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X-Wing, Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance were all developed by Totally Games.

See that sounds like you were playing lonewolf. That game and MMOs in general only really thrive if you’re playing with a group. They help you get through the slow bits.

joefavs said:

I liked to explore in Galaxies, but it was not a very good game.

That’s ridiculous. Galaxies was one of the best MMOs there ever were until they ruined it. No other MMO before or since has given you the same amount of freedom to mix and match all of the skill trees as you see fit. Then there were the amazingly robust and completely player created and regulated economies on each planet. There were so many great and unique communities everywhere in that game with a fantastic playerbase to interact with.

Which is why watching the developers destroy the game with the CU and later the NGE was such a tragedy. And is still mourned to this day by most who played it.

JediExile said:

Not too much of a fan of TOR, it’s bogged down by poor writing and the MMO format a lot.

Poor writing? TOR’s writing is about on par with the other entries in the series. Even more so with the new Knights of the Fallen Empire storyline. As for the MMO aspect, they recently reworked the game so that the majority of it can be played solo.

I’d also recommend Sleeping Dogs. Based on Hong Kong action flicks, it’s a beautiful game with fun gameplay.

I’m really hoping the sequel to L.A. Noire is still in development.

Rogue One ILM Chain Reaction

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Factual reporting from an article that’s already proven to be filled with misinformation?

That was the best part of the movie!

Yeah they seemed to be treading a lot of water toward the tail end. I can’t help but wonder if that was because they knew what was coming.

They were shot and presented on film, so I give it a pass and a light endorsement.

Yeah I was heartbroken when I heard that Dark Horse was losing the license. They have a great stable of writers and Randy Stradley was a fantastic editor that really understood the property.

Marvel really floundered when they started with their new line. Some of that stuff was just AWFUL. I’ve heard its improved but I haven’t really seen that myself yet.

Brian Daley and Archie Goodwin are my absolute favorite Star Wars writers. They perfectly captured the feel of that galaxy far, far away. In a way that no one else has.

It premiered earlier this month. The international release is April 27th while the North American release is on May 6th.

^That was fantastic emanswfan, great job!

That last bit where he brings up the harassment they’ve perpetuated is what always rubbed me the wrong way about the campaign. Ever since the Legends announcement, they’ve been up to some pretty bad stuff.

What’s nice is they’re in the public domain now. So you can read the original editions on the Archive.

They’re including the original novelization which was published November 12th, 1976.

Star Wars fans are among the most passionate in all of geekdom, and one group has certainly proved it with its latest endeavor. After raising nearly $5,000 on crowdfunding site Indiegogo, the group known as Give Us Legends has erected a billboard in San Francisco, politely asking Lucasfilm to continue the old Star Wars expanded universe.

The billboard looks like it was ripped straight out of the original movie’s opening crawl and reads “Dear Lucasfilm, Please continue THE ORIGINAL EXPANDED UNIVERSE — The epic story that existed from 1976-2014. Thank you.”

The billboard then links to the group’s official website, Giveuslegends.net, where the group’s message is expanded upon. It’s there that heartfelt personal messages of fans writing about what the expanded universe means to them can be found.

The original Star Wars expanded universe was discontinued in 2014 by Disney in preparation for the new era of Star Wars movies, games, books and comics that would be ushered in with The Force Awakens. All of the existing expanded universe tales were then rebranded “Star Wars: Legends” to distinguish the stories as no longer official canon.

Give Us Legends isn’t seeking a restoration of the old expanded universe as the true Star Wars gospel, but is rather asking Disney and Lucasfilm to simply continue the long-running expanded universe storyline alongside the new Star Wars canon. It’s not a completely unreasonable argument by any means. No doubt, there are plenty of fans who are still not happy about Disney tossing out decades worth of material and would gladly continue to support the old expanded universe. Give Us Legends even points out that many fans who enjoy the new films and books can still enjoy the Legends subseries as well.

That being said, it seems unlikely that Disney will listen. Part of the company’s strategy with Star Wars is to have everything (including books, comics and TV shows) form one cohesive, canon universe. For Disney to then turn around and authorize the publication of non-canon stories alongside new canon stories would muddy the waters the film company has spent the last three years attempting to clean up.

Good afternoon Lucasfilm. The fans would like a word! Please continue the #SWEU and #GiveUsLegends

Thank you! pic.twitter.com/1ekEFvfgsC

— Give Us Legends (@GiveUsLegends) April 18, 2016

Still, it’s admirable to see the fans of Give Us Legends organizing to have their voices heard. Perhaps their wish will come true. When it comes to Star Wars, stranger things have certainly happened.
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Why didn’t we ever get a billboard?

Some of these new posters are making this forum start to feel like a comments section at times.

Not everyone of course, but boy are there some bad apples floating around…

Iron Man Meets The Iron Lady

I look at it the same way young George Lucas looked at it:

George Lucas said:

A copyright is held in trust by its owner until it ultimately reverts to public domain. American works of art belong to the American public; they are part of our cultural history.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society.
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It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved.
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
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The public’s interest is ultimately dominant over all other interests. And the proof of that is that even a copyright law only permits the creators and their estate a limited amount of time to enjoy the economic fruits of that work.
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Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

The original Star Wars trilogy is an incredibly important part of cinematic history and it most certainly deserves to be preserved in its original form. To alter the films and then intentionally suppress them in their original form is not only selfish but an insult to the many, many craftsman that all worked hard to create these treasured pieces of history. They’re what won all of those Academy Awards, not the Special Editions. The SEs have their place but even more so do the original theatrical versions.

Chewie’s a family man, what does he have to do with this?