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[Sadist]

It's been confirmed that there is a Wii version.

 

[v0yce]

I know... But my uncle got it for me, I feel like I have to play through it so I can tell him I played it when he asks me. =\

Finish it. Its short and I had a lot of fun with it. Just don't play it on hard. Then its flaws really shine. I played through the original and had a good time. Enough that I bought Ultimate Sith edition when it came out and figured I'd play it on hard. Boy was that a chore and sucked most of the fun out of the game. =(

Again I thought the first was a lot of fun, so I'll check out part 2 when it rolls around. Hopefully this time they'll have some more interesting environments to fight through. That was my biggest complaint from the first. Some of the levels were just really dull.

 

[Stallion Free]

They could have been making a new Jedi Knight game.
They could have been making a new Rogue Squadron game.

Oh what I would do for the Rogue Squadron trilogy to be re-made on some sexy new engine. Also, Kyle Fucking Katarn had plenty of ass-kicking left in him. Raven needs to make another.

 

[v0yce]

It was awesome. Although not perfect, the lightsaber action in that game was very well done, you didn't just slash away at people and have the saber clip through the enemy, the sabers bounced off each other and a clean strike usually meant death with maybe a limb flying off. If the purpose of TFU was to make you feel like the most powerful Jedi, it fell on it's arse when you had to get up close and personal with the enemy, clubbing them to death with your lightsaber. Dreadful design.

The game was not about saber combat. It amazes me how this seems to fly over the heads of so many people. It was called FORCE Unleashed. It was about using force powers. I wouldn't mind them tweaking the saber a bit myself, but if you played Star Wars the Force Unleashed for the saber play you did it wrong.

 

[Sinatar]

The Force Unleashed was fucking awful. The levels were crap (and reused), the combat was crap (complete with whiffle light saber), the boss fights were ridiculous and it was just no fun to play. The only redeeming thing was goofing about with the physics and that got played out after the first couple of stages.

Why the hell did this have to sell 5+ million copies and thus spawn what is surely to be another horrid game? Ugh.

 

[WillyFive]

Oh what I would do for the Rogue Squadron trilogy to be re-made on some sexy new engine. Also, Kyle Fucking Katarn had plenty of ass-kicking left in him. Raven needs to make another.

It would be hard to top the engine it ran on the Gamecube. I still can't believe it's a launch title for the Gamecube. It's right up there as a 360 launch title.

 

[Ushojax]

The game was not about saber combat. It amazes me how this seems to fly over the heads of so many people. It was called FORCE Unleashed. It was about using force powers. I wouldn't mind them tweaking the saber a bit myself, but if you played Star Wars the Force Unleashed for the saber play you did it wrong.

The force powers were OK for a while. But why give him a saber at all if you're going to do it so badly? Why show the saber on the cover? Because that's what people want. To kick ass with the lightsaber. You couldn't do that in TFU.

 

[tim1138]

They could have been making a new Jedi Knight game.
They could have been making a new Rogue Squadron game.
They could have been making a new KOTOR (Not a MMO)
They could have been making a new Tie Fighter/X-Wing Game.
Not to mention whatever happened with Battlefront III.

WHY THIS!?!?

Because none of those were the fastest selling Star Wars (or LA for that matter) game of all time?

 

[WillyFive]

The Force Unleashed was awful. The levels were bad (and reused), the combat was bad (complete with whiffle light saber), the boss fights were ridiculous and it was just no fun to play. The only redeeming thing was goofing about with the physics and that got played out after the first couple of stages.

Why the heck did this have to sell 5+ million copies and thus spawn what is surely to be another horrid game? Ugh.

It was a really awful game, but you have to admit, artistically, it was fantastic. The story, the music, the characters, the locales, it was top stuff.

 

[Sinatar]

It was a really awful game, but you have to admit, artistically, it was fantastic. The story, the music, the characters, the locales, it was top stuff.

Yea the fanservice was fine. The locales though... it'd have been better if they didn't reuse each stage twice.

 

[DieH@rd]

I want this game to win.

But hopefully they will make a PC port that doesent suck.

 

[WillyFive]

Yea the fanservice was fine. The locales though... it'd have been better if they didn't reuse each stage twice.

I haven't played and don't own the game, and don't plan to, but using the stages twice sounds bad.

But anyway, waiting for new X-Wing.

 

[Team Klimt]

They could have been making a new Jedi Knight game.
They could have been making a new Rogue Squadron game.
They could have been making a new KOTOR (Not a MMO)
They could have been making a new Tie Fighter/X-Wing Game.
Not to mention whatever happened with Battlefront III.

WHY THIS!?!?

1. Best selling Star Wars game ever
2. a team working with proven next-gen tech that doesn't need to be built from scratch. Gee, I wonder why they chose this one?

 

[lqd]

1. Best selling Star Wars game ever

It blows my mind how this broken piece of shit can be best selling Star Wars game ever.

 

[fernoca]

Wasn't the Wii version confirmed last year...what was changed that people are now saying that there won' be a Wii version?

 

[JJConrad]

It blows my mind how this broken piece of shit can be best selling Star Wars game ever.

It isn't. It's the "fastest" within whatever timeframe they used to declare it the fastest, but it is not the best selling game. Lego Star Wars 2 has over a million on it... not counting "The Complete Saga" sales. Battlefront II should be close/above it also.




EDIT// The title of "fastest selling star wars game" was given to it a week after release. LA had shipped 4.3 million units, world-wide, across all formats and estimated selling 1.5 million that first week. They announced that had shipped 6 million last July and now 7 million last February (counting Ult. Sith Ed.). By comparison The Lego Star Wars series was at 18.3 million last July and over 20 million as of February.

 

[tim1138]

Wasn't the Wii version confirmed last year...what was changed that people are now saying that there won' be a Wii version?

Krome developed the first one, and the buzz around their lay offs a few weeks back were due to them not acquiring the TFU2 license for Wii.
Plus I think people have just come to expect no Wii version at this point.

 

[lqd]

It isn't. It's the "fastest" within whatever timeframe they used to declare it the fastest, but it is not the best selling game. Lego Star Wars 2 has over a million on it... not counting "The Complete Saga" sales. Battlefront II should be close above it also.

Thanks for the explanation, now I feel much better.

 

[Minamu]

Bu bu but Palpatine cloned himself in the EU & he retained his force powers, afaik?

 

[Deadly]

Wait...Kamino still exists in the OT? So why do stormtroopers suck so bad compared to clone troopers? :lol

 

[WillyFive]

Wait...Kamino still exists in the OT? So why do stormtroopers suck so bad compared to clone troopers? :lol

Because they are no longer the good guys and our heroes have to win.

 

[Dr Zhivago]

I mostly enjoyed TFU. Plot sounds stupid, but as long as they can rein in the QTE's it could be decent.

 

[magicaltrevor]

LOL @ Multiplayer.

If all the physics are in, I bet it could be interesting.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Wait...Kamino still exists in the OT? So why do stormtroopers suck so bad compared to clone troopers? :lol

I don't even wanna get sucked in SW fanfic but weren't the stormtroopers in Episode IV-VI regular individual humans?

 

[JdFoX187]

I don't even wanna get sucked in SW fanfic but weren't the stormtroopers in Episode IV-VI regular individual humans?

Wasn't it a mixture? I'm pretty sure most were clones though, which is why Leia points out Luke was too short to be a Storm Trooper.

 

[Macmanus]

I haven't played and don't own the game, and don't plan to, but using the stages twice sounds bad.

They didn't actually reuse the stages twice. They reused stage's art palettes twice for a number of them, but aesthetically each stage was it's own animal.

 

[RavenFox]

There better be a Wii version. And it better have M+ support.

The force is not with you young one

 

[Oli]

Wasn't it a mixture? I'm pretty sure most were clones though, which is why Leia points out Luke was too short to be a Storm Trooper.

I hate that I've thought about this stuff, but I believe there are clones remaining, and they've recruited regular guys as well since the prequel trilogy.

So yeah you're right.

 

[Zenith]

Wasn't it a mixture? I'm pretty sure most were clones though, which is why Leia points out Luke was too short to be a Storm Trooper.

Originally it was all human. The clone tubes were destroyed and it's a great way to indoctrinate a planet's populace. Then the prequels happened and now it's a mix.

 

[Cep]

Interestingly, Lucas started writing Phantom Menace around the time GameFAQs introduced its board.

I am a big fan of correlation != causation, but this makes one wonder...

 

[WillyFive]

The thing is, George Lucas thinks of the EU as fan fiction. He has his own idea of what happens (and in all seriousness, he's the only one that can say what happens in this day and age), and he isn't afraid to mess with fan's heads.

Like how he just casually blew up Slave 1 in the Clone Wars Season 2 finale the other day.

 

[VaLiancY]

The thing is, George Lucas thinks of the EU as fan fiction. He has his own idea of what happens (and in all seriousness, he's the only one that can say what happens in this day and age), and he isn't afraid to mess with fan's heads.

Like how he just casually blew up Slave 1 in the Clone Wars Season 2 finale the other day.

Damn, Lucas. You're just ruthless.

 

[nexen]

TFU was a damn fine game, imho. I enjoyed it a lot.

Really wish they would have made the aiming camera centric though. It was difficult at best to keep track of where your character was facing during a fight.

 

[Darklord]

The thing is, George Lucas thinks of the EU as fan fiction. He has his own idea of what happens (and in all seriousness, he's the only one that can say what happens in this day and age), and he isn't afraid to mess with fan's heads.

Like how he just casually blew up Slave 1 in the Clone Wars Season 2 finale the other day.

What the fuck is he flying in the original series then?

 

[donny2112]

Plus I think people have just come to expect no Wii version at this point.

It's sad that it's come to this. Star Wars + Nintendo = Great Sales. Been that way for a long time.

 

[Nimyh]

What the fuck is he flying in the original series then?

...Slave 2? :lol

 

[zerokoolpsx]

I'm just wondering what's going to be going through Vader's head when another apprentice tries to escape him and trashes Kamino in the process. I can just see him resting his head against a wall and going "the fuck, dude..... the fuck?"

I wonder why Vader wants another apprentice. Cloned Starkiller, why not get Maris Brood as the new apprentice. Story doesn't sound great so far. Secretly, I think Vader has closet daddy issues with his former apprentice. He wonders why StarKiller would betray him. Who betrayed who first? :lol

 

[donny2112]

...Slave 2? :lol

A clone of Slave 1.

 

[Jack Random]

They could have been making a new Jedi Knight game.

As far as their concerned, this is the same thing

They could have been making a new Rogue Squadron game.

After the starfighter games bombed and rebel strike didnt set the world on fire, it's not a great bet for them

They could have been making a new KOTOR (Not a MMO)

Not happening, TOR is the next KOTOR

They could have been making a new Tie Fighter/X-Wing Game.

Not happening, ever, this genre is completely dead.

WHY THIS!?!?

because the first one sold like gangbusters

 

[Darklord]

A clone of Slave 1.

That's really fucking lame. I'm not even a Fett fanboy and that still annoys me.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

because the first one sold like gangbusters

Of course it sold well. It's been the only major starwars game release in 5 damn years. Re-releasing Lego compilations and Battlefront psp games doesn't cut it.

 

[Chris_C]

A clone of Slave 1.

That ran away from Kamino when it found out Vader double crossed it at the end of the Clone Wars Season 2 finale.

 

[cacildo]

Why cant we have this instead?

 

[v0yce]

Why cant we have this instead?

This isn't the console you're looking for.

You can go about your business.

Move along.

 

[cacildo]

You can go about your business.

:lol :lol :lol

It was pretty funny, but no, i want it on the wii, dammit. Its the only system i own (and until all this motion control mess is solved im not buying a new one)

 

[dgenx]

The story sounds really dumb. Worse than what's currently going on in the extended universe novels.

Did you know the only good thing in the EU (Legacy) is going to be over? ;_;

 

[donny2112]

This isn't the console you're looking for.

Nintendo + Star Wars = Great Sales, but isn't that the arcade game photoshopped? The one with the lightsaber handle or something?

 

[gkryhewy]

They could have been making a new Jedi Knight game.
They could have been making a new Rogue Squadron game.
They could have been making a new KOTOR (Not a MMO)
They could have been making a new Tie Fighter/X-Wing Game.
Not to mention whatever happened with Battlefront III.

WHY THIS!?!?

Because I think TFU was their best selling game ever?

 

[GillianSeed79]

TFU wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. Of course KOTOR is still the gold standard. I just don't get why they don't explore the post OT EU. They've shoved so much shit that supposedly happened between Ep. III and IV it's not funny anymore. Give me some Mara Jade action please.

 

[jrricky]

Um, guys, all platforms were confirmed to be getting this game just a few days after if was announce.