Jedi Outcast was one of my absolute favourite games. kotor 2, on the other hand, I could not get into at all.
YESYESYESYES!!! One of the few games where swordplay felt remotely realistic.
Anybody know any other games that feature "good" swashbuckling? Gothic 2 is the best in that regard, IMO, and Witcher 3 isn't half bad.
In other news:
1) Anybody interested in
Elite Dangerous? I've been playing for half a year now, and I still "love & loathe" it. The flight-model is weird, but very, very good - kind of a "Battlestar-Galactica" semi-realistic flightmodel (there's a top speed, so ...), where you can use "flight assist" or not.
Without flight assist, you have "inertia" about 6 axis - so Newton's first will make you drift along three dimensions, and you also have angular mass, so you'll have to counteract a previous pitch-input with an equal, but opposite input to make you stop pitching.
With flight assist, the fly-by-wire system will try to align your direction of movement with the direction your craft is pointing at. It also stops rotation once you center your flightstick. The nice thing is that with a little practice, it's almost like "drift-racing in space".
I'd definitely recommend an analog stick, though. There are some peeps that use keyboard & mouse to good effect, but ... it's not the same. Personally, I use a Thrustmaster T-flight HOTAS (50€) - and there's quite a few people who use
two cheap analog sticks.
If you're unsure, the community is really helpful and DIY-crazy in that regard - Some regulars have even made their own DIY IR-Tracker for 10€ and are selling self-assembly kits.
The community is generally rather mature, due to all the Daddy-gamers that played the original Elite in the eighties, and mostly very friendly and helpful. There are some griefers, but that's mostly a concern during combat-oriented community goals. There's even an anti-griefer Clan (Adle's Armada) that patrols newbie-spawning systems.
2) Has anybody played the new
Snake Plisgen Metal Gear Solid? Is it any good?