Well, the thread title says it all, really. What is, in your opinion, the best Star Wars game available for PC? Every genre is fair game.
What a horrible pun. Whoops…
Knights of the Old Republic is hands down the best Star Wars video game ever made. Some of the first person shooters are pretty good as well. Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast was good and for old school fighter fun you can’t beat X-Wing.
Marc
It’s a toss-up between Jedi Knight 1 and Star Wars: Tie Fighter for me. None of the others have come even close, except maybe Kotor.
Agreed. Knights of the Old Republic (aka KOTOR) is hands down the best Star Wars game ever. Hell, it is up there on the list with some of the best games, any games, ever. A true classic and not to be missed.
X v Tie is my personal favorite, but I haven’t played that many. I miss the old Empire Strikes Back game for my Atari. That was fun!
Tie Fighter. No contest.
The original TIE Fighter is still the best in my book. X-Wing seemed way too hard, and for some reason it seems that X-Wing v. TIE changed the flight physics to something funky.
Besides, you get to escort Darth Vader’s TIE and crush the filthy rebel scum. 
Until fairly recently, every Star Wars game was groundbreaking in one way or another. It served as the fairly shining example of how to do a franchise right. They were also fairly rare. With the recent proliferation, some of them have been… not so good.
X-Wing. Very little can be said about X-Wing. It was what it was. A space flight sim with rebellion ships. It felt right. You could feel the A-Wing turn like a sports car, or the Y-Wing wallow like a station wagon. The sound were right. It was stable, the graphics were outstanding, and the storyline rocked.
Tie Fighter: Even better. Secret extra mission objectives. New ships that fit the genre. (Mmm. Gunboat.) Voted Best Game Ever about ten years later by PC Gamer, IIRC.
X vs Tie. Bit lackluster, didn’t feel as tight, but a good solid game. Expansion made it better.
Dark Forces: Revolutionary. Everything was cutting edge at the time, anything anyone did in a FPS, but… well, fairly intelligent AI, hard puzzles that weren’t always find the key… and nonsquare rooms. Also jumping.
Jedi Knight and sequels: Always interesting and fun. Good solid games.
There were other games, of course, and my brain has grown too old and decayed to remember them. And there were bad games, and games that didn’t fit a market. (Yoda’s Desktop Adventure. A precursor to the PopCap games, when you think about it.)
Console Notes: NES(? Atari?) Star Wars. Vector graphics, but a fight sim on a game system. Woah.
SNES: Super Star Wars etc. Platformers, but good ones.
Modern: Lot of disappointments recently, though I really liked Pod Racer. KOTOR is a modern Best Game Ever, but that’s only because it was developed with the same care and attention to detail Tie Fighter was.
I find it amazing how with so many games based on a movie, there managed to be so many good ones. That more often than not isn’t the case with games based on movies (and even more seldom when reversed).
First of all, Rebel Assault was a revolutionary game, simply for the fact that it was the first ever CD-ROM PC game. Dark Forces was revolutionary in its own right, because it took attention away from Doom and Heretic and proved that you CAN make a FPS that isn’t all about trying to be as bloody as possible.
but when you get down to it, Tie Fighter is just simply the greatest Star Wars game ever. anyone who has played it knows exactly what I’m talking about.
Tie Fighter is the best-made game, but it’s not my favorite because I suck at it.
Dark Forces is my favorite. If only for that first sewer level, which when it came out was just about the coolest thing ever.
(I played Knights of the Old Republic on the Xbox, so it doesn’t count for this thread.)
TIE Fighter has a pretty good argument for being the best PC game ever, of any sort. I’d vote for “Civilization” if you put a gun to my head, but TIE Fighter is certainly in the top ten. It’s an old game now and it’s STILL one of the best space fight games you can play on your PC, old graphics or not.
That pretty much means it’s the best Star Wars game.
Atari’s color vector Star Wars arcade game, hands down. You were Luke, man! You had Darth Vader breathing down your ass! You had Artoo beeping at you randomly every six seconds! You even got to run the trench and USE THE FORCE! 
When you see the light saber, drink!
That game is always fun, until the following morning.
Another TIE Fighter vote. If only I could find a copy of the version that had the updated graphics (X-Wing VS TIE quality.) X-Wing VS TIE is my next favourite.
I, personally, didn’t enjoy KOTOR. I don’t like games where in order to attack something, you need only click them once (Diablo1/2 being the worst offender) I prefer flying or shooting.
Yeah, just to follow up a bit on my Tie Fighter vote…it’s the only game where I ever cheered out loud at a plot development. Specifically, the point in the missions where those bastard traitors tricked you into doing the training mission and then ambushed you. When my secret order rep saved my bacon I yelled something like “Whoohoo!” After that, I was fanatical about completing my secret mission objectives…never had a game pull me into its own reality like that, before or since.
Wish I could get Tie Fighter to run (or even install) on my PC. Fantastic game. I enjoyed it more than KOTOR.
I’m going with X-Wing. Tie Fighter was superior in many ways, but something about X-Wing just clicked with me more than Tie Figher. Call it the “X-Factor.” I also thought X-Wing: Alliance was pretty cool. You got to fly the Millenium Falcon. Hard to top that.
I was luke warm on KotOR, though. I found the combat pretty dull, and the story borrowed pretty heavily from the greatly superior Planescape: Torment. Didn’t suck, by any means, but it was hardly the alpha and omega of CRPGs.
What the…
How can we forget Rouge Squadron 2?!?!?!
Best graphics and most enveloping game ever.
I seriosuly broke a sweat playing the missing where you fly into and out of the second death star. Brilliant game!
X-Wing: Alliance did it first, and better.
Besides, Rogue Squadron 2 wasn’t a PC game.