Reminder: The Nintendo Switch Star Wars Sale Ends Today

Good... good! Let the savings flow through you!

I'm going to Celebrate by playing some Thrawn's Revenge.

An outstanding total overhaul mod of the old Star Wars: Empire at War that is the sequel we never got. The mod creators have been working on it for nearly ten years now and they're still going! Still improving it! They just dropped a massive update today. Total ground and space battle rebalancing, new mechanics, new ship models, better optimization, it's really incredible! Most modern AAA games don't get the kind of love and attention these guys have put into this game.

If you guys like Star Wars, and RTS games, you absolutely MUST check it out. Also since the game is so old, you can get the base game on Steam for like 5 bucks every Steam sale. And the mod is free. AND even older computers can run it because it's built off of a game from more than a decade ago.

Jedi Academy still too pricey dammit

Wake me when they release the Rogue Squadron series, Shadows of the Empire, Super Star Wars Trilogy or any Lego games...

Even Dark Forces would be tempting.

I wish that they ported over Bounty Hunter to Switch.

I am still waiting Kotor.

I'm addicted to pinball FX3 so Star Wars Pinball may be worth picking up? Can someone confirm?

All... three of them.

Grabbed Star Wars Pinball and Jedi Academy. I resisted full price when they came out because I just knew they'd have a May 4 sale.

I want the Rogue Squadron saga back!!

Not worth it.

Outcast is badly ported
There's better pinball games
Academy is just all around sub par.

This does illustrate how little star wars is currently on the switch. Looking forward to pod racing later in the month.

@jump

My thoughts exactly.

Just seen Pinball for 20 pounds physically. If I buy it, I'm just gonna get a physical copy

I am hoping we get a gameplay trailer for the new LEGO Star Wars today as well. Any rumblings on that at all?

Just ate some Yoda shaped pancakes for breakfast, now I'm going to watch the clone wars finale, and later today I'm going to play some battlefront 2 and Fallen order

@Joriss This game is made by the exact same company, so if you like the other FX3 tables, you’re going to like these. And if you look at it price per table, it’s a great deal.

Hoo boy, that Clone Wars finale was everything I had ever hoped for. I hope there's a Blu-ray release coming soon.

By Grabthar's hammer...what a savings!

@Razer Exactly - I remembered that the GameCube port of Jedi Outcast was atrocious ... and the Switch version is really no better. It sucks the joy out of one of the greatest games of all time. I wouldn’t try Jedi Academy for free on the Switch (just replayed the whole series on PC, where it belongs).

@GrailUK
Is it sad I just read this in his bored, depressed, convention attitude? lol

@Joriss It’s fantastic. A ton of content, a great career mode that gets you really into learning the tables, excellent presentation...if you like the FX games and Star Wars you’ll LOVE this!

While looking at the sales, I have to say it's sad that there isn't more Star Wars on the Switch. I don't know why EA can't port Fallen Order or just something more to Switch.

@FatPigeon @Krambo42 Yeah I suckered in and downloading it as we speak. Even though I got Streets of Rage 4 yesterday and spend most of my free time on bloody Animal Crossing. Anyhoo, looking forward to it

@Heavyarms55

I love the EU so I tried playing Thrawn's Revenge but the galaxy map is way to slow to be playable. Is there a way to get around this?

@Highlar Haha. No mate, you were reading correctly lol!

@Joriss Enjoy!

@BlueKnight07 I'm sure more is coming. Between these 3 games, Racer in a week and LEGO Skywalker Saga at some point, Switch is slowly but surely getting a decent collection of Star Wars games. I'd be shocked if they stop there.

Can't say as though I care about Fallen Order myself, I didn't like that game at all. I'd love some more old games, though. Shadows of the Empire on Switch would make me so happy.

@Joriss So glad I'm not the only one that can't stop playing Animal Crossing.

Too bad none of these games are any good...

These were bad even back when they were first released...

While all of you are playing Animal Crossing. I just started up Minecraft for the first time with my son. Seems like a possible rabbit hole...

@Aurumonado There are smaller Galactic Conquests for one. There's some settings you can change too. The TR team has a guide on their Discord for how to do it. Or CoreyLoses on YouTube did a video about it. I just finished playing for like 6 and a half hours straight. XD

@BlueKnight07 because they hate Nintendo.

May the 12th be with us all

@GrailUK Galaxy Quest quotes in a Star Wars article? Oh my, utter blasphemy, I say...

@ThanosReXXX I know, but it's soooooo funny!

@Heavyarms55

Thanks I'll check out the youtube video. I really want to get it running smoothly.

@the_beaver Rogue Squadron 2 & 3 being stuck on the Game Cube is such a shame.

Those games need to come to modern platforms.

@GrailUK It certainly is. I used to own the DVD, but I lost it when I moved house, unfortunately. And it was on TV, a week or so ago.
It's a pretty good Star Trek spoof.

@Aurumonado The two things I did that made a big difference were to set the priority of the game to high and to tell the affinity to one specific core of the processor. The game was designed before multi-core processors were common and surprising it tends to run better on one rather than several.

But I can't explain it nearly as well as he does.

so the deal ends today, does that mean it's...

puts on sun glasses

revenge of the 6th

I only recently played Jedi outcast all the way through and i found it really difficult to get into at first. lots of frustrating moments and irritation all around. It does pick up once you get your lightsaber but man the crap you gotta deal with to get to that point was quite the chore! Definitely not a terrible star wars game but not even close to my favorite rogue leader!

Now as said before where's my KOTOR remaster? Surely somebody is working on this for switch. If not what are you waiting for?

Picked up Star Wars Pinball (works out about a quid per table) loving it so far.

I grew up with star wars. Just when I think it's gone, it finds it's way back. It's one franchise that needs to go away already.

@Zeldafan79 I had Jedi Outcast on GameCube and always hated it, but of course I bought it for Switch anyway. I still struggled with it at first, but after a while I decided to “cheat” and I started a new game, playing with invincibility on. What a difference that made! I don’t really feel bad about it-it finally made a game that I always wanted to play playable. Beat it last week and man, I had a blast. Anyway, not sure what they were thinking with some of those frustrations you mentioned. There’s such a good game in there.

Also, I’m glad to see there are people discovering Star Wars Pinball thanks to this sale. I’ve had it since the day it came out, and man, it’s awesome. One of my favorite and most-played Switch games!

@Joe-b worst comment I’ve ever seen on this site.

@Krambo42
I remember buying the gamecube version of jedi outcast and within 10 minutes of playing i was like... I'm returning this turd and getting my money back! I didn't get it then and i'm not sure why it was rereleased now. As a hardcore starwars fan i was not impressed.

Is yooka ayle (the first game) at 11£ worthy?

Bah, bring out Knights of the Old Republic, don't want any of the above

@Krambo42 hahaha! Thanks!

@Joe-b Impressive. Most impressive.

Give me Super Star Wars, Super Empire Strikes Back and Super Return Of the Jedi.

@Shinnos Yeah, really dumb we don't have those on Switch yet. Even worse that PS4 somehow does have Super Star Wars.

Dark Forcess with motion control? Pretty please?