Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[AnsemSoD1]

I dread seeing Nigger Jade when Shitsney is desperate enough to go to that place.

 

[cjv97]

Legacy of Vader issue 6 revealed the Jedi survivor of Order 66 named Grandea (possibly a Teelin). In the next issue, Kylo Ren will face the Jedi survivor.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Honestly I think the hidden massive failure that's not talked about enough is the High Republic. I understand a billion dollars was spent on the initiative and I think the best selling book was 250k, what would have been considered low respectable in the EU days. How Disney failed to make any games for this new expanded universe is beyond me as the video games really helped with reach for the old Republic.


You'd think a company as money hungry as Disney would be heavily invested in game development or at least licensing given how huge the industry is, but all we really got were two disappointing Battlefront games with the second dropped when people were actually beginning to like it.

 

[Ghostse]

Legacy of Vader issue 6 revealed the Jedi survivor of Order 66 named Grandea (possibly a Teelin). In the next issue, Kylo Ren will face the Jedi survivor.
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Yet anohter of the 6 billion survivors of the supposed Order 66.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

You'd think a company as money hungry as Disney would be heavily invested in game development or at least licensing

It's crazy they gutted LucasArt when they bought SW. Physical merch sure did sell but most of the memories I got from SW as a kid were from the games. It's such a boomer reaction to dismiss those as irrelevant. Crazier even that they gave exclusive licensing to EA for a while. Putting different genres into the hands of different studios is the obvious answer. Too bad they only learned that with the latest Ubisoft recycled open world game.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

It's crazy they gutted LucasArt when they bought SW. Physical merch sure did sell but most of the memories I got from SW as a kid were from the games. It's such a boomer reaction to dismiss those as irrelevant. Crazier even that they gave exclusive licensing to EA for a while. Putting different genres into the hands of different studios is the obvious answer. Too bad they only learned that with the latest Ubisoft recycled open world game.

They should've pumped money at it and made LucasArts Disney's in-house gaming studio. Sure, have them collaborate with Nintendo, Traveler's Tales, Ubisoft, EA, and Activision now and then, but have them on board as a game dev house all the same. They can be made to make not only SW games, but independent adventure games, point-and-click games, and even Marvel games or games for Disney's other IPs.

Something like Republic Commando was made in-house. And it was a high quality product. Same goes for Dark Forces 1 and 2, as well as Bounty Hunter. Even on their own, LucasArts was able to make great games. Tossing them away was an unproductive mistake.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

This whole continuity is dogshit and we should all just talk about Legends (No Legacy of the Force/Fate of the Jedi though)

 

[Bob Barbas]

Yet anohter of the 6 billion survivors of the supposed Order 66.

Tbf Legends also had this issue where seemingly millions of jedi survived order 66 so it's not exactly a new thing.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Tbf Legends also had this issue where seemingly millions of jedi survived order 66 so it's not exactly a new thing.

Compared to the amount of Jedi around pre-Order 66, this is actually one of the few things that has never really bothered me. It's not like we're seeing the big Jedi Council A-Listers like Plo Koon, Ki-Adi Mundi, Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, etc. still around, just the surviving D-Listers and the occasional badass like Quinlan Vos or Master K'ruhk.

 

[Kyria the Great]

They should've pumped money at it and made LucasArts Disney's in-house gaming studio. Sure, have them collaborate with Nintendo, Traveler's Tales, Ubisoft, EA, and Activision now and then, but have them on board as a game dev house all the same. They can be made to make not only SW games, but independent adventure games, point-and-click games, and even Marvel games or games for Disney's other IPs.

Something like Republic Commando was made in-house. And it was a high quality product. Same goes for Dark Forces 1 and 2, as well as Bounty Hunter. Even on their own, LucasArts was able to make great games. Tossing them away was an unproductive mistake.

The scrapping of Lucas arts is the biggest mistake as I'm certain the infrastructure and talent was there to make other games and give another revenue stream. Worse was so many projects were almost complete as the Battlefront 3 leaks showed the game was about 96% complete and wasn't likely to be a poor seller either.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

They should've pumped money at it and made LucasArts Disney's in-house gaming studio.

The scrapping of Lucas arts is the biggest mistake as I'm certain the infrastructure and talent was there to make other games and give another revenue stream.

Reading up on it again, they already had Disney Interactive Studio as an internal game studio. When they canned LucasArt, they licensed console/PC games to EA but kept mobile/online games for Disney Interactive (they ended up closing Disney Interactive closed 3 years later).
This statement from Disney at the time is wild:

After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games.

They were too stingy to keep a beloved studio with a super hyped up game at the time (1313), but they had no problem greenlighting dogshit movies and series. They really have a skewed perception of risk.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

They really have a skewed perception of risk.

The people running LF and Disney haven't played a videogame since Ataris were the bees knees. Kennedy has been in the Hollywood system for decades and still thinks movies and TV are where everyone gets their entertainment. They realized they fucked up last year so they had Bob Iger announce they're putting Star Wars in Fortnite because all their grandchildren play the Fortnites. Videogames and consumer produced content are the future while movies and tv shows won't die completely they'll become mostly culturally irrelevant like plays and musicals.

 

[HandsomeDan]

So I just finished reading Death Troopers. Aside from the obligatory "I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!!!" key jangling, I thought it was pretty good. Way more violent and bleak than I thought it was going to be.

I always thought it was a great story, the audiobook version is well done as well. It would actually make a great film and the whole Imperial Prison Ship setting would be great to see on screen.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

Kennedy has been in the Hollywood system for decades and still thinks movies and TV are where everyone gets their entertainment. They realized they fucked up last year so they had Bob Iger announce they're putting Star Wars in Fortnite because all their grandchildren play the Fortnites.

Let us remember this choice quote from Bob Iger from last year:

Last year. After I came back, I sat down with Josh D’Amaro, who runs our [Disney Experiences]. And his executive who actually manages games Sean Shoptaw. The first thing they showed me were demographic trends. And when I saw Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and even Millennials — and I saw the amount of time they were spending in terms of their total media screen time on video games, it was stunning to me. Equal to what they spend on TV and movies. And the conclusion I reached was we have to be there.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Let us remember this choice quote from Bob Iger from last year:

Lol, dipshit won't know how to navigate the new era at all, given how much he has already trashed the remaining reputation of Star Whores and Marvel.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Reading up on it again, they already had Disney Interactive Studio as an internal game studio. When they canned LucasArt, they licensed console/PC games to EA but kept mobile/online games for Disney Interactive (they ended up closing Disney Interactive closed 3 years later).
This statement from Disney at the time is wild:

They were too stingy to keep a beloved studio with a super hyped up game at the time (1313), but they had no problem greenlighting dogshit movies and series. They really have a skewed perception of risk.

I love the warped view of risks as greenlighting almost complete projects and a studio with skills in many genres is too risky but a billion dollars for a failed side project and billions for middling streaming projects is totally fine.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

dipshit won't know how to navigate the new era at all

I got curious about Iger and it just keeps getting worse. He was initially supposed to leave Disney in 2018, but he got extended until 2021, then they had a CEO for six months and Iger came back with plans to leave by 2024. Then again his contract got extended until 2026. The old fuck has been wanting to retire since 2021 and they just haven't found anyone competent to replace him.

 

[Adamska]

I got curious about Iger and it just keeps getting worse. He was initially supposed to leave Disney in 2018, but he got extended until 2021, then they had a CEO for six months and Iger came back with plans to leave by 2024. Then again his contract got extended until 2026. The old fuck has been wanting to retire since 2021 and they just haven't found anyone competent to replace him.

It's because he replaced everyone with asskissers and he wanted to run as President that he refuses to leave until dead. Then he put Cheapek on the firing line as a scapegoat since he fucking knew COVID would fry his company's profits and didn't want the rep hit he originally had for IP spam buying working out. Now he refuses to leave since he doesn't want to lose face for making the company as shit as when Ron Card nearly drove it into the ground. He wants to be president so badly, and he's not even aware that he at best would become the Dem version of Bloomberg; a big charisma vacuum failure.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Tbf Legends also had this issue where seemingly millions of jedi survived order 66 so it's not exactly a new thing.

EU before the Prequels were announced, had made it a point to not put a hard definite cap on the number of Jedi there were prior to the Clone Wars and Empire hunting them down.

 

[TV's Adam West]

I'm tired of pretending Dash Rendar isn't the coolest shit ever.