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thrawn527 posted:I'm sure it will have prequel locations. Hell, see more in Spring 2015? Probably going to come out late 2015 then. I'm sure it'll have some Episode VII content, even if only a little like a new location or character. Yeah I would bet money that it's coming out within 3 weeks or so of the new movie to build up hype (probably Black Friday).
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thrawn527 posted:I'm sure it will have prequel locations. Hell, see more in Spring 2015? Probably going to come out late 2015 then. I'm sure it'll have some Episode VII content, even if only a little like a new location or character.
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Casimir Radon posted:I'm sure it will, but I think they're doing their best to send a message to people who have felt let down by the games Lucasarts was putting out towards end of life. I thought Pandemic did a pretty good job with the first two Battlefront games. They weren't awful and had a few nice levels. II got bogged down a bit with playing Force/Special characters. Still, it's nice to see them setting a playful tone but it'd be nicer still to really see them produce fun maps that happen to also capture the movies.
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Jun 10, 2014 18:23
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I wasn't counting the Battlefront series as bad, maybe not as polished as they could have been but good. Really liking The Secret History of Star Wars.
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Jun 11, 2014 03:04
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I've been bouncing around various Star Wars forums last week after more or less going on hiatus from the series for a few years. One thing I saw a lot of that kind of irritated me was how everyone tried to rank SW characters into a numbered list of the most "powerful". This is probably an old-fashioned view of things, but I never saw the Force as something as easily quantified as Dragonball Z power levels. Trying to rank force power, is like trying to rank spiritual enlightenment; it just doesn't work like that.
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Jun 11, 2014 06:04
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Uh sure it does, don't you know anything?
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Jun 11, 2014 06:15
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Now that's a trip down memory lane.
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Jun 11, 2014 06:43
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Does it say bad things about me if I'm looking at a ranking of Jedi by compiled by SuperShadow and my first instinct is to explain why he was wrong?
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Jun 11, 2014 07:11
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Zoran posted:Does it say bad things about me if I'm looking at a ranking of Jedi by compiled by SuperShadow and my first instinct is to explain why he was wrong? Only if you act on it.
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Jun 11, 2014 08:21
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Casimir Radon posted:I wasn't counting the Battlefront series as bad, maybe not as polished as they could have been but good. My two main complaints RE Battlefront 2: Some of the maps in 2 were really linear and boxlike. This kind of sucks when everyone is armed with grenades. The brain dead AI that'd literally run into gunfire. I never could finish the single player mode. It ended at Yavin IV because those Stormtroopers were so eager to be the first guy that gets shot running at the Rebels.
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Jun 11, 2014 10:56
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cptn_dr posted:Now that's a trip down memory lane. Why do I torture myself by re-reading through all the crazy? Indiana Jones 5 trailer posted:Mutt Williams speaks with agitation: "I'll never finish school because of these endless adventures." Did we ever figure out if he was trolling, or genuinely insane?
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cptn_dr posted:Now that's a trip down memory lane.
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Jun 11, 2014 15:24
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Yeah, I remember around the time Episode III came out, his list indicated that General Grievous had a higher midi-chlorian count than Mace Windu. I believe he's also responsible for perpetuating the rumour that Dooku's first name is "Jard" (even though it's right there in the movie - his first name is "Count"  ).
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Jun 11, 2014 15:32
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Hazo posted:If I remember right, that list used to have them ranked by midi-chlorian count complete with numbers but I guess he changed it. I love there was an article on the AOTC lead-in HoloNet News website that was a complete mockery of SuperShadow. Metal Loaf posted:I believe he's also responsible for perpetuating the rumour that Dooku's first name is "Jard" (even though it's right there in the movie - his first name is "Count" Well, the second volume of the Agent of the Empire comics features the Dooku family heavily and makes it pretty clear he would have had a first name, unless he was like Palpatine and deliberately rejected it or something.
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Jun 11, 2014 18:05
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Jesus, he couldn't have been trying too hard with some of those names...hang on... quote:29. Darth Crankor  I can't tell if Prince of Space now makes more or less sense. 
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Metal Loaf posted:I believe he's also responsible for perpetuating the rumour that Dooku's first name is "Jard" (even though it's right there in the movie - his first name is "Count" To be fair, if my parents had named me "Jard", I'd want to Force-choke a couple people too...
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Jesus, he couldn't have been trying too hard with some of those names...hang on...
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All that said, I think this bears repeating...Game Informer posted:The team threw a Hail Mary to George, saying the game would have more credibility if the apprentice had a ‘Darth’ title,” a Force Unleashed team member says. Lucas agreed that this situation made sense for Sith royalty, and offered up two Darth titles for the team to choose from. “He threw out ‘Darth Icky’ and ‘Darth Insanius.’There was a pregnant pause in the room after that. People waiting for George to say ‘just kidding,’ but it never comes, and he just moved on to another point.”
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Jun 11, 2014 21:59
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One thing I really liked about KOTOR was the idea that "Revan" and "Malak" were their real names and they just added "Darth" because it's a title. Malak's real name later turned out to be "Alek Squinquargesimus" but that's probably non-canon now.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:10
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Metal Loaf posted:One thing I really liked about KOTOR was the idea that "Revan" and "Malak" were their real names and they just added "Darth" because it's a title. Malak's probably non-canon now...  At least it's harder to actively contradict stuff set before the films, even if they are decanonised.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:38
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Metal Loaf posted:One thing I really liked about KOTOR was the idea that "Revan" and "Malak" were their real names and they just added "Darth" because it's a title. I really enjoyed the idea of the tradition twisting out of sheer ignorance on the part of the Sith over time. "Darth Revan and Darth Malak? Oh, so I guess we're supposed to just come up with a threatening-sounding name to come after Darth, huh? I mean, those guys obviously just made their names up."
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I don't know if the worst Darth names are the really lazy ones (Darth Maladi, Darth Karnage) or the ones that try way too hard to be clever (Darth Andeddu, Darth Wyrrlok).
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cptn_dr posted:All that said, I think this bears repeating... what article is that from? and doesnt george hate force unleashed now.
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EddieDean posted:At least it's harder to actively contradict stuff set before the films, even if they are decanonised. Maybe its my years as a comic reader, but the canonicy thing doesn't bother me. This blank slate will last all of five minutes before Disney starts crapping out licensed stuff to make their money back and before you know it it'll be a tangled mess all over again. One good thing about it is that now everything in the old EU is more or less the same level of "true" now, so you're free to pick and chose what counts without anyone being able to argue otherwise. Personally, this means SWTOR doesn't count and we can only guess what happened to Revan and Exile. Metal Loaf posted:One thing I really liked about KOTOR was the idea that "Revan" and "Malak" were their real names and they just added "Darth" because it's a title. Caesar, Kaiser, T'sar, etc... Though that does make me wonder where the Darth title first came from.
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Canemacar posted:Though that does make me wonder where the Darth title first came from. I seem to recall some flaky made up language sources that linked it to "master" or "elite" or some such, and the idea that it was just a contraction of "DARk Lord of the SiTH". Of the two, I find the latter fits how language seems to develop better. Not like Sith aren't pretentious enough to use a simple abbreviation and pretend it's some cool ancient word.
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When I think back to something like even Darth Vader, I don't even know if I like the idea of the whole name being a title (like Lt. Commander) vs. just a wholly fake name (first name Darth, last name Vader) vs. a title and a name. As fanficky as this sounds, it might have been an interesting development if the chosen suffix of your Darth title had to have some symbolic beyond than just sounding cool or scary or abandoning your old identity. Like that it isn't just a name you choose or is chosen for you, but as a Sith it's the name you literally TAKE by killing someone. Your first personally chosen victim as an apprentice, you take their name or a variation of it as an eternal reminder of your dedication to the dark side. I could see something like that as a powerful tool to the Sith. It could serve as a constant, inescapable reminder of the choice and act you committed to pull you to the darkside -- it literally has defined you as a person. It could be demoralizing to potential enemies to hear the name/reputation of a dead friend/ally being twisted to serve the Sith. People who just had the galactic misfortune of having a cool name like "Todd Vyrruss" and gets a red lightsaber to the face because some punk Sith apprentice wanted to go around calling himself "Darth Vyrruss" (Or "Darth Todd")
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JediTalentAgent posted:When I think back to something like even Darth Vader, I don't even know if I like the idea of the whole name being a title (like Lt. Commander) vs. just a wholly fake name (first name Darth, last name Vader) vs. a title and a name. So then Darth Vader's name would have been Darth Younglings?
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Or Darth Slaughteredthemlikeanimals.
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Metal Loaf posted:Or Darth Slaughteredthemlikeanimals. What if we went with the first sandperson murdered? Darth Huuuurgh-hur-hur-hur?
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Jun 12, 2014 11:35
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It's too bad party members couldn't become Dark/Jedi in the first KOTOR game, because then you could've had Darth Carth.
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Metal Loaf posted:It's too bad party members couldn't become Dark/Jedi in the first KOTOR game, because then you could've had Darth Carth. He tortures you by whining at you constantly. That would've been a pretty effective villain, actually. We all hate Carth as is and he was the "good guy".
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Canemacar posted:So then Darth Vader's name would have been Darth Younglings? Darth Amidala/Darth Padme? poo poo, even with my idea you can twist it into what you like. Having the Tuskan tribe being the "V'dar" or something could easily be twisted into that sort of fit that sort of thing. I know in one of the comics set between the prequels and the OT, Vader describes his power from the darkside is fueled by his self-hatred. Having to forever carry a name of someone you hated enough to kill or as a constant reminder of your fall to the darkside could be useful in maintaining a sense of negativity that the darkside seems to feed on. Also, in a sort of strange way, I could see it working in the confines of even the original trilogy: If Luke had killed Vader, he'd literally and figuratively taken Darth Vader's place at Palpatine's side, right down to inheriting the title and name of Vader.
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It's a cool idea, no doubt. You just have to make sure you pick the right one for your first. No one wants to lose their temper at the space-DMV and become Darth Clarence.
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McGann posted:He tortures you by whining at you constantly. That would've been a pretty effective villain, actually. We all hate Carth as is and he was the "good guy". I remember the old starwars.com message board had this joke thread called "Things KOTOR characters would never say" and the best one was Carth saying, "But enough about me, let's talk about you." JediTalentAgent posted:Also, in a sort of strange way, I could see it working in the confines of even the original trilogy: If Luke had killed Vader, he'd literally and figuratively taken Darth Vader's place at Palpatine's side, right down to inheriting the title and name of Vader. He would have been called Daarth Vaader if that had been the case.
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Metal Loaf posted:He would have been called Daarth Vaader if that had been the case. Nah, he'd have to be a clone for that.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Nah, he'd have to be a clone for that. And a new Zahn novel is born.
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Zahn's already covering the clones characters:"An Apology posted:There has been too much blood. Too much death. Too much destruction.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Zahn's already covering the clones characters: I have no idea if this was by Zahn or not, but I got a good chuckle out of it anyway.  Especially at Booba Fett.
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pengun101 posted:what article is that from? and doesnt george hate force unleashed now. Game informer from a few months ago about the collapse of LucasArts. I also had the bits about "Jet Brody"'s name being changed on a whim a few pages back In other news, the Falcon has done something to Harrison Ford... Everything from "OH MY GOD IT CRUSHED HIM" to "Bruised his ankle" has been reported.
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Last week, Mark Hammill appeared at Disney World's Star Wars Weekends and was interviewed by James Arnold Taylor (the voice of Obi-Wan and Plo Koon on the Clone Wars TV series). It's 45 minutes long, but worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFiEAh2Q8I8
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