Star Wars: the Force Unleashed

xdarkyrex said:
In the end, the emperor killed DV, remember?
Makes perfect sense.
so, someone is fed dark side info for years and years.
his teacher has a change of heart and challenges his own master. the teacher dies.
why would the student feel bad or seek revenge? his teacher was weak, as displayed by his change of heart. it's the way of the dark side...
xdarkyrex said:
Also, how exactly does that work with a knife?
Knifes are not supposed to be used that way, proper knife fighting technique is generally defensive with the knife infront of you.
there are several asian (though mostly indonesian or around there somewhere) fightstyles that utilise knives this way.

the main perk of this is that it hides your knife until you strike out.

as for combat efficiency? well, you can still slash and stab. not optimal, but it does work.
 
Judging from trailers so far, it almost seems like the entire draw of the game is to show off the physics engine. And that's coming from a Star Wars fan.

There was another trailer up on gametrailers.com, where they also showed people grabbing on to each other when dude lifts them using the Force. Thing is, my first reaction is "oh, that's cool". And you start seeing it all over the place for the rest of the trailer, and you think... Well, it will probably not take very long before that gets old in the game. There is a sense of self-preservation there (like the dev says in the video), but just from watching two trailers I've come to view it as hilarious instead.

I have to say that I don't see the draw of this. If the writing and story is extremely good, then perhaps, but the whole premise seems a bit forced to me. It looks like a game that will be extremely fun for an hour, but then quickly head down-hill once you get past the initial "ooh, it's fun to throw people around" thing.
 
Speaking of dumb lightsaber ideas:
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Now this IS friggin dumb. A lightsaber night stick? WTF
 
SuAside said:
so, someone is fed dark side info for years and years.
his teacher has a change of heart and challenges his own master. the teacher dies.
why would the student feel bad or seek revenge? his teacher was weak, as displayed by his change of heart. it's the way of the dark side...
Doesn't the game take place between episodes III and IV?
 
Cause she is anime. Anime chicks are super strong, but need no muscle for it. And as for being half naked....distraction perhaps? Or maybe she gets dexterity bonus?
 
Yeah, because she is so obviously anime-styled. Except, not really.

No muscles? I can think of a couple reasons for that. One, not many people find heavy musculature attractive on a woman. Yeah yeah, superficiality, blah blah. It's not like men are never portrayed unrealistically in games/movies/whatever, now is it? Second, physiologically-speaking, women do not develop musculature as readily as males do, and it tends not to show as much because women generally have a higher percentage of body fat than men (optimal body fat for men is about 5%, for women it's 15%). I know a few girls who are quite fit, and none of them have obvious musculature. Third, if she's a force user (as I'd suspect since, in usual Star Wars lore, lightsabers (or even light-nightsticks) are too dangerous to the wielder for anyone but someone sensitive to the force to use effectively), muscles would be even less necessary for her.

If you don't like her design, obviously that's your prerogative. I'm not actually that fond of how she looks myself. Just try not to have absurd reasons like "where's her muscle?!" She doesn't have muscle because whoever designed her didn't give them to her, and there's not really a good reason why she should have to have well-defined musculature.

As far as the half-naked thing goes... well, there's not really a good reason for her to be wearing any sort of armor. Classically, force users generally eschew anything heavier than a robe. She's obviously not a Jedi, so no reason she should be wearing a Jedi robe. *shrug* Like I said though, I'm not terribly fond of her design, including the clothing.

As for what bothers me about her... the pants are okay, and the foot-wear. I've never liked that style of top, and I dunno about her hair. Mostly it's probably the light-nightsticks... that's just trying too hard to do something different there.
 
That's pretty cool. Another big step towards games with fully interactable environments. Of course, it's still pretty far away from simulating the real world physics.. but hey, it does look amazing. I hope the euphoria thingy does more than make stormtroopers dodge crates and grab on stuff when force gripped.

As for the story, meh. It's really hard to come up with something really original in the Star Wars franchise, it's been exploited ruthlessly. It could be worse, it does has some potential, let's wait and see. Only gripe i have is that it's being made for the consoles... BLEH. BLEH BLEH BLEH.

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maximaz said:
Speaking of dumb lightsaber ideas:
Now this IS friggin dumb. A lightsaber night stick? WTF
oh god, no...

the above was stupid but acceptable, but this? FUCKING HELL, SHE MUST DIE, NOW!
 
SuAside said:
maximaz said:
Speaking of dumb lightsaber ideas:
Now this IS friggin dumb. A lightsaber night stick? WTF
oh god, no...

the above was stupid but acceptable, but this? FUCKING HELL, SHE MUST DIE, NOW!

With this kind of weapon, she will. As soon as she meets concetrated fire from a laser rifle.
 
The Sith must give those types of weapons to their apprentices as a joke, or if they don't like them so they can holovid them killing themselves and upload the footage to "Galactic Empire's Funniest Home Holovids"
 
I love physics in games. I'm having such a blast with Crackdown right now...I will probably buy this one ( even though I do not give a fat rat's ass about Star Wars ).
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Now this IS friggin dumb. A lightsaber night stick? WTF

This is an actual game character?

"One again, Amy Beth delivered a fantastic, inspiring piece of artwork of a leather-clad Zabrak Jedi. The lightsaber tonfas were an early addition. When we saw them, we realized the pirate Jedi could be a character of some significance, even a level boss that poses a unique combat challenge." (source)
 
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