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For pure gameplay no StarWars game has matched the old X-Wing/Tie-Fighter games for DOS. Yes, they had crappy graphics by today's standards, but there were hundreds of missions, which allowed for 100% freedom in how you accomplish them, and control over your ship unlike anything since. I don't know why Lucas Arts or whomever haven't redone this game yet. Any other flying based Star Wars game since has been severely dumbed down. A typical theme in hollywood is to mine old movies and remake them, the video game industry is now old enough for us to consider doing that. Fancy graphics are fine, but good gameplay is where the money is (see Wii). So why not start updating old classics, preserving the addicting gameplay, but merely updating the graphics? Another good example is Wing Commander IV. The one from 1996 that used like 7 CDs and starred Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, and John Rhys Davies. This game had a great story, probably the best acting in a video game at the time or since, and good gameplay. Bring it back with updated graphics, you can keep the original live action cut scenes even. StarWars Dark Forces was a great FPS, one of the best of it's time (better than Doom I think), and I think it was an even better FPS than Battlefront is now. Bring it back, add updated graphics, and add a multiplayer component. The Final Fantasy series is ripe for these changes as well, that series has just gotten weird, but (US releases) FF3 and FF2 had great stories and great gameplay (and FF3 especially had a great musical score). FF7 was pretty good as well (though unfortunately has be milked to death since). Even games like Gauntlet, as the years progressed new versions got better graphics but worse gameplay and shorter gameplay. The original was the most fun. One of the funnest arcade games I ever played was that old TMNT 4 player deal. I have 3 brothers and one day at an arcade we beat it and when we stopped we had an audience, what a feeling. Simple graphics, compelling gameplay. Rather than seeing companies sink money into making new games with great graphics but horrible gameplay, I would ask them to instead remake older games with proven good gameplay. So take the gameplay of the old X-Wing DOS game, give it modern graphics, and set it up for online multiplayer. Guaranteed blockbuster. Who has George Lucas's phone number?