X-Wing and TIE Fighter are available on GOG!

[chemgear]

I put this in the video game thread but I don't care. I'm putting it here too.

I have physical version of these sitting on my shelf but I'm buying this again. Totally worth it!



http://kotaku.com/x-wing-tie-fighter...ium=Socialflow

Special downloadable versions of both X-Wing and Tie Fighter will soon be released on Good Old Games. They'll be $10 each.


The Special Edition offered here, includes Star Wars™: TIE Fighter and Star Wars™: TIE Fighter - Defender of the Empire, both in the 1994 and 1998 versions!

Star Wars: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM and both Tour of Duty expansions: Imperial Pursuit and B-Wing

[photon]

The GoG links are 404'd now though. Here's hoping against hope.

[CaptainCrunch]

Holy crap, I'm going to have to buy a controller.

You know what game I'd love to see is X-Wing Alliance.

While X-wing was a bit frustrating, Tie Fighter was acceptional. But Alliance was amazing for its time.

[cDnStealth]

Welp... guess I need to go find a joystick.

[Coys1882]

I have a bad feeling that this game won't be as good when it came out and it will tarnish my memories. I think I need to pass.

[Hugh Jahrmes]

TIE Fighter was amazing. I agree that X Wing wasn't as great, but I put in serious time with both games as a kid

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

I have a bad feeling that this game won't be as good when it came out and it will tarnish my memories. I think I need to pass.

I have zero concerns about this occurring with Tie Fighter.

[chemgear]

The links are now live!

http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_ti...pecial_edition

http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_xwing_special_edition

[Bob]

I never finished the original X-Wing, but TIE Fighter still holds up as a fantastic game.

[CaptainCrunch]

I didn't really like the X-Wings progression that you had to complete missions to move on. Sometimes you just got caught on some outright brutal missions and were never going to be able to progress.

With Tie Fighter you could fail missions and move on except for final theatre missions.

There was just something about flying a tie fighter with no shields and two weak laser cannons. But until later in the game there was nothing as fast or could change direction as quickly as the tie fighter.

I got caught in a long dog fight with an X-Wing and I got on his back side and was plinking away, and then he suddenly banked left for a quick turn and I banked left and got inside of him, and then turned into him and turned the rebel scum into dust.

[Mazrim]

FreeSpace 2 (my favorite of the genre) held up really well when I played it recently, so I'm hoping that these games hold up just as well.

[Bigtime]

I'd say both Freespace and Freespace 2 held up incredibly well (and I'd have to say I rank Freespace 2 as my favourite space sim of all time for games I've played).

I know the graphics on X-Wing and Tie Fighter aren't even near that, but I doubt I'd care. Instant nostalgia as you start playing it, just like picking up Civ 2 and rocking it.

[CaptainCrunch]

I'd have to say that the Wing Commander series and Tie Fighter were my favorite space sims.

I'm just a wing commander junkie and will occassionally fire up one or two but haven't played 3 or 4 or even Prophesy in years.

I remember the first time I played Wing Commander 1 and sat through the launch sequence and was blown away.

In two it was the cockpit view with the working hands on the stick and on the throttle.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

FreeSpace 2 (my favorite of the genre) held up really well when I played it recently, so I'm hoping that these games hold up just as well.

Wow....there is a title I had forgotten about. What a fantastic game that was.

[Inglewood Jack]

FS2 was also my favorite space sim overall, though thinking back to it a couple of funny things stick out:

1. oh hurray, another nebula mission...I just can't get enough of these scrambled sensors and the "surprise" of Shivans jumping in to curb stomp our capital ships

2. son of a crap, failed the mission, guess I have to restart...oh wait I was supposed to fail?? why the hell do I even have objectives?

as for X-Wing, does anyone remember that stupid mission where you have to take down a star destroyer? you get sent in with like 2 waves of Y-Wings that get obliterated within seconds (because Y-Wings are garbage) so you're left to take the thing down by yourself, which means painstakingly killing its turbolasers one by one. and then once you've destroyed the shield generators and it has no weapons/escort left, then you just sit there and fire at the hull for like an hour. I'm pretty sure I ended this mission by putting a rubber band on the joystick so I could do something more productive in the meantime.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

FS2 was also my favorite space sim overall, though thinking back to it a couple of funny things stick out:

1. oh hurray, another nebula mission...I just can't get enough of these scrambled sensors and the "surprise" of Shivans jumping in to curb stomp our capital ships

2. son of a crap, failed the mission, guess I have to restart...oh wait I was supposed to fail?? why the hell do I even have objectives?

as for X-Wing, does anyone remember that stupid mission where you have to take down a star destroyer? you get sent in with like 2 waves of Y-Wings that get obliterated within seconds (because Y-Wings are garbage) so you're left to take the thing down by yourself, which means painstakingly killing its turbolasers one by one. and then once you've destroyed the shield generators and it has no weapons/escort left, then you just sit there and fire at the hull for like an hour. I'm pretty sure I ended this mission by putting a rubber band on the joystick so I could do something more productive in the meantime.

Yeah I do remember that mission, but I went after the shields first from the blind spot behind the engines. Then I fired my proton Torpedo's into the big hanger bay and the thing went up like Tinda.

[Bill Bumface]

X-Wing was a staple for me as a kid. A bit newer, but so was this:



Poor Will, whoever he was

[Hugh Jahrmes]

Originally Posted by chemgear

The links are now live!

http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_ti...pecial_edition

http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_xwing_special_edition

Just seeing the officer standing there on TIE Fighter makes me remember all the mods and extra missions I downloaded or made myself. Awesome.

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Yeah I do remember that mission, but I went after the shields first from the blind spot behind the engines. Then I fired my proton Torpedo's into the big hanger bay and the thing went up like Tinda.

wait, there's actually weak spots on the star destroyer hull? stupid internet, why didn't you exist in 1993??

another thing with X-Wing is that I spent about as much time getting it to run properly as I did actually playing. first off I was running a Cyrix 486SLC CPU, which meant I hated all you cool kids with 486DX setups and your fancy math coprocessors. and then it was days/weeks of tinkering with Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to squeeze every last kilobyte of available RAM. when I finally managed to get EMM386 configured properly and I started getting all the digitized sound, I celebrated harder than when I actually finished the game.

[CaptainCrunch]

oh I miss Dos so much