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Star Wars Kinect

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  • #52
    titan18
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    Battlefront and Battlefront were pretty good, and Empire at War, whilst lacking, wasn't a bad game to play.

    Also Lego:Star Wars was epic


  • #53
    Oafley Jones
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    chrislad wrote: »
    Has it really been 13 years since X-Wing Alliance? Damn. They need to get on that.

    The Lucasarts that produced all those quality games is long dead.


  • #54
    K.O.Kiki
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    TIE Fighter is the greatest thing to have been produced in the history of ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvAG2D7SvCo


    ... so bad it's funny?


  • #55
    Kirby
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    There are plenty of good star wars games but X-Wing Alliance is my favourite. Had a good story and you actually felt like you were a pilot for the rebels......with just flying missions. No stupid walking around section, no fetch quests, no NPC talk-a-thons......just flying. And it was superb.

    Ofcourse it had its faults. Only one death animation for every craft was a biggie. Every fighter died the way that Tie fighter does when it hits the asteroid in Empire strikes back. Blue sparks...spins around a bit...then explode. That got old. And there wasn't enough space debris so the feeling of speed was lacking.

    Still a brilliant game though. I'll have to replay it soon. :)


  • #56
    BlitzKrieg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    Meesared wrote: »
    For all the people complain about Star Wars Kinect and have not played it http://kotaku.com/5898749/hey-star-wars-grumps-youre-making-it-even-worse

    I read that and I didnt buy the game.

    I laughed my ass off at some of the videos. Boba Fett singing YMCA rocks me gently to sleep.


    BUT

    My uneasiness at this is hard to explain. It's not the rose tinted anger at my past. I have found a number of the new star wars ventures to be good, both clone wars series worked really well I felt. And I understand fully a franchise is just simply a means to make money.

    But the dance game in this crossess a line not of fanboy rage but of necessity. As clearly presented in this thread already, the notion of a dancing star wars has well and truly already been plucked by parodies and sketches. So what is my response when it becomes *official* for the franchise to handle the parodying itself?

    Well it firstly takes the bite out. Sort of neuters the comedy when the butt of the joke is delivering the jabbs. It works better when it's not official. So that kind of bugged me.

    But star wars has been for a while officially ribbing itself, I mean thats what Lego Star wars does pretty much? Well yes, but that's on the same level as them officially endorsing the family guy star wars specials. It's giving permission to someone else to go to town on you with their brand of humour.

    Again a bit of the bite is gone, it's clearly not the level of Bill Hicks equally destroying someone on stage while putting the audience in fits of laughter. But there is still that line of process. We want a funny star wars for kids/teenagers. Lets give it to lego/seth mcfarlane. There's a franchise bridge there, one based in humour and the other embracing it.

    Now it's directly star wars doing a *funny* game. It's the franchise directly just making fun of itself. Why? When did it become funny just because it's star wars? It feels shameless, a grab for attention and money (reinforced more by how it's design is completely lifted from another game: Dance Central) and it sort of the last line of star wars being a brand. It sort of cements that really they dont need to make an effort anymore to explain why anything is happening now. I know star wars has been stuck on everything. But most of it (especially with games) has had a genuine effort to explain why you are playing star wars as an RTS or a zelda clone or a fps (and in the last one they did a really good job). I think the rare exceptions was the kart racing & twisted metal clones.


    Its weird and doesnt make sense I guess, but I laugh my ass off at the videos but then feel very annoyed at myself for doing it. Like I had given the local alcoholic a drink.


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