Comparing Every Rogue Squadron Game
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- In this video, we're taking a look at the critically acclaimed Rogue Squadron series of Star Wars flight combat games, including: Rogue Squadron (1998), Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II (2001) and Rebel Strike: Rogue Squadron III (2003)
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Hello! Original developer of Rogue Squadron N64 here! I loved this video but I wanted to address two inaccuracies re: the original Rogue Squadron.
1.) the original game was very much a JOINT collaboration between Factor5 and LucasArts. I was on the LucasArts side along with a group of talented artists, level designers and writers, including the late Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, who was influential in developing the starfighter handling/camera.
2.) the decision to make 'non-movie' levels was more about flexibility and variety-- it was a creative, rather than a "business" decision. If we'd done movie levels, we would have been limited a lot more in terms of what we could show and do. Lucasfilm had a lot of scrutiny about anything that occurred in the same timeline as the films. We wanted a breadth of missions and experiences beyond what the film timelines could explore, so we took inspiration from the series of Rogue Squadron novels by Michael Stackpole and others.
In all of its Star Wars games, LucasArts always strived to make its use of the license innovative and original, and not just repeat movie scenes. We wanted fans to truly feel they were part of the storyline somehow-- just off-screen!
Thanks for this great video. It was really fun to watch and see how much the Rogue Squadron gameplay advanced through the years.
I always loved the fact that the missions were varied and followed its own story. You guys did such a fantastic job with the original rogue squadron and it is one of my favourite games of all time that I still replay all these years later. The sequels (especially 3) veered a bit away from what made the original so special. Hopefully Nintendo are able to remaster/rerelease them someday so they aren’t forgotten.
@@jarodsole2547 thank you! I would love to see a remaster :D
Thank you for making such an amazing game! It was part of my childhood & remember my dad and I going in to buy this when it came out in 1998. Wonderful game!
rouge squadron was my childhood thankyou.
Awesome ! Where are you on the developers picture ?😆 (when you put BLAMEUS cheat code)
The fact that the whole 2nd game was in the 3rd in multiplayer on that little disc was so impressive.
That was probably the best part of that game. Shame I couldn't partake in it due to circumstances.
Was the actual peak wasn’t it?
Playing through the whole second game with your wingman was pretty sic
It is very impressive!.
you forgot that Rogue Leader used the system clock for a couple missions. The Tatooine training has 3 or 4 different lighting sets (night, dawn, day, dusk) depending on what time of day you are playing. The shuttle heist mission has a day version in the Y-wing and a night version in the speeder.
You could set your system date to trigger Christmas decorations too.
That's wild!! I haven't had a chance to play the Rogue Squadron games even though I have them (I have a large backlog). That is truly awesome!!
Man, Rogue Leader just felt so cutting edge when it came out.
In the shuttle heist mission, you could also steal a tie fighter.
I’ve never noticed that! I thought that was random.
The best thing about Rebel Strike was the inclusion of Rogue Leader Co-op mode
does it have the entire game?
@@egg64 It does, but it is only co-op, so you'd need special skills to play it through on your own. It might be, though, that some things do not trigger in the co-op game, as they do in the actual single player game, like some hidden craft being available to change mid level.
Yeah. The parts of the Rebel Strike campaign where you fight on foot were awful. But the Rogue Leader co-op was great.
Yeah. But hell it was sooo hard. As a kid and also as an adult. Especially the mission at the second death star, when your friend or yourself lost your mind, fly against the walls and get angry xD. This Co-op mode tests your mental strengh.
The Hoth mission on Rogue Squadron 3 was playable on the Mario Kart Double Dash Bonus disc! It was the perfect level to show off what the game had to offer!
Alright. That's where I remember that from lol.
Hoth is actually Finse in Norway. lol
oh men i always wanted to know what happens after lukes leaves hoth. 20 years waiting and still i dont know. really, i bought mario kart at launch and always wanted to play the rest of the game
Huh! I never knew. Now I know what I’m going to search for next
Can you make a video of Star Wars Battlefront games.
Yes that would be awesome! I loved 2005 Star Wars battlefront 2! A series on the KOTOR games would rock too
This is a good idea!
@@aamirrazak3467My experience with 2005 was pretty mid to bad to be honest, the campaign lacks variety in play styles and multiplayer is full of rocket spammers to the point where it ruins most games I play because I’ll just get blown up when ever I try to fight someone.
@@randomidoit9605balance ain't a thing even in the new battlefront games sadly. Somehow I still get more enjoyment from the originals tho. Newer ones are just...they feel off and I don't have fun.
@@kamenanew9867 Because I don’t die to explosions every 5 seconds, I would consider Battlefront 2 (2017) to be better balanced than Battlefront 2 (2005), What I played of the original Battlefront was pretty good, but I didn’t do the campaign and only fought against AI. I haven’t play the Reboot Battlefront 1, but 2017 pretty much takes it’s place. The reason you like the originals more is because you grew up with them, just like I grew up with 2017.
Rogue Squadron 1 & 2 are classics, it would be cool to get a rerelease of the trilogy.
Definitely! If we can get remasters of the Jedi knight games hopefully we can get remasters of rogue squadron and og battlefront 2 as well
@@aamirrazak3467 I doubt it pretty, pretty hard.
Disney doesnt promote stuff from the OG Canon
yeah i sadly doubt it as well, they only want to promote stuff under the disney banner. however, i have some small hope seeing as how we got remasters of the jedi knight games, kotor and republic commando@@edwardrichtofen611
@@edwardrichtofen611 I mean, they gave the previous dev who worked on the wii port of force unleashed on the switch, surely the Jedi Knights game can get a remaster port
@@xtremer_daredevil5950 well a port is not a remaster, in my eyes.
It was so cool that they were able to put you in the shoes of a rogue squadron pilot and made three excellent games, wish I’d played them. I wish the KOTOR and battlefront trilogies had been completed also.
Amazing work. Thank you for covering these.
I hope you consider taking about Battle for Naboo and the two Starfighter games.
After seeing how KOTOR 2 ended up being such a disaster, I would've rather there not being a series for it.
Granted, development for KOTOR 2 came at a time of turmoil for both Lucasarts and Bioware. It resulting on turning out the way it.
And, subsequently, it not turning out to be a trilogy.
Or it can if you consider The Old Republic, in the way Atari's Ghostbusters was considered the 3rd Ghostbusters movie.
@@dylives7667 while KOTOR 2s development was definitely rushed and timelines were short and the game was released unfinished, I played w the restored content mod and I think it does a great job finishing the game and wrapping up the story and fleshing out the details. I think the game itself is very good, with excellent writing, lore, characters, atmosphere, small gameplay enhancements and especially story. I only wish we could’ve gotten obsidians KOTOR 3
Star Wars games have a bad habit of not finishing trilogies. KOTOR, Force Unleashed, and both sets of Battlefront games come to mind.
@@dylives7667KOTOR2 was rushed but it’s still fantastic.
I love the whole trilogy. And its a shame that the remasters for the Wii never came out. Hoping so much that this trilogy return sometimes as a remaster collection.
Was it? Oh yeah, forgot, technically all 3 games are still owned by Nintendo.
@@al112v4 Are you sure about that? Nintendo didn't develop the game. Near as I can tell, LucasArts published the games themselves except in some EU regions. And at least the first game and Battle for Naboo were released on PC.
@@JonSmith-hk1bq It was developed by Factor 5 they shut down in 2009. With Disney in charge now too don't think it will happen. Nintendo+Disney is a baaad combo for this situation lol.
They are not owned by nintendo. The rights to rouge squadron are shared between lucasarts and factor 5. With factor 5 being gone II and III are abandonware whereas 1 is for sale on GoG, as is battle for naboo. @@al112v4
@FreshLyte Why do you say that?
I love how the pilots souls still shriek even as their bodies and crafts have been completely disintegrated in a ball of fire.
I remember seeing that forest level in the 3rd one and being blown away. To be fair, it still looks pretty good.
It's even better in first person view, really gave me what I wanted since first watching the movie!
Rogue leader will always be the best. Another Rogue Squadron game that's really good is battle for Naboo which is something of a spiritual successor.
Look, I know Rebel Strike's TPS missions were janky.
But, come on!
Rogue Leader was cool because its missions perfectly built the setting between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It even ties in with he events of Shadows of the Empire a little bit. Which I found cool.
@@dylives7667 and I very much enjoy Rebel strike but it's not as well-paced or put together as Rogue leader.
@@ict113090 I agree. when I first played it as a kid it felt like I was playing in a brand new Star Wars movie.
Battle for Naboo was awesome! These games were such a big part of my childhood.
The entire trilogy was magical. Great memories playing these games!
I love this trilogy. RS1 was the first game I got when I got my N64 (along with Starfox 64) back for Christmas 1998. RL was the reason I begged my dad to get a GameCube over a PS2. RS3 was the first game I remember pre-ordering. The Battle of Mon Calimari was my introduction to the post-ROTJ Era from the EU. I still go back and play these games from time to time. So much fun.
Both great games
Rebel Strike was my favorite. I really liked the mix of the different levels, from space to ground to the on foot missions. It was unique for its time
I'd have preferred more Wedge-centric levels and them going past RotJ, tying in somewhat with the _Rogue Leader_ comic and leading up to the Stackpole comics.
Then again, them putting Tycho Celchu in is always nice.
Some of the levels from Rogue Leader that made a return like "Razor Rendezvous" (the Star Destroyer one) were really fun in co-op as well!
I agree. It was and is fresh, not repetive as the other ones. Besides, it actually has in game real high quality clips from these movies, seamlessly blended into gameplay. This was before remastered DVD-versions were released, so NGC owners got the head -start for remastered movie sequences on best parts of the movies. I do understand that some people like flying missions only, but i'm one of those who actually liked Star Wars Shadows Of The Empire on N64. Good old nes/snes Star Wars -ganes also offered great deal of variety on gameplay. Game like a Rebel Strike never gets boring and is definitely worth adding to everyones gaming collection.
Yeah, I don't get why 3 has such a bad rap. Yeah, the ground levels aren't always spectacular, but they are all pretty easy and at times quite fun. And despite being on the same hardware, they did manage to add way more fighters onscreen at once. And playing the co-op missions was a blast.
I wish there were more games in the series. A modern Rouge Squadron game would be amazing.
Closest thing ive played has been starwars squadrons.
Piloting an A-wing VR feels amazing, although the game doesn't capture the same magic as the rogue squadron games.
Id argue that Rouge Squadron 3 was the best purely because of the split player Rogue Squadron 2 multiplayer.
Nothing better than playing with a buddy sitting on the same couch.
Hilarity ensues when you reach the battle of Endor and the glitch kicks in where Lando won't shut up about buying time as if he's on Wallstreet buying shares of time or something.
He legit gets stuck in a loop saying "we gotta buy more more time!" Like 2~7 times in a row at random.
Cracking jokes with a buddy has brought me to tears laughing on more than one occasion.
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Once I’ve learned how to play the Trench Run in First Person View Rogue Squadron 2, I ended up having an awesome movie-like experience moment.
Would love an hd remakes of these! The first one was always my favorite, but I think I just liked the unique set of levels they had. The second one is definitely the best.
Glad Battle for Naboo got a mention as its basically a RS1 spin off that was just as good.
Can you do videos comparing other Lego games
Really enjoyed the 2 player addition in the third game. My brother and I would play the "Rampage" mode a lot! We even both took out Slave I and spammed so many Seismic Charges that I think we actually caused the game to crash. XD
I'm positive I remember the N64 version having a Death Star trench run mission. I think it was one you had to unlock. Very very fun though.
Silver medals or gold medals on all mission unlocked Death Star level, and I think it unlocked the Millenium Falcon or the Tie Interceptor
Edit: Gold medals on all mission including first two bonus unlocked Battle of Hoth and if you got Gold on that one it unlocked all ships on all levels excluding the one with snowspeeder
What a great breakdown! So many longplays of these out there, but this is a really concise analysis of them all. I played the GameCube ones, but you convinced me to complete the original. Btw, does anyone remember playing Rogue Squadron 64 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the late 90s/2000s? I'm pretty sure I do.
I just want to give some love to Shadows of the Empire. That game was difficult for me, and the last 2 indoor levels scared the crap out of me. And then the final level swings around and blows your balls off with that orchestra. It was magnificent.
I would’ve loved it more were it not for those awful tank controls. But alas, what can ya do with the one control stick?
@@thisiswhatilike54 I loved that game. You know how your brain adjusts to function when you are missing an arm or an eye? when something is not there? That's how controlling this feels. Your bain adapts to the shitty controls, like still managing to walk when you have a disability like bow leggedness. It's like twisting your arm around so it reaches backwards to compensate for the shitty reversed control scheme.
I loved that game too. It...really needed some help but it was a fun game once you figured out how to play it and figured out how to deal with the shitty controls. And who could forget the devastating combination of shitty controls and a map where the player character could just randomly slide off ledges like the game had ice physics even though said planet was a desert planet.
Watching Factor 5 slowly decline and then go bankrupt was the most tragic thing. After Sony forced Factor 5 to put sixaxis controls on Lair and it made the game fail they had been in danger but then they started to make a Superman game and the publisher Brash Entertainment which was founded by Hollywood movie execs completely collapsed since they had no idea how to publish games or properly manage the money. Factor 5 had no money and had to close down. All the talent that made Rogue Squadron was gone for good. Such a talented studio. Rogue Squadron 2 is one of the highest rated games ever. It was insane when you looked at the graphics in 2001 as a launch game for the Gamecube.
There were a few significant details ya skipped over
In Battle of Mon Calamari, you're actually playing as Wedge instead of Luke and for most of Rogue Leader, you're playing as Wedge.
Fun fact about Rogue Leader, they actually got Dennis Lawson, Wedge's original actor from the movies to reprise his role. I think this is one of if not the first time a movie actor was brought back to reprise their original role in material that wasn't the movies. They'd do this again with Billy Dee Williams playing as Lando in Jedi Outcast.
For reasons, they couldn't get Lawson to come back as Wedge in Rebel Strike, but they went the bizarre route of replacing all of his recorded dialogue in the Rogue Leader multiplayer with the new actor they got
Rebel Strike's story although covers the movies, introduces a new character interwoven in both campaigns: Sarkli. He starts out as a Rebel pilot, but he gets fed up when all of his feats and rescues are attributed to Luke, so he defects to the Empire. He becomes one of their Imperial Storm Commandos. You're meant to play Luke's campaign first since his descent to darkness starts there, then start Wedge's campaign where he's one of the Storm Commandos. The penultimate mission, the Battle of Endor, is where you confront him at last in the shield bunker, effectively serving as the proper final boss of the game
Original actors did some voice work previously. Dennis Lawson himself did at least one book I recall seeing on store shelves. Billy Dee Williams somewhat randomly returned as Lando for the Dark Empire audio. Mark Hamill was in the original PBS radio version way back when they were still filming the original trilogy. I believe Anthony Daniels did as well.
Anthony Daniels plays C-3PO so many times in Star Wars and related media it's not even funny, including The LEGO Movie, and the Monopoly Star Wars video game for Windows.
Lawson is also Ewan McGregor's uncle
Literally the first mission was a middle finger to Sarkli lol. He dun saves both luke and the commander dude, and the dudes like "thank god for skywalker we owe u our lives".
@@3DTwinkies That's just so messed up. Like, I get that was literally fresh off of the Death Star attack but damn, he ain't the only Rebel pilot there. He still saved you.
I actually did grow up playing this game. I loved it so much but I still haven’t beat rogue squadron Abu it’s impossible especially with my broken 64 controller.
Such a shame that factor 5 isnt a thing anymore.
Their fault for being too ambitious with that forgettable dragon game of theirs.
@@michaelandreipalon359it was actually the Superman game they were working on.
@@commyzthatdont ...What Superman game?
I played all 3 when they came out and I loved them. Rogue Leader was my favorite. I still think the graphics look great over 20 years later.
Rogue Squadron 2 and 3 still look amazing today. Wish the Wii port was released and wish a PC port was made, as emulating these games is almost impossible
The Wii was backwards compatible for Gamecube games though no? I bought and played Rebel Strike on my Wii that way!
@@Simonskilamb The old Wiis were, but they stopped having that capability at some point in the Wii's life cycle. It's kinda like how the old PS3's were backwards compatible with PS1 and PS2.
9:26
First time I've ever spit out my drink from laughing.
Its funny I loved Rogue Squadron and X-Wing but absolutely hated Squadrons. I think the problem was they tried to create a hybrid between the 2 and it ended up just being a mess. Granted Im sure it will have been me being awful at the game too, which was humbling after feeling like I was good at Rogue Squadron / X-Wing back in the day!
Yeah, even if I excuse the gameplay, the story pales in comparison compared to TIE Fighter+X-Wing Alliance and even the Ace Combat Holy Trilogy and Project Wingman.
Still more better than Battlefront 2 2017 though.
The First Rouge Squadron was an absolute classic. I had the PC port and it was simply perfect. My dad and I would get so excited to play it. Unfortunately, I was a ps2 kid so it took yeeeaaars before i was finally able to enjoy Rogue Leader. Im just sitting here patiently waiting for the wii port to either get leaked or for someone like Night Dive Studios to get them running on modern consoles
The first is my favourite STAR WARS game of all time :)
I remember randomly finding Rogue Squadron 3 at GameStop as a kid and playing the absolute shit out of the Hoth level over and over again. I just thought it was so sick getting to run around on foot as Luke
I never knew there was suppose to be Wii Version for Rouge Squadron. It's so sad because like you said. These games were pretty good for Star Wars.
Rogue Leader is still an amazing game today. I remember when it came out and the graphics and battles were absolutely mind blowing. My fav game from nintendo and I agree it has to be played for more people
I also remember the N64 logo crushing Jar Jar Binks~😏😏😏😏
I'm so surprised that Nintendo haven't done a remaster/rerelease of the Rogue Squadron games. Aspire have been kind of silent since the whole KOTOR remake situation, I doubt we will see anything else from them now :/
I loved all three of these games as a kid! Spent so much time on each of them. Enjoyed your great commentary as always.
I always liked the first game the best since it had its own story going on. Getting invested in Luke's rivalry with Moff Seerdon was very gripping to me as a kid compared to just another retread of the film scenes in Rogue Leader.
I'm glad to see someone still talking about these games. I loved this series and every now and then get an itch to go back and play it.
Now this is some prime content.
You forgot to mention all the 1v1 Content. There was speeder bike racing, at st fighting and dogfighting as well. Plus a ton of password hidden battles that weren't mentioned either. You could type chicken in rogue leader and play as a walker in that before it was done in rebel strike. Crazy game when I was a kid. So next-gen. Still remember the feeling I got from playing it. Overall a great look at all three titles. 5 star video.
Rogue Squadron 3 also had 1v1 head to head multiplayer. I remember back in the day, my brother and I would load up the Bespin map which had these little trenches and we would take chase each other in the trenches.
The bobbing NPC's on strings in the first game wasn't present on the N64 version. This is either an emulator glitch, or an issue with the PC version that I'm not aware of. Judging by the resolution, I'm assuming it's an emulator issue. Great games overall. The first was a genuine ball buster though.
these 3 games were my life, but also not in a good way. Alcoholic abusive single mother when these games came out, but these games were the best escapism. Anyway, don't worry I am fine now and have no connection with mother. also, dont forget Battle of Naboo!
I remember buying this game, then realizing i need a graphics card to play it (first game i got that asked for that). so i bought a card, which turned out to be incompatible with my motherboard, becaus I'm an idiot and i was 12yo. so then I bought a new motherboard, wich also didng work with my CPU, so a new CPU as well. Then the RAM also was too old.
At the end, the only part that stayed the same was the monitor, the chasis, and the hard-drive, but I was finally able to play this fucking masterpiece of amazing graphics (this was mind breaking at the time).
The first rogue squadron was severely underrated
Also you’re wrong about hoth being the inspiration. It was the cheat code where you got to fly an x wing or tie fighter during the skyhook battle that inspired rogue squadron and lucasarts gave factor 5 the source code to work with it.
I grew up with Rebel Strike and always wanted to play Rogue Leader, not realizing until like a month ago that Rogue Leader was basically already included in the co-op mode of Rebel Strike.
Rogue Squadron was lucky to even get a third game in it’s series, unlike battlefront, kotor and force unleashed!
One fun fact about the mission to destroy the super star destroyer in RS3 is that the scene of your ship crashing into the bridge will actually change to show whatever ship you're actually using, leading to some unexpectedly funny ending scenes when I started replaying the mission
The AT-ST was as unlockable in the N64 Rogue Squadron. They might have reused its code which would explain the controls using only one analog stick.
-and I think it did the knees-together thing with every slight change in direction too
I get a lot of shit from my friends when I say this, but I mean this with 100% sincerity: Rogue Squadron 2 is the best Star Wars game, and its not even close.
Disclaimer: have yet to play any battlefront games lol
Probably one of my proudest gaming achievements will always be finishing Rogue Squadron with gold medals in all missions after putting in hundreds of hours when I was only 10 years old. I loved these games and still play them occasionally with an emulator.
I think these are the poster child sof "Old School Gaming", before player retention and microtransactions. Games made by obvious fans of the franchise, made with love, filled with bonus- and hidden stuff just because they could. I think I played the first one on PC but the one I remember most was the third one on gamecube. And I loved it.
Right the bonus power ups, hidden vehicles and unlockable levels felt sooo damn special. Really miss that feel.
Same here honestly these games made me want to be a pilot and I’m pursuing that now
I LOVED rogue squadron rogue leader. Such an amazing GameCube game with amazing visuals.
Rebel Strike: RS3 fits right in with the gamecube starfox games insomuch as they made me shout "Why am I on foot in this spaceship combat game?!" as a youngling.
To recreate the battle of Endor on Rogue Leader is something I’ll never forget nor fail to appreciate forever.
The first rogue squadron was a nightmare. In the levels that took place at night. You couldn’t see the tie fighters. Your shields and health were practically non. I could not beat it without the cheat codes. Some times you lose or die for no reason at all
I love all three games. I wish in Rogue Squadron 3 there was some Obi-Wan vs Vader and Luke vs Vader levels.
8:54 What's up with the broken hud elements? Also it's a crime that these games stopped being made. They were and are some of the best Star Wars games ever made and I still play them to this day.
Rogue Squadron 2 also had at least one other bonus mission I remember playing, it had the Death Star escape from A New Hope, you play as Luke in the gunner's seat of the Millennium Falcon shooting down TIE Fighters, recreating basically that whole sequence shot for shot.
Oh boy I loved these games, rogue squadron was the first video game I ever played and is what got me interested in the expanded universe!
Thank you! This is precisely the information I wanted. It always irritates me that “business decisions” are probably the worst decisions for actually increasing business (i.e. no movie references in the first game and not releasing the finished Wii trilogy). Looks like I’ll be searching for the second game.
We need a new rogue squadron game, new star wars games just dont have the same feel and any flying missions in them are over complicated.
The OG N64 game was the shit man brings back many memories of 1st grade 😔
I absolutely love Rogue Squadron 3. I grew up playing that game. It literally felt like I was in the films, and to this day, it still does. The dev team nailed the OT film vibe
Factor 5 then left Nintento for Sony and made Lair.
Make of that what you will.
Probably a dumb question, but I just want to be sure before making my purchase. Is there any differences between the releases of Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike and Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike with the Limited Preview Disc?
I have Googled this a fair bit but haven't found a definitive answer, which is also what led me to this game. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
It's kinda ridiculous that this series hasn't been remastered for the Switch.
There's something satisfying about staring down a swarm of 40 TIE fighters. And they're all blasting.
20 year old game btw.
Star Wars now: *_sEnD oUt TwO FiGhTeRs_*
Won't lie, even the X-Wing game series have less TIE swarms than expected... though at least TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance felt less absurd compared to X-Wing.
No look at the pc version of the original game??
I still have the first one and surprisingly still works although the label is pretty rough
N64s were so bulletproof. I remember distinctly when one of my friends' accidentally dropped his TV on his N64 when we were kids (back when TV's were giant, heavy cubes of cathode ray tubes), and it left a huge hole in the top of his console, exposing part of the electronics. The TV, while sustaining no exterior damage, struggled to hold a clear picture afterwards, but the N64 worked just fine as if nothing ever happened.
I miss Factor 5 so much. I can't believe they went down in such a bad way. Lair for the PS3 was meh and then taken down by Brash Entertainment
Lair could've been so much more had the controls for dragon flight been mapped to the controller buttons and analog sticks and not implemented the gimmick of the sixaxis. And had the game been open world
10:18 LOL I never thought of it that way! Now it makes sense!
I remember a persistent glitch in the endor stages with Lando's dialogue. he'd just shout "We gotta buy more time! -We gotta buy more time! -We gotta buy more time!" over and over again
Ya lol. Also that annoying medical frigate lady.
Rogue Leader’s visuals are still stunning 22 years later.
Rouge Leader was the best.
Rebel Strike had its issues especially with the out of cockpit sections. I heard they tried to change the engine which turned out to be a big mistake and sucked up all the development time which was why the last wasn't as good.
Its not surprising that they messed up RS3. This is the same studio that somehow managed to make a game where you play as a dragon rider terrorizing the battlefield bad (Lair) and went bankrupt because of it lol.
i remember as a kid, i got stuck on rogue squadron's corellia mission cause i couldnt figure out how to harpoon the 1st AT-AT. i probably was stuck for a couple of weeks before i figured it out, and when i did, the game locked up after celebrating and i cried lol
Rebel assault 2 was surprisingly good on ps1
Still won't change my mind on loving to see it delisted on Steam/GOG.
Regarding the tow cable mechanics, I found them far more difficult on Shadows of the Empire.
Additionally, N64 Mos Eisley looked more like "Mos Quito" instead.
6:16 that battle against the _Motivator_ was the death of me when first playing the game... I distinctly recall clearing it on my last life and with the B-Wing being one or less direct hits from being disintegrated.
That game is basically a prototype for the Snowspeeder stuff that came before.
Heh.
Always take out the ion cannons, and maybe even crash to the bridge.
@@michaelandreipalon359 the only thing that sucked for a launch-adjacent title is that it had 294950 control schemes
Don't forget the tie interceptor hidden behind the falcon! The first game was the best haha.
Tons of cheat codes like goodguytie, wookiepelt, iamdolly, i can't believe I still remember those...
Huge fan of Rogue Squadron on PC , I was so mad at Rogue II for being nintendo exclusive only when it came out ! I finally played it on emulator 10 years after it's release . What a blast ! Thanks for your coverage . It makes me want to try rogue III now.
I wish we could get another game like this nowadays, but you just know if they did it'd be a super casual graphics showcase with no difficult or skill required
An amazing trilogy of phenomenal games. Playing Rogue Leader co-op with my younger brother is a great memory.
Yes
My favorite is Rogue Leader.
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Great video, thanks for the overview!
I played the first one on PC back in the day, but missed out on the other ones. Quite a shame. Whats your take on comparing them to the latest squadrons game?
Your videos are so damn good.
This was my jam growing up. Only thing that bugged me beyond what was discussed about Rebel Strike is that I swear the weapons fire traveled at a different speed than Rogue Leader. But yeah Rogue Leader was the best--I would replay the Battle of Endor over and over. Somehow I never found that kind of energy from any other game with the cinematic feel.
Call me nostalgic, but I think X-Wing was better.
the 60FPS was awesome!
Can you do one for Elite Squadron?
Oh yeah, it’s an absolute crime that the Wii compilation never saw the light of day. Sadly those were the days the blundering idiots running LucasArts’ executive branch seemed to think releasing anything would cost them money - because, you know, it’s not like even the worst Star Wars games typically were just printing money effortlessly. Truly a facepalm worthy era for the company.
Don't forget the final bonus mission in Rogue Squadron II: Enderance. You have to shoot down 100 waves of TIE fighters which takes 3+ hours! Then do it again on Ace Mode for the final Ace Medal!
i never owned an N64 but I spent dozens (hundreds?) of hours playing Rogue Squadron II and III as a kid. the fact that the entirety of RS2 was available to play in co-op in RS3 (with all of 3’s slight gameplay upgrades, iirc!) was the cherry on top. Rogue Squadron II is still probably my all-time favorite Star Wars video game. III was def clunky with the on-foot missions… but reflecting back on it through your video, dang they packed a lot of ideas into III. thanks for making this!
0:17 Sir, I think you will find that THAT is, in fact...a bird vs. camel.
Avgn reference detected :O
@@dodoguy "Judges?" ...*EHHHH!!!*
"I'm sorry, the RUclipsr you were thinking of was, in fact, Jon Jafari, aka, JonTron. Thank you for playing! What've we got for 'em, Johnny?!"
I didn't care much for the foot levels in Rebel Strike. The controls felt so rigid, and the camera was always positioning itself to obstruct my view. I think it was because they were trying to create foot levels using a flight sim engine.
Oddly enough, another flight sim game managed to get it right -- Starfox Assault not only was able to create a great mix of air/ground levels, but you could seamlessly switch between the two during a mission.
The PS2/Gamecube/Xbox Generation REALLY did make it hard to decide for an Console.
Soo many great exclusive Games and hell, those Rogue Squadron Games still look great.