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[Star Wars] Solo Reviews/Tauntaun Guts = Lukewarm.
Bogart
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Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator mod
It's never been as fun to think about, talk about or play with Star Wars related merchandise since that halcyon time in 1980 when the kid at school whose parents were either rich or about to divorce and fighting hard for their child's affections bought him an AT-AT and made him instantly the most popular boy around. It's a shame for everyone who wasn't around to enjoy the heyday of this franchise that will never end, but still.
Anyway, the last Star Wars thread was, on a regular basis, absolutely awful. I mean just downright terrible. Bad-tempered, endlessly rehashing old and tedious arguments, constantly taking what is a fun franchise about space wizards more seriously than, say, anything else. It was awful both to read and to be a part of. This thread may well go the same way, in which case it'll probably go on a break, just like Ross and Rachel, if you catch my hepcat cultural references. But I would urge you to not be a part of that decline into spittle-flecked yelling. If you catch yourself writing with a frown on your face, take a moment to ask yourself if, in fact, you wouldn't be better off not posting the long, detailed and enraged screed about why someone is wrong, and instead shrug and say oh well it doesn't really matter anyway.
Anyway anyway, this Solo movie is coming out soon. Here's a trailer for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEYpryMp2s
Talk about Star Wars, why you love it, the fun you had in the eighties playing with the awesome action figures/dolls and how your parents flogged them at a car boot sale for 10p each.
Anyway, the last Star Wars thread was, on a regular basis, absolutely awful. I mean just downright terrible. Bad-tempered, endlessly rehashing old and tedious arguments, constantly taking what is a fun franchise about space wizards more seriously than, say, anything else. It was awful both to read and to be a part of. This thread may well go the same way, in which case it'll probably go on a break, just like Ross and Rachel, if you catch my hepcat cultural references. But I would urge you to not be a part of that decline into spittle-flecked yelling. If you catch yourself writing with a frown on your face, take a moment to ask yourself if, in fact, you wouldn't be better off not posting the long, detailed and enraged screed about why someone is wrong, and instead shrug and say oh well it doesn't really matter anyway.
Anyway anyway, this Solo movie is coming out soon. Here's a trailer for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEYpryMp2sTalk about Star Wars, why you love it, the fun you had in the eighties playing with the awesome action figures/dolls and how your parents flogged them at a car boot sale for 10p each.
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My dad knew a guy whose kids had a crapton of those Star Wars toys. They were huge and in my eight-year old perception of the world a sign of massive wealth and status.
Now I know my childhood was inferior for in my day having the entire Megazord was the ultimate status symbol. We had Optimus Prime though.
Back on topic the final scene in Rogue One is great and wonderful and could probably have been greater if
Not that I had any figures, mind you. I had a few, but they were the nobodies. The bald guy who takes care of the rancor? I had him.
Kids who had stuff like the TIE fighter or *gasp* the AT-AT obviously had dads with money to burn.
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My first Star Wars toy came later: A Han Solo in Stormtrooper armor, with removable helmet, obtained by sending in some cereal box tops. I still have it and the small bag it came in.
I had that case!
I also had the AT-AT. And the X-wing. And TIE fighter. And the Death Star station with the trash compactor room full of little foam bits and a stupid rubber trash monster. IIRC, you could turn a little crank and squish the stuff in there.
My parents were not loaded. Quite the opposite. But I was the "fortunate" product of divorce and parents competing to purchase my (and my brother's) affections. Yay! >.>
I miss those toys...
I didn't really have too many other Star Wars toys, though, so I had many GI Joe wars on it.
That's where my nostalgia lies. Not because it was anywhere near the first star wars toy or game I had, but it was the first time me and a bunch of friends felt like actual rebel pilots.
This is another one of those maybe things, but if it's the thing I was talking about before then its huge spoilers for Solo:
edit: seriously dont click this if you want to go in fresh, I kinda wish I hadnt seen it now.
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I still had a ton though.
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Until Tie Fighter came out, that is.
Less glibly: IMO TIE Fighter improved on X-Wing in every respect - not least in terms of mission design. X-Wing had too many missions that you could only survive if you were prescient... or if you'd played the mission several times before and knew exactly where each wave would come from. TIE Fighter still had puzzley missions, but they didn't favour luck, guesswork or reading a mission guide to the same extent. X-Wing often felt unfair; TIE Fighter much less so.
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I am in the minority thinking X-Wing is better, I fully admit. X-Wing made me feel like I was really part of the Rebel Alliance during the OT.
TIE Fighter made me feel like I was flying magic TIE fighters that they made up so that you’d have something more interesting to fly than a TIE fighter.
I enjoyed X-Wing more.
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The console games were too.....arcade-y? Also, I didn't own a Super Nintendo. (And only bought an N64 in University just for Ocarina of Time) so that era of Star Wars games passed me by. And today's era of mindless Battlefront style games does not interest me either. Give me a story wrapped around my pew-pew, thank you very much.
Yup.. that is pretty much my dream VR game, still po'd that the only thing we have seen was that short VR mission for the playstation version of Battlefront.
Gimme both single player missions and multiplayer, co-op modes. I want to be in my cherry red A-Wing, defending a small squad of B-wings as they take out an Interdictor so we can jump our Nebulon-B Frigate to safety.
I had been keeping these things, along with a gallon-sized box of Matchbox Star Wars toys, figures, etc. for my own progeny, but it has become apparent that my daughter is going down a different road - Star Wars doesn't really hail her, but she cannot get enough of Horizon: Zero Dawn and Harry Potter. So last Christmas, I go to my friend's house and bring in a couple boxes. I open the first one and lift out the AT-AT. Kid's eyes bug from his head. His dad asks him, "What is that, kiddo?" "AN ICE WALKER" "No", I correct him, "this is your ice walker". Then he saw Slave I.
Happy as he was, it made me incredibly happy to see those toys finding a second career of active use. I think I might have been happier for him than he was for himself. Good times. Thanks, Star Wars!
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The PSVR DLC for Battlefront 1 comes pretty close, actually, to scratching that itch for me. Throw in some better shield/power management and a well-written campaign and watch me just roll a wheelbarrow full of money up to EA's front door.
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God yes. Tour 1, Mission 4.
Yes, I remember that fucking mission number. There's a disabled Nebulon medical frigate that needs to be evacuated by shuttles coming in and transferring casualties.
Star Destroyers pop in on alternating sides of it and fart out TIE Bombers and you have to haul ass like a madman between the incoming waves and pray that you can actually take them out.
I still have that Ewok village (we didn't have any other big Star Wars sets either). We had enough figures to populate the village though and several of the smaller vehicles (the ones that never appeared in the movie.. nor even in the comics.) The holy grail to me never was the AT-AT though, nor the X-Wing or Tie Fighter, but weirdly enough the Snowspeeder.
Friend of mine had a ton of Star Wars and Gi-Joe.. he had the Terrordrome and the USS Flagg. Anyways the Snowspeeder was fantastic because it had the light up laser barrels (which would break quite easily)
here is a video of a guy fixing the electronics/mechanicals on his classic snowspeeder..
What's great is that mission made it to the books, specifically the first Rogue Squadron book. It was the training mission everyone hated.
I clicked the spoiler and regretted it, but I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at.
BUT !! the dice was an R2D2 that you push its head to roll the dice, and it made some R2D2-esque sounds before showing the number.
I inmediately added it to my RPG dices, and it became the most popular d6 dice in all the following AD&D campaigns. We also used the game pieces, they were nice.
edit: I think it was late 90s?
The only thing I can probably safely say is, watch Rogue One.
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I'm thinking they quoted the wrong post with a spoiler.
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Totally agree with you, the console games were arcade shooters designed to be played with a controller having a half dozen buttons.
X-wing, TIE Fighter and Alliance were simulators designed with the knowledge that you'd have a keyboard and a joystick to use for all the nifty little functions that you could want.
After playing the latter, the former just wasn't as much fun. I'm sure that if I had played the Rogue Squadron games first though, the simulators would probably be incomprehensibly complex.
On the toy front, I never had any of the original ones, I was a little young for them when they came out. But I've always wanted the B-wing.
Sure, I have four of them made out of Lego, but that's not enough.
It’s a lot.
I think for the time, that mission did an acceptable job of teaching the player that constantly diverting energy to shields and guns at the expense of engines won't always work.
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I'm just gonna reply to it here as if it were a reply to my post, since thats obviously what it was:
edit: there's also a new tv spot showing the most badass toss ever:
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