This is from an email that I received from Tech Republic.

Check out LucasArts' official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a hotly anticipated video game with a storyline that bridges Episode III and the original Star Wars. Players take the role of Darth Vader's secret Sith apprentice who wields some of the most impressive Force powers ever seen onscreen or in-game.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Trailer

I'm totally looking forward to this game. And if Ulic were still around, I think he'd agree, (as much as he dislikes the EU ).

What do you mean if Ulic were still around? Has he officially left the board?

Drakemd wrote:What do you mean if Ulic were still around? Has he officially left the board?

I hope not! We need him... now more than ever:

http://excelsiornews.freeforums.org/the ... 45-15.html

You are really pushing that thread Darth. Good stuff, keep it up.

Drakemd wrote:You are really pushing that thread Darth. Good stuff, keep it up.

How could I not, when things are they way they are? It is all of our duty.

And it's Snoop.

Sorry, I was going to type Snoop, but figured we were on a first name basis.

Drakemd wrote:What do you mean if Ulic were still around? Has he officially left the board?

I know nothing. I dropped him a PM a week or so ago, but haven't heard back from him and haven't seen him post in quite a while.

My comment was more of a jab to prompt him to post in case he's lurking.

Ulic, if you're reading this. We miss you!

I got in touch with him a while back. He's probably not coming back any time soon.

Ipsilon wrote:I got in touch with him a while back. He's probably not coming back any time soon.

And simply because some Star Wars fans do not like the prequels.

Now that is the sign of someone with some serious emotional issues.

There's not liking the prequels, and then there's going Sean on the prequels.

Zing!

We could use a few more of those Sean's on the prequels.

I sometimes go Sean on random homeless people in the night.


The police don't care.

Corporal Hicks wrote:

Ipsilon wrote:I got in touch with him a while back. He's probably not coming back any time soon.

And simply because some Star Wars fans do not like the prequels.

Now that is the sign of someone with some serious emotional issues.

Actually, I think he got tired of hearing about it from people who will remain nameless. We all know the Prequels have their flaws. It's not what this nameless person said, it's the way he went about doing it.

I tend to agree with Ulic, but I'm not as thin-skinned.

Ipsilon wrote:I tend to agree with Ulic, but I'm not as thin-skinned.

Is that some sort of racial slur?



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Jack's Sorrow wrote:The police don't care.

And that's why the reunion shows were all half-assed.

Well, Ulic is Injun.

Thurston McQ wrote:

Ipsilon wrote:I tend to agree with Ulic, but I'm not as thin-skinned.

Is that some sort of racial slur?

No.

I e-mailed Ulic to send him a link to a story about the potential Silver Story movie, and he responded. He's still out there.

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Getting back to talking about the game, for a second:

Do they actually have videos of people playing this out there, or do we only have trailers to look at?

Also:

Is this the game where people get to swing their Wii controllers like lightsabers?

Thurston McQ wrote:Is this the game where people get to swing their Wii controllers like lightsabers?

Oh God I hope so!

Thurston McQ wrote:Is this the game where people get to swing their Wii controllers like lightsabers?

Don't all boys do that at some point in their lives? Most of us stop eventually.

In all seriousness, I did find these videos, which are really interesting.


Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo - Part 1 (this is the trailer again)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo - Part 2

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo - Part 3 - Thursty, this is where he talks about the Wii.

Two things:

1. Was the playback choppy for anyone else?

2. I'm totally fucking buying this game in September.

The playback was choppy as fuck.

It may be because all current and ex-SW Fan Club members get the Homing Beacon at once, and I forwarded the link pretty much as soon as I got it.

It may be because LucasArts doesn't have its shit together, and is not smart enough to realize that choppy videos released right before a launch can be a bad thing.