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Hamill said the same thing in at least two separate interviews. "Like Excalibur." He also said that the stunt man who did Vader tried telling him to do some one handed flourishes anyway. When I watched the movies looking out for this, it made Vader more intimidating. He does one-handed blocks and strikes at the beginning of the ESB fight. Like he can match Luke's strength without trying.

I hate the fights in the prequels soooo much. They're like a bunch of people tapping sticks together. It's a couple kids in the backyard afraid of breaking their toys or hurting one another. I mean, when Luke fought Vader in the originals, those two also kept their distance. But every swing felt strong. When someone blocked, it stuck. When someone dodged, a piece of scenery got destroyed. None of this "swinging the lightsaber up and down, then twirl" crap.

TPM's fight is the closest to a good fight in the entire prequels. But that's because of Ray Park, not his weapon. Lots of flourish, power, and emotion from the actor, even without lines. And the weapon itself sort of highlights a dichotomy between Sith/Jedi, perhaps unintentionally. Jedi have a simple weapon primarily for defense, but with the Sith, fighting and attacking are all they're about, so they get more elaborate. Of course, Attack of the Clones throws part of that idea out with Obi-Wan telling Anakin the lightsaber is his life. Seems kind of redundant. The lightsaber was conceived by Lucas for its defensive properties. The first thing Luke was trained to do was defend.

Halloween too.

Still wasting time with Star Wars Battlefront. I really like it, it's my kind of shooter. Just wish it had more maps, considering there's only three on Walker Assault that are any good. Endor is garbage.

It'd be an interesting narrative device, but a terrible gameplay one. Which means I'd totally play it along with dozens of other people.

Is it true there's no single player campaign? What's the online play like, anyway? CoD-esque, but third person view? I got about 2:30 of play last night and the early verdict is not bad. I haven't played CoD since World War II, so I can't compare. But this is really a first person shooter with a third person option. There's no bunnyhopping, people aren't sniping your spawn from max draw distance (in fact, the only sniper looks to have a cooldown), grenades have a small radius unless you get one of the powerups. Right now gameplay is mainly people taking potshots at one another from long range, only getting kills when someone stands out in the open too long. Eventually everyone gets to a chokepoint and just starts suppressing the crap out of it (which looks very impressive with all the lasers flying about) until someone gets blown up or their capture point flanked. If I had to compare it to something, it would be the earlier Battlefront games from Pandemic. Only instead of classes you have weapon unlocks and power cards. And with a whole lot less content. The lack of content is the only real negative for me. I played the 40 player game mode last night and only saw 4 maps doing it. Also the aerial component of the game is completely pointless. Might be better in Walker Assault. But the arena is too small and the aircraft don't interact with the guys on the ground at all.

I might have just pre-ordered Battlefront for the Darth Vader theme. Does this make me a horrible person? Yes or yes.

Fallout 4 still I just finished off old cornflakes. Taking a break to collect what bobbleheads I can. Almost to Charisma! And then I'll be able to pacify humans. I can pacify Supermutants right now and incite them to attack, which is boffo.

I fully expect him to have embraced evil and I'll be conflicted since he's working with the people who killed his mom. For 5 seconds before I shoot the brat.

Whatever you say, Volo.

I caved and bought Fallout 4 and played it last night. I blame you jerks if I don't like it. It's interesting, but I'm not really hooked. Some high old woman who claims she sees things isn't my idea of compelling storytelling.

Anyone far enough along to get a sense of the level scaling? How bad does it seem to be? I thought Fallout 3's scaling made the game a virtually unplayable chore at high levels. A problem shared with Oblivion and only reduced with Skyrim.

I had some of that a few weeks ago. It tasted like a flat root beer with some alcohol mixed in. Wasn't impressed. Like something I could make myself with Barqs and cheap vodka.

Yeah, there's been rumors about Fallout 4 dropping to low FPS on PS4 for a few days now. Sucks. I wasn't in a hurry to get it as it was, but I wanted to be optimistic overall.

With every new piece of footage revealed, an earlier leak looks more and more accurate. So, if you care about spoilers, be careful. To note though: the earlier leak did not reveal everything. But what it specifically hid might still be considered a spoiler by some.

Also happened in Cataclysm. Everyone's running off to fight the new baddies when Garrosh sees some Alliance. He just drops everything to attack the Alliance for no reason, all hell ensues. Then there was the nuking of Theramore that occured right before Pandaria.

What, a World of Warcraft scene where the Horde aren't stupidly backstabbing the Alliance for no reason? That must be fanmade.

The rage is strong with Mariokart, excellent.

What kind of games? Board games? Competitive multiplayer? Cards Against Humanity? Whatever strikes the fancy at the time.

Ahh, the modern horoscope that is personality tests. PERSONALITY: ISFJ ("THE DEFENDER") VARIANT: ASSERTIVE ROLE: SENTINEL STRATEGY: CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALISM

I haven't watched any Star Wars movie since that last time I tried to get through special edition RotJ and got to the awful musical number. Shut it off and never looked back. Clone Wars cartoon had good stuff in it, though. And hopefully so will this new one.

Holy crap! I got one of those "this is windows tech support, if you check your computer you will find errors" calls today! I didn't know that scam was still running. I didn't have the patience to deal with them too long though.

I'm looking forward to the Bloodborne expansion. And the next Star Wars. That's probably it for the year.

I didn't get that conflict in the leaked clip. I didn't get any conflict, to be honest. Which is the boring part.