hi does any 1 have any information on star wars battlefront 3 and what do u think they wud make different about this games. i.e. more sith and jedi cheers
the problem is it got canceled. SWBFII was so incomplete it doesn't matter if they make another, it will just feel unfinished and short and like a mod for BFII and i will hate it. Because it sucks.
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I would like a Battlefront for the 360 as well. Hopefully, it will be much larger and more refined than the previous two installments. I liked the idea of the campaign, but while the story was compelling, the scenarios were nearly identical.
If they could switch 'em up, that'd be great. Then again, I'm also hoping for either a novelization of DE that retcons the comic and a TFU-style video game to go along with it.
Gideon, the word 'either' is incorrectly placed, as you didn't offer us two different alternatives; you joined the two items (DE novel w/retcon and a videogame to go with it.) What is the other option that you meant to add?
A novelization would just be a retelling of the same events; regardless of how well it is written, the idea of Palpatine resurrecting himself will forever remain retarded.
One of my major complaints with the comic is that the story and dialogue were written to be placed before the Thrawn Trilogy in the continuity; that's why the New Republic is referred to as "the Rebellion," and why you don't see the likes of Mara Jade or Pellaeon. Not to mention adding obscure and retarded planets and names into the mix. LFL would later retcon that Jade was embroiled in a battle with Cronal and trying to save Katarn from the dark side of the Force, that Pellaeon was fighting off-screen for Palpatine, and the reborn Emperor was responsible for Thrawn's assassination. It still doesn't work.
Retconning and trashing the comic allows for a well-written novelization to replace it, adding elements from the new movies and EU material.
For the most part, I agree. That said, DE won't be removed from the canon family anytime soon. And I can handle Lumiya's explanation for why Palpatine's resurrection is applicable as well as the implications of subsequent EU.
You have to understand, Faunus, Palpatine is the Star Wars villain. He's the best, the smartest, the strongest, the most successful, and the most evil. He is the imbalance in the Force. It'd be satisfying, for once, and well in character, for the bastard to survive even that.
As Publius and Illuminatus Primus and myself have discussed, taking everything into account and relooking at DE, it tells the tale of a man who has lost everything and is simply determined to fight against the will of the Force.
I meant in regards to the singular event of Palpatine being brought back from the dead. That, and Luke turning to the dark side, are my two biggest gripes with DE.
I wouldn't have cared if Palpatine's survival didn't trample all over the meaning of Darth Vader's final sacrifice.
Palpatine had it all planned out; when his body was destroyed on the second Death Star, his spirit immediately entered one of the clone bodies that had been prepared beforehand. Vader didn't have a clone to possess, and likely wouldn't have known how to possess it anyway.
It's also likely that, having been redeemed, Skywalker didn't want to live anymore, unlike the ever-plotting Emperor.
Dec 31st, 2008 01:13 PM
FER TEA!!
