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sabarte
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5/16 11:52pm
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RE: Clone Wars Ongoing Continuity Discussion
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TalonCard posted:
#3: Nevertheless, very few people are actually going to notice contradictions between sources. (How many of you noticed that the novel "Death Star" introduced a Death Star plan theft senario that not only contradicted every other story that had tried to tell the tale, and also nearly every attempt to reconcile the other stories, and made no sense at all? That's what I thought.)
On Lit? More than you'd think, I believe 
I think there may actually be more Clone Wars era video games than novels.
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Fettster
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5/17 4:24am
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sabarte posted:
I think there may actually be more Clone Wars era video games than novels.
Eh? Hm...never counted these...
The Clone Wars, The New Droid Army, Republic Commando, Jedi Starfighter, Bounty Hunter (if you count it), Order 66, and Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns. That's 7, and even if you throw in Battlefront and Battlefront II's CW levels, and Episode III, you've still got Shatterpoint, The Cestus Deception, MedStar I & II, Jedi Trial, Dark Rendezvous, Labyrinth of Evil, and the Republic Commando trio, which evens things out at best (assuming one doesn't count the Boba Fett YA series--which sucked anyway).
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The_Four_Dot_Elipsis
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Fettster posted:
sabarte posted:
I think there may actually be more Clone Wars era video games than novels.
Eh? Hm...never counted these...
The Clone Wars, The New Droid Army, Republic Commando, Jedi Starfighter, Bounty Hunter (if you count it), Order 66, and Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns. That's 7, and even if you throw in Battlefront and Battlefront II's CW levels, and Episode III, you've still got Shatterpoint, The Cestus Deception, MedStar I & II, Jedi Trial, Dark Rendezvous, Labyrinth of Evil, and the Republic Commando trio, which evens things out at best (assuming one doesn't count the Boba Fett YA series--which sucked anyway).
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5/17 8:06am
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TalonCard posted:
So there you have it. We get to have our cake and eat it too--it just tastes a little funny going down. Personally, I prefer the "Everything is in!" attitude to the "This particular part is out!" attitude...with the knowledge that we have a cadre of self-appointed continuity fixers all set to make it seem like everything worked together all along.
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The2ndQuest
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Prequel_Dreamer posted:
To state that literature sells better than video games is wishful thinking at best and naive at worst. Just compare the print run of any comic/novel in the Star Wars saga compared to video games disks or even movie tickets and you'll find that the literature is dwarfed.
Well, again, looking at the numbers, you would be incorrect- SW novels, on average, can equal or surpass sales of some SW video games, or in some cases only sell half as much. That's not really being dwarfed, especially when you consider the much larger divide in production costs between the two mediums. Games definitely do better overall, but novels aren't that far behind (not to mention novels have a far, far longer shelf life than a video game).
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TalonCard
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Exactly. Rather than commission a slew of new Indiana Jones novels to tie in with the new film, LFL just had the old ones reprinted; whereas they'd just be laughed out of every GameStop in the world if they put "Instruments of Chaos" or "Fate of Atlantis" back on the shelves.
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Bly posted:
Sorry to insert a tangent here, but does anyone think Mace's holo is talking to a young Wilhuff Tarkin in the trailer? It looked a lot like Tarkin to me.
I wondered that too. I really, really hope so. We don't have nearly enough Tarkin in the Clone Wars.
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SuperWatto
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I wondered, as well, but I'm torn. On the one hand, again that Tarkin! Enough with the cameos already, it's a big GFFA. On the other hand: he musta made a name for himself one way or the other.
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TalonCard posted:
Exactly. Rather than commission a slew of new Indiana Jones novels to tie in with the new film, LFL just had the old ones reprinted; whereas they'd just be laughed out of every GameStop in the world if they put "Instruments of Chaos" or "Fate of Atlantis" back on the shelves.
I disagree with that - I've played "Fate" again and again, whereas the "Emperor's Tomb" (which I got as part of a set of Lucasarts games) I never got past the opening mission out of sheer boredom... 
Some games don't age well, but most of the Lucasarts do. (In honor of Indy, I pulled out the original Last Crusade game - who doesn't want to trick a Nazi into not only letting you pass, but giving you money as a down payment for a fine leather jacket?)
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sabarte
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So, it looks like there's actually more of an overplot to the Clone Wars as a war now. I don't think it really had one before.
New TCW site posted:
Early in the war, Dooku's forces mined the hyperspace routes that connected the Core Worlds to the rest of the galaxy, effectively cutting off the Republic from the bulk of its resources and allowing the Separatists relative freedom of movement in the Outer Rim.
I like this a lot. Explains why the Republic is courting Jabba, too.
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vong333
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I've said this numerous times, the new clone wars movie and tv show will give the clone wars era a defined set of events covered in a genere as oppose to the hack/slash stuff of the first continuity stuff. Instead of having to hunt down every piece of story that allegedly covers the clone wars, now with this new series, we could have a big portion of it captured in the visual arena. This too me is good news!!!!!!!!!!
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vong333 posted:
I've said this numerous times, the new clone wars movie and tv show will give the clone wars era a defined set of events covered in a genere as oppose to the hack/slash stuff of the first continuity stuff. Instead of having to hunt down every piece of story that allegedly covers the clone wars, now with this new series, we could have a big portion of it captured in the visual arena. This too me is good news!!!!!!!!!!
I agree. The EU fans can still enjoy the published material. A few details/dates may be changed, but should that really affect your enjoyment?
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TCW posted:
Early in the war, Dooku's forces mined the hyperspace routes that connected the Core Worlds to the rest of the galaxy, effectively cutting off the Republic from the bulk of its resources and allowing the Separatists relative freedom of movement in the Outer Rim.
This indeed excellent. I assume that the Clone Wars is essentially the Republic pushing out from the Core and the Colonies in an effort to regain its resources and corner the Confederacy. It makes a great deal more sense then the unconnected series of Jedi commando missions, which is what the Clone Wars seems have turned into.
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Lord_Boney posted:
TCW posted:
Early in the war, Dooku's forces mined the hyperspace routes that connected the Core Worlds to the rest of the galaxy, effectively cutting off the Republic from the bulk of its resources and allowing the Separatists relative freedom of movement in the Outer Rim.
This indeed excellent. I assume that the Clone Wars is essentially the Republic pushing out from the Core and the Colonies in an effort to regain its resources and corner the Confederacy. It makes a great deal more sense then the unconnected series of Jedi commando missions, which is what the Clone Wars seems have turned into.
There's a lot of logic to the Clone Wars, but you do have to connect the dots a little, I'll say. Modi and myself did some galactic maps, after all, charting how the war went, and did fairly well.
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sabarte
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The problem with connecting the dots is that sometimes you're just deluding yourself it all makes sense
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