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You'd think after like 15 years I'd stop feeling like a fraud when writing posts but I still do which is both a statement on my self confidence and a compliment to how good my partners are as writers
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Final Fantasy 13 is a top five entry in the franchise but ya'll still ain't ready to have that conversation
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The sequels are essentially, Disney's Fan Fiction written by two different authors that hated each others' writing.
Except it's more like one author collabed with an actual author who was super familiar with Star Wars, then an author who had a singular vision that, love it or hate it, was at least a unique voice, so then the original author decided to collab again only this time with an author who wrote one decent thing and considerably more bad things and together they blamed literally everyone else when their project was roundly jeered up to and including Carrie Fisher.
JJ Abrams is the guy you get to direct the pilot episode of a television show. He only has one storytelling style and that's introducing mysteries but never concluding them. His Star Trek reboot was flashy and loud but his sequel was a mess. Super 8 wanted to be an 80s Spielberg movie but it lacked the heart, and Mission: Impossible 3 is remembered only because of Phillip Seymour Hoffman because the movie doesn't even bother explaining the thing Tom Cruise and Pals are out to protect because mysteries are cooler when you don't have to think about them.
Given how nonsensical TROS turned out it's probably no secret that the reason TFA wasn't more bonkers was because of Lawrence Kasdan (and the more cynical but probably somewhat true thought that the movie had to play it 'safe' given that Star Wars still had the 'stink' of the prequels at the time) being a co-writer.
It's pretty telling that the sequel movie that people still talk about is also the only one where it was clear the director had a vision. It's also no coincidence that the one that uses the most of what Lucas originally intended for a potential sequel was also that same movie.
What I'm saying is the one time the sequels let a director stick to his vision we got the most interesting one.
And also the best Star Wars movie they've ever made
It's funny because Palpatine's plan in ROS was basically also Emperor Vitiate/Valkorion's plan in Knights of the Fallen Empire, like damn near to the letter. Except Valkorion actually pulled it off. Mostly.
If people are unironically praising the prequels then in true Star Wars fashion in twenty years the sequels will be seen as fantastic and the new series the worst thing that shits on the legacy of what came before.
It's like poetry blah blah.
It's like poetry blah blah.
We have a resistance that cosplayed as rebels, we have a Republic that apparently only cares about money rather then running a galaxy, and somehow the Empire had some secret order that rose to Empire levels of power and construction despite not having access to the core worlds?
The First Order's whole thing was that after the Battle of Jakku (the actual end of the war from the OT), some Imperial forces basically refused to admit defeat and fucked off to beyond the Outer Rim because of a secret contingency plan from Palpatine carried out by Gallius Rax, basically the acting Emperor at the end of the war, and then actually carried out to completion by Rae Sloane. And none of this is in the movies because it is relegated to books, comics, and even fucking Battlefront 2 (did you know Battlefront 2 is so canon that it literally explains the start of The Last Jedi?) and that is the real tragedy of the sequels, that so much of it is relegated to outside material. If the sequels weren't set so close to the end of the OT and TFA didn't have to play it so safe that it might as well have just been hitting the reset button in The Matrix then maybe they could've done more to establish the stakes beyond "Oh it's the same but not really."
Ultimately the true success of the sequels is the characters. As long as you pretend Episode 9 didn't happen anyway.
It's like they don't know PR or how to design a working game anymore.
Considering Diablo 3, Overwatch, and WoW, if anything Blizzard's brand for a while has been "fucking up winning formulas in record time"
and just updated the graphics and made some small tweaks.
And like somehow some of the new graphics/models are way worse than the old ones. That's so disappointing but hey if Blizzard wants to tank their reputation in record time then they have been doing a bang up job.
Except the New Star Wars movies are 2/3 good (which makes them on par with the OT), the Epic Games Store is perfectly fine (plus, you know, free games are always good) and TemTem isn't going to hang against the juggernaut that is Pokemon considering Pokemon SwSh is already the fifth highest selling Switch game. And realistically, how many people are going to dump 16 dollars when it's more cost effective to pay for it as needed. Didn't all the people who trade between gens not buy this one anyway because half of them weren't in it?
Congratulations, Nintendo and Pokemon fans, much like Nintendo's entire business model they are finally at the point in the video game cycle where they learn that DLC and games as a service are things that exist.
Congratulations, Nintendo and Pokemon fans, much like Nintendo's entire business model they are finally at the point in the video game cycle where they learn that DLC and games as a service are things that exist.
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update:
white mage/conjurer's storyline sucks ass
At least you get a unicorn mount out of it.
final fantasy XIV is consuming life
send help
might be too late
Pray, return to the Waking Sands
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