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Darth Chaltab

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#94844
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94844/action/topic#94844
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Metroid Prime definitely is easier to understand once you've played it.

L-Button can be set to lock on with a tap or when you hold it in, and you can dis-engage it ant any time. While in targeting, you can circle strafe and jump around to dogde, which is the most useful technique in the game. Firing is done with the A Button, which is definitely unusual for first person games, but it works. Jumping is usually crap in FPS, but Metroid makes it work somehow. If you miss a jump, it's probably cause it was impossible, not because of the perspective.

Besides, you can find it for 15-20 dollars, so what is there to lose?
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#94891
Topic
The Essentials (films)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94891/action/topic#94891
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But Ric, the Academy doesn't like good movies either....

Or, I should say, they don't award anything to mainstream movies like PotC, TPotC, Spiderman 2, ect., despite all of those being excellent movies. The academy is equally turned off by explosions, guns, swordfights, and about anything else that makes a good story a great film.

Winners: Million Dollar Baby... A boxing film about euthanasia? Sounds oscar-ish to me...

The Aviator... A drama about a *GASP* womanizing Leonardo DiCaprio?

Ray... A movie about a blind blackman. Double minority factor? Academy is going to enjoy it.

Now all of these may be great movies; I haven't seen any of them, but that's besides the point. The Academy is way out of touch with mainstream america or even the rest of hollywood in general, so there must be something more than the fact Charlie Kaufman's movies aren't explosive.
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#94872
Topic
Expanded Universe Novel Discussion.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94872/action/topic#94872
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Originally posted by: TheSessler

-Darth Simon


While I'm sure Lucas can claim a good bit of the blame for adding to the mess, I think it all comes back to the writers themselves. Some of them just created extremely outrageous plots and technology(the whole Callista fiasco and the Galaxy Gun come to mind).



I'm a bit clueless here: What is the Galaxy Gun and what was outrageous about Callista's fiasco?