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hunkofsoup posted:That being said, yesterday I received a package in the mail containing this: You realise you're two books short of the full series right? Also on the announcements: I'm so glad the multi-book series are out the door after the abortion that was LOTF. Fate of the Jedi basically seems to be a series designed to unfuck the one that came before it and that's a pretty big indication they cocked up Hopefully this will lead to better authors writing with more regularity (Zahn, Stover, even Luceno) with less horrific storylines and continuity gently caress ups (Traviss, Denning). Also hopefully it'll leave us with more novels that stand on their own as great books, instead of just feeling like the latest episode in a soap. Also the Wraith Squadron return has me all 
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Residency Evil posted:I think I know the answer to this question, but is there ANY way that we'll see episodes 7-9? Or at least a followup set a few years later? I know Lucas has said no, but he does love money a whole lot. He is altering the franchise, pray he doesn't alter it any further.
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hunkofsoup posted:They're arriving later this week from Amazon, along with I, Jedi and Vector Prime. (My library has the Thrawn duology, which I'll read before tackling NJO.) You've taken your first step into a larger world.
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WhyteRyce posted:There is no reason why he can't have Wraith Squadron still fighting in the pre-NJO era. This was some behind-the-scenes commando squad anyway and the SW universe is huge, there is no reason they have to be involve in some huge galaxy spanning conflict that the Big 3 are a part of. Hell you can just have them fighting space pirates and it would be still great. You could easily sit them in a post-LOTF era. Or any era. The point of Wraith Squadron is they stir poo poo up with whacky schemes to destabalise enemies. Pirate gangs, warlords etc. can be set pretty much anywhere from 6ABY onwards. They could stick it in Legacy era if they wanted.
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Azzmo posted:Here be rankings I really enjoyed SOTME when I read it (I was about 12). Rose-tinted memories? I'm also surprised to see Allegiance in the middle of the Corellian trilogy. I thought it was a good book and I loved the Stormtroopers-go-rogue-but-don't-go-rebel angle.
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Throb Robinson posted:Pretty much. Especially now that George has figured out the the Clone wars = $$$. I think we have like three separate versions of how the Clone wars happened. I think the Dark Horse stories put out are gone due to the show and I would think the old Clone wars show is gone now too due to the TV show. So far it's entirely possible to ignore the Clone Wars TV series because all the EU lit around the CWs have already been written, and there's no apparent intention for the era to be revisited any time soon outside tie-in literature (which is fine by me) - they're probably going to wait for the series to pan out before going back in to unfuck things. It's definitely fair to say the canon is in a worse shape than it's been in awhile. Personally I fancy making my own canon which relegates the current animated series, and anything post NJO before Legacy, to apocryphal texts, along with anything else I feel like (I like relegating Dark Empire to a clone trick rather than the actual reincarnated spirit of Palpatine).
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T-1000 posted:This would force us to learn how crappy the later EU is. I'll pass. Also they'd be in their fifties and sixties and that's just weird. I would hope that, free of the tyranny of being ordered to write novels about the big 3 who should just be loving retired and taking long baths all day, Allston would not be afraid to write new squadron members with only cameos from the old cast members, if he chose to write in that era. I imagine even the era isn't going to be finalised until FOTJ is finished and he can sit down and write an outline to submit to Del Rey. I'd love to see an original adventure so I've no problem with setting it post-LOTF. Just because the rest of the literature set around that time is horrible doesn't mean a good story cannot be told in that setting. Crosscurrent was set post-LOTF and I really enjoyed it. Just thinking what was lovely about LOTF: they really played on the cultural distrust of the conflict in the Middle East when they wrote the story and it was loving pathetic. Traviss especially took the retarded comparison to its worst levels, with "axis of evil" allegories, IIRC. They thought they were tapping into the love for "gritty", morally ambiguous poo poo in the media at a time when, like in 1977, people were so depressed by real life that they wanted uplifting escapism from their media again - this is why the TV series Glee is such a hit IMO, and why Flashforward bombed in spite of doing its best to recreate the things that made Lost popular. If you think about it, the early 90s EU stuff was still pretty upbeat, with easily identifiable (if sometimes interesting and likeable e.g. Zahn's stuff), limited danger and fairly happy endings, and descended into gritty about the same time shows like Lost, BSG, 24 etc. started appearing on telly. I do think they are attempting to simplify and upbeat things in FOTJ with some fairly identifiable evils, a simple old school father-and-son road trip, whacky Han and Leia's grandaughter etc., but they're just struggling with the execution because of the turd that came before it, and because of the limited abilities of the authors. DougieFFC fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Aug 16, 2010 |
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Azzmo posted:I speculate that many people, as you're probably about to see, have a personal dislike for Traviss that transcends and ignores the good writing that she has done. The Republic Commando books are some of my favorite Star Wars literature - action stories about small unit operations which ask moralistic questions that might face a soldier and his commanding officers. One of the greatest things is that the stories are self-contained and have very little of the George Lucas taint (ridiculous names, reminders that the prequels exist, attempts to give the prequel storyline some meaning and reason for having existed). Instead it's just guerilla and spec-ops warfare by soldiers who are slowly maturing and starting to ask questions of the world around them. There is certainly a justified, personal dislike for Traviss that transcends any of the writing (some good, more atrocious) she has written, with good reason. Her treatment of fans was despicable – commenting how she’d like to garrotte or slit the throats of her detractors, comparing them to terrorists, comparing people who defend the Jedi to Nazis, etc. etc. She doesn’t read other novels for research and justifies this laziness by saying it offers her a “fresh approach”. There’s plenty to dislike. But I could deal with an author being a oval office. I don’t really care about that, and if her books had been consistently good I wouldn’t care. What I care about is consistent characterisation and continuity, something she doesn’t give a poo poo about, and yet something which, when writing in a universe with hundreds of pieces of established literature all (supposedly) fitting together without contradiction, is pretty loving important. She clearly has a polemic she thinks is “edgy” about how despicable the Jedi Order is. Fine, tell the story, tell a story from the POV of traditional antagonists, ask questions you think we’re afraid to ask, but that doesn’t give you an excuse to re-characterise Jedi behaviour and customs for the sake of your "point". Every Jedi in her stories is a simpleminded straw man that never talks back or rebuts the rants (which are really the author talking) levelled against them in her novels. And the criticisms of the Order exist almost exclusively in her novels: - From everyone, including Jedi characters, genuinely seeming to think that the Jedi Order steals babies from their parents, even though dozens of sources establish that the Jedi must obtain free consent of the parents; - To the CW novel re-scripting a scene from the movie where she discovers that a droid is a spy who tries to kill her with half a dozen battle droids, into a disturbing execution scene where she murders an unarmed sentient droid because it questions her beliefs; - To the LOTF novels where the Jedi are somehow to blame for not helping Mandalore resist Yuuzhan Vong invasion, even though this never happened until she wrote it, even though the Jedi weren’t in charge of the military resources that were stretched very thin forcing conscious decisions not to defend many worlds, and even though the Jedi were the only reason a galactic civilisation that turned against them actually won that war (not that Jaina says any of this). I’m all for asking the “ugly questions” of the Jedi Order. They’ve made mistakes in their history and their ascetic attitude post-Ruusan was a big mistake that led to their downfall. But do it without making Jedi characters so retarded and re-characterising established characters like Luke and Jaina so horrifically that it ruins the immersion entirely. And Hard Contact and Triple Zero were decent novels (I don't objectively see anything in them to call them "great" and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone wanting to read a Star Wars because there's very little Star Wars-y about them) But each book after that was progressively worse until Imperial Commando. That novel was 430-some pages of unlikeable, characters (whose internal dialogues were nearly indistinguishable) moping around their trillionaire mansion planning things that never come to fruition. There are 3 small action scenes in the entire loving novel, which probably take up 20 pages combined. Nothing happens in the rest of the book! And her writing style is just horrible. It’s all telling and no showing. “Skirata doesn’t hold grudges and gives everyone a chance to prove themselves”, says the narrative without being supported by the text. “This new Commander Melusar is one of those who troopers instantly respect” says Darman’s internal perspective, without anything the new commander says or does reinforcing this belief. Oh, and let’s not forget she killed someone else’s character, utterly pointlessly , without asking permission and without it adding anything to the story. I could have lived with LOTF if it had just been poo poo. But it was not only poo poo and unnecessary, it also has massive negative ramifications to the lives of the heroes of the films. I think Luke, Han and Leia should be allowed to have happy lives, as promised by the happy ending to ROTJ, not a life where Luke has his wife brutally murdered and has to raise his son alone, and Han and Leia see two of their three children die, with the latter death being something they deliberately endeavour to bring about. But maybe that’s a minority opinion. Rant over. DougieFFC fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Aug 17, 2010 |
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Derek Dominoe posted:How long can a human Jedi go without pooping? This is important to my enjoyment of all things Star Wars since Jedi (including Luke) insist on flying across the galaxy in single-seat fighters. What makes you think that a futuristic faster-than-light space fighter doesn't have facilities if you want to take a poo poo?
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Not just Jedi, there's a lot of non-jedi hyperspace X-Wing travel in the X-Wing books. Even fighters now have pee tubes, so why wouldn't an X-Wing? But do they have poo tubes?
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WampaLord posted:I'm sure a friendly stroll to Wookieepedia will clarify this issue... 
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Chairman Capone posted:The absolute best part about Shadows of Mindor isn't even that, it's how that is explained in the last few pages of the book That the entire novel, minus the forward and afterward which are set in the "real world" of the Star Wars universe, is actually an in-universe propaganda holonovel written by that New Republic Intelligence guy to glorify Luke and the New Republic's campaign against the Empire I think it's only insinuated. Brilliant novel though.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How could you even think to support Thrawn unironically? I cam across this site which details all the different tropes (storytelling devices) used within literature and other media, and has a pretty good article on the Thrawn trilogy. On Thrawn they have this to say: quote:Affably Evil: Thrawn and Pellaeon The list of devices is huge by the way, and I really enjoyed reading it. Also, Zahn's original plans for the novel: quote:What Could Have Been: Originally Zahn wanted the character that became Joruus C'baoth to be an insane clone of Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the clone he unleashes on Luke at the end of The Last Command to be a clone of Darth Vader. Lucasarts (sic) vetoed both of these, which might be just as well, as it could have led to the same kind of Death Is Cheap scenario that made Dark Empire so unpopular with some fans.
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WampaLord posted:NO! Run, you fool, RUN!!!! I....what? I thought it was quite good! Made me appreciate how good Zahn's novels were (I'm just done reading their bit on the Thrawn duology). Is this a really famous website I've somehow missed through an inexplicable internet blind spot? DougieFFC fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Aug 20, 2010 |
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Powered Descent posted:http://xkcd.com/609/ I'm still on it. I like that they thought LOTF was dogshit.
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Captain von Trapp posted:I really dislike the EU for reasons well enumerated in this thread and the last - basically, that it's usually incredibly stupid. It should be re-stated that an awful lot of us who bitch and bitch about the EU do actually really like it. Sure, the main heroes stories have been loving dumb since LOTF, but there's a fair amount of really great stuff. The varying standard of the literature reflects probably the varying standard of sci-fi authors as a whole, and the only thing that sets the EU apart is that once something is written and published, there's no backsies - it's part of the continuity for good. As for the great, non-stupid stuff, it's more than people realise. So you have: - The 8 novels Zahn has written (Thrawn trilogy, HoT duology, Outbound Flight, Survivor's Quest, Allegiance) - The 9 X-Wing novels (particularly the ones written by Allston) - The Han Solo trilogy written by Ann Crispin - The Han Solo trilogy written by Brian Daley - I, Jedi just about (makes the Jedi Academy trilogy story palatable) - Most of the Clone Wars literature produced in between the releases of AoTC and RoTS (novels and comics) - The TOTJ comics sort of, the KOTOR comics definitely - Anything by Stover - All of the comics produced by Dark Horse in the last decade - Empire, Rebellion, KOTOR, Republic, Legacy (okay, Legacy is great *and* stupid) - An then if you enjoy Vector Prime you have a 20-novel-epic to enjoy There's an awful lot of literature out there to enjoy and the good thing about a lot of the dross - things like Crystal Star, Planet of Twilight, Black Fleet Crisis, Bounty Hunter Wars etc. - is that you can steer clear of them and forget they existed. Planet of Twilight has sat in pristine condition on my bookshelf for the past fifteen years or so (whenever it was released), whilst Heir to the Empire is tattered and torn. The patchwork, jump-around-the-timeline approach of Bantam has an unintentional upside in that the really bad stuff is almost never referenced again, and have no impact on the lives of the characters (most of it is villain-of-the-week, reset button stuff) to make them essential reading. Basically, there's enough out there for a new person coming to the EU to immerse themselves for years without encountering stupidity. The stupidity just seems to be more fun to talk about, and temporarily more prevalent with these ghastly three-author collaborative series. And don't forget how awesome lots of the games are - the X-Wing and Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series especially.
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muscles like this? posted:In the Legacy comic book series Luke is definitely dead as his force ghost showed up a couple of times. Although the authors have always been deliberately ambiguous about the source of the projection. They say things like "it always *seems* to be Luke's Force-ghost".
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BonHair posted:Also the graphics are outdated I still play X-Wing Alliance from time to time as it runs without any problems on modern systems (I also have the Collector's Edition versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter which only require a little bit of tinkering), and thanks to the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade Project still looks plenty flash. The game engine was obviously capable of handling far more complex models than the ones that were designed for it, and the updated models make it look excellent for an 11-year old game. The gameplay meanwhile hasn't aged a bit and is still the perfect amount of micromanagement in order to feel more immersive that a simple action game like Battlefront II. It's also really easy to make custom missions for it that I'm surprised there aren't more 100 mission epics out there. I always wanted to write some epic campaign involving an Imperial squadron that eventually jumps the fence but I was always too lazy. I know there's also a Tie Fighter total conversion out there for it. I've no idea whether it's still possible to play multiplayer or if there's any community for it still but if they re-released it with working MP I'd be on that like a rash. Back when XvT was released (this was 1997-8 I think) we used to go to an internet cafe with joysticks in our bags and have team Tie Fighter vs. Tie Fighter battles and they were incredible fun. Tie Fighter probably edges XWA in terms of atmosphere but XWA deserves more recognition than it ever received. Edit: Tie Fighter total conversion (Battles 1-7) and X-Wing conversion + Tie Fighter battles 7-13. DougieFFC fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Aug 24, 2010 |
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Karandras posted:I guess it makes sense if you picture the Imperial Fleet as being basically 100% held up intimidating local systems with only a few dozen or more capital ships free for action at a time? Scale is a bitch when it comes to Star Wars. On one hand, you have things like ROTJ where the entire Rebel Fleet amounts to four cruisers and supporting vessels, and novels like the Thrawn Trilogy where Thrawn wrecks poo poo up with a tiny fleet of four vanilla Star Destroyers, and on the other hand they band around numbers like a million member systems, 100 quadrillion population of the Empire etc. It's hard to rationalise. I do it the same way you do by picturing 99% of the navy are on guard duty so it's really hard to muster an aggressive force, especially post-ROTJ when planets will be more open to rebellion. I think the Remnant had something like 2,000 ISDs by the end of the war, so if you extrapolate that backwards a ballpark figure could probably be reasoned (10x that maybe?). That the Empire would lack the resources to smash openly rebelling planets prior to ROTJ doesn't sit well with me though. I just can't picture the GCW as a land grab a la the Empire at War or Rebellion games.
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arioch posted:That's why games aren't canon. gently caress TFU. Yes, but my point is that in EU literature (and games like X-Wing) you have races that are in open rebellion: the Mon Calamari, the Sullustans, maybe the Bothans, but I find that impossible to stomach when the Empire has an overwhelming military/logistical advantage surely capable of making GBS threads up any planet of its choosing. Surely the only way to evade such a force is to keep on the move and be all guerilla warfare.
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arioch posted:You blow up a few planets and fear of it's an effective tool, you blow up a few more planets and then the general population goes into open revolt anyway. At least, that's how you'd justify it in Star Wars. The Rebels generally set up their actual bases in out of the way backwater planets (gently caress the EU for making Hoth the second Tatooine) so the Empire has no idea where they're at to justify glassing an entire planet to get them. But Mon Calamari was a planet in open rebellion, as in the kicked Imperials off the planet, stopped paying their taxes etc. The Empire could have justified loving their poo poo up by the fact that they're suppressing an open revolt for the good of the Empire and its stability. It makes far more sense to put down an open rebellion if you're a tyrannical oval office regime than allow it to exist, because tolerating it would mean more planets could try it and get away with it. I think according to Dark Empire and its RPG sourcebook, the Emperor had planned to use the Death Star on Mon Calamari, but then it went boom, so when his clone unleashed the World Devastators the planet was his first planet. So the official in-universe answer is that they never quite got around to it. Maybe it's a logistical nightmare assembling a fleet big enough to lay a smackdown on Mon Calamari and it takes several years or something. Vader's fleet in ESB was something like 27 star destroyers and that was probably the biggest mobile fleet out there, and it wouldn't be too much of a stretch of the imagination to think that the Mon Cal defense force (planet population of 27 billion and first-rate shipyard should equate to thousands and thousands of fighters and a number of capships) could battle that fleet to a standstill. I guess.
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deathsuxdontdie posted:Not according to the movies. This is one of my biggest beefs with the EU. They're just lovely blaster fodder in the movies, why try to explain it any further than that? Eh, if you think about it, they're the shock troops used in important poo poo - boarding the Tantive IV, storming the detention block, storming Hoth base - whilst the regular troopers guarding cells on Death Stars and drag choked captains out of Vader's office. There's a mixture of the two on Endor reflecting there are two levels of troopers, and the Stormtroopers are the more proficient of the two.
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Kingtheninja posted:What's still taking getting used to is how old everyone is. It isn't terrible yet, but I can definitely see it head that way if things continue going the way they are. In my experience listening to the audio books tends to paint the novel in a better light than just reading it cold. FOTJ isn't ridiculously sucky but it certainly isn't good. It's just meh, the colour grey, two and a half stars etc.
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The Alderaan factor is actually one of the best issues of the Marvel series. Which isn't saying much. It's actually written by the the guy who later wrote Crimson Empire (Randy Stradley, who is pretty much head of Dark Horse's Star Wars projects).
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Oh yeah, it's definitely a step above LOTF. It just seems like the non-Allston authors keep falling back into the same traps that made LOTF suck. If anyone's interesting in bitching to Troy Denning about LOTF then he's posted in this thread on TFN: Troy Denning posted:Marmkid posted: "I think Denning is the one who decided to ignore the Vong, as isnt he the one who was behind the main overall stories of DN, LotF and now FotJ?" My reply: quote:Ouch. I mean, I'm sure there's more to it than this, but it almost sounds like you built an entire, 9-book series around a gimmick idea. One that did not necessarily make sense considering his character's journey in the NJO (which, like Jaina's development, was seemingly cast to one side), hence FOTJ(which I'm enjoying like a glass of milk after a particularly intolerable curry)'s search-for-why-Jacen-went-bad, which I interpret (rightly or wrongly) as a concession of this.
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WampaLord posted:I did. I wanted to ask a ton, but plenty of other people had questions to ask. The question I asked was for Zahn, and it was regarding his feelings about Mara's death. The sad thing about Mara is that, like all relationships in Star Wars, her marriage with look was a total Lois & Clark, which resulted in her character stagnating. The damning indictment of the way her character has been misused is to say that Luke is a much more interesting character with Mara out of the way. And I say that through gritted teeth because I hate anything that alters the happily-ever-after implication of ROTJ or the significance of the victory(including the following: life-ruining events for the main characters, such as losing a wife or 2/3rds of their offspring; the Sith returning and re-taking the galaxy only a couple of generations after the end of the GCW, when the galaxy has previously enjoyed millennia or peace far less earned) Shimrra Jamaane posted:I fully support retconning the EU back to immediately after The Unifying Force. The NJO set up an entire new galaxy for Star Wars authors to write in, one that had almost unlimited potential. It did it's job of having a "changing of the guard" so to speak of the younger generation coming into the forefront with the Big 3 taking a more secondary role. Jacen especially was all set up take up the title as the main Jedi protagonist. My thoughts, practically word-for-word.
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Boondock Saint posted:Gah, don't remind me. I still have dreams where I wake up to finding either the game's placed on steam with working versions for windows 7 or that Lucasarts actually goes ahead and releases a new Tie Fighter game that is awesome and just as good if not better than the original. I'm guessing he no longer has a job and that the idea has been benched. That being said, I'm playing through Tie 95 on a Windows 7 PC at the moment without any problems (you just need to find a compatibility patch) and having a blast. There's also a TC for X-Wing Alliance that turns it into Tie Fighter(with all campaign missions) but I prefer to play it on an engine that allows me to speed up time inbetween action. On Sunday I played through the first four battles in about three hours and on Monday I dealt with that traitor Harkov.
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Chairman Capone posted:That is awesome what you wrote, but given the fact it's TFN, did a mod blank your post and/or ban you? Actually, TFN seems pretty responsibly moderated at the moment. The dissatisfaction with the series, and also with Traviss, runs all the way to the top mods like Havac who let it run provided it's on-topic in the thread. In fact, the only moderation that I've seen occur recently has been in posts by pro-Traviss cretins (when Robimus turned to personal snipes after overwhelmingly failing to offer good defense of her works). I think a good portion of TFN lit forum's active membership consider LOTF the worst thing to ever happen the the EU, and can articulate it without stepping over the boundaries of fair criticism.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:being pissed off at horrible video games
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Clemen posted:Because of this thread I brought out my old gamecube and ordered Rogue Leader off ebay. I cant wait. :3 I was given a Wii as a wedding present (sorry, my wife and i were given it, but you know....) and I immediately bought both Rogue Leader games off ebay to play on it. I was really shocked at how badly designed the whole thing was. Principally, the radar is really badly designed and is very hard to make sense of. You can't follow a Tie Fighter that flashes past you by following it on your radar like you can in X-Wing or gently caress even Battlefront II. So if you lose sight of the enemy you're following you basically have to look all around you to find it again. And the graphics aren't sharp enough to be able to pick out enemy fighters a long way away, so you have to hold down a button to bring up the targeting computer, which superimposes a purple filter on the screen that highlights targets. Except you can't actually do anything whilst looking through the targeting screen. And then the later stages when I'm dying I'm thinking to myself "this game would be ace and less tedious if it only had the interface of a game made ten years previously, which is a bad sign.
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Boondock Saint posted:Forgive me for sounding like "that guy" for a second but it's probably because you're expecting them to be the console iterations of the X-Wing or Tie Fighter series, and that's completely the wrong way to go about playing them. No, I knew what to expect in part because I had played the original Rogue Squadron on PC, and I had played its sequels in the past. All I'm complaining about is that the radar in the game is completely unhelpful when it comes to the dogfighting aspect of the game. Even Battlefront II (also "arcadey as gently caress") had arrows around the side of the screen representing the direction of nearby enemies. When it comes to playing this game I basically have to look up down left right and all over until I happen upon an enemy, which gets tedious. It's also a problem on some land missions. There's one set in a city with lots of canyons that contain generators you have to blow up, but even though they're marked on your radar, the degree of accuracy is such that you can't use it to guide yourself even into the right canyon, which lead to tedium of going down each canyon (whilst being chased by enemy fighters and shot at by turbolasers) hoping you'll stumble upon your orbjective.
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WampaLord posted:The "Adult Themes in Star Wars" was basically everyone taking Star Wars stuff and making it raunchy. Examples - Ewok blowjobs, slash fic discussions, using Force Powers during sex, you get the idea. This sounds doubly creepy by virtue of KJA being sat next to his wife. The kinky roleplay they no doubt indulge in is not a pretty image.
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McGann posted:Also: Wraith Squadron DOES rock. Thanks for that suggestions guys. I finished up Iron Fist and am moving on, but I took a break to read I, Jedi (which was good) in-between. Can't wait for the last, but I also don't want the Rogue series to end...so...bittersweet. Be content with the foreknowledge that it arguably saves its best for last.
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Chairman Capone posted:Really? Wow, that is a pretty big change of culture than from when I was on TFN. Back then I remember Havac actually being the main pro-Traviss mod. I think he actually once banned me for voicing my irritations with Traviss. Funny to see that LOTF was so bad that it changed people's opinions so much (although I also remember TFN posters continually trying to look at LOTF with rose-colored glasses and say how "it will all make sense in the end, there's no way all these loose plot threads will be kept dangling at the end of the series!" long after they should have). Times definitely change, then. Here is his review of Imperial Commando Havac posted:Uaaaaaaaaauuuugh. So whilst he may have been a fan and a censor at some stage, he clearly found IC to be his least favourite book ever, and can spot that Traviss's style isn't the so-called "reasonable to question preconceptions" strategy the simpleminded commend her for, but is instead fallacious and incredibly dumb.
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Pththya-lyi posted:If you really want to sperg, recall that neither Han, Leia, nor Chewie required protection from decompression while they walked around inside that giant space slug in Empire. See also the TV Tropes article Batman Can Breathe In Space. It was a big asteroid so it would be reasonable to think it held enough atmosphere to avoid needing a spacesuit. Or something.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:40
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Otterspace posted:I'm just happy that the Han impersonation was so good. On the subject of Han Solo impersonations
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Sep 19, 2010 18:46
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:...Is that guy (2:10) supposed to be Chewbacca? Hey, it's a high school musical. Edit: Maybe you'll prefer this. I unironically think it is awesome. DougieFFC fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Sep 19, 2010 |
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Sep 19, 2010 19:17
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Chairman Capone posted:I mean - do you think this is just a cash cow reason, or does Lucas actually think the prequels are the better Star Wars movies? I think the criticism has made him even more stubborn. Like the pope.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:31
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Hemp Knight posted:From everything I've read, the prequels are star wars as Lucas wanted it to be. On ANH and ESB he had to compromise and collaborate. Jedi was more in line with what he wanted, but the PT is pure Lucas.. There's a really excellent fan-made documentary called that shows examples of the original edit of the first film and just how close it was to being a shambles. I'm annoyed I can't remember its name but I have it somewhere and might try to dig it out. The trench run climactic ending was particularly reworked. In the original script, the sequence of events goes: "I have you now" ----> Millennium Falcon to the recue -----> Luke flying down the trench ----> "use the Force Luke" ----> targeting computer off, boom That would've completely ruined the sense of urgency you see in the final cut.
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Sep 19, 2010 20:25
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Kingtheninja posted:Wasn't the live action series supposed to be set closer to the OT? Maybe that's why it still hasn't happened... I think it's in limbo at the moment because of production overheads etc. Another reason Lucas prefers CGI to live actors and sets. Because he's loving lazy.
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Sep 20, 2010 00:38
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