Star Wars X-Wing (PC) - Facets of the Gem
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- A wonderful Star Wars game for PC that throws you into the cockpit of an X-Wing.
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Hey there! Just wanted to drop by and say hello. I'm Rasi, from the XWVM dev team. I'm the one flying the X-Wing in that clip you showed towards the end. Happy to see more fans interested in this old wonderful gem of a game!
Thank you so much for all of the time and effort you guys have put into leading X-Wing into the modern era of gaming. The results are quite impressive and appear to be a real labor of love.
@@DisplacedGamers It sure is. Which reminds me, I have a small anecdote for you. Funny that you mentioned Wing commander - According to David Wessman, the engine for Wing Commander was partly made by reverse engineering the SWOTL engine, so in a way, Larry Holland was responsible for both very popular space franchises!
Wow. We owe him a lot! Thanks for sharing!
@@DisplacedGamers Check out the recent build of XWVM: ruclips.net/video/YAZLjMEY5Ak/видео.html
when's that game coming out
iMUSE was so awesome. It seemed to me such a step back to go from this kind of dynamic music to redbook audio and then streaming audio.
Such happy memories of playing this game with my brother as a kid. We used a Microsoft joystick and one of us would control the keyboard and the other the joystick. It was almost like having a second pilot with us shouting commands at each other!
I did the same thing with a friend of mine back then! He would rest the keyboard in his lap, and I would be the pilot. I would say things like "more power to shields!" and such. We turned it into a two player game.
That is awesome that you did the same thing with your brother!
@@DisplacedGamers omg that's so funny we did the exact same thing!
Wish my brothers had been smart enough to do this :) Sounds like a lot of fun.
2:45 Oh, I know this mission! Just played it recently. Tour 1 Mission 3.
"It is time to challenge a copyright" made my day, man! Made my day!
Love how this guy pronounces wars, like an extra stressing on the r.
He like makes the words rhyme somehow. Star Wars.
This
means
WAAAAARRRRRRR
He's just pronouncing Star Wars as...well... *Star Wars* as apposed to *Star Wores.*
_Wore_ is just how most Americans pronounce _war._ I don't know how A became an O sound before R. Normally pronouncing A as an O is an English thing. Like, the English would pronounce _ball_ as _bowl,_ and _saw_ as _sore._ Yes, they add an R.
Meanwhile, Americans tend to pronounce O as A. Like how _God_ becomes _Gawd,_ and _sorry_ become _sawrry._
@@Schwarzorn makes sense, although the inventors of the language (the English) kind of get some pull on how it was meant to be pronounced.
@@EagleLeader1 I couldn't agree less. I like sticking to standards.
The original Tie fighter with imuse is still my favourite gaming experience.
The best story of any game. Playing the bad guys, agreeing with the propergand.
Love to see a high res version with the original imuse style music.
*propaganda
Actually, there is an upgrade: ruclips.net/video/oEVrdwZ9bEk/видео.html
I can say without irony that X-wing's iMUSE is impressive to this day. Most games, even modern ones, don't have details like that. It's generally just a static track playing. If it does have dynamic music in some form it's genrerally pretty clunky, unlike X-wing's smooth transitions. I know it's harder to achieve this with high quality music, but still, it's a sad degradation.
Shadow of the Colossus managed something similiar.
The trick is to have a multitracked audio format, create a full-length version of every variant of the song, and have them all playing at the same time and mixed on-the-fly for the appropriate situation. I think Zelda did this, but its kinda the brute-force way of doing things. Just about the only possible way it could work with sampled music though.
Still the number one spot on my all time top five PC games list. I remember being super excited to get the CD-Rom edition, only to be super bummed out that it had swapped the iMuse system for actual recordings from the Star Wars score. Nothing against the recordings, but part of the magic of X-Wing was they dynamic music system. Having the score punctuate what you were doing was awesome.
Somewhere on youtube is a video where a guy used something, I think he called them "sound fonts" to really enhance the iMuse music in X-Wing. It was pretty awesome, and something I think would have been a much better upgrade for the game than using pre-recorded music.
when X-Wing came out star wars was something you watched on TV movie night events along with Wizard of OZ and Gone with the Wind , it really gave the series a bump
Great video! Not only was it a good review of the game, but thanks to your closeups of the Farlander Papers ("soothing Dagoban bentaxne berry tea"), I was finally able to track down a PDF copy of it online.
X-wing isn't easy to learn, and quite hard to master, but it feels so rewarding once you become an ace pilot.
This game holds a very special place in my heart. Nice video.
Great video! So in-depth. Your channel sure has been growing, congrats!
Thank you!
I've watched the Star Wars original films trilogy for as long as I've been alive, and even so far back, I was already dreaming about some sort of dogfight simulator with X-Wings and stuff. I had no PC or internet even less so for most of the 90s nor parents interested into the subject, so I've been hanging onto this dream until one day, when we already had a PC for a couple of months by the end of 1998 or 99 I believe, 8/9-year-old me stumbled upon *X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter* in some shop somewhere in London, probably inside a promo bin or something and ended up getting it on a whim, not knowing anything about the game nor expecting anything in particular out of it. It was just a Star Wars game like the other two I had on my Gameboy, I probably told to myself, so hopefully this one will be better (those two Star Wars games were punishingly hard and not very enjoyable I found, the first one was just titled "Star Wars" and the other one was "Super Star Wars Return of the Jedi").
And oh boy it sure was, since it's basically the game I've always dreamt of, and then some, because not only did it fulfill this dream of mine, it pretty much outperformed what I ever was expecting from it since this game totally overwhelmed me due to its extremely complex gameplay. Even though I knew I only barely scratched the surface of what the game had to offer back then, and that it made me realise that this game was well beyond my capabilities and understanding, this helped me enjoy the existence of the game and playing it even more. It felt like being dropped into an actual cockpit and to fly the damn thing and to shoot stuff even though I barely knew what I was doing.
It was the most absolute blast I've ever had in those days, and I'll forever be thankful to this game for it.
Nearing my 30th year now, I played it a bit recently, and I still got the sparkles in my eyes when playing it.
It's so sad that there's never been an actual Star Wars flight/dogfight simulation ever since the X-Wing series. I've enjoyed the Rogue Squadron games as much as the next guy, but those really were broadly-reaching arcade games which never lived up to the simulation aspect of the X-Wing games.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing your story and your thoughts!
It is rather interesting that X-Wing hasn't continued over the years and received numerous technical design changes as technology as evolved. I keep waiting for it to make a comeback at some point.
It is hard to convey the almost magical feeling that this game evoked for kids of the era. Even the little details like the campaign medals and historical missions were so immersive. Sometimes I just want to listen to that old digital music, like the glorious sound of robot ducks honking in chorus.
6:00 "It is time to challenge a copyright"
What
Lol space quest 3! Yeaaaahhhh! Best of the series and nanometers from my heart.
Definetly a great game, and most importantly, it lead to the marvellous X-Wing Alliance
That's the one I played. Had to buy a joystick for it. It's probably because of that game that I use inverted Y axis on everything today still
Your content is a joy to watch. I love the attention to detail. Thank you! I feel like we are of the same generation after seeing this video.
Imuse is really dope. I've often wondered why dynamic approaches to music aren't more common today. Or maybe I don't play a lot of new games.
i remember playing this game till the we hours of the morning like 2am and then going to bed miss those days when games were great and fun on pc and not a money grubber like blizzard
This was my very 1st Computer game on 3.5" floppy discs
iMUSE is amazing, and I've always wanted similar things in all future games. X-Wing, tie-fighter, XVT all shaped me as a person I swear
I remember trying to install this one onto my PC as a kid. Never could get it to work. Same with the Wing Commander games. I was too young to understand why they wouldn't work, I had plenty of other games. Thankfully that isn't the current PC gaming experience but just a thing of the past.
Ahh man. I wish we could go back in time and just... make everything work so your younger self could play those games!
Hahahaha!!!! Same. Folks these days don't even understand the lengths you had to go to get games to run in the past.
Still my 2 all time favourite games are X Wing, and Ultima Underworld. Both games are seminal for their time and are the basis of modern gaming as we know today.
"It is time to challenge a copyright" ... facet of a facet of gems.
5:59. And I think I need an explanation.
Tiefighter was without a doubt my favourite Star Wars game up until Jedi Knight.
Brings back a lot of memories!
I remember the shareware programs you could find online for XWing as well as TIE Fighter that allowed you to create your own missions and campaigns. I used to have massive space battles to the point where my 66Mhz Pentium machine was not able to keep up and it got super choppy. So satisfying.
I miss playing xwing vs tie fighter over dial up "internet" with friends
I never noticed that game but I played the hell out of Tie Fighter!
awww F-15 strike eagle 2.... I played that game SO MUCH
Raiders on the Atari 2600 was my favourite for a long time as a kid.
X-Wing Alliance is still the BEST Star Wars game to date.
X-Wing, The Seventh Guest, Rebel Assault...
Man I haven't played X-wing in a long time.
Of course, Star Wars: X-Wing and TIE Fighter wouldn't have been developed if games like Elite wasn't successful. Also, this game was made by Totally Games, the same company that would also create Star Trek: Bridge Commander.
Yes, LucasArts was renamed back to LucasFilm Games, this time with the main focus on Star Wars games.
I cannot get over how this man pronounces Star Wars
Is he trying to make *wars* rhyme with *star*?
Gonna do one of these for tie fighter too? :)
Picked up a copy of the original floppy disk version of this off ebay, have the gog version working fine on my modern laptop but was really hoping to get it working on my windows 98SE compaq armada e700 laptop, came so close today its booting just fine in MSDOS mode but theres no sound regardess of how many times I change the sound card settings not sure what I'm doing wrong. It's not the only DOS game I've been testing with this issue, I run into similar sound issues running the original DOS version of Doom and Tomb Raider music plays just fine in those games but sound effects never work...
God why won't these games just go on sale on GOG already...
Gog has X-Wing, TIE Fighter, XvT, and XWA. www.gog.com/game/star_wars_xwing_special_edition
@@JamieBainbridge yeah but they're not on sale
Oh you mean a discount. Yeah I've been watching them for YEARS and I think they only went on sale once. See if you can get the ISO from Internet Archive.
These go on sale on Steam and GOG all the time. May 4th will be a good day to check too.
GOG has them on sale right now 25/3/20
Starr Warrs
My thoughts:
We need a new Star Wars flight sim, just like the old X-Wing games. New space sims like Elite: Dangerous are way to complicated. X-Wing was simple enough to be immediately approachable, but still let you fiddle with ship controls and pull off crazy maneuvers. Mods for the old ones are great and all, but we are overdue for a brand new one. Plus, releasing one would make Thrustmaster and Logitech stocks go through the roof since they would sell out of all their HOTAS stock. I doubt we'll ever get one while EA has the exclusive rights (since flight sims and consoles have never really gotten along), but after that time has ended, some smaller publisher should be able to snag the rights.
X-Wing, TIE Fighter and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter all had sprite-based cockpits, but every part of them was tailor-made for that ship, with each readout actually happening on the panel. X-Wing Alliance threw that all out the window in the name of 3D, where instead you have a low-poly dashboard with some random floating vector-based readouts floating in the air. Much less immersive, and is a prime example of how the last generation of 2D was more mature than the first generation of 3D.
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance lost a lot when they left iMuse behind and went with redbook CD tracks. Nobody can truly hate straight, uncut John Williams, but after five hours in the cockpit, you really start to miss having a dynamic soundtrack.
Great video, by the way.
I agree with you on so many points. I feel that if I were a company that manufactured joysticks, I would want to chase an exclusive license for producing official SW X-Wing-branded controls and such.
The sprite-based cockpits really added a lot of charm. The lower resolution also allowed for a slightly more abstract artist interpretation - and this is true of any game of that era, honestly. Rather than see pixel art acquire higher resolutions to use, we basically saw the entire industry move to 3D rather quickly.
Totally with you on the soundtrack. I love me some John Williams, but the dynamic soundtrack can really give you a rush while playing.
Not exactly new or even close to new, but have you ever messed with the Jump to Lightspeed expansion of the old Star Wars Galaxies MMO? You can still play it on various emulators. It's a pretty nice space sim. Not just instanced dogfights or other arcadey game modes. A space sim. You can customize ships with a bunch of different parts. Asteroid mining too. I've always wished for more Star Wars games like that.
Same here. Plus, we need missions for the game inspired by the Dark Horse comic missions and Star Wars Legends books including the Rogue Squadron books by Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston, Isard's Revenge and even Starfighters of Adumar (imagine going up against Turr Phennir in his TIE Defender in the final battle of that book!).
Omg the printed media....oh the memories it brings bsck..I always loved reading the tech manuals and story books like in X-wing/Tie-fighter/Wing Commander. It is too bad the brain drain on kids today....games like these and the Freespace series blew me away. Nw LucasArts is in shambles and is a woke joke, and Chris Roberts is a scammer with the never ending Star Citizen. I guess I will stick to No Man's Sky as they are constantly updating and it is awesome on the progression of that game! Sigh....I miss the 80s and 90s....
I prefer Sierra over LucasArts, but I gotta admit that iMuse was the absolute shit.
Best example of an adaptive soundtrack in a Sierra game that I can recall has to be the Galaxy Galleria in Space Quest IV, which is not entirely unlike Woodtick in Monkey Island 2, as seen in this video... just much simpler, without the transition riffs. It's just various stores' own themes playing on top of the galleria theme.
Oh yes! I enjoyed that attention to detail in the Galaxy Galleria in Space Quest IV as well.
And then came disney and did unspeakable things to star wars it’s back side
MT-32 emulation in Dosbox still sounds crappy compared to the real thing. Your best bet to experience the audio in this game is to pick up an old MT-32 and use external MIDI for the music. Or better yet pick up an SC-55 or SC-88 and set the game to SCC-1 mode.
I feel like emulation for those devices is getting better.
That said - I used emulation to make the video but have an MT-32 and SC-55 Mark II for the real deal.
I'm sorry, the only thing I can focus on in this video is how you pronounce 'wars'
Star what?
I've never watched a single Star Wars movie.
@Zoe Kin Burn.