New Force Unleashed Trailer

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2008-07-12 08:59pm

Isn't that AT-ST the Wookiee-nabber version? It's got a net-gun for grabbing wookiees, nothing else.

Battlehymn Republic · Post by **Battlehymn Republic** » 2008-07-13 01:47am

The rapeage of established continuity aside, the Force powers look stupidly awesome. Advent Rising 2, fuck yeah.

Best part: The opening scene when the Lucasarts logo guy goes all Palpatine.

Worst part: Light-tonfas.

Stark wrote:Even though the game is deliberately over-the-top, people are still going to try to fit the events into the timeline, purists like me will laugh and ignore the story events, and Publius will embarrass everyone by synthesizing it into something reasonable and well-supported.

I'm still waiting for him to do that to Forces of Corruption, since, all of the cries of "omg crimelourd wank!!!" turned out to be speculative FUD and amusingly minimalist.

Darth Hoth · Post by **Darth Hoth** » 2008-07-13 06:16am

Darth Culator wrote:Let me tell you a little secret about Wookieepedia. Unless an article is featured (has a little blue star in the corner), you should probably not quote it. Anyone can edit a wiki, and it's a small minority that doesn't +alk lIK Th1S @LL t3h t1m3.

I would not contradict an admin over there, but is it quite that bad? My impression was that the well-known topics appear to be reasonably well covered, it is the obscure articles that become infested with bias and blatant fanon.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2008-07-13 06:35am

You're partially right, but the problem also lies with unknowns coming in to highjack even well-known topics once in a while. That's why we're trying to get the reference-system put into all articles. If each piece of information can actually be documented, no problem. It's doing this to 3+ years of info that's the problem.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-07-13 08:10am

Darth Raptor wrote:Oh you just know that one day we're going to have Jedi starfighters that transform into humanoid walkers with giant lightsabers.

You rang?

Darth Hoth · Post by **Darth Hoth** » 2008-07-13 08:17am

VT-16 wrote:You're partially right, but the problem also lies with unknowns coming in to highjack even well-known topics once in a while. That's why we're trying to get the reference-system put into all articles. If each piece of information can actually be documented, no problem. It's doing this to 3+ years of info that's the problem.

I would imagine the well-known topics would be rather easily cleaned up; I did it myself with a few lesser articles when I was there, though that was a couple of years ago. Errors in infrequently read sections tend to persist, however. Of course, the sourcing makes it all much easier, especially when old sources such as WEG are concerned.

FuncoWilkerbean · Post by **FuncoWilkerbean** » 2008-07-13 06:33pm

Dooey Jo wrote:Starwars.com's video player is a piece of shit, so I watched this on Youtube. Just FYI.

I also had to view the video on Youtube.

Anyway, what's up with the reversed sabergrip? That's pretty retarded... I'm still steaming over TFU not being released on PC.

TC Pilot · Post by **TC Pilot** » 2008-07-13 08:33pm

Last I heard, they reversed the saber grip because the developers thought that since lightsabers were such an important aspect of the Jedi/Sith image, the player should be able to see it, even if it is one of the stupidest ideas in terms of swordsmanship.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2008-07-13 09:49pm

That's retarded. Why not have a movable camera if you want to stare at your blood-hued lightsaber?

Crom · Post by **Crom** » 2008-07-14 01:24pm

I assume that Starkiller can afford to be flashy and inefficient with his swordsmanship because he can compensate with his Force powers. Not that it isn't stupid.

Ohma · Post by **Ohma** » 2008-07-14 07:22pm

Dooey Jo wrote:This might well turn out to be the dumbest and most clichéd game ever. Who thinks of stuff like that? Did they hire KJA to do the game design, and a horny teenager to do the art direction?

Going by my friend's many, many, many rants about her classmates in her game design classes, I'd say yes.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2008-07-14 08:28pm

What does she say?

Post by **Kuja** » 2008-07-14 09:21pm

I just can't get over how much that guy looks like a complete tool. Total nonentity.

Aquatain · Post by **Aquatain** » 2008-07-14 10:55pm

TC Pilot wrote:Last I heard, they reversed the saber grip because the developers thought that since lightsabers were such an important aspect of the Jedi/Sith image, the player should be able to see it, even if it is one of the stupidest ideas in terms of swordsmanship.

So how do they explain the woman armed with the very silly light-batons?

Ohma · Post by **Ohma** » 2008-07-14 11:23pm

Illuminatus Primus wrote:What does she say?

That they were a bunch of bigoted, passive aggressive little shits, with the mental maturity of twelve-year-olds, who couldn't go five minutes without spouting internet memes or boasting about how much porn they had on their hard drives, constantly interrupted professors to point out some inane piece of trivia, and couldn't create a game premise without giant robots or baaaaaaaaaaadaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssss space marines to save their lives.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2008-07-15 09:02am

is it just me or does Shaak Ti look too young (totally unapropiate wardrobe aside), I did some calculations in my head and youngest age I came with grating the said setting (just before 0 BBY/ABY) was 43 and that's assuming she became member of the council at 20 while a more like age is 40+

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2008-07-15 01:00pm

Lord Revan wrote:is it just me or does Shaak Ti look too young (totally unapropiate wardrobe aside), I did some calculations in my head and youngest age I came with grating the said setting (just before 0 BBY/ABY) was 43 and that's assuming she became member of the council at 20 while a more like age is 40+

She didn't look that young to me; the in-game image was a reasonable approximation of her appearance in AOTC and other Clone Wars media. Besides, considering the lifespans of humans in the GFFA, and the possibility that Togruta live longer and don't age as visibly as their human counterparts, it’s entirely plausible that she still looks fairly young.

Her outfit, however, is utterly nonsensical.