All right, let's narrow that down a bit.

I miss Rogue Squadron.

I mean look at it. THis was something like the first Gamecube game, came out a week before the system itself, and it held up pretty well in terms of graphics for the entirety of its generation.

These guys coudl do some voodoo.

More than that, though, the Rogue Squadron games were jsut fun. They took the space battles from the best sci-fi series ever in terms of space battles, then made them accessible and arcadey so anyone could play them. But the games were tough, too! Excellently balanced, beautiful, lots of ships, chock full of stuff for nerds to nerd out over.

Damn you, Lair. Damn you for taking away my favorite arcade space shooter franchise.

There aren't even any arcade space shooters in this style to replace it. A Mass Effect shooter along these lines would be incredible! Starfox? Hell yes I'd take that, give it to me! Or just another Rogue Squadron!

In my heart of hearts I want Rogue Squadron 4 on the Wii U. No foot missions. Lots of space combat from throughout the whole series, prequels and original trilogy and the NJO if they feel like it. I don't care! I just want the games back.

I agree near-entirely! Although,foot missions are okay, imo, on battles like Hoth and a few others who's name I've forgotten.


...but, I guess that sort of things could be reserved for Battlefront though...

Rebel Strike would have been incredible without the foot missions. They were an albatross around its neck.

I too miss Rogue Squadron.

Damn I think I'm gonna get RSII out now.... it's been a while.

Rogue Leader is still one of my favorite games ever. First time you take down a Star Destroyer? Amazing.

They're different kind of games, Rebel Strike's pacing was flawed but Rogue Leader was uniformly fantastic, and you're a soulless monster and I'm ringing your house with a line of salt to keep you inside of it.

Edit:

And on that point, most of Rogue Leader's missions weren't actually based on the movies. I think about 30% of them were lifted from the films.

I like Lair. That is my response to this thread.

I never played Lair. I never watched any videos of it. I saw a commercial and it looked slow.

Lair killed Factor 5.

I feel like I should clarify that a Starfox that took traditional corridor levels and then replaced the "all range" levels with larger, Rogue Leader-style semi-free roam missions? That would be amazing. I'd lose my mind over it.