Comments on: Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes (Phew!)

By: Wirbelwind

Wirbelwind — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:20:56 +0000

LucasArts is dead.

This coming from a big long-time fan of their work, unsurprising given the direction they’ve taken – heading away from quality.

By: CitizenErazed

CitizenErazed — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:56:23 +0000

C’mon, LucasArts. There’s nearly 4,000 years worth of expanded universe stuff out there – some of it is dreck, admittedly, but who wouldn’t KILL to play a new JK/X-Wing set in the Yuuzhan Vong War? For me, the best Star Wars games have been the ones AWAY from the films, rather than ones that attempt to plug completely pointless, massively unimportant gaps /between/ the films (Force Unleashed, anyone?). Hence why I still play JKII/KOTOR/KOTORII, and Force Unleashed is gathering dust on my shelf – that plus it was dreck, too.

By: l1ddl3monkey

l1ddl3monkey — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:15:04 +0000

Necrophilia, bondage, bestiality.

By: Wisq

Wisq — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:37:03 +0000

Shouldn’t that bit at the end be “or lost all will be”?

Not that I would know anything about these “clone wars”, since I stopped watching Star Wars after the initial trilogy, once it became clear that “Phantom Menace” described that movie’s overall contribution to the Star Wars universe.

By: RC-1290'Dreadnought'

RC-1290'Dreadnought' — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:51:27 +0000

“Yes, we have to make the characters more visible. It’s not cartoony enough. Oh, I know, let’s make them glow!”
…

By: OldManTick

OldManTick — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:50:23 +0000

I really like all the films mostly as great involving entertainment. My wife always gets mad at me when I laugh at the first fight scenes of A New Hope when the rebels are fighting the troopers and it’s got a fairly low-budget cheesy quality to it. It is all good after that.
She has an emotional involvement with the first 3 from her childhood and doesn’t care for the prequels.
She also never got into the Star Wars games despite ALL my efforts.
I caught one episode of the new clone wars series in my hotel room while traveling and liked it, but we don’t have TV reception/cable/sat at home so that’s all my exposure to it, but I also liked the Episode 1 game, more then the lego games. I think this could be good.

By: Vandelay

Vandelay — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:14:26 +0000

Thank you Derek K., I thought I was the only one for a second there. As much as I loved Star Wars films in my youth, they really are not the greatest cultural output of western civilisation as some would have us believe.

The suggestion that the original trilogy were adult films is simply ludicrous. Star Wars has always been for the kids, from the original trilogy to the prequels. Look at the first film and you can see that the plot is simply an adaptation of a traditional fairy story (mixed in with numerous references to other films,) whilst the humour and a lot of the aliens are obviously geared towards young audiences just as they are in the newer films. Of course, that isn’t to say that there is nothing for adults to enjoy, but those that always bring it up as the greatest films ever made are most likely swayed by nostalgia from when they originally saw them as kids.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:08:55 +0000

@PC Monster:

You actually hit upon the nub of the matter: mid-nineties. It’s when Star Wars merchendisery really came of age. Timothy Zahn wrote the first Star Wars novel (other than the film novelisations) in 1992, and a year later the first “good” Star Wars game was released: X-Wing. These caught a grown-up and nearly-grown-up generation who still fondly remembered the films but could no longer really be thought of as kids… and ironically this led to the remastering of the films which in turn led to the rather spotty prequels.

So, 15 years in between the original theatrical release of Star Wars and the emergence of “our” Expanded Universe. We’ve still got another five to go before we hit that for The Phantom Poobah.

So yeah, Republic Commando was a massive fluke.

By: Unlucky Irish

Unlucky Irish — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:28:27 +0000

Is it just be or is the whole Clone Wars thing a bit morally dubious? I mean from what little I understand of it seems to be based around a groups of systems wanting to leave the Republic due to an unfavorable economic situation; only to be crushed by super-powered space monks and the Clones (who are basically a cross between the Red Army and the SS).

By: Subject 706

Subject 706 — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:23:23 +0000

Sorry, Lucasarts don’t do good games no more. Or movies either, for that matter.

By: Derek K.

Derek K. — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:16:40 +0000

The Clone Trooper looks like Captain Rex, given the scenes with two pistols. He’s a pretty big deal in Clone Wars.

Also, have y’all watched the original trilogy lately?

It’s awesome, I agree. But to suggest that it’s a deep and dark musing on the nature of the universe, full of deep dramatic themes kind of ignores, like, teddy bears, C-3P0′s head coming off *again*, Luke being a whiny teenager, etc etc etc.

Don’t get me wrong – I love the trilogy. I was annoyed by parts of the prequels, and enjoyed others. I can take or leave a lot of the rest of the stuff. I have a sticker of a wookiee on my car. But I don’t think that SW is high art. I think it’s awesome fun.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:50:45 +0000

I’ll back up PC Monster on this. I used to love SW, then it all went to shit, well before the prequel movies were released. And still, every time something new comes out, a piece of me hopes it will be something that adds to the franchise, not something that cheapens it.

Anyway, do you guys know there’s no Let’s Play: Republic Commando? I’d really like to see one, if there’s a story to it.

I’d also like a new X-wing, not that that’s ever gonna happen.