System Wars Lounge V.65: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Edition

Since it's Christmas Eve/day, let me be the one to say, Merry Christmas to all of you system worriers out there.

Merry Christmas everyone :)

Happy Holidays everyone.

Happy festivus

Happy Yule everyone.

Go home Maroxad, you are drunk :P

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas folks! :)

Merry Christmas! :)

Have a great year, you all

Just heard my doorbell ring and this was at my door!

@Heil68: That's awesome! Someone knows you well ;P

I cant believe it. That's way more than any secret Santa gift should be and I have no idea who gave it!

Yeah, don't most Secret Santas have like budget caps of $10? Haha, but hey, it's a very nice gift for sure.

Love that Star Wars wrapping paper. You just know the present will be good :D

Merry Christmas all you jolly gamers !

Merry Christmas everyone! Or if you don't celebrate Christmas, have a great holiday!

Even at small, that image is way too big.

I'm in Georgia right now and it's pretty damn cool seeing places like Macon and Savannah I recognize from The Walking Dead Season 1.

@Blabadon:

Those places are real? o.O

Merry Christmas to all! And may everyone have a Merry 2nd Christmas, too!

The real question is... where is the snow?! It's gonna be like 70 degrees tomorrow. :(

Also, if you're not watching It's a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Story right now, you should stop what you're doing and get on that immediately. They're the only two movies that matter this time of season. :P

Happy Holidays Lounge.

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.

Happy holidays, guys!

Merry Christmas to all my supporters.

Bring on 2016 and Persona 5. My body was ready since 2012. Anywho, I have a spare code steam code for Resident Evil 4 HD for PC. First to reply gets it. *Gone

Happy Holidays to all.

Okay, so I saw Star Wars.

Kylo.

Unity starting to grow on me. Never imagined I'd immerse myself in an AC game again( it feels like AC2 days again) . I got most of the controls down and while the story is hot garbage, I still like the setting. The frame rate is not so good in tons of crowds but that's to be expected from a game that looks like this. No wonder they downgraded syndicate lol. But yeah I tried co op too and it's so fun to play with other people. Getting constantly lost in the side content haha. Maybe I feel this good about it because I got it cheap? Who knows but it's worth the cheap price I got it for. Tons of fun content and the main missions that have assassinations, have a variety of ways to tackle. Good game so far.

@a-new-guardian: I mean, I got my copy for $20, so it didn't break the bank, and I still felt ripped off.

I thought he was a great villain. Kylo Ren was great and is basically what Anakin should have been in the prequels

@a-new-guardian: Seriously. Paris is one of my favourite cities to visit in the world, so I enjoyed Unity for that. Still, managed to get through the game and complete it, but AC has really gone downhill.

@lundy86_4: maybe it was just how god awful that map was put together but i didn't like the setting in unity. im enjoying london a lot more which I didn't expect to.

Anakin gets a bit too much hate in the prequels. His arc could have been handled better (especially the dialog, good god the dialog), but there is nothing wrong per se with what we get. His character and its progression is fine, it just gets a bad rap because everything associated with the prequels gets a bad rap, even when it is done well.

Anyway, that aside, I'm not sold on him yet at all. I'm not sure if he's supposed to be a powerful villain yet, in which case they sold that aspect, but then we're left with the fact that this movie simply had no effective antagonist at all.

@mems_1224: I've not grabbed Syndicate yet, as i'm waiting until it's way cheaper. I'm a brit, so I probably like the appeal of something more foreign, over my home-turf :P

Though London actually looks pretty cool, and they scaled back the glitchy ass NPCs.

Dude, Anakin goes from being a good guy Jedi to murdering children in under 10 minutes because of a vague promise someone made him about a dream he had. nothing about his progression was done well. doesn't help that he was robotic and awful in the prequels

Ren isn't supposed to be powerful, in fact, Supreme Leader Snuke tells General Ginger to bring him Ren so he can finish his training. The whole point of his character in 7 is that he isn't Darth Vader no matter how much he, or we, want him to be. He's not a robot, he's unpredictable, angry, raw and obsessed with becoming Vader and thats what makes him a strong villain. The dark side of the force is all about giving into and drawing power from emotions like anger, pain and fear. he's the first antagonist in a star wars movie that actually does that. he even punches himself in his wound multiple times to draw power from the pain. IMO, he is by far the most interesting villain in a star wars movie so far.

@mems_1224: I wouldn't call him better than Darth Vader, but yeah, that's a neat perspective on things, definitely. Gonna be interesting to see how he is tackled in the coming movies.

Well, he's not better than Vader but as a character I think he's more interesting so far.

Anakin's arc in terms of how is character progressed and what his motivations were was satisfying, it was just the execution (the writing and Lucas' direction) that was bad. Also the actor didn't do the character much justice. But when I think back on the prequel trilogy and detach the story itself from how they were visually represented and just think about the events, I have no problems with how it turned out.

As for Ren, I don't know. I liked how he started the movie (his first scene where he stops that blast mid-air was so badass) and I like that he's much more emotive than any villain in Star Wars has been till date, and him doing what he did on that bridge definitely sold me on hating him, and I can see his inner conflict, but he just doesn't seem that threatening. I guess that's kind of the point though. Also the writers and Adam Driver have expressly said that while writing the movie, they didn't think of Ren as a villain, just a conflicted character, and that shows. Regardless of whether or not I think he's a good villain, I DO think he's a very interesting and intriguing character- thanks to acting, direction and writing, three things Anakin did not have going for him- and I'm excited about where they will go with him in Episodes 8 and 9.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Here's what I got:

SoulCalibur IV (XBOX 360)*

Tekken 6 (XBOX 360)*

Nintendo 2DS (with a download code for MK7)

Dragon Ball Z Season 2 DVD (NTSC US)

*- Here comes more playtime with British Alchemist and Hong Kong Police Detective over Edenian Princess and Thunder God. :P

Before Christmas, I took my brother and dad out to see Force Awakens. Any fears I made of it being the Dragon Ball GT of Star Wars, all gone. :)

Anakin was pretty meh in ep 1-3 (ep 1 was pretty pointless cause they started the story with him so young). I didn't like Hayden as Anakin, he did a piss poor job acting the role, personally they should have had Sam Witwer play as Anakin. If you ever watch The Clone Wars (2008) that show actually redeems Anakins character, that show makes Anakin sooooo much cooler/likable than the movie version of Anakin.

Also I loved Kylo, some people say he's a "weaker" version of Vader or a Vader wannabe, when he's just a Revan clone basically (which isn't a bad thing).

Like I said, I just didn't like the fact that Kylo took his helmet off, He should have just waited until Han shows up and you can take it off. In that scene I would have understand why he did it. I gotta agree with everyone, Kylo is what Anakin Skywalker should have been in Episode 2/3. If anything, in the Clone Wars CGI series, Anakin however was likable for me in that show and it did show Anakin and Obi-Wan as great friends/brothers when we were told to believe in Episode 6. you are definitely right about one thing, at least this is as close to Darth Revan as we'll ever get in today's standard Star Wars movies, which I totally like it since I still dig KOTOR when I played it on Xbox.

I'm still going to say that Finn is Force Sensitive, he handle that Lightsaber alright.

Eh movie was alright, everything I predicted happened cause Abrams literally can't write a story with a damn, didn't help we had 15-20 minutes of trailers the past year showing off the 2 hour movie. I loved everyone, except Rey just fell flat during the last 15 min cause

Her gaining all that power in just a few min, she just outpaced Anakin and Lukes training with the force something fierce, and they had help with JEDI MASTERS!!. It was dumb and it's making her character unlikable for me, I don't have a problem her being more powerful than Luke/Anakin with time...but seriously they made her way to powerful too early. Also what made the movie from not being the best in the series is EP 7 is LITERALLY, A New Hope 2.0 with elements from the EU(oddly enough Disney refuses to have the EU be canon...oh wait they are jacking story from it) like Han having a son going Darkside, Ben was actually Lukes sons name in the EU, which they are hands down gonna make Rey a Skywalker aka Lukes daughter (even though he only had a son in the EU) cause all of the subtle actions she does in the movie (like a natural pilot, an amazing mechanic and walks the line of dark and light which are traits of a Skywalker), I won't spoil the nice hint they do during the Kylo/Rey interrogation, so watch that scene again and listen to what Kylo says, then match it to the ending of the movie and it makes sense. Honestly I would be shocked if they don't make Rey Lukes daughter.

Didn't get Far Cry 4, but got The Crew instead. Oh well, at least the crew is actually surprisingly fun, lousy visuals aside. I'm going to spend many hours just driving around the map, I love these kind of games lol

Malls are closed for Boxing Day here in Canada tomorrow (boo), but I'll get FC4 on Monday,

I know I'm always that late to the party guy, but I'm diggin Crypt of the Necrodancer. So simple, but so fun and unique.

Oh God, Steam is amazing... It's redirecting to all different accounts. Wow.

@lundy86_4: yeah I love exploring the city and parkour around. It's so busy too. It feels alive, like every person is doing something and the animation is ridiculously good. The huge group of people protesting and walking through them while guards are among them looking for me was very cool and immersing. It was like a movie moment or something. Very atmospheric and nice looking. The customisation of your character is also really cool.

@charizard1605: I get what you mean, I felt that way when I bought AC3 for cheap and still felt ripped off. This however is surprisingly decent for a yearly franchise. A lot of work went into this I can tell. It's really fun and I hope it stays that way. This is based on a 5 hours of gameplay so my opinion could change. Perhaps it's because I went in with very low expectations and a cheap price so it helped lol. Not to mention I have one more final on Monday and I'll be done so I'm in a pretty good mood lately hehe.

Rumours spreading a while ago that a Demon's Souls remaster is coming to PS4.

60 fps and few enhancements and it would be amazing. I miss this game so much.

There are very few remasters out there I would actually care for, and this is definitely one of them.