BW went backwards in space combat?

I flew 2 space missions and aint done so since. The only reason i flew a second mission is that I was thinking that maybe that first mission was a Star Fox clone but the others would be true 3d space combat. Man, was i deluded!

If SW = SWTOR then Han would have flown straight to Jabba with his pay off (the Falcon would have been on rails so he'd have had no choice), rather than coming back to help Luke.



Seriously there have been a lot of space combat games, and a lot of SW space combat games, SWTORs ranks very near the bottom of either those (it's basically Star Fox 1992 with better graphics).

It's ok for what it is, but if that is the best a SW MMO can give in 2012 it's a sad, sad world we live in.

Not really? Your entire first point is invalid because you are implying he wasn't on rails to help Luke in the first place. Those rails are called a script, by the way.

I personally enjoy the Star Fox Minigame, I also enjoyed SWG's Space Combat but SWG's space combat was no where near 'more indicative' toward Space Combat in Star Wars than SWTOR is.

I personally prefer the cinematic feel of the space combat over "lol I can cruise around in the vast emptiness of space and pewpew at randomly patroling mobs."

Nope, it doesn't. I said "Freelancer wasn't boring", not "Freelancer was good". I personally think it was good, yes, but I didn't say so in the post. I also did not say it should be more like Freelancer. The issue was that someone mentioned free-roaming in space would be boring because space is vast.

It was very well designed when it came to freeroaming in a huge universe, because it was always something exciting to do. Either trade, finding ancient spaceships with awesome weapons for your ship in distant nebulas, bountyhunting, you name it.

Making such a huge universe and not having tedious travel-moments, etc. is a great achievement in space-simulators in my opinion.


On another note, I think SW:TOR's space-combat is absolutely horrible though. A 1990's arcade rail-shooter with updated graphics? Come on...they could have at least done it better than that.

I personally prefer the cinematic feel of the space combat over "lol I can cruise around in the vast emptiness of space and pewpew at randomly patroling mobs."

If SW = SWTOR then Han would have flown straight to Jabba with his pay off (the Falcon would have been on rails so he'd have had no choice), rather than coming back to help Luke.

Yeah, SWG space combat....that didn't exist until 16 months after the game released in the form of an expansion pack!

Wait, you want to feel like you're playing Star Wars? Have you seen Star Wars space combat?

SWTOR Space Combat looks more like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWt0485uc4 then SWG ever did.