as a kid, soo many amazing old games
Love hearing the childhood memories, Matty. It is one of the many charms to you and your channels, especially here on RR.
The bespin gas platform is one of my favorite levels. The worst was the sand worm as a kid it was terrifying. I still play this game every couple years.
I remember Jedi outcast on the PC. There was no dismemberment by default, you had to set console commands with different levels of dismemberment. So it was programmed in the game but like was disabled for normal play. It was weird but so satisfying when you enabled it.
The multiplayer in Academy was so fun! Met some cool people as a kid just playing in dueling lobbies. Sad you never experienced that.
Tried to play Jedi Academy multiplayer on pc recently but there are no vanilla servers with no mods, the only way to play is in heavily modded servers with experts who never stopped playing and call you a noob.
This series was the best ever light saber fighting. 20 years later and I haven't played a star wars game that was as fun in multiplayer.
8:10 did you know you can charge up the sniper?
He pointed to the wrong weapon at 17:36 - 17:41 when talking about the sniper rifle. The rifle was at the bottom of the page, it was called tenloss disruptor rifle.
jedi academy and max payne 1 was my childhood fantastic video as always it still amazes me that we can still play these games in 2024
Dude! I saw your review for this game and thought it looked pretty cool. So I bought it and this game is fucking fantastic!!! I’m having a great time with it (even with It’s bugs and roughness it’s still great).
Thank you man for doing this videos, I’m having a blast 🙌🏻🙌🏻😃
This is my favorite Star Wars game of all time. It used to be Tie Fighter but that really needs a flight stick and I don't have one anymore plus it doesn't hold up on modern PCs as well as Jedi Academy does. As for why I prefer this over the more acclaimed Jedi Outcast, there are many reasons but the biggest is, it doesn't kick my ass as much so there is less frustration even when I play them today.
17:38 if you pay attention, the actual sniper is located at the lower left corner exactly where you have your left thumb. That's the actual sniper you used.
Was hoping to see Movie Battles 2 mentioned and was not disappointed. Nice!
There not a year thats gone by since 2004 that I havent played through this game. Has been and unless they make something damn near identical. Will always be my favorite star wars game
oh damn Jedi Academy.. The game that still has some of the best saber combat still to this day
Jedi Academy still holds up on back-compat on XSX. A full remake by Raven/ABK/XBox could pick up the fumble by EA with Jedi Survivor, as there's a market for such a game, seeing as EA tried 2 singleplayer games in a row, & that's not EA's style.
I still have the disks and boxes (and manuals too I think) for KOTOR 1 and 2, Jedi Outcast, and Jedi Academy. one of my favorite mods was a Hockey Stick Lightsaber. It would knock opponents across the room, and the AI Bots would then walk off ledges.
This was my very first Star Wars game, and also the only Star Wars game I had for quite a long time. Combined with the fact that I was huge into Star Wars as a kid, you can imagine how much time I spent on it. It was only years later that I also got Battlefront and KOTOR, which eventually became my favorites and I haven't played Academy too much anymore after that, but I just might soon enough.
This game still holds up. Exceeds expectations lol
I'm from Jamaica I always love watching your contents bro. you inspired me.
This video took me back man. I can’t explain the impact KOTOR, Jedi Academy and Star Wars Galaxies had on me all around the same time like 7-8th grade time frame. It made me such a Star Wars addict. It really saddens me to think about what potential could have followed after some of these games all the way from like 20 years ago . I wish we could have got that lightning in a bottle again like some of these games. It’s like Im reminiscing over a first girlfriend or something for these games 😂
You can up the dismemberment on pc so u can literally chop enemies into kibble
Battlefront classic flop got people revisiting the classics. Currently playing Battlefront 2 2017 😂
Or the 2005 OG Battlefront, not an unnecesary 2024 PC port worse than the 2005 one.
This needs to be remade for sure
Love that saturday story. lol
To this day... this game, flaws and all, is a pinnacle of the Star Wars experience that I desired sooo badly as a kid. I'd read Jedi Academy and New Jedi Order books and wanted so badly for a game where you were learning new Force powers and being trained as a Jedi in Luke's academy. When KotOR came out, I used to replay the Dantooine section in the Jedi Enclave over and over again for the same reason. And when this game came out, I was blown away. I still replay this game at least once every couple years.
I still play Jedi academy to this day with the ultimate weapons mod
Man I remember back in the day when Gamestop and other game stores used to be so cool about trading games
I used the same 20-30 bucks an exploited their used game policy. 7 days and you get full refund. I would just run through used games and trade it for a new one. It was like never ending game rental
A small correction: the previous game Jedi Outcast also had the ability to chop off limbs and heads, mechanically Academy is pretty much identical
Jedi Academy is PEAK
I feel like this game has aged beautifully and I didn't expect it to but I enjoyed my last playthrough just as much as I did 20 years ago.
damn, man. you talking about "the big TV" hit me with nostalgia.
Bro had a cool sounding dad. My dad bought a Xbox original when I was younger and told me if I touched it I would get in alot of trouble. Still played it when he was at work too lolol
My favourite game of all time. I've probably beaten it around 60 times. It makes you feel really powerful and gives you a lot of freedom. Great game ❤
I absolutely love this game. It's one of my all-time favorites.
Outcast and Academy are loaded on my computer to this day and I'll fire it up whenever the mood hits me. Along with games like Max Payne, Freespace and Vice City.
I love that you can jump on to almost any surface!!!
Jedi outcast and Academy defined my childhood gaming experience.
Jedi Academy was amazing. It was one of the few games I was really good in multiplayer-wise. Must've spent hundreds of hours online on the original Xbox back then.
I grew up on Academy, but Outcast is my favorite.
Highly recommend the Movie Duels 2 mod, adds nearly every character from every movie and series and maps and single player campaign for all movies, plus much upgraded saber combat and a really nice graphic update for both Outcast and Academy.
Gamestop is the reason I got demons souls but I got it for FREE when it wasnt even 12 months old yet since it was used, gave them some games from a Wii my grandma sold on me and 20 bucks got a new copy of call of duty black ops so i could play with my friends man that was a really good day
Jedi academy was the game for me in college. we would get crazy skins and stuff. I had keyblades, it was great.
The wall running in that game blew my mind.
This was one of my favourite games of all time and I played all the previous games was a hell of a build up and crescendo btw there's a hell of a pc moving community for it
Best lightsaber combat ever
Secret weapons over normandy is a great ww2 flight game definitely worth checking out.
This game is on steam and if you’re wondering there’s a mod for multiplayer that makes it almost movie like
Raven also did the Solider of Fortune Games. I loved those games.
dood you brought up some flashbacks when you brought up battle for volcano island
One of the best Star Wars games of all time for sure. Some levels feel too short but that makes it good for replayability and doing things differently if possible. When you have the different fighting styles it was easy to slip through a dark force users attack by changing yours. Recently played through w/ mostly dark side choices but played all light side and ended fairly balanced. Too much fun to just use grip and then lightsaber throw to take them out.
Spent many a night on PC playing this and outcast before it. Didnt play a single minute of the campaign lol
Online team deathmatch was legendary though. The clash of lightsabers, the back flips, the absolute spam of dark side force powers 🤣
The combat and movement was definitely better in the multiplayer
If you only played the multiplayer, I assume you preferred JA.
@@tFighterPilot i played more of outcast but prefered acadamy
The mod scene for this game is kino. Movie Battles video when?
Yooo there's quite alot of us still playing on the PC version multiplayer, alot of great mods that help keep it alive. And we had a few fun events last year during Jedi Academy's 20th anniversary!
Tried to play Jedi Academy multiplayer on pc recently but there are no vanilla servers with no mods, the only way to play is in heavily modded servers with expert gamers who never stopped playing and call you a noob. They were a holes to the new guy.
Ps4/PS5 Multiplayer is good 👍
100% on your GameStop comments. I loved GameStop as a child bc I could get games without spending a ton of money
I played JKA multiplayer to death. Lugormod, Makermod, MBII, Siege.... thousands and thousands of hours. Played in clans, and did faction wars. To this day Some of us who I kept in touch with get together and hop on a server and mess around for a couple hours.
I met the guy who actually was the one who designed the lightsaber combat for Jedi outcast and academy
I was literally telling my friend at work about how good it was and he comes and is like “yeah I agree it’s a good game but I’ll admit I’m biased since I helped make it!”