RRS-1980

I think most gamers don't need to have these facts reminded, but back then LEC was the king of adventure games.

And because of this I cannot comprehend why, [expletive] why didn't they make a classic, point'n'click adventure game in SW universe?

A Star Wars cRPG game, my another title on a wish list, would be more difficult to pull off, yet for such a big company it counts as another missed opportunity. Especially that they're the only one who owns the [expletive] SW license!

Consider me a weird SW-fan, but did you notice that those 3 classic games I mentioned basically have no Jedi? Sure, "guest starring Luke & Darth", but essentially it was about the fight between Rebellion and the Empire. Something for the "pure SW'77" fans to ponder about.

X-Wing/TIE Fighter featured one of the best battlefield immersions (stuff that require "situational awareness" as it is called by real life combat pilots) found only in hardcore flight sims. Something hard to find in today's "happy-go-lucky" console-ready 3D shooters.

Dark Forces had one of the best level designs from pre-Quake era. Pre-Quake means before level designers started to think "multiplayer first" when making their stuff. Those Imperial bases with their labyrinths of locked corridors looked authentic (something repeated only in 1st level of Jedi Outcast) versus today's "huge empty arenas that support 16 players or more, yay!".

I'd agree that the state of SW in early 1990s was much better for us, old fans. For example games: nothing beats X-Wing, TIE Fighter & Dark Forces. Enough said (I could write entire article about the fall of LEC games' quality).

I think it was X-Wing that "reminded" me of Star Wars in the first place. I didn't have Trilogy on VHS back then, go figure. So when I saw the game intro on TV (on a game-related program) I was instantly hooked.

Later on I caught Zahn's trilogy. I wasn't bad, surely one of the better EU stuff, but I wasn't blown away, like I was with the games.

From that point I've wasted a lot of $ on books & CDs... but nowadays I don't buy/get any SW stuff (except for the model kits I bought last year, OT designs of course).

BTW, I'm in the "saw SW in 1980 on the big screen" group.

Erikstormtrooper said:

It's probably been 10 years since I read a SW novel.

Yeah, same for me here. I guess the "decent book / lousy book" ratio scared me off... and the thoughts "I think even I could make up a better story" didn't help either.

I can't drink THAT much...

Merry Christmas and may the Flu not be with you, adywan ;)

digitalfreaknyc said:

What can you do?

 Let's sue George Lucas!!!11one

oops - wrong thread...

:D

;)

So this is essentially a live performance of SW musical score + clips from the 6 movies being displayed on a big screen? If so, not a big deal... and nothing new either - I remember I missed similar event in a local opera house (live music sans the clip screening)

Damn, so many stupid ideas, and noone suggested AMT/ERTL to release TIE Bomber model kit to match their TIE Fighter & Interceptor... the only one available is from some unlicensed garage-made short-run, that was manufactured in, like, 100 units? Yeah, good luck finding it...

Maybe I'm weird, but I've never considered Prowse as on-screen Vader. JEJ's voice is Vader for me... everytime... even if he stars completely different role ;)

rcb said:

 its all anxiety! learn to adapt!

I'm sorry, but:

where do you get such BS phrases? In those "self-enhancement" books? Are you really so indoctrinated to accept crap in order to "stay in the flow"?

How about: "be individual, have own taste, don't let the spin doctors and marketing wizards put the thoughts inside your mind"?

I shouldn't bash you with such harsh words, but c'mon - if someone throws such stuff in my face I can't help but to reply with painful truth.

In short: I'm with TheoOdo and others, who say that J.Williams' musical style and R.McQuarrie's (and Joe Johnston's, Nilo Rhodis-Jamero's etc. as well) visual style is what makes Star Wars - Star Wars. I have, like, 4 albums "art of SW" with visual designs for old trilogy. This is the thing I assimilated as a child, and that is why I complain about current state of SW.

Now that's a good example: make money out of Star Wars hobby without paying licensing fees to LFL.

Damn. Show me how to cast that spell... :)

skyjedi2005 said:

Plus you also have Rap and Heavy metal renditions of the star wars theme which are an abomination.

Hmm... "Force Commander" (PC game) soundtrack comes to my mind? (just google "imperial rage")

skyjedi2005 said:

Michael Giacchino is the guy doing the new trek.  Looking him up even he is better than Kevin Kiner.

Giacchino did the score for "Medal of Honor" games, which was great IMO (got some award for this, too).

I particularly liked the "take your kid to see you at work" bit :)

Mielr said:

The best duel to me was in ESB. It felt like a real duel, not like a predictable dance routine.

Two words: Bob Anderson

Vaderisnothayden said:

The Jedi were made such annoying idiots in the prequels that I liked seeing those guys go down.

:D I guess I'm not alone, then.

C3PX said:

Wow, never under estimate Star Wars fans in large numbers.

Gotta keep it up there!

 Never underestimate even a single SW fan... gee, people, do I need to tell you explicitly that it took ~60 clicks? Darn, this poll script is really lame...

So if you want it to stay up, keep visiting that page... and keep clickin' till they ban your IP :D

Mwuahahaha, yeah, I'll bet it's thanks to the tf.n guys...

I just hope he chokes on his Ackbar Cereal when finding out about HS being screened...

Can you check the results now?

I vote for "Imperials who stole the X-mas Special"

R - rebel (scum :D )

I think he might have thought about that kind of "alphabet" the military uses, eg: "this is Tango Zulu Foxtrot Delta whatever"... get it? It's simple like aurek-besh-cresh :P ;)

EDIT: LOL, I forgot to press the button, so canofhumdingers beat me to it ;)

Hunter6 said:

1999- STAR WARS EP I
2002- STAR WARS EP II
2005- STAR WARS EP III

2008-INDY 4
2011-INDY 5
2014-INDY 6 (more likely after INDY 6 comes out, Lucas will start talking about The new Star Wars Prelude Trilogy).

2015- Lucas more likely will start work on The new Star Wars Prelude Trilogy. 2015 will be the 10th Anniversary of Episode III.

2017- PREQUEL TO STAR WARS SAGA 0.1 (George Lucas will be 73) 2017 is oddly the same year as Star Wars' 40th Anniversary.
2020- PREQUEL TO STAR WARS SAGA 0.2 (George Lucas will be 76)
2023- PREQUEL TO STAR WARS SAGA 0.3 (George Lucas will be 79)

 Fortunately the world ends in 2012... see, even the end of the world has its good points ;)

IIRC, old stuff (like WW1 news reels) had 18FPS... just FYI (I have to stop using acronyms, LOL! oops - I did it again!)

Molly is right: widescreen was rarely used before WW2 (few flicks 1929-32) and really showed up as late as in 1953.

-1, you've posted a screenshot of the option window for the filter - the amount of f/x can be adjusted.

I just run it for test purposes, without working much on it ;)

The movie clip above (I've just added the link - check it out) was made using the filter from negative1's post.

The photo I posted in my first post (noone noticed it?) was altered with some demo version of a Photoshop plugin.

The movie clip I made 6 (or so) years ago was made using some old filter for Adobe Premiere (quicktime something?, I can't remember now, and I seem to have lost the old files). It was posted here, but the posts from 2003 are gone.