Chat corner 3: Shall we play a game?

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week's chat corner!

 

Optional chat prompt

The topic for this week is "Star Wars games" - computer, mobile, or otherwise. What are you playing these days? Fond memories of something you've played as kids?

 

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I'm playing Star Wars: The Old Republic! Currently poking at the first chapter of the Sith Warrior storyline and bringing a Jedi Knight though KOTFE/KOTET.

I've also played KOTOR, KOTOR 2, and Jedi Academy. Jedi Academy has the best lightsaber combat mechanics of the four, IMO, but alas it's not an RPG (it has a somewhat customizable character creation and a choice of light side/dark side ending, but that's it).

[annathecrow]

It's interesting that from all the "big SF sagas" like, idk, Star Trek or Stargate or Battlestar Gallactica, it's Star Wars that has spawned so many genuinely good computer games. That's one thing LucasArts has always been good (or maybe just lucky) at, I think...

[extrapenguin]

I'm not sure I'd call Battlestar Galactica or Stargate big SF sagas on the scale of Star Wars or Star Trek – I don't think they've spawned nearly as much tie-in media. Maybe Doctor Who? But Star Wars is in a league of its own wrt tie-in stuff. It's easier to have good computer games if you have lots of computer games. I guess Star Wars simply hit a cultural zeitgeist and got mega-popular enough to become massively multimedia?

[annathecrow]

Hmm, you're probably right about Galactica, it isn't very fair comparison. Although I'd say that Stargate with its three shows is close enough. Honestly I was thinking more of cultural impact than actual breadth of material...

It's easier to have good computer games if you have lots of computer games.

Well, yeah, but that's the thing, SW has a lot of games, compared to other SF "canons".

(Not trying to have an argument btw, this isn't something I actually care about that much, I just wanted to clarify... and I like to theorize, oops.)

[extrapenguin]

Ah, yeah, I mostly characterize Star Wars as "thing that spawned ten squillion tie-in thingies"/by the breadth of its expanded universe. If it's just volume of official stuff, yeah, more things come close.

Well, yeah, but that's the thing, SW has a lot of games, compared to other SF "canons".
It does! IDK what's the reason, though. Some lucky confluence of gamers and Star Wars fans meant that the first game(s) were highly profitable? A game studio person was friends with a LucasArts person?