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The funny thing about what canon and what isn't is that is constantly being written over or just plainly ignored. Considering personally what happened now is the only efficient and sane thing to do now.
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That reminds me. Last night the wife watched an episode of Clone Wars and that long-eared Jedi Master kicked it. Didn't he die during the Purge? The episode lacked tension because you "knew" he was going to make it no matter what happened but SURPRISE.
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Dec 12, 2011 17:01
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So, Steam's daily deal for today is Force Unleashed II for 5 bucks. I've heard it's pretty bad - but is it bad enough that it's not even worth 5 bucks? Or is there at least some fun to be had from it?
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Dec 12, 2011 19:10
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Probably a controversial opinion here, but I enjoyed both Force Unleashed games just fine. Just don't go into them worrying about Star Wars canon.
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Dec 12, 2011 19:20
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Chairman Capone posted:So, Steam's daily deal for today is Force Unleashed II for 5 bucks. I've heard it's pretty bad - but is it bad enough that it's not even worth 5 bucks? Or is there at least some fun to be had from it? Gameplay wise, they look fun but trying to take anything in it seriously and your head will explode. It is Star Wars on crack cocaine.
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Dec 12, 2011 19:38
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SeanBeansShako posted:Gameplay wise, they look fun but trying to take anything in it seriously and your head will explode. It is Star Wars on crack cocaine. I even had fun with the Wii version of the first one. When I read something from the developer saying how they listened to the complaints about the first when making the second, I got all excited. The first one had some easily identifiable issues that if fixed, could make a classic. I only played the demo for the second, but between that and the reviews, I wanted to kick that developer in the cock.
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Dec 12, 2011 23:30
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Chairman Capone posted:So, Steam's daily deal for today is Force Unleashed II for 5 bucks. I've heard it's pretty bad - but is it bad enough that it's not even worth 5 bucks? Or is there at least some fun to be had from it? The Force Unleashed games are fun, but stupid. But that was enough for me to enjoy them. Just don't pay attention to the story. It's real dumb. And don't try to figure out how your character is so freakishly powerful, while every other Jedi we've ever met is a child in comparison. But The Force Unleashed II is short. Very short. So...I'd say 5 bucks sounds pretty good for the game content you get in return.
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Dec 12, 2011 23:44
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I bought it  Got the first one from the Holiday Sale last year and it was fairly entertaining, and $5 to fling around stormtroopers for a few hours sounds good to me!
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Dec 13, 2011 16:39
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The PC port of the first one was so loving terrible that I'm not buying or playing the second on principle. Even if it's $5 gently caress people that make lovely ports 
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Dec 13, 2011 17:41
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Timothy Zahn posted:Since many of you have asked about 20th Anniversary editions of Dark Force Rising and The Last Command, here's the latest from Shelly: Posted on his Facebook. (he and Brandon Sanderson are the only two authors I follow in social media) Basically, gently caress Del Rey.
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Dec 13, 2011 18:52
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I finally caved in and added a hard copy of Heir to my Amazon wish list, so I did my part
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Dec 13, 2011 19:20
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I really want to get the new Heir for the annotations, but I also don't want to remove my decades old copy that's falling to pieces from my bookshelf.
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Dec 13, 2011 23:07
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WhyteRyce posted:The PC port of the first one was so loving terrible that I'm not buying or playing the second on principle. Even if it's $5 Isn't that the one that's like 30GB because of all the pre rendered videos?
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computer parts posted:Isn't that the one that's like 30GB because of all the pre rendered videos? Probably. It was horrendously huge. I just remember not being able to use my mouse in the main menu. Keyboard control only. And it ran like rear end
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youwantsomewang posted:I always thought there would be too many Keyboard commands to assign to the controller so I never tried. How have you set yours up? Coming soon: a Tie Fighter/X wing Alliance Controls diagram for 360 You do have to use the keyboard for a couple things (Hyperjumps, docking, reinforcements)
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Dec 14, 2011 04:32
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X-Wing Alliance is on X-Box Arcade? Or you guys just talking about the controllers?
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SeanBeansShako posted:Or you guys just talking about the controllers? If only Lucasarts gave a poo poo about these great games. I'm just talking about controls  This will pretty much get you through the games (Blue can't be assigned) It's a bit of a hassle setting each command but otherwise they are plug and play with my 360 controller. You can press the button and it tells you what it's assigned to, which helps.
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Dec 14, 2011 05:06
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Behold, the most effective vagina repellent known to mankind: (it's a toss up between the shuttle, Hoth brewing Co. stein, or the oscilloscope/power supply/lab bench in the background I guess)
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movax posted:Behold, the most effective vagina repellent known to mankind: Very awesome!  You should put the little pilot guys in there!And where does one get a Hoth brewing Co. stein?
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Very awesome! Yep, I just did! 4 mini-figs in the cockpit, plus a stormtrooper who I just put at the base of the stand, becuase 5 mini-figs wouldn't fit in the cockpit  I guess the Stein was sold at Celebration V; I was a poser and ordered it from ThinkGeek's limited stock.
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Dec 14, 2011 07:19
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Chairman Capone posted:So, Steam's daily deal for today is Force Unleashed II for 5 bucks. I've heard it's pretty bad - but is it bad enough that it's not even worth 5 bucks? Or is there at least some fun to be had from it? TFU II is interesting in a trainwreck-y sense. You can see where development just kind of got cut off at certain points. Like how the Dagobah level is barely anything, you basically just walk off your ship, go through two screens and watch a cutscene. Or how there's only something like four unique locations in the entire game and you go back to one of them twice. Its too bad because I thought the gameplay was improved over the original but everything else is crappier.
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muscles like this? posted:TFU II is interesting in a trainwreck-y sense. You can see where development just kind of got cut off at certain points. Like how the Dagobah level is barely anything, you basically just walk off your ship, go through two screens and watch a cutscene. Or how there's only something like four unique locations in the entire game and you go back to one of them twice. Its too bad because I thought the gameplay was improved over the original but everything else is crappier. Didn't LucasArts tell the development team they were going to be let go once the game was done?
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Joe Don Baker posted:Didn't LucasArts tell the development team they were going to be let go once the game was done? I'm fairly certain they fired the entire team and announced that they had canceled TFU III before 2 even came out.
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Dec 14, 2011 20:15
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Good riddance really. They were destroying Star Wars continuity at an almost Lucas like pace.
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Seriously? Because anyone's given a poo poo about Star Wars continuity since the mid-eighties?
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Carnaticum posted:Wasn't it all Lucas sanctioned though? You say it as if that makes it better.
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It angers me the most that Force Unleashed has lined the pockets of a certain chubby cheeked gently caress that I am sure tore away the of last good feelings we all had for LucasArts. gently caress you Haden Blackman, you ignorant rear end.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Good riddance really. They were destroying Star Wars continuity at an almost Lucas like pace. They've besmirched and lessened the world of Ewok Jedi and caff 
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:They've besmirched and lessened the world of Ewok Jedi and caff People actually get butt-hurt over there being a coffee analog in Star Wars?
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It's sad too. TFUII (I never cared to play either of them) has you coming back in a clone body. But unlike the clonetroopers Starkiller is actually resurrected by the cloning process. "Ok, cool" I thought "TFU tried to bring together all the Alliance Founders and have them challenge the Emperor and put a little bow on some continuity." "Maybe in this one the Emperor finds out about Vader's experiment and it ends with Palpatine discovering the cloning tech from Dark Empire. Another nice bow" Nope, the Emperor is not even in the sequel. It's just a lovely and shameless God of War clone with no story. What the gently caress Lucasarts? You used to be the industry gold standard...under the same loving guy...
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McDowell posted:What the gently caress Lucasarts? You used to be the industry gold standard...under the same loving guy... It's like at some point in the late 90s/early 00s, LucasArts made a concerted effort to focus more on quantity than quality. Lucas learned from his experience with Empire that making a quality product costs more than making a piece of poo poo, and there are enough fanboys out there to buy as much poo poo as he can slap the name "Star Wars" on. It's sad, but not surprising.
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Maybe I would have felt differently if I'd paid full price for them...in fact, yeah, I definitely would have felt pretty pissed if I'd paid somewhere around $60 per game...but for games I got in bargain bins for less than $20, the Force Unleashed games weren't all that bad. Pretty short and horrible vis-a-vis Star Wars extended universe continuity (which I don't really give a poo poo about, anyways), but a nice little Jedi power fantasy. I think they're something worth picking up on the cheap, playing through once, and then trading in for credit towards something better.
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I just can't recommend X Wing Alliance enough, there's mods out there to give it modern visuals. It's a great Star Wars game if you like pew-pew spaceships and don't care about Jedifest lightsaberthon
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Chairman Capone posted:So, Steam's daily deal for today is Force Unleashed II for 5 bucks. I've heard it's pretty bad - but is it bad enough that it's not even worth 5 bucks? Or is there at least some fun to be had from it? The games are fun well hell. You basically play a force demi god. Enjoy being a super powered rear end hole and make strings of storm troopers grab onto each other till you make one huge chain then toss em all into a force field. Ignore the cannon and just have fun, for 5 dollars it would be silly not to buy it.
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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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McDowell posted:I just can't recommend X Wing Alliance enough, there's mods out there to give it modern visuals. I loved this game when it came out, but my friend and I were disappointed in the lack of co-op. It was advertised right up until release as having the option to have multiple players flying in the same ship, with one piloting and the others gunning. We wanted to get 3 of us whizzing around in the Falcon blasting away, but it wasn't implemented.
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GaryLeeLoveBuckets posted:I loved this game when it came out, but my friend and I were disappointed in the lack of co-op. It was advertised right up until release as having the option to have multiple players flying in the same ship, with one piloting and the others gunning. I remember doing this...maybe not in sotry missions. But I remember making custom maps at lan parties and doing stupid things like adding 13 SSD's and just flying around them...Was that X wing alliance or one of the other ones. Cause that was badass.
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McDowell posted:It's sad too. TFUII (I never cared to play either of them) has you coming back in a clone body. But unlike the clonetroopers Starkiller is actually resurrected by the cloning process. The guy's name is Starkiller? Was this only a nod to the original Star Wars scripts or did he have something to do with Luke as well?
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Lobok posted:The guy's name is Starkiller? Was this only a nod to the original Star Wars scripts or did he have something to do with Luke as well? He did start the Rebel Alliance so I guess there's that.
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