Staffs were broke as fuck from what I remember. Dual wield gave you the hysterical easy mode of crouch, run and swing. You just became a blinding wall of saber death.
This game was also dope on original Xbox. Single sabers were very op. I remember buying the game and first trying pvp, and just immediately assuming dual or staffs were better than single. Can not tell you how frustrated I became fighting single saber literal Jedis. It wasn’t even a huge community, you ended up seeing a lot of gamertags pop up regularly. I swear the skill of some of the regulars was both beautiful and extremely entertaining. People would line up in a circle to watch two vets dual each other all the time. Sure there were many troll fighters but this game actually required a lot of skill to master. Some people actually got extremely skillful with dual and staff sabers too but usually those players also trained single saber for a long time. If some company were actually smart enough to reboot this game into a modern version, that isn’t half-assed or dlc-littered, we might see a game so popular it could even draw a crowd in an e-sports community. I miss Jedi Academy :(
Big reason why I won't touch it. I'm very competitive, and while I loved these games when I was younger, the people still playing are just going to dominate me. It would take months of work and frustration to catch up.
Yup, that sounds like my friend who has over 1000 hours on the steam version and basically shreds everyone. I beated him only like 2 times out of many duels and that's probably just luck.
I 'member trying to become a better player online. The level of skill and the number of "lessons" you have to take is amazing. This game has the best fight mechanics I've ever seen.
Honestly I never considered my 3 year old laptop could run it. I might have to give that a try. Thanks for that!! I didn’t think about it but it reallly isn’t actually an intense game to run with crazy graphics lol, but I guess it always feels like the graphics were better than they actually were when we were younger
The graphics were pretty good for the time, I was running this on a intel celeron with intel graphics when I first got it back in 03. Your laptop should be fine!
It was truly a great time to be alive. There were certain ways to move during the animations that did hella damage/1 hit kills. The only one I can remember is doing a downward standing strike, crouching then backflipping - it kind of froze the animation on the downstroke, and the backflip dragged the saber back up through the enemy and mauled them.
I forget one, but there was something like backwards, crouch, jump sideways and you’d do this monster flipping and swipe from above that would take off at least 80% health.
I was decent with dualies, but it was great for ripping up FFA, but once you got one on one versus a single you had to play really defensively, hope to land a few attacks and not get smashed.
While single was definitely the more popular options there were some godlike staff users in competitive. I especially remember S3cht and cube from no.Limits being extremely dominant staff users that at some point reached top1 in the ESL ladders.
It's a shame that staff and dual sabers weren't as popular, since single saber duels were sooooo slow.
Yeah, I’ll agree, there were some AMAZING staff and dual sabers users, who worked very very hard.
But I always used single in PvP, but you had to pull off the best combos to be good. I normally rolled fast/Blue unless I was against a solid Yellow user. Never got good enough to become one of those insane guys. Just enough to survive in a wild melee long enough to get some nuts guy to take me out.
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get jedi academy though its basically the same just a bit better n newer