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Shroud of the Dark Side
date posted: Mar 08, 2006 10:27 PM
Of Wikis, Comics, Battlefront II, and TZ
So, what did you all do today? I fought a war on Wookieepedia. I so won though. :P And that guy... it must suck to be filled with so much hate. If I'm ever like that, shoot me.

Uh, don't shoot me if my hate is directed towards haters though, because that happens far too often. ]:)

Let me tell you though, I am starting to get disillusioned with the whole Wiki concept. We'll have to see how it goes.

Anyways... I got new SW comics today! Star Wars Tales Volume 6, which contains the Republic Commando story 'Honor Bound'. (It's very very wrong to write "honor" and not "honour", but it is a title...) It's a much bigger TPB than I was expecting, so that's nice. :) I look forward to reading it. I also got 'The Rite of Passage', and that rounds out all the Clone Wars era comics I was intending to get. (That are out in TPB so far, at least.) Now I need to decide if it's worth getting the super-old Knights of the Old Republic era ones. (Not the new Kotor comic series, the old "Tales of the Jedi" ones. I already know all the stories from the Essential Chronologies, but still.) Any opinions? What other non-Clone Wars comics are worth reading?

I should probably report on my latest gaming endeavours. I played Battlefront II again a couple days ago... the first time in months. (I stopped playing because the plot was peeving me off from a continuity standpoint. Then I decided that the plot isn't gonna be part of my personal canon, so that makes it better. :)) I'm on the 'Attack the Jedi Temple' level, still. I tried in 4 times, and, despite being MUCH better at FPS games than I was (I've been playing so much Battlefield 2 lately, it's awesome), I could not win. The stupid Jedi Masters would just run up to me and slice me into pieces. No way around it. And when I was Anakin, the controls were so flakey that I couldn't be good at owning people with the saber. Why couldn't the controls be like Jedi Knight II? I was at least ok at that. But in Battlefront II, everything seems so random; the feel is so different. Sigh. So yeah, I don't know when I'll try playing that again. Maybe I'll try out multiplayer, but when I'm frustrated by a game's controls I don't think it'd make a difference. Oh well, First Strike will be out eventually. And I really need to play Empire At War again. So many games, so little time.

In other news... well, there is no other news, really. Other than the fact that I want to read Triple Zero again. But I lent it out. Woe. Ah well. I've been following the inventory at the nearest Chapters (online), and they've sold 6 copies (of originally 29) since the book came out. I guess that's good! I want a sequel, darnit.

S'pose that's it, out.

  Rogueish
W.I.E.R.D.
date Posted: Mar 09, 2006 4:53 AM
I highly recommend the Tales of the Jedi comics. If you care to look at my first blog entry, this might give you an idea of how highly I rate the books. It's good fiction, and very worthy of their places in the Star Wars universe.
  Darth Rex0
So be it....
date Posted: Mar 09, 2006 6:39 AM
(I stopped playing because the plot was peeving me off from a continuity standpoint.

I feel ya there. You basically just have to ignore it.

I find the Jedi controls wierd also (not to mention it took forever to get the space controls down for me).

Keep at it, the Death Star levels were some of the most fun for me and you are almost there!
  ywingempress
Shroud of the Dark Side
date Posted: Mar 09, 2006 11:43 AM
Rogueish: Thanks, I'll check it out. :)

Darth Rex0: Yeah, I already had to skip one of the space missions. It was so weird to control. I like the way you can fly to other ships and board them; but if I want a flying game, I'll play X-Wing Alliance, thanks.

I just wish there was a lower difficulty! I'm not good at FPS games by any stretch of the imagination, but I still want to see the majority of the levels. :/
  Tripleguess
date Posted: Mar 18, 2006 7:36 PM
Eh, that's why I like sites like Brothers All... nobody's completely unbiased, and it's probably silly to pretend not to be; but when it's all from a single author, at least the bias is consistent and professional-looking. =D
  Den Dhur
date Posted: Apr 13, 2006 10:44 PM
Hi -- this is Havac from TFN. The Tales of the Jedi comics are going to be coming out recollected in larger, cheaper, easier-to-find omnibus form in a year or two, so I'd advise waiting on that.;)
  ywingempress
Shroud of the Dark Side
date Posted: Apr 14, 2006 9:41 AM
Awesome, thanks for the intel!
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