/v/ - Video Games

Yeah, and the grass is green, and the water is wet.

>>14047755

just because its obvious doesn't mean we can't sit here and complain about it

>>14047737

One has to Marvel at the absolute fuckup Disney has turned what once was a license to print obscene amounts of money.

The movies are shit, the Last Jedi is being mauled both by user reviews and in terms of profits, the merchandise isn't selling (far more important than the movies themselves), EA are dragging their feet in terms of Star Wars vidya, on top of fucking up so badly they now have multiple government inquiries looking to regulate and tax their main source of income.

What a white man nurtured and grew over the span of 40 years, something that made him billions and was beloved by all, was ruined by Jews and women in less that 2 years.

>>14047829

Was force awakens that bad? I haven't played it.

>>14047842

>Was force awakens that bad? I haven't played it.

*Force Unleashed

It was seen as really average at the time. It hasn't aged very well. Combat is very button mashy and the game is full of QTEs. It's also extremely linear. The game has a very rapid difficulty spike towards the end with a big QTE sequence where you down a star destroyer that's really hard for some reason. The final level is also way harder than anything else in the game.

If this was the only Star Wars game they ever made then it would've probably been remembered a lot better. But compared to Star Wars games in the past it's pretty bad.

It also had an enormous budget for the time. Like they invented an enormous amount of technology for things like the game's physics and it's all basically wasted on a game barely anyone cares about or bothers to finish.

But even it looks like Citizen Kane compared to anything nowadays. Like I'd play TFA over Battlefront or Battlefront 2 in a heartbeat.

>>14047874

Because NPCs pop in frequently, so the guy added the DBZ instant transmission sound as a joke. It's even worse in the DLC

>>14047829

What really puzzles me is why EA is so hesitant to make Star Wars games. They used to shit out licensed games by the dozen in the 2010s, but all they did with a basic monopoly on SW games is make the same FPS turd twice in a row, somehow managing to make everyone hate them even more in the process.

Are they aware Disney is sinking SW with no survivors and are trying to avoid the shitshow? Do they lack the developers to make games? Do they simply not care because selling Fifa lootboxes is making them boatloads of money?

>>14047829

I don't care what anyone says. I loved Galactic Battlegrounds. Force Unleashed on the other hand is one of the post-Episode 3 media projects that killed Star Wars for me. You have a huge EU to explore with a franchise that had concluded in the eyes of normalfags and you still make a game set around the time of the movies because "muh familiarity" with overpowered Force shit.

>>14047737

now that we can embed Hooktube you have no excuse for being a faggot.

>>14047897

I'd give a foot and a leg for a game where you play as Vader and go around hunting down Jedi. Make Platinum make it and you got yourself an instant classic.

>>14047892

>What really puzzles me is why EA is so hesitant to make Star Wars games

I don't think they're hesitant. I think they spent more than they wanted for the license and Battlefront 1 was supposed to do way, way way better because it was releasing around the same time as the movie. Plus there was so much demand for Free Radical's cancelled Battlefront 3 it probably sounded like a slam dunk to them. They didn't even bother to do things like the Clone Wars setting or a campaign.

Since Battlefront 1 and 2 released close to the Star Wars movies I think EA just intended to release Star Wars games around the same time as them to try and cash in on brand recognition til the IP either becomes too over saturated or stops making money. I don't think they expected the amount of backlash they got over Battlefront 2 since they put as much effort into it as the rest of their games.

>>14047880

>>14047899

Is quality control really that hard

>>14047793

>the Last Jedi is being mauled both by user reviews and in terms of profits, the merchandise isn't selling (far more important than the movies themselves)

Source on that? I mean, I'd want nothing but to believe you.

>>14047950

Listening to this interview by the guy who created Jedi Outast's/Academy's combat system really opened my eyes as to how lazy devs have gotten with it. At one point they even make fun of TFU's combat as being like "hitting each other with sticks"

>>14047866

>Remember the Hoth DLC mission from the first Force Unleashed game

>Get to fucking fight Luke Skywalker and see him go full Dark Side to save Han, Chewie, and Leia

Literally the best thing about the game.

>>14047965

Figures it would be only relative to force awakens, but I suppose the decline of things this big only happen one step at a time.

>>14048023

Force Awakens merchandise was also underselling and rotting away on shelves.

>>14048008

Pretty much all the DLC for TFU games were good. Although the Tantooine mission wasn't the best compared to Hoth and Endor.

>>14048040

The Dark Side is pervasive and corrupts Completely. While the yellow eyes thing isn't neccessarily a thing, the paler appearance and general decay of physical features is true. It's why most Sith Lords look alike aside from the original few who hadn't really given in, but instead learned to wield it.

>>14048095

Anybody who didn't pick Keanu Reeves face portrait is gay.

>>14047866

>>14047842

It's a competent hack-and-slash with some neat/fun Force powers, but if I remember correctly the first FU is locked at 30fps. I'm not sure about the second one.

>>14047866

>Like they invented an enormous amount of technology for things like the game's physics and it's all basically wasted on a game barely anyone cares about or bothers to finish.

This is why videogame source codes need to be released

>>14048223

the Dark Side ending to this game always struck me as far more rewarding

>>14048253

He can fly to Galaxies far far away.

>>14048223

It really depends on both the person and the circumstances. Sith like Darth Bane never underwent physical changes IIRC and more recent examples would be Palpatine and Dooku. However once the control of the Dark Force is lost the physical changes begin to appear.

Basically it either manifests itself in extreme circumstances of hate, anger, or fear or you just let it in which case you're a slave to the Dark side of the force. Dooku never went through any so it never showed. Palpatine was almost killed and the fear of death basically forced the Dark Side to manifest itself physically and extremely alter his appearance as he used it as a shield to stop Dindu from frying him. Anakin only showed signs of physical alterations after he had completely given in to all three emotions. Fear of loss, and both anger and hate towards the Jedi.

>>14048271

Anything apart from the original three movies is shit. The Star Wars EU was shit. And frankly, KOTOR was not a particularly good game either. It was a consolized piece of shit RPG with your average Bioware writing.

>>14047909

Too bad the ground combat is boring and slow as shit. Space battles are the real game.

>>14047880

I like it how a woman with no armor can tank a million hits.

Stormtrooper armor is as useless as usual.

>>14048308

The Force is female.

>>14048308

I recall that stormtrooper armour isn't meant to be able to halt blasters entirely, but mitigate the damage so that the wearer survives taking the shot. So most of the troopers you see get thrown back by a bolt in the chest actually got to live and fight another day.

>Buying EA games

>>14048314

No, they die because the main cast have plot armour and they don't. They were taken down by Ewoks with wooden arrows and rocks, for fucks sake.

>>14047922

Sadly Vader isn't an acrobat, so you can't have him jumping and rolling, like he is Raiden or Bayonetta, so I don't think a Platinum style game would work with Vader. Ironically, something less cuhrayze than even God of War would work better for a Vader type game.

>>14048314

Unless Disney retconned that too, stormtrooper armor can fully stop bolts from most civilian market blasters.

>>14047892

The market changed.

It used to be focused around getting as many games sold as possible. So they'd shit out anything with "Star Wars" on the box knowing that at least some idiot would buy it, and over the course of the year their 50 Star Wars games would make them X amount of cash. They were all cheaply made crap because you can't drop AAA budget on Anakin and Padmes coarse sand adventure and still make a profit.

Now the industry is all about getting you to buy one game a year, and then pumping you for DLC and micro transactions for the next 12~ months while the alternate dev house shits out the sequel. They don't want you buying loads of different Star Wars games because then you're much less likely to fall for their skinnerbox psychology treadmill and drop $100 on random card packs that cost $1 and a day to make.

Profits in the industry were soaring before EA fucked up the lootbox game by pushing it too far. They were spending less on deving games and making orders of magnitude more money from hiring addiction specialists to tweak their games with the aim of raiding your wallets.

>>14048369

I imagine armor made to stop blasters doesn't prioritize protecting against blunt force, same as kevlar won't stop a knife but will save you from a bullet.

>>14048351

A Darth Maul-game though…

>>14048380

>Tfw you will never play a game where you are sand and your goal is to get everywhere on Anakin and making him hate you and you follow along as he grows up, ruining every moment of his life

Would have been a fun game.

Are the Nu-Battlefront games worthy of a pirate, to play the singleplayer? Im curious, and to be honest, games look graphically well, and might as well try to see it with my eyes.

>>14048495

>nuBattlefront 2

>you get to play as the Empire filthy goyim!

>for all of three missions

>then it's back to the same Rebel shit we make you suffer through in every game

They had one job and they managed to fuck even that up.

>>14048496

I heard that X-wing Alliance has a TIE fighter conversion of it. Should I play it instead of the original 1995 Tie Fighter?

>>14048502

No

TIE is GOAT

>>14048502

I heard it doesn't work on Windows 7 and onward. Also playing this kind of total conversions becomes a game of cat and mouse where you keep separating what's new and what old, it drains your enjoyment.

Found this mod for Jedi Academy. Haven't tried it yet but it looks fun.

>>14048496

how do i into it without a joystick

>>14048496

These two games basically took everything what was good about Star Wars, rolled them into challenging space shooters and most importantly, left the faggy bits out.

>>14048501

The thing that pisses me off the most is that the Inferno Squadron is supposed to be the most elite of the elite in the Imperial Navy. Iden who's father fucking founded Inferno Squad and is the commander of it literally betrays the Empire for no purpose or reason other than her homeworld would get metaphorically gassed. Then of course she goes on a murdering spree and eventually escapes with the Rebellion because HOPE.

The 501st in the second Battlefront was far better written and had more comradery, not to mention loyalty than the shit nuFront II put forth.

>>14048530

for Tie fighter you can just use keyboard and mouse and reconfigure controls, not sure if X-Wing is the same

>>14048530

You can use a gamepad and retain most of the functionality. Here's a few guides.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/using-joysticks-gamepads-like-a-pro-tutorial.104984/

https://www.please use archive.is/forums/star-wars-tie-fighter-40/guide-to-playing-x-wing-and-tie-fighter-on-a-contr-1498346/

https://www.savingcontent.com/2014/08/09/guide-play-x-wing-tie-fighter-series-on-windows-7-windows-8-windows-8-1-with-an-xbox-xb1-playstation-ps4-controller-flight-stick/

>>14048077

no proofs except some autist walking around stocked up shelves video

>>14048314

>>14048369

>>14048399

Well, funny how completely unarmored people survive blaster shots to the gut without any problems, but armored soldiers die from 1 shot.

Also, wood. WOOD.

>>14048726

The sequel is alright/about the same from what I remember, and the combat is somewhat improved. Though the story is slightly worse depending on who you ask with an added love interest thrown into the mix. However, the Endor DLC lets you murder Ewoks, Chewie, Han Solo, and Leia so it about evens out. And I agree that some love, or at least thought went into the games themselves. Even though all the DLC for the games are non-canon, the Hoth DLC from the first game ties into the Endor DLC from the second where Luke is presumably dead/captured by Starkiller, and Leia ends up learning how to use the force and a lightsaber. I thought it was pretty neat how it ties together even though they had no reason to do so.

>>14048752

that's pretty neat, I'll have to give it a pirate.

>>14047969

were there any mods to add some length to Jedi Academy? Loved the fuck out of that game but it felt like it ended way too soon.

>>14048774

>when their strong suit is making multiplayer games

Because BF4, BF1, nuBattlefron 1 and 2 are such great games, right?

>>14047866

I really liked it but I can see why people wouldn't, it's a bit clunky at some parts and the quality of the level design varies but it has a great physics engine, some pretty epic moments, the voice actor of the protagonist is fantastic and it fits perfectly into the EU canon and I think it still looks pretty good

>>14047969

>Jedi Outcast was 10 months of development

Well OK they had parts lying around and they definitely repurposed things into Academy, like Tavion's scepter energy blast is just reskinned from Galak's battlesuit. But still, that's pretty impressive.

>>14048528

The guy manages to sell it to me that's for sure, and I'm not even much into multiplayer games.

>>14047950

>mass appeal

This is some strange definition of "mass-appeal" because Outcast and Academy managed that perfectly well without needing to be stripped down.

>>14048835

>"which isn't saying much to the end of: "

"which isn't saying much" to the end of:*

>>14047874

Holy shit is this from super? The filler episodes in this series must be 90%

>>14048812

>mfw I've never seen Galak's battle suit brought up in a power armor thread here

Most underappreciated vidya power armor tbh.

>>14048774

I honest to god forgot we went up to Battlefield 4.

Was 3 any good?

Fucking flag.

>>14049349

She looks like shit IRL too, just like every other filthy, brown, inbred mongrel.

>>14048253

>Why the fuck is Goku in the thumbnail?

Someone already asked this

>>14047880

>>14049349

56%

>>14048496

>Back to reddit

I brought up those games specifically because of the fan community for them still existing. I'm not aware of a big X-Wing/Tie Fighter fan community.

>>14049349

>The story has two main scribes: Walt Williams, who wrote the story for the well-received military shooter Spec Ops: The Line, and former IGN video game editor Mitch Dyer.

The other dude wrote Spec Ops. How do you go from that to writing this garbage?

>>14047866

I remember Lucasarts was one of the two companies that actually managed to get a license to use Euphoria for the ragdoll & character animations for their games as the company who made Euphoria is stingy as fuck on who gets the license.

>>14048488

Watch the video in the OP

>>14048782

>were there any mods to add some length to Jedi Academy? Loved the fuck out of that game but it felt like it ended way too soon.

There's a big story mod called Escape Yavin 4 I remember liking. There was actually a few story mods for the game. I suggest going on it's moddb or onto jkhub.

>>14048812

>Well OK they had parts lying around and they definitely repurposed things into Academy, like Tavion's scepter energy blast is just reskinned from Galak's battlesuit. But still, that's pretty impressive.

Jedi Outcast was built on-top of another game called Star Trek Voyager Elite Force. If you play Elite Force it comes across as just Jedi Outcast with better gunplay. Elite Force took 2 years to make whereas the brunt of Outcast's development was clearly just making assets and making the saber combat good.

>>14049384

Going from trash to garbage isn't a very big leap, you know.

>>14049384

>The other dude wrote Spec Ops. How do you go from that garbage to writing this garbage?

Mystery of the ages

>>14049384

I bet he created the characters and the IGN soyboy wrote the script.

Star Wars is shit

this is now a Dragon Ball thread, since Goku is on the OP

>you will never purge rebel scum with your Imperial Commando bros

>>14049418

Dragon Ball is shit. This is now an anti jew thread.

>>14050552

>>14049418

There's already a Dragon Ball thread. Go bump that one.

>>14048496

How do these games hold up today? Is setup janky as fuck?

Are there any modern TIE/X-Wing games that capture the speed and energy that the X-Wing sequence at the start of TLJ had?

Thoughts on 2017 SWTOR? I've just redownloaded it, figured i'd check it out. It isn't offensively bad yet.

>>14050694

Be prepared for an entirely new level of disappointment and anger once you hit the Zakuul expansions. I don't recommend it.

>>14050727

I've got nothing better to do so I think i'll finish all the content and then make a very angry thread on it so we can all laugh

>>14050899

You stupid nigger, it's spelled Rei

>>14050907

like you care nigga

>>14048271

Except Palpatine actually did look like that, he was just using the dark side's cloaking ability. After the fight he didn't bother because he needed to look scarred for support and at that point everyone would know that Jedi are basically space sorcerers, who knows what the force could do to someone

>>14050985

It's actually Roy.

>>14051002

I thought it was Rae

>>14047793

I saw this with family today. They wanted me to come. I didn't want to look like a weirdo so I went. All I knew was that Luke kills his son and nukes the commonwealth dies in the end. I figured there would be a few major propaganda moments, but the entire thing was so ridiculously jewish. It was even worse than the last movie.

>admiral akbar dies

>new admiral is a 60 year old woman

I wouldn't have even cared, because Leia and Mon Mothma, but

>purple hair

I knew what was coming next

>brown pilot guy is like "hey you got a plan?"

<lmao fuck off tiny dicked flyboy I don't need to tell you MISOGYNIST

>"what the fuck just tell me" and he has an actual plan

And he didn't know, and the movie makes it out like he does something wrong when he stages a mutiny because "muh empowered womyn" when suddenly

>at the last minute

<after half the fucking rebels die

>the new admiral does a hyperspace jump kamikaze through the imperial dreadnought

>going to hyperspace through a ship 1000x your size utterly destroys it

If it was that fucking easy, why don't they just make missiles with hyperspeed boosters? Why use blasters when that is so devastating? It was a total deus ex machina, even the "Leia survives the vacuum of space because force" moment was more believable.

>vegan propaganda

>Chewbacca doesn't want to eat porgs because one made a sad face at him i cri evertim

>omg horse racing so cruel

>casino planet

>bad guys are cops

>haha drunken master hacker so funay

>asian: man I just hate this planet!

>Johnooga Boogayega: "I want them to feel hurt. muhfuggin bix nood"

>Do_The_Right_Thing.mov

>half the movie is telepathic MUH FEELS

>retarded Whedon quips every other second

>Luke Skywalker is a bitter cuck and he milks a tit onscreen, because my 5 year old nephew needed to see that

>>14047737

Star Wars was already on life support after the prequels and Disney finished the job the second they got their tendrils into it and decided to make bad fan fiction the new canon.

>>14051102

>I didn't want to look like a weirdo so I went.

You stupid fucking cowardly normalfag.

>>14050907

It's Rey Mixer and Finn Dindu. Their child will be royalty: Miss Cejen Ashun.

>>14051147

But no, seriously, her name is Rey Mixer.

>>14051226

QTEs were the mid-to-late 2000s method of getting around making good bosses. 90% of the bosses in the game are completely identical aside from the QTEs

>>14048862

it wasn't terrible but definitely wasn't good. really middle of the road shit, and was basically just cod: even more retarded way of unlocking weapon parts edition. i find it pretty ironic that i think back on bf3, bf4, hardline, battlefront etc and i think hardline conceptually might have been the least bad of them all

>>14051102

you just described almost everything i hated about the movie, only a few things you missed

>leia comes back from the dead and goes super saiyan for a minute

>luke is a whiny fucking faggot for no reason whatsoever

>the saltskimmers that did and contributed literally, no exaggerating fucking nothing

>admiral strong independent passive-aggressive womyn was such a fucking lifeless, one-dimensional character

>the casino scene didn't need to happen for any reason at all - it's literally dindu and ching chong engineer getting arrested for parking like assholes, then breaking a bunch of shit that those mean old evil white imperialists are enjoying during the space kentucky derby

>luke has a stroke and dies after his astral projection for no reason whatsoever, and this isn't explained in the slightest

>snoke starts building steam as a villain, he's finally starting to show character and i'm starting to develop an opinion on him, then they cut him in half

>>14051431

Oh and I forgot one

>no campaign

although given >>14047737 that was probably something that was positive about the game

>>14051431

he was asking about/i was talking about battlefield 3

>>14048862

they increased the lethality of all weapons across the board to make the game faster paced like call of duty. it was the first game on the downhill slide to where Battlefield is today

>>14051513

>oh no someone liked something i dont like

I'm not going to defend soy wars or anything, but Vin isn't pissed pedro saying GO WATCH IT 5 MORE TIMES AND YOU'LL GET IT. He saw a movie that was pretty flashy colors and effects and liked it for that, as for the star wars aspect which he covered during his full "review" video, he said that he sees what they were trying to go for and its a good improvement over the retread that the farts awakens was but still had way too much nonsense in the middle.

You'll get the same, if not better, opinion out of RLM. There's alot of good ideas that work IN THEORY but didnt when actually applied. Feels kinda like a monkey paw wish.

>>14050773

Good luck. I managed to slog through KOTFE and KOTET, made it back to Iokath and then got so pissed off I just logged out after the first mission. It wasn't fun, it wasn't interesting, and my purely morbid curiosity to see how bad it could get ran out.

>>14051513

Hey now,don't diss mr sauce himself.

>>14048040

It seems heavily influenced by the prequel meme of emotionless eunuch jedi that believe that acting on emotion ever is darkside shit.

>>14051564

The Last Jedi was good ideas executed by a man who despite his Probably best efforts, comes off as a movie that's telling old fans to get fucked and that they only want the new fans(the kind who defended TFA as a good movie and think diversity quotas are a good thing).

>>14051513

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

Anyone who likes brofag or fagsauce gets insta-filtered, even if it's as a joke.

>>14051564

RLM hated it, and Vinny stated later (once he'd had a chance to decompress) that what he liked was the kitchy, schlocky aspects of it, for the sake of the schlock.

>>14051588

>>>/suicide/

>>>/reddit/

In that order.

>>14051586

>fagsauce

very clever i see

>>14051476

I'm not sure what the image is supposed to be portraying other than the bitch's inability to act.

>>14051568

What the fuck were they thinking for the "arguments" regarding the Republic and Empire? The Republic did nothing to help you and, to the contrary, actively tried to sabotage you while Acina gave you physical support, supplies and the sacrifices of not only her soldiers, but of the Empress herself. They wanted it to be a hard choice for a Republic sympathizer yet all of Malcolm's argument boiled down to was "You're a Jedi" even though mine was clearly full dark side.

>>14051603

i've actually always wondered if the republic/empire questions were intentional in TOR or if they were completely accidental. the republic shows itself to be a lying government where they'll smile through their teeth and tell you everything's fine then send you to die, while the empire is a very obvious meritocracy and they make zero secret of it. during the course of the game this comes up in discussion, not often but sometimes

>>14051601

she looks like she just shit herself

>>14051687

She does have some sort of broken vagina disease so maybe she queefed herself into pain.

>>14050552

>Now let's discuss retarded muscle men yelling a lot and smacking each other into conveniently placed cliffs

Dragon Ball is truly the professional wrestling of anime.

Remember Mara Jade was literally the most popular EU character (at least among literary people when that official poll was done, Kyle or Thawn might beat her now). They got rid of a legitimate popular, strong, female character to do NuSW with shitty ones.

Who would they even need to pay to have made the Thawn trilogy into a movie?

>>14051603

>What the fuck were they thinking

I've asked myself that question for literally every choice in the Zakuul expansions.

>They wanted it to be a hard choice for a Republic sympathizer yet all of Malcolm's argument boiled down to was "You're a Jedi" even though mine was clearly full dark side

There's even less reason for an Imperial to side with them. I mean Acina is pretty chill for a dark council member, she obviously knows not to fuck with you, she sticks her neck out to support you during KOTET, what possible reason do you have to side with the pubs?

>>14051697

The characterization during the original game and even Makeb was something I enjoyed. I mean the Sith and the Mandalorians were both out for revenge to right ancient wrongs and in the end to secure their very existence from the forces (The Republic and the Jedi) that had tried to genocide them on multiple occasions before. It's shown plainly during TOR that the Republic is still willing to genocide the Sith for the crime of wanting to not be genocided. But let's just throw that all out the window for some expansions that bring Revan back only to destroy his own characterization, then crawl up our own ass with an empire 'beyond the light of the dark side' in a story that is not only poorly executed but doesn't even feel like Star Wars, but could so easily have been a proper star wars story that it's pathetic.

>>14049384

Could be they had him do small sections and just used his name to try and sell more copies. Sorta like what a lot of companies do with avellone now. Since enough normalfags know who he is, affixing his name to the title is like brand recognition.

>>14051102

>going to hyperspace through a ship 1000x your size utterly destroys it

That actually makes sense, "Rods from God" and the like are well established in physics while being powered by simple gravity. The problem is making it explicit that part of physics still works with hyperspace completely breaks the last movie and tells everyone all they needed to do to destroy star killer base was set up an old pile of rust up with a droid pilot (if not a simple macro) to jump past Starkiller base's shields and not stop.

The EU actually gave two reasons why that isn't possible:

1: hyperspace is an alternate universe thingy (there are even two WEG RPG modules where the player's hyperdrive fucks up and strands them in hyperspace) more like a Star Gate than FTL.

2: Gravity wells pull you out of light speed, a fact the Imperials weaponize with artificial gravity wells.

Even without that you could logically put other explanations for why hyperspace doomsday machine isn't a thing

>any target worth using it on has some kind of shield that prevents it

>it's not accurate enough to hit a target the size of a planet, let alone something smaller

>>14051808

>Who would they even need to pay to have made the Thawn trilogy into a movie?

iirc some writer for Disney confirmed Thrawn is still canon. Probably since the Thrawn trilogy was really popular and Disney seems to just pick and choose what worked in the EU and ignore everything else. Like for some reason Kyle Katarn's ship the Mouldy Crow is canon in NuSW but whether Kyle himself is canon or not isn't confirmed.

>>14048752

>endor DLC

For the second one? Which felt unfinished/too short?

>>14049396

Yeah I've never played Elite Force. Heretic II though, that's a pretty fun game.

>>14050899

>giving that plastic crap any attention at all

It's not like there haven't been cool Star Wars toys. Like the lightsaber replicas.

>>14051843

DELEET THIS

>>14051836

Point is, both the EU and Lucas made sure never to touch upon the subject in too much detail because they were aware it would break every single aspect of the universe to pieces. If everyone's FTL capable station wagon is suddenly capable of destroying a whole continent just because Average Joe forgot to pull the brakes on time it trivializes every single conflict in the history of Star Wars.

Only a woman could be so monumentally stupid to write something as asinine as this.

>>14052317

I vaguely got the idea from the movie that you need to be really up close in order to pull off a successful hyperspace ram. They thought the cruiser was abandoned and let it get too close, and when it turned to jump they couldn't shoot it down in time. Otherwise the ship would get obliterated by the Order flagship if it normally tried to get closer, as jumping from a long distance would already put you in hyperspace before you could collide with any ships facing you.

There was another instance of a hyperspace ram in the EU against an Imperial flagship, but in that case it was just shrugged off.

>>14051814

I said it in the factions thread, but SWTOR had really good writing for the Empire and Republic that is completely wasted on that piece of shit MMO. They could have made KOTOR III out of that writing and continued on with it instead of bringing back Revan and all of that other stupid bullshit. I would have actually liked a Star Wars game where I get to see the perspective of multiple people throughout that time period. What I would have done is remove the bounty hunter and smuggler from both sides, I'll get to this later, and give the Empire a shocktrooper/commando character and the republic an agent like story with the SIS. Then I would create a third faction/non-faction that consists of the underworld where I would put the smuggler, bounty hunter and maybe an assassin character. You could be hired by either side but you would have a story that would follow the general time frame of the cold war. This would be like the Malkavian route where everything makes sense in retrospect and you can get spoiled because of rumors that pirates and other riff raff spread when you are at your hub. The Republic story would follow the natural progression set off in TSL in that you are on a quest to kill the Emperor, easy enough. The Sith Empire, however, would be about redemption and reconquest. I would force the player to play as a pureblood if they chose Sith as to merge both the Sorc and Warrior classes. You won't be a slave, you are of royal blood. You gain power and eventually you are offered the position of Wrath and charged with hunting down the traitorous Scourge. The agent/soldier story is about fighting for what you think is right. You saw how the republic will stop at nothing to kill you and everyone you love. Here the player can be whatever race they want, but chiss would be an obviously more fitting choice. Both sides would be race specific so you can't have Sith Jedi and alien Sith as to keep the illusion of authenticity. Now keep in mind I'm trying to use the scraps of SWTOR and not making my own story.

>>14051843

Still can't believe Disney forced Timothy Zahn to make a family-friendly version of Thrawn for their Nu-Canon universe with Thrawn's new origin novel, it's fucking harry potter levels of shit.

>>14052367

The new canon already threw away any and all rules governing hyperspace. Han can jump through a shield into a planet's atmosphere, despite the fact that FLT in Star Wars can and will be disrupted by gravity.

In TLJ now you have enemies acting like clueless idiots that somehow miss the fact someone is going to ram into them and treat this as a surprising and new tactic no one before Admiral Tumblr thought of before.

>as jumping from a long distance would already put you in hyperspace before you could collide with any ships facing you.

You can calculate where you will exit when in hyperspace. The issue isn't the distance, but that they weaponized FTL.

>>14047737

>best licensed video games

Licensed video games are always suspect,

There is only one developer who does not have to innovate or take risks because he practically has a guaranteed income due to monopoly licensing.The fans are going to buy the game no matter what and the recent star wars debacle is a good example why licensing is a cancerous practice.

>>14052512

Friend of mine who listened to the Thrawn (Canon Novel) Audiobook, apparently Zahn made a younger version of Gilad Pellaeon named Eli Vanto. Technically Gilad Pellaeon is canon but with a different origin and Name

>>14047880

Holy shit, that pop-in of endless troopers looks like something from a budget fps from like 2005.

>>14047737

Which are the best Star Wars games, and why is it Super Star Wars?

>>14047892

Star wars brand is dying and making AAA games costs too much. Disney will only allow AAA games with AAA budgets, which ironically causes the brand to die faster as only products deemed "safe" like nu-Battlefront:Womyn edition can get made, which itself probably not even a safe bet anymore now that EA fucked up on microtransactions.

>>14052512

Doesn't Thrawn have NuAge pronouns in the novel?

I don't remember the story mode of Battlefront 2(the actual one) being so ass since I used to play Galactic conquest 24/7. Am I missing something like can I amass my own squad and give orders to the bots or am I actually supposed to be going commando against all of these jedniggers?

>>14053605

It's just bot battles with cutscenes.

>>14053605

You can "form up" if you aim at a bot and press f4. Most of the missions involve a certain objective that ties into the overall story and rise of the Empire, hence the name of the campaign. I play it for the narration at the beginning and end of the missions because that kiwi can do a mean clonetrooper.

>>14053605

It wasn't ass, and it was never about going commando. It was a loyal battalion and you working your way towards trying to crush the rebellion. The best part about it was seeing the civil war from the view of a literal Imperial grunt. Shit like the Battle of Hoth was considered a turning point, and pretty much the reassurance of the New Republic's defeat after the destruction of the first Death Star.

It was also canon (before Disney) that any Stormtrooper escort or personnel that accompanied Vader in the first 3 Star Wars films were 501st Legion.

>>14053641

>I play it for the narration at the beginning and end of the missions because that kiwi can do a mean clonetrooper.

He can. God damn what a voice.

>>14053663

I wasn't talking about the story, I just want to know if I can get a bunch of troopers behind me so I can make use of certain weapons and gadgets like defense/attack boosts or the dark trooper's arc gun

>>14053672

If I recall the only classes that gave bonuses were the Clone Commander, Officer, and one of the Rebel classes but if you played Galactic Conquest then it's pretty much the exact same thing as the campaign map wise except with a narrative added to it.

>>14052730

And Disney's fallback plan, if their new trilogy shits the bed is revealed when Thrawn says there's a "mysterious threat" in the Unknown Regions and new Gilad Pellaeon there is sent by Thrawn to the Chiss to help, either it's the fucking Yuuzhan Vong or something new, Disney is gonna take pointers with the ayy lmaos in the Marvel movies.

>>14053442

No, Timothy Zahn and the old EU writers don't do that shit, unless it's Karen Traviss.

>>14053656

Vid related

>>14053701

Karen "Canon Holocaust" Traviss, you mean.

>>14052512

Well… at least it wasn't written by Cuck Wendig.

>>14053725

"Gamer Gurl" bitch that fucking annoyed people with her "7 million clones fought in a galaxy of billions of planets against trillions of droids" went from writing gay Ultra-Mandolorians towards shitting the Halo mythos with more character assassinations and plot points that never pan out and was just a waste of fucking time.

>>14051476

>reddit

Brote is not reddit.

>>14051819

That's what I think too.

>>14053743

The old EU writers don't like that book, but contracts are contracts, they have to say something nice to that fucking adjective induced diarrhea of a novel. It's pretty much dead when the EU's shitty books are looking more and more coherant and tasteful than the new ones by diversity hires and cronies.

>>14053744

What is it with women and gay fanfiction?

>>14053780

Fujoshits of the West, for a long time they have managed to make horrible shitty writing into a hundred million sales by dumb young future-to-be dykes, and as for Karen, she has a fucking tendency to be a moralizing bitch in any franchise she gets to write.

>>14053795

Okay, I get that, but what is the psychological makeup that makes them write godawful stories about non-gay men raping each other? I mean, yeah, men will draw their favorite female characters dyking each other from time to time, but it's not nowhere near the level of obsession women seem to have in wishing to make everything as gay as possible.

>a fucking tendency to be a moralizing bitch in any franchise she gets to write

That too. I kind of liked that idea of hers where she stipulated that Jedi really are not good generals (and frankly, they aren't), but she does it in the most cringy, infantile way imaginable. She writes like a really bad fanfic writer out to demonize a specific group of characters they don't happen to like for whatever reason.

>>14053808

Dunno, most of image board discussion of fujoshit or hot gay sex writers is they want to self-insert themselves of the submissive gay faggot in relationship, also there's also the fact that these bitches are goddamn amateurs who never took a writing class or in Karen Traviss' case, she just regurgitates the same old shit while consulting "military experts" in the jargon and terms used for use in most of her novels.

>>14047922

>>14048351

What would have been best is for the eventual 3rd Force Unleashed to have a final level where you find that Vader had indeed planned for all the shit to go down the way it did and then you play as Vader (like how you start the first game) and have a final battle where you put Starkiller down.

>>14048469

>Revive that crackpot idea Lucas had of Maul being resurrected/cloned in the era of Darth Talon

>Maul is coming to grips with his body and re-learning his skills

>Talon is kinda your coms contact who you bullshit to

>go through Doids, Rebels, troopers, whatever-the-fuck-else

>keep blade mode for perfect dissection fuck-you's

>instead of a Zandatsu, proper slicing rewards Maul's "bloodlust" which serves as his vitality

>getting beat on lowers it

>get an adrenaline spike at super low health similar to Raiden's Ripper mode

>unlockable item that makes you always have 1 hp but you're forever in Adrenaline Rage

Can any of you fucks tell me about Talon and what sort of shit she was up to?

>>14050907

Protip: Jews spell it Ray

I just want a new Rogue Squadron and Racer. And I don't trust EA to make them.

>>14051564

RLM also said they liked TFA so I don't really trust them anymore

>>14051652

I think it just boils down to this: the writers for the Empire stories are consistently more talented than the ones for the Republic. They probably tried to depict both sides even-handedly but the Empire just seems more believable, Imperial characters are more relatable, and the Imperial system simply seems more successful. The Republic stories have long suffered from Saturday-morning-cartoon-tier writing and I think that just makes the whole faction look like its filled with corrupt retards and goodie-two-shoes characters who are hypocritically blind to the failings of their own faction.

>>14051836

>The problem is making it explicit that part of physics still works with hyperspace completely breaks the last movie

It breaks the whole series. Why the fuck would you ever use conventional weapons if you could just make a fleet of small, automated, hyperspace-capable ships and use them to swat down entire armadas with ease?

> SWTOR had really good writing for the Empire and Republic that is completely wasted on that piece of shit MMO

The Imperial Agent storyline should have had its own game, maybe some sort of TPS/RPG hybrid in the style of Mass Effect. When SWTOR inevitably dies that's the part of it I will miss the most.

>>14052734

Part of me suspects that EA purposefully bought the rights to, and then killed Battlefront so it wouldn't compete with their other franchises.

>>14054186

RIP in Peace, buddy

>>14054186

I think the Mouse got to his kids

>>14054186

>#HumbledHamill

more like #ThreatenedHamill

nobody likes this dumpster fire and everybody knows the unscrupulous mouse ain't very happy about it

>>14054301

>Part of me suspects that EA purposefully bought the rights to, and then killed Battlefront so it wouldn't compete with their other franchises

That actually makes a lot of sense, rumor is they're going to get the SW license yanked by Disney though

>>14054361

I imagine him in a basement under Disney HQ with former Mossad agents telling him the other pinky is getting the hammer next if he doesn't tweet faster.

>>14054544

I wouldn't be surprised if that happened, but that rumor has been going around since EA's first Battlefront

>>14047829

>Implying SWGB was anything but a stellar star wars game

FUCK YOU! YOU COCKSUCKING FAGGOT! I BET YOU PLAY WITH FUCKING DOLLS!

>>14054681

Maybe

>>14051595

At least he didn't beat the dead horse by using "cuck"

>>14054695

>It was a shit rts that was just a clone of AOE2

That alone makes it a good game.

>>14054713

>That alone makes it a good game.

It wasn't as good as Aoe2. It just reused it's engine. The only reason people like it today is because of nostalgia for Aoe2. Not because of Galactic Battlegrounds as a game.

>>14054186

I imagine Hamill has enough money, I wonder what the mouse threatened.

>>14054722

Likely to sue him for all his money for breach of contract. At least Luke is dead now and his suffering is at an end.

>>14054722

>>14054727

It's unlikely they'd sue Mark Hamill. That would cause such a huge P/R disaster that it would sink the next movie. And Disney knows that. More likely they just threatened to not use him to voice the character in future spinoff projects.

>>14054736

Why would he give a shit if they didn't use him? He hates what they did with Luke, he hates the new movies and he spent all the time before release shitting on them. They threatened him with a lawsuit, just like they did with Ford.

>>14054750

>Why would he give a shit if they didn't use him? He hates what they did with Luke, he hates the new movies and he spent all the time before release shitting on them

Sure but Disney also owns other properties. He does do voice acting in addition to regular acting and doesn't want the rest of the industry going radio silent on him when he wants to do something else.

>>14054186

>>14054767

Yup, he doesn't want to get blacklisted

>>14054186

Punished Mark - A hero denied by his franchise

>>14054186

He can lie on Twitter, but his face right after he saw it after the premier doesn't lie.

>>14055639

He, of course, was bad-mouthing the movie at the premiere before he saw it, but the image works, I guess.

>>14054186

Translation: Disney said, “Take back what you said and apologize or we’ll get someone else to play your force ghost in IX and sue you so hard that you’ll lose the royalties to shit we don’t even own.”

>>14054301

>It breaks the whole series.

Of course it does, but we know by now Disney doesn't give a shit about that. My point is invalidating their own work is whole new level of retard.

>>14055606

Sometimes I think that Knights of the Old Republic was genuinely more "Star Warsy" than the actual Star Wars movies. Bethesda had a fluke good game in Morrowind, Bioware had a fluke good game in Knights of the Old Republic.

>>14054186

He didn't say it was a great Star Wars movie

>>14055772

Kotor was just a rehash of all the neverwinter nights games they've done on PC master race, no wonder console plebs saw nothing.

>>14055772

I'm actually replaying KOTOR right now, and honestly it doesn't hold up as well as I remembered. The writing and most of the characters are pretty subpar for the most part and every single combat encounter is a slog at best and unwinnable at worst if you don't dump all of your points into melee combat/lightsaber skills or run around dropping a trail of mines like an asshole. Having fun being an edgy dark side cunt though.

>>14055789

"Great movie" leaves a lot open to interpretation. He's on record as saying that a good movie in Hollywood is one that makes lots of money. TLJ made lots of money, which makes it "great" from a Hollywood perspective.

>>14055796

I recently started replaying KotOR1 and the writing is significantly worse than I remember. I think it's still a good game for its time, and the writing is fine if you're playing it as a 14-year-old, but holy shit KotOR2 blows it out of the water in every way imaginable

>>14055830

Yeah the writing is just bad. The locations are cool, the Old Republic is probably my favorite setting, and there are some gems in there (like HK-47), but overall it's just not that great. I guess it really just stands out because there were no other decently-designed Star Wars RPGs at the time.

>>14053701

>INB4 Thrawn Campaign movie but this time Eli Vanto (Pellaeon) and Thrawn works with the resistance to fight the Vong or reskinned Vong with different name and origin

>>14055830

I enjoyed putting points into force speed and lightning in KOTOR, from what I remember they made dual sabers OP, I could be remembering incorrectly though.

>>14056246

Dual sabers is OP in KotOR because you get 4 crystals, and the ability increases all stack (meaning you can get one to very high levels), instead of 2 more than any actual part of dual wielding.

Is the Bounty Hunter game any good?

>>14056275

Doesn't double-bladed get a 1.5x bonus from strength or something? I seem to recall that making its way in due to D&D rule bastardization.

>>14056255

Sounds more like a Disney PR executive wrote it themselves

>>14056579

Especially at the time it blew people away. I remember when I first played it when it came out I was stunned by it.

While it hasn't aged well it's influenced tons of games since then. It's hard to describe singleplayer games with RPG elements now without comparing them to Mass Effect.

>>14056357

>and Dragon Age Origins

a.k.a the beginning of the end for the company.

>>14056357

Skyrim is the real fluke, over a million sales, checking it right now the total number of owners is 11 million. Most devs would kill for those kinds of numbers Bethesda could've just did Skyrim HD instead of nuDoom and Fallout4 and ride on that piece of shit for 3 decades if they didn't touch the Modding community.

>>14057132

It wasn't a fluke. Bethesda made enormous amounts of money on Oblivion and Fallout 3. They had a pretty big built in fanbase on console. And Skyrim had enormous amounts of marketing and hype by consumers. I remember Harry Partridge even made a cartoon that was just him explaining how amazing the game was going to be. This was months before the game came out. Very few gamedevs have the fans hype the game up for them before it releases.

It also released at a really opportune time. It was before GTA5 (it would never have done nearly as good if it came out after GTA5. Consumers would've expected more from it) and it was at a time when developers were starting to scale back their games. Like I remember Jim Sterling at the time talked about how "Skyrim proves the industry wrong" explaining how a lot of publishers at the time claimed it wasn't possible to sell a game without a big multiplayer component with DLC. And the game lacked preorder DLC which was unheard of at the time.

>>14057066

It's very easy, actually. People do it all the time. In fact, when people mention singleplayer games with RPG elements I hardly hear Mass Effect mentioned. I more often hear Memelands brought up in that discussion because 'muh FPSRPG'

>>14052512

I've been reading the Thrawn trilogy recently and it's pretty good. Is the new Thrawn origin novel worth my time? Or at the very least the duology after the trilogy?

>>14057370

I hear Mass Effect mentioned so much, especially when a game has dialogue options or has squad-style combat. Like Deus Ex Human Revolution I remember was compared a lot to it. Since it had a Mass Effect style 4 dialogue options. Fallout 4 as well. I also remember games that were made more like Mass Effect later to try and sell to a wider audience like The bureau: Xcom declassified and LA Noire.

>>14054727

IS luke actually dead or is luke "forceghost" dead?

>>14057417

He disappeared the same way Obi-Wan did fighting Vader, so most likely 'force ghost' dead.

>>14057386

LA Noire was the stupidist one but then again "GTA adventure game" probably wouldn't sell so well.

>>14057417

He isn't dead yet because they might reuse him for Episode 9

Any decent mods for Battlefront 2 that make Galactic Conquest better or different? I'm not sure what to do after I'm done Galactic Conquest for all four factions.

>>14052317

>Only a woman could be so monumentally stupid to write something as asinine as this.

Might want to check the credits again m8

>>14056357

>Neverwinter Nights

>Jade Empire

>Mass Effect

>Dragon Age Origins

>Baldur's Gate

>good

They may have been financially successful but that doens't make them "good games"

>>14058662

>reddit trying to fit in

>>14048839

Filler? There's no filler, because the Manga is made afterwards

>>14058799

Fucking website my post didn't go through

Anyway the video is thread related.

>>14058737

It's almost as if a game being fun was it's actual purpose and those that achieve it are remembered fondly while those that do not are forgotten or shunned entirely.

But since fun since fun is subjective and we can' have any of that because it both invalidates our own choices and requires tolerating different tastes from other people, so instead we will cling to artificial qualities that are not universal at all and end up doing the equivalent of measuring distances in kilograms.

Also, "it's fun with friends" means your friends are fun, not the game.

>>14058830

>artificial qualities

Quality and quantity of gameplay mechanics or graphics isnt subjective or artificial.

>"it's fun with friends" means your friends are fun, not the game.

That doesnt make any sense, if we go by your implication then any game would be good with such friends but many games arent fun even with good friends.

>>14058844

>Quality and quantity of gameplay mechanics or graphics isnt subjective or artificial.

Quality doesn't describe anything, though. Something being of high equally depends on what's being judged and you can end up with paradoxical high quality turds.

Most AAA games have very high quality in terms of graphics and sound design for instance and Overwatch had high quality polish to it and yet I'm sure nobody would use any of this as an argument for something being objectively a good game.

Quantity of gameplay is equally non descriptive. You can have something with few mechanics actually being good or something with too much shit going on. There's a right amount of mechanics and there's things that belong and serve a purpose in the design and stuff that doesn't. That balance depends entirely on the game so in the end, it's equally non descriptive.

>if we go by your implication then any game would be good with such friends

I said precisely the opposite of what you implied. Games that are "fun with friends" aren't actually fun, your friends are. Borderlands is the poster child here, all games are a mess of boredom but it's passable if you play with friends that make it fun. However the game is still boring, it's your friends that are fun to play with.

>>14059222

He's a streamfag, he plays everything because otherwise he'd go under.

>>14059241

Why the fuck are we talking about e-celebs then? Who cares what a fucking streamer of all things cares about? They're like the lowest rung on the ladder, literal paid monkeys there to entertain people and pretend to be their friends for money.

>>14054186

Half the time he's complaining that the new movies don't respect, or make sense within, the Star Wars universe, the other half he's calling them the greatest movies of all time. I wonder (((why))) the paradoxical opinions.

>>14047793

I wouldn't say it just got fucked in 2 years, the raping of the franchise just sped up substantially.

>>14060715

Yeah if I were to decide to make some Star Wars fan project I'd pretty much memory hole the entire Disney "contribution".

>>14051564

>You'll get the same, if not better, opinion out of RLM

RLM are a bunch of sellouts. They loved TFA (and made a shitty Plinkett review), praised Daisy Ridley's performance, saying that she's "charismatic as hell". They didn't like TLJ but they tried their best to hide it, just like a big part of the youtuber critics (Enraged Enrique, MundaneShill, etc.).

>>14060780

I can understand people actually liking TFA. It's essentially "A new Hope" but with shitty actors instead, so the plot has some passable and interesting parts clashing against the shitty dumb ones, but overall it's not THAT bad.

Howeer TLJ? Why would anyone pretend to like it? It's essentially the prequels all over again: pretty laser and space fights, a simple to understand plot and clear bad guys vs good guys, however it completely ignores the established lore and touches none of the interesting aspects of Star Wars universe nor does it do anything interesting with the concept of the Force.

Why would anyone pretend to like it when it's not even unpopular to dislike it?

>>14060824

>I can understand people actually liking TFA

I am sorry that you are retarded

>>14060780

Did you even watch their reviews? For TFA, their only real praise was that it wasn't as terrible as the prequels (and didn't claim it to be that high of a bar), and their explicit hope for the sequels would be to not be tied up in nostalgia bait and would do new things. TLJ kind of did, but it was obvious they were disappointed with the clusterfuck it was, down to the point where their "recommendation" at the end was a "it doesn't matter what we say, Star Wars nerds will go see it anyway, the rest of you ah fuck it" and the review ended.

And the Plinkett review was more about retarded fan theories and apologists for the prequels than it was specifically about TFA. And when he did talk about the movie, he mostly said that it was predictable and unoffensive entertainment, criticized the awkward "humor," reiterated the "do new shit" appeal, and even took fault with their diversity push.

That's not even getting into Rogue One, which was more or less a thumbs down from all of them, or their talk about the troubles the Han Solo movie has had. You can accuse them of being soft, but sellouts they're not. If they actually were selling out, they'd be able to go to advance screenings for shit and give nothing but praise for the latest shit the Mouse shoves into theaters.

>>14061236

Look, people liked A New Hope. TFA is basically the same plot but with other characters that require a truckload of plot devices to actually get going, but otherwise it's essentially the same story.

Prodigy is found on desert planet, escapes said planet after being chased and boards the millenium falcon, overly elaborate plan to destroy a space WMD, you must now go learn your lessons from a Jedi Master after confronting the sith bad guy and realizing you're not strong enough.

It's the same plot essentialy, especially since there were little to no philosophical tidbits about the Force in ANH as well.

The similarities end there since Ray is a fucking train wreck while luck is an actually likable character, Finn is a coward piece of shit that doesn't contribute anything at all while Poe plays the role of Han with none of the charm and Kylo Ren is the Darth Vader stand in but he doesn't look like a kickass villain you can respect and his character arc is even more shallow than Rey.

However the point is that if you saw TFA hoping for A New Hope instead of Phantom Menace, that's mostly what you got out of it, amidst all the shitty actors and story contrivances so there's at least a flimsy reason to like it.

However if you went to see TLJ hoping for the same thing, you actually got something that makes the prequels seem good in comparison.

>>14060824

>but overall it's not THAT bad.

>implying

>>14051843

>Anon, I…

>>14059316

They’ve already started removing reviews for “racism” and “sexism”, so the next round will be removed for “Russian collusion”.

>>14061297

>their explicit hope for the sequels would be to not be tied up in nostalgia bait

Well they do keep killing characters left and right and even burning jedi ancient texts so it is clearly obvious that's pretty much what they are going for. I don't think Leia makes it past the next movie to be honest, but she's probably endured this long because she's a women and likely the reason they even made her force-sensitive to begin with.

The problem is that they aren't doing anything related to Star Wars to fill in the gap from removing past stuff. There's a whole planet about fatcats gambling away the money they got from selling weapons and all it does is serve as an anti-capitalist message.

There were several oportunities to use this as a decent part of the plot to talk about the war industry but it never gets more than a few minutes of discussion ever and it's always tied to a character being greedy and that's bad, not about the whole system being rigged and rotten from the start.

Then there's Snooke, who's race isn't explained, neither his origin despite this being the episode he dies and neither are his motivations told about. He's evil because why not? Same goes for Kylo Ren, who apparently was pen pal of Snooke while training under Luke and was tempted for the Dark Side for no single reason at all.

Luke tells Rey that he's gonna give her 3 lessons about the Force and why the Jedis have to end but the 3rd lesson is never told and there's a very supreficial talk about hubris and that's it. Compare to shit like Kreia, this was absolutely disapointing.

And the best part is that they never explain how the First Order came into power and why are they actually the bad guys. You never see their "reign" so for all you know everything could be peacefull and prosperous. I mean, nobody answers the Rebel's help request in the end, maybe it's because everyone's happy with their life?

Nothing, Nothing at all is done with the plot. There's no exposition about the political spectrum across the galaxy now, there are no backstories explained despite so many being way overdue now, there's a very simple tidbit about why jedis are bad, there are a lot of battles lost for terribly dumb reasons and in the end nothing was added onto the franchise that's worth remenbering at all.

>>14057733

It really was. Looking forward to the next one in 10 years.

>>14048124

>Keanu Reeves

I don't see the resemblance.

>>14061369

ebin

>>14061297

They shill for Ridley all the fucking time. They were paid to support TFA. Period.

>>14057382

Just read the Trilogy and Origin Duology, the new one is fucking shit, too many plot points is condensed and the writing is dumbed down for the Star Wars Rebels watchers which is for kids, fucking bullying is a plot point in the novel, absolutely fucking shit.

>>14059920

It was average but really forgettable because there's like several stories and games about stealing the Death Star plans (sorry Kyle Katarn stole it first)

>>14061319

People liked TFA because:

1. they're retarded

2. they eat up whatever shit is fed to them by their selected media outlet, all of which were paid by Disney to sing its praises

3. they were hungry for a Star Wars movie that they could identify as better than the prequels

You're probably too young to remember it but people were universally praising Phantom Menace at first too. It took a while for people to realize that it was actually a terrible film. I think in another year or two the marketing dollars will wear off and people will be willing to admit that TFA was shit.

>>14061297

You might want to go back and re-watch the reviews yourself. Their TFA review was universal praise from Mike and Jay, while Rich Evans sat there and tried to look not awkward about the fact that the movie was complete garbage. They showered praise all over Daisy Ridley (Jay said she was "charismatic as hell", to which Mike instantly answered "yes, yes" while shaking his head as if it was obvious) despite the fact that her performance consisted entirely of "wide eyes, open mouth".

The Plinkett TFA review was definitely pulling its punches, especially when compared to the bitter, sarcastic, critical tone of the Plinkett Prequel reviews. They barely spoke about the movie at all and spent more time griping about the fact that the entire IP is now little more than a soulless cash-printing machine for Disney (which is accurate, but not a criticism of TFA itself).

They've been open enough about Rogue One and TLJ but it's clear that they were paid to respond positively to TFA.

>>14061447

I mentioned this before, but I legitimately thought this was a poster for a horror movie until I reverse-image searched it to find that it was an edit of an Alien Covenant poster.

Really the thing about Kylo that bugs me the most is he has very distinct features not present on either of his parents, his maternal grand parents or maternal uncle.

>>14061430

Really having a bunch of characters steal part of the plans actually made sense compared to Rogue One. The Empire made the Death Star on slave labor and subcontractors divided across multiple planets. It's entirely logical that each group only had a small section of the total plan

>>14061351

>And the best part is that they never explain how the First Order came into power and why are they actually the bad guys. You never see their "reign" so for all you know everything could be peacefull and prosperous.

Seriously. Even the fucking Holiday Special showed the Empire being dicks.

>>14061423

The anime would have been better if they made a long manga of DB Super with several arcs done beforehand to work off from. Then again, the manga does things that mostly address the complaints of the anime so you get a chicken an egg scenario. Would the manga be good or bad if it came out first before the anime? Or can we all blame it on Toriyama? The manga is still constrained by the ongoing Super anime but it seems the mangaka has a little bit more leeway at the start of the Zamasu arc to do some things that the anime doesn't do. Would have loved to see how they could have done a manga version of the Return of Freiza arc instead of just skipping it entirely to keep up with the anime. Maybe in another alternate galaxy, there is a good version of Dragon Ball Super that we'll never be able to see out there. Current Super is stuck between original Dragon Ball and Z and trying to meld them. Still fumbling with passing on the torch and any great villain that the next generation has to face without Goku's help with his next power-up.

>>14047969

On a similiar note, these interviews with Brett Douville are pretty neat. Can't seem to find the first one.

>>14047829

>harvest lumber to build space ships that act like a medieval navy

Yeah, great game.

eyay and bibsney a match maid in hebbin

>>14054695

>superior sci-fi RTS

>Tiberian Sun

whew lady

>>14067699

Threatening being put on a blacklist means he loses everything. Back to pedowood he goes.

>>14047755

water is not wet :^)

>>14067699

The mouse estimated either $1.6bn or $1.9bn for TLJ.

It's a failure in their eyes and apparently they already plan to see Solo bombing hard.

They fucked up with TLJ and damaged the brand and any trust people had in it.

Are there still anons playing on that NGE SWG server? Any updates on that?

Jedi Academy was trash.

>>14067763

>new mandalorians

FUCKING NOPE

>>14057733

We need to do that again some time. I wouldn't have minded sharing some contact info, but the server of empty by the time I came back.

>>14067896

Yeah that night was way too much fun.

>>14067896

You could probably beg for tox info on /radcorp/

>>14058241

Good God, it's bioware levels of trash all over again.