[Episode 1: 3D]

I have just returned from watching Episode 1 in 3D, and I am completely baffled at some of the major plot points, among other things. I watched the midnight premiere back in its original release, and as a kid, I enjoyed it... Of course I enjoyed it, its Star effin Wars. This doesnt mean however that you can have such a stupid plot line up the rest of the saga.

 

1) The biggest plot hole is the decision for a vote of "No Confidence" in the former Supreme Chancellor. If he was backed by greedy corporations or bureaucrats, then while the hell would Amidala's proposal even get acknowledged, let alone get accepted? That makes absolutely no sense.

Read the novel Darth Plagueis

 

2) The whole midichlorian thing to explain the power of the Force.... I dont need to explain this, and if I do, you are on the wrong forum. Its dumb, pointless, and backwards.

It doesn't explain the Force, just why a Jedi can access it and others can't, read Darth Plagueis.

 

3) As technologically advanced as this universe is... Why did no one believe Amidala during her Senate hearing that Naboo was actually invaded?? I guess this galaxy has no form of media whatsoever.

Again, read Darth Plagueis, and realize there was a blockafe and communications blackout.

 

4) The whole Anakin blowing up a Trade Federation control ship is absurd...

To each their own, it was ridiculous that they built a massive ship the size of a moon too.

 

5) The lack of an actual main character baffles me too. If anyone knows who the real main character is in Episode 1, please explain this to me.

Doesn't need one. A New Hope didn't have one until 20 minutes in.

 

Other gripes, be it small or big, I guess:

 

No Han Solo-ish type characters in the prequels. We get to see plenty of bounty hunters, but no daring, charming character.. Although I feel like young Obi-Wan was quite charming throughout, just not the same as Han is.

Jar Jar is the Han, except unlike Han, he isn't brave or sly, just what we would be acting like if thrown on a Jedi adventure.

 

Do Jedi, or better yet, anyone in the future, not mind the smell of burning flesh? Theres better ways to burn a body..

Haha, it had to smell horrible in there.

I am not sure whether every cast member just did their absolute worse, or if the direction Lucas wanted were for cardboard acting... No one displays emotion.. I get the reason behind Jedi, as well as Queen Amidala, but Shmi? Padme? Especially Padme, through this character the Queen can say or show her emotions as she pleases. When C-3P0 shows more emotion than your actors.... Something may be wrong.

 

On the plus side:

 

Podracing!

 

Duel of the Fates!

 

Qui-Gon Jinn! = Liam Neeson

 

Natalie Portman!

 

::End gripes::

 

Answered to the best of my ability.

[What's a good server for lore lovers?]

I'd like to create a character or two on a server with more people who love Star Wars above MMOs and who know terms like Nautolan, Mandalorian and the proper term for Mandalorian iron is Bes'kar. Any ideas?

[Real Life Picture Thread!]

Magicarp girl is magical.

 

Me:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd185/gokumetru/9ee187dc.jpg

 

Me at Celebration V (Star Wars convetion) with Dave Filoni (Supervising director of The Clone Wars):

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd185/gokumetru/60895_1601586047945_1484890999_1537316_6970682_n.jpg

 

Me in my Bloody Baron costume: http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd185/gokumetru/377130_2564844208797_1484894564_2808521_267105455_n.jpg

 

My Mandalorian armor isn't done or I'd use that.

[Project and Telekinetic Throw issues. With Possible Solution!]

The Sage is already powerful enough, you can't give us AoE on TT. It is a concenetrated stream of projectiles, not a shotgun blast so I don't see how it would work as a Shadow thing.

A shadow isn't a directly offensive force user anyway, they use it for stealth and to augment their skills with a saber.

[ALL datacrons]

You can get all of them unless your characters too fat to get the Willpower one on Alderaan.

[What's the difference between pve and pvp servers?]

If you roll Imperial and get ganked, thats just us Reps having the only open world PvP we have a chance at. If you joins the faction that even on more balanced servers is 2 to 1, you shouldn't complain.

[Project and Telekinetic Throw issues. With Possible Solution!]

TK throw has a what, 35 max? 30 meters as a sage and slows the target, and crits at around 5k over 3 seconds (1.5 if you have psychic projection). You are still a consular if your complaining about range.

[Getting close to 50, how do I gear for hardmoes?]

In addition, rolling 50 flashpoints never hurt. If I'm grouping with a fresh 50 sage, I throw them a free or discounted Endowment belt, and I am sure a guild mate with the schematics for Powertech tank stuff would craft it for you.

[The Third Faction: Mandalorians - An Idea]

Problem is, you wouldn't be much of a Mandalorian in light armor, would you? I would love a Mando faction though.

[Give us FREE FORM FLIGHT!]

No planet to planet travel would be possible, short of between Coruscant and Carrick statio, Dromund Kaas and their fleet and Nar Shaada and Nal Hutta. What your saying just adds another step to travel and thus another loading screen. There is no point in exploring in space. It's blackness with a bunch of Stars or insane amounts of dev time to make unique stuff to explore that will feel like clutter.

"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"

You can't pilot manually in hyperspace (short of those who chart hyperspace routes in the first place), so the only time you could do it is in real space. Not much reason for that except PvP space combat.

["I'll try spinning, THAT's a cool trick!"]

I hear Jake had played a bit too much Star Fox lately and heard Peppy in his head.

[Clone Wars TV series]

I love it, and several arcs I have enjoyed more than any of the movies.

[Day/Night Cycles...]

Although I like day and night cycles, you also have to remember that they would have to change all that in the cutscenes as well to match the day/night cycle. That might not be an easy thing to do. I don't know because I don't work for them.

 

That said, if they're really going to put some effort into something aesthetic that can also be extremely useful, I'd like to see them go ahead and complete their UI revision so I can have more bars on the bottom, and be able to resize/move UI elements.

 

I'll take that first, then there's a large list to complete, then we can start worrying about the in-game weather and other aesthetic elements.

 

Not only would it not be easy, the cut scenes were designed with the current sky in mind, some cut scenes would lose impact they otherwise had from a planet's perpetual day/night

[Day/Night Cycles...]

The best part of this is people complaining about painted back grounds are probably also the people who think George Lucas ruined Star Wars by -gasp- fixing things the that matte paintings, no matter how wonderfully painting, can not do.

[Day/Night Cycles...]

Problem is, some planets were designed to look better at different times. Having Coruscant having nightime would be cool, but why have day on a planet designed to to look cool at night (Nar Shaddaa). Dromund Kaas is stated to be perpetually dark for canon reasons. Quesh looks great with an orange sky, why take that away?

 

Not to mention planets differing day/night cycles and atmospheric makeup. Coruscant has a 24, which works out dandy. But then you have Tatooine with two suns and a 23 hour rotational period (Same for Hoth). Nar Shaddaa and Hutta's is 87 hours. Tython is 31.5 hours. Logistically, doing a properly immersive day and night system would be a nightmare.

 

Who cares about realism is stylized realism looks cooler? Why not remove sound from space combat to add to the immersion of space?

[My Hybrid build]

So the two seconds reduced timer on Mind Snap is more useful then?

[Are Jedi Sages Cheat Healing To Farm Medals In PvP?]

I do this on my DPS sage if I am guarding a node. I am more useful in the future if I get 5 medals watching a node than getting 2 medals guarding a node. Why shouldn't I get 3 medals for doing the most boring job in warzones?

I don't see many healers doing this when they have people to heal though.

[My Hybrid build]

Pretty standard hybrid. I would take the points from blockout and put it in forcewake though, I love that root (especially around fire/acid). Also I'm surprised with the points in inner strength instead of mental longevity. I don't know about the exact math, but I seem to have less force regen issues with a larger pool rather than 9% force cost.

 

So Force Wake does root targets in PvP? If so I'll switch the point over to that. The reason I went with Inner strength is a reduced cost + the force regen from Disturbance + the 1% force point restoration from TT means I almost never go below 50% of force points short of when I need to self heal.

[After getting your companion affection maxed...]

Around 9500 affection you get a little line on the affection bar that indicates you can no longer lose affection, no divorce dialouge to my knowledge.

[Which dev did the "Go Go Power Rangers" bot whistle?]

When I was leveling a trooper on Ord Mantel in beta, it sounded like they were singing the background part of the Digimon Adventures theme.

[Please Never Celebrate Non-canon Holidays]

Wasn't Life-Day originally invented for the Christmas Special?

 

Correct on the origin of Life-day, but it was a holiday special that aired closer to Thanksgiving.

[Story was a bad idea]

If only the story was engaging and made you feel like your decisions mattered..

 

.. Guess all the good writers at BW are busy on Mass Effect (I hope)..

 

Are you saying story was a bad idea, or that the story is bad?

[Please Never Celebrate Non-canon Holidays]

Don't get me wrong though, I would be all for in-game holidays, just not celebrating things like Easter, Halloween and Christmas with Egg hunts, grim reapers and pumpkins and Christmas trees.

[Story was a bad idea]

It's almost if Star Wars and BioWare is all about storytelling... I wouldn't be playing this game if it wasn't voice acted and didn't have a story. Besides, if you don't like story, spacebar through.

[Please Never Celebrate Non-canon Holidays]

The Star Wars universe is separate from our own, take the initiative and celebrate Life day, the defeat of Malak and so on. Sure, Christmas is very ambiguously canon, with a few reference to a Santa Claus, but it still kills the feeling of being in TGFFA.