Issues With $20.00 Steam Jedi Knights Bundle Plaguing Customers
Lots of players are reporting that the whopping six game Lucas Arts bundle they nabbed off of Steam yesterday isn't working in various ways. These are all pretty old games, so the issues are ranging anything from trouble with modern hardware to issues with emulation to strange things like no in-game music.
The Steam support forums are on fire with complaints, some customers going so far to demand refunds for the $20.00 collection.
The games included in the bundle are Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, and Star Wars: Dark Forces. Of them only Jedi Outcast is anywhere recent (coming in 2002) so issues are to be expected with the older titles. Ars Technica has a good breakdown of what issues are affecting which games.
But as this stuff tends to go, for every player having a world-ending crisis there's three who report no issues. Were you one of the ones who picked the deal up when it was made available yesterday? Is it working for you or are you in the same boat as the upset customers?
For myself, I'd rather be playing The Dig.
mixvio
Posted to Miscellany, Video Games on 18 September 2009
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I am always tempted to grab these bundles..but with my monitor being 1680x1050 I know the games won't scale properly and I'll end up with a pixel mess. It's sad too cause these are games I would probably have more time to play now than I did back when they came out (and I originally bought them).
Well, Dark Forces is working more or less fine, barring some minor graphical issues. I think I've gotten JK working before and I've gotten JKII working before no problem (I mostly bought this for Jedi Accademy and to have stuff on steam so I wouldn't need CDs.) Sure the resolutions are problematic, but using certain external applications you can force resolutions, etc.
I didn't jump on this package deal but I did recieve a coupon recently that offered 20% off a downloadable version of KotOR. I thought to myself, 'Well if they are selling it as a downloadable, they must have fixed hardware compatibility issue considering the game came out so long ago.' Well, wouldn't you know it, the game dosent work on my Vista PC. Not for lack of trying mind you...
I really am disappointed with how poorly these games are thrown together and pushed into the market asap.
Bah, I cant imagine the headache the new MMO SW:TOR is sure to bring...