Sadly only for mobile devices... but still it is interesting none the less. My first impression is that they are rewriting Thrawn.

Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZBu2Cy0TA&feature=youtu.be

if you say so...

Moisture Farmville

Maybe I should clarify. The game itself doesn't look like something I would want to play. However, supposedly it is one of the several items of merchandise that ties EPVI and VII together. It is rather stupid to have to play a mobile game to learn a little more background (which will probably won't be very much itself), along with comics and novels.

On this note, there are also a bunch of new star wars novels coming in September, some take place between OT movies, that all have hints and plot points that lead up to EPVII.

You are the worst.

Technically almost all video games are post-ROTJ games if you really think about it

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i meant in a narrative sense

like I don't know if battlefield vietnam is a post-ROTJ game, but battlefield 2 definitely is

Well Star Wars DOES take place "a long time ago" so... yes?

ty i was worried nobody would understand

Disney still might not understand, with them saying that only the 6 films and the Clone Wars cartoons (and now certain things after they're making) are considered 'canon' so maybe only other Disney-licensed/owned video games count... which is still a good amount.

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Jesus Christ.

Can't we ever had one thread these days that doesn't immediately turn into a ****ing trainwreck?

Baconfish, I'm going to say no, we honestly can't. Seriously, at this point, how could we?

We are all on deathrow, and the insanity is on maximum overdrive.

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Yeah, well, ignoring the socioeconomic aspect of it:

I've watched the trailer and read every word on the game's website and there is literally nothing saying what kind of game it actually is. In fact, there is no real information at all. At the bottom there's a link to a Wookieepedia article which Disney obviously wrote themselves. This article mentions the game is being developed by Kabam, a maker of easy-button licensed f2p strategy games. So at least instead of wildly speculating on everything, we can wildly speculate on what kind of strategy game it'll be.

And I guess we'd better savor that discussion, since it'll definitely last longer than Star Wars: Uprising does given how short-lived their last game was.

Star Wars is ****.

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Maybe we can talk about the implications of an open-ended RPG with player-directed outcomes being "canon"

aaaahahahaha free to play diablo, those are always rad

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People can, plucky f2p game startups can't because exploiting psychology is literally all they've got going for them. Top priority is exploiting vulnerable people. Try talking to these people, they are insufferable.

What they don't understand is that Diablo stumbled across the skinner box concept. It wasn't intentional, they were just copying the loot drop convention from roguelikes. It wasn't designed to exploit the psychology that makes us feel rewarded for doing good work. Even otherwise good games designed around the loot lottery feel off-putting; the difference between Diablo 2 and 3, or Borderlands and Borderlands 2. Good sequels, but they never approached the longevity of their prequels. A game designed to exploit psychology first and foremost doesn't stand a chance.

well player agency vs. narrative cohesion is certainly an important and interesting topic, I was more referring to the logical impossibility of having both player agency and a franchise. It guarantees that either Disney is writing off Anoat forever and will never mention it ever again, or the outcome is predetermined.

I mean, not like it matters. The game won't be live long enough for anybody to see one of these galaxy-shaping space battles.

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For some reason, these days the forums are graced by Reid - the head of the Pretentious Patrol - which is what I guess we've earned as a punishment for the community's 17 years of action and which is why it's a good thing this place will be shut down by the end of the year.

Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
https://youtu.be/azM6xSTT2I0?t=80

Reid is the blonde guy.

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There doesn't have to be a Matt Damon.

That dude would still be a pretentious douche even if there wasn't anyone around to shut him the **** up.

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I've been uncomfortable for a long time with this forum's habit of selecting some arbitrary least popular person still left, driving them off, and starting over. If anything's to blame for Massassi shutting down it's that.

Other than Koobie, I mean. That dude had to go.

Yes. And I bet sharks do that as well. Look at us, the remaining few majestic creatures, wallowing in this retention pond like the alpha animals that we are.

Anyhow, what happened to that flight combat X-wing-vs-Tie-Fighter-lite game months ago? I assume it was quickly and quietly snuffed.

How do these large mobile game companies stay alive, when most of mobile games in the market nowadays are pure **** and the barrier of entry so low? I'm reminded of the video game crash of 1980's in that sense. It couldn't just be microtransaction nonsense holding the boats afloat (same tech company valuation shenanigans?).

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Cancelled in beta so Disney could focus all of their efforts on this game, which will be cancelled in beta so Disney can focus all of their efforts on the next game, which will be cancelled in beta so that