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cptn_dr posted:If I have ever been funny, go ahead and use my funny. Yeah, feel free to take anything I came up with.
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Casimir Radon posted:Lords of the Sith - Paul S Kemp seems alright, I haven't read his Jaden books though I would rate that Jaden duology among the worst SW books I've read. It doesn't even have the  factor that kind of redeems some of the really awful ones. It's just sad dumb nerd hamfisting. He can't manage a single worthwhile bit of dialogue or psychology, so the books are bloated with a bucketload of irrelevant and poorly executed sci-fi/horror tropes. Deceived, his SWTOR tie-in, is marginally better, but only in premise and character ideas that seem like they were fed in by a more creative thinker.
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Jan 19, 2015 06:30
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A quick heads-up before I toss 'em on eBay (moving in 2 weeks), I've got the Rogue/Wraith squadron books (plus I, Jedi if you wanna count that) for sale as a set over in SA Mart ($37 shipped). Plus I'm throwing in the two Klingon dictionaries I found, for that special Trekkie in your life.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:27
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Oh sure, but Heir to the Empire gets tossed to the wayside. Feel free to use anything from the Jedi Prince series I wrote up, if you want it. Though God help you for going through them again, if you do.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:32
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thrawn527 posted:Feel free to use anything from the Jedi Prince series I wrote up, if you want it. Though God help you for going through them again, if you do. Thanks Thrawn, and yeah, I've already ordered the first two off Amazon. Kinda had to seeing as 90% of the images from the original thread have disappeared into the ether. But that's okay, because I've already needed Glove for a little extra something. (linked for loving HUGE)
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Jan 21, 2015 01:25
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Thanks Thrawn, and yeah, I've already ordered the first two off Amazon. Kinda had to seeing as 90% of the images from the original thread have disappeared into the ether. But that's okay, because I've already needed Glove for a little extra something.
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Jan 21, 2015 01:34
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Casimir Radon posted:I've still got my copies if you need images. Much appreciated, thanks!
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Jan 21, 2015 02:12
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Future generations can appreciate the bad art of the Moffs chilling in the Moffship doing things. Moff things. Moff.
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Jan 21, 2015 02:14
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SeanBeansShako posted:Future generations can appreciate the bad art of the Moffs chilling in the Moffship doing things. I really hope folks appreciate my efforts regarding Thrawn and the Guy Who Says Retarded EU poo poo to Thrawn. It's going to take some work, but if it works as planned, it will be loving glorious.
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Jan 21, 2015 02:16
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Oh. GOG.com just released a second wave of Lucasarts games. XvT, Alliance, Battlegrounds, Battlefront II, and KOTOR II. There's also a countdown for more releases with about 35 hours left.
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Jan 21, 2015 03:11
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Casimir Radon posted:Oh. GOG.com just released a second wave of Lucasarts games. XvT, Alliance, Battlegrounds, Battlefront II, and KOTOR II. There's also a countdown for more releases with about 35 hours left. Ah, X-wing alliance, my favorite game in the series. Such a shame it never got a single xpac.
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Jan 21, 2015 04:13
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Oh PLEASE be X-Wing Alliance. It'd be hilarious though if it was something like Yoda's Stories instead. Or Force Commander. Wait. That isn't funny at all!
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Jan 21, 2015 14:14
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Was Battlefront 1 ever on PC? I honestly kind of liked it more although it might be nostalgia.
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Jan 21, 2015 16:00
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Yes it was on PC. I always liked the first one more as well, but they were both a lot of fun.
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StashAugustine posted:Was Battlefront 1 ever on PC? I honestly kind of liked it more although it might be nostalgia. Steam has battlefront 2, but it only works if there's a male AV port plugged into the microphone jack. Weirdest glitch ever.
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pentyne posted:Steam has battlefront 2, but it only works if there's a male AV port plugged into the microphone jack. Weirdest glitch ever. Also works if you enable stereo sound for some reason, though doing that has subsequently caused general sound glitches on my computer.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Oh PLEASE be X-Wing Alliance. I'll hear nothing of the sort! Yoda Stories was excellent 
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Jan 21, 2015 19:14
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brozozo posted:I'll hear nothing of the sort! Yoda Stories was excellent The only good thing about Force Commander was the game manual. Seriously, I still got it.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:41
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Star Wars Force Commander might be the reason why I dislike RTS games given that it's the first I've ever played
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Jan 21, 2015 21:53
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It was a pretty shite RTS. There a really goofy fun Age Of Empires clone based on Star Wars part of the GOG deal just mentioned worth playing though! Empire At War was okay-ish.
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Jan 21, 2015 22:04
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I always say this when to comes up, but empire at war is half awesome, half terrible. The space battles are great fun and the land battles are god awful.
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VaultAggie posted:I always say this when to comes up, but empire at war is half awesome, half terrible. The space battles are great fun and the land battles are god awful. I agree, and it really surprised me given that the game was made by the Command & Conquer people, so going into it I was expecting awesome land battles and terrible space ones.
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My new computer wouldn't let me play Dark Forces II or Mysteries of the Sith because it had to be set in 256 colours, or something like that. I worked out how to reset it but now they only open in a kind of windowed mode; you can't play them in full screen. It's a bit odd because a) this wasn't a problem on my old computer and b) Dark Forces, with its 1995 graphics, works without issue. Worth it for Christopher Neame as Jerec, of course. 
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VaultAggie posted:I always say this when to comes up, but empire at war is half awesome, half terrible. The space battles are great fun and the land battles are god awful. Pretty much, when I get the urge to play it I remember the Land Battles and then the urges just goes away. One of these days though, will try out that Thrawn era mod for it.
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I tried replaying EAW a couple weeks ago, since I enjoyed both space and ground battles (but space more), and... man, that game has not aged well.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Pretty much, when I get the urge to play it I remember the Land Battles and then the urges just goes away. One of these days though, will try out that Thrawn era mod for it. I tried it out but it seemed like it piled on too many unnecessary game mechanics, but I didn't look at it too long.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Pretty much, when I get the urge to play it I remember the Land Battles and then the urges just goes away. One of these days though, will try out that Thrawn era mod for it. Build groups of three speeders at a time (on the Rebel side), and just have them infiltrate every planet over and over again until you capture it. Then have a space battle. Easiest way to completely skip the worst part of the game.
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StashAugustine posted:I tried it out but it seemed like it piled on too many unnecessary game mechanics, but I didn't look at it too long. I don't really expect you can do much mod wise to EaW. I'll try it out anyway since I've been there and done that with the base game and expansion already.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I don't really expect you can do much mod wise to EaW. I'll try it out anyway since I've been there and done that with the base game and expansion already. You can do a lot of things in EAW for mods. Off the top of my head there are a few that add Super Star Destroyers of all stripe and variety.
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Strobe posted:You can do a lot of things in EAW for mods. Off the top of my head there are a few that add Super Star Destroyers of all stripe and variety. I'm thinking more of the lines of total conversion or new features, rather than the usual more toys to play with sort of mods.
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The best way to do land battles is to just blow up the planet with the Death Star. 
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General Battuta posted:Can you play XWA with a 360 pad? Yes. Maps pretty well by default, too.
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astr0man posted:GoG needs to release Rebellion No they don't. I've still got my disc. 
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Metal Loaf posted:My new computer wouldn't let me play Dark Forces II or Mysteries of the Sith because it had to be set in 256 colours, or something like that. I worked out how to reset it but now they only open in a kind of windowed mode; you can't play them in full screen. It's a bit odd because a) this wasn't a problem on my old computer and b) Dark Forces, with its 1995 graphics, works without issue. Oh man, that guy took so much relish in devouring the scenery it's impossible not love him.
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You can play Dark Forces in XL Engine. There are still some bugs but it's completable as far as I know. Being able to mouselook really makes a difference, one time playing the original executable I'd lost a couple lives on Fest by tumbling of cliffs, I'd just escaped the facility and ended up falling off one again resulting in a game over, I was pretty pissed. XL Engine is still being worked on though somewhat slowly, and he's concentrating on running Daggerfall in it right now.
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SeanBeansShako posted:It was a pretty shite RTS. There a really goofy fun Age Of Empires clone based on Star Wars part of the GOG deal just mentioned worth playing though! I got Force Commander at the age where anything Star Wars was worth spending as much time as possible on, and before I was good enough at games that being able to progress in a reasonable time or even master the game mechanics didn't matter at all. So I love it in the abstract but having revisited it a few times since and not gotten far, I wouldn't recommend it. That said, it's still one of the relatively SW games that has a really solid standalone story with good new characters and arcs and not tooooo much leaning on movie references. Contrast to Galactic Battlegrounds or Empire at War, especially. EaW had sick space battles, though. Certainly scratched an itch I'd had for like my whole life.
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Strobe posted:You can do a lot of things in EAW for mods. Off the top of my head there are a few that add Super Star Destroyers of all stripe and variety. I remember one mod that made the Super Star Destroyers the correct size in relation to the game's smaller capital ships and only half of one could fit on the screen.
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astr0man posted:GoG needs to release Rebellion imho they should give Paradox the license.
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