The Star Wars Retrospective: Episode II

apparently you have never played rouge squadron.

Or Rogue Leader.

It's the second episode in the series and they were focusing only on games based on the original trilogy.

Comprehension ftl

I'd say that Rogue Squadron, Dark Forces, X-Wing and Tie Fighter WERE from the original trilogy, especially considering how loosely some of the games in this retrospective have followed the trilogy anyways. They're already at 2002 and they've missed these great games. Plus, why would they arbitrarily limit themselves to only games featuring the original trilogy, when that forces them to miss out on some of the best Star Wars games available.

Plus, with your exceptional comprehension skills, would you like to point me to where it says that they'd only be covering games based on the original trilogy? Considering Joystiq itself said "Based on the trailer above, we assume it will follow the same format as their first retrospective, chronologically detailing the history of all ninety-some video games that take place in the Star Wars universe" and then provided a link to the Wikipedia page 'List of Star Wars video games', I was lead to believe they'd be covering a bit of all games.

But you're currently on Retrospective 2 of 9. I think they confirmed it as nine. First retrospective was covering the very early games and more notable, the games which only covered a portion of the story. This time was focused more towards games that attempted to tell the complete story of a chapter or the entire trilogy.

Meanwhile, all the games you mentioned either focused on the expanded universe, side stories between episodes, or having no focus on the story at all (Jedi Knight, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter). There are more chapters coming... this episode had a theme that they stuck to. Most games people have listed in their "why nots" don't fit the theme. Patience Padawan, we have a long bit to go before the debut of Force Unleashed, which is when this series is supposed to wrap up.

I'm pretty sure the first video mentioned that they were starting with games based on the original trilogy, and then the prequels, and then games not based on either. I can tell you TIE Fighter is definitely not based on the original trilogy - I don't remember inspecting cargo freighters, helping one side in a civil war, or TIE Defenders, do you? ;)

"On a side note, should I mention I have Star Wars Aracde for 32X?"

Sure, why not?

Well then, I have Star Wars Arcade on the 32X....

sankyu, sankyu

Refer directly to my previous comment. Obviously they cannot cover every game in 23 minutes, which is why it is a multipart series. If it wasn't covered in the first two episodes, it will be.

Well, so far they've gone chronologically, so perhaps people were expecting them to actually go through all games chronologically.

Not people who watched the first episode. At the end of the first installment, they very clearly stated that the next chapter would cover only games directly based off the plot of the original trilogy.

I guess they should have made it clearer for people starting in the middle.

They're going to cover EVERY Star Wars game made people (well, at least official ones), so don't get your panties in a bunch.

The NES games were so freaking hard. I've never gotten past the deathstar after rescuing Leah. It's funny how kids today complain about games being too hard or something and we just took it so much for granted. I don't think I ever even thought about it. It was just how the game was.

And I still have vivid memories of my dad getting me an SNES, and how he showed me was having my eyes closed and switching it on, and all I hear is the Star Wars theme blasting at me in 16 bit glory. Amazing gaming/geek moment...

I remember watching Starcade a long time ago. Usually, the in-game graphics in the games played on the show were pretty basic. Then, out of the blue, there's this freaking jet game that looked absolutely amazing.