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Zac Naloen wrote:TC-Pilot you seem to have taken a horrendous amount of offense to an incredibly flippant remark that was meant in jest.
Ah. Just remember that you can't convey tone through text.
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Vympel wrote:And every QTE in the game rules.
While I can understand complaints about quick time events, and sometimes they are done badly, at the same time I think they're great. I have nothing against cutscenes, but it is rather cool to actually have a say (of sorts) in how a spectacular cutscene goes down.
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Question about that: do you have any control on which QTE occurs, or is it randomized?
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Zac Naloen wrote:The Stardestroyer sequence is only in there because it's in the trailer, but it's not even 5 minutes of gameplay. Saying it wrecks the gameplay is some serious melodrama.
5 minutes? My wife spent over an hour and a half on it. While trying to beat it, she related a story she read about how it made a kid cry.

It took me probably about 15 minutes to beat it, and I didn't die.

It was broken, but I'd rather do that again than Fable's prison sequence.
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Lol that review makes me laugh; it's ALMOST as funny as all the 95%+ spore reviews that say 'boring as shit BUT WHOA CREATORS 99%'. :)

I love credulous morons, I really do. He LIKED THE VOICE ACTING. He may be actually retarded.
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So beat the game....took me 9 hours of play through.

All I can say to the story is..what the fuck!?

How the hell can they just leave this huge gaping massive plothole! It doesn't make sense! If you take this into canon for Wars - then the begining of Episode IV is thrown to hell.


Or Vader and Palpatine are complete idiots.


One of the two.
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How the hell can they just leave this huge gaping massive plothole! It doesn't make sense! If you take this into canon for Wars - then the begining of Episode IV is thrown to hell.

Or Vader and Palpatine are complete idiots.

One of the two.
I don't see how, really. Have you read the book? I've skimmed it in the store. It's easily waved away.

There's also going to be a sequel, so I wouldn't assume too much, if you know what I mean, in relation to the characters that survive.
5 minutes? My wife spent over an hour and a half on it. While trying to beat it, she related a story she read about how it made a kid cry.

It took me probably about 15 minutes to beat it, and I didn't die.

It was broken, but I'd rather do that again than Fable's prison sequence.
It's actually over very quickly (way, way, way less than 15 minutes - more like 5) when I realized the TIE Fighters can be gripped. Or use lightning on them.
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I wonder if that was Jar Jar in carbonite in Captain Sturms trophy room, :)
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Vympel wrote:
How the hell can they just leave this huge gaping massive plothole! It doesn't make sense! If you take this into canon for Wars - then the begining of Episode IV is thrown to hell.

Or Vader and Palpatine are complete idiots.

One of the two.
I don't see how, really. Have you read the book? I've skimmed it in the store. It's easily waved away.
Unless the book says differently, there's a potential contradiction regarding the discovery of the Death Star. It seems to contradict the X-Wing game, where the existence of the Death Star was discovered by a monitoring station some time after the Rebel Alliance was formed. I'm not sure what other sources say about the discovery of the DS.

It's possible the Rebel leaders kept the discovery to themselves for a while, though. (And X-Wing has several other timeline contradictions anyway.)
It's actually over very quickly (way, way, way less than 15 minutes - more like 5) when I realized the TIE Fighters can be gripped. Or use lightning on them.
I basically used lightning but had to rely on the auto-targeting. I didn't manage to grip the TIEs, but I could grip that barrel and throw it at the fighters.
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Vympel wrote: I don't see how, really. Have you read the book? I've skimmed it in the store. It's easily waved away.

There's also going to be a sequel, so I wouldn't assume too much, if you know what I mean, in relation to the characters that survive.
Frankly, SW stories have ALWAYS had stupid lamer stories that didn't fit the movies and were also boring. This stupid lamer story might not fit the movies either (depending) but at least it isn't boring hackneyed nonsense as well.

Completionists who want to include everything in canon are dumbasses anyway, I say. :)
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I basically used lightning but had to rely on the auto-targeting. I didn't manage to grip the TIEs, but I could grip that barrel and throw it at the fighters.
In order to grip them, just wait until they're making their turn when they're closest to you - simply holding them in place is enough to kill them and the next fighter that comes, usually.
Frankly, SW stories have ALWAYS had stupid lamer stories that didn't fit the movies and were also boring. This stupid lamer story might not fit the movies either (depending) but at least it isn't boring hackneyed nonsense as well.
I like TFU's story, on its own merits - it strikes me as subjectively "wrong" when put against the movies, but then, most EU stories do anyway.
I wonder if that was Jar Jar in carbonite in Captain Sturms trophy room,
I only noticed that in my second playthrough (I just finished Imperial Kashyyyk). Hilarious easter egg.
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Vympel wrote:
How the hell can they just leave this huge gaping massive plothole! It doesn't make sense! If you take this into canon for Wars - then the begining of Episode IV is thrown to hell.

Or Vader and Palpatine are complete idiots.

One of the two.
I don't see how, really. Have you read the book? I've skimmed it in the store. It's easily waved away.

There's also going to be a sequel, so I wouldn't assume too much, if you know what I mean, in relation to the characters that survive.
Nope, hadn't even skimmed the book, so I didn't know the had a way of waving it away, just went by what the game had going (Wii version anyway..).

I'm not a completionist, and I enjoyed TFU's story on it's own merits - but considering the setting of the game and what went through....well...yeah, my mind screamed "Fuck off!"

There's going to be a sequel?

Huh....I still need to get it on the Xbox...because the Wii version was lacking on some of the cool shit the rest of you got to do on the PS3 and Xbox...
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Basically, Vader says to Sidious "we know who they are now, we can destroy them" - Sidious responds with the equivalent of [small=1]"what's the rush? Destroy their hope first etc.

It's not perfect, but at least the obvious question is directly addressed.
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Vympel wrote: It's not perfect, but at least the obvious question is directly addressed.
It's terrible, but it fits the cackling comicbook villain thing they have going on. I'm certain the writers thinks it's seamless and brilliant, which is funny shit. :)
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I liked the game, but I'm not going to pretend it was perfect. First off, the sodding bugs that blank the mission objectives section partway through. This means your secondary mission doesn't get listed, nor is there a visible count of the force points you accumulate or maybe even an account of the holocrons collected. In other words, I don't know what levels I've cleaned out and what I've not. Everything was fine up till after Cloud City, then this kicks in.

According to the Xbox Achievements.org site, Lucasarts are not claiming this is a bug, this is due to bad disk defragmentation which is to be frank absolute bollocks.
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The PS3 version has given me no problems - except for an invincibility bug on Imperial Raxus Prime after a certain point. :lol:
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