Fingers crossed that it isn’t mainly about setting up future movies and can put a wrap on the character’s journeys. It won’t surprise me if Grogu is in the rebuilt Jedi order movie with Rey. I’m also curious about Mangold’s film, but the most recent Indiana Jones movie has tempered my expectations a bit as well. When is Andor season 2 out?
Such a good read. That’s really funny how the universe far, far away took modern weapons as a blueprint for their props. I’m not entirely sure where I sit there, with SG having this obsession with P90 and StarTrek having TV remotes for guns. It all seems goofy, and I don’t really mind it. A defining detail most miss, but the one we can read on in posts like yours. Thank you.
There’s a huge rabbithole to go into about visual language and aesthetic coding.
Star Wars original trilogy was Flash Gordon meets WW2, but with an added layer of grime and strange extra details to keep it from exactly being either of its main influences. Not just with the blasters, but with everything.
Star Trek started out with Flash Gordon raygun looking phasers, because probably in the 1960s they just thought it was the thing to do. In TNG the dust buster phasers were an intentional choice to signal a kinder, gentler Federation. It’s easier to look non-threatening without a big iron on your hip.
Stargate guns needed to be recognizable as modern military, but all the normal choices would be generic. An unusual gun gives the show more of an identity. In the first couple of seasons they used MP5s that had Colt scopes on them to make them more unusual than a normal MP5, but eventually they discovered something more unique with the P90. Given that decades later the sight of a P90 makes people talk about Stargate, I’d say it worked.
I know I’m a little off-topic but I’ve been trying on and off to get this game to work for years. Are you playing on Windows? I can’t get it to start up properly. Any tips?
If I can get it working, I do have an xbox controller for my PC and would be happy to share my experience!
I changed my PC pretty extensively since the last time I played, but on my old setup with pretty middle of the road hardware and Windows 10, it fired right up.
I’ll try it again on the new setup and report back.
Well not sure what was different this time but it fired right up after install.
I didn’t test extensively but the controller support seemed to work reasonably well. I just played through Mos Eisley and nearly got gold even with a little delay on figuring out controls.
There are definitely some tweaks to the control scheme I’ll want to make - it doesn’t follow modern conventions very well (e.g. the fire button isn’t any of the trigger/shoulder buttons). The only issue I noticed is if I accelerated, the camera didnt always keep up. I’m not sure what exactly is causing that. I’ll have to play with settings later to see if I can get it right.
IMO, much better than keyboard though, for my preference anyway.
Unrelated to the controller, it doesn’t want to use the right sound output and I can’t figure out how to control that. In my setup a fairly minor inconvenience. I might be able to figure that out when I get more time to mess with it.
Good. And I will definitely go with the controller. My quick test flying around with mouse and keyboard was pretty terrible. I can get used to an unusual button layout I hope.
If you check out the Steam Community for it, there are tutorials to getting it working.
I’ve struggled with controller support and the “camera drifts into oblivion forever” bug, and eventually ran out of time to mess with it. Would love to get it working again someday.
The copy-paste of the X-wing vector art is pretty lazy and very Graphic Design 101. Surprised there’s no “EST. 34 BBY” text and some arrows and random font glyphs.
You should definitely watch Andor, it’s perhaps some of the best Star Wars content ever made. It is the only piece of the Disney content that can stand beside the original trilogy and, perhaps, has more to say. It’s very good.
I haven’t bothered with Mandalorian season 3, but seasons 1 and 2 were good in different ways. Based on initial responses, I don’t think I’ll ever watch season 3.
You should definitely watch Andor, it’s perhaps some of the best Star Wars content ever made. It is the only piece of the Disney content that can stand beside the original trilogy and, perhaps, has more to say. It’s very good.
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