Editing Star Wars Video Games (section)

==RPGs==

* '''Knights of the Old Republic''': A pair of single player RPGs depicting a Sith war several thousand years before ''A New Hope''. KotOR is widely regarded as the best Star Wars video game ever, and was the framework for [[BioWare]]'s ''Mass Effect'' series.  Of all the Legends stuff, KotOR appears to be in good standing with Disney since they continue to [[Blood Ravens|<s>steal</s> 'borrow']] from it. The sequel by Obsidian was the original subversive take on the franchise TLJ wanted to be but failed miserably; this sequel, also, failed, less because it was Different, more because those assholes didn't let its devs finish it before dumping it in game-stores. With the restored content mod, KOTOR 2 can unironically be considered the best Star Wars story there is if you overlook the obviously rushed main game development. (And, you know, if you're into that; it was written by someone who admitted to disliking a lot of other ''Star Wars'' properties and his personal self-insert fanfic character's either one of the best characters in the franchise or a limitless fountain of preachy criticism, [[skub| depending on who you ask]].) 
** Confirmed to be getting a remake, though it is currently unclear if it will actually be part of Disney's Canon or not. More troubling is the question of whether or not the remake will ever come out at all after news came out of its indefinite delay.
**'''Star Wars: The Old Republic''': A skubtastic MMO that is the sequel to the KotoR games, taking place 300 years later. It had a very rough start but stabilized enough to still survive to this day somehow. Though the gameplay is pretty meh due to being an MMO, the storylines are mostly good, with the best of them being some of the best Star Wars stories out there. Even the most traditional and bland story, the Jedi Knight's, is still exciting good fun, and should you choose to play as one in the Shadow of Revan and following expansions, becomes very good and can be summed up as "Chad Thundercock is the best Jedi ever and flaunts the romance ban with his hot redhead fellow Jedi and wins a decades long war singlehandedly". However, the Imperial Agent storyline is almost universally regarded as the best of the lot.  Fans often treat these games as canon even if they are technically not, due to being set so long before the films that there aren't many contradictions between canon and legends.

* '''Star Wars Galaxies''': An early MMO, launched after ''Everquest'' but before ''WoW''.  ''Galaxies'' is noteworthy for making force powers a prestige achievement requiring enormous in-game effort to unlock (and with a degree of randomness meaning you might have to just reroll). The first expansion pack added a subgame that's a pretty solid flight game in its own right and the game eventually added an original, fully playable, trading card game that sadly has not yet been implemented in any simulator. Then ''World of Warcraft'' hit, Sony panicked and made Jedi a starting class and replaced the skill system with massive level grind, and offered refunds to the raging army of neckbeards.  Subscription numbers tanked and never recovered. It would effectively be replaced by ''The Old Republic'', an MMO using the acclaimed KotOR setting. Like most "dead" MMOs that people loved it still lives on through illegal private servers (don't worry, the guys providing it would get busted, not people playing on it). 

* '''Star Wars: Eclipse''': Recently announced, this game will be set in the High Republic era, Disney's take on a "pre movies" era of Star Wars (at least before the KotoR remake comes out). Little else is known as of now, but it had what is probably the most [[Awesome]] trailer a Star Wars product has had in at least the last five years or so.It's supposedly going to come out in 3-5 years, so people are [[Cyberpunk 2077|understandably]] worried that announcing it this early is going to choke the game to death with exaggerated expectations. Doesn't help that the developers are mostly known for making interactive movies rather than actual games and got outed for [[FAIL|not having the best work culture]] (though [[SJW|the usual suspects]] calling for the game's cancellation in response are not in the right either). /tg/ just hopes it's good at this point. 2022 update: The studio got bought out by a Chinese gacha game dev and is going to form the core of their European operations. While the game likely to continue development, adjust your expectations accordingly.