New Star Wars game titled, detailed.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-02-15 08:01am

If they wanted tonfa - which I agree they do - they should have just had tonfa with a parallel sabre beam starting at the 'short' end and extending past the 'long' end. Tonfa are very flexible in use - that thing is only really usable by rotating the grips.

But hey, a lightsabre blade on a blunt weapon = stupid character design. I want a lightmace. Or maybe a lightanvil.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-02-15 08:05am

Stark wrote:If they wanted tonfa - which I agree they do - they should have just had tonfa with a parallel sabre beam starting at the 'short' end and extending past the 'long' end. Tonfa are very flexible in use - that thing is only really usable by rotating the grips.

But hey, a lightsabre blade on a blunt weapon = stupid character design. I want a lightmace. Or maybe a lightanvil.

Stark, you should well know by now never, ever to suggest such a stupid thing. You may give them ideas.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-02-15 08:08am

Holy shit tonfa are usable in heaps of ways right so maybe they should have a thumbstick on the grip so you can have blades in both directions, to represent how a tonfa user can quickly change the way he uses his weapon to surprise his opponent! ZAP, parry with the long end! CLICK, turn on the short blade and POW in their face! AWESOME! It's like Mauls sabre but BETTER and you can DUAL WIERD IT.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-15 08:30am

Dartzap wrote:
Stark wrote:If they wanted tonfa - which I agree they do - they should have just had tonfa with a parallel sabre beam starting at the 'short' end and extending past the 'long' end. Tonfa are very flexible in use - that thing is only really usable by rotating the grips.

But hey, a lightsabre blade on a blunt weapon = stupid character design. I want a lightmace. Or maybe a lightanvil.

Stark, you should well know by now never, ever to suggest such a stupid thing. You may give them ideas.

Yeah... someone asked about the plausibility of Lightchucks on the WotC RPG, the consensus was you'd kill yourself even as a Jedi... a week later... BAM... BF2 Patch with Ventress using light-chucks...

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-02-15 08:47am

Another interesting aspect of this multimedia project, is that Lucas himself was involved in the production (according to the article) and even helped design some of the characters...

*Flashbacks to Padme's dominatrix outfit*

Yeah, I think I now see why the female Jedi seem to "let loose" in these concept pictures. Shaak Ti goes from having modest cloak to a top held together by animal teeth? O__o

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-02-15 08:50am

The answer is 'lame'. What's consistency? You need tits! GET SOME NOW I DON'T CARE HOW.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-02-15 08:55am

Hey, clothes-wise, the movies set a precedence, so I can't really complain. The author of the story has been involved with SW:Republic and the tie-in novel to SW:Galaxies (which I heard was good), so the story might be decent.

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I'm trying to keep a level of optimism...

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2007-02-15 09:06am

Meh is really what this game has gotten out of me.

Let's see, ask Stark put it, you're an important character(Vader's Apprentice) who did things no one's ever heard of, and has no impact whatsoever except to a small possible circle, and after the day's end? No one gives a fuck about whether you lived or died regardless of your high position within the New Order.

Oh and the Star Wars Galaxy book sucked huge donkey cock. Incosistent because it followed the MMO and abilities of such rather then in universe material.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-02-15 09:52am

who did things no one's ever heard of

You mean "help the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Order"? :P

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2007-02-15 09:54am

VT-16 wrote:
who did things no one's ever heard of
You mean "help the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Order"?

You mean the very quote they attributed to Vader and no one else

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Literally you are a nobody that's given a big title. Unless they come out with a kickass story, your character is going to be on the level of Maarek Steele's Wing Buddy #4517.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-15 10:36am

Ghost Rider wrote:
VT-16 wrote:
who did things no one's ever heard of
You mean "help the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Order"?
You mean the very quote they attributed to Vader and no one else

Actually that was also the job of Inquisitor's as well.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2007-02-15 10:40am

General Schatten wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
VT-16 wrote: You mean "help the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Order"?
You mean the very quote they attributed to Vader and no one else
Actually that was also the job of Inquisitor's as well.

As I said...the qutoe attributed to Vader.

The variety of others basically enter the same level as the mains...hell they are on the level of the 501st. Extras who helped Vader, but are never noted for doing the job.

This is much easier to say if you were an Inquistor, or a Bounty Hunter, or anything else then Vader's Apprentice.

They gave the main a title that has no meaning except a false sense of importance to the player. His story, unless they actually tie it in effectively is on the level of Steele's Wingmate. Sure, you did cool things, but no one attributes a single thing to you, thus no one ever really heard of it. They hear of Vader's exploits killing Jedi, apparently you're no better then the technician on the ISD Behemoth pressing the kill button.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-02-15 11:02am

Well, there must be someone in the Empire that Vader assisted, since it didn't say "Vader went apeshit on the Jedi's asses singlehandedly". :P

Oh well, I guess the quote "pursued by the Empire's sinister agents" in the ANH opening text, basically implies Vader was just one of several such "agents". :)

Pint0 Xtreme · Post by **Pint0 Xtreme** » 2007-02-15 11:49am

Ghost Rider wrote:Meh is really what this game has gotten out of me.

Let's see, ask Stark put it, you're an important character(Vader's Apprentice) who did things no one's ever heard of, and has no impact whatsoever except to a small possible circle, and after the day's end? No one gives a fuck about whether you lived or died regardless of your high position within the New Order.

Is there an alternative that wouldn't muck up continuity? Almost everything has already been established story-wise. I can't see how you could implement a story within that time period that made some real changes to the galaxy without screwing it up.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2007-02-15 11:50am

I dont get it, If the producers want lots of lightsaber duels why not set the game in KOTOR period ? That gives them all the Jedi and Sith for player to kill without messing with original triology storyline.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-02-15 12:02pm

I can't see how you could implement a story within that time period that made some real changes to the galaxy without screwing it up.

The Empire gains more and more control and shows its ugly, totalitarian side. Eventually, rebel groups form the Rebel Alliance. That's basically the big changes the galaxy undergoes. Don't see how this game undermines that.

Pint0 Xtreme · Post by **Pint0 Xtreme** » 2007-02-15 12:06pm

VT-16 wrote:The Empire gains more and more control and shows its ugly, totalitarian side. Eventually, rebel groups form the Rebel Alliance. That's basically the big changes the galaxy undergoes. Don't see how this game undermines that.

But how do you figure Jedis into it? After all, LucasArts have clearly shown their interest in another lightsaber wankfest.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-15 12:48pm

Pint0 Xtreme wrote:
VT-16 wrote:The Empire gains more and more control and shows its ugly, totalitarian side. Eventually, rebel groups form the Rebel Alliance. That's basically the big changes the galaxy undergoes. Don't see how this game undermines that.
But how do you figure Jedis into it? After all, LucasArts have clearly shown their interest in another lightsaber wankfest.

Well, we know the Empire had multiple light-saber wielding psychos, such as the Prophets, Inquisitors, and Hands, many of those were also Dark Jedi, and also trained Dark Jedi of their own to usurp Palpy. Even Vader had Lumiya at one time, I'm not surprised he didn't have others before her.

Pint0 Xtreme · Post by **Pint0 Xtreme** » 2007-02-15 01:08pm

General Schatten wrote:Well, we know the Empire had multiple light-saber wielding psychos, such as the Prophets, Inquisitors, and Hands, many of those were also Dark Jedi, and also trained Dark Jedi of their own to usurp Palpy. Even Vader had Lumiya at one time, I'm not surprised he didn't have others before her.

... which precisely sounds like a plotline which involves a character who did things that were only important to a small circle and hardly impacted the overall story.

Sephirius · Post by **Sephirius** » 2007-02-15 03:14pm

needs less odd saber wank.
is the single saber to blase now? fucks sake.

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2007-02-15 03:55pm

VT-16 wrote:*Flashbacks to Padme's dominatrix outfit*

Link plz? ^^;

Oh, and after seeing/thinking that the names for the post-NGE SWG professions were rather misleading, I can see "Vader's secret apprentice" being that as well. (i.e. in the same way that 'Trader' = crafter, Commando = 'basic' soldier, 'Jedi' seems to be the core class of any Force-sensitive... well, unless they just released another update that changes these. Couldn't make sense of the on-site guides, consistency-wise.)

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-02-15 04:00pm

Link plz? ^^;

See AOTC, the fireplace scene. Or better yet, don't. >P

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-15 04:09pm

VT-16 wrote:
Link plz? ^^;
See AOTC, the fireplace scene. Or better yet, don't. >P

Would these happen to be pics of it?

Aquatain · Post by **Aquatain** » 2007-02-15 04:54pm

I would sell my firstbone for a Star Wars game that had nothing to do with the force or Jedi/sith whatever... though it seems impossible after the prequels.

N.B I did play Republic Commando, but i was thinking of something like a game that focus on being a Smuggler or Bounty Hunter or both.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-15 05:00pm

Aquatain wrote:N.B I did play Republic Commando, but i was thinking of something like a game that focus on being a Smuggler or Bounty Hunter or both.

No Jedi in it or you don't play as a Jedi? Oh and I think Deadly Alliance fits that criteria, admittedly, I hated the game and thus didn't even attempt to play it more than 15 minutes.