So I tried playing STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY in 2024…
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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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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.
"Pizza and the big TV" boy those were simpler times
Dude.... Makes me a little sad missing the good old days lol
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 😪
On my momma, I didn't have a care in the world😂
This got me in the feels 😢
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 🤧😂
Even if they don't remake Academy or Outcast, They need a game that combines the FPS and lightsaber combat the way they did.
Not going to happen now that Lucas Arts is dead
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.
Exactly 💯
Jedi Academy still has the best Lightsaber combat and force powers ever.
That and maybe the best story as far as missions and character build up
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
nah revenge of the sith the game, this is second
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.
@@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.
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
There’s only one academy game, you meant outcast probably.
@@lexxnewton yup
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
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.
I just downloaded republic commando. I highly reccomend it.
@@Azriel884A bit janky, ported from Xbox but so climatic and good for its time.
@@DamianSzajnowski I'll take janky and created with love over polished and lifeless any day lol
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.
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.
Just takes a bit of time and practice. Eventually you get accurate enough that saber duels in the campaign are nothing to you anymore.
@@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.
Try the Episode 3 movie tie-in game. It's really solid with unique combos per character + an unlockable Vs mode with classic stages 👍👍
@@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
Brother, you recounting playing on the big TV and having pizza, speaks to my soul.
I want a new Star Wars game like this
Keep dreaming.
@@Chris_Thorndyke Will do, at least is better that eating the flop that Disney releases nowadays
The BIG TV 👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🔥😁😁
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.
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.
Have you had a chance to play academy since?
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.
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.
Yeah Jedi outcast had better singleplayer, the multiplayer is more popular in Jedi Academy but I enjoy playing both
I only ever played the original Dark Forces and Jedi Knight. Used to love those games, but I always wondered about the sequels
Jedi Knight 1 has the better story but the combat improves in the other 2
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!!
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.
Same with Jedi Outcast. These were some of the first SW games to allow dismemberment through a console/Cheat command on PC. Rumors were out there you could do it with Dark Forces 2 also but I do not remember and haven't played it in years.
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❤
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
As did i! Never went for quick kills! I always did it very flamboyant like, made me feel like a Jedi!
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.
I have this game on my computer. Played it when it first came out too. Such a fantastic game!
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
This is easily my favourite Star Wars game. So many fond memories of this one.
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.
Played all of these on PC back in the day…the online multiplayer was incredible! Great community!
And it still is! ;-)
Mostly for Movie Battles II (a very popular Jedi Academy mod)
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.
I spent a LOT of hours in MB2 in high school.
I prefer the base lightsaber combat but it does improve the gunplay
This game was a head of its time with the combat, easily my favorite star wars game.
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 (:
Best examples of force powers
This series was the best ever light saber fighting. 20 years later and I haven't played a star wars game that was as fun in multiplayer.
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 🙌🏻🙌🏻😃
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
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!
imagine a Jedi Academy reboot in 2024 like this:
1. A more stylish HUD, with vertical and horizontal bars.
2. Being able to cling to wall edges.
3. New equipment such as Force-imbued armor and a grappling hook.
4. Manual blocking of both ranged and melee attacks.
5. Dash and a more controllable super speed.
6. A passive Force sense in the form of a minimap.
7. Being able to deflect blaster shots only if you press the block at just the right moment.
8. Greater ability to confront non-Force user shooters even if they carry heavy weapons.
9. Stealth in the form of stealth-oriented Force powers and a lightsaber that emits no light or sound when active. Recommended when greatly outnumbered, but useless against Force user enemies.
10. Remove Force protection and replace it with imbued armor, and remove Force absorption and replace it with QTE when attacked with offensive Force powers.
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.
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.
8:10 did you know you can charge up the sniper?
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.
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.
Man I remember back in the day when Gamestop and other game stores used to be so cool about trading games
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
A small correction: the previous game Jedi Outcast also had the ability to chop off limbs and heads, mechanically Academy is pretty much identical
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 😂
Battlefront classic flop got people revisiting the classics. Currently playing Battlefront 2 2017 😂
Or the 2005 OG Battlefront, not an unnecesary 2024 PC port worse than the 2005 one.
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.
I'm from Jamaica I always love watching your contents bro. you inspired me.
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.
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.
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 ❤
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
Best lightsaber combat ever
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"???_
Love hearing the childhood memories, Matty. It is one of the many charms to you and your channels, especially here on RR.
This game gave me years of fun, friends, and inspiration. Mods kept it going for a long, long time. Both single player and multiplayer.
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!
The multiplayer in Academy was so fun! Met some cool people as a kid just playing in dueling lobbies. Sad you never experienced that.
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.
This needs to be remade for sure
I got over 140+ hours in Movie Battles 2 and I can only say, BUY the game and TRY it and you will NOT regret it at all. Game with the mod is absolutely fun
This game still holds up. Exceeds expectations lol
This is one of my favorite games (still). It was the “Mass Effect” of its time. It’s a fantastic customizable action/adventure and it’s set in Star Wars. I love how it’s a FPS with guns AND third person with lightsaber. You can choose to be good or evil and it has various endings.
Honestly, the story is so good it’s what should have been the sequel trilogy. It’s a mystery that spans some time and covers the galaxy with cameos from the original movie cast.
Any Lugormod vets arround? I loved this game *_*
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.
I love that you can jump on to almost any surface!!!
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
Was hoping to see Movie Battles 2 mentioned and was not disappointed. Nice!
Love that saturday story. lol
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.
I still play Jedi academy to this day with the ultimate weapons mod
I grew up on Academy, but Outcast is my favorite.
Huge part of growing up was this game. Whenever I got stuck on Jedi Outcast, I came straight back to this one.
Same
I absolutely love this game. It's one of my all-time favorites.
The wall running in that game blew my mind.
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.
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!”
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.
This game, jedi starfighter and kotor hit all my starwars needs as a kid, soo many amazing old games
oh damn Jedi Academy.. The game that still has some of the best saber combat still to this day
This game is on steam and if you’re wondering there’s a mod for multiplayer that makes it almost movie like
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
Secret weapons over normandy is a great ww2 flight game definitely worth checking out.
Raven also did the Solider of Fortune Games. I loved those games.
This game made me love the KelDor Race.
Jedi academy was the game for me in college. we would get crazy skins and stuff. I had keyblades, it was great.
Hopefully Nightdive will remaster Dark Forces 2 and then we can have all four games in the Kyle Katarn saga on modern consoles
That would be my number 1 request from Nightdive Studios if they ever to asked me "what game do you like to see us remaster?" Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Remaster PLEASE make it happen Nightdive
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.
Spent many a night on PC playing this and outcast before it. Didnt play a single minute of the campaign lol
Online team deathmatch was legendary though. The clash of lightsabers, the back flips, the absolute spam of dark side force powers 🤣
The combat and movement was definitely better in the multiplayer
If you only played the multiplayer, I assume you preferred JA.
@@tFighterPilot i played more of outcast but prefered acadamy
100% on your GameStop comments. I loved GameStop as a child bc I could get games without spending a ton of money
Jedi academy is so much fun. Needs a remake NOT handled by Aspyr 💀.
They already did a remaster of it YEARS ago for PS5.
@@lutherheggs451 I forgot about that. thanks I'll check that out
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.
You can up the dismemberment on pc so u can literally chop enemies into kibble
Jedi academy is such an underrated game and it needs at least a remaster
not the point of the video, but as a soon to be father, your story with yours gave me so much joy. really hoping i can be this kind of father to my boy.
got jedi outcast on the cube and jedi academy on the box, first played on the amd athlon 1ghz, 1gb of ram Nvidia gforce2, ran jedi outcast like butter academy had the purple glitches and other issues so didn't play it till later guess my gpu didn't have the right shit for academy back then.
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.
I used to play the crap out of the PC multi-player mode, back when all PC games used GameSpy servers. I miss those days....
Simpler times. Never forget Aspyr jacked that PC port too.
Why hasn't anyone tried to replicate this kind of combat system? Being able to change walking direction while striking and having the strike direction be dependend on your movement with 7 different directions times three for three different saber stances with different strike patterns and velocity etc plus being to jump and attack and combo hits is THE MOST dynamic and flexible melee saber combat system that exists. The only games that tried are somewhat Chivalry and Mordhau but these are so SLOW and janky, not acrobatic at all...
When Fallen Order was announced I somewhat hoped they will go in this direction but decided to go for Press A for Light and B for Heavy attacks and a handful of combos... And the soulslike parry of course.
The jedi knight series has and probably always will be my favorite star wars games tbh
Yeah honestly for me they're among the best SW games at making you FEEL like a jedi as I found it so refreshing playing them for the first time for the past year in that the lightsabers in them ACTUALLY feel like the lightsabers from the movies instead of them being glorified baseball bats that you see in like Force Unleashed and such Dark Forces 2 is my favorite of the series but I still need to finish jedi academy to really rank the series for me
The mod scene for this game is kino. Movie Battles video when?