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Dr Christmas posted:Then again, Yoda had to put some effort into it, while in Force Unleashed the player character uses them as projectiles. Then he pulls a Star Destroyer out of he sky. Force Unleashed pseudo explains that as Starkiller being phenomenally naturally talented with the Force, though. They get around this little continuity problem by killing him in the good/canon ending 
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It's not like going ridiculously nutso with the force in a video game is a problem, it's just that they probably should've ended the game with palpatine waking up and going "What a weird dream, that's the last time I eat tacos before bedtime."
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Dec 9, 2015 03:26
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None of the crazy Force poo poo is even canon any more. We haven't seen anything, in the comics at least, much farther beyond the films.
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Dec 9, 2015 03:55
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Lurdiak posted:It's not like going ridiculously nutso with the force in a video game is a problem, it's just that they probably should've ended the game with palpatine waking up and going "What a weird dream, that's the last time I eat tacos before bedtime." Pulling a Super Mario 2 with that really would have been the best move. Even ignoring :sperg: canon debates, it would have been a nice bow to remind fans not to take the poo poo so seriously; it'd be a winking MST3K "it's just a show, I should really just relax."
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Dec 9, 2015 03:57
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You're implying Star Wars fans are capable of not taking things seriously when it comes to their precious cheese-monks.
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Dec 9, 2015 04:02
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Cheese monks?
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Dec 9, 2015 04:07
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I'm really dreading this explanation.
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Dec 9, 2015 04:10
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The comic about Star Wars being a roleplaying game has one of the characters saying that 'Jedi' sounds like a word for a fancy cheese.
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Dec 9, 2015 04:11
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Pureauthor posted:The comic about Star Wars being a roleplaying game has one of the characters saying that 'Jedi' sounds like a word for a fancy cheese. Darths and Droids is better than anything official produced since Splinter of the Mind's Eye.
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mind the walrus posted:Pulling a Super Mario 2 with that really would have been the best move. Even ignoring :sperg: canon debates, it would have been a nice bow to remind fans not to take the poo poo so seriously; it'd be a winking MST3K "it's just a show, I should really just relax." Lucas went the opposite direction and said The Force Unleashed was movie level canon. I'm pretty sure he'd stopped giving a poo poo by that point though. Toadstrieb posted:Goddamnit I forgot that one. Well, if I was gonna go with another objection to the "force superheroes" approach, I'd say that any unkillable character, or one that trivializes all normal human concerns for safety and wellbeing ruin stories unless the story is about how they're different in a way that isn't just pure difference or exceptional power. This is also why I think superheroes suck, so, it's not really starwars related. You, uh...you might be on the wrong forum here. Anyway, speaking as a hardcore Star Wars fanboy from birth, the new comics are awesome. I've never found myself thinking "[Character] would never say/do that!" I'd say the writers have the characters' voices and attitudes down, but it's not uncommon for a character to feel a little "off" when they're translated to such a dramatically different medium. It's just part of the trade-off. Luke may not look and "sound" exactly like Mark Hamill, but the visual experience will never be constrained by an effects budget, so I'd call it a win.
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I will never understand that attitude. The visual experience being constrained by budget/technology is the main thing that made the original Star Wars movies so remarkable. Without the miniatures, the puppeteering, the kitbashed starships, and so on, Star Wars is really nothing special. You're basically asking for the special editions or the prequel trilogy if you think having an unlimited budget and unrestrained visual effects makes Star Wars better in any way.
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Travis343 posted:I will never understand that attitude. The visual experience being constrained by budget/technology is the main thing that made the original Star Wars movies so remarkable. Without the miniatures, the puppeteering, the kitbashed starships, and so on, Star Wars is really nothing special. You would get a rip off of a Japanese film
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Not better, necessarily, but working with a different toolkit gives the creators an opportunity to try different things. This could go terribly, terribly wrong, of course. Prequels, etc. But I'm liking how the new comics are handling the balancing act so far. They've avoided going crazy with the wacky Force powers and focused on vibrant setting and character designs, while taking the opportunity to show us applications of the Force that aren't limited to handwaving and wirework. The scene in which Vader first hears the name "Skywalker" wouldn't have worked the same on film, for example. Personally, I think the comics are a perfect way to tell the stories between the movies, as long as they keep managing the talent as well as they have so far.
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I am not a hardcore fan or anything my main problem is the new comics seem to be repeating the exact issues of the EU and to a lesser extent the prequels. While also giving us nothing interesting to do anything with. The only real appeal these comics seem to have are "I remember this" which does not appeal to me at all.
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zoux posted:Cheese monks? Lurdiak posted:I'm really dreading this explanation. Cheese monks! They've already gotten through the prequels and are doing the original trilogy now. The 'jedi cheese' thing is on the third comic. Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 06:18
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I stopped reading that thing when it got away from being dumb dnd jokes about things happening in star wars and became its own complicated fanfic story.
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I keep reading it because it takes 2 minutes out of my massively busy day but yeah, it's kinda gotten away from what it was supposed to be.
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Dec 9, 2015 14:36
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Holy gently caress you nerds post badass panels. The last panel posted (Vader) was TWO PAGES AGO. gently caress you. Here's an extra long sequence to get us back on track. From Godzilla in Hell #5: After fighting through the various layers of hell, Godzilla finally reaches the end of the line.        THE END?      
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Dec 9, 2015 14:53
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Genuinely want to see that done with practical Japanese effects.
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Dec 9, 2015 15:01
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Put that in Godzilla 2 I'll buy a dozen tickets.
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"I am Godzilla, we are many"? Cool. Ridiculous and scary, but cool.
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That whole sequence was genuinely incredibly impressive. Had 0 idea what was going to happen or what had been happening and didn't need to know to enjoy some rad visual storytelling.
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Toadstrieb posted:That whole sequence was genuinely incredibly impressive. Had 0 idea what was going to happen or what had been happening and didn't need to know to enjoy some rad visual storytelling. The series is only 5 issues, each one with a different artist. There's very little dialogue throughout the whole thing. All you needed to know is "Godzilla is in Hell". It's a very fun visual ride. The art in a couple of the issues wasn't great but between this one, #1 (by Stokoe) and #2 (by Eggleton) the series was outstanding start to finish.
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I like that they answered the 'who would win in a race?' nerd debate.
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Secret Wars #8 poo poo continues to go down and the whole issue is a massive fight bringing together everything    
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SynthOrange posted:Secret Wars #8 Man, I LOVE how they've been illustrating Thanos in this. Instead of just being a grape with a face he's got genuine expression. He's conveying emotions, which range from  when the Thors were attacking to this grand smugness. It's wonderful.
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Dec 10, 2015 03:32
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Man I gotta catch up on Secret Wars
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ManiacClown posted:Man, I LOVE how they've been illustrating Thanos in this. Instead of just being a grape with a face he's got genuine expression. He's conveying emotions, which range from I know the delays suck, but it's kinda worth it to have Ribic's art. I think this is a crossover that will age very well, once people forget about the delays. No one does a better Galactus than Ribic/Svorcina. Also I know they're shoving Starlord in everywhere because of the movies but I don't really care. Guardians are cool.
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ManiacClown posted:Man, I LOVE how they've been illustrating Thanos in this. Instead of just being a grape with a face he's got genuine expression. He's conveying emotions, which range from Too bad Doom explodes him a panel later.
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Gaz-L posted:Too bad Doom explodes him a panel later. He'll be fine.
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zoux posted:I know the delays suck, but it's kinda worth it to have Ribic's art. I think this is a crossover that will age very well, once people forget about the delays. No one does a better Galactus than Ribic/Svorcina. It's exactly why he's in there, and it doesn't matter. It's great. The Groot toothpick has a little face and everything.
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Hickman put Starlord in because he liked Chris Pratt.quote:I always knew Doom's throne was going to be the World Tree, but then, we started going back and forth with the editors and the other creators about who some of the extra people in the raft we're going to be at the "Secret Wars" retreat. The "Guardians" movie had just come out, and we had all seen it, and I knew I wanted to write Star-Lord because Chris Pratt was so good as Peter Quill. I like how Ribic is drawing Thanos, but Ron Lim is still my definitive Thanos artist.
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Endless Mike posted:Hickman put Starlord in because he liked Chris Pratt. I'm sure editorial didn't want Starlord pushed at all either.
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I'm always a little sad that Star-Lord is less a sometimes cold and manipulative prick that can be a goof and more Chris Pratt now, but he's probably moved up to the B-List at least so I'm not too mad. I just wish they remembered the guy that founded the Guardians by having the entire team mind-controlled a little more often. There was a little of that before he Grooted the World Tree, so that's something.
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mind the walrus posted:I'm sure editorial didn't want Starlord pushed at all either. I honestly think Star-Lord would have a bigger role than "comic relief pilot who has a Deus Ex Tree in his back pocket" if his placement in the story was a big cross-branding editorial push.
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Cabbit posted:I honestly think Star-Lord would have a bigger role than "comic relief pilot who has a Deus Ex Tree in his back pocket" if his placement in the story was a big cross-branding editorial push. That implies that the main book of Secret Wars was anything other than a series of brief character check-ins while all the actual events happen in other books.
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mind the walrus posted:That implies that the main book of Secret Wars was anything other than a series of brief character check-ins while all the actual events happen in other books. This implies that you haven't actually read poo poo.
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I've only read the main event book mostly to see how comprehensible it is, and it really is nothing more than character check-ins followed by the occasional 1-3 page set-piece. I feel like huge chunks of the story are missing. Unless you count Doom masturbating constantly to himself.
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mind the walrus posted:That implies that the main book of Secret Wars was anything other than a series of brief character check-ins while all the actual events happen in other books. What are you talking about
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mind the walrus posted:I feel like huge chunks of the story are missing.
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