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darkphoenix181 posted...

Mace Windu. Darth Maul. Qui-Gon.
Amidala. An entire army of Jango clones that got a whole cartoon series.
Jar Jar

Mace Windu wasn't important and barely did anything in the prequel movies

Darth Maul had like two lines

Qui-Gon is the one who believes Anakin is the chosen one and dies in the first movie so it can then be about Anakin and Obi-Wan in the sequels

Jango Fett is Boba Fett's Dad and the Clone Army are revealed to basically be an army of Boba Fetts. The cool guy from the OT.

Amidala literally dies of a broken heart giving birth because Anakin turned evil. Which also contradicts Leia knowing her mother.

Jar Jar is Jar Jar

The prequel trilogy also revealed;
- Anakin was the chosen one that was supposed to bring balance to the force and has power levels off the chart
- Palpatine created Anakin
- Anakin built C-3PO

In the first Star Wars movie Darth Vader answered to Thrawn.

This whole 'the Skywalkers (and Palpatine? are the most important people in the galaxy ever' went full force because of the stuff established in the prequels. That whole mindset lead to people believing that Rey could only be powerful if she was related to someone else.
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darkphoenix181 posted...

The main trilogy had a ton of great characters like Obi Wan, Yoda, Boba Fett etc.
To say them being about the skywalkwrs stunted them is a really bad view that ignores the first 6 movies and just thinks on the st.

The OT was sure.

But the prequels had the same problem.
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Just checking but don't they say in The Phantom Menace that they had 1000 years of peace?

Wouldn't that make this trilogy pretty low stakes? I'm sure there's still conflict but the series is called Star Wars.
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

There has been hundreds if not thousands of stories not centered around Skywalker. But the main trilogy films should always be about them. This is one big reason I didn't like the sequels because Darth Vader had zero plot presence

Eh I disagree. The biggest failing of the ST was them cowering away from moving on and setting up something new.

If Disney want the franchise to continue they don't really have a choice. The universe feels so damn small because they can't move on from characters established decades ago and the new important people have to be related to them.

The movies are always going to be the main event. By making the movies solely about Skywalkers and friends they're not really giving anything else a chance to be seen as important on a grander scale.
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Letron_James posted...

Just face it. The star wars we knew is done, outside of the new obi wan show and whatever else they decide, nothing else will come from the other 6 movies. The trilogy was honestly just a shitty way of writing them off

There's enough stuff from the OT and PT at this point. It's time to move on from the Skywalkers and Palpatine.
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At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it's revealed Palpatine created the Force and used the Force to create the galaxy.
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It's a funny roast but that's all it is. Gervais doesn't care. Weird how people try to make it into a political statement. He's reading off a damn teleprompter.
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Bastila Shan: The Jedi do not believe in killing their prisoners. No one deserves execution, no matter what their crimes.
Zhar Lestin: The council would not normally accept an adult for training, but this is a special case.
Carth Onasi: They say the Force can do terrible things to a mind. It can wipe away your memories and destroy your very identity.
Bastila: Tatooine... Kashyyyk... Manaan... Korriban. Revan visited each of these worlds searching for clues to reveal the hidden location of the Star Forge.
Vrook Lamar: The lure of the dark side is difficult to resist. I fear this quest to find the Star Forge could lead you down an all too familiar path.
Bastila: What greater weapon is there than to turn an enemy to your cause? To use their own knowledge against them?
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Palpatine couldn't take credit. The entire galaxy would know what he's up to

Surely him saying 'guys if I didn't spend the last 10 years preparing this army after the Naboo invasion we would be dead so you all should be thanking me.' is less suspicious than 'Guys we've found this mysterious clone army so we're gonna use them.' as the Jedi have to conveniently ignore that they're linked to the Separatists.

By the time Revenge of the Sith rolls around he's basically unanimously trusted anyway.
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Rikiaz posted...

Reportedly JJ wanted ROS to go a different way but TLJ screwed up his plans so he said fuck it for ROS.

He didn't have any plans because he wasn't expecting to do it when he made TFA. It was supposed to be the Jurassic World director doing episode 9.
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I don't know why the Clone origin plot had to be so complicated.

Like it would have made sense for Palpatine to solely be behind it and take credit for saving the Republic. Yet they bog it down with some nonsense conspiracy theory nonsense and a Changeling assassin who doesn't actually use that ability very well.
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It might get more attention but I don't think the Divine Divinity games did when they went to console either.

For the most part the gaming press is focused on blockbuster AAA stuff and the odd indie game that has established itself as a big deal somehow.
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The gaming press usually ignore PC exclusives.

Remember that Hollow Knight wasn't treated as a big deal until it was in Switch.

Hell even indie games are often ignored. Outer Wilds really deserves more attention. Kinda crazy Outer Worlds was nominated for GOTY over it. Maybe they got the games confused.
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It was so pointless in Outer Worlds.

Cool I get to Hold Y to repair my equipped weapons sometimes. Why?

Most of the loot in that game is useless so I wasn't overencumbered very often at least.

But yes it's terrible in The Witcher 3. It's just busy work that adds nothing to the game.
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The dumb thing is that TLJ leaves a thread that Luke's big moment is going to inspire a whole bunch of new Force users.

And they do absolutely nothing with it. Even Finn doesn't get to do more than just 'have a feeling'
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Turnbull is okay. He was unfortunately strangled by the other morons in the Liberal Party and people like Alan Jones because he wasn't conservative enough. Ugh.

But yeah ScoMo somehow manages to be the most utterly useless Prime Minister I've ever seen and he just started. Even Abbott would manage to cough up some positive PR during a bushfire by getting his hands dirty. Scott can't even figure that out. He thinks his religious lifestyle and a 'she'll be right' attitude is enough.
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Yeah Trump is significantly worse. He was a horrible person even before he became President.

Morrison is overall a typical spineless and corrupt conservative politician who skates by appealing to being 'fiscally responsible' and to Christian fundamentalists. He isn't anything special at all. He'd be a dime a dozen in America.
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For a split second I thought you said Dino Crisis is being promoted on GOG. Which would be awesome.
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Atralis posted...

This is an absurd argument given the size of Australia, how sparsely populated it is, and the climate that Australia has always had. If you quadrupled the number of firefighters and tripled their pay the fires would still happen. What is happening in Australia is basically the public turning on their leader because of bad weather and climate scientists holding their nose and joining the bandwagon even though they know it is ridiculous they realize that it is easier to get people to take action on climate change if you pretend like "the weather has been bad therefore the leader has lost the mandate of heaven" type shit works while actually explaining that 90% of events like this would happen in Australia climate change or not and 99.99% of these events would happen no matter who was elected Prime Minister.

The way Australian are reacting it seems like they actually believe that the climate gods will spare them the effects of fire and drought if they make offerings and embrace green energy. Its ridiculous.

Scott Morrison's big moment before being Prime Minister was bringing coal into Parliament and saying it isn't scary. He has ignored the RFS calls for meetings all throughout last year to prepare for the fire season. His first official recognition of the bushfires was stating that the cricket was going to be good for firefighters. He went on a vacation overseas while saying it wasn't his job to hold a hose. He wrote an article for New Years Day telling Australians not to worry so much and that our country is a great place to raise kids. He ordered military action to help with the fires but failed to inform the RFS about it. They found out when he released a PR video about his response to the fires.

Nobody is blaming him for the fires. They're criticizing his attitude and reaction to them. Morrison doesn't want to talk about climate change because he is focused on supporting the coal industry. This means he cannot treat this as a problem and consistently downplays what is happening. The Liberal Party line is to claim that bushfires are a part of Australian life and that we can't do anything about it. They have not once referenced that this year is the worst fire season on record and it is consistently getting worse. Never mind actually presenting any ideas to make our country safer for the future.
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Deku_Link posted...

As for one of the past reveals, I don't know anything about the character Sans or the game he's in, but why was a Mii costume so hyped?

Undertale is an indie game made by one person with a big fanbase. Nobody ever expected it to be recognized in a game like Smash Bros.
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It's fine but there's no guarantee that anything you buy will work on future systems. But that's true for any console.
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I think the single most nonsense plot of the entire series is the dagger in TROS.

The dagger points to one (of three?) waypoints that map out the direction to the Sith planet. In order to use it you need to translate the language on it while also standing in a certain position while looking at the Death Star (which is typically supposed to be in space).

For some reason this dagger is given to the assassin who is hired to kill Rey and her parents. He finds Rey's parents immediately after she is sold and she watches his ship fly away with her parents. For whatever reason he was not bothered to investigate what they were immediately doing when he found them.

This is a series that is filled with obvious retcons and twists that you need to stretch some dialogue and belief to work (I didn't lie your father was dead in a sense) and yet most of that plot is within the one movie. When it comes to fitting in Palpatine's overall plan throughout the sequel trilogy? Oh boy.

Runner up would be the Jango Fett/Obi-Wan plot in Attack of the Clones.
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CwebbMichSac4 posted...

oh you think spiderman's combat system is almost exactly like arkhams'?

It's similar when it's about multitasking groups of enemies and countering them in specific ways yeah.
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CasualGuy posted...

The bosses were the most disappointing part. I think all of them except one required the same pattern of throw thing at them / web them up/beat them up. There really wasn't much creativity outside set pieces.

Even taskmaster whose whole point is that he knows all your moves and strats is beaten the same way all the other bosses are.

I think the flaw with the Arkham style combat in general is that it doesn't really work well for bosses as it's more designed for dealing with groups of enemies.
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My only real criticism was that every random crime in New York apparently involves large gangs of people. I'm totally fine with webbing up a single mugger in a few seconds and moving on.
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Oh god I completely forgot the retcon that Anakin built C-3PO.
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Overall it's more light-hearted than 3 although it certainly goes bittersweet at times.
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One cool thing about video games is that they have the best adaptations of both Spider-Man and Batman.
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Compsognathus posted...

I think that is Lucas' intended interpretation of the pre-Empire Jedi. Their strict adherence to rules weakened them and lead them to their fall.

KOTOR really leans into it too. I think that handled it a lot better.
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I'd love to see them tackle British gangster movies. An entire UK parody of London, Glasgow and Edinburgh would be awesome. Brexit gives them plenty of material to work with too.
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coh posted...

I'm saying it's just another day in Cali

No it isn't. These bushfires are on an absolutely massive scale.
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Wrong. You can tell by the OT that Yoda isn't the same man he was in the PT.

Emotions =/= dark side

Giving in to fear, anger, hate and things like that just lead you down a volatile path. Imagine someone having super powers. Little by little they do bad things and get away with it. Eventually they may straight up take over the Galaxy because they believe no one can stop them.

My absolute favourite interpretation is that the Jedi's belief that attachments and emotion lead to the dark side lead to their downfall. That whatever replaces them will learn from their mistakes and build a better order.

The Last Jedi sort of implies some of this.
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Yoda using the force to become nimble and athletic has really weird implications too lol
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I think the Dark Side/Sith are like a cancer of the Force so balance is when they don't exist.

I'm not sure if this was something established with George or Disney but I'm sure it's a thing in current canon.
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eston posted...

I thought the implication was that Anakin was never actually the chosen one

I think the implication is supposed to be that Palpatine knew he was the chosen one, manipulated him into serving under him instead and that Vader fulfils his destiny when he finally disposes of the Emperor.

Of course TROS has now shit all over that so maybe it will be retconned yet again.
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Tenlaar posted...

They made the mistake of introducing Force Speed in the prequel trilogy only to have the use of this canonically not rare or difficult to use at all Force ability completely vanish across the entire galaxy after Episode 3. How many situations throughout the whole series does Force Speed just completely invalidate and make ridiculous?

I think George got a bit silly with the Force powers in the prequels yeah.

I remember some people finding it silly that the Clone Troopers wiped most of them out. That's entirely the fault of how they were portrayed in the prequels.
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ROBANN_88 posted...

I played it a few weeks ago. I got stuck for like a half hour on that last Geonosis fight.

I liked it, but there was one thing that drove me mad.
It's that they made it so that the screen shakes constantly to simulate far-off explosions. Geonosis was especially full with that shit.
It's terrible when you're trying a precision sniper shot and you have to wait like 5-10 seconds to stabilize.

Oh yes I forgot about that at the beginning. I thought there was something wrong with my mouse for a while lol.
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HylianFox posted...

15 posts and no mention of Jar Jar

I thought about listing him but he's pretty easy to move on from. Sometimes comic relief characters don't work out.
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Hexenherz posted...

Battlefront 2 isn't meant to be a serious story mode though, it's more of a tutorial for the online - that's how DICE games are for the most part.

I did enjoy the story overall but the hero switching that starts like halfway through got tiresome.

I'm pretty sure Battlefront 2's campaign was developed by EA Motive. It was taken seriously after the criticism of the first game.

If the intention was to train the player I think the original Battlefront 2 did a better job there too. The new campaign just didn't really know what it wanted to be.
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LookANinja posted...

When you assign a commando on sniper duty and he snipes better than you. >_<

Yeah I love setting up the whole team to sniping positions and watching them tear up. It's nice playing a single player game where your teammates actually feel competent.
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God damn it's pretty embarrassing how much better this 15 year old game is compared to the Battlefront 2 campaign. You've got actual, thoughtful level design that pushes you to positioning your team and pushing forward. You've got varied enemies and combat scenarios. Battlefront 2 basically just puts you in an area and floods you with enemies. Felt like the campaign never really found its footing until Jakku and you're nearly done. The DLC was an improvement but not by much.

Republic Commando is basically Star Wars Halo and I think that suits the franchise really well. The whole context sensitive command thing with your team is pretty clever and I'm surprised we haven't really seen that built on in modern shooters. It streamlines a squad based game really well. I'm up to Kashyyk and I think I'm near the end. My only criticism with Republic Commando is that since the game is only set in three planets sometimes it feels a bit long in the tooth.
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BakonBitz posted...

Something I noticed after watching the whole saga, I have to wonder...can Palpatine not stop his Force lightning on a whim? That powers been his downfall three times over because he didn't stop using it.

Unlimited power has its downsides I guess.

Or maybe it's like pissing on an electric fence and he's stuck.
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Godnorgosh posted...

This was very intentional for Lucas, though. He's said in interviews that beneath the facade of spaceships, blasters and lightsabers, it's really a story about family and family-related problems.

Obviously Star Wars has become something broader than that, but that was what he had in mind.

Sure but I think that was covered enough by Luke and Vader. Leia didn't really add anything but I guess they needed someone after the whole 'there is another'

It wouldn't matter as much if they didn't make the Skywalker bloodline into some mega important thing in the prequel.
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1 is great if you can tolerate Eurojank PC RPG's.

2 is basically a non-open world Witcher 3 with a more branching story.

You often here people to skip right to 3 because that's when the franchise got super popular. But I think it's at least worth trying the older ones. It's very rewarding playing through the entire trilogy.
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I Like Toast posted...

Probably, unless they're $599 with pay for online play

If I were a gambling man I'd bet on $499 with pay for online play. Assuming the PS5 is around Series X level.
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I think I'll only get one if the PS5 comes out with Horizon 2 or Spider-man 2 as a launch game. Otherwise I'll probably wait till Spider-man 2 comes out for a Spider-man themed console or something.

My gaming PC covers Xbox Series X and third parties.
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FF_Redux posted...

What it was a strategy action game? You go into bullet time but you have to do a lot of strategic choices?

I haven't played it but John Wick Hex was sorta like this I think.
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Next gen starts at the end of this year with the PS5 and Xbox Series X. Are you going to get one?
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I think there's a mobile game tied into the movie but that's it.

Pretty crazy and a bit sad.
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