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Games aren't required to be canonical. I'm honestly kinda surprised the single player campaign is slated to be a canonical story
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The same thing happened back in Pandemic's Battlefront 2.
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Unctuous Cretin posted:I know it's a Star Wars deathmatch game and the trailer is just to show that, and that there's plenty more immediately following, but the canon-smashing implications of Darth Maul leading a CIS attack was jarring. The gameplay shown today has Rey and Han on the other side leading the clone forces.
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Jun 11, 2017 05:32
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Really the stuff outside campaign is a bunch of what if scenarios we all did as kids with the toys of this franchise anyway.
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Jun 11, 2017 14:47
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I just want Galactic Conquest back in this game.
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Jun 11, 2017 21:20
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pubic works project posted:I just want Galactic Conquest back in this game. Yes, this, exactly.
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Dave Syndrome posted:Vos started out as an unnamed background extra in The Phantom Menace (during the scene where Sebulba attacks Jar Jar Binks), and later became a long-running protagonist of Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Republic series, which was published between Episodes II and III. During that time, Quinlan Vos became something of a fan favorite, and that seemed enough to earn him a space on The Clone Wars TV show (which effectively overwrote the comics continuity). If I remember right, back in the day, John Ostrander who created and wrote most of Vos's stuff for Dark Horse mentioned that he was almost a writer on the Clone Wars show but got turned down by Dave Filoni. I wonder what his thought on the new interpretation of Vos is. If I remember right, the novel also has a throwaway line that kills Master Tholme off-screen prior to the events of the Clone Wars cartoon too.
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Claudia Gray has a new book coming out in September. Simply titled Leia, it's marketed as a YA novel.
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Jun 15, 2017 04:50
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It seems like all the books lately have been overwhelmingly marketed to YA demographic. I feel a little silly but I miss having "adult" oriented star wars books. Hopefully the Phasma novel they are working on ends up being interesting and fleshes out the history of the first order.
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If adult star wars novels constitute Troy Denning torture porn then I'm all for having more straightforward YA literature.
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Jun 15, 2017 06:36
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Lost Stars has the most maturely written sex scene in the entire EU and new canon. They're almost universally bad across all literature, so the rare one that's actually well written stands out. Edit: Remember that the worst of the worst is an implied sexual assault against Ben Skywalker by Tahiri. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Jun 15, 2017 |
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Jun 15, 2017 06:46
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Casimir Radon posted:Edit: Remember that the worst of the worst is an implied sexual assault against Ben Skywalker by Tahiri. I try not to.
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:It seems like all the books lately have been overwhelmingly marketed to YA demographic. I feel a little silly but I miss having "adult" oriented star wars books. Hopefully the Phasma novel they are working on ends up being interesting and fleshes out the history of the first order. I mean....they've put out close to a dozen regular, non-YA, novels so far in the new continuity
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So, a friend of mine got me a copy of the Thrawn novel for my birthday. Is it any good, or should I sell it?
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VolticSurge posted:So, a friend of mine got me a copy of the Thrawn novel for my birthday. Is it any good, or should I sell it?
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Casimir Radon posted:It's the best of the new canon so far followed closely by Lost Stars. Thank God. I was worried it was gonna be lovely. Because Thrawn's an easy character to gently caress up. Edit: From what I've read so far, Thrawn's internal monologue reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. Really digging it.
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VolticSurge posted:Because Thrawn's an easy character to gently caress up. The novel is written by the author who originally created Thrawn.
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The only other places Thrawn has shown up are in Tatooine Ghost, and a couple cameos in Soldier for the Empire and The Swarm from Galaxy of Fear.
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Casimir Radon posted:The only other places Thrawn has shown up are in Tatooine Ghost, and a couple cameos in Soldier for the Empire and The Swarm from Galaxy of Fear.  And Rebels
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The Galaxy of Fear one amuses me the most because those books were a weird mix of grim dark scooby doobumps.
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SeanBeansShako posted:The Galaxy of Fear one amuses me the most because those books were a weird mix of grim dark scooby doobumps. They were Goosebumps Star Wars style right? I never read them but I read a lot of Goosebumps, so when I read a Dan Wallace interview where he reminisced about how they'd have chapters that ended "He stepped off the starship and heard a bloodcurdling scream" then the next one started "But it was only a cat or something" I knew exactly what he was talking about. I understand Jerec from Dark Forces II was a big villain in those books.
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Yeah I only read the one as a kid, in true Star Wars fashion it was set on a planet who's entire theme was being space cementary and Boba Fett and that loveable couple in Mos Eisley cantina being I think the cameo characters?
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Yeah I love how those galaxy of fear Kids kept stumbling into every famous character in the galaxy
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Is there a story behind Kenobi learning Vader's identity or is it assumed he simply did the math when Palpatine's robot apprentice showed up?
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Wheat Loaf posted:I understand Jerec from Dark Forces II was a big villain in those books. Probably the darkest thing that happens is in The Brain Spiders. A serial killer who is working with Jabba gets his brain implanted in Tash's body, while Tash is stranded in a brain spider. He goes and kills an Imperial officer who'd been trying to track him down and carves a "K" into his forehead. I remember that 20 years later. I'd consider going back to read the couple of them that I missed. They can't possibly hold up worse than YJK. "Good thing you are Young Jedi Knights, ha ha!" Said Han Solo.
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Is there a story behind Kenobi learning Vader's identity or is it assumed he simply did the math when Palpatine's robot apprentice showed up? There's a bit in the security hologram he watches with Yoda where they see Palpatine address Anakin as Darth Vader, isn't there?
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Is there a story behind Kenobi learning Vader's identity or is it assumed he simply did the math when Palpatine's robot apprentice showed up? In the old stuff, it's shown in the last chapter of Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader Obi wan is in a bar on Tatooine, when a news bulletin comes up about the empire taking over kashyyyk and Vader was part of it. It only takes place a week or so after RotS so he knows about it pretty early. I don't think it's been revealed in the new canon yet.
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Yeah, Obi-Wan and Yoda already know Anakin is "Vader" by the end of ROTS (and I suppose Bail Organa does too), but I don't think they've shown any of them specifically learning about Vader's new cyborg form in any of the new canon materials.
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Zoran posted:Yeah, Obi-Wan and Yoda already know Anakin is "Vader" by the end of ROTS (and I suppose Bail Organa does too), but I don't think they've shown any of them specifically learning about Vader's new cyborg form in any of the new canon materials. Until the Vader prequel movie in 2026.
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Question. Of the new canon books I've only read thrawn. I have aftermath. What other books should I pick up and read? I read all of the old books from EU up until 2011
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jivjov posted:Games aren't required to be canonical. I'm honestly kinda surprised the single player campaign is slated to be a canonical story ehh. irs new canon and right now new canon is pretty sparse. i am fine with a cool canon game where you play as some imperial commando lady shooting rebels and making the first order. Zoran posted:Yeah, Obi-Wan and Yoda already know Anakin is "Vader" by the end of ROTS (and I suppose Bail Organa does too), but I don't think they've shown any of them specifically learning about Vader's new cyborg form in any of the new canon materials. not sure. i am sure one of the marvel comics have it probaly.
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Casimir Radon posted:He's in Spore which is if I remember correctly one of two books that I never read. It's no the cemetary planet one. The overarching villian of most of the books is a guy named Gog. Dash Rendar probably had the biggest role for an EU character, he was a main character in The Doomsday Ship. I remember reading some YJK and thinking "hmm what if this wasn't written for kids?" Then I read Jedi Academy and though "oh no KJA is just really loving bad"
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RC Cola posted:Question. Of the new canon books I've only read thrawn. I have aftermath. What other books should I pick up and read? I read all of the old books from EU up until 2011 Lost Stars. It's considered Young Adult, but it's near universally considered the best of the new canon, and feels more mature and grown up than your average Star Wars book. Also, Bloodline, which is more of a political book than pew pew Star Wars action, but it's really good. Both of these books are by Claudia Gray, so she's rocketed to the top of my "must read" list for future Star Wars books. Beyond that you get less of a consensus, but I really enjoyed Lords of the Sith. Tarkin really isn't worth your time. The Aftermath books are love them or hate them, as a warning. Everything else in the new canon has been fine, but not very stand out. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Jun 19, 2017 |
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Muppetjedi posted:In the old stuff, it's shown in the last chapter of Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader
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Also Chuck Wendig is a thin skinned rear end who threw a tantrum because people didn't all like his book and started accusing people who disliked it of being homophobes because of his lesbian moff lady.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Also Chuck Wendig is a thin skinned rear end who threw a tantrum because people didn't all like his book and started accusing people who disliked it of being homophobes because of his lesbian moff lady. You're not wrong. However he took part in an author's panel at Celebration this year, with Timothy Zahn, Delilah Dawson, and Christie Golden, and Wendig was the only person saving that thing from being god awful boring. I love Zahn, the man can write, but whooo boy is he boring on a panel. Wending was making jokes left and right, talking about alternate ideas on how some book would end, how Ewoks are vicious killers, etc. He was a lot of fun, so I can't hate the man. fake edit: Oh, and how he wrote the Jar Jar section of Empire's End assuming Lucasfilm would never let him use it, so really just for fun. He said when they first started reading the section, they stopped and said, "No way." But then kept reading and by the end said, "....yeah okay, sure," and he was shocked.
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I've read Tarkin, Bloodlines and Empires end, is there a book that goes more into the "ok, now we're out here hiding, we're called the first order and here's the plan!"?
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504 posted:I've read Tarkin, Bloodlines and Empires end, is there a book that goes more into the "ok, now we're out here hiding, we're called the first order and here's the plan!"? Other than the setup in Empire's End, not so much yet. I'd wager they're waiting on VIII and IX before getting too much into that
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Arcsquad12 posted:Also Chuck Wendig is a thin skinned rear end who threw a tantrum because people didn't all like his book and started accusing people who disliked it of being homophobes because of his lesbian moff lady. Don't forget that according to him his books getting negative reviews are due to a vast conspiracy to destroy his career because of [reasons]. I also liked that around this time last year, he accused people who disliked him of being evil for not sending all of their money to some charity for Syrian refugees or something like that. It was incredibly bizarre.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Also Chuck Wendig is a thin skinned rear end who threw a tantrum because people didn't all like his book and started accusing people who disliked it of being homophobes because of his lesbian moff lady. Hold on, the moff was a lesbian? I only read the first of those books and certainly got that impression from her, but the explicitly gay person in the book was the ex-commissar.
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