@chaosbrigade:I agree with your first paragraph. The amount of moments that are solely there to feed off of your nostalgia detract from the film.
But plagiarize? Naah, I disagree. Character begins from obscurity on a remote desert planet. X-wing dogfight to stop planet destoying weapon. Protagonist's ship gets tractor beamed and they have to hide beneath the millennium falcon's floor? These are parallels. In ANH, I don't remember the protagonist rejecting their destiny. I don't remember a stormtrooper defecting and propelling the story. I don't remember the villain having an arc either. These aren't minute details. These are fairly broad story strokes. Anybody calling the movie a complete rip-off is either genuinely rather special or they are just edgy kids jumping on a bandwagon.
The movie being too similar to A New Hope is a totally okay reason for people not to like it. So is the generally inconsistent quality of the acting. Or hell, even for it being pretty poor compared to other movies that they like. But writing it off as a complete rip-off or plagiarization? That's just daft.
@Shelledfade1: Woah. Don't go comparing this to BC2. I'm definitely getting the vibe that you despised it, but a lot of other people didn't. Hell, the BC2 beta was miles better than this.
@warriors30 @Gelugon_baat I'd still give this game a shot though. The PC gamer reviewer said that he didn't like the borderlands games' humor either, but this game made him laugh quite a bit.
@Merex760 I'm inclined to agree. Too many times have I fallen through the bottom of the map or gotten stuck in a wall and had to restart the entire bloody game.
This was a really good review. All points of praise and criticism I felt were spot on. I feel that I enjoyed the game a lot more than most people (believe it or not, its one of my contenders for game of the year), but I know that some things are harder for other people to see past.
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