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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 1:11AM (Unverified) said
"At least Lego Star Wars ended up becoming one shining beacon out of the prequel games"
The Lego Star Wars games are the best thing to come out of the prequels. Period.
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The Lego Star Wars games are the best thing to come out of the prequels. Period.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 1:24AM (Unverified) said
Do these retrospective spoil the games? I'm talking about the games which aren't the movies in game format.
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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 2:02AM (Unverified) said
Doesn't matter, most of them on this video are crap.
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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 1:27AM Lone Starr said
Stop hating on the prequels or the 501st will roast you like they roasted all those silly sorcerers in the Jedi Temple.
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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 3:58AM (Unverified) said
which unintentionally gave us the cathartic ability to kill Jar Jar Binks over and over and over again.
wow.. so much hate... lol
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wow.. so much hate... lol
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 2:10AM (Unverified) said
Hey I enjoyed pod racer and clones wars on the cube and battle for naboo on n64. Also, the Episode 3 for the DS was not bad for a side scroller gamer.
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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 2:12AM (Unverified) said
What I wanna know is....when are they gonna do one on Super Mario, Sonic, Megaman, Street Fighter, etc etc etc
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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 2:19AM Otimus said
I'll never get the reasoning for propping up the old films so high, and putting the prequels so low.
They're all pretty cheesey lowbrow scifi.
It has to be entirely nostalgia.
They're all intergalactic adventures of furries and people with ugly hair, poor design and poor writing.
Star Trek TNG and DS9, now that's proper space scifi without the camp and furries.
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They're all pretty cheesey lowbrow scifi.
It has to be entirely nostalgia.
They're all intergalactic adventures of furries and people with ugly hair, poor design and poor writing.
Star Trek TNG and DS9, now that's proper space scifi without the camp and furries.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 2:47AM (Unverified) said
Tribbles.
rip your star trek argument
Honestly though, I dislike Star Trek and Star Wars, but find Star Wars to be more tolerable. Simple as that.
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rip your star trek argument
Honestly though, I dislike Star Trek and Star Wars, but find Star Wars to be more tolerable. Simple as that.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 4:30AM (Unverified) said
DS9 was a poor rip off of Babylon 5. At least they could have tried to make it less transparent.
TNG was alright, but not as amazing as everyone makes out. Farscape beats them all.
The great thing about the original SW movies was the way they allowed your imagination to fill in the gaps... they hinted at these epic events and ancient histories, and did a really good job suggesting a real, coherent, realistic, yet wierd and fantastical universe.
Of course, we all wanted those gaps filled in.. but we should have been careful what we wished for, as the prequels took all the mystery out, and replaced it with generic, unrealistic (in a SW sense) poorly written fan-fiction.
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TNG was alright, but not as amazing as everyone makes out. Farscape beats them all.
The great thing about the original SW movies was the way they allowed your imagination to fill in the gaps... they hinted at these epic events and ancient histories, and did a really good job suggesting a real, coherent, realistic, yet wierd and fantastical universe.
Of course, we all wanted those gaps filled in.. but we should have been careful what we wished for, as the prequels took all the mystery out, and replaced it with generic, unrealistic (in a SW sense) poorly written fan-fiction.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 11:55AM jumpshot said
I like TNG and Farscape, but the original Star Wars were great to me. I agree that some of the mystery was taken out. Mainly replaced with junk. Parts of the prequels were good to me, but nothing like the originals. And some parts in the prequels don't make any sense, if you've read some of the books that came after.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2008 12:32AM (Unverified) said
realistic in sci-fi sense.. as i pointed out.
As in a coherent, coordinated universe, and also as in the gritty, real life look of many of the locations and ships. Star trek was always too clean.
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As in a coherent, coordinated universe, and also as in the gritty, real life look of many of the locations and ships. Star trek was always too clean.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 2:53AM (Unverified) said
How come they skipped Shadows of the Empire and the Rouge Squadron series? Hopefully they'll get some recognition before the retrospective concludes.
Any why does the Gametrailers guy have to mispronounce something in every video he does? It's Coruscant; not Coruscent.
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Any why does the Gametrailers guy have to mispronounce something in every video he does? It's Coruscant; not Coruscent.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 4:18AM (Unverified) said
I'm sure it used to be coruscent. SotE and RS weren't based on the prequels.
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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 8:43AM Victor Ruthless said
I'm glad somebody else picked up on him mispronouncing stuff. I know he mispronounced something else in this one, but I can't remember. It wasn't Coruscant though, so he must have mispronounced at least two things wrong this time. In the first video he kept calling the AT-AT walkers simply "at ats" rather than knowing that they are initials and saying "ay-tee ay-tees." I have never once heard anybody refer to them this way, but then again I suppose I don't talk about Star Wars much.
He also says "grind" in every single RPG video he does, as in "you're grinding [exp/money/items/etc]". Every one. I don't know why all this bothers me, but it does.
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He also says "grind" in every single RPG video he does, as in "you're grinding [exp/money/items/etc]". Every one. I don't know why all this bothers me, but it does.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 4:24AM (Unverified) said
Wow. What a load of forgettable games. The true genius is in the music, which can still get your heart racing, even after being associated with so much trash.
On the other hand, the few clips of cutscenes from the ones i didn't play make me wonder if maybe they explain some of the unexplained things from the movies... but I really can't be bothered to go and play any of them to see if they explain WHY the jedi were getting weaker, cos I expect the explanations would be worse than anything I could image. (as the prequels were.)
Still, the prequels did have awesome posters. ANd next week is Tie Fighter! Awesome...
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On the other hand, the few clips of cutscenes from the ones i didn't play make me wonder if maybe they explain some of the unexplained things from the movies... but I really can't be bothered to go and play any of them to see if they explain WHY the jedi were getting weaker, cos I expect the explanations would be worse than anything I could image. (as the prequels were.)
Still, the prequels did have awesome posters. ANd next week is Tie Fighter! Awesome...
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 11:58AM jumpshot said
There are theories on that. Like how they said the "chosen one would restore balance to the force" meaning too many Jedi using light side, some think. Others think the Emperor was taking too much to himself. Not sure I agree, but whatever.
Tie fighter and rogue squadron games were awesome.
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Tie fighter and rogue squadron games were awesome.
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 1:03PM Yuccadude said
If it doesn't, there are 3 really good books about them by Karen Traviss:
Hard Contact: http://tinyurl.com/43g4jz
Triple Zero: http://tinyurl.com/4w7e6y
True Colors: http://tinyurl.com/4gw3gp
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Hard Contact: http://tinyurl.com/43g4jz
Triple Zero: http://tinyurl.com/4w7e6y
True Colors: http://tinyurl.com/4gw3gp
Posted: Apr 17th 2008 5:00PM (Unverified) said
I assumed these retrospectives would actually include a majority of star wars games. Where are all the pc titles? Where's star wars galaxies the RTS, and the previous pc rts type star wars games?
these retrospectives are really disappointing, because they don't include half of the games.
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these retrospectives are really disappointing, because they don't include half of the games.
Posted: Apr 18th 2008 12:38AM (Unverified) said
er.. cos they haven't got to them yet?
Next week is all the x-wing and tie-fighter games.
I'd imagine the week after that will include Dark Forces and Jedi Knight
I guess at some point they'll have to mention Force Commander too... :-(
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Next week is all the x-wing and tie-fighter games.
I'd imagine the week after that will include Dark Forces and Jedi Knight
I guess at some point they'll have to mention Force Commander too... :-(
Posted: Apr 20th 2008 3:58PM jimplayercoop said
Wait? Didn't Episode 1 hit theaters in May of '99? The beginning of this video is all messed up.
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