Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-1496755-20170920061022

Yeah, it seems to happen with sequels. They'd get a little focus group thing going, try to please anyone, and before you know it the franchise is practically dead. GG, guys.

Awww, don't you just love it when voice actors push it really hard, trying to match the quality of the original game? I've seen this in several third-party add-ons (most notably for StarCraft) and the effect can be pretty amusing (or sad, depending on how you look at it), especially when the new voice actor is actually trying to sound as close as possible to the original character's voice (but ends up sounding like a coyote with a bad case of laryngitis). And, of course, these performances often are overly dramatic. Fun for the whole family!

If I need VM for something, it would be to run some rare 16-bit things, like several games' installers (though I can often make a manual install as well). I think only one game in my collection is specifically 16-bit, and thus requiring to be run in a virtual environment. Microsoft's own XP emulation for Win 7 is sufficient most of the time, even though it's way below the quality of third-party VM's.

Heh, I know the B-wing origin story from the X-wing game... and based on past experience, I suspect the one you've read is mostly different (but still considered more or less canon within the old expanded universe, creating some lovely confusion). Books often seem to exist in their own reality. A game might feature a completely featureless protagonist, a mere player avatar without even a hint of age, gender or ethnicity, while the strategy guide has a detailed and fully-fleshed out character with a biography, emotional issues, all that stuff; this is exactly the case with XW and TF. Speaking of which, their strategy guides offer a pretty good narrative - if you get to them some day, you'd probably enjoy reading them more than that Imperial handbook :P

Ah, you've played Battlefront - yes, it's an excellent example of spamming grenades like crazy. Not uncommon for my own teammates to blow me up while I'm trying to storm the enemy position. Sweet.

Despite Disney's canon reboot, I still like to consider stuff from my favorite SW games as canon. My personal canon, so to speak ;)