It's not for sale anymore on Lucasarts. It was in December of 2006..

Heres to JK!!! YEA!!

You can still find it in stores here.

I still have my Strategy Guide somewhere...

I don't know why I even have it in the first place..

I'm thinking about buying another copy of JK, because my current copy is so damaged...

Same here.

I never played the game.

This is madness.

Infidel.

My copy of JK is still near-mint, 8 years later.

I've gone through quite a few cd-r backups, though.

Madness? THIS IS 2007 so its actually quite reasonable

I still have my original CDs, and they're still playable, I think...

How many of you still play JK?

Only game I play from the 90's is Starcraft.

Now and then. I also play a ton of other 90's games, come to think of it. Half Life (w/ some mods), System Shock 2, Starcraft, Starsiege (not tribes, the mech game), Diablo (walk, don't run), etc.

Well Half life is and always will be genuine, unlike HL2, but I can't find my HL cd.

You could run in Diablo's expansion :O

Also, Earthsiege > Starsiege

you suck at appreciating N64, SNES and Mega Drive Games.

****, PSX and Saturn had some incredible titles too... heres hoping you die soon.

Do you still have the key? Register it on Steam and download it.

I play Doom 2 time to time.

[quote=Glyde Bane]Earthsiege > Starsiege[/quote]

What really kills me is that no one makes FMV cutscenes anymore.

i have like 200 back up copys lying around in my room somewhere

the orginals are tucked away somewhere safe

Indeed. I think the most recent game that did that is C&C3, and before that there's a massive gap.

Does that make JK abandonware?

I gave my original JK CDs away when I got the special edition of Jedi Outcast that packaged JK and Dark Forces.

How is Half-Life 2 NOT genuine and Half-life is?
Because it's a sequal?

Plot or play wise? Or both? I never got a chance to play it, sadly.

On a tangent, Starsiege's box... man those were the days. Thick full color manuals, an absolutely beautiful book filled with the backstory of the universe... that and Homeworld's supplements hold a prime space on my bookshelf. Now we get a dinky *** box with a black and white key card. If that.

Was HW 90's? I still play that as well.

I'd say gameplay wise. The plot is sorta fuzzy right now, it's been a while. But dying and being examined by the enemies in a neat FMV was cool.


Yeah, I miss the old boxes. I still have an original Star Crusader box with the big manual and everything. Those were the days. The front opening ones, where you pulled off the face.

THIS IS MASSAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIII

I meant PC games.

But, it's my fault for not mentioning that.

Pretty much.

Most sequ e ls aren't as great.

Personally I liked HL better than HL2 because it was all a new experience.

It's like eating chocolate for the first time, but then you eat the same chocolate with sprinkles.

Starcraft was released on the N64... :p

No battle.net compatibility = Fail

I will sell my copy of jedi knight for $200.

Mysteries of the Sith for $300 because it includes the manual.

I have the JK and MotS demo CDs, 2 sets of JK discs (original and the one that came with JO SE), and an MotS disc (original). I still play JK on a regular basis.

I don't.

$500 to add to your collection!

I still have my origional JK and MOTS cds, manuals, and JK strategy guide. The discs just are a bit damaged, so I'll charge only $600.

Also, is it illegal to download a pirated version of a game you own?

[EIDT]

Some games I still play from the 90's include JK, MOTS, Starcraft, Trespasser, and Rogue Squardron 3D. I have many more but they all suck. Console-wise I still play MGS and such...

Yeah, I really don't understand this. People normally say the main reason is cost, but video games make so much more money these days than they did back when FMV cutscenes were popular.

You just answered yourself. They make more money because they save in places.

Besides, I thought it broke immersion when the characters in the FMV looked nothing like they did ingame. I'll take a well animated cutscene (Gears of War) over an FMV any day.

MOST of them had poor acting anyways. Cept Wing Commander with Mark Hammillorhoweveryouspelllukeskywalkers'sactor'sname

uh, no, they don't. They make more money because more people buy them. Game budgets have never been higher than they are right now. We're starting to break into the $100 million per game territory here.



Live action FMVs aren't used because they suck. Trying to use them is an enormous design hurdle and it essentially involves doing the same work twice (at two different levels of detail). You can't even have as many of them because game discs aren't big enough, so in order to tell a story that consists of more than "FIND LIGHTSABER IN GARAGE, BECOME JEDI" you're going to have to do a whole lot of in-game cutscenes anyway so you might as well choose the least jarring way of doing it.

This is not about money. Game companies can easily afford to hire competent actors (like Patrick Stewart). The thing is, games are by and large made by competent people who, for some bizarre reason, aren't retarded enough to think 1997-era gaming conventions are worth perpetuating.

I'll admit that I preferred the flow in Gears that in-game cutscenes allowed.

Command and Conquer 3 showed that FMVs are not dead, but when used correctly, really make a game. Yes, they're corny. Yes, they break the flow. Yes, they put actors from BSG and Lost as fan service. But they're still fracking awesome.

That's different, though. So is Wing Commander. They're games that can use FMV to good effect because in-game cutscenes aren't really possible.

That said, page one of the book on effective game design says that, if you can't tell the story without using cutscenes, your story isn't right for your game. The story doesn't make C&C3 a better game, it's an excuse for the game to happen.

I actually don't like games without cutscenes, regardless of how well the story is pulled off ingame.

It gives me a chance to relax, stretch out my fingers a bit, and you can cover a lot more than you ever could ingame.