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You joke, but I think a CoD-style game set in the SW universe would be an absolute blast to play. The closest SW has ever come to a great shooter was the Battlefront series, which was great fun, I mean I basically put over a thousand hours into battlefront 2 in 2005 and 2006, but there was still something lacking.

fuck lucasarts, they cancelled battlefront 3

Supposedly there were rumors they were finally going to do battlefront 3 before the Disney sale and the restructuring of the whole SW brand.

Yep, here is the article in question. Supposedly they were going to do a "downloadable" (so, LIVE arcade I guess) multi-shooter to see if there was a market for Battlefront III.

And I just found a leaked Teaser for Star Wars: First Assault. It basically looks like it's Battlefield 3 in a Star Wars setting. If this is canceled I will be displeased

i'd play CoD: SW iff it used the CANONICAL firepower numbers. i'll be fucking pissed if it shoot in the general direction of someone with a blaster and his face isn't melted off by the shockwave of superheated air

That's not what the high-end blaster calcs were at and you damn well know it. Stop exaggerating everything that happened on SDN because you don't like the place anymore.

There probably would be at least one really powerful BFG-like weapon like the Clone's EMP launcher from the old Battlefront

i'm just j/king yo

so seriously you know what would be cool in a fps? more terrain manipulation. want an entrance into that building? just blow a fucking hole in the wall with a higher setting on your blaster. want to barricade yourself? blast a hole into the ground and dive into it and/or use your sci fi device to rapidly build up some wall.

to prevent it from being too easy kills tho you make it easy to kill yourself with the high settings from the explosion or heat so you'd have to use some caution and not just spray and pray with gigaton pistol rounds

several games have tried this with varying degrees of failure.

The original Red Faction comes to mind.

worms 2 did it with a great degree of success

red faction was well fun

I remember there was a 360 shooter game's demo I tried where the gimmick was you had a gun that could add to or deform terrain and how this changed the very nature of combat blah blah and it was so memorable that that's all I remember about it. So yeah, the idea's been done more than once, so make sure you do it well.

joviwan wrote:several games have tried this with varying degrees of failure.

Bad Company 2 was great for this. Need a hole in the wall? Switch to your underslung grenade launcher son. BeeF kinda lost the magic a little when they toned down the destruction you could wreak on the environment.

Of course sometimes the destruction got a bit extreme. Like how one time I got a multi teamkill because I used a grenade on a house that was already precariously smashed, and it then subsequently collapsed with like three or four guys still in it. Good times.

I've been hesitant to post this for some reason, but one of my best memories of Star Wars was watching the Trilogy while I was in Germany. I'd brought half a dozen DVDs with me knowing I'd have downtime at the end of the day or in between doing things during the day.

So I watched the Trilogy.

Don't take it wrong, but I find it funny how you capitalize "the Trilogy". Makes me think of "the Holy Trinity".

Huh. I never really thought about it. I just did it automatically.

I remember demolishing the shit out of those Kenner die cast STar Wars playsets. I loved those things and the little die cast figures, although they got all beat up to hell. I also liked to make blast doors out of clay for my jedi to slice through or stormtroopers to blast through. Because what good is it having a lightsaber if you couldn't slice through doors or a blaster if you can't blast through it?

I still have this one.

Also this:



Sadly I did not get the E-Wing one, which to this day annoys me.

I went to the pre-release screening of Episode I in Brussels. That's not the good memory.

The good memory is the live concert of Star wars music at the Atomium afterwards with images of the nmovie projected on the monument. Awesome stuff.

http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749

Sad news, though not surprising. I guess Disney is cleaning house. LucasArts apparently wasn't doing so hot anyway.

I'm annoyed at them shit-canning TCW while it was still doing well, but from what I heard that wasn't the case for LA.

Lucasarts has been in a slump since 2005, but 1313 and First Assault looked incredibly promising, especially if First Assault was a lead-in to Battlefront 3 like the rumors said.

So far it looks like either Disney or the new management at LucasFilm is cancelling everything about the SW universe I might be looking forward to. Supposedly once Dark Horse finishes out its current contract it'll lose the license, ending the consistent SW comic universe that's been going on since the 90s. The only thing they haven't cancelled is yet another post ROTJ book series that is supposedly focusing on Jaina Solo but that will undoubtedly feature the main trio from the movies because authors can't just let them go.