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You think the clones jokingly referred to him as the commander-in-sheev?
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So, Tarkin's reviews have come out now and they are all pretty positive. http://www.examiner.com/review/a-review-of-star-wars-tarkin quote:Grand Moff Tarkin is a character that's always left me asking a lot of questions. He was able to order Darth Vader around in "A New Hope" and they were quite clearly friends. When he made appearances on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," I was excited to see Tarkin fleshed out in a forum that was canon and directly from George Lucas. http://topoftheheapreviews.com/review-star-wars-tarkin-james-luceno/ http://tosche-station.net/review-star-wars-tarkin/ http://www.alternativenation.net/star-wars-tarkin-review/
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Oct 25, 2014 21:12
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I have to admit, as much as I hate Daala, I am kind of sad Luceno didn't work her in even winkingly. Also the bit about the Jedi Temple makes me wonder if the new canon is going to go the route of the ANH Infinities comic and have it be converted into the Imperial Palace, an idea I always liked since it worked so well with Palpatine gloating over his victory against the Jedi.
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That actually sounds really cool, not that I'd expect anything less from Luceno.
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So I have a very angry friend on Facebook, apparently.quote:Dear Disney, come the day I have kids I will not give you a penny. You may own the license to Star Wars, but making the acclamation that anything and everything within the expanded universe of Star Wars is bull and void to your financial benefit is null and void is complete bullshit. Thrawn was amazing, the emperor's resurrection was amazing, tales of the bounty hunters was amazing, and I could go on and on and on. Thus, in the same manor you've extended to die hard Star Wars fans, I hope your company goes bankrupt and you, you family and your offspring suffer a long agonizing, cancerous life span. You may be a multi-million dollar company, but I loving dare you re-write nerd history. You gluttonous, pompous, pretentious bastards. Go go Deadmau5, sue their asses. Make them run that EBT card I assume this was a reaction to Sheev. Edit: and it was deleted. Drone fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Oct 27, 2014 |
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Oct 27, 2014 15:31
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"Thrawn was amazing," Agreed. "the emperor's resurrection was amazing," Well... "tales of the bounty hunters was amazing," 
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Oct 27, 2014 15:35
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Caedus was amazing. Bugnest orgies were amazing. That rabbit guy who replaced Chewie was amazing.
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So what I don't get is Disney wipes away nearly all of the EU with all its baggage and lightsaber armor, and yet they allow the big bad guy on Rebels to have not just a saberstaff but one that rotates into a spinning lightsaber wheel o' death. I guess this has been known since July and the comic-con footage but seriously? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GxTMpyjls
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Oct 27, 2014 16:52
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StashAugustine posted:"tales of the bounty hunters was amazing," The Boba Fett story by Daniel Keys Moran was pretty good. I liked the Dengar one as well. Beyond that, they were bad to mediocre (aside from the two I mentioned, my dominant memory of that book is IG-88 uploading himself into the Death Star's computer core, so when you watched the Battle of Endor in ROTJ and the Death Star's blowing up Rebel ships, it's actually one of the ESB bounty hunters doing it). EDIT: (Because I can't seem to shut up about this.) Seriously, all those stories still exist and you can still enjoy them. Disney, as far as I am aware, has no intention of pulling, say, the Thrawn trilogy from publication, and in fact have created an entire new label (the Legends brand) under which they will continue to be published. I just can't seem to understand (and mind you, I'm saying this as someone for whom the Star Wars Expanded Universe was a very significant part of my adolescence) why the fact that it's no longer "canon" means it's become retroactively worse or harder to enjoy. If the stories are terrible or the concepts are stupid (and I'm sure many of them will be), by all means, let them have it over that, but I can't help but feel that "canonicity" is a really quite silly issue to take. My favourite part of the EU? As I've said many, many times, it's the Republic comic book series. Said series is no longer "canon" and, even before the "reboot" happened, a lot of it had technically been "overridden" by TCW (which I also liked a lot). Those comics still exist. I can still enjoy them and I still do enjoy them. I'm probably being really unfair. Sorry. 
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Oct 27, 2014 17:29
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Not gonna lie, that is dumb as hell.
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Oct 27, 2014 17:30
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Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina was generally pretty good though.
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Drone posted:Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina was generally pretty good though. I like that one the best, some of the less silly stuff in Jabba's Palace is also okay.
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Drone posted:Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina was generally pretty good though. This one was the best. Tales from the Empire was also good, if I remember right. It had a Zahn-Stackpole collaboration story that was pretty good. Metal Loaf posted:I just can't seem to understand (and mind you, I'm saying this as someone for whom the Star Wars Expanded Universe was a very significant part of my adolescence) why the fact that it's no longer "canon" means it's become retroactively worse or harder to enjoy. I think it's denial so that people don't have to admit a large portion of the EU was garbage and painful to read. As a Star Wars book nerd, you tend to get picked on a lot, even by other Star Wars fans. So you're working against years of having to fervently defend the books as being a legitimate part of the Star Wars universe. I know I made myself read all of those terrible, terrible KJA books back in the 90s just so I wouldn't be spoiled by another book later in the timeline that would data dump the entire plot of those books in a paragraph or so (which was also terrible in a different way).
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Takin' this from the SWTOR threadquote:quote: e: vv hah! StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 00:21
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Just throwing it out, Tie Fighter and Xwing are getting re-released by Good Old Games finally.
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Oct 28, 2014 00:22
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Hell yeah an excuse to dust off my USB joystick!
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Oct 28, 2014 00:24
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Metal Loaf posted:The Boba Fett story by Daniel Keys Moran was pretty good. I liked the Dengar one as well. Beyond that, they were bad to mediocre (aside from the two I mentioned, my dominant memory of that book is IG-88 uploading himself into the Death Star's computer core, so when you watched the Battle of Endor in ROTJ and the Death Star's blowing up Rebel ships, it's actually one of the ESB bounty hunters doing it). The best part of the book, barring the two you mentioned, was IG loving with the Emperor and closing doors on him.
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Oct 28, 2014 00:59
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Finally. Now I have an excuse to get another joystick. I broke my last one playing TIE Fighter. You could patch the games to play on a modern PC, but it didn't recognize the z-axis so joysticks never quite worked correctly.
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Oct 28, 2014 01:09
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Where's that leak from? The announcement isn't supposed to be for another 12 hours.
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A bunch of official release GOG forum threads appeared before they were supposed to; they're gone now but they were up long enough for more than a few gaming forums and press outlets to pick it up.
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Cross-Section posted:A bunch of official release GOG forum threads appeared before they were supposed to; they're gone now but they were up long enough for more than a few gaming forums and press outlets to pick it up. And the internet has already cried out in collective ecstasy.
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Oct 28, 2014 03:36
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GOG.com is on the verge of success. I actually never played X-Wing/Tie Fighter, so I'm looking forward to it.
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Drone posted:GOG.com is on the verge of success. On the verge? This is just the latest in a string of awesome things done by GOG. They weren't some fly-by-night shitshow before now or anything.
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jivjov posted:On the verge? This is just the latest in a string of awesome things done by GOG. They weren't some fly-by-night shitshow before now or anything. I was paraphrasing the famous opening of Tie Fighter 
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Drone posted:I was paraphrasing the famous opening of Tie Fighter Ahh, I was wondering what that sudden breeze was. Turns out it was your joke flying clear over my head. I never had TIE Fighter as a kid, only X-Wing.
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jivjov posted:On the verge? This is just the latest in a string of awesome things done by GOG. They weren't some fly-by-night shitshow before now or anything.
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And they're out. Hopefully they've got it rigged so joysticks work properly. DosBox on its own doesn't have a deadzone setting.
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This release is awesome. I knew I kept lugging this old joystick around through multiple moves for a reason.
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I heard the news about X-Wing and TIE Fighter this morning. I don't know the last time I owned a flight stick. Any news about X-Wing vs TIE Fighter or X-Wing: Alliance?
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I am so much worse at TIE fighter than when I was in 2nd grade... So my game isn't registering me twisting the flight stick to spin my craft. Is this fixable, or do I just have to live with this?
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Lurken posted:I am so much worse at TIE fighter than when I was in 2nd grade... That's just not a feature that X-Wing and TIE Fighter were programmed to have. They handle rolling by holding a button and then using the regular X axis motion. I mapped mine to my stick's pinky trigger.
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So according to released concept art, the villain of Episode VII is going to have a "light broadsword" where the handles on the hilt are mini-lightsabers. http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2014/10/rumor-star-wars-episode-vii-villain.html So between this and the spinning double lightsaber from Rebels, I'm glad the new Disney canon is keeping up the Legends trend of "really dumb over the top lightsaber designs".
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http://www.pcgamer.com/star-wars-battlefront-coming-holiday-2015-next-battlefield-game-a-year-later/ BATTLEFIELD 6 IN 2016! also I guess Battlefront 3 will be around christmas of next year... or what ever.. As much as I like the Battlefront series there's a reason  's icon exists so really expect a playable version of Battlefront in the middle of 2016 as well.
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Chairman Capone posted:So according to released concept art, the villain of Episode VII is going to have a "light broadsword" where the handles on the hilt are mini-lightsabers. Wow that's six different kinds of stupid. But that's what I've come to expect, I guess.
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gently caress the haters, lightsaber broadsword is cool as hell.
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If the hilt wasn't made of tiny lightsabers, yeah, I'd agree. I really hope that didn't make it into the movie.
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Aside from the mini lightsabers in the hilt that'd make it a loving danger to the person using it more, It isn't a bad idea design wise. We've seen worse.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Aside from the mini lightsabers in the hilt that'd make it a loving danger to the person using it more, It isn't a bad idea design wise. It's gonna be hard to top the on-screen stupidity of Grievous and his helicopter-sabers.
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Chairman Capone posted:So between this and the spinning double lightsaber from Rebels, I'm glad the new Disney canon is keeping up the Legends trend of "really dumb over the top lightsaber designs". It's been done.
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