Author Topic: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08 (and beyond?)
Charlemagne19  26812 posts
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Date Posted: 9/22/07 12:26pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Ris_jSarek posted:
Charlemagne19 posted:
For example, I *HATED* the ending to the Call of Cthulhu game.


Wait, you played a Call of Cthulhu game and didn't 100% KNOW that only madness, suffering, and/or death awaited the protagonist at the end before you ever picked up a controller?


Oh, it was described in the first scene of the game. That didn't mean it wasn't unsatisfying.

I doubt H.P. Lovecraft would approve of defeating a Star Spawn in hand to hand combat either.

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Havac  14246 posts
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Date Posted: 9/22/07 1:36pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Charlemagne19 posted:
Apparently, we're supposed to think Vader is thinking of SA when he throws Luke down the Reactor shaft.


Wow, how's that for alternate endings!

 

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GrandAdmiralJello  59896 posts
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Date Posted: 9/22/07 2:02pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Charlemagne19 posted:
GrandAdmiralJello posted:
Speaking of Redemption, I hope there is a way to not be redeemed... and to servat imperiam super omnes alteras.


Yes, but it won't be canon.

It'll be the Emperor Katarn ending I'm sure.



No, that's fine with me. So long as it doesn't force me to be a stinkin' Rebel, I don't care if it's canon or not. happy

Alternate endings ftw.




Havac posted:
dgxxx posted:
Also anyone knows what is the part of Maris Brood in the story?

Maris Brood will be playing the role of "Gratuitous Boobage".


She will be showcasing the new digital molecular matter physics engine.

 

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SephyCloneNo15  6880 posts
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Date Posted: 9/22/07 3:07pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
GrandAdmiralJello posted:
Charlemagne19 posted:
GrandAdmiralJello posted:
Speaking of Redemption, I hope there is a way to not be redeemed... and to servat imperiam super omnes alteras.


Yes, but it won't be canon.

It'll be the Emperor Katarn ending I'm sure.



No, that's fine with me. So long as it doesn't force me to be a stinkin' Rebel, I don't care if it's canon or not. happy

Alternate endings ftw.


Allow me to repeat myself (Huttese edited out for your enlightened tastes)

SephyCloneNo15 posted:
Perhaps they'll find a way to make your canon redemption involving betraying that treacherous ******, Vader and bowing to the True Emperor? tongue


GrandAdmiralJello posted:
Havac posted:
Maris Brood will be playing the role of "Gratuitous Boobage".


She will be showcasing the new digital molecular matter physics engine.


There are at least a couple ways you could mean this, and they're all pretty funny.

 

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Date Posted: 9/22/07 3:26pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Finally, realism!

 

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Charlemagne19  26812 posts
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Date Posted: 9/22/07 3:27pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Havac posted:
Charlemagne19 posted:
Apparently, we're supposed to think Vader is thinking of SA when he throws Luke down the Reactor shaft.


Wow, how's that for alternate endings!


I'd have a witty retort but you'd ban me.

:-)

 

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SephyCloneNo15  6880 posts
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Date Posted: 9/22/07 4:13pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Charlemagne19 posted:
Havac posted:
Charlemagne19 posted:
Apparently, we're supposed to think Vader is thinking of SA when he throws Luke down the Reactor shaft.


Wow, how's that for alternate endings!


I'd have a witty retort but you'd ban me.

:-)



This is Havac we're talking about, he's probably planning to ban you anyways. That sure seemed to be a recurring theme in his inauguration thread, at least....

 

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Date Posted: 9/22/07 4:25pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
NeoStar9 posted:
I know there is going to be a comic adaption but will the novel be telling the same story as the game as well or will it be focusing on other things going on at the time?


It's probably going to be an adaptation- the comic is supposed to be more like a movie adaptation than, say, SOTE sharing different subplots across mediums; I assume the novel will be along the same lines- though we'll no doubt have a lot of additional material to flesh the narrative and gameplay sections out.

 

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Manisphere  2879 posts
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Date Posted: 9/23/07 7:43pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Is the Force Unleashed comic like Obsession was, a five part arc or is it a one shot?

(I'm ordering the book so if it's the same story as the novel I should read the novel first I suppose.)

If I'm not a gamer. I assume I will still be able to appreciate the novel and comic for what they are, no? Will never having played a Star Wars video game or role playing game make a difference?

 

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Havac  14246 posts
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Date Posted: 9/23/07 9:06pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
It's a graphic novel -- it's going to be published all as one TPB. So it'll probably be about five or six issues in size, but there aren't going to be any single issues. Just TPB.

 

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Jmacq1  1728 posts
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Date Posted: 9/24/07 6:02am Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Charlemagne19 posted:
Zorrixor posted:
I'd be torn on a tragic ending. I'd love it for the novel, not so sure about the game. There's something about a video game that makes me always dislike the sad endings. For pure story based value in the book? It'd be great.

Although, having said that, I'm not sure if any ending in the game will feel like an "achievement" because at the end of the day the SA can't accomplish anything monumental within the closed period he exists in. He can't kill Vader, he can't overthrow the Emperor, so I suppose if he's going to have to fail his mission perhaps a tragic ending would be good rather than having him just escape from Vader's clutches and run away to become another random member of the Rebellion or whatever.


I don't know, they seem to be indicating that they're going to have the Secret Apprentice play some role in Vader's redemption by the way they say they tie it into the main fiction. Apparently, we're supposed to think Vader is thinking of SA when he throws Luke down the Reactor shaft.



Likely scenario: Yet another replay of the "throne room duel." Vader gets defeated by the SA, SA refuses to kill him, and either Vader gets up and kills him, or the Emperor kills him himself while Vader watches.

Or conversely, Vader gets the SA at his mercy, but the Emperor finishes the job before Vader can strike the final blow, leaving it unclear whether Vader would have made the final strike or not.

Either way, I expect it'll be yet another step in the wussification of Vader. Unless they defy expectations and have Vader cut him down in cold blood.

 

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SephyCloneNo15  6880 posts
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Date Posted: 9/24/07 9:36am Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
Something about that doesn't make sense. "Let's unleash the Force...so we can wussify Vader."

Given that wussifying Vader wouldn't make any sense at all, of course that's what they'll do.

(Just Four mor years until I'm in the industry and ending **** like that. Just four more years....)

 

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Date Posted: 9/24/07 3:41pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
SephyCloneNo15 posted:
Something about that doesn't make sense. "Let's unleash the Force...so we can wussify Vader."

Given that wussifying Vader wouldn't make any sense at all, of course that's what they'll do.

(Just Four mor years until I'm in the industry and ending **** like that. Just four more years....)


They need a scene at the end where the SA, in all his new power, confronts Vader. And Vader beats him down and says "You fool, did you really think your fancy tricks were a match for me?"

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Date Posted: 9/24/07 3:59pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08 - Date Edited: 9/24/07 4:01pm (1 edits total) Edited By: ThrawnRocks
What other option do they have? If the SA goes against Vader in the end, he has two options: confront Vader or flee. Fleeing is hardly a climactic ending, so the only other thing to do is fight Vader. And he'll have to lose.


Vader isn't close to being redeemed yet. Vader tortured the boy. Vader's going to own his sorry ass.

 

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Date Posted: 9/24/07 4:09pm Subject: RE: The Force Unleashed: The Multimedia EU Event of '08
GrandAdmiralJello posted:
SephyCloneNo15 posted:
Something about that doesn't make sense. "Let's unleash the Force...so we can wussify Vader."

Given that wussifying Vader wouldn't make any sense at all, of course that's what they'll do.

(Just Four mor years until I'm in the industry and ending **** like that. Just four more years....)


They need a scene at the end where the SA, in all his new power, confronts Vader. And Vader beats him down and says "You fool, did you really think your fancy tricks were a match for me?"

happy


I'd love to see that.

 

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