The Force Unleashed – Lucas Arts – PS3

[K9]

Hm, the demo was pretty entertaining other than the stupid QTE at the AT-ST. I wasn't expecting it and spent a long time throwing barrels at the thing. I may have to consider getting this, it will give me something else to play when I'm on living room  kittenwatch duty.

This is definately a game that's very easy to pick up and put down if you need. I'm about 80% done and really enjoying it.

[Ingmar]

I ended up getting Lego Batman instead (I'm such a sucker for those games, recycled gameplay or no) but this is still on my list.

[Surlyboi]

So here I've been defending this game.. finished it once, thought I'd play around with some of the extras. So I look up the cheat codes and what do I discover? There are something like 30 different skins you can play the game with... on the PS2 and the wii. If you have the PS3 or 360, you get about four.

What the fuck is all that about?

Those skins are mostly because of the wiis duel mode. And since the development for both the PS2 and the wii version were farmed out to the same development house... well, you do the math.

[Merusk]

Wii multiplayer is fun, but completly unbalanced. All the characters have differing stats "Force" "saber" "speed" "power" etc.

My daugher plays Aayla Secura who has a maxed-out Force bar.  She lightnings the shit out of us and there's naught we can do.  Damn kids and their min/maxing lightning whoring. 

[Surlyboi]

force rush up in her face and sith strike the shit out of her.

[Merusk]

I can't get that one to fire off.  That's like 2 sabers and a force push, right?   The Wii has a horribly cumbersome use of hand-waving to get shit done.  Feel like I'm going to throw out my damn elbow because I have to punch my fist so often and fast to get off Force pushs.  The "breakout"/AOE pushback move is even worse, since you have to hold 2 buttons and slam both hands down to trigger it.  I usually wind-up waving my saber ineptly and force pushing something random instead.

[Riggswolfe]

I'm replaying it now on the wii and the story is slightly different, (A couple of different locales and cutscenes) but the thrust of the story is the same, plus there's the added value of duel mode to keep the missus occupied sometimes too.

I'm also replaying through the 360/PS3 version again too, this time, fully powered up with all the gear, powers and know-how gained from playing through the first time. All the frustrating stuff in the boss fights is virtually non-existent now. It may get old fast, but we'll see how it goes.

I didn't think there was a game+ type thing? Or are you just level selecting within your beaten game?

[Surlyboi]

I'm replaying it now on the wii and the story is slightly different, (A couple of different locales and cutscenes) but the thrust of the story is the same, plus there's the added value of duel mode to keep the missus occupied sometimes too.

I'm also replaying through the 360/PS3 version again too, this time, fully powered up with all the gear, powers and know-how gained from playing through the first time. All the frustrating stuff in the boss fights is virtually non-existent now. It may get old fast, but we'll see how it goes.

I didn't think there was a game+ type thing? Or are you just level selecting within your beaten game?

If you choose "Continue Game", it starts you off with the Apprentice's first mission. Only you're fully kitted out.

As for the force rush, I think it's push forward twice on the control stick.

[Merusk]

As for the force rush, I think it's push forward twice on the control stick.

I meant the Sith Strike.  S'ok because I learned the subtleties of the saber and now I pwn face. It really DOES matter if you shake it up/down or side-to-side. Nifty. 

[K9]

Slash-Slash-Slash-LIGHTING SMASH was my favourite.

[Yegolev]

I'm a big fan of dash, saber, lift, lightning, CANNONBALL.  Works on those damned flamethrower troopers.

I wish they had flamethrower troopers on Endor, RotJ would have been far more metal.

[Cyrrex]

I like Grip, Saber Throw (and impale), Electrocute, Toss and wait for saber to come back.  Just because it is awesome.

[Yegolev]

I'm a huge Cannonball whore.

[K9]

I should go max out saber throw, with just one point it seemed wholly ineffective compared to other one-point skills.

[Surlyboi]

Saber throw is highly useful for those pesky ledge-sitters.

[Merusk]

Saber throw is highly useful for those pesky ledge-sitters.

Ledge sitters get force gripped and thrown behind me.  Choked if they're the last man standing.

Force grip/ Push is far too effective on the masses of low-end troops, even those flame fuckers.

[LK]

The game controls like shit. I've never seen a more unresponsive action game. For all my force powers, the handling is very, very slow. Maybe I don't "get" the game, but when I click Guard while I'm getting up from being knocked down and do not guard when I stand up, having to physically take my finger off the button and reapply, giving my enemy enough time to kill me, that's a problem.

It's also impossible to accurately target your Grip powers in this game, especially in boss fights with multiple opponents.

I want to 1000 this game on Xbox360 so I don't have to fucking play it anymore. At least it restarts you at check points with full health, even in boss fights.

[schild]

The game controls like shit. I've never seen a more unresponsive action game. For all my force powers, the handling is very, very slow. Maybe I don't "get" the game, but when I click Guard while I'm getting up from being knocked down and do not guard when I stand up, having to physically take my finger off the button and reapply, giving my enemy enough time to kill me, that's a problem.

It's also impossible to accurately target your Grip powers in this game, especially in boss fights with multiple opponents.

I want to 1000 this game on Xbox360 so I don't have to fucking play it anymore. At least it restarts you at check points with full health, even in boss fights.

Man, it's so not fair to talk about controls in third person action games after playing Demon's Souls. And you know it.

[Murgos]

To be fair, I haven't played Demon's Souls and even I am aware that the controls in The Force Unleashed are crap.

[Yegolev]

Force Unleashed was distinctively unpolished, but I don't seem to have the control issues beyond the usual half-assed third-person variety.  The biggest irritant for me was the shit framerate.

[K9]

The game controls like shit. I've never seen a more unresponsive action game. For all my force powers, the handling is very, very slow. Maybe I don't "get" the game, but when I click Guard while I'm getting up from being knocked down and do not guard when I stand up, having to physically take my finger off the button and reapply, giving my enemy enough time to kill me, that's a problem.

It's also impossible to accurately target your Grip powers in this game, especially in boss fights with multiple opponents.

I want to 1000 this game on Xbox360 so I don't have to fucking play it anymore. At least it restarts you at check points with full health, even in boss fights.

There's a skill that increases the speed at which your force powers charge. At 3/3 points they're more or less instant. Your character is intentionally clunky at the start, but gets better as you progress.

I'm replaying this and enjoying it. It's not a perfect game, but it's fun in a mindless and not-too-difficult kind of way. Also when you max out most of your skills you become a more-or-less unstoppable avatar of doom, and slapping stormtroopers around ad-infinitium is cheap entertainment.

[LK]

There's no way any of this can be canonical given the sheer power and variety of storm troopers. Anti-Force Shields? REALLY?

[Azazel]

With all the movies already made, George doesn't much care anymore, as long as nothing contradicts the fillms too badly..

Anyway, /nerd on anti-force troopers would have probably been technology developed for the period between Ep3 and 4 when Vader and the boys are hunting down all the Jedi, and therefore no longer needed by the time the OT rolls around /nerd off

Besides, George lost the plot and any care long ago for the finer details of his universe.

R4-P17 started off as a traditional R4 unit, complete with the characteristic conical head, when she was nearly destroyed in a trash compactor mishap on Gyndine. While inspecting the Jedi customizations of the Delta-7 designs, Anakin Skywalker happened upon the wrecked little droid and rebuilt it. The new R4-P17 sported an R2-series dome

In a making of Star Wars books I have, the pointless and convoluted story was explained (with people quoting Lucas) based around him naming the droid in one of his scripts, but not actually knowing that the R4 droids look different to R2s. After that, one of his underlings had to write up the silly background (sorry, extra depth) so it didn't contradict everything else.

[Sky]

But could it FLYYYY??!

Srsly, I could even deal with Jar-Jar, but the flying R2 is what pushed me over the edge. Also, plucky kid Annie, but hey.

God that trilogy sucked balls.

[WindupAtheist]

Wait, what? You can't handle "That robot had little rockets on it when it's intended duty involved manuvering on the outside of a spaceship, but did not have those rockets twenty years later when it was a diplomat's pet!" but can deal with god damned Jar-Jar?

[LK]

OK, finished the game.

Yeah. Light-side Jedi are pussies and stupid. "You'll be back to where you started!" "AND THE FUCKING EMPEROR WILL BE DEAD, BILLIONS OF LIVES WILL BE SAVED, AND WE CAN UNDO THE DAMAGE THESE SITH FUCKS HAVE DONE IN THE LAST 15 YEARS, KODA!" Jesus christ it's like they can't think for themselves and that the Force dictates all their actions instead of them. Jedi as puppets of a higher power. Might as well start calling it The Force^tm.

All this stuff being canon is shit shit shit-ity SHIT. 

Only cool thing about being a Jedi is the powers and the saber. ONLY THING.

[Cyrrex]

Only cool thing about being a Jedi is the powers and the saber. ONLY THING.

What and odd thing to say.  Even just having something like Mind Trick would be basically the most amazing thing ever.  Of course, the stuff I'd do with it would probably technically be of the dark side.

[LK]

I subscribe to the Jedi School of Katarn. Using Force Lightning as a Light Side Jedi ain't hurt nobody but the bad guys.

[stu]

I found the text version of The Force Unleashed at the library and decided to read it. Awful stuff but finding out the origin of the Rebel logo was kinda cool.

[LK]

I finally 1000'd this game and can safely put it into the DO NOT FUCKING WANT TO SEE EVER AGAIN pile.

On a side note, once you avoid the ass-tastic parts of the system, the highest difficulty setting becomes nothing special. You'll still die frustrating deaths but at that point you're numb to the pain.

[Azazel]

I'm playing through this on medium at the moment, but I'm finding the most painful part of the game (besides the sub-par controls) are the occasional holocrons that require a jump-jump-dash, yet still seem out of range.

Specifically the one in the Sarlaac chamber, and the one where the catwalks radiate out, down the lift at the junk planet factory thing.

 

[Azazel]

Figured it out. got to tack a force dash blast to the end of the leap and dash. 

That Star Destroyer bit is 

[Yegolev]

It's all worth it to use a jawa as a grenade to kill other jawas.

[Azazel]

I'm replaying it now on the wii and the story is slightly different, (A couple of different locales and cutscenes) but the thrust of the story is the same, plus there's the added value of duel mode to keep the missus occupied sometimes too.

I'm also replaying through the 360/PS3 version again too, this time, fully powered up with all the gear, powers and know-how gained from playing through the first time. All the frustrating stuff in the boss fights is virtually non-existent now. It may get old fast, but we'll see how it goes.

I didn't think there was a game+ type thing? Or are you just level selecting within your beaten game?

If you choose "Continue Game", it starts you off with the Apprentice's first mission. Only you're fully kitted out.

Any way to play through the other difficulty levels fully kitted up? Or do you have to start from scratch?

Seems the only way to get the achievements for the harder difficulty levels is to start them up and not change them during play, but hitting "continue" from my existing finished game just plays through again on that difficulty. And fuck levelling up from zip again, along with starting from 0 holocrons...

 

On a similar note, with the DLC (which I haven't purchased) you have o "start new game" to play the coruscant temple.. but "start new game" again means "start new jedi wth nothing"...

[K9]

That Star Destroyer bit is 

Yes. This could be a good contender for one of the worst set pieces in any game ever.