Tie fighter is still a favourite, as is Jedi knight two such great saber combat.

Agreed. X-Wing and Tie-Fighter games (in all of their incarnations) were great, Other games were good .. but in my world it was the flight sims that felt the most 'Star Warsish'

I'd like offer a special mention to Battlefront. The developers have made a lot of effort to make Battlefront feel SWish and I believe they have succeeded. The weapons, the sounds, the locations. etc. give you the feel of the SW universe . I don't think that can be argued. It just fails to engage the audience as once you get past the initial "Holy wow. this in incredible!" there is nothing else. Nothing that makes us want to interact with the game or each other (about the game) apart from "Let's piew piew!?".

It feels more Star Wars than anything since Return of the Jedi.

I find it helps to pretend the Unified Canon works came out in chronological order.

The Phantom Menace - Not the best

Attack of the Clones - Okay

The Clone Wars - Getting better

Revenge of the Sith - Nice

Rebels - Really nice

The Classic Trilogy - YES, OMG YES

The Force Awakens - Good, has promise

Agreed. X-Wing and Tie-Fighter games (in all of their incarnations) were great, Other games were good .. but in my world it was the flight sims that felt the most 'Star Warsish'

I'd like offer a special mention to Battlefront. The developers have made a lot of effort to make Battlefront feel SWish and I believe they have succeeded. The weapons, the sounds, the locations. etc. give you the feel of the SW universe . I don't think that can be argued. It just fails to engage the audience as once you get past the initial "Holy wow. this in incredible!" there is nothing else. Nothing that makes us want to interact with the game or each other (about the game) apart from "Let's piew piew!?".

Of course the graphics are probably vomit inducing now, but at the time, it was really something.

I grabbed the first two Dark Forces games plus Mysteries of the Sith off the Steam sale after grabbing the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games off the GOG sale. The graphics aren't the best but the games are still fun.

Agreed. X-Wing and Tie-Fighter games (in all of their incarnations) were great, Other games were good .. but in my world it was the flight sims that felt the most 'Star Warsish'

I'd like offer a special mention to Battlefront. The developers have made a lot of effort to make Battlefront feel SWish and I believe they have succeeded. The weapons, the sounds, the locations. etc. give you the feel of the SW universe . I don't think that can be argued. It just fails to engage the audience as once you get past the initial "Holy wow. this in incredible!" there is nothing else. Nothing that makes us want to interact with the game or each other (about the game) apart from "Let's piew piew!?".

Dark Forces was really immersive, and is criminally underrated. I loved the X-Wing and Tie Fighter series, but for my money, when the John Williams score kicked in during a firefight with stormtroopers... the quintessential Star Wars experience.

Of course the graphics are probably vomit inducing now, but at the time, it was really something.

I'm still waiting for someone to finish the source port. The dated graphics are far less of an issue than mouse look.

There’s no doubt Episode 7 is a good movie. It’s enjoyable and action-packed. And will certainly usher in a new generation of fans. Even the critics agree. But movie reviewers are not the biggest Star Wars fans.

The Force Awakens, as some have pointed out, does not feel like Star Wars.

With the Force Awakens, there are multiple issues with how it mistreats the universe. Episode 7 callously breaks the rules just to set up the next scene. Things are thrown out the door, just so the plot can move at the usual JJ frenetic pace. Not to mention, deja vu Death Star 3 and total rip-offs from previous Episodes.

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But the most egregious thing that the Force Awakens does. The most unforgiving thing that it does is take away the happy ending of Episode 6.

• The New Republic almost immediately is mired down in bureaucracy and can’t defeat the remnants of the Empire even after 30 more years of conflict
• Han Solo can’t give up his old ways and instead becomes a dead-beat dad–falling back to his borderline illicit activities
• Leia drowns herself in her career and gives up on her family
• The happy Ewok Village honeymoon between Solo-Organa is left in tatters
• The only known, next generation Skywalker joins a homicidal cult and commits patricide
• Luke, the boy too afraid to leave the moisture farm, flees and drops out of society as soon as his newfound Jedi Academy runs into trouble

Episode 6 is the fitting climax to 6 movies, 121 Clone Wars episodes, and 24 Star Wars Rebels episodes. Return of the Jedi fulfills the Prophecy that brings Balance to the Force. The chosen one destroys the Sith. And the Jedi are ready to return.

And then Episode 7 happens and none of it really mattered. So for the next 2 movies, no matter what great obstacles are overcome and prophecies fulfilled during Episode 8 and 9, it could all become unraveled again when Episode 10 rolls around. Episode 7 makes happy endings meaningless.

Then again, the happiest ending of all is a $2 billion dollar blockbuster.

A few things:

• The war with the Empire hasn't been going on for thirty more years, according to the books. The New Republic issued a disarmament edict that forced the remnants of the Empire to flee to the Unknown Regions where they began regrouping as the First Order. Leia saw the threat they posed and put a Resistance together. The bit in the opening crawl saying she did so with the Republic's support appears to be misleading: they thought she was crazy and paranoid.

• The series is called Star Wars. It would be very difficult to show us a movie in the series where all is well, and peace has been permanently restored to the galaxy. As Maz explains, evil will always resurface. Yes, Anakin/Vader destroyed the Emperor, restoring balance. But he also wiped out nearly the entire Jedi Order. Likely the most un-Star-Warsy thing I've ever seen is the opening crawl to Jedi Outcast: "It is a time of relative peace in the galaxy" -ehm, no. It's Star Wars, not Star Getting-Along-With-Each-Other.

• No, please God no Episode X. A trilogy of trilogies was the plan; stick to the plan, Disney! Spin-off films like Rogue One are being made anyway, so I don't see the point. But Disney does seem addicted to sequels so this will probably still happen.

Episode X the Yuzzahn Vong appear and Chewie gets killed. Sorry pal but it is only fair after your partner gets axed off so did you.

I still think an okay plot twist would be the dark side wanted to keep the Galaxy in shadow so the Yuzzahn Vong didn't find it as they are attracted to consume the light.

If you want to complain about this movie, I suggest you go watch the second Transformers movie, RIPD, or the latest TMNT movie.

You right, lets keep all the happy ending in place after RotJ...Republic is totally restored, Han and Leia reproduce creating little Jedi angels, Luke creates a huge Jedi Order, all is right with the galaxy forever. Oh wait, what are we going to make our new movie about?

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Don't go see it again, you right, it sucked.

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Me? I've seen it twice, and am looking forward to going and seeing it in 3d next. Best Movie I"ve seen in a LOOONG time.

Star Wars, through and through!

Huh, I guess that's all true in the OP but then pretty much every movie and book from the EU did this already; destroying the previous happy ending I mean. In the EU it was one galaxy wide disaster after another, although with one notable exception the characters stayed true to each other at least and stayed close, I'll give you that. A few things bothered me as well but I'm going to wait until at least the next movie to really judge it, the Luke thing was annoying for instance but let's see what really happened and what Luke did/does about it.

It is absolutely possible to write a fantastic, engaging Star Wars story that does not take away the happy ending that culminates from 6 other movies and 140+ episodes.

Provided you don't want it to be a proper Star Wars story, sure. But if it's going to be any kind of war, then it's going to undo the upnote that ROTJ ended on. Also keep in mind that the Empire still had plenty of gas in the tank even after Death Star II was destroyed, even if most of it would have been scattered and relatively disorganized.

A happy ending for Return of the Jedi was fine, because at the time it was actually the end of the story.

But, as it turns out, it wasn't a happy ending, not because someone decided they don't like happy endings or whatever, but because the story's not over yet.

RotJ initially ended on a happy note because the Rebels were celebrating a great win over the Empire.

Then they were remastered and the galaxy was celebrating the fall of the empire to the point that they were dragging statues of Palpatine down on Coruscant.

Then they released Star Wars: Aftermath, and in the first ten pages they completely change your thinking on the previous rendition as you realize the Empire is still very much alive despite the death of a lot of the leadership, and the police come in to kill many of those celebrating.

The old EU also had things falling apart rather quickly with political infighting immobilizing the new republic even befor it was properly established. I expected Disney to keep something of that, as it is the way to still have a conflict for new stories, and I was not disapointed.