Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[MEB]

Star Wars in 3D??.... sacrilege!

Mark

[Noahishere]

The live stream on youtube is officially starting right now!

[cinemaphile]

Streaming a lot more panels today. Less downtime/watching people mill around/awkward filler chat.

Battlefront panel first up at 10:30 , then Ray Park!

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Do prequel fans get mad at all the talk of recreating the "magic" of the original trilogy, because by default that means the opinion is there was nothing magical about the prequels?

No. You hear the same thing repeated enough, eventually you tune it out. I don't think the PT is nearly as good as the OT, but since TPM was my first time seeing a full SW film, I don't find them to be the childhood rapists some folks do.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Mandalorian

No. You hear the same thing repeated enough, eventually you tune it out. I don't think the PT is nearly as good as the OT, but since TPM was my first time seeing a full SW film, I don't find them to be the childhood rapists some folks do.

+1

I like the prequels (some way more than others) and Clone Wars but I'm not at all miffed about the ST "bringing the magic back", in fact I'm ****ing stoked about it. In some ways the prequels weren't even about the "magic", they were about how the "magic" came to be, kinda like a Star Wars procedural rather than the rip-roaring adventures which the OT was famed for. And because the ST is following the OT it was always gonna be leaning more toward action and adventure rather than trade disputes.

[Noahishere]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

Streaming a lot more panels today. Less downtime/watching people mill around/awkward filler chat.

Battlefront panel first up at 10:30 , then Ray Park!

Cannot wait to see more of Battlefront. I'm seriously like this right now.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Noahishere

Cannot wait to see more of Battlefront. I'm seriously like this right now.

The leaked info is disappointing

But, it's more Star Wars

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

The leaked info is disappointing

link? what leaked info?

I'm just pissed the trailer (and everything they're showing still) was obscured by the "technical difficulties" banner across the screen. The only technical difficulty is your message blocking our view!

[Mandalorian]

No campaign for Battlefront is saddening.

[atamo]

Originally Posted by chip75

I don't think it would have been a bad idea, for Yoda to call in the Jedi, but the sole hero is something that Lucas would have settled on, after all his research into Joseph Campbell's books and ideas on hero's and mythology. I think Luke doing it on his own was a central conceit.

That's what makes me think that the original plan was for there to be no other Jedi. Jedi are just quintessential Star Wars though, so writers find it hard to leave them out.

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

It's also quite possible Yoda did not know if/which other Jedi were still alive and in hiding. There's nothing saying he can sense every Jedi in the entire Universe. Maybe he should have built a Cerebro and tracked them down.

In the Rebels episode "Path of the Jedi" Yoda make direct mental contact with Ezra and Kanan, and he certainly sensed Anakin's fall and the deaths during Order 66, and followed Luke's life. That doesn't prove my point, but presumably he'd be able to track other Jedi if he knew they were alive - and the fewer there were, the easier it would be.

[cinemaphile]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWLns7-xN8

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Mandalorian

No campaign for Battlefront is saddening.

That REALLY sucks for me, because I hate hate HATE online multiplayer games. For guys like me that don't have tons of time to play games, it's absolutely no fun. Guys who do nothing but play videogames all day just immediately and constantly annihilate casual gamers like me who try to play anything online.

I can still play single player vs. computer, of course, but a campaign in addition would have been nice.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

link? what leaked info?

I'm just pissed the trailer (and everything they're showing still) was obscured by the "technical difficulties" banner across the screen. The only technical difficulty is your message blocking our view!

No campaign
No space battles
No driveable atat

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

That REALLY sucks for me, because I hate hate HATE online multiplayer games. For guys like me that don't have tons of time to play games, it's absolutely no fun. Guys who do nothing but play videogames all day just immediately and constantly annihilate casual gamers like me who try to play anything online.

I can still play single player vs. computer, of course, but a campaign in addition would have been nice.

Same here

[stvn1974]

Planned on getting a PS4 just for this game but if no campaign feature I just saved about $500.00. Not a big fan of video games to begin with but I dislike online play for the reasons stated above.

[cinemaphile]

Jakku!

pre-order and be the first to battle on the planet of jakku*

pre-order star wars™ battlefront™ and on december 1st, 2015, be among the first players to experience the battle of jakku*, the pivotal moment when the new republic confronted key imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet in the outer rim. Taking place in the aftermath of the rebel victory in the battle of endor, players will experience the events that created the massive, battle-scarred landscape of jakku shown in star wars™: The force awakens™. Players who pre-order star wars battlefront can fight the battle one week early. All other players will get access to this content on december 8th, 2015.

Key features

learn what happened at the battle of jakku, which precedes the events of star wars: The force awakens
2 maps set on the all-new planet of jakku
7 days early access for those who pre-order star wars™ battlefront™
available as a free† download to all players on december 8th, 2015

[cinemaphile]

judging from the description above, and all the crashed Star Destroyers, X- Wings, etc, on Jakku.... Was Endor a moon of Jakku?

nevermind.... they just said it's a separate planet.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

No campaign
No space battles
No driveable atat

the official site says otherwise:
"Pilot nimble speeder bikes, massive AT-ATs, the Millennium Falcon, X-wings, TIE fighters."

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

the official site says otherwise:
"Pilot nimble speeder bikes, massive AT-ATs, the Millennium Falcon, X-wings, TIE fighters."

PR! You can be a gunner in one.

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

That REALLY sucks for me, because I hate hate HATE online multiplayer games. For guys like me that don't have tons of time to play games, it's absolutely no fun. Guys who do nothing but play videogames all day just immediately and constantly annihilate casual gamers like me who try to play anything online.

I can still play single player vs. computer, of course, but a campaign in addition would have been nice.

Originally Posted by dvdmike

No campaign
No space battles
No driveable atat

I'm with you guys on this. I'm majorly disapointed by this news.

I "dabble" a bit in online with some games, but it is by far not my main interest with gaming. I really enjoyed the previous two Battlefront games (I still have them, in fact), and I would have been looking forward to this one if the single player campaign had been stronger.

But I won't buy a game that is online only or primarily (with any offline mode being minimal to nonexistent).

I guess I would call myself a "hardcore casual gamer." I'm very interested in video games, I keep them long term (I still have every console I've ever owned going back to Atari 2600), I have most of the current systems, etc.

But I also play at my lesuire. While I may get a new game, be excited, and try to play as much as I can, other priorities, both in terms of needed responsiblities and even other things like my wife and I watching our favorite TV shows together put some limit on how much time I can put into it, and when that time occurs.

You get these people who play the hell out of a game and just dominate online. I just don't have the time or patience for that. Even reading the descriptions of the online campaign, in which you have to "do well" in order to play as characters like Vader immediately turns me off because odds are I won't stand a chance of ever trying those characters out.


I would have bought this game if it had a solid single player component. And it looks visually impressive. But I'll be saving my money.