At first, when I played Force Unleashed, I thought, hey, I don't want to kill the wookies! But then they started shooting at me...

In The Force Unleashed you play as Darth Vader on the first level. In all the GTA games you have the option of performing some ridiculously immoral and evil deeds.

I guess my point is, if it's simply a way to tell the story, what's so wrong with it?

^ I just played Halo 2 finally on my PC (I played PC Halo 1 ages ago), there's something very charming about that series.. maybe it's Cortana's purple butt (Now I seriously want a Halo 3 port).

BUT anyways, this just in. Force Unleashed coming to pc's >D
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=909

I know it didn't hit it off to well with the critics, but I still want to play it just for the story line sake if nothing else.

And yes, I still have Blade Runner for the PC. Great game for a slow, cold and rainy weekend.

Best games of '08:

1. The World Ends With You (NDS)
2. Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
4. Little Big Planet (PS3)
5. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)

Honorable Mentions:

- Etrian Odyssey II (NDS)
- Bioshock (PC)
- Touhou Project 11: Subterranean Animism (PC)
- Echochrome (PSN)

Dishonorable mention:

- Star Wars: Force Unleashed (PS3)

Looking forward to in '09:

- Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
- White Knight Chronicles (PS3)
- Dragon Quest IX (NDS)
- Getting around to playing Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (PS2)

ALL ZERO PUNCTUATION Videos are stalling... high traffic, does not qualify as dead!

Actually, you're wrong. Other ones do work. This one and last weeks don't. Go read the thread. P.S. - you yourself stated that the one from last week did not sift. So because NO ONE can see this, it's *dead. Don't cry because you can't suck up the votes with it.

It's a dead embed and you damn well know it.


The reviews for:
Dead space
Saint's Row 2
Silent Hill homecoming
Stalker
Force unleashed
Mercenaries
Double Bill

All work just fine. This one does not. It's dead.

Check the others if you want.

Hee hee, sassy. .... HA HA HA BLTs

>> ^MaxWilder:
Nice review as usual, but I really wish he'd done the PS3 and Xbox360 version. The game royally sucks. It is an incredibly difficult button-masher, where all the bosses have to be invulnerable to 7/8ths of your attacks because you're so overpowered. And when an enemy knocks you down, which is often, you are unable to move and vulnerable for several seconds. Talk about frustrating!
Sure picking up stormtroopers and throwing them off a ledge is entertaining. And zapping everybody (who isn't immune) with force lightning is great. But anybody in the game can fend off your lightsaber with a metal rod. Seriously, it is reduced to the least important weapon in your arsenal for most of the game. And the special finishing moves are so closely tied to a "Simon Says" type button hunt that you aren't able to watch the cool animation.
For some reason I felt compelled to finish it (on the normal difficulty setting, not the hard or impossible settings for sadists). Perhaps it was because of that small and blackened place in my heart I still hold for Star Wars. But I really didn't enjoy the game. It will go on my shelf and never be opened again.


But you have to prefer the more negative reviews - they're usually much more amusing.

Yea I knew the game was going to turn out to be a gimick with the force powers that could throw shit around like the back end of a jet engine and absolutely and completely break continuity and 'cannon' as he puts it in doing so. Add in an unhealthy dash of console button click-fest 'hit a, now up, now c, now down.. you died.. start over.. keep going till you get it right or get so frustrated you kick in your console.'

So I avoided any version with a 10' pole. LS hasnt' put out anything but shit in a long time and even before that it was just mildly smelly poop. There was a time when their games were amongst the best it feels like that was decades ago, and it practically was.

This is why I hope and pray that Bioware doesn't let LS get to involved in making their KotOR MMOG. Because even LS admits they make shitty games based on a license alone and because they don't have an innovative or interesting bone left.. and they said this days before this game came out, which meant they were virtually holding up a sign that read

'Force Unleash sucks.. sorry if you all had your hopes up. Fair warning and all that.'

I'm trying to think back to the last Star Wars game that I truly liked.

Tie Fighter is probably the best ever made.

I thought Jedi Knight Academy was entertaining.

I bought Star Wars: Galaxies, but I should've known that combining the sadomasochists who developed EQ and George Fucking Lucas was never going to produce a game that people might actually enjoy playing.

They didn't really give me much reason to think Star Wars: Force Unleashed would be any better, despite the breathless hype. Based on the reviews, I think I'm perfectly okay with missing out on it.

Yahtzee's gonna be busy in the next few weeks, what with Little Big Planet, Fable 2, Gears 2, Fallout 3, Resistance 2, Wrath of the Lich King all coming out in the next 5-6 weeks.

>> ^MaxWilder:
Nice review as usual, but I really wish he'd done the PS3 and Xbox360 version. The game royally sucks. It is an incredibly difficult button-masher, where all the bosses have to be invulnerable to 7/8ths of your attacks because you're so overpowered. And when an enemy knocks you down, which is often, you are unable to move and vulnerable for several seconds. Talk about frustrating.


Yeah, the PS3 version is not that great. I haven't finished it yet, largely because Disgaea DS came out, but I am constantly irritated by the massive delay in between when Starkiller gets knocked over and when he can move again. He has to fall on his ass, rest for a moment, get back up, dust himself off (almost literally; there's a short gap in between when he's standing and when you can move him again), and then he's good to go. Naturally, the enemy AI (at least on Hard) knows exactly how long it takes Starkiller to get up, and just about every action has a delay before it actually executes, so there's a 50% chance that you will be seriously injured or killed after any random enemy manages to knock you down.

So it's not altogether horrible, but it's just a little disappointing. Yes, Starkiller has crazy force powers that can throw Tie Fighters around like popcorn, destroy reinforced titanium doors, and electrocute everything within a fifty foot radius. However, it's really annoying that he neglected more utilitarian force powers like force jump or at the very least force get-your-ass-up-off-the-floor. And having the lightsaber be about as useful as a letter opener is just insulting. The thing does crap for damage, leaves you wide open to attack, and makes you wish after a few minutes that Starkiller would just say "to hell with all this Jedi crap" and pick up a damn blaster.

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The voice of Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed. *promote

Awhile back LucasArts basically stated that there would never be a PC port of the game. Not for piracy reasons, but because they didn't want to scale the game for the various configs available to PC users.

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/star_wars_the_force_unleashed/preview-921.html

http://kotaku.com/389776/force-unleashed-not-coming-to-pc-and-this-is-the-best-excuse-lucasarts-could-come-up-with

>> ^shuac:
Any game made after Half Life 2 should have facial animations/lip synching at least as good. This game? Not so much. Otherwise, it looks great.
But to MG's point: developers often cite piracy as the reason for PC's exclusion. Piracy is not much of a concern for consoles and the gulf between what a PC and console can each do is getting smaller. We are witness to the beginnings of PC gaming's death rattle.

There will never be a death of PC gaming. And even if pirating is an issue, they would still be opening themselves up to more money than they would get without selling to PC.

I think that we'll just have to wait a few months before we get a port for the PC.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
WAAAAAIT A FUCKIN MINUTE!

You mean to tell me after all these fucking months it's coming to everything, including XBOX, but it's NOT coming to the PC? WTF IS THAT SHIT!?!?!


well, and somehow i got the feeling the visuals in this clip are not from the Nintendo DS version....
serious.. wtf?

They're not making a FPS, but the new Force Unleashed game is 3rd person, more in the flavor of Jedi Academy.

Yes.
From wiki:

"Matt Sloan is the voice of Darth Vader in LucasArts' Empire at War: Forces of Corruption[2][3] and LucasArts' The Force Unleashed. Despite for Sloan being a local comedian and voice actor, LucasArts were impressed by his Darth Vader impression.
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