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the_raven

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  1. if it's something good it's always supposed to be exclusive or ported, or otherwise unavailable to the general public. Now i'm not saying the available content is bad, just that there's no real freedom when it comes to these things. How's that?
  2. Not sure about Sabine either, unless i missed something?
  3. Am i the only one who misses Kanan's arm armor? Also, Ezra's shirt makes him look so fat in this
  4. I wanted to post that old PotD from JkFiles where Jaden comes out of Ragnos' tomb with Luke and Kyle only going up the stairs to enter, but instead of the original 'It's over, Ragnos will not be risen', Jaden says 'You were useless!'. Sadly, I couldn't find it anywhere
  5. Oh right, I completely forgot those guys
  6. And that's another bad thing that happens when you let your franchise go inter-media and you hire authors who don't know/ care about the details from previous installments And just like the Prequels rendered the Anh fight between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader lame, so did the JA spin-offs reduce the great Marka Ragnos from the wise and powerful Dark Lord of the Sith that he was in the KOTOR sub-franchise into an arrogant pussy-ghost who got beaten by a teenage Jedi from several millennia into the future.
  7. But would it even make sense to make a JKA MMO? Considering how many active users there are on here, and about the same amount of unregistered lurkers, I think it'd be a pretty empty multiplayer game, unless everyone'll go into the PvP zone in an orderly fashion, which isn't something I think possible, since not everyone likes PvP, or can successfully play it (for whatever reason). Besides, it'd be way too much work. You'd need to make: 1) an overall plot and side-quests (possible cutscenes and voiceover?); 2) some kind of script to change maps; 3) the actual maps (a workaround for this would be to take the already existing maps and merge them, but even that isn't a walk in the park, if I'm not mistaking; and as we know, this is illegal without the authors' permissions - and good luck getting those!) 4) grinding (because while killing bounty-hunters and stormtroopers is fun, you'd still need to add more enemy types, like animals, monsters, and robots (yes, some were already made, both by the JO/ JA devs, and by modders, but we're talking about numbers and variety, plus you'd need to make new mechanics (skeletons? animations?) for them), and make some kind of balancing - like in regular MMO's, so as to avoid one-hit-kills - although that could too be a fun thing, if done right); 5) scripts for player appearance changing (not the 'call character creation menu', but one that keeps the player's selected race, and only allows changing clothes and possibly hair), quests, dialogues, shops, XP, rewards, and loot (though the 'gun drop' and 'power crystal drop' scripts could be used as base in the latter case); 6) potentially green-lighting from LucasArts/ Disney, since they're known for shutting down big mods and similar projects. All in all, it is possible, sure, but personally, I just don't see the point. Someone on here's working on a Unreal-engine game that takes the JK mechanics, I think it'd be easier to start an MMO (or even a singleplayer sandbox) with that. But that's just my two-coins.
  8. This is all fun and games, but is whoever put a bounty on Starkiller's head even sane? The guy's basically the vice-ruler of the Empire!
  9. I'm surprised nobody selected 'any Jedi', I mean, aren't any of you at least a bit curious as to how and why jedi_trainer ended up on top of that ruin on Korriban? Or how Jedi and Jedi2's training went? Or Raltharan's training?
  10. You could actually release this guy as a random Hutt, since he doesn't look much like Jabba. Interesting is that the only previous Hutt skin was actually a lot thinner and felt like any other character in a long robe/ skirt. Also, based on what the old EU said, the Hutts hated when their representation in art (or other media) was accurate, so I bet Jabba would have been proud
  11. No, I meant I didn't understand what the Twi'lek said at the end
  12. The Lotus will do what now?
  13. What's the trooper between the Royal Guard and the DF Darktrooper? The one just above the Rebel Mon Calamari or Rakata
  14. I don't get why everyone's so obsessed with 4k video when the originals work well enough. But fan devotion is fan devotion, I suppose. I actually found the original ending of RotJ on youtube (maybe it's from the de-specialized edition?), and people there are fighting over which ending is better. Personally, I'm for the original ending, save for the music - the music in the '97(?) re-edition was far better. Sure, Wub-nub (or whatever) fits the scene, but it's a terrible choice for ending an iconic trilogy.
  15. Good idea, but (since I didn't yet test them for myself) I must ask: wouldn't it be great if these maps were altered to be "opened-up", as in had logical access between areas, so you didn't have to leap onto ledges, over crates, etc. in order to reach an area. That'd make sense RP wise, especially if you're RP-ing a faction of locals who are just going about their day.
  16. Alora (obviously), any Reborn, any Jedi, and now that I thought of it, Rosh. Maybe Luke as well, but I'm not sure.
  17. Don't strike him down in anger, that will lead to the dark side! Strike him down with love instead!
  18. Didn't he reject the offer back with Empire or RotJ?
  19. Can you be more specific? Other than the man-eating teddy bears, i can't think of many silly things in the OT. That is, if you ignore the physics and other such things.As to my dislike of the prequels, i haven't heard of Plinkett, so i'm not exactly on the bandwagon. Thing is, the prequels are: 1) too polished design wise, 2) too cgi, 3) too much talk about things nobody really cares about - we watch sci-fi and fantasy to escape all the economics, law, and politics of the real world. TPM was arguably the weakest PT movie, but it had its moments: it was a new chapter in SW film, the cgi were bearable, and there were practical effects too. The whole premise was boring, but at least it was diluted by action, and new content. TCW was - in my own opinion - the worst. The movie is supposed to be about the Clone Wars, but we see the clones for only some 5-15 minutes total, and the clone Wars only start at the end of the movie and get some 5 minutes of screentime. The rest is a really badly written love pre-story for Anakin and Padme and Obi-Wan's investigation that's equally as uninteresting. The cgi were cartoony and the actors sometimes couldn't act in their environment because of it. Only really good thing about it, save for the Battle of Geonosis and the duel with Dooku was the part when Anakin was saving his mother. RotS was the best of the three, but still had its weaknesses and inconsistencies. And i don't even wanna touch the sequel trilogy, especially since it's not a trilogy just yet.
  20. Starkiller engages the Emperor and Starkiller blocks the Emperor's force lightning are the same picture
  21. Well, note that i said that there was good outside of the OT, just that it looked somewhat out of place.And to be fair, while i didn't much like Anakin, i have no problem with Hayden. But i get where you're coming from.
  22. Yeah, sorry, i'm writing from a tablet and can't yet figure out the formatting, haven't been using tablets very long, you see. Still, i tried separating the main ideas.
  23. By popular request - "tl, dr" 1) On second thought, the movie is bad. It's lazily written. 2) Everything Han is known for is stuffed into a single incident, and Han, despite going from zero to hero in roughly a week/ month, is still the same wannabe that he started out as and not the the Han from the OT. 3) Lando, despite being the same smartass smoothtalker is actually a narcissistic and useless fetishist, despite capes not being a fetish, nor does the film deliver his promised pansexuality. 4) The film doesn't deliver a plausable enough interaction/ chemiatry between Han and Lando to make them such good friends in Empire and RotJ. 5) Movie pokes fun at SJWs and especially modern feminists by introducing a sassy female droid who, like them, is annoying, arrogant, and almost entirely useless, who stirs up trouble when it's entirely uncalled for, and otherwise thinks itself more important and useful than it is. By contrast, the movie also has real women who are strong, motivated, and do what is needed, with or without the "priveledged males" telling them to.
  24. The problem with Lucas is that despite being the creator of the SW universe (as with most creators in fact), his ideas are pretty limited overall. He made the original Star Wars as pretty much a one-shot thing, but once he saw how it became popular, he started thinking up more and more stuff, eventually losing the string, and turning it into something entirely different. This is mainly why all the post-OT (if not post Empire) stuff created by him gets more and more silly, absurd, or is good but just too different. Also, why he didn't participate in the making of the 80% of the old EU. Everyone says Disney are ruining the franchise, but everyone is overlooking the fact that Disney actually are working closely with Lucas, so there's nothing they're bringing to the table that was not his idea initially, save maybe for the lame ass SJW bullshit.
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