STAR WARS ebook discussion & comments

[timothy]

all way get three magazine star wars insider and star trek comunicator and white dwarf.

 

[Yevetha]

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=h...nload.akamai.com/19022/pdf/LTOTS_Pantheon.pdf

http://a1018.g.akamai.net/f/1018/19...nload.akamai.com/19022/pdf/LTOTS_Pantheon.pdf

Here is the new lOST tRIBE.

For some reason its not up on Starwars.com.

 

[timothy]

s'okay I got mine on my nook.

 

[timothy]

darth reaven cover art is up at club jade.

 

[timothy]

1. Star Wars:Fate of the Jedi #8 Ascension
2. Star wars: The Force unleashed #2

both will be aviable on the nook this next month can't wait.
I have the force unleashed 2 in physical hardback great read can't wait for the third book or game to come out.

 

[ATimson]

I have the force unleashed 2 in physical hardback great read can't wait for the third book or game to come out.

There won't be a third game; LucasArts fired the development team.

 

[timothy]

what why?

 

[Whofan]

I think the second game didn't perform up to expectations.


Seems to happen quite a few times at Lucasarts. X-wing Alliance and Republic Commando both had unresolved endings, although the latter I think was sorted out in one of Karen Traviss's novels.

 

[ATimson]

I think the second game didn't perform up to expectations.

Which makes sense, given that the game was maybe half the length of the first.

Seems to happen quite a few times at Lucasarts. X-wing Alliance and Republic Commando both had unresolved endings, although the latter I think was sorted out in one of Karen Traviss's novels.

I thought Karen Traviss went out of her way not to resolve the Republic Commando ending. Something may have happened in 501st that I'm not remembering, though.

 

[timothy]

I think the second game didn't perform up to expectations.


Seems to happen quite a few times at Lucasarts. X-wing Alliance and Republic Commando both had unresolved endings, although the latter I think was sorted out in one of Karen Traviss's novels.

well from my understanding with karen traviss's book was she did'nt like what they were doing with the mandaloreians in the clone wars. and it conflicted with what was going on in her books. deathwatch and all was not sopposed to be that big of an organization. and I think there was sopposed to be coming conflict with the empire and renegade clone troopers.


off topic I do like karen's take on the gears of war and halo books as well.

 

[Yevetha]

Choices of One was 6,5 out of 10 for me.

It would been much better without the Big 3.

 

[PsychoPere]

well from my understanding with karen traviss's book was she did'nt like what they were doing with the mandaloreians in the clone wars. and it conflicted with what was going on in her books. deathwatch and all was not sopposed to be that big of an organization. and I think there was sopposed to be coming conflict with the empire and renegade clone troopers.

That has absolutely nothing to do with what Whofan was referring to.

off topic I do like karen's take on the gears of war and halo books as well.

How can you like her "take" on Halo when it doesn't even exist yet?

 

[timothy]

from what she has written I have liked.

 

[Set Harth]

Seems to happen quite a few times at Lucasarts. X-wing Alliance and Republic Commando both had unresolved endings, although the latter I think was sorted out in one of Karen Traviss's novels.

I thought Karen Traviss went out of her way not to resolve the Republic Commando ending.

Yes, she's said that they couldn't reveal the fate of Sev:

I'm getting a lot of mail from those who have finished it, and many of them want to know something. What happens to Sev when the saga continues as IMPERIAL COMMANDO? Actually, this isn't a new question, and I've been answering it since 2005 in interviews and on con panels. It bears repeating now. Sorry, but I can't take Sev beyond the end of his story arc in the RepCom game. His fate won't feature in IMPERIAL COMMANDO: 501st or any other book for the foreseeable future. I don't want anyone building up expectations and then having them dashed after waiting until August next year find out. I've been up front about this from the start.
Sev is LucasArts' character, and - very sensibly - they want to leave their options open for the future, in case they ever do another game featuring Delta Squad. No, I have no idea if that'll ever happen, so please don't bug LucasArts about it. This is just normal industry common sense about not shutting any doors that you don't have to. Every games company would do - should do - exactly the same thing.
So I can't take Sev's story beyond the end of the game, where he's still MIA. That's all there is to it. I've gone as far as I can with him, and I'll miss him, just like you will. But this is the reality of working in a shared universe, with products that have very different timetables and needs. Games are huge multi-million dollar investments, and it would be plain daft to paint yourself into a corner by letting key characters go off on a separate tangent in another medium that might stymie you if you ever decide you want to return to that world.
It's not as if you'll be short of characters to worry about in 501st, after all. There'll be more than enough psychotic snipers to go around in the new galactic order.

 

[timothy]

I know that really sucks!!!!

 

[Whofan]

I think the reason we didn't get an X-wing Alliance game was possibly because of the prequels, which came out roughly the same time and a good deal of Lucas's marketing centered on that, including games such as Racer, the TPM game etc. (Granted, there were some OT and post-ROTJ stuff still being released, such as the Rogue Squadron Nintendo series and Jedi Outcast/Jedi Academy)

 

[Admiral_Young]

timothy I too wonder how you can like Karen Traviss' Halo book when it's not even out yet.

 

[Jono]

I think the second game didn't perform up to expectations.

Before the game even shipped it was rumoured that there would be no sequel. The new had honcho of Lucasarts apparently canned it and some or all of the team working on the game was set to be fired after the second game shipped. The writing seemed to have been well on the wall before a single copy sold.

As for X-Wing Alliance, I think it also suffered the same fate as the far superior Freespace 2, which came out the same year - the genre "died", along with the fact that the tie-ins with the prequels became the main focus.

 

[ATimson]

timothy I too wonder how you can like Karen Traviss' Halo book when it's not even out yet.

She did have a short story in their recent anthology...

 

[Admiral_Young]

I dunno if that was what timothy was referring to though. That is the Evolutions anthology book you're referencing right?