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Following the launch of the Battlefront Classic Collection, I’ve found myself in quite the Star Wars mood. To my surprise, we’ve never spoken about one of my favorite ever Star Wars games by a developer who I find criminally underrated. Join me, as we go back to Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and explore one of the best bits of lightsaber combat a Star Wars game has ever seen!
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@retrorebound8887 3 месяца назад

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@russianoverkill3715 3 месяца назад

You bought games in your childhood, shame you weren't a pirate, like I was, so much fun to be a сriminаl. No logic in buying singleplayer games anyway.

@MelloTLK 3 месяца назад

"Pizza and the big TV" boy those were simpler times

@user-gl4dx5sv4t 3 месяца назад

Dude.... Makes me a little sad missing the good old days lol

@unbearifiedbear1885 3 месяца назад

I remember the first time I had a "free house" as a teenager, as my parents went away for the weekend.. We stayed up ALL night playing Timesplitters 2 and Burnout Takedown on the big TV lol - first time I ever played on something other than my 12" portable Oh Take me back 😪

@TrynawalkwithGod 3 месяца назад

On my momma, I didn't have a care in the world😂

@wildel521 3 месяца назад

This got me in the feels 😢

@Philosophical24 3 месяца назад

I’m usually the type who says “the past is the past” but man if I could go back and relive those days I absolutely would. Adulting sucks 🤧😂

@Vargles 3 месяца назад

Blows my mind that they've never attempted a modern version of this saber combat. This and the battlefront games playing local multi against bots was my childhood.

@alexello1189 3 месяца назад

Tying combat to which movement key you pressed is messy as fuck. I only got into Jedi academy / outcast this month (specifically cause of the movie duels mod) and the combat is JANK. You have to be insanely accurate with timing strikes in hope of landing a hit. And against groups of 2-3 Jedi you’re gonna be getting knocked down before the animation finishes. Only way to play through the mod is to spam random attacks and force healing and pray you don’t get cut in half I had a better experience as a kid swinging the Wii remote around playing TFU.

@horithehearty5460 2 месяца назад

Just takes a bit of time and practice. Eventually you get accurate enough that saber duels in the campaign are nothing to you anymore.

@DamianSzajnowski 2 месяца назад

@@alexello1189 Maybe you just don't mesh with it. Even the og simplistic fighting style in Jedi Academy used to have a lot of skill expression and some clans would dominate pvp with a variety of styles.

@TexasHollowEarth 2 месяца назад

Try the Episode 3 movie tie-in game. It's really solid with unique combos per character + an unlockable Vs mode with classic stages 👍👍

@lunaticzeroone 2 месяца назад

@@DamianSzajnowski this. I used to be a member of Knights Reborn around 2010-2011. you can get absolutely cracked at saber combat with enough practice. I never made it past padawan rank cuz of life stuff but man, good times

@shadowminor 3 месяца назад

Even if they don't remake Academy or Outcast, They need a game that combines the FPS and lightsaber combat the way they did.

@matthewschneider8075 2 месяца назад

Not going to happen now that Lucas Arts is dead

@hajsh67 2 месяца назад

With how the kotor remake stuff seems to be going, and the half assed remake of battlefront...yeah we have a ways to go, boys. It's either the dark ages or the end of good star wars games.

@Obscur888 3 месяца назад

Dark Force, Dark Force 2: Jedi's Khight, Shadow of The Empire, Jedi academy 1 & 2, KOTOR 1 & 2 was a great ride a quality games

@lexxnewton 3 месяца назад

There’s only one academy game, you meant outcast probably.

@Obscur888 3 месяца назад

@@lexxnewton yup

@alanmathias6706 24 дня назад

and the force unleashed the complete saga lego the clone wars lego the skywalker saga fallen order battlefront 2 2005 revenge of the sith they were great games too

@Browneyedbakedpotato 3 месяца назад

God dude, I remember playing this for the first time on my friends Xbox, then finding out it was also on pc and endlessly begging my parents to buy it for our home pc and finding the demo online and wearing it absolutely out, that Jedi tomb level on Chandrila will forever be my favorite level in a video game, so many happy memories 🥰

@unbearifiedbear1885 3 месяца назад

I remember playing demos to death 😂

@DudiestPriest 2 месяца назад

@@unbearifiedbear1885 remember those demo disks they would put out for ps1 back in the day and they would have like 8 or 10 random game demos on them?

@matthewdeguire472 3 месяца назад

Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast are so nostalgic. They're still so good after all these years. These along with the og Battlefront 2 and the ROTS game were my childhood.

@Azriel884 3 месяца назад

I just downloaded republic commando. I highly reccomend it.

@DamianSzajnowski 2 месяца назад

@@Azriel884A bit janky, ported from Xbox but so climatic and good for its time.

@hajsh67 2 месяца назад

@@DamianSzajnowski I'll take janky and created with love over polished and lifeless any day lol

@jesusayon1583 3 месяца назад

Brother, you recounting playing on the big TV and having pizza, speaks to my soul.

@AlfredFJones1776 3 месяца назад

Jedi Academy still has the best Lightsaber combat and force powers ever.

@GrittyIke 3 месяца назад

That and maybe the best story as far as missions and character build up

@paradox4780 3 месяца назад

Played the game for dozens of hours and it always boils down to flailing at the enemy this is some rose tinted revisionism right here

@ShadowsP40 3 месяца назад

nah revenge of the sith the game, this is second

@Dass_Jennir 3 месяца назад

I think Fallen Order and Survivor nail certain aspects the Jedi Knight games lack and vice versa. There are days in which I prefer the parry system and cinematic feel of the combo chains in Respawn's games, and others where it's just super satisfying to kill another lightsaber wielder with one good strike in a Jedi Outcast/Academy duel.

@Dass_Jennir 3 месяца назад

@@paradox4780 I understand where you are coming from, as it took me many playthroughs to grasp the combat, but there's more to it than that. Understanding when to use the stances, timing attacks, performing proper footwork and keeping distance are part of the process which make duels in these games quite nuanced. I played Academy and Outcast for the first time only a few years ago, so there's no nostalgia tainting my reasoning, although I agree it's not the ultimate and perfect lightsaber combat system to end them all.

@FabuBrik 2 месяца назад

Came here for the game nostalgia, left here wishing my dad cared as much as yours.

@MaxPainMSF 3 месяца назад

The BIG TV 👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🔥😁😁

@gravynog 3 месяца назад

I would say it’s *not* Luke’s academy from the sequel trilogy - it’s the academy from the Expanded Universe. The one that succeeded. The real one.

@JelloFluoride 2 месяца назад

Props for mentioning Movie Battles II. That mod had such a HUGE skill ceiling. I'll never forget getting taught how to saber duel by veterans and realizing they made the vanilla saber combat 10X deeper and more strategic.

@Edward-fy6bt 3 месяца назад

I want a new Star Wars game like this

@Abeloth_the_Devourer 2 месяца назад

Keep dreaming.

@carlosplata3899 2 месяца назад

@@Abeloth_the_Devourer Will do, at least is better that eating the flop that Disney releases nowadays

@JayImahara 3 месяца назад

What a memory. We grew up with all the Jedi Knight games. My brother and I pulled all nighters getting to 1000+ kills in multiplayer against bots by force gripping them off ledges in Jedi Outcast 2. We never got our hands on Academy, but we did get excited when we saw its announcement and everything you just talked about in an early 2000s gaming magazine.

@zixise 3 месяца назад

Have you had a chance to play academy since?

@ppineapple2737 3 месяца назад

The online multiplayer was awesome. I remember getting jumped by like three Jedi and I killed all of them with a single lightsaber and force lightning.

@darkjedilobo6297 3 месяца назад

This is my favorite star wars game!!! Love kotor for the narrative, but when it comes to feeling like a jedi in combat?! This is it for me... I role played hard-core between each fight

@matttyree1002 3 месяца назад

I only ever played the original Dark Forces and Jedi Knight. Used to love those games, but I always wondered about the sequels

@RetroSmoo 3 месяца назад

Jedi Knight 1 has the better story but the combat improves in the other 2

@doomguyplays Месяц назад

They’re really, really good! I prefer Jedi Outcast as it is a more direct sequel to the Dark Forces games and Academy is a little more disconnected. Both good, though!!

@devinx10 3 месяца назад

I remember my dad showing me this game when it came out I was 7 or so and man was I hooked. I sucked at it for a while but I had so much fun. Now I'm 28 and still play it every once in a while on my xbox. Classic❤

@lewiscawthorn1179 2 месяца назад

This is easily my favourite Star Wars game. So many fond memories of this one.

@AFatOcelot 3 месяца назад

This game was so amazing, even just playing against bots was great. I agree that it had some of the best lightsaber fighting available to this day. Character customization was a big deal back then for sure, same with the lightsaber

@Azriel884 3 месяца назад

I have this game on my computer. Played it when it first came out too. Such a fantastic game!

@patrickjones2843 3 месяца назад

JK Outcast was just as good and even better imo. Your right about Raven Soft and they supported the MOD scene. I had a blast remaking my house as a level back then.

@RetroSmoo 3 месяца назад

Yeah Jedi outcast had better singleplayer, the multiplayer is more popular in Jedi Academy but I enjoy playing both

@skippyzk 3 месяца назад

Best examples of force powers

@SimplyNotReally 3 месяца назад

This game was my entire childhood, and since retro rebound was started ive been waiting for this video lmao. I had this game on pc and you could hotkey any force power to any button. I actually hate the console experience of this game bc you have to scroll through your force powers. But oooh my god the multiplayer for this game just consumed me as a kid. I made friends on the servers and we would get on and go exploring the maps and checking out mods, man this game was just amazing. And jeezus that single player was just a fun ride especially once you get stronger powers! Thanks for the vid matty (:

@UltimateInkling 3 месяца назад

This game was a head of its time with the combat, easily my favorite star wars game.

@ryan7625 3 месяца назад

Love hearing the childhood memories, Matty. It is one of the many charms to you and your channels, especially here on RR.

@andykettler3301 2 месяца назад

Played all of these on PC back in the day…the online multiplayer was incredible! Great community!

@igorthelight 2 месяца назад

And it still is! ;-) Mostly for Movie Battles II (a very popular Jedi Academy mod)

@DarthJokerFett 2 месяца назад

This game was such a cornerstone of my childhood, I must’ve played the whole thing through dozens of time. It really made me love the Star Wars universe and all of the vast potential it has. Kyle Katarn FTW!

@Thoughtlesswizard 3 месяца назад

When talking about the Jedi series I feel like Academy always gets forgotten or skipped over. I’m always hearing about outcast (which is still a banger), but this game is where my imagination with Star Wars truly began to wonder. Not even in a way that kotor did

@storm3733 2 месяца назад

Was hoping to see Movie Battles 2 mentioned and was not disappointed. Nice!

@Rushv0 3 месяца назад

I'm glad you mentioned Moviebattles II in this, I still play it multiple times a week. I would literally kill for a Jedi Knight 4 with mod support.

@the_iron_rook9291 3 месяца назад

I spent a LOT of hours in MB2 in high school.

@RetroSmoo 3 месяца назад

I prefer the base lightsaber combat but it does improve the gunplay

@elblah9721 3 месяца назад

Jedi Academy still holds up on back-compat on XSX. A full remake by Raven/ABK/XBox could pick up the fumble by EA with Jedi Survivor, as there's a market for such a game, seeing as EA tried 2 singleplayer games in a row, & that's not EA's style.

@astronot1578 3 месяца назад

8:10 did you know you can charge up the sniper?

@whitewolf3051 3 месяца назад

He pointed to the wrong weapon at 17:36 - 17:41 when talking about the sniper rifle. The rifle was at the bottom of the page, it was called tenloss disruptor rifle.

@deadeye4047 3 месяца назад

A Death Star blast from the past, I still play this game on my XBox Series X today! Hell, I'm on an Outcast playthrough right now!

@unbearifiedbear1885 3 месяца назад

Nice to know the concept of _"the big TV"_ is just as relevant on that side of the pond as this 😂 BUT - do you call the main room light _"the big light"???_

@markula_4040 3 месяца назад

This is my favorite Star Wars game of all time. It used to be Tie Fighter but that really needs a flight stick and I don't have one anymore plus it doesn't hold up on modern PCs as well as Jedi Academy does. As for why I prefer this over the more acclaimed Jedi Outcast, there are many reasons but the biggest is, it doesn't kick my ass as much so there is less frustration even when I play them today.

@uimasterroshi171 2 месяца назад

3:22 Bruh I feel that so much :D The TV in my room was fine but when there was a chance to plug it into the big TV in the living room I used it!

@captainfach 3 месяца назад

Man I remember back in the day when Gamestop and other game stores used to be so cool about trading games

@MaynardOwns 3 месяца назад

I used the same 20-30 bucks an exploited their used game policy. 7 days and you get full refund. I would just run through used games and trade it for a new one. It was like never ending game rental

@Neccrid 2 месяца назад

This video took me back man. I can’t explain the impact KOTOR, Jedi Academy and Star Wars Galaxies had on me all around the same time like 7-8th grade time frame. It made me such a Star Wars addict. It really saddens me to think about what potential could have followed after some of these games all the way from like 20 years ago . I wish we could have got that lightning in a bottle again like some of these games. It’s like Im reminiscing over a first girlfriend or something for these games 😂

@jerrodwatts55 3 месяца назад

Love that saturday story. lol

@T3hG4m3rz43v3r 2 месяца назад

Huge part of growing up was this game. Whenever I got stuck on Jedi Outcast, I came straight back to this one.

@jessicasuzanne___ 2 месяца назад

Same

@OrbitGametv 3 месяца назад

I'm from Jamaica I always love watching your contents bro. you inspired me.

@25xxfrostxx 2 месяца назад

This game was amazing on PC. There was a console cheat that increased the light saber dismemberment and you could suddenly turn it into a 1 hit kill swordfighter and the models actually had a lot of points on their body where they could be severed.

@DraxGal_Art 2 месяца назад

Dude! I saw your review for this game and thought it looked pretty cool. So I bought it and this game is fucking fantastic!!! I’m having a great time with it (even with It’s bugs and roughness it’s still great). Thank you man for doing this videos, I’m having a blast 🙌🏻🙌🏻😃

@seamoretwillnant 3 месяца назад

To this day... this game, flaws and all, is a pinnacle of the Star Wars experience that I desired sooo badly as a kid. I'd read Jedi Academy and New Jedi Order books and wanted so badly for a game where you were learning new Force powers and being trained as a Jedi in Luke's academy. When KotOR came out, I used to replay the Dantooine section in the Jedi Enclave over and over again for the same reason. And when this game came out, I was blown away. I still replay this game at least once every couple years.

@joshuaknox2724 22 дня назад

jedi academy and max payne 1 was my childhood fantastic video as always it still amazes me that we can still play these games in 2024

@klemenhrovat1281 3 месяца назад

It's the multiplayer that was legendary. I still remember LAN parties with this game and later when better internet came, online multiplayer.

@kevthepoet 2 месяца назад

Tried to play Jedi Academy multiplayer on pc recently but there are no vanilla servers with no mods, the only way to play is in heavily modded servers with experts who never stopped playing and call you a noob.

@thanksgivingh6185 2 месяца назад

@@kevthepoet thats my issue with all of these fan servers and anything "unofficial". not just for this game, but al of them really. it generally only consists of extreme tryhards who have been mastering the game for over a decade and you just get bodied.

@richardpires9839 2 месяца назад

17:38 if you pay attention, the actual sniper is located at the lower left corner exactly where you have your left thumb. That's the actual sniper you used.

@MentalMachine 3 месяца назад

This game still holds up. Exceeds expectations lol

@YourArmsGone 2 месяца назад

The bespin gas platform is one of my favorite levels. The worst was the sand worm as a kid it was terrifying. I still play this game every couple years.

@kai7692 3 месяца назад

This game, jedi starfighter and kotor hit all my starwars needs as a kid, soo many amazing old games

@EliezerGenX1975 3 месяца назад

Battlefront classic flop got people revisiting the classics. Currently playing Battlefront 2 2017 😂

@saricubra2867 3 месяца назад

Or the 2005 OG Battlefront, not an unnecesary 2024 PC port worse than the 2005 one.

@ponchoeflich 3 месяца назад

This needs to be remade for sure

@radicalcentrist4990 3 месяца назад

This was my very first Star Wars game, and also the only Star Wars game I had for quite a long time. Combined with the fact that I was huge into Star Wars as a kid, you can imagine how much time I spent on it. It was only years later that I also got Battlefront and KOTOR, which eventually became my favorites and I haven't played Academy too much anymore after that, but I just might soon enough.

@TomSmith-ll2lp 2 месяца назад

Speaking of the campy dialogue... Kyle: Vjun? Isn't that just a big dead rock? Luke: It also happens to be the location of one of my father's strongholds. Kyle: Okay. So it's the big dead IMPORTANT rock.

@RiderZer0 2 месяца назад

I remember Jedi outcast on the PC. There was no dismemberment by default, you had to set console commands with different levels of dismemberment. So it was programmed in the game but like was disabled for normal play. It was weird but so satisfying when you enabled it.

@erikbo2128 3 месяца назад

I absolutely love this game. It's one of my all-time favorites.

@ArkngthandArchive 2 месяца назад

A small correction: the previous game Jedi Outcast also had the ability to chop off limbs and heads, mechanically Academy is pretty much identical

@TheCautiousFellow Месяц назад

I feel like this game has aged beautifully and I didn't expect it to but I enjoyed my last playthrough just as much as I did 20 years ago.

@GIJoke666 3 месяца назад

Any Lugormod vets arround? I loved this game *_*

@lordspyro5983 3 месяца назад

I still play Jedi academy to this day with the ultimate weapons mod

@kyleriley7835 3 месяца назад

Jedi outcast and Academy defined my childhood gaming experience.

@mangodango1733 3 месяца назад

Gamestop is the reason I got demons souls but I got it for FREE when it wasnt even 12 months old yet since it was used, gave them some games from a Wii my grandma sold on me and 20 bucks got a new copy of call of duty black ops so i could play with my friends man that was a really good day

@FelixGameRoom 2 месяца назад

My favourite game of all time. I've probably beaten it around 60 times. It makes you feel really powerful and gives you a lot of freedom. Great game ❤

@BigMooseHoe 3 месяца назад

One of the most surprising hidden gems of the og Xbox era for me. I remember renting it on a whim and blowing through it over a weekend. So good.

@smkeybare 3 месяца назад

The multiplayer in Academy was so fun! Met some cool people as a kid just playing in dueling lobbies. Sad you never experienced that.

@kevthepoet 2 месяца назад

@jasonfabrick9308 2 месяца назад

I still have the disks and boxes (and manuals too I think) for KOTOR 1 and 2, Jedi Outcast, and Jedi Academy. one of my favorite mods was a Hockey Stick Lightsaber. It would knock opponents across the room, and the AI Bots would then walk off ledges.

@gawainethefirst 3 месяца назад

The wall running in that game blew my mind.

@CoraValentine1999 3 месяца назад

I grew up on Academy, but Outcast is my favorite.

@chrisstokoe3169 3 месяца назад

This was one of my favourite games of all time and I played all the previous games was a hell of a build up and crescendo btw there's a hell of a pc moving community for it

@yankee2110 3 месяца назад

damn, man. you talking about "the big TV" hit me with nostalgia.

@heartoffire5902 2 месяца назад

This game gave me years of fun, friends, and inspiration. Mods kept it going for a long, long time. Both single player and multiplayer.

@Volfur2251 3 месяца назад

oh damn Jedi Academy.. The game that still has some of the best saber combat still to this day

@joshmedina5471 3 месяца назад

I always loved this game!

@Twiztdo.o 2 месяца назад

The jedi knight series has and probably always will be my favorite star wars games tbh

@joerexhausen8897 3 месяца назад

One of the best Star Wars games of all time for sure. Some levels feel too short but that makes it good for replayability and doing things differently if possible. When you have the different fighting styles it was easy to slip through a dark force users attack by changing yours. Recently played through w/ mostly dark side choices but played all light side and ended fairly balanced. Too much fun to just use grip and then lightsaber throw to take them out.

@skippyzk 3 месяца назад

Best lightsaber combat ever

@zachg427 2 месяца назад

Bro had a cool sounding dad. My dad bought a Xbox original when I was younger and told me if I touched it I would get in alot of trouble. Still played it when he was at work too lolol

@AverageJoe483 2 месяца назад

Raven also did the Solider of Fortune Games. I loved those games.

@DrNoxin 2 месяца назад

Jedi Academy was amazing. It was one of the few games I was really good in multiplayer-wise. Must've spent hundreds of hours online on the original Xbox back then.

@furretthefuzzynoodle3896 2 месяца назад

I met the guy who actually was the one who designed the lightsaber combat for Jedi outcast and academy I was literally telling my friend at work about how good it was and he comes and is like “yeah I agree it’s a good game but I’ll admit I’m biased since I helped make it!”

@generaldisarray4146 2 месяца назад

Outcast and Academy are loaded on my computer to this day and I'll fire it up whenever the mood hits me. Along with games like Max Payne, Freespace and Vice City.

@kaydog2450 3 месяца назад

I had this and jedi outcast on the original xbox back in the day and they were pretty on the original xbox using a controller felt to me at the time felt great

@mythwind1688 3 месяца назад

Highly recommend the Movie Duels 2 mod, adds nearly every character from every movie and series and maps and single player campaign for all movies, plus much upgraded saber combat and a really nice graphic update for both Outcast and Academy.

@AlgernontheWizard 3 месяца назад

Jedi academy was the game for me in college. we would get crazy skins and stuff. I had keyblades, it was great.

@fullydark9633 2 месяца назад

dood you brought up some flashbacks when you brought up battle for volcano island

@AmbroseBoaBowie 2 месяца назад

This game is on steam and if you’re wondering there’s a mod for multiplayer that makes it almost movie like

@pigeon9471 3 месяца назад

Secret weapons over normandy is a great ww2 flight game definitely worth checking out.

@AdamBardugo 3 месяца назад

One of my favorite Star Wars games ever !

@lVlonkeyman 3 месяца назад

The mod scene for this game is kino. Movie Battles video when?

@Khazrak134 3 месяца назад

I played JKA multiplayer to death. Lugormod, Makermod, MBII, Siege.... thousands and thousands of hours. Played in clans, and did faction wars. To this day Some of us who I kept in touch with get together and hop on a server and mess around for a couple hours.

@peteby485 Месяц назад

I still have that game and my original xbox and kotor 1&2 .

@pwnisherI7 2 месяца назад

100% on your GameStop comments. I loved GameStop as a child bc I could get games without spending a ton of money

@captainfach 3 месяца назад

Oh man I haven't played movie battles in so long. I'm going to have to download it and see how far they've gotten. Back when I downloaded it they only had a couple missions for single player and they were pretty glitchy. I love multiplayer but the people who are playing it are so invested in it that they are insanely good and I can almost never get a Kill real lightsabers so if you get touched by a lightsaber you're probably going to be dead it's fun, but I feel like it would be a lot more fun if there were more casual players

@mikeyjxy 3 дня назад

still to this day, this is one of the greatest games I've ever played

@igorthelight 2 месяца назад

A friendly tip: Jedi Academy is an old game - it's better played with OpenJK mod ;-) Their goals: * Improve the stability of the engine by fixing bugs and improving performance. * Support more hardware (x86_64, Arm, Apple Silicon) and software platforms (Linux, macOS) * Provide a clean base from which new code modifications can be made.