Jedi Knight series coming to Steam!!!11!1onezor!!

**DancingCorpse** · 09-12-09, 12:30 AM

Oh hells yeah!!!! Coming next week, I decided I was going to buy it the second it releases by the time I read "coming to Steam", I still have my Jedi Outcast and Academy disks, but my Dark Forces disks were lost long ago, and I never got to finish them

http://kotaku.com/5357800/jedi-knigh...oming-to-steam

Lucasarts announced last night that the Jedi Knight series of Star Wars shooters will be making their way to Steam next week.

Which is a slightly confusing statement. After all, Lucasarts' FPS Star Wars titles began in 1995 with Dark Forces, whose sequel, Jedi Knight, was Dark Forces II. Making it part of the Dark Forces series, not the Jedi Knight series, the name the games assumed when moving onto the later Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.

So I guess what we're trying to say is: we really hope Dark Forces is included, because it probably did the best job of the lot in really nailing the tone and "feel" of Star Wars.

UPDATE - Yup, it includes not just Dark Forces, but Jedi Knight's Mysteries of the Sith expansion as well.

A guy named 2ninjastapedtogether at Kotaku put it best with his comment about it

Dark Forces as well as Dark Forces II? I think my Imperial Fleet just deployed around the Forest Moon of Endor... in my pants.

**Guyver** · 09-13-09, 06:41 PM

Oh God, yes.

I still have my Dark Forces II discs.

**BrokenApe** · 09-13-09, 06:57 PM

kotor 1 just got released a bit ago on steam, and it plays smooth on vista... all sorts of old style starwars goodness is coming to us now

**DJ Ms. White** · 09-13-09, 06:58 PM

Sooooo happy right now.

**DancingCorpse** · 09-17-09, 01:40 AM

SHA-BOUGHT! All 5 of the Jedi Knight series for $20 bucks on steam, that is a deal!

I finally get to finish Dark Forces II and I can play the first one, too!

**Captain Coors** · 09-17-09, 01:54 AM

Cool, do they play ok on vista though? The older ones like JK make me wonder if they will work or just crash out, since from what I hear they didn't upgrade or tweak the engines.

**DancingCorpse** · 09-17-09, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by Captain Coors

Cool, do they play ok on vista though? The older ones like JK make me wonder if they will work or just crash out, since from what I hear they didn't upgrade or tweak the engines.

It should since it is on steam, right? I'm not sure on that kind of stuff, don't see why they would release it on Steam without making it compatible.

**DancingCorpse** · 09-17-09, 02:09 AM

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

Originally Posted by Captain Coors

Cool, do they play ok on vista though? The older ones like JK make me wonder if they will work or just crash out, since from what I hear they didn't upgrade or tweak the engines.

It should since it is on steam, right? I'm not sure on that kind of stuff, don't see why they would release it on Steam without making it compatible.

Looked up the system reqs on steam and it says Windows 2000, XP, or Vista for each of them.

Dark Forces is so old, it only takes 80 megabytes on the hard drive :P

**Captain Coors** · 09-17-09, 10:14 AM

Hmmm I found a steam forum and it seems like its hit or miss for JK although the newer stuff should work just fine. I might give it a shot for nostalgia.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...play.php?f=714

**DancingCorpse** · 09-17-09, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Captain Coors

Hmmm I found a steam forum and it seems like its hit or miss for JK although the newer stuff should work just fine. I might give it a shot for nostalgia.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...play.php?f=714

I really hope it works on my XP machine, guess I will find out when I get home an hour.