Games you wish had been better than they were

[Julford Hajime]

Star Wars: Republic Commando was an outstanding fucking game and I loved every bit of it. They could make every other game with squad members better by following this example (see Mass Effect). To make Republic Commando itself better... I dunno, make a sequel, give it online play, and throw in GeoMod 2.0 for good measure.

It did have online, fyi. It just wasn't very good.

If they'd just made SW:RC longer, I'd have been happy. Shit got crazy really often, but it never felt out of your hands. The boss fights were a pain in the ass (I'm trying to remember the boss fight on Kashyyk, but it's escaping me... Magnaguards, maybe?), but overall it was awesome.

I mean, I remember the scene on Geonosis when you are being ambushed on all sides of an open room by Droidekas and Super Battle Droids, and you have to waste a full minute accessing a terminal in the middle of the room. Your teammates dropped like flies in there, and if you hadn't been conserving all of your grenades, you were in trouble. I still go back and play that level every now and then... Good times.

As for KH2, there was someone on a forum I went to years ago that had teir sig saying "Goofy dies at the end of Kingdom Hearts 2!" I thought he was just messing with me, then shit got real at Hollow Bastion. It was awesome.

Then Goofy woke up from his nap, Mickey's angry face disappeared, and I stopped having fun with the game. I never cared about the original characters, I just wanted to see Disney characters kicking ass, and after that point they don't do much. It's all Sora.