I thought a long time ago we decided that this game was like clone wars: ie. the story and the events and the timeline are canon, the action scenes are not.
MGHM is on the money. Kota's men have shock spears and hand-held miniguns, and we only saw the former used by Greivous' bodyguards.
There are tons of inconsistencies already. Some people drew the line at Starkiller's lightbat. I personally don't care. The game looks like too much fun to nitpick like that.
Didn't certain clone trooper have mini guns in The Clone Wars? Or was it just in the Battlefront series?
You may be right. Clone Wars is another point, too. The Jedi have crazy insane powers, and the Clone Troopers suddenly have amazing skills.
I now want to find the gif of that one scene during the Battle for Coruscant where one clone trooper holds off a bunch of droids.
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MGHM is on the money. Kota's men have shock spears and hand-held miniguns, and we only saw the former used by Greivous' bodyguards.
There are tons of inconsistencies already. Some people drew the line at Starkiller's lightbat. I personally don't care. The game looks like too much fun to nitpick like that.
Didn't certain clone trooper have mini guns in The Clone Wars? Or was it just in the Battlefront series?
You may be right. Clone Wars is another point, too. The Jedi have crazy insane powers, and the Clone Troopers suddenly have amazing skills.
Listen seeing an entire company of troopers fire a ton of some kind of harpoons with lines on them into an enemy was cool.
Then seeing said company ZIP LINE DOWN on those lines shooting at it the entire time was no less than an EXPERIENCE.
I hear Lucas is going to re-cut the original trilogy in order to add the Secret Apprentice. Except he'll be an animated, talking cat voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
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MGHM is on the money. Kota's men have shock spears and hand-held miniguns, and we only saw the former used by Greivous' bodyguards.
There are tons of inconsistencies already. Some people drew the line at Starkiller's lightbat. I personally don't care. The game looks like too much fun to nitpick like that.
Didn't certain clone trooper have mini guns in The Clone Wars? Or was it just in the Battlefront series?
You may be right. Clone Wars is another point, too. The Jedi have crazy insane powers, and the Clone Troopers suddenly have amazing skills.
Listen seeing an entire company of troopers fire a ton of some kind of harpoons with lines on them into an enemy was cool.
Then seeing said company ZIP LINE DOWN on those lines shooting at it the entire time was no less than an EXPERIENCE.
Episode 20 had the best start to a cartoon ever. A sqaud of ARC troopers, busting into a crashed Republic assualt ship and saving some Jedi from General Grevious. Then getting the fuck out of there as fast as that dropship could fly.
MGHM is on the money. Kota's men have shock spears and hand-held miniguns, and we only saw the former used by Greivous' bodyguards.
There are tons of inconsistencies already. Some people drew the line at Starkiller's lightbat. I personally don't care. The game looks like too much fun to nitpick like that.
Didn't certain clone trooper have mini guns in The Clone Wars? Or was it just in the Battlefront series?
You may be right. Clone Wars is another point, too. The Jedi have crazy insane powers, and the Clone Troopers suddenly have amazing skills.
Listen seeing an entire company of troopers fire a ton of some kind of harpoons with lines on them into an enemy was cool.
Then seeing said company ZIP LINE DOWN on those lines shooting at it the entire time was no less than an EXPERIENCE.
Episode 20 had the best start to a cartoon ever. A sqaud of ARC troopers, busting into a crashed Republic assualt ship and saving some Jedi from General Grevious. Then getting the fuck out of there as fast as that dropship could fly.
Oh man, that was so badass. I like the cartoon series way more than any of the new trilogy.
I am spoiled for the story of this game as the trade paperback of the comics adaptation (80 pgs) was released this week.
I read it cover to cover. I am not disappointed... but I am a pretty huge Star Wars nerd.
What surprised me most was 'scope'.
Can you explain what you mean without spoilers?
Only with great difficulty...
I will say that the game takes place much much later in the Star Wars timeline then I expected.
Some decisions they made also bulldoze over certain aspects of EU continuity (much of it assumed... like the Rebel Alliance's age when ANH begins.) while wholeheartedly embracing other aspects of continuity (Zahn stuff.) It's kind of a cool mix. What they take from your EU history, they give back in equal amount.
But suffice it to say the Apprentice/Starkiller (Who was implied in interviews to have a third 'real' name, but I didn't see it in the graphic novel.) is actually a surprisingly big deal in the Star Wars universe.
If anyone remembers Shadows of the Empire, this dude matters a lot more than Dash Rendar or Xizor.
EDIT - Also, either the romance subplot is downplayed considerably in the funny book, or the OXM reviewer is a douchebag, because what I read was surprisingly, touchingly understated.
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I am spoiled for the story of this game as the trade paperback of the comics adaptation (80 pgs) was released this week.
I read it cover to cover. I am not disappointed... but I am a pretty huge Star Wars nerd.
What surprised me most was 'scope'.
Can you explain what you mean without spoilers?
Only with great difficulty...
I will say that the game takes place much much later in the Star Wars timeline then I expected.
Some decisions they made also bulldoze over certain aspects of EU continuity (much of it assumed... like the Rebel Alliance's age when ANH begins.) while wholeheartedly embracing other aspects of continuity (Zahn stuff.) It's kind of a cool mix. What they take from your EU history, they give back in equal amount.
But suffice it to say the Apprentice/Starkiller (Who was implied in interviews to have a third 'real' name, but I didn't see it in the graphic novel.) is actually a surprisingly big deal in the Star Wars universe.
If anyone remembers Shadows of the Empire, this dude matters a lot more than Dash Rendar or Xizor.
EDIT - Also, either the romance subplot is downplayed considerably in the funny book, or the OXM reviewer is a douchebag, because what I read was surprisingly, touchingly understated.
I liked Dash a lot. I used his name as an early internet handle. Anyway, I'm now more excited for the story. Sounds like it's right up my alley.
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I liked Dash a lot. I used his name as an early internet handle. Anyway, I'm now more excited for the story. Sounds like it's right up my alley.
I liked him too, but he mattered about as much to SotE's story as Ric Olie did to Phantom Menace's story.
I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to want to see A New Hope as soon as Force Unleashed credits roll.
I will, I think.
Yeah...I really wish they did more with Dash, even though he pretty much in there to be a "Han Solo"ish character. I was disappointed the Outrider wasn't playable in X-Wing Alliance out of the box. There was a mod somewhere that allowed it, though.
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MGHM is on the money. Kota's men have shock spears and hand-held miniguns, and we only saw the former used by Greivous' bodyguards.
There are tons of inconsistencies already. Some people drew the line at Starkiller's lightbat. I personally don't care. The game looks like too much fun to nitpick like that.
Didn't certain clone trooper have mini guns in The Clone Wars? Or was it just in the Battlefront series?
You may be right. Clone Wars is another point, too. The Jedi have crazy insane powers, and the Clone Troopers suddenly have amazing skills.
I now want to find the gif of that one scene during the Battle for Coruscant where one clone trooper holds off a bunch of droids.
Ask and ye shall receive
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edited September 2008
*Right click. Save as*
Thanks!
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MGHM is on the money. Kota's men have shock spears and hand-held miniguns, and we only saw the former used by Greivous' bodyguards.
There are tons of inconsistencies already. Some people drew the line at Starkiller's lightbat. I personally don't care. The game looks like too much fun to nitpick like that.
Didn't certain clone trooper have mini guns in The Clone Wars? Or was it just in the Battlefront series?
You may be right. Clone Wars is another point, too. The Jedi have crazy insane powers, and the Clone Troopers suddenly have amazing skills.
I now want to find the gif of that one scene during the Battle for Coruscant where one clone trooper holds off a bunch of droids.
When I was in fourth grade I built the Lego Star Destroyer. It was 3 feet long and something like 3000 pieces. When we moved to another house there was no way to transport it so I dropped it off a ladder onto the ground in my garage, just like in one of the star wars movies (can't remember which right now) where one of them crashes tip first into the ground. It was fuckin sweet.
I am spoiled for the story of this game as the trade paperback of the comics adaptation (80 pgs) was released this week.
I read it cover to cover. I am not disappointed... but I am a pretty huge Star Wars nerd.
What surprised me most was 'scope'.
Can you explain what you mean without spoilers?
Only with great difficulty...
I will say that the game takes place much much later in the Star Wars timeline then I expected. Some decisions they made also bulldoze over certain aspects of EU continuity (much of it assumed... like the Rebel Alliance's age when ANH begins.) while wholeheartedly embracing other aspects of continuity (Zahn stuff.) It's kind of a cool mix. What they take from your EU history, they give back in equal amount.
But suffice it to say the Apprentice/Starkiller (Who was implied in interviews to have a third 'real' name, but I didn't see it in the graphic novel.) is actually a surprisingly big deal in the Star Wars universe.
If anyone remembers Shadows of the Empire, this dude matters a lot more than Dash Rendar or Xizor.
EDIT - Also, either the romance subplot is downplayed considerably in the funny book, or the OXM reviewer is a douchebag, because what I read was surprisingly, touchingly understated.
Please tell me that Kyle Katarn's pre-ANH activity wasn't screwed with.
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It has two little wing things on the left side of the ship, not one. *left side facing the ship*
Did you make that yourself or is that a kit?
Looks like the kit to me. At least, I've never seen that window piece anywhere else.
Also: it looks like the wings rotate to point up, so you can't see both wings on the left hand side.
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edited September 2008
Ah ok.
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It’s crazy that this isn’t already in the wild, but turns out plans for a PC version of heavily-physicsed Star Wars Sith ‘em up The Force Unleashed were quietly revealed at NVIDIA’s recent NVISION 08 conference. RPS’ super-secret spy at the event has sent us an audio recording of Pixelux Entertainment (the company behind The Force Unleashed’s physics tech) COO Vik Sohal saying this in the middle of his talk about game physics:
“…Just been released last week on the internet, the Force Unleashed demo on both the PS3 and Xbox 360. We have a PC version as well.”
So there you have it. I’m pretty sure this is an exclusive, but it’s possible I’m just really bad at using Google. Big thanks to RPS’s super-secret spy for this.
He also goes on to detail that “we did rely heavily on GPU acceleration” for the game’s physics (presumably via NVIDIA’s CUDA tech), making this most likely the first high profile game to implement this new, potentially fruitful gimmick.
Unfortunately, The Force Unleashed isn’t garnering great reviews. But hey, it’s nice that the PC isn’t left in the cold.
I came here to post that and you scooped me by 45 minutes darnit!
I just don't get it though. Why the constant "we don't do PC for this" over all this time when it actually was in the works? Or was the PC version just a tech demo? A common base from which they were building other versions as Capcom do with their recent engine?
Conspiracy theories on a postcard to the usual address.
Although to be honest, I've been getting less and less interested in the game the more I hear about it.
Until more info comes out, I'm kinda inclined to belive that it was just a proof of concept tech demo. Though if it is CUDA enabled, the physics would probably be even better
The prospect of a decapitation mod makes me far more interested in the PC version.
Well that's debatable. Not that sabre-bat doesn't look just plain weird, but the question is how easy that kind of thing could even be modded into the PC version. In the JK games it was just a cheat code. It's very unlikely that there'll be any sort of SDK or modding help on the PC side for this title.
Possible, but I'm not sure it's really all that likely, at least barring any further announcements (or any announcements, we could still be jumping the gun here).
Maybe if it had been out at the same time as all the other versions, I would've gotten it. This is pretty shit.
It's OK, when the game sells less than expected we can be safe in the knowledge that the only possible reason was piracy.
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Has anyone else pointed out yet that the game is currently getting average reviews? Not that the game media is very trustworthy, but most of them say while the force powers are fun, the combat sucks. I did play the demo a few weeks back and I gotta agree, while the force powers were fun to fool around with, combos were hard to pull off sometimes and the end fight with the AT-ST was a little strange.
It almost makes me want to switch my preorder over to Mirror's Edge, because while I'm sure Force Unleashed won't turn out to be an awful game, it'll probably just be ok, and I'm not sure I wanna spend 60 dollars on something that's just OK.
Has anyone else pointed out yet that the game is currently getting average reviews? Not that the game media is very trustworthy, but most of them say while the force powers are fun, the combat sucks. I did play the demo a few weeks back and I gotta agree, while the force powers were fun to fool around with, combos were hard to pull off sometimes and the end fight with the AT-ST was a little strange.
It almost makes me want to switch my preorder over to Mirror's Edge, because while I'm sure Force Unleashed won't turn out to be an awful game, it'll probably just be ok, and I'm not sure I wanna spend 60 dollars on something that's just OK.
If Mirror's Edge turns out to be better than FU, no matter how average FU's reviews are, I will eat my hat
Yeah, I'm sure many of the complaints about the game are probably warranted, and it's a shame, because it's been a long time since we had a really good Star Wars game, and with all the money and time thrown at this game, you'd think Lucasarts would hit it out of the park. Man, they used to be so fucking good.
I'm getting it, because I am gay for Star Wars, and I had fun with the demo despite its problems, so I hope I at least won't be disappointed with the full game. My expectations aren't as high as they used to be, in any case.
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If Mirror's Edge turns out to be better than FU, no matter how average FU's reviews are, I will eat my hat
You're going to eat a LIVE RABBIT?!
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Knowing this forum, I almost expected him to say that he'd eat his own cock.
According to EGM, it says that the force powers are awesome at the beginning of the game, but later there are enemies that have energy shields that completely block them, meaning you have to rely on the crappy combat to defeat them. Most of the games effort was put into the storyline and the graphics.
According to EGM, it says that the force powers are awesome at the beginning of the game, but later there are enemies that have energy shields that completely block them, meaning you have to rely on the crappy combat to defeat them. Most of the games effort was put into the storyline and the graphics.
Storyline? In a Star Wars game?
Actually I take that back. TIE fighter actually had quite an atmospheric storyline going on in the background of the missions.
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I now want to find the gif of that one scene during the Battle for Coruscant where one clone trooper holds off a bunch of droids.
Listen seeing an entire company of troopers fire a ton of some kind of harpoons with lines on them into an enemy was cool.
Then seeing said company ZIP LINE DOWN on those lines shooting at it the entire time was no less than an EXPERIENCE.
I read it cover to cover. I am not disappointed... but I am a pretty huge Star Wars nerd.
What surprised me most was 'scope'.
Can you explain what you mean without spoilers?
Episode 20 had the best start to a cartoon ever. A sqaud of ARC troopers, busting into a crashed Republic assualt ship and saving some Jedi from General Grevious. Then getting the fuck out of there as fast as that dropship could fly.
Oh man, that was so badass. I like the cartoon series way more than any of the new trilogy.
Only with great difficulty...
I will say that the game takes place much much later in the Star Wars timeline then I expected.
Some decisions they made also bulldoze over certain aspects of EU continuity (much of it assumed... like the Rebel Alliance's age when ANH begins.) while wholeheartedly embracing other aspects of continuity (Zahn stuff.) It's kind of a cool mix. What they take from your EU history, they give back in equal amount.
But suffice it to say the Apprentice/Starkiller (Who was implied in interviews to have a third 'real' name, but I didn't see it in the graphic novel.) is actually a surprisingly big deal in the Star Wars universe.
If anyone remembers Shadows of the Empire, this dude matters a lot more than Dash Rendar or Xizor.
EDIT - Also, either the romance subplot is downplayed considerably in the funny book, or the OXM reviewer is a douchebag, because what I read was surprisingly, touchingly understated.
I liked Dash a lot. I used his name as an early internet handle. Anyway, I'm now more excited for the story. Sounds like it's right up my alley.
I liked him too, but he mattered about as much to SotE's story as Ric Olie did to Phantom Menace's story.
I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to want to see A New Hope as soon as Force Unleashed credits roll.
I will, I think.
Yeah...I really wish they did more with Dash, even though he pretty much in there to be a "Han Solo"ish character. I was disappointed the Outrider wasn't playable in X-Wing Alliance out of the box. There was a mod somewhere that allowed it, though.
Thanks!
Boom.
I never asked for this!
High five! I have that as well. It's pretty awesome, though my TIE Interceptor is my pride and joy.
That thing is worth like $200
Please tell me that Kyle Katarn's pre-ANH activity wasn't screwed with.
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It has two little wing things on the left side of the ship, not one. *left side facing the ship*
Did you make that yourself or is that a kit?
Also: it looks like the wings rotate to point up, so you can't see both wings on the left hand side.
It's this kit:
http://starwars.lego.com/en-us/Products/classic/7672.aspx
Scoop - The Force Unleashed Is Coming To PC
NEVER!
I just don't get it though. Why the constant "we don't do PC for this" over all this time when it actually was in the works? Or was the PC version just a tech demo? A common base from which they were building other versions as Capcom do with their recent engine?
Conspiracy theories on a postcard to the usual address.
Although to be honest, I've been getting less and less interested in the game the more I hear about it.
Well that's debatable. Not that sabre-bat doesn't look just plain weird, but the question is how easy that kind of thing could even be modded into the PC version. In the JK games it was just a cheat code. It's very unlikely that there'll be any sort of SDK or modding help on the PC side for this title.
Possible, but I'm not sure it's really all that likely, at least barring any further announcements (or any announcements, we could still be jumping the gun here).
It's OK, when the game sells less than expected we can be safe in the knowledge that the only possible reason was piracy.
It almost makes me want to switch my preorder over to Mirror's Edge, because while I'm sure Force Unleashed won't turn out to be an awful game, it'll probably just be ok, and I'm not sure I wanna spend 60 dollars on something that's just OK.
I'm getting it, because I am gay for Star Wars, and I had fun with the demo despite its problems, so I hope I at least won't be disappointed with the full game. My expectations aren't as high as they used to be, in any case.
You're going to eat a LIVE RABBIT?!
According to EGM, it says that the force powers are awesome at the beginning of the game, but later there are enemies that have energy shields that completely block them, meaning you have to rely on the crappy combat to defeat them. Most of the games effort was put into the storyline and the graphics.
Storyline? In a Star Wars game?
Actually I take that back. TIE fighter actually had quite an atmospheric storyline going on in the background of the missions.