Your favorite Star Wars things besides the films?

[Hullabaloo]

Mine:

- The trilogy of novels written by Timothy Zahn: The Thrawn Trilogy. Simply the best non-film related Star Wars thing, IMO. The story takes place five years after Return of the Jedi.

- Some of the video games: Knights of the Old Republic (I and II) and Jedi Outcast.

- I also like some of the comic books, like Legacy for example, but they've written way more drivel over the years than good stories.

What are yours???

[Kryptonic]

Shadows of the Empire. The whole thing. The score by Joel McNeeley is terrific. The novel and comic book were great. The game kicked ass. The toys were cool.

Dark Forces PC Game Series. From Dark Forces to Jedi Academy, these are the best Star Wars games, bar none. The multiplayer maps for Jedi Knight were legendary, including all of the fan made ones.

All of the art and making-of books. The Star Wars Universe is so vast and it feels so populated and lived in that it makes it so easy to get lost in it, both inside the stories and outside learning about the production and art it has inspired.

The toys and collectibles. I've been collecting for decades and love the thrill of the hunt and displaying them.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Kryptonic

Dark Forces PC Game Series. From Dark Forces to Jedi Academy, these are the best Star Wars games, bar none. The multiplayer maps for Jedi Knight were legendary, including all of the fan made ones.

Yes, DFII: Jedi Knight was my favorite game for the longest time. I even had all the tools to make my own levels with their own textures and everything (never did get the hang of scripts and 3D objects back then, but the game had enough to work with).

Jedi Outcast became my favorite of the series later; the fighting was very sublime, and I enjoyed the story. Jedi Academy was great too.

If there's any other games that really top my list, it'd be TIE Fighter, Rebellion, and both of The Force Unleashed. Star Wars Racer could be a guilty pleasure of mine too.

[Kryptonic]

Yeah, the Pod Racer game was sick. The sense of speed was really terrific and the levels were brilliantly designed.

Oh, I miss Lucasarts...

[Optimus]

Knights of the Old Republic I & II and Jedi Academy & Jedi Outcast.

I had those games on the original XBOX and I still have both KOTOR games on the PC. KOTOR II was unfinished because the studio was forced to release it early but with the restoration mod the game feels complete and I rank it a little higher than the first one but overall they are both my favourite RPGs.

[L.J.]

Always liked the book Shadows of the Empire.

[Blu-Benny]

the trio of lightsabers i have in my HT.

[Michael24]

The Expanded Universe novels, particularly those of the early- to mid-1990s, when they still actually felt like Star Wars stories. My favorites are The Thrawn Trilogy, The Han Solo Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire and (from the late-70s/early-80s) The Han Solo Adventures.

Also, Dark Horse Comics' first Dark Empire mini-series and their most recent Star Wars ongoing that ran 20 issues. Great stuff.

For video games, I've only ever played a few. Dark Forces for the PC and Shadows of the Empire for N64, both of which my brother and I played the heck out of. I also bought Rogue Squadron for N64 about ten years ago and really enjoyed it, but never finished it. However, my favorite is Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. Man, that game was fun! I need to rebuy it on PS3 to enjoy again.

[warrian]

[tigertron]

The video game stories like the Force Unleashed are great.

I also had some Star Wars books that chronicled Obi-Wan's early Jedi days with Qui-Gon Jinn which were awesome.

[Ironhorse75]

Jedi Academy multiplayer was a blast.

[motorheadache95]

Originally Posted by Michael24

The Expanded Universe novels, particularly those of the early- to mid-1990s, when they still actually felt like Star Wars stories. My favorites are The Thrawn Trilogy, The Han Solo Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire and (from the late-70s/early-80s) The Han Solo Adventures.

Also, Dark Horse Comics' first Dark Empire mini-series and their most recent Star Wars ongoing that ran 20 issues. Great stuff.

For video games, I've only ever played a few. Dark Forces for the PC and Shadows of the Empire for N64, both of which my brother and I played the heck out of. I also bought Rogue Squadron for N64 about ten years ago and really enjoyed it, but never finished it. However, my favorite is Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. Man, that game was fun! I need to rebuy it on PS3 to enjoy again.

I agree with everything you posted except for The Han Solo Trilogy. I just re-read that recently and thought it was awful. I hated how they used the character Bria and basically shoved the entire origin of the Rebels into Han's story, and that subplot about the smugglers banding together to fight the Imperials was so cringey.

Plus Han was written too goody-goody. They made a point to characterize that he didn't want to shoot or kill anyone unless it was self defense, because the books were coming out right off of the Special Editions. The Brian Daley Han Solo books are so much better.

Sorry, just wanted to get that off my chest since I've recently been re-reading the books. The Han Solo trilogy is one backstory I'm glad to be rid of in the "continuity purge."

[StingingVelvet]

I would say my favorite Star Wars thing that isn't a movie is probably Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, the amazing PC video game from the late 90's. I worshiped that game when it came out, both single-player and multi-player. Had that lovely dark, junk-future vibe of Empire Strikes Back and fun gameplay. Some of the other PC games were good too, especially in aesthetics.

I don't really play video games anymore. I did play Force Unleashed briefly but thought it was pretty meh.

I read the Thrawn Trilogy way back when. Very much enjoyed them at the time. Felt like the true sequels in book form. I never read much more Star Wars fiction though. I tried some others and they were all terrible and then I kind of moved away from reading a lot of novels in general.

I've never seen Clone Wars or Rebels. I think about trying them sometimes, but I'm not a fan of animation at all, or the prequels, so... yeah.

[Rich65]

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[Taipan]

I like the planet hopping that Star Wars gave us.

Really liked KOTOR.

One of the best games I have ever had the pleasure of playing.

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

The Force Unleashed
Knights of the Old Republic
Disney taking the reins of the series

[partridge]

I have three of the Master FX lightsabers. Luke's, Vader's and Yoda's. I really wanted Windu's but they don't seem to make/sell them anymore.

[Kaiju]

Always loved the video games. Looking forward to the new Battlefront!

[aiman04]

Empire of Dreams

[PenguinMaster]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Republic Commando, that's my favorite Star Wars video game.