Ziz said:
It's called sarcasm.
You called him "selfish", "mean", and "egotistical", where I come from, that is called tossing around insults. Calling that sarcasm gives sarcasm a bad name.
Not saying I completely disagree with your feelings on this one, I very much enjoyed you last post, but I'd simply encourage you to take the high ground. Not trying to play the nanny or anything, just hate to see things resort to name calling.
Skyjedi makes a fantastic point about the ignore button, if you feel VINH doens't bring anything to the discussion, save yourself some annoyance and ignore him.
TheBoost said:
I know you dont dig on the EU Anchorhead, but one of the biggest EU issues IMHO is that the works are OBSESSED with Jedi. 80% of them are Jedi-centric, usually with some random "Han's Cooky Non-Jedi Adventure" wedged into the story awkwardly.
True story. I have no idea of the state of the EU today, as I could care less. But this Jedi fixation was present even back in the nineties, when I did care about EU to some degree.
Games like Dark Forces and X-Wing were some of my favorite EU back then. I liked seeing other parts of the SW universe that were not so closely related to the main characters. The fantasy world that was created in the OT fascinated me, I liked the ideas of smugglers, pirates, an overbearing government, and underground rebellions as much as and maybe more than I did the idea of Jedis and the force. When Dark Forces 2 came out and they turned the main character into a Jedi I was extremely annoyed. I wanted another game as Kyle Katarn the smuggler/mercenary/infiltrator/spy, not a game playing as Kyle Katarn the Luke Skywalker wannabe with a small dash of Han Solo for flavoring.
Of course, then they went on to make Dark Forces III/Jedi Knight II which was absolutely awesome... but yet still an example of this Jedi obsession.
This is also the reason I really enjoyed the Dark Horse one shot comic Tales from Mos Eisley (completely different from the novel of the same name) and the DH Droids comic series. Both of these game us a taste of part of the SW universe that had nothing to do with the jedi and was unrelated and different from all the things we had already seen in the films.
The game Rebel Assault 2, while I found it enjoyable, aslo really annoyed me for this same reasons. Not Jedi obsessed, but simply because it wanted to rehash things we had seen in the movies, not straying too far from familiar material to bring us something new. In that game you fly through narrow tunnels in a Corelian freighter that is identical to the Millenium Falcon and extremely reminicient of the end DS battle in ROTJ, you dress up in Stormtrooper armour to escape an Imperial base, later you fly through the trees of a planet called Imdar (not Endor) on a Speeder Bike while dressed exactly in the same kind of helmet and poncho Luke wore during his own Speeder bike adventure... but fortunately, nobody ever handed your character a lightsaber.