GOG to start selling LucasArts games

[Jarhead0331]

Empire at War was pretty much Age of Empires in a Star Wars wrapper.

You sure you're not thinking of Galactic Battleground? That series was pretty much a direct clone (see what I did there?) of the Age of Empires games. Empire at War was somewhat unique in that it had a turn based strategic layer and space fleet combat in addition to the traditional RTS game.

[Martok]

Hey, at least EaW possesses a halfway-decent combat system and a UI that doesn't feel like it's actively trying to thwart me (even if it is a much shallower game).  Sorry, but this is one instance in which I will cheerfully choose "shallow/pretty" in the name of getting to the fun quickly and easily; Rebellion was simply too frustrating to figure out for me to enjoy. 

Oh, I completely agree with you; don't get me wrong. Like I said, I played through Rebellion one time and was done with it. If it comes out on GOG I'll buy it again (eventually, probably months down the road), play through it one time, and be done with it again.

When I played Rebellion, I was without children and had a LOT of free time on my hands. Today, if I had a choice between Rebellion and EaW, it would be EaW, hands down, 90% of the time. Rebellion, you'd have to pick at slowly over a long period of time.

I wonder what the mod community might have done with Rebellion, and if GOG releases it if it will incorporate any of that.

Gah!  I was actually responding to Jarhead's post above yours (although I mostly concur with what you're saying).  :P 

Empire at War was somewhat unique in that it had a turn based strategic layer and space fleet combat in addition to the traditional RTS game.

I wish!   

Although admittedly, the game generally moves slowly enough on the strategic map that it isn't too big a deal. 

[BanzaiCat]

Empire at War was pretty much Age of Empires in a Star Wars wrapper.

You sure you're not thinking of Galactic Battleground? That series was pretty much a direct clone (see what I did there?) of the Age of Empires games. Empire at War was somewhat unique in that it had a turn based strategic layer and space fleet combat in addition to the traditional RTS game.

Hmm...perhaps I did think of that. Still, EaW reminds of me Age of Empires. Galactic Battleground wasn't as fun, IMO.

[Ian C]

Empire At War & Forces of Corruption plus the Xerox mod is one of the most fun Star wars games I've played. The ability to create skirmish maps vs the AI with the map editor is one of the better features and also that with a reasonably average graphics card, you can up everything on the settings to full.

[Nefaro]

Meh.

While Empire At War had an initial Ooo-Aww factor at the time, it quickly wore off once I started playing.  I also have it on Steam and never play it.  On the other hand, I probably put 60 to 80 hours into one Rebellion campaign as the Empire, alone, as Banzai Cat mentioned.  Actually finished it at least once and continued on.  Also played it on a LAN against a buddy back when it came out.  That was fun too, but took awhile.

SW Rebellion was pretty much a Total War style multi-layer grand strategy game that was around almost two years before Shogun TW was released.  The most notable exception being that the campaign layer was also in real-time.

[Grim.Reaper]

Also hope for Rebellion (the 4x game)...

I would sell my sister to Al Quaeda for a copy of Rebellion that ran in Win 8 /8.1

I run Rebellion in Win 8.1 just fine.

When you say it runs, did you have to make any tweaks or load some kind of mods, or did it work straight from the original install?

[Jarhead0331]

^I'm pretty sure I had to tweak it a bit, but if I figured it out, anyone surely can. I do not recall it being complicated.

[Grim.Reaper]

^I'm pretty sure I had to tweak it a bit, but if I figured it out, anyone surely can. I do not recall it being complicated.

Great...thanks

[endfire79]

for those playing TIE Fighter from GoG now, does it still allow you to play with a mouse?  Threw out my spare Logitech Wingman long time ago

[Jarhead0331]

for those playing TIE Fighter from GoG now, does it still allow you to play with a mouse?  Threw out my spare Logitech Wingman long time ago

The 1998 collector's edition requires a joystick.

[BanzaiCat]

I threw out my joystick a couple of years ago as it was old and unreliable. If I get these ten dollar games I'm going to have to splurge for a $30 USB joystick with a decent review. Christmas is coming I suppose...lol.

[Boggit]

Here's hoping Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe is one of the releases. The graphics might be horrible now but it had a great campaign. Two of them, AAMOF.

+1 on that! I've got it - but on 5.25" disks, so not much good to me now. Their Battle of Britain, and the Pacific War games were also a lot of fun back in the day.

[Staggerwing]

Here's hoping Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe is one of the releases. The graphics might be horrible now but it had a great campaign. Two of them, AAMOF.

+1 on that! I've got it - but on 5.25" disks, so not much good to me now. Their Battle of Britain, and the Pacific War games were also a lot of fun back in the day.

I had gotten the Air combat Classics collection when it first came out on 3.5 floppies. It had Battlehawks, Their finest Hour, and SWOTL. A few years ago I picked up the CD-ROM version of SWOTL because the floppies were getting fried but that version has no sound when I play. I'm hoping that the GOG's magic wrappers can get me back to listening to those haunting 8-bit tones while taking my Pixel-Wulf into battle against the endless hordes of Amerikaner Bitmap-Seventeens.

[steve58]

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[RedArgo]

I played the Tie Fighter and X-Wing games and loved those originally, but I never played Tie Fighter vs X-Wing or X-Wing Alliance, what's the difference between those and, if I was to get one, would it be better to get these or go back to the originals?