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#272941
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Sluggo's Star Wars Trailer Contest *Next contest begins April 25th*
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272941/action/topic#272941
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Originally posted by: Sluggo For instance, this probably wouldn't win any awards for quality, but I had fun making it.


You actually made that? I have to say it had me laughing pretty good, thats darn funny.

I wanted to let you know I found out that ADM's Star Wars Spoofs DVD has the 97 SE trailers on the disk, I dont know if you got a hold of them or not . I dont have it but maybe someone could send them to you for this next project if your planning on making another DVD out of everything.

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#272798
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Star Wars 3D Animation TV Programme News
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272798/action/topic#272798
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I'm weary to see how the animated show is going to be. The fist two volumes of the clone wars I though were good and although it could be said they were relatively short it was the quality over quantity debate and in my opinion quality heavily outweighed quantity. I think this second run is going to be much more quantity with a LOT less quality. Especially now thats is more directly in GL's hands. Has anyone heard anything about how long either TV shows are supposed to run (Live action or animated)?
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#272387
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Requiem for a Clone War dream... (2003 series) (* unfinished project * - lots of info)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272387/action/topic#272387
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Johnny Ringo
I'm not quite 100% happy with it yet - Some bits might need to be toned down a bit, Of course I'm trying to work WITH existing effects here rather than replacing them entirely...What do people think?



I think the colors are absolutely perfect, a huge advancement compared to the original colors. I think the glow around the sabers should be toned down a bit, they seems kinda wide. Other than that they look good, keep up the great work. I like the Banner in your sig by the way

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#272378
Topic
Requiem for a Clone War dream... (2003 series) (* unfinished project * - lots of info)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272378/action/topic#272378
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Johnny,

I took your own advice and watched all 25 chapters to refresh my memory. I got some ideas that I hope could help.

Volume 1

-Although the Kit underwater sequence doesn't have a very noticeable boiling water effect its still slightly there and I think it works alright.

-One of the early chapters 3 or 4, I think it would be cool to give all the ARC troopers color. Some of the troopers are just in plain white armor. However in the 21st Chapter all the ARC troopers have colored armor. I think it just makes them look more of a specialized unit and would be a cool touch.

-When Durge yells, I think its after they destroy all the Republic land cruisers, its sounds a little too much like Chewie howling, I dont know if you could do anything with that or not I just think it seems a little out of place

-When we first see Ventress fight in the arena she has a blue and a green lightsaber it seems too predictable. Since she was a dark Jedi I thought maybe she could get a different color, maybe something unorthodox, white or black perhaps

-When the story is taking place at Ilum right after Padme receives her coat from C-3P0 the next shot is of R2's upper dome spinning and the way it spins his eye spins behind "camera" and the optical eye is back in front way too fast.

-At Yavin when the Troopers deploy with the "Hut, hut hut hut" I thought it was rather corny and maybe you could just remove that completely

Volume 2

-The first chapter when the Troopers are fighting grievous I thought it would be cool to add cuts/slashes onto the troopers similar to what happens to them when they fight grievous on coruscant in the chancellor's room

-The whole scene of Anakin walking through the masses on coruscant and the next scene with Padme seemed really boring and unesseccary

-One part where I thought you could add new music (I cant remember the chapter) Its right when Anakin is eating all the bugs and worms and Obi-Wan explains how they will take the sewers to infiltrate the enemy base right after he describes their plans the music that drops in there and the in the next scenes through the sewers could use different music I thought.

-The scene of C-3P0 and Padme during the Battle of coruscant should be gone


One other scene is the Mace scene on dantooine, I know others have said it is ridiculous but it still is a cool scene. Theres no denying that it is outlandish but its still cool to watch I don't think it should be deleted. I know it raises questions like why couldn't he have just done that at geonosis but you just gotta rationalize it in strange ways like, geonosis was the first true conflict/action Jedi had seen in a long time and they would not have been that good in their first conflict but became increasingly better and hugely more efficient against droids as the Clone Wars proceeded.


But these are just some suggestions I had after just watching the two volumes I hope you like some of them.

One other thing are you going to have the 2 volumes flow right into each other or have credits after the 20th Chapter?






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#272276
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272276/action/topic#272276
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Alright this is just for fun now, I couldn't pass this up. Sorry to prolong this guys, maybe you'll learn something, that I'm nuts hahah. You already know that though
I made it like it should have been from the start, no personal attacks, I tired to, sorry if there are any Tip.

Originally posted by: Tiptup

As for what you said about "getting emotional over video games" and being "nutty," I stated no logical fallacies in response to that. With the normal, logical understanding of your statement, you clearly communicated that people who "get" emotions about a games are being "nutty" in your "opinion." As you said, you "indirectly" called me nutty. Nowhere did I discuss the "direct" or "indirect" nature of your words; therefore, you make a clear logical fallacy when you accuse me of such. (Is this making sense to you?)


Direct and Indirect statements are implied.

Originally posted by: Tiptup

I didn't say "fuck you" by itself, nor do I believe "fuck you" to be lighthearted on its own


You stated that “if I cant make a lighthearted reply” which was “Fuck you too”

The “too” at the end does not make it any less of a direct statement to the person you replied to. The “too,” simply says I am saying Fuck you, to you (me) since something you (I) said got to me (you).

Originally posted by: Tiptup

(in general). In fact, you're the one making another logical fallacy by stating that I believed or said that.



You did say that though, its right there (above). By stating so, this also implies you believe it as well. You believe a response of “Fuck you too” to be lighthearted otherwise you would not have said it and then tagged it as a lighthearted response.

Originally posted by: Tiptup

If you actually go back and look, you will see that I said, "Fuck you too." This can easily be understood as lighthearted by virtue of the fact that you never said "fuck you" first (and thus my reply was silly),

This may be debated but something gets lost in the translation when done online, its not real life. Say someone was giving a speech and said something that these people are crazy for one reason or another and someone in the crowd raised their hand and said I have a question “your crazy,” that’s silly. Now using that same situation replace “your crazy” with “fuck you,” two clearly different situations and possible outcomes.




To wrap up, if we wanted to get really technical you committed the fallacy of ad hominem (against the person). Which is ultimately the biggest logical fallacy and there is no way of getting around that your reply was totally flawed from the beginning with the initial response of “Fuck you too.”
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#272192
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272192/action/topic#272192
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Originally posted by: C3PX

The above sentence makes very little sense, I said you are being antagonistic, which is true enough. And with the whole "you may have known about that if you watched good stories instead of video game stories" you seem to be continuing the trend. This has shit to do with political correctness, I have no idea why you even bring up the issue of PC. Also I know people like to debate, I happen to enjoy it within reason. But when the other person is being a total dick all the fun drains out quickly. You're just insulting everyone. There is no debate here anyway, we think story is an essential part of most games (with some exceptions like checkers or tetris) and you think we are a bunch of stupid gits for liking any story that is part of a video game. Are we going to convince you to agree with us? Yeah right! And there is not a chance of you convincing us to believe all video game stories are crap. So I see no point in debating this.



It was a joke, the obvious tongue smiley apparently didn't give that away. You seem to be the one who needs to calm down now. If you didn't get up in arms over it you would realize I was using a term that explains the opposition in a story (attempting to keep with the whole story issue) and used it in our trivial debate, you would be the antagonist for me. I didn't now that bringing up something about being politically correct would get you that flustered, its really not that huge a deal. Well... take care





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#272159
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272159/action/topic#272159
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Originally posted by: Tiptup

I'm sorry, I didn't intend to "perch" to you and "cruse" at you.

You called me nutty, and if I can't make a lighthearted reply to that then you're the one who clearly has issues.


Wait you get emotional over video games HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Let me catch my breath...

See the problem lies in the whole "I told You , you were nutty." Never was said, indirectly I called you nutty. Your fallacies were two fold, directly telling me "Fuck you" and believing "fuck you" is a lighthearted reply to someone you don't know, these are fairly obvious differences for someone who has completed 8th grade

.....emotional over games hahahah, that's too much

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#272155
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272155/action/topic#272155
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Why does this bother you so much ghost?

Do I seem overly bothered or do you like to make assumptions with no basis. It’s called Human discourse it happens all the time and very often.


Originally posted by: C3PX
You think video games don't need a story, fair enough, several of us happen to disagree with you.

See right there you show you understand people having different opinions however its seems you fail to realize these differences in opinions cause people to discuss and debate, which is what is going on

Originally posted by: C3PX
Why do you feel the necessity to fight it out?


There would actually be no need to "fight" anything out unless there was another party with a different opinion, so you are a just as much a part of this too.


Originally posted by: C3PX
Do you really have something to prove?

The same question could be asked to you, you are continuing this as much as me.


Originally posted by: C3PX
You listed all the kind of games that don't need extra back story, sports games come with a story built in, John Madden is a real man, as are the players in the game. There is your story, pretty automatic.


I have to say that is one silliest things I have ever heard. There is still no story to the game. Simply stating John Madden is a Man and so are the players does not suddenly create a story, the game, itself, is telling no story.

Here’s a piece of your “airtight” logic, you explain one aspect of sports (which failed to go anywhere), now how does that encompass racing games, the cars now have stories, the faceless drivers suddenly have back stories?


Originally posted by: C3PX
And like Cassidy said, tetris is in the reflex/puzzle genre, most games are putting you into another world, tetris is just a game plain and simple. There is a big difference between checkers and Halo. Halo wouldn't make any sense without a story line, and checker would be retarded if you tried to make a story line.


Again it’s really simple it’s still a video game, there’s no reason to try and use semantics to classify games, plain and simple it’s a video game.


Originally posted by: C3PX
You are using fool's logic to try to prove your point. You don't have to defend your point of view, you have every right to it. Why are you being so antagonistic? Every time somebody post a point of view that disagrees with yours you start littering your posts with antagonistic remarks. I know you are going to say that you were not being antagonistic so I will just give a few quotes:


And your being an antagonist (an integral part of a good story), you may have known about that if you watched good story’s instead of video game story’s

If I'm not always politically correct, oh well. You actually stated you were doing the same thing as me with the grandfather thing, but now you want point fingers. “Whose the more foolish the fool or the fool who follows him?”
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#272109
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272109/action/topic#272109
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: GhostAlpha26
and to be honest if people get emotional over video games IMO thats a little nutty, I didn't get a lump in my throat when Aeris got smoked by Sephiroth.


Fuck you too.


You just finished perching to me about video games and now your going to cruse at me like some kind of child. Even if you are joking theres no reason for that or if you are legitimately upset that I have no care about something that happened in a video game, I hope you try and seek some professional help, that and you get some kind of beating from a random person.
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#272107
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272107/action/topic#272107
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy

you're trying to prove your point with games that are either twitch reflex or Sports games.


The key word there being games. Are they not video games? Are they now somehow classified as another form of entertainment simply because you have said so.

Also I wasn't the one who said
Originally posted by: TheCassidy

Without a script, there is no game.


And what about the other games (other than you trying to take the focus off your illogical statement). I've played practically all of those games and I didn't care for there story's.

Another point to ponder, Online gaming, a very prominent and used way to play newer games anymore, and the most popular ones involve one pointing at another and firing, yet people do it for endless hours, because its great fun and the mode of game play is interesting. I guess all those people missed the part when a game doesn't have a story it no longer can be consider a game.
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#272103
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272103/action/topic#272103
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Exactly. My point was that games CAN have good stories in them, but for some silly reason it has become far too accaptable for their stories to suck. There story lines don't have to be bad, and it doesn't take that much effort to put a decent story in it. The most it would ever take would be paying an extra guy.

ghost, the whole "before you were concieved" comment came from your "grandfather" comment. It has nothing to do with logic, I was just playing around. I guess I could turn it around and say that if you used some logic you would no I am not a grandfather, but I don't think that is true (I damn well could be a grandfather for all you know), what is to say you are not an 11 or 12 year old sitting at a computer, that would mean you were born in the mid nineties, thus not having been around in the early nineties. I just don't see what is so "grandfatherish" about mentioning games from the early nineties. Calm down man.

I am in no need of waking up, and yes, I don't think all game stories are of crap quality. The ones Nanner just listed have fantastic plots, and there are others with great plots too, and no, my standards are not low. Plenty of people would agree with me that Grim Fandango was some excellent story telling. Proof that games don't have to be crap. It is doubtful Nanner or I would remember or even care about Monkey Island had the story line been garbage, instead I will never forget that game. I appreciate effort being put into gameplay, and I even appreciate games like Pac-Man where there really is no story line. Sometimes no story at all is less insulting to our intelligence than some of quickly thrown together nonsense story. I am not asking for Martin Scorsese, just a little bit of thought.


For the sake of this discussion in terms of entertainment if someone was to compare the Plots/Stories of some widely accepted good movies vs. the stories of some good stories from games, I really don think that game stories can reach the level of movies'. I don't know many people who have come across game stories that have pulled at their emotions or had them chocked up at scenes, and to be honest if people get emotional over video games IMO thats a little nutty, I didn't get a lump in my throat when Aeris got smoked by Sephiroth. In terms of the quality of story telling in all its aspects IMO there is a better way to experience it other than video games, and I don't think if someone was to experience storytelling purely from a video games standpoint (even just the good ones) they would ever experienced the best that storytelling has to offer. Storytelling for a video game will always be flawed because it is never the singular focus of the project.

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#272097
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272097/action/topic#272097
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy

Wow. You totally just offended me.

Let me make one thing abundantly clear to you. Without a script, there is no game. Everything starts with the script. I don't think I've ever heard someone say something so ill informed and ignorant. I can think of at least 20 games that have better storylines, more compelling characters and more depth than anything you could walk into a theatre and see right now.


Give me a break, were discussing video games you might wanna get that checked out if your being even slightly serious.

Everything is the plot? Explain Madden, Gran Turismo, Fighting Games, Tetris. When talking about some of the best selling games you cant ignore them and they have no plot, zip, nothing, (even if they have something that vaguely resumes a plot its atrocious) but you know why they do so good...game play. If you cant understand this simple complex, sorry. Plot/Story is not everything and in terms of video games at times it can be completely nonexistent from a game and still be a great game, because one of the essential parts of a interactive video game does not have to be plot/story.
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#272030
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272030/action/topic#272030
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Before my conception hahahaha. By the time that game came out I had already logged dozens upon dozens of hours on about half a dozen different game consoles (If you use some logic now you would know I was around before the early 90's as well). Wake up, if you actually believe game story's are any good you have some low standards, its not like Martin Scorsese is writing the stories for these games. The majority of development and testing goes into the game play. Like I said before its a video game its meant to be played, if you need a good thriller go rent a movie.
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#272016
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272016/action/topic#272016
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Is this the grandfathers video game thread?

The physics engine looks very advanced, and uncontrolled characters having bio-mechanical AI if thats not a step towards the perceived limitations of video games I don't know what is...I guess nothing impresses the rest anymore, or you've just seen it all already somehow.

Anyhow the game still looks awesome, overplayed/weak plot aside. Not to mention when I buy a video game I'm not that interested in the plot since they are all horrible I buy a video game to play the game not to be riveted by a story.

Also any indication that the game play will actually be limited compared to what has been shown is just hearsay.

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#271968
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271968/action/topic#271968
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Did you even read the write up, It follows the story of a completely new Character, yes a secret apprentice to Vader but the game is not based entirely on Vader..... not to mention who flipping cares did you see the footage for the new technology, or the video for the game ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qJrV11TUa8 ) this is like no game anyone has ever seen or played before I don't care if the main character was Lucas it still looks unbelievable