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RagnarokAngel posted:Can someone tell me what the image was for shadows of the empire in the op? Its not working. Probably the commissioned artwork of Leia kneeing Prince Xizor in the family jewels.
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arioch posted:Probably the commissioned artwork of Leia kneeing Prince Xizor in the family jewels. or it could be something creepy from the 'Shadows' graphic novel
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Nov 12, 2010 05:03
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Tensokuu posted:So I'd like to give the unpopular opinion here: I really enjoyed Force Unleashed 2. It was shorter than it really should have been, and the Vader fight was obnoxiously long, but I had a lot of fun with it. Sure they didn't resolve anything - and it was really tiring hearing Starkiller yell "Juno!" the entire freaking game - but I'd say it was about what I was expecting. gently caress those god drat droids with shields though. As the thread's resident TFU fanboy (have I mentioned lately how much Rahm Kota owns? Cuz he does), I can see you point, but I was mostly disappointed by how they managed to fix none of the flaws of the first game. As much as I love the first game, it had a ton of problems, and they are all still present in the sequel. Saber combat was boring in the first one, so they took out nearly all the combos and reduce it to just hitting the X button until the baddies die. Enemies who were immune to your powers were always annoying, so they decided to put them in nearly every level! The boss fights were the most tedious part of The Force Unleashed, so what do they do? Give the bosses buckets more health and irritatingly repetitive attack patterns! The floaty jumping make platforming unreliable in the first game, so here's an idea: let's make the ENTIRE FINAL BOSS a platforming section! Plus, it was short as hell. I guess it's nice to hear the Dark Side ending was better than the lovely Light Side one, but there's no way in gently caress I'm playing through that Vader fight again. But it's still not the worst Star Wars game I ever played, so that's something.
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Let me save you the trouble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi7ky2dN6xI Dark Side Ending.
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Nov 12, 2010 05:32
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Tensokuu posted:Let me save you the trouble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi7ky2dN6xI Even Starkiller's spaceship is lame. It's like they welded a station wagon between a pair of chopped-down TIE panels.
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Tensokuu posted:Let me save you the trouble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi7ky2dN6xI Thank you, now I can trade this game in without a second thought. I'll think fondly of you when I'm playing Kirby's Epic Yarn  And you were right. That was way better than the Light Side.
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BonHair posted:Also level design is pretty much non-existent, what with everything going on in empty space. Of course, this is where the COD style thing becomes difficult. The maps would probably be somewhat repetitive without missions. There are a few space shooters still but the ones I know of are free. Allegiance looked fantastic but seems pretty hard on first examination. Eternal Silence 2 looks a bit easier but I've heard some of the balance is off. I haven't played either so I'm not really sure.
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Casimir Radon posted:Darth Maul raping a pizza delivery girl. I didn't even know what fanfiction was, let alone erotic rape poo poo. I don't even know how I stumbled upon it. I may have read that one... at a time when I didn't know what I was looking at either. Did he regenerate from being cut in half (due to his "healing factor"  ) and then use a mind trick to get his victim to do all the work while he stood there scheming unrelated evil schemes with his robes down?Because that one was hosed up. In discovering what this fan fiction business was, teenage me also found this ridiculous shared universe that could best be summed up by that Maul/Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon pretty flowers portrait. Maul lived in like the Star Wars version of the apartment from Rent. Obi-Wan was his neighbor who he hated but couldn't help sleeping with in some "hilarious" 100-installment running joke. And Maul was always all "No homo, it's all on the DL amirite" about it while making fun of Palpatine for being "an old queen." Yeah. Yet more evidence that Star Wars somehow must have done hosed up the development of teenage me. There's no way it couldn't have. yronic heroism fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Nov 13, 2010 |
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And yet it sounds more entertaining than the plot of The Phantom Menace.
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Angry Midwesterner posted:I may have read that one... at a time when I didn't know what I was looking at either. Did he regenerate from being cut in half (due to his "healing factor" It was immensely entertaining. It actually made TPM make more sense. Its a bit dated now but still funny as hell. https://www.siubhan.com/sithacademy/
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Crowetron posted:As the thread's resident TFU fanboy (have I mentioned lately how much Rahm Kota owns? Cuz he does) ...he does? I thought his VA did a laughable job on this one. He sounds like he has some kind of weird speech impediment where he pronounces "er" sounds like "ew," Like that one part where you're aboard The Salvation: "Clear the deck, Starkillew!" Other gems of note, speaking of bad voice acting/bad dialogue: Starkiller explains his crazy plan of ramming the Salvation into Kamino's planetary shield Rahm Kota: ABANDON SHIP! ABANDON SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIP *beat* Rahm Kota: Are you sure about this? and Arrrgghhhthebridgeisout, general! quote:Saber combat was boring in the first one, so they took out nearly all the combos and reduce it to just hitting the X button until the baddies die. I didn't mind saber combat, but trying to get a gold medal on Trial 1 (the combo one) has ruined the lightsaber for me forever.
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T-1000 posted:It wouldn't need to be empty. XWA started making structures you could fly inside - space stations, death stars. If they wanted more environmental features, there's no reason they couldn't have space station maps, asteroid field maps, maps set in ship graveyards or other space industries. Or you could just cram the whole thing with convoys of cargo containers and bulk freighters and other ships that aren't active threats. I remember a lot of missions involving scanning ten million ships while a bunch of enemies chased you and they didn't seem like empty space at all. Angry Midwesterner posted:I may have read that one... at a time when I didn't know what I was looking at either. Did he regenerate from being cut in half (due to his "healing factor"
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TwoSheds posted:...he does? I thought his VA did a laughable job on this one. He sounds like he has some kind of weird speech impediment where he pronounces "er" sounds like "ew," Like that one part where you're aboard The Salvation: "Clear the deck, Starkillew!" Rahm owns because in the first game, when Starkiller questions pulling a goddamn Star Destroyer out of orbit, he basically calls you a pussy and tells you to just loving do it. He's also the only Jedi I've ever seen fight off Stormtroopers while stumbling around drunk and blind. 
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Crowetron posted:
That's not really an accomplishment. I'm pretty sure a non-jedi drunken blind man could take at least a few stormtroopers down before passing out in a booze-induced stupor. Even those goddamn teddy bears (with the assistance of a ragtag band of poorly-equipped rebels) took out a legion of the Emperor's best troops.
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TwoSheds posted:That's not really an accomplishment. I'm pretty sure a non-jedi drunken blind man could take at least a few stormtroopers down before passing out in a booze-induced stupor. Even those goddamn teddy bears (with the assistance of a ragtag band of poorly-equipped rebels) took out a legion of the Emperor's best troops. That's a good point. Poor Stormtoopers 
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Crowetron posted:That's a good point. Poor Stormtoopers It wasn't the 501st on Endor, it was the 105th Washouts. The Emperor is pretty dyslexic with numbers and nobody has the balls to correct the man.
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SeanBeansShako posted:It wasn't the 501st on Endor, it was the 105th Washouts. The Emperor is pretty dyslexic with numbers and nobody has the balls to correct the man. Aren't they the ones that are equipped with the experimental Styrofoam armor?
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Stormtroopers are only really competent at blowing away unarmed farmers. The elite ones are just mediocre soldiers.
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Anybody else find those guys who run around dressed as stormtroopers in real life kind of creepy? Not just because they're so obsessed with a movie but they're so obsessed with the BAD GUYS from a movie.
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muscles like this? posted:Anybody else find those guys who run around dressed as stormtroopers in real life kind of creepy? Not just because they're so obsessed with a movie but they're so obsessed with the BAD GUYS from a movie. The 501st? Normally, yeah (they're also huge Traviss fans), but they do a lot of charity stuff and hospital visits for sick kids. They can't be that bad.
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It's not so much that they were bad guys, it's that they had essentially the coolest costumes. Jedis dressed like hobos, the Emperor was never really seen, and Vader was 7 loving feet tall. Stormtroopers were cool, sleek, and immediately recognizable.
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muscles like this? posted:Anybody else find those guys who run around dressed as stormtroopers in real life kind of creepy? Not just because they're so obsessed with a movie but they're so obsessed with the BAD GUYS from a movie. I can't see how it's creepy at all. Nerdy as gently caress yeah, but not creepy. It's not like they dress up and worship Villains that are in any way believable.
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TFU is suppose to be cannon right? I like how Leia has met someone who has defeated both the Emperor and Vader (twice) pretty easily yet doesn't really mention this in the movies at all. Oh yea luke, I met this kid a few years ago, took down Vader without any help. What's the problem pussy?
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muscles like this? posted:Anybody else find those guys who run around dressed as stormtroopers in real life kind of creepy? Not just because they're so obsessed with a movie but they're so obsessed with the BAD GUYS from a movie. Somebody has not seen the light of Stormtrooper Presley: 
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TLG James posted:TFU is suppose to be cannon right? I like how Leia has met someone who has defeated both the Emperor and Vader (twice) pretty easily yet doesn't really mention this in the movies at all. I like how Vader begins the experimental Jedi cloning process on his apprentice, and not, say, HIMSELF, the (formerly) most potentially-powerful force user of all time. If his end goal is to overthrow the Emperor, it strikes me as a somewhat bad idea to want to clone someone who was pretty easily killed by him
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Why is it that we see "stun mode" on blasters in the beginning of ANH (when they capture Leia), and never again?
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TorpedoFish posted:Why is it that we see "stun mode" on blasters in the beginning of ANH (when they capture Leia), and never again? I'm guessing because they shot to kill every time after that.
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TorpedoFish posted:Why is it that we see "stun mode" on blasters in the beginning of ANH (when they capture Leia), and never again? They've used it a couple of times on the Clone Wars TV show, and it's made my inner geek happy every time.
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TorpedoFish posted:Why is it that we see "stun mode" on blasters in the beginning of ANH (when they capture Leia), and never again? They use it in the books.
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So is there going to be another thread(or is there and I'm overlooking it) for when the new RLM review comes out? Why the gently caress was the other one closed? Were people getting too butthurt over being made fun of for liking poo poo prequels?TorpedoFish posted:Why is it that we see "stun mode" on blasters in the beginning of ANH (when they capture Leia), and never again? They almost used them in ESB. Vader tells them to prepare the boarding party and set the weapons for stun. I'd say that counts for half a point anyways. ApexAftermath fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Nov 14, 2010 |
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So apparently, LucasArts just shunted The Old Republic off to EA: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ea...nk=MW_news_stmp
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Chairman Capone posted:So apparently, LucasArts just shunted The Old Republic off to EA: No no no no no NO
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SeanBeansShako posted:No no no no no NO So... why is this bad? Seriously, I have no idea what the implications of this are.
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TwoSheds posted:So... why is this bad? Seriously, I have no idea what the implications of this are. EA aren't known for running MMO's well.
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TwoSheds posted:So... why is this bad? Seriously, I have no idea what the implications of this are. I don't know either. LucasArts seems to be a poo poo company to begin with so I don't see how EA can make things worse, especially since EA isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. Activision is the new EA, and new EA is just that company that let's Bioware do amazing things.
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Dave Syndrome posted:They've used it a couple of times on the Clone Wars TV show, and it's made my inner geek happy every time.
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TorpedoFish posted:Awesome - disc 1 of series 1 is next in my Netflix queue and I plan on working through the whole thing thus far. Do they have the same blue circles effect? Because that's the way science fiction should look. Yes they do. Dave Filoni (who basically runs the show) has an obvious hard-on for the OT and isn't above arguing with Jorge about it.
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Chairman Capone posted:So apparently, LucasArts just shunted The Old Republic off to EA:
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Casimir Radon posted:An artist who was working on it says they've blown more money than Avatar cost on it, are completely afraid of not making the ship date, everything is a mess except the sound which comprises 20 gigs and they're very proud of it despite everything else being a complete loving mess. Really I want it to burn to the ground so they'll not try something retarded like this again. 20 gigs of sound?! Jesus Christ, what the hell do they have recorded?
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NeonTurtle posted:20 gigs of sound?! Jesus Christ, what the hell do they have recorded? They are balls to the wall commited to giving a single player RPG quality plot and voice acted story to a MMO.
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