OT: Video Game Thread Part VII

[Hollywood Cannon]

@Striiker I'll tell you how you know that they are shit even by bad movie enjoyment standards - when Hayden as Darth goes, and I quote, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" at the end of the last one - member that? That's the dumbest thing in the history of the world.

The kiss at the end of the last one may be worse.

 

[Hurricane28]

I need to touch grass. No money spent grind going well. Got lucky with Ohtani pull from Conquest packs. Working to get 97 Chase from NL East Collection. Only need Acuña and Soto.

Lineup:
FOTF Mullins
FOTF Trout
FOTF Reynolds
96 Carter-Mets Collection Reward
88 Utley-Preorder
88 Piazza-Conquest Reward
86 Didi-Conquest Reward
87 Schmidt-Phillies Collection Reward

Rotation:
LS DeGrom
LS Scherzer
FOTF Webb
LS Wheeler
Prospect Mick Abel

Bullpen
FOTF Williams
FOTF Clase
85 Nathan-All Star Collection Reward
85 Wood-Conquest Reward
LS Chapman-will upgrade to 90 when I get AL East choice pack
LS Iglesias
FB Wilson

Bench:
LS Bryce
FOTF Acuña-I have never been good with Acuña
FOTF Buxton
Gold Killebrew
LS Olson

Haven't played a game of ranked yet. Mainly been grinding Conquest and BR. CS/WS player FWIW so have that to start soon. Usually want to let the sweats/goons get to the high ratings so I can cruise to the higher ratings-started 21-2 last year.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Still better than the sequels.

 

[Striiker]

 

[Rebels57]

Yeah, that’s also part of it. I remember liking it as a kid because it was Star Wars and Jedi are cool and lightsabers are awesome and so on. But now that I’m older I realize that they're terribly made movies and still enjoy them because there’s so many funny stupid parts and lines and memes.

Darth Maul and his lightsaber alone are more valuable than the entire sequel trilogy.

 

[trostol]

the prequels would be vastly better if you removed the love story..or could just cut out anything Anikin when he is not involved doing jedi stuff

also jedi are assholes

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

the prequels would be vastly better if you removed the love story..or could just cut out anything Anikin when he is not involved doing jedi stuff

also jedi are assholes

"The prequels would be a lot better if you changed everything about them which was total shit."

That is the truth. The problem is that it would leave you with three 15-minute movies.

 

[Striiker]

Darth Maul and his lightsaber alone are more valuable than the entire sequel trilogy.

Oh hell yeah. My brother and I had so many lightsaber toys as kids

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Oh hell yeah. My brother and I had so many lightsaber toys as kids

Does not compute.

 

[Striiker]

Does not compute.

Don’t

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Don’t

 

[Lord Defect]

Oh hell yeah. My brother and I had so many lightsaber toys as kids

So, like, today?

 

[Striiker]

 

[Hurricane28]

I think the prequels as a whole are shit but revenge of the sith is in my Star Wars Mount Rushmore. I’ll go further and say Revenge of the Sith is better than any of the new trilogy and it’s not close

 

[Fire Tortorella]

I think the prequels as a whole are shit but revenge of the sith is in my Star Wars Mount Rushmore. I’ll go further and say Revenge of the Sith is better than any of the new trilogy and it’s not close

5,4,6,3,1,7,2,8,9

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I think the prequels as a whole are shit but revenge of the sith is in my Star Wars Mount Rushmore. I’ll go further and say Revenge of the Sith is better than any of the new trilogy and it’s not close

Here's the thing about that. If you have to include something that terrible in your Mount Rushmore to get to four, you have no business building a Mount Rushmore. Hopefully they can start churning out more decent content. That f***ing Boba Fett series wasn't a good sign, but I have enough patience to keep waiting forever if I have to.

 

[Magua]

I've said this before, but the prequels did not lack in ambition. I think if you outlined the actual plots and removed the dialogue and some of the acting and nitty gritty stuff, it's just a monumentally epic and tragic story that did a f*** ton for world(s) building, even if the actual movies themselves often erred. Even if you think they underachieved (they did), that ambition allowed more coherent visions to expand what Lucas did across different mediums. It injected a lot into the creative potential of Star Wars.

The sequels' ambitions were paper thin and been there, done that. I don't think they did much of anything to open up the Star Wars universe at large for the better. At least the prequels came to a rousing conclusion with the best movie of the three. The sequels arguably got worse and worse and landed with a dud.

 

[Chinatown88]

Sequels are absolute shit. Kathleen Kennedy ruined Star Wars.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I've said this before, but the prequels did not lack in ambition. I think if you outlined the actual plots and removed the dialogue and some of the acting and nitty gritty stuff, it's just a monumentally epic and tragic story that did a f*** ton for world(s) building, even if the actual movies themselves often erred. Even if you think they underachieved (they did), that ambition allowed more coherent visions to expand what Lucas did across different mediums. It injected a lot into the creative potential of Star Wars.

No. You are giving the prequels credit for fleshing out the backstory 4-6 laid out. No.

 

[Striiker]

No. You are giving the prequels credit for fleshing out the backstory 4-6 laid out. No.

Bunnaman sucks and I’m eating chicken for dinner.

 

[Magua]

No. You are giving the prequels credit for fleshing out the backstory 4-6 laid out. No.

But Episodes 4-6 were pretty bare bones with that and rewrote stuff as they went along. To their benefit, they're very very simple movies. But if we're talking lore, the prequels were much more complex. That doesn't have to be a good thing -- Lucas fumbled the complexities -- viewing those movies by themselves. But they injected so much into the canon, especially the Republic era, and how we visually process Star Wars today. Like I said, the world building was ambitious. I'm talking from the Clone Wars animated series to the massive slew of 21st century video games to book series.

Something doesn't even have to be good for it to be important. I guess my major point is the sequels have close to no importance. They're not salvageable; I think the prequels were salvaged in the extended media universe.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Lol. This mission is called “Better Call Maul.”

Also, while loitering Qui-Gon will say “I have a particular set of skills that will be helpful” or something like that.

 

[Lord Defect]

 

[Beef Invictus]

I've said this before, but the prequels did not lack in ambition. I think if you outlined the actual plots and removed the dialogue and some of the acting and nitty gritty stuff, it's just a monumentally epic and tragic story that did a f*** ton for world(s) building, even if the actual movies themselves often erred. Even if you think they underachieved (they did), that ambition allowed more coherent visions to expand what Lucas did across different mediums. It injected a lot into the creative potential of Star Wars.

The sequels' ambitions were paper thin and been there, done that. I don't think they did much of anything to open up the Star Wars universe at large for the better. At least the prequels came to a rousing conclusion with the best movie of the three. The sequels arguably got worse and worse and landed with a dud.

The ideas are absolutely there, but they're executed with the grace and subtlety of Mike Tyson brutally beating a dozen eldey folk to death on Chrisley Knows Best

 

[JojoTheWhale]