Star Wars: Tie Fighter Special Edition & Star Wars X-Wing Special Edition On GOG For Linux

I was one happy yabby when I spotted this :D \o/

Tie Fighter is my favorite Star Wars game of all time and one of my favorite space games. The 1995 collector's edition Tie Fighter is the definitive version to play. It has better resolution than the original DOS, voiced characters and includes expansions. The 1998 version was a different engine and I felt that the music was subpar. I'm glad to see that GOG included the 1995 version with their Linux release as it had previously been missing from the special edition.

I'd be all over this and buy it if it weren't for the fact that I made a backup of my own disc over a decade ago and still play it every once in a while through DOSBox.

Might pick up X-Wing since I lost the disc for that years ago though.

Nice! Thanks for the heads-up, I had totally missed that when I saw the sale.

If the new Battlefront is good when it's released, that would be my dream port on Linux. Shame it's EA though which means it will probably never happen :(

Steam just released these games too, without a Linux version.

Hi guys,

Judas from GOG here :)

Just wanted to comment on this part:

Quotethey don't generally do a lot of announcements for games that get Linux versions.

We didn't get too much of a chance to do a HUGE announcement as I've posted an update in our "what just updated" thread ( http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post7829 ) and we were generally rolling out a slew of updates for other Star Wars games, mostly new language additions :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in the GOG forums :)

Quoting: liamdaweSteam just released these games too, without a Linux version.

Why no Linuxy on Steam? That just makes me feel like sad Keanu...

Dark Forces is also on sale for Linux:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces

And while not counting as a Linux sale, you can also get Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy to use in a source port thanks to Raven's source code release:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_ii_jedi_outcast
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_jedi_academy

So you can really get your fill of Star Wars games from GOG at the moment.

Quoting: JudasIscariot

Quotethey don't generally do a lot of announcements for games that get Linux versions.

We didn't get too much of a chance to do a HUGE announcement as I've posted an update in our "what just updated" thread ( http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post7829 ) and we were generally rolling out a slew of updates for other Star Wars games, mostly new language additions :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in the GOG forums :)

Hi Judas, nice to see you visiting GOL :) Just an idea - I think it would be good to provide more exposure for games which get a version for an OS which wasn't available before (for instance Linux, OS X, etc.). Because for users of that OS it's an equvialent of the full blown release, while such announcment is made only for the initial one (which is often Windows only or Windows + OS X for example). That way all platforms would be treated equally. It shouldn't be hard to add that into the stream of releases on the front page. Right now Linux feels like second class citizen when it comes to release announcements on GOG.

If that stream is reserved for initial releases only, then another idea is to make another stream on the front page, for backlog subreleases. Shouldn't be hard either, but it would improve usability and discoverability immensely. I'll probably make a wishlist entry for that.

I loved X-Wing when I was kid. It was the first game I was actually better at than my brothers/dad. Looking forward to wasting many hours on this again.