[Star Wars] is OUT! MARK YOUR SPOILERS OR WE WILL END YOU!

DarkPrimus

Who is your dream casting for Young Han Solo? Discuss.



Also talk about the Star Wars films already out and the one out this month, I guess.

https://twitter.com/fffabs/status/671818508175605760

Clint Eastwood

Lost Canuck

"Han, If you want to fly the Millennium Falcon, you'll have to defeat her seven evil ex-owners."

Tofystedeth

Did anybody else ever read the Lando Calrissian Adventures and wish that sabaac was a real game?

Tofystedeth

Also @Clint Eastwood that picture is enormous both visually and in file size.

UnbreakableVow

Young Han Solo, meet baby Luke and Leia

DarkPrimus

Tofystedeth wrote: »

Did anybody else ever read the Lando Calrissian Adventures and wish that sabaac was a real game?

Sabaac as described in the novels is way more interesting than just fucking Blackjack.

That's something Bioware really dropped the ball on.

Tofystedeth

You could probably get something sort of like it using phones/tablets and some kind of NFC table mat.

Lost Canuck

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Tofystedeth wrote: »

Did anybody else ever read the Lando Calrissian Adventures and wish that sabaac was a real game?

Sabaac as described in the novels is way more interesting than just fucking Blackjack.

That's something Bioware really dropped the ball on.

The card game in KOTOR is Pazaak, not Sabaac.

Ceno

Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Remember, the Force will be with you. Always."
Chewbacca: "Wrraaarrrurrgh."*
Han: "You said it, Chewie. Where did you dig up that old fossil?"

*"I'm going to do a test right now. Actually, it's all real. I knew the Jedis and helped the bestest of the Jedis leave back when the Jedis all got killed during the Clone Wars around 20-25 years ago. He was a cool dude and definitely used the Force and a lightsaber and all that stuff. If you can actually understand what I'm saying, and not just pretending to speak Wookiee, I want you to slap yourself in the face."

DarkPrimus

The cards are described as having holographic/electronic faces that change sometimes during play, so I don't know how you could make a tactile version of the game with current hardware.

Tofystedeth

You couldn't easily* have a physical version, but if you had a phone/tablet app that had the cards and communicated with the other people playing on their devices to coordinate the card changing and stuff. The big trick would be detecting when you've set your cards on the table to freeze the status. Hence the NFC mat.

*or more accurately, cheaply. It can probably be done with some pretty thick "cards" with OLED displays or something.

edit: Hmmm, it would probably also work as an application for those big Surface tables (fakeedit: now apparently called Pixelsense) that have the stickers/decals they can scan when you set them on the table.
The Surface acts as the server, displaying the deck, discard, etc. and controlling the game. Your hand is displayed on a phone app, and you have a decal on your phone (or maybe a more temporary clip on decal thingy) so when you set your phone on the table, it detects it and freezes your hand.
Boom, current tech implementation.


Still expensive though. Those bad boys run about $5k.

GreasyKidsStuff

So last night I went to watch some clip of an interview with Abrams talking about Luke Skywalker, because hey, I was interested.

The clip is from some news station that precedes the interview with a bunch of footage from what I assume is the Japanese/International trailer or TV spots. I wouldn't know, because I've been avoiding them. Yes, what I saw was minimal and insignificant, and I nixed the video before I saw anymore, but god damn. I'm really going to have to go on complete lockdown.

I did see there's a browser extension that blocks all Star Wars spoilers, so maybe I ought to look into that.

Muggins

Battlefront is pretty fun you guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeaNZV_CUM

Psykoma

What platform are most people playing Battlefront on?

Blake T

I'm on the xbone, but there are a few PC people here.

Ceno

Psykoma wrote: »

What platform are most people playing Battlefront on?

From what I've read, the player base on PS4 is higher than Xbox and PC combined.

Elbasunu

THis was pretty funny. mark hamill

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/672416331304558592

Mego Thor

He's kind of short for a stormtrooper.

Brainleech

Mego Thor wrote: »

He's kind of short for a stormtrooper.

But he can fit in the costume made for mere mortals up to 6 feet tall

TrippyJing

https://twitter.com/ethanwsj/status/672527743029002240

honovere

Elbasunu wrote: »

THis was pretty funny. mark hamill

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/672416331304558592

Hamill's looking pretty good/healthy in that picture compared some pictures I remember from the last few years.

Psykoma

Reached the major Ahsoka storyline in Clone Wars.

This sequence is what made me okay with the concept of a jedi order going extinct

No Great Name

Psykoma wrote: »

What platform are most people playing Battlefront on?

Ps4

Weaver

I'm on origin

Xehalus

sarukun

TrippyJing wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ethanwsj/status/672527743029002240

....

I mean, I know George Lucas has been putting on weight....

BlankZoe

I am ALL ABOUT this one off story in the Star Wars Annual

sarukun

Blankzilla wrote: »

I am ALL ABOUT this one off story in the Star Wars Annual

I need to buy these.

Maybe when the trades come out.

BlankZoe

sarukun wrote: »

Blankzilla wrote: »

I am ALL ABOUT this one off story in the Star Wars Annual

I need to buy these.

Maybe when the trades come out.

Some already have!
Star Wars:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0785192131/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1449213448&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Star+wars+marvel

Darth Vader:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0785192557/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1449213448&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Star+wars+marvel&dpPl=1&dpID=51st5r7UFXL&ref=plSrch

Shattered Empire: Journey to the Force Awakens:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0785197818/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1449213448&sr=8-3&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Star+wars+marvel&dpPl=1&dpID=51vtJTH3bYL&ref=plSrch

Princess Leia:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0785193170/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=1449213448&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX110_SY165&keywords=Star+wars+marvel&dpPl=1&dpID=51WWgl4Kt1L&ref=plSrch

Volume 2 of Star Wars, Vader and the Lando miniseries come out next month

sarukun

Noooooo, all my moneeeeeys.

Blake T

What happens to the separatists anyway?

I mean Dooku and Grievous die in the third movie, but what happened to the rest of the planets and heck, the droid army? Do they end up joining the rebellion?

BlankZoe

Blake T wrote: »

What happens to the separatists anyway?

I mean Dooku and Grievous die in the third movie, but what happened to the rest of the planets and heck, the droid army? Do they end up joining the rebellion?

I think the War Machine of the Empire just kind of steam rolls them?

In Darth Vader he finds a cache of very advanced prequel Era druids that come in handy but they are treated like a rarity so I'm guessing they didn't last too long after the prequels

Karl

I think as

Palpatine was in fact secretly in charge of the separatists, he just had all the droids turned off and the vast majority of the commanders surrender?

Someone with more star wars knowledge can correct me

Zonugal

Are you folks forgetting where Palpatine sends Anakin to Mustafar to murder all the central leaders of the Seperatist movement?

BlankZoe

Zonugal wrote: »

Are you folks forgetting where Palpatine sends Anakin to Mustafar to murder all the central leaders of the Seperatist movement?

Yeah but it was a galaxy spanning force, even if it was destabilized there would be a good chunk of hostile Separatists still hanging out

Which the Empire probably took out pretty handily in the decades that followed

nightmarenny

Zonugal wrote: »

Are you folks forgetting where Palpatine sends Anakin to Mustafar to murder all the central leaders of the Seperatist movement?

Not to mention the complete extinction of the Geonosisians.

Zonugal

Blankzilla wrote: »

Zonugal wrote: »

Are you folks forgetting where Palpatine sends Anakin to Mustafar to murder all the central leaders of the Seperatist movement?

Yeah but it was a galaxy spanning force, even if it was destabilized there would be a good chunk of hostile Separatists still hanging out

Which the Empire probably took out pretty handily in the decades that followed

I don't know...

Losing all the leaders of your super-high command in one day can really shut down your force...

And with Palpatine being secretly in control of it I don't see the Seperatist movement lasting months following the events of RotS.

Diablo Fett

Blankzilla wrote: »

Zonugal wrote: »

Are you folks forgetting where Palpatine sends Anakin to Mustafar to murder all the central leaders of the Seperatist movement?

Yeah but it was a galaxy spanning force, even if it was destabilized there would be a good chunk of hostile Separatists still hanging out

Which the Empire probably took out pretty handily in the decades that followed

the group Anakin kills are specifically the military leaders of the Separatist movement, including the neimoidians that were responsible for their droid army

Sterica

I just want to say that Carrie Fisher is awesome

DJ Eebs

carrie fisher has reached a point in her life and in her career where she has completely discarded her bullshit filter