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RFC2324 posted:I saw this too. The timeline described in that article reads just like the timeline of the EU books, if you strip out the details of specific personalities(and the 50000 secret apprentices/clones who never actually made a difference anyway). The whole thing with the Ravager SSD is basically Thrawn(and his failure due to a large Alliance fleet with superior tactics) i just don't get the obsession nerds have with needing to know every bit of minutiae in the media they like. they comic booking of everything is mad poo poo.
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Xenomrph posted:Is it available on Netflix/streaming anywhere? it could be tbh, i think disney/abc just did a huge thing w netflix but idk
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Groovelord Neato posted:i just don't get the obsession nerds have with needing to know every bit of minutiae in the media they like. they comic booking of everything is mad poo poo. 
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SaltLick posted:He was the biggest goon and died to the cocky jock. A fitting end Man, I'd forgotten all about that book. The only redeeming bit of it was Xizor's (??) death. He spent the whole book bragging about how important he was to the working of the empire, blah blah blah. Darth Vader didn't really give a poo poo about Xizor at all, until Xizor mildly inconvenienced him. Then Vader killed the dude because he could, with trivial ease. And then wannabe Han Solo died. The book redeemed itself pretty well.
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Sep 17, 2015 04:18
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Xenomrph posted:It was in the novel (and maybe the comic series?), but not the video game. Oh. I'm glad I knew nothing about this multimedia venture.
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Kandak Sayaqa posted:Man, I'd forgotten all about that book. The only redeeming bit of it was Xizor's (??) death. He spent the whole book bragging about how important he was to the working of the empire, blah blah blah. Darth Vader didn't really give a poo poo about Xizor at all, until Xizor mildly inconvenienced him. Then Vader killed the dude because he could, with trivial ease. wasn't his name like Dash Render or something? lol the n64 game was pretty cool though
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spacemang_spliff posted:wasn't his name like Dash Render or something? Thats it, he had the best poo poo-eating grin though. 
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Sep 17, 2015 04:42
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kingcom posted:Thats it, he had the best poo poo-eating grin though. lol he loks like Paul Walker (but not dead)
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Sep 17, 2015 04:43
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spacemang_spliff posted:wasn't his name like Dash Render or something? Dash Rendar was in the movies too, he was flying the snowspeeder on Hoth that flew in and blew up the AT-AT after Wedge tripped it with the tow cable.
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Sep 17, 2015 04:52
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gohuskies posted:Dash Rendar was in the movies too, he was flying the snowspeeder on Hoth that flew in and blew up the AT-AT after Wedge tripped it with the tow cable. Hoth levels are pretty sweet.
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spacemang_spliff posted:wasn't his name like Dash Render or something? It's been a really long time since I read Shadows of the Empire or played the videogame. The best part about the game is it laid the groundwork for the really great Rogue Squadron games. gohuskies posted:Dash Rendar was in the movies too, he was flying the snowspeeder on Hoth that flew in and blew up the AT-AT after Wedge tripped it with the tow cable.  Groovelord Neato posted:i just don't get the obsession nerds have with needing to know every bit of minutiae in the media they like. they comic booking of everything is mad poo poo. Finally one day I was looking at all of my Star Wars poo poo and realized that I didn't care about the vast majority of it, and everything else I was never going to read again and was just taking up space. So I sold off like all of the books except for the few I cared about and I knew I'd read again (the X-wing books, the short story anthologies), all of the video games except the ones I cared about (the X-wing/TIE Fighter series, Rogue Squadron series), all of the comics except the ones I gave a poo poo about (the Rogue Squadron ones - noticing a pattern? - and the Tales of the Jedi stuff) and freed up a ton of room in my house. And then Lucasfilm went and said everything was non-canon anyway lol But I don't care, I re-read the X-wing comics and books because they're fun to read and I like Star Wars starfighters dogfighting and blowing poo poo up, and I'm not really bothered if it's not "The True History Of The Star Wars Galaxy" anymore or whatever. My interest in Star Wars dwindled for a long while, even in the face of the new movie coming out and the hype train gaining speed, but I recently got hooked on the X-wing miniatures game (who would have guessed?) and having fun with that, and it's making me want to re-read the X-wing books/comics and see if I still enjoy them as much as I thought I did. and that's a lot of words about Star Wars Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Xenomrph posted:I recently got hooked on the X-wing miniatures game (who would have guessed?) and having fun with that, I really want to check out the Armada game(I love cappy ships) but hosed if I am gonna pay 100$ for the base game when I know I'll have trouble finding people to play against.
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Sep 17, 2015 05:20
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I only know a lot about the background characters cuz of the card game. I used to know the names, allegiance, and reason for being at the cantina at the time for all the cantina aliens. The  bat lady and brainiac were my favorites.
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Sep 17, 2015 05:27
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Did they just abandon force unleashed I heard the second one was very lovely
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Sep 17, 2015 05:47
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Uncle Wemus posted:Did they just abandon force unleashed I heard the second one was very lovely Pretty much. It was solely a Lucasfilm Games project and wasn't canon to begin with, so the new owners have no reason to continue it.
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Sep 17, 2015 05:58
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Yoda stories was actually a cool and good game
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Young Freud posted:Pretty much. It was solely a Lucasfilm Games project and wasn't canon to begin with, so the new owners have no reason to continue it.
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Xenomrph posted:I remember them making a Big Deal about how it was canon when it came out, because Lucas himself had a hand in its creation or something. Darth Icky
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Sep 17, 2015 06:14
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Holy poo poo I'd totally forgotten about that
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Sep 17, 2015 06:39
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Uncle Wemus posted:Did they just abandon force unleashed I heard the second one was very lovely The first level of Force Unleashed 1 (which was also the demo) is the only genuinely good thing that came out of any of that. Everything that comes after that gets steadily worse in a number of inventive ways to be bad. Both of them felt rather rushed, the second one far more so. The idea of playing Star Wars Goku is awesome but they hosed up a lot of things along the way. The level design and "story" in the second one are awful and it's basically a 13-year-old's fanfic where he meets all the original series characters, who either wave at him or he kills them.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:The first level of Force Unleashed 1 (which was also the demo) is the only genuinely good thing that came out of any of that. Everything that comes after that gets steadily worse in a number of inventive ways to be bad. Both of them felt rather rushed, the second one far more so. Except Leia who ignores him and calls him a chump. Still the best character.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:The first level of Force Unleashed 1 (which was also the demo) is the only genuinely good thing that came out of any of that. Everything that comes after that gets steadily worse in a number of inventive ways to be bad. Both of them felt rather rushed, the second one far more so. Are you counting the first level as the prologue where you play as Vader and just massacre wookiees, or the one where you attack that rebel outpost, killing stormtrooper and rebel alike? Either way, 
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Otisburg posted:Are you counting the first level as the prologue where you play as Vader and just massacre wookiees, or the one where you attack that rebel outpost, killing stormtrooper and rebel alike? Well the "first" level in my mind is the demo level, which was holy poo poo amazing. Then the rest of the game is finding ways to not let you do cool things. The Vader level where you just slaughter all those stupid loving wookiees is also great. FU1 still has its charms because the story is ultimate-level convoluted and weird even by EU standards.
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Uncle Wemus posted:Did they just abandon force unleashed I heard the second one was very lovely LucasArts is long gone. Heres some news articles from google about it. It was lame. http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749 http://kotaku.com/how-lucasarts-fell-apart-1401731043 quote:The second step was a project called Version Two, designed to show off vehicle prototypes and other Battlefront elements that didn’t make it into First Assault. This “Version Two” grew from the remnants of a project code-named Wingman that was going to be a Wii U title modeled after the old TIE Fighter and X-Wing games. Now, it would instead be part of the Battlefront plan. Actually it's sad the studio what made maniac mansion got shuttered but by then they had gone mad. A x wing/tie fighter revival on the loving Wii U. Retards. Cyberball 2072 fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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kingcom posted:Darth Icky What i think of when i read that:  (Al ´s nickname was "Icky")
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Improbable Lobster posted:For a clown to read This is a good post
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it'd umb how the force made everyone into dbz characters too because the emperor is super duper powerful and they show that by him being able to manifest lightning. nobody moves goddamn star destroyers with their minds.
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TFU2 ended up coming out just as they were shuttering Lucasarts. It's fairly evident that somewhere in development the studio got completely gutted as the game has like 4 stages, one of which is used twice. At one point in the game you go to Dagobah to talk to Yoda and the entire level is getting out of your ship, walking across a small area and a cutscene with Yoda which ends with you leaving the planet.
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A Tie Fighter/X Wing revival using the gamepad as a cockpit control panel to do shields and engine power and stuff would be loving awesome actually.
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Sep 17, 2015 15:54
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An X/T revival of any kind would be loving awesome, tbh
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muscles like this? posted:At one point in the game you go to Dagobah to talk to Yoda and the entire level is getting out of your ship, walking across a small area and a cutscene with Yoda which ends with you leaving the planet. This is where I tapped out and played something good.
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SaltLick posted:Yoda stories was actually a cool and good game Why isn't Yoda Stories an app by now? I'm not a programmer, but I think they could triple the number of mission setups for randomization and a team of programmers would still knock it out in a few months.
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homullus posted:Why isn't Yoda Stories an app by now? I'm not a programmer, but I think they could triple the number of mission setups for randomization and a team of programmers would still knock it out in a few months. you inspired me and i am now playing yoda stories in windows 8.1 with no issues
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homullus posted:Why isn't Yoda Stories an app by now? I'm not a programmer, but I think they could triple the number of mission setups for randomization and a team of programmers would still knock it out in a few months. I loved the scenario where you crash on Endor before you even get to Dagobah
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Improbable Lobster posted:I loved the scenario where you crash on Endor before you even get to Dagobah same
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lmao you go meet Yoda in the force unleashed 2?
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Xenomrph posted:Shadows of the Empire was a "multimedia event", the idea being that the only way to get the "whole picture" was to buy/play/read everything cross various media. It also did that thing where every character was a super-important person without whom humanity could not have triumphed. Except they did it in reverse so instead of like in Star Wars where one-scene background characters from the movies had entire novels or comics devoted to them, the Matrix made novels and comics about people who then became one-scene background characters in the movies. Of course then Reloaded came out and was a mish-mash of bad CGI and a plot that even Hugo Weaving hamming it up couldn't save (although the car chase does rule). Then Revolutions was released and poisoned the well so much the entire franchise now only exists as a single red pill reference used by MRAs, pick-up artists and far-right reactionaries.
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Tender Bender posted:A Tie Fighter/X Wing revival using the gamepad as a cockpit control panel to do shields and engine power and stuff would be loving awesome actually. Idk touch screens and motion controls suck Didn't Han fight a giant space weasel in the eu
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Sounds like the Selonians, one of the sentient races from in and around the Corellian system, so probably yeah Holy poo poo I can't believe I remember a lot of this poo poo
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Touch screen/second screen stuff sucks when it's shoehorned in just as a gimmick, but I think having the controls for power regulation as sliders and maybe shield arc settings on the touchscreen would actually be a good and motivated use of the Wii U gamepad, keeping the actual flight controls mapped to the sticks and buttons. I want a Starwar on the Wii U.
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