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I liked the legacy of the force comics. Dark horse was even doing a sequel with a long decendant of the Solos, but it ended early with marvel getting the license.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Oh god, did he claim he wasn't eating your food, but would constantly leave the cheese out after cutting it so you had crusty cheese you had to shave? he gaslit me about how many cokes were left in the fridge almost constantly
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:21 |
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FordPRefectLL posted:he gaslit me about how many cokes were left in the fridge almost constantly this legit seems like something Han Solo would do. glib fucker
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:24 |
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"whats a star wars EU... wait i am 100% positive i dont want to know and nothing good will come of knowing it" - my brain
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:26 |
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1gnoirents posted:"whats a star wars EU... wait i am 100% positive i dont want to know and nothing good will come of knowing it" none of it exist anymore technically so who cares.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:31 |
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1gnoirents posted:"whats a star wars EU... wait i am 100% positive i dont want to know and nothing good will come of knowing it" I had no idea that there are still people infected with forums cancer.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 06:05 |
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Chomp8645 posted:I had no idea that there are still people infected with forums cancer. i dont know if you know this or not but there is no cure for cancer
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 06:06 |
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Chomp8645 posted:I had no idea that there are still people infected with forums cancer. some people deserve cancer
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:41 |
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RFC2324 posted:some people deserve cancer do people get cancer in star wars surely some EU writer snuck it in somewhere to add grittiness to his dark jedi novels
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:45 |
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Wolfsheim posted:do people get cancer in star wars ya and asthma and spleen-rot and "Balding Sickness" and all other sorts of dumb crap Force headache posted:A Force headache was a strange condition that affected the Sith Lord Odion in which all life sensed through the Force caused agonizing headaches. Odion experienced the pain like bright lights in his head, but found he could alleviate the pain, by extinguishing the lights, in the form of killing those around him. migraines, but space migraines
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:58 |
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Robot Jelly posted:ya and asthma and spleen-rot and "Balding Sickness" and all other sorts of dumb crap there will never be a more retarded star wars eu sickness than tarkins disease
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 08:20 |
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The only star wars character I ever roleplayed was a guardian jedi (if I'm remembering the term right, this was the 3.0 Star Wars rpg basically) Twi'lek named Adkov Mur, which is Vodka Rum backwards
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 08:38 |
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Harime Nui posted:The only star wars character I ever roleplayed was a guardian jedi (if I'm remembering the term right, this was the 3.0 Star Wars rpg basically) Twi'lek named Adkov Mur, which is Vodka Rum backwards it's a good star-warsy name.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 08:42 |
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Also do they even need to call it "the new republic?" The Republic existed for like, 10,000 years or more, and then went away for like, less than 25 years, and then it came back. Any senators not rubbed out by Palpatine should still be alive, assuming rich people in Star Wars can afford life-extending medical care. This empire be a tiny little footnote in galactic legislative history, with many people on outer planets barely even noticing any change. It was pretty clear that in Ep 4 they wanted the old republic to have been around at least 50 years prior but that went out the window with the retcon of Vader being Luke's father
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 08:54 |
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Star Wars 1313 (that Uncharted clone) was probably the most interested I've been in the Star Wars universe, but then Disney canceled it and shuttered LucasArts I watched the first 2-3 seasons of the CO Clone Wars series. It had a few good episodes, and it actually managed to make Anakin Skywalker an interesting character instead of a petulant, spergy manchild. MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Nov 30, 2014 |
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/John_Lithgow wanna meet that Yoda PatTwo posted:Were there any goons or goony-like poo poo before Star Wars? I feel like Star Wars started all the problems the Internet eventually became known for. Science fiction conventions have been a thing since the 1930s. If anything Star Wars made the sci-fi scene slightly less because when it came out the pulp adventure of HG Wells and John Carter of Mars and old Republic serials had given away to the self-serious and of Asimov and Star Trek and Star Wars helped tip the balance in the other direction. To this day the people in the really super goony upper echelons of sci-fi fandom will start sputtering if you call Star Wars "sci-fi" because it's actually science fantasy MeatwadIsGod posted:Star Wars 1313 (that Uncharted clone) was probably the most interested I've been in the Star Wars universe, but then Disney canceled it and shuttered LucasArts 1313 looked hilariously bad. They were trying so hard to make Star Wars be gritty and dark, one of the promo pieces they released was a bunch of homeless people gathered around a trashcan fire only the trashcan was a droid LucasArts getting shuttered is a blessing because they've been poo poo for almost two decades now, every good Star Wars game has been made by 3rd-party developer like Obsidian or Pandemic
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 20:49 |
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...of SCIENCE! posted:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/John_Lithgow Meh. They were definitely cranking up the grittiness, but it looked interesting because you weren't a Jedi/Sith or TIE fighter or whatever the gently caress
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 21:04 |
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...of SCIENCE! posted:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/John_Lithgow I can't believe it's taken so long to get another star wars battlefront game. Gonna put some foot to rear end for the republic/empire.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 04:26 |
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I think the saddest thing is the multi paragraph essay in Wookipedia on a stuffed toy ewok used as a practical joke in one of the books. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kettch
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 04:32 |
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why do they call it the eu? b cuz you have to pronounce it "ewww" also it owns
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 04:44 |
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Meh. They were definitely cranking up the grittiness, but it looked interesting because you weren't a Jedi/Sith or TIE fighter or whatever the gently caress Yeah, Guardians Of The Galaxy was popular because it was grungy Star Wars that focused more on a group of mercenary ne'er do wells instead of the honorable galactic elite like the Nova Corps.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 04:47 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:
Only after the rest of the authors got in on it. In the Thrawn Trilogy, the Grand Admiral does make a few mistakes, and he is duped by Lando when he tries to steal New Republic warships. It was only after Zahn that everyone kept orgasming over how super invincible Thrawn was, and it got really annoying. Like how they take one instance where Thrawn perceives a tactical advantage from looking at a Species's painting, and suddenly Thrawn can defeat anyone by looking at their artwork.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 04:54 |
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, Guardians Of The Galaxy was popular because it was grungy Star Wars that focused more on a group of mercenary ne'er do wells instead of the honorable galactic elite like the Nova Corps. There was an element of mysticism in Guardians of the Galaxy which they wisely left mostly unexplored, like how the Force was treated in Star Wars '77. That's one of the faults of Star Wars: focusing way too hard on Jedi stuff, particularly glowstick fights. Empire got it just right. It gave us just enough Jedi stuff with Yoda training Luke (which never involved either of them dancefighting with glowsticks) while cutting back to Han doing scoundrel stuff to keep it fresh. The prequels are almost 100% Jedi business, and it's weird because you wind up learning more about the Force in Empire because almost all the prequel Jedi business is glowstick dancefighting. Glowstick dancefighting is only cool when you only use it sparingly and has some kind of emotion behind it, but man, in the prequels, those Jedis whip it out at the drop of a hat. There's a loud startling sound in the first scene of Phantom and boom they're lit up. Wouldn't a Jedi, like, try to feel with the Force to figure out what's going on first? burritolingus fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Dec 1, 2014 |
# ? Dec 1, 2014 04:55 |
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Also, the Jedi of the prequels (and its EU) are pretty hosed up. They're an organization that kidnaps babies and then forces their religious doctrines on these kids without their consent (including a vow of celibacy) and also trains these little kids in using a lightsaber at a very early age (some of those kids in Attack look like they're six), which is basically the most lethal weapon in the galaxy, and they don't have to answer to the Senate. Who thought any of this was a good idea? burritolingus fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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burritolingus posted:There was an element of mysticism in Guardians of the Galaxy which they wisely left mostly unexplored, like how the Force was treated in Star Wars '77. That's one of the faults of Star Wars: focusing way too hard on Jedi stuff, particularly glowstick fights. Empire got it just right. It gave us just enough Jedi stuff with Yoda training Luke (which never involved either of them dancefighting with glowsticks) while cutting back to Han doing scoundrel stuff to keep it fresh. The prequels are almost 100% Jedi business, and it's weird because you wind up learning more about the Force in Empire because almost all the prequel Jedi business is glowstick dancefighting. I know early on that a lot of people wanted more of the Cantina scene, with all these strange-looking characters and really simple way of worldbuilding, yet Lucas wanted to focus on the Skywalker family politics, especially in regard to the prequels.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:09 |
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burritolingus posted:Also, the Jedi of the prequels (and its EU) are pretty hosed up. Palpatine did nothing wrong.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:18 |
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kingcom posted:Palpatine did nothing wrong. I've heard, according to the EU, Palpatine did it all because he was trying to prepare for the Yuuzhan Vong invasion by uniting the inefficient Republic under a strong leadership. If that's true, yeah, he really isn't the bad guy here.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:25 |
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burritolingus posted:I've heard, according to the EU, Palpatine did it all because he was trying to prepare for the Yuuzhan Vong invasion by uniting the inefficient Republic under a strong leadership. If that's true, yeah, he really isn't the bad guy here. Same situation as a Dark Side Revan and the True Sith
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:32 |
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burritolingus posted:I've heard, according to the EU, Palpatine did it all because he was trying to prepare for the Yuuzhan Vong invasion by uniting the inefficient Republic under a strong leadership. If that's true, yeah, he really isn't the bad guy here. The longer the EU lasted the more it turns out that there were no villains ever and the constantly rampage of destruction across the galaxy was actually just a series of social mistakes.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:33 |
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Blowing up a tax paying planet is dumb as hell though. Also started watching that rebel star wars show and drat it's dumb as hell too, not just for stupid lightsaber gimmicks either.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:38 |
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Blowing up a tax paying planet is dumb as hell though. Also started watching that rebel star wars show and drat it's dumb as hell too, not just for stupid lightsaber gimmicks either. I like it when they get in gunfights repeatedly and nobody gives the kid a gun so he uses his lovely slingshot thing. Also how multiple crewmembers nearly murder him.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:40 |
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kingcom posted:I like it when they get in gunfights repeatedly and nobody gives the kid a gun so he uses his lovely slingshot thing. Also how multiple crewmembers nearly murder him. To be fair, he's totally annoying, so it makes sense.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:42 |
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kingcom posted:I like it when they get in gunfights repeatedly and nobody gives the kid a gun so he uses his lovely slingshot thing. Also how multiple crewmembers nearly murder him. I saw the first episode and the laser slingshot was actually effective against storm troopers, then by episode four or so it was just making their armor shimmer and one guy went from dodging them to just taking a golden shower to the face.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:44 |
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I saw the first episode and the laser slingshot was actually effective against storm troopers, then by episode four or so it was just making their armor shimmer and one guy went from dodging them to just taking a golden shower to the face. Yeah, I guess its like a taser or something so it might be annoying to the chump storm trooper but most aren't putting up with that. burritolingus posted:To be fair, he's totally annoying, so it makes sense. The droid trolling him repeatedly is the best part of the show and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:47 |
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kingcom posted:The longer the EU lasted the more it turns out that there were no villains ever and the constantly rampage of destruction across the galaxy was actually just a series of social mistakes. but then lucas comes in bumbling with some project that creates the most GGURRRRRR GOOD GUYS GOOD BAD GUYS BAD dichotomy possible. then the eu starts anew
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 05:47 |
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every sentence of every book not uttered by, to or about thrawn is garbage
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 06:25 |
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:every sentence of every book not uttered by, to or about thrawn is garbage The ones about thrawn are bad too. HTH
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# ? Dec 1, 2014 06:25 |
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What exactly did Karen Traviss write that gets people so up in arms? I'm almost completely unfamiliar with EU novels.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 01:32 |
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do fans count as eu
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 01:34 |
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david... posted:do fans count as eu It's the same fans who grew up adoring Star Wars that are now creating EU material so yes Which is why KOTOR2 owns, it was written out of spite
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