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NtotheTC posted:I really hate to go there because its given that andor spends the whole film being a guilt-ridden mess over the actions he has to take 'for the cause' I'm not sure that fits the definition of a sociopath
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but another reason I liked Rogue One is because it finally had the balls to show a morally ambiguous (read: outright sociopath) in Cassian Andor. I don't think any side in a war should be portrayed as 100% good.
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a bunch of those comments are precisely things you could level at tie fighter 'why is the rebellion attacking outpost d-34 with wings of imperial shuttles?  '
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hell yeah i can have an x-wing in green squadron colors goty
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i wish everything wasn't so dang fast so there was more time to appreciate how nice everything looks
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Isometric Bacon posted:Why do modern games never tell you your drat ping anymore? Is it some user retention thing? Do they think notifying players that their connection is poo poo will put them off the game? yeah, I just experienced this. generally the games are good, but maybe one in ten is some kind of weird hell where there's no visible lag - until I start firing on an enemy and I'll do zero damage whatsoever.
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the thing about squadrons is that it does so much right, and yet the small details are so bothersome. in advance, I'll admit that this is dumb poo poo to care about, and more a consequence of how games change than any design decision. what people loved about the x-wing and tie fighter games was how much they expanded the world and featured ships that'd been mentioned in the EU. dreadnaughts, corellian gunships, z-95s, whatever. you had a wide range of craft that fulfilled a variety of roles. and the overall presentation of these craft was in something that resembled how real world militaries operated. some ships, like star destroyers, were monumental vessels that could change entire missions by merely appearing. every individual ship had 'weight' to it, in a sense, even if that was only a limitation of the hardware. then in the very first mission of squadrons, the imperial blockade of fostar haven consists of, what, a dozen quasar fire-class carriers? it's so over the top. in the mission where you rescue the victarum, it's, again, quasar fires and three star destroyers and you annihilate most of them without fanfare. how many fighters is that? i just checked Wookieepedia, and a single quasar fire carries forty-eight starfighters. when you fly through the rebel fleet, it's composed entirely of corellian corvettes and nebulon-bs with a single mon cal cruiser. it doesn't help that every single character talks like they're a zany superhero instead of a soldier in a war. again, it's just a consequence of how game design has changed. people don't buy po-faced military simulators, they buy games where you hang out with whacky best friends who blast through dozens of enemies without a problem. eventually, though, I just wanted all the characters to just shut up for five minutes. the characters have exactly one note and, boy, do they play them loud. does keo have a single conversation where they don't mention a racing circuit? no one talks about squadrons or tactics or orders or whatever. it's a dumb thing to complain about - ship variety and verisimilitude - when the game does the key things right. the gameplay is wonderful, the graphics are amazing. i doubt the majority of people give a poo poo that there's only one sort of imperial carrier and so on. but when I see the updated bulk freighters, I wonder what might've been...
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Isometric Bacon posted:I mean, as a die hard xwing game fan back in the day i'm with you guys in spirit but... honest to god, i forgot that film existed. but yes, the sequel films were out of tone too, in their own way. from poe 'one hell of a pilot'ing out like a dozen ties in ten seconds or to, uh, poe again shooting off every turret on the dreadnaught.
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that TIE Fighter TC is awesome. the remastered campaign is interesting but suffers from having so much stuff going on that the missions feel like they come down to random chance or they're practically self-playing.
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