Only Three Star Wars PC Games Missing

[GeneralSmitty91]

As I look back in the Jedi archives, the only Star Wars PC Games not on Steam are The Phantom Menace game, Battle for Naboo, and the original Star Wars Battlefront. While obviously everyone will use Battlefront II for multiplayer, I figured it would be fun again to play the 2004 game's campaigns, galactic conquest, and instant action. Plus it's the only Battlefront game where you can go prone. As for the other two, I remember having fun with them as a kid.

[Ragnarök]

I vastly prefer Battlefront 1's multiplayer. No OP Jedi/Sith nonsense.

[NuclearWinter]

Well the original Battlefront is now on Steam so one wish is granted.

[MAriskaDeville]

And SW: Force commander. Not on steam or GoG sadly.

Luckily I still have my CD's and it installs and plays fine on WinX.

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by MAriskaDeville:

And SW: Force commander. Not on steam or GoG sadly.

Luckily I still have my CD's and it installs and plays fine on WinX.

I had Force Commander too.. It was my favorite Star Wars game at the time. I remember it came in 2 CDs and one of them blew up in my driver lol. Force Commander and The Curse of Monkey Island.. both games had one of it's CDs blowing up on my driver.. back in the day when some games could be played straight from the CD and your 56x CD driver would spin it so fast that it could explode. lol

[dprog1995]

I love to get that Phantom Menace game.

I've heard that it was overlooked due to being a prequel movie tie in.

In that game you could rampage everyone in the game.(2 years before GTA 3)

Originally posted by Ragnarök:

I vastly prefer Battlefront 1's multiplayer. No OP Jedi/Sith nonsense.

No servers of Battlefront 2 classic have heroes these days.

[Ironballs McFistPunch]

Phantom menace is one of my favorite star wars games. That would be an Insta buy for me

[Marcos]

Are the snes games here on steam too?

[dprog1995]

I remembered that you have forgotten Star Wars Yoda's stories.(The game they made in order that anyone that has weak PC has this chance to enjoy it)

Originally posted by Omnislash:

Are the snes games here on steam too?

The didn't have a PC release unfortunately Excluding the first one which was canceled but it's 95 percent completed version got release in emuparadise.(But since that site is dead I'm not sure if you can download it from there)

[dprog1995]

I thought I add that we also have some great console exclusive Lucasarts games that didn't have a PC version:

1.Gladius
2.Mercenaries Playground of Devil.
3.Star Wars Episode 3 game and Episode 1: Jedi power battles.
4.Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 and 3.

I hope they port these games to PC.

[GeneralSmitty91]

I wouldn't mind seeing Bounty Hunter getting a port myself.

[dprog1995]

Imo it would become good if they allow you to fire rapidly by holding the fire button.(Since it's annoying to press it every time. similar to this game that has this issue with normal weapons.)

[Kuzu Zonkey]

Oh boy are you in for a surprise now, BF1 is now available. I thought Naboo was only on N64, but I'd love to see a Rogue Squadron 2 Rogue Leader port if Nintendo will ever budge- but I agree I'd kill for a bounty hunter port

[Chaython]

There are a ton of Star Wars PC games not on Steam[no digital re-release]. Way more on consoles/tv/arcade [nearly 100 Star Wars games between all platforms]. Obviously lots of them are not worth playing. but just to be factual. The list below is the PC games that have not been released on steam.
Star Wars Chess (1993)
Star Wars Monopoly (1997)
Star Wars: Yoda Stories (1997)
Star Wars Millennium Falcon (1998)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Force Commander (2000)
Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo (2000)
Star Wars: Starfighter (2001)
Star Wars Galaxies (2003)
Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011)
Star Wars Battlefront (2015)
Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)
Vader Immortal (2019)

Educational [most of these don't have a wikipedia entry but I own some(**), lots of these would probably not be considered games, yet graphic novels are games so, these are games :P]
Star Wars: Yoda's Challenge
**Star Wars: The Gungan Frontier [ a ecosystem sim like Spore; actually a great game(though I haven't played it since I was 5]
**Star Wars: Droid Works (1999) [build droids for specific tasks, actually a good game, though very short]
Star Wars: Pit Droids [puzzles]
Star Wars Math: Jabba's Game Galaxy
**Star Wars: JarJar's Journey Adventure Book [very basic puzzles(match cards), and reading]
Star Wars: Anakin's Speedway
Star Wars: Early Learning Activity Center
Star Wars: Behind the Magic (1998)
......
The original battlefront is on steam, it was a silent release, first on GOG, as it was ported by them...
If you want the best version of every star wars, get them from GOG not steam, GOG helped modern port many of the Star Wars titles, and brought back BF2 multiplayer
Disney basically said none of the Star Wars games are canon anymore, besides Battlefront II (2017) campaign. Though Old republic is in a far different time than the movies, they somehow invalidated them, and though some of the games follow the movies, they apparently didn't follow the movies close enough to be considered canon by Disney. Disney also invalidated most of the books. Where as when George ran LucasFIlm/ LucasArts etc; most of this content was canon if not Expanded Universe. I read several books and maybe put 300hrs into the games; I've watched the movies probably a dozen times, the new trilogy along with the solo movie ruin the franchise for me, as with Disney's invalidation of previous works. I loved Rogue One though, and I liked parts of Last Jedi.

[Chaython]

Originally posted by dprog1995:

I thought I add that we also have some great console exclusive Lucasarts games that didn't have a PC version:

1.Gladius
2.Mercenaries Playground of Devil.
3.Star Wars Episode 3 game and Episode 1: Jedi power battles.
4.Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 and 3.

I hope they port these games to PC.

It's much easier/ better to play the console games in emulators.
There has been fan ports of some games for example Grand theft Auto Vice City Stories, after nearly 4yrs of development [thousands of hours, no studio would make their money back] the project was cancelled with nearly 70% completion. I think one developer started working on it again and at least the map was finished, and half of it was even "remastered". Consider how much work this was, and it was a PS2 disc dump and port to the same but slightly newer engine of San Andreas.
It's not worth any companies time to port these games, they would also need to re-license music, voice actors, third party assets... Just a nightmare all around. Maybe they could make their money back from official remasters, but LucasArts has never been very profitable and it's most profitable for Disney to license exclusivity to EA than to actually support good projects. Factor 5 [Rogue Squadron dev] probably owns rights to the series, yet has since closed down, sequels were Game Cube only, so code is probably heavily reliant on that hardware and there may had been some deals with Nintendo, so it would be development and licensing hell.
Dolphin is one of the best emulators, it plays GameCube flawlessly you can improve graphics with custom shaders; running higher resolutions etc... so what's the point in porting them? Most games have more development work put into the console editions, around the original Xbox release, most games actually had better textures etc on the Xbox edition [GTA3-SA had better textures, effects and sound], Halo's plasma shields had dynamic shaders where if you shot them with plasma weapons they would change colors until they were destroyed, among other things, which didn't exist in the PC version...
Even old games that are on steam that are on console, it is often better to just play the console edition in an emulator, PC games will have physics bugs from running above their native framerate, they often crash, sometimes their graphics are worse, sometimes they won't launch at all, they often needed work-arounds. [too be fair some emulation can too, however most emulators are stable and cross platform these days, I can install a PSP on my phone on a raspberry pi or on a PC and have a similar experience, and I can just drop the iso from my computer to any of those devices and it will play perfectly.]

[RangerXT]

Originally posted by MAriskaDeville:

And SW: Force commander. Not on steam or GoG sadly.

Luckily I still have my CD's and it installs and plays fine on WinX.

Dude how did you get this working? I can't seem to be able to ever get it to work