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I read Darksaber when it came out and I was 10. You know what? I liked it.  Still trying to finish Heir to the Empire, but I'd like to check out the X-Wing series as well.
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Ringo Star Get posted:That or make a new X-Wing or TIE Fighter. I can pray right? Every night? That pisses me off because I'm pretty Certain Rodriquez before he left in May made comments alluding to something new with the franchise. Granted it was a quick "Nothing yet, but something, soon..." comment, but it was better than nothing. What the gently caress Lucasarts?
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Aug 23, 2010 12:07
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Ringo Star Get posted:Lucasarts could literally release TIE Fighter and X-Wing on steam so that it was compatible for newer PCs and they'd rake in shitloads of cash. Thats all they need to do, they released their OTHER games. Why not TIE? What is verboten about it? Last time I talked to a guy from Lucasarts about it, he said that this kind of stuff was indeed on the table, but usually only one, maybe two guys would get tasked to porting this stuff to Steam so it took longer than usual. For some stuff, I imagine it's much easier to port than stuff like X-Wing, so while the wait sucks, I'm sure we'll see it at some point.
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Aug 24, 2010 12:53
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So I was cleaning out some stuff from my recent move and went through my book collection. I found out that I own all the Thrawn Trilogy books, Specter of the Past, I,Jedi, the first three x-wing books and all the "tales from" books. I remember my mom giving me these when I was younger but for one reason or another, I stashed them aside and completely forgot about them. I just finished Heir to the Empire a few days ago and I'm plowing through Dark Force Rising now. It's times like these I'm cool with being unemployed.
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Aug 25, 2010 05:28
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Ringo Star Get posted:Okay so I just realized this. In Empire Strikes Back the Falcon attaches to the back of the super structure on a Star Destroyer. Then Vader hosts the meeting of the bounty hunters on his Super Star Destroyer. After the Falcon detaches and floats off with the garbage, they enter hyperspace. Also leaving in the garbage is Boba Fett. Does this mean that Boba Fett knew where the Falcon was and transferred his ship to the Star Destroyer? I always assumed that he had docked with the Executor, had his meeting with Vader and promptly just let his ship float out and wait. Around the time the bounty hunters show up, Solo had been in the area recently so it wasn't a stretch that he might be nearby and just waiting for the fleet to make the jump to hyperspace. Fett guessed on this and was correct.
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Aug 25, 2010 06:55
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Bene Elim posted:IMO the Empire didn't fight the Mon Cal because it didn't want them to be made a Martyr. This answer makes a lot of sense. The way I always viewed it, the Empire basically acted like the later era Roman Empire in that they had a large military force and had governors and such, but weren't occupying every single territory to the brim with troops, but if they needed to suppress an uprising, they had the means to do so. Same thing with the Empire, they have a large presence but don't necessarily have to leave huge garrisons on every planet that falls under their domain.
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Aug 25, 2010 22:34
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So I've got a question, I'm currently reading through Dark Force Rising right now and there's a part where they discuss the Empire sending troops to a city and that the force they send consists of mostly standard army troops and some stormtroopers. I always thought Stormtroopers were the standard troops in the Imperial Army? Can someone clear this up for me?
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Aug 26, 2010 03:01
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Bene Elim posted:of the ZOMG! Bobba Fett is the greaterest! crowd. I love Boba Fett and the whole Mandalorian mythos, prior to Travis and Lucas loving it all up post AOTC. Fett was more of a bad rear end prior to the prequels anyways. At least then there was still a sense of mystery to him and there weren't billions of copies walking around as well. Let's just hope that maybe, just maybe, they say most of Travis's work is no longer cannon, cause that would be 
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So I just played through Dark Forces for the first time in maybe 13-14 years and you know what? Aside from the obvious graphics aging, it's aged pretty well. I miss these kinds of Star Wars games. This game had a ton going for it, and still does... -Takes place during the Original Trilogy, at the height of the civil war, which I think most of us can agree is probably the best time period/era throughout the entire series. -You're not a jedi(until the sequel anyways) and you're pretty much on equal terms with every enemy you come up against, except for Stormtroopers cause we all know how they aim anyways  -The story is multitudes better than the majority of poo poo that gets thrown around the EU universe. No Mandalorian army's, no super Jedi's wrecking havoc. Just good, old fashioned Imperial genocidal fun. -You're not doing anything extremely unbelievable for what a character in the series could do (What's up The Force Unleashed and force crashing a loving Star Destroyer like it ain't no thing.) -You were essentially just a cog in the greater war machine, abet a bigger one than the standard rebel soldier or stormtrooper, but still, you weren't this end all be all character and that's what made the immersion factor work, at least for me. I loved the sequels, but they just didn't have the same bad rear end feel that the original did. The only other game I can think of that captured that essence was Republic Commando and the biggest fault I have against that game is that it takes place during the prequels and as a result, dealt with some lovely scenery. I can only imagine what Imperial Commando would have been like had it been made. I guess what I'm getting at is, I miss the late 90's Star Wars games because they stuck to the good stuff and weren't complete poo poo. Does anyone think these kinds of games will make a return or what?
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Sep 8, 2010 02:28
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TheLoquid posted:Tie Fighter remains the most compelling vision of the Empire ever shat out of the EU imo. I love that the main focus of the imperials is establishing Order in the galaxy by doing everything from taking out rebels to establishing outposts to ending local wars to putting down traitors. 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 hate the fact that last year the former Lucasarts president said something to the effect of, stay tuned, we have news planned for the X-Wing/Tie Fighter games. I demand to know now what the hell he meant by that statement.
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Sep 8, 2010 05:26
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DougieC posted: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. 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. Rouge Squadron is more like Star Fox or the Ace Combat series than the X-Wing/Tie Series. It's arcadey as gently caress and basically throws everything that you learned from the sim series out the window. I love the poo poo out of the PC X-wing/Tie Fighter games, but they are nothing like Rogue Squadron and if you're looking for a similar game in the Rogue Squadron series, you will definitely be disappointed.
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DougieC posted:Radar sucks. Yeah, you have a valid criticism then. The radar was never all that great I agree, but I had a blast with the first three games (Battle for Naboo included). Rebel Strike wasn't horrible, but it was a slight let down.
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Sep 8, 2010 20:09
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McGann posted:With all this talk of Rogue Leader, which I have...and it's predecessor, on their original systems. For six bucks it's totally worth it.
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Sep 8, 2010 21:37
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happy cabbage posted:In Death Star he was actually like "welp im hosed going to be known as planet killer rest of my life" It'd be cooler if the modeled him more like this guy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Too bad KoTOR doesn't work right on Windows 7.  Yes it does
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Sep 14, 2010 23:03
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Fledgling Gulps posted:Well it doesn't work right in the sense that it's not really a good game but that isn't because of Windows 7 Blasphemy! Seriously though, most people I've run into enjoyed the game and found it to be a standout and the pinnacle of Star Wars games amidst the mediocre games Lucasarts releases these days. Why don't you think it's a good game?
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Sep 15, 2010 12:35
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Indiana Jones and "What the hell is affirmative action anyways?"
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angry_zellers posted:Reading that got me excited! How cool would that be? My secret wish is that George Lucas dies and somehow, a Rogue Squadron series ends up getting made the same way they remade BSG. I wish...
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Sep 1, 2011 20:42
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movax posted:Amazon Prime left me a present today I even forgot I bought! 20th Anniversary Edition of Heir to the Empire! It has a sweet foreword and annotations by Timothy Zahn himself throughout the entire thing in the margins. I'm tearing through this sucker for the 1000000th time tonight, goddamn. Just got mine as well, I really hope they put out the other two books like this. It's a pretty sweet release 
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I'm holding off in hopes they end up doing something like this somewhere in the near future... http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-Versions-Widescreen/dp/B000FQJAJG/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1316031310&sr=1-1
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Phylodox posted:Probably Red Tails: The Game. I thought that too but apparently they want someone who has "Experience with flight sims, aerial shooters and "especially space-based shooters" is considered "a plus" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-15-lucasarts-making-aerial-combat-title Here's to watching my dreams get crushed 
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Sep 15, 2011 18:56
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If it was clone wars based, I would un-ironically love the poo poo out of a Tie Fighter Sim type game with this http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Aggressive_ReConnaissance-170_starfighter Everything else can gently caress off though. Also, I really wish someone would make a bridge commander type game like Star Trek got all those years ago.
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Sep 15, 2011 19:09
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:The Star Trek: Bridge Commander that the same guys who made TIE Fighter went on to do? Yeah that but for Star Wars rather than Star Trek.
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Sep 15, 2011 19:18
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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but pretty good article by the BBC on why people think Lucas is being a bit of a prick in regards to the original works not being released. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14944240
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Darth Freddy posted:So thanks to the kindle marketplace I just binged through all the X wing books. About to go into the heir to the empire but after that no ideas. Any suggestions? Is courtship of Leia any good I loved the character of the warlord so far, but yea we all know how the EU goes. Yeah, what the guy above me said. Hand of Thrawn trilogy is pretty good. I, Jedi is another great one. Basically just read anything Zahn, Stackpole. Travis books are ok if you only read the first three. The Han Solo Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire and the various tales books are pretty decent as well. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Sep 20, 2011 |
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http://humaniterations.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/how-star-wars-should-have-ended-reflections-on-taste-the-expanded-universe-radical-politics/hurrrr anarchy posted:Star Wars took a turn for the suck a long time ago and those mistakes have been continuously compounded by everyone writing in its world since. The stream of what revamps writers are caught in showcases the growing desperation to get back to the roots. The obvious piece of advice: Stop Writing About Han, Luke and Leia! Keep characters obscure rather than dynastic and focus on separate concurrent sagas about little people! Is a waste of breath — we’re talking about space-fantasy genre trash afterall. What the gently caress did I just read? Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Sep 20, 2011 |
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WebDog posted:...such as Jake Lloyd, who has some fascinating accounts showing up on these forums. Wait, what? Explain.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Oh, god I wish I could have head trauma and forget about these stories so I could read them again for the first time. Every Jake Lloyd story is comedy gold. Cool, still doesn't explain anything except that there were stories and they are reportedly funny.
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Sep 28, 2011 20:12
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Pesky Splinter posted:He seems like a pretty chill guy. I don't envy him though, going through high school; it's easy to imagine what the other kids said about him. His acting was pretty terrible in TPM, though, even for a kid. Yeah, I actually kinda felt bad for him watching that. He seems like an alright guy for the most part(minus the dog bit but whatever) and I can't imagine it's easy having to deal with the typical high school/college shitheads, especially if you're this guy. Another life ruined by Jorge. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Sep 29, 2011 |
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The best explanation I've seen that explains why I've always loved Fett's character so much and why his scenes in Empire are so great is the one given by one of the Bioware Devs when they were explaining how they were trying to mold the Bounty Hunter Class for The Old Republic. http://www.swtor.com/news/bwblog/20090403_001 Bioware Dev posted:Boba Fett, Dengar, Zuckuss, IG-88, Bossk, 4-LOM. This was the lineup that started it all. Darth Vader wanted something done and his own people weren’t up to the task. So he called in specialists. Seeing this motley group of outlandish characters on the bridge rankled Vader’s officers and told us these guys were the real deal. When Vader felt it necessary to specifically look at Boba Fett when he mentioned he didn’t want anyone disintegrated, we understood this was a man with a reputation. When Boba Fett objected to Han Solo being frozen on the grounds that the Bounty Hunter needed Solo alive, Vader didn’t intimidate Fett -- as he did poor Lando -- or choke him senseless. He listened and reassured him in a businesslike manner. He was talking to a professional whose work he respected. I've always thought Fett, along with the rest of the bounty hunters were pretty cool for various reasons, and the mandalorian stuff, at least the stuff you see in KOTOR wasn't so bad. It's only after Travis and Lucas started to collectively tard things up that it really got to be so lovely. Also, the fact Fett from Empire and before the EU really screwed things up had a sort of Man with No Name vibe going on made his character all the more cooler to me. Once again, Travis and Lucas screwed this up by not realizing you can do a far better job at character and story development by showing and not necessarily telling everything.
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So are any of TOR books worth reading if I really enjoyed KOTOR or should I just skip them?
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A Curved Phallus posted:Darksaber was my first Star Wars novel, and I loved it. Same here. Except I read it when I was 10. Then I read the Thrawn Trilogy last year and loved the poo poo out of it, and realize Darksaber was a huge shitstain on the great start that Zahn gave the EU. I really hope they make collectors editions of the rest of the Thrawn Trilogy. The notes in Heir to the Empire really make it worth while.
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arioch posted:Posted on his Facebook. Ugh, gently caress them. They had a real poo poo marketing campaign for this, what did they honestly expect? The SE of Heir to the Empire is excellent if you haven't bought it, I encourage everyone to buy it.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:I remember buying the original X wing with its little supply cart for around $30, when the hell did Lego get so expensive? Right around the same time they realized how much money grown men would be willing to pay for them. It's pretty much stopping me from impulse buying sets when I go to the store. I really wish I had the money for the Imperial Shuttle too 
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That Zahn book sounds really awesome...I too, am excited. Now if only they would allow him to do anniversary editions of the Dark Force Rising and The Last Command like he did with Heir to the Empire.
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Shame about McQuarrie's passing. That guy certainly had arguably more talent than Jorge. Speaking of his art, did anyone ever have or read that Illustrated Star Wars Universe? I bought it from a goon a few years ago. Kevin J. Anderson, despite all of his lovely writing, did the narrative parts for that book with McQuarrie's art. It was surprisingly really cool and added some subtle depth to the SW universe. This was of course, before the prequels. I've also been reading through some of the Star Wars Comic's, notably legacy and the Rogue Squadron comics. They're actually not that bad. I've been buying up some of the omnibus collections as a result. Any one else reading through these? Was also able to nab this from my comic shop for 40 bucks on clearance, http://www.amazon.com/Luke-Skywalker-Last-Hope-Galaxy/dp/1595821511/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330988951&sr=1-1/ Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 6, 2012 |
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Something is afoot at Lucasfilm...Joystiq posted:A strange new trademark application by Lucasfilm portends a new multimedia Star Wars franchise, including video games. The company filed for the name "Star Wars 1313" for use with video games, as well as toys, trading cards, sticker books, pencil sharpeners, online social networking services, and anything else that can possibly bear the Star Wars logo. http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/07/lucasfilm-applies-for-star-wars-1313-trademark/ I'd lie and say I'm trying to keep myself from getting too excited, but with Lucas, it's pretty easy now to temper my expectations (Unless Zahn is attached).
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/\/\/\/ I specifically went out of my way to grab this magazine the other day because it has a write up on the X-Wing/Tie Fighter games. I really hope someday someone gets to make a great sequel or update to that series, but I'm doubtful it'll ever happen. Here's hoping the games show up on Gog.com at least! I will say some, not all, but a decent amount of the comics are pretty good for EU stuff. I really like Legacy and the Rogue Squadron series was really fun to read. As far as the books are concerned... -X-Wing Series (can't comment on the Wraith series, I've yet to read them) -Thrawn Series/Anything by Zahn -Episode III Novelization -The Han Solo Trilogy was enjoyable for me and some other people, but I might be in the minority segment for that one. Hell, pretty much anything written before the prequels came out and doesn't have the name "Kevin J. Anderson" on the front should be a pretty decent read in comparison to post-prequel books.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Most books are crap, most comics are decent some games made in the mid to late nineties were awesome. We mine as well go ahead and put that in the OP.
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This could be very good or very bad, depending. Holy poo poo. This was the last thing I expected to read today.
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