The Official Star Wars Saga Thread

[Noble Saber]

Jedi Fallen Order? Battlefront 2 post launch? Not every Star Wars game can be a Republic Commando, but we have seen an improvement in the quality of the current catalogue.

[gottatalktothefake]

Just finished the Mando season 1. It’s pretty good. I find it extremely overrated though. I think people like it because most of what they’ve been given the last few years has been absolute trash.

[Spuro]

Jedi Fallen Order? Battlefront 2 post launch? Not every Star Wars game can be a Republic Commando, but we have seen an improvement in the quality of the current catalogue.

Jedi Fallen Order is okay, I guess. I'll give you that.

That other game, the one that doesn't deserve to be named after Star Wars Battlefront 2, is the Star Wars Holiday Special of Star Wars games...

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Hah! What am I saying? It's worse than the Holiday Special. Of course it is.

At least you're not actively enabling a shady corporation in selling damaging products to children, the disabled and those with gambling addictions by purchasing and watching the Holiday Special.

[UltramanGoji]

I haven't played it (probably never will) but apparently EA's BF2 has seen massive improvements in recent years.

[ROMG4]

Jedi Fallen Order? Battlefront 2 post launch? Not every Star Wars game can be a Republic Commando, but we have seen an improvement in the quality of the current catalogue.

Jedi Fallen Order is an extremely linier game with little replayability and Battlefront 2 post launch is a completely unbalanced, surface thin, bare minium content viability buggy mess

The EA license has been a complete disaster and the only reason Fallen Order gets so much praise is because it has no competition and redskins enough of Dark Souls to get by

[_JNavs_]

Fallen Order was a snore. Me and my friend both agreed it had absolutely no replayability, so i'm glad to see others feel that way.

I also loved Force Unleashed, which actually had a personality, but i digress.

[GodzillavsZilla]

Fallen Order was a snore. Me and my friend both agreed it had absolutely no replayability, so i'm glad to see others feel that way.

I also loved Force Unleashed, which actually had a personality, but i digress.

Ironically, I feel the opposite.

Force Unleashed is a repetitive slog with a horrible edgy protagonist that people love for some reason. I enjoyed the cast of characters and the gameplay of Fallen Order a lot more than TFU. But yeah, I also digress.

Off this subject, but I kinda feel like if The Clone Wars was made today, unchanged, people would treat it the same way they treat Rebels and base everything on how mediocre the first season is.

Saying this as someone who grew up with TCW, season one through most of three just hasn't aged well. The animation has that bleh early 2000s cartoon show look, the Senate episodes are boring, any episode featuring Jar Jar or C-3PO and R2 are horrid, and there aren't many episodes that I can pick and say I loved.

[eabaker]

Saying this as someone who grew up with TCW, season one through most of three just hasn't aged well. The animation has that bleh early 2000s cartoon show look, the Senate episodes are boring, any episode featuring Jar Jar or C-3PO and R2 are horrid, and there aren't many episodes that I can pick and say I loved.

Season 1 is almost unwatchably bad. Shallow, obnoxious characterizations and half-baked stories.

Actually, the first Jar Jar focused episode was one of the few from the season that I enjoyed at all, since it at least had some kind of clear arc for its central character. Other than that, the whole season is mostly empty running around and firing blasters. The season finale was a big step up, I felt, in that it focused more on the Senate and some of the decision making going on behind the scenes of the war. I largely found "the fall of the Republic" to be a more interesting focus than "the progress of the war," since it's an actual story with someplace to go, as opposed to a bunch of people shooting at each other in the interest of the foregone conclusion to one man's chess game against himself.

[Chrispy_G]

If Lucas is calling the shots....and he is able to bring his "sequel Trilogy" to life...I have to imagine it will be as full CGI films. In a Beowulf/Avatar-style "realistic" aesthetic, using performance capture and voice work. That way, people like Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill would simply be returning to 'voice' their characters...and the inevitable re-casting of Leia would be a LITTLE easier to sell if things were crossing over into animation.

That would then provide flexibility in terms of the timeline in which Lucas' sequels could occur. He wouldn't have to force a 40 year gap between trilogies. He could have it occur only 20-25 years after the original trilogy if he chose.

A George Lucas ran sequel trilogy would almost certainly include individuals like Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. Filoni has a long history with animated Star Wars shows. Jon Favreau delivered The Jungle Book and The Lion King, films that pushed for photo-realistic CGI.....and of course, both have already helped deliver live action Star Wars excellence with The Mandalorian. So they have animation/CGI and Star Wars in common.

Also....Lucas leaned more and more on CGI as his career progressed. I think he likes the idea of crafting the entire thing in a computer where every single little detail and element is completely controllable.

Just gonna leave this here and have a big fat smile on my face: https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/08/ ... skywalker/

We'll see what happens

[miguelnuva]

Fallen Order was a snore. Me and my friend both agreed it had absolutely no replayability, so i'm glad to see others feel that way.

I also loved Force Unleashed, which actually had a personality, but i digress.

Fallen order was suppose to be a one and done game, Force Unleashed had two endings but I think both are well.

BF2 is a completely different beast from when it was first repeated. I call EA and Disney out on their faults with Stat Wars but I also praise them when they try.

[ROMG4]

The Jedi Knight game series executed everything TFU and Fallen Order wanted to do and better. Better story, combat, force powers, etc

[SoggyNoodles2016]

I've been playing Fallen Order and I disagree completely. Fucking love it and am totally interested in exploring it after I finish the campaign. But to be fair, I'm not a big gamer.

TFU I always found both 6edgy12me and just kind of "eh" in making you feel like a force user. Like, after a while, it felt more "hey, do something cool because its cool!", not something you unlocked and learnt how to use in battle properly

Jedi Knight interested me but I always thought it looked too clunky to interest me in getting it.

[Noble Saber]

I've been playing Fallen Order and I disagree completely. skreeonking love it and am totally interested in exploring it after I finish the campaign. But to be fair, I'm not a big gamer.

TFU I always found both 6edgy12me and just kind of "eh" in making you feel like a force user. Like, after a while, it felt more "hey, do something cool because its cool!", not something you unlocked and learnt how to use in battle properly

Jedi Knight interested me but I always thought it looked too clunky to interest me in getting it.

I agree. I always thought of Force Unleashed as nothing more than a self wank "this character can BEAT Darth Vader!!" story obsessed with power levels more than anything else. Even back then I always disliked it as a story that was supposed to take place between ANH and ESB.

I also think it's funny how much some of you really haven't given Battlefront 2 EA a chance. They completely removed loot boxes and the only things you can buy with real money are all cosmetic, and if you don't want to grind you can literally buy every single cosmetic for $25. I also think the gunplay is overall mechanically better than OG Battlefront 2. Even if I think OG BF2 is the overall superior game, Battlefront 2017 really took a swing in the right direction post launch. But yes, let's rely all of our knowledge on Youtube videosmade in 2017 based on the argument that "EA BAD" even though it was mostly DICE carrying the post launch content.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

I've been playing Fallen Order and I disagree completely. skreeonking love it and am totally interested in exploring it after I finish the campaign. But to be fair, I'm not a big gamer.

TFU I always found both 6edgy12me and just kind of "eh" in making you feel like a force user. Like, after a while, it felt more "hey, do something cool because its cool!", not something you unlocked and learnt how to use in battle properly

Jedi Knight interested me but I always thought it looked too clunky to interest me in getting it.

I agree. I always thought of Force Unleashed as nothing more than a self wank "this character can BEAT Darth Vader!!" story obsessed with power levels more than anything else. Even back then I always disliked it as a story that was supposed to take place between ANH and ESB.

I also think it's funny how much some of you really haven't given Battlefront 2 EA a chance. They completely removed loot boxes and the only things you can buy with real money are all cosmetic, and if you don't want to grind you can literally buy every single cosmetic for $25. I also think the gunplay is overall mechanically better than OG Battlefront 2. Even if I think OG BF2 is the overall superior game, Battlefront 2017 really took a swing in the right direction post launch. But yes, let's rely all of our knowledge on Youtube videosmade in 2017 based on the argument that "EA BAD" even though it was mostly DICE carrying the post launch content.

Yeah, I finally opened Next Gen BF2 up again last week for the first time in years and it's a HUGE improvement.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the edgy as hell evil side missons in Force Unleashed where you just went around killing the OG heroes because eeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddddgggggggggggggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeee or the fan service of just Obi Wan and Maul showing up on that one droid because they're Obi Wan and Maul.

[G2000]

Force Unleashed

I have the weirdest memory of seeing an ad for that game set to Skillet's "Rebirthing" in a Blockbuster back when it came out but now i figure that was probably an AMV or something but why it was playing on a store TV I have no idea

I also think I have the game on the Wii sitting in my parent's attic somewhere

IIRC I couldn't get past the first level fight with Kento because I was 8 and sucked at video games

I'm going to have to give it another go sometime

[miguelnuva]

I've been playing Fallen Order and I disagree completely. skreeonking love it and am totally interested in exploring it after I finish the campaign. But to be fair, I'm not a big gamer.

TFU I always found both 6edgy12me and just kind of "eh" in making you feel like a force user. Like, after a while, it felt more "hey, do something cool because its cool!", not something you unlocked and learnt how to use in battle properly

Jedi Knight interested me but I always thought it looked too clunky to interest me in getting it.

I agree. I always thought of Force Unleashed as nothing more than a self wank "this character can BEAT Darth Vader!!" story obsessed with power levels more than anything else. Even back then I always disliked it as a story that was supposed to take place between ANH and ESB.

I also think it's funny how much some of you really haven't given Battlefront 2 EA a chance. They completely removed loot boxes and the only things you can buy with real money are all cosmetic, and if you don't want to grind you can literally buy every single cosmetic for $25. I also think the gunplay is overall mechanically better than OG Battlefront 2. Even if I think OG BF2 is the overall superior game, Battlefront 2017 really took a swing in the right direction post launch. But yes, let's rely all of our knowledge on Youtube videosmade in 2017 based on the argument that "EA BAD" even though it was mostly DICE carrying the post launch content.

Yeah, I finally opened Next Gen BF2 up again last week for the first time in years and it's a HUGE improvement.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the edgy as hell evil side missons in Force Unleashed where you just went around killing the OG heroes because eeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddddgggggggggggggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeee or the fan service of just Obi Wan and Maul showing up on that one droid because they're Obi Wan and Maul.

You never killed the OG heroes in the Force Unleashed unless your talking about the non canon DLC.

I've been playing Fallen Order and I disagree completely. skreeonking love it and am totally interested in exploring it after I finish the campaign. But to be fair, I'm not a big gamer.

TFU I always found both 6edgy12me and just kind of "eh" in making you feel like a force user. Like, after a while, it felt more "hey, do something cool because its cool!", not something you unlocked and learnt how to use in battle properly

Jedi Knight interested me but I always thought it looked too clunky to interest me in getting it.

I agree. I always thought of Force Unleashed as nothing more than a self wank "this character can BEAT Darth Vader!!" story obsessed with power levels more than anything else. Even back then I always disliked it as a story that was supposed to take place between ANH and ESB.

I also think it's funny how much some of you really haven't given Battlefront 2 EA a chance. They completely removed loot boxes and the only things you can buy with real money are all cosmetic, and if you don't want to grind you can literally buy every single cosmetic for $25. I also think the gunplay is overall mechanically better than OG Battlefront 2. Even if I think OG BF2 is the overall superior game, Battlefront 2017 really took a swing in the right direction post launch. But yes, let's rely all of our knowledge on Youtube videosmade in 2017 based on the argument that "EA BAD" even though it was mostly DICE carrying the post launch content.

Force Unleashed took place two years before ANH where Vader was a shell of himself. ESB Vade would have killed Starkiller.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

Exactly what I'm talking about and still part of the game and is edgy as hell.

Also, that's more bullshit fake canon power ranking stuff there I hate bud.

[miguelnuva]

Exactly what I'm talking about and still part of the game and is edgy as hell.

Also, that's more bullshit fake canon power ranking stuff there I hate bud.

Vader in legends was stated to be a shell of himself until he meets Luke, by ESB he's back in fighting form and is stronger than his ROTS incarnation. That is stated officially before Disney took over.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

Exactly what I'm talking about and still part of the game and is edgy as hell.

Also, that's more bullshit fake canon power ranking stuff there I hate bud.

Vader in legends was stated to be a shell of himself until he meets Luke, by ESB he's back in fighting form and is stronger than his ROTS incarnation. That is stated officially before Disney took over.

Let me make this clearer.

I don't like that kind of shit because it sucks the fun out of stories.

Saying how it's totally backed up by a continuity that probably mentioned it in 3 novels isn't gonna make me change my mind

[mikelcho]

Just out of curiosity, what does everyone here think about Marvel Comics' Star Wars #108?

I got it for my brother because it has one of his favorite characters from that series, Valance the Hunter, and seems to be his final appearance.

I wonder if it was an all-new story or a planned one that was never released until now?