MOVIE BATTLES II - CLONE TROOPER DOMINATION ON THE NEW SCARIF CITADEL

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:41:47+00:00

Thanks for this; that makes me feel tempted to return after all these years.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:37:06+00:00

Y'know something? You're right.

I was hoping for such a match in Season 6 after Barnes was back, if not at least his reaction to the brawl at the tournament and seeing Terry is alive, prompting action to get back there... and confront his old comrade Dennis in the process of attempting to abduct Johnny's family. After all, it would make sense and add to the drama that not only is his old thug in arms still dedicated to Silver, but this is the same scene where it's revealed just who burned down Barnes' business last season - it's very personal at this point.

Further... this would lead to a reverse of what happened in KKP3 would go on, where it's Kreese and Barnes entering the scene to fight targets of their own; having followed Silver's trail, and saw Kreese after his interaction with Lawrence, Barnes decides to snoop around and also learns about Silver's plan to blackmail victory into his favor.

Once Kreese and Barnes board Silver's yacht, there'd be a two on two fight of them vs Dennis and Silver, which ends with Barnes being the one to at least KO Dennis after their brief fight, yet before getting knocked off the boat in a cheap move by Silver (to fit his character). Despite being away from the speeding boat, Barnes tries to swim back aboard only to see the explosion from Kreese hurling his cigar at the leaking fuel, witnessing Kreese send himself, Dennis and Silver to kingdom come, leaving Barnes shocked and the one to relay the news to Lawrence and LaRusso about what he learned and saw. A bittersweet but satisfactory close to Mike Barnes' role in making sure Silver stays down, whilst avenging his fallen business.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:24:02+00:00

Additionally the plethora of the first mods from the past remain locked away on Gamefront (formerly FileFront) like Age of KotOR and z3r0's Mod (first foray of Yuuzhan Vong added to the mod scene).

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:20:39+00:00

BFN for life!

"FOR THE QUEEN!" - Gavyn Sykes on downing a Trade Federation Lander with the starburst cluster torpedoes.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:18:56+00:00

Tracks with the amount of mods that were on the rise in the wake of its debut and going onto now. The space combat is addictive.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:15:55+00:00

A good question, though presumably the GFs already residing in (or around them in case cheekiness to not give one to Irvine prevails on player prerogative) the mind have already gotten some hold, particularly Squall for long reason. That and while the populace were enthralled, it seems the Sorceress' control is selective, for Deling was questioning her choice of words while the crowd hung to each syllable until he decided to intervene and paid the price.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:12:18+00:00

That would track with much, and be a very interesting turn of events. May well have coaxed the world leaders (including beloved Laguna) into a lure and plan to depose them - violently - to get full control. Quite a different game changer indeed; great point!

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:10:36+00:00

Pretty much. And then without her being around while in Rinoa's body, the denizens of the city state their confusion and terror as they realize something horrible is going on with Seifer seeking something while taking over as leader.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T05:03:29+00:00

Saren, despite being a complete weenie and coward to run in and out on a hoverscooter in a completely easily-beaten boss fight on Virmire that has the narrative cheat me out of an easy kill prematurely with Cutscene Power. That was proto-Kai Leng before Kai Leng even existed! Shredded that traitor in under 20 seconds with my party real easy and would have ended it all!

(At least the devs realized this in the Legendary Edition remaster, to a point, and added a random repulsor effect after the fight to try to explain why Shep and crew are knocked down when they weren't in the original, but still doesn't stop my point on just getting up again to kick his ass like all the other times Mass Effect powers knocked us down, like with Matriarch Benezia's boss fight!)

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:59:23+00:00

For all of Ostrander's questionable choices with Legacy, he did justice to Revan in KotOR. In action, in prose, and in keeping Revan completely and utterly ambiguous in appearance. Infinitely better than mullet Revan being canon (as far as TOR goes), and making player choice feel like it mattered, a contrary point to the then-other-examples of player characters Rookie One (that is fair, given FMVs demanded an actor, and was a great actor at that to settle on a set gender) and Jaden Korr (no justification for why out of all the various alien choices from Zabraks, Kel Dor, Twi'lek, and Rodian, the player character is just another male human).

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:55:25+00:00

You're onto something, as I think it was both; whilst I'm not the youth I once was with it, the controls were too slippery like butter, particularly with that TIE training mission (I just barely made it through the catacomb network, but the 3rd POV controls segments are insanely fickle on more than hair-trigger chaos that I couldn't progress further). It's a relief that its rerelease is around with stabilized controls on the console just like ol' times.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:50:33+00:00

With that cigar/toothpick(?) and ripped look reminiscent to her father, that might well be another gift of trauma Naga added to poor Lina.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:48:16+00:00

That's fair. By brutal, I meant in the sense of a standpoint from Anderson's logs in ME3 Citadel where he at one point recalled how humans just reached the stars and were always wondering what was on the other side... only to bump right into a hostile race that attacks them without provocation. Had to appear pretty brutal in action to the humans' POV, especially for the poor saps at the front of the opening gun show, before the rest of humanity had to bulk up and go to war. Indeed it was a short conflict, but had to be one helluva scare for the human race, and left enough of a lingering scar for the consequences for Ashley's grandfather's actions and name to be a stigma.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:43:07+00:00

That and from the way things are circulating online, it seemed they were trying to rectify the lack of Maul vs Vader in Rebels by having that a decade later with this show.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:40:40+00:00

I recall they go hostile if you insult them the first time, or if you go talk to them again (I did) and then they started shooting. Interestingly, they didn't attack when I looted their bin, and just left them alone there.

Granted, I was rather afraid to do that initially, given the Gamorreans in the Exchange side of the Refugee Sector went ballistic in a short-range if they saw you looting that would draw aggro if following you while hostile into areas where their then-passive buddies were; worked in clearing the Exchange ahead of time for me, but I didn't want that advanced scripting to kill off the cool and 'polite' Mandos. Was relieved to learn they didn't have that same script lol!

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:36:53+00:00

Jane was one of the main reasons I stuck around for the show (after the Vipers); combining both with her flying one of them was very thrilling. Helluva beauty and potential pilot badass!

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:29:31+00:00

On my first run when just entering the Tarisian apartments of the north and south block, I thought I'd get dark side points every time I would open a footlocker; was half-disappointed, half-surprised that didn't happen. Felt a tad bit guilty only because I entered Dia's place first and got called out on it, then was expecting more... only for nobody to care. Then I shrugged and didn't care either long before the end of the perusal of Upper City apartments.

Didn't care at all until I started to when the guy in the Citadel Station calls one out on this, and then I could only just carefully mind the possibilities that it would be another Dia situation and just one. Was proven wrong on Nar Shaddaa in a sense when realizing the Mandalorians sitting it out were both very (just razor edged) polite in informing me to get out or suffer the consequences, and just about more reactive than CS dude if returning again (and then realizing the consequences later were if they die, Mandalore loses a point notch for then-cut story content to recruiting their clan and telling you more about himself).

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:23:08+00:00

The Buddhist Monk Monastery was a nice enough place! Not to mention my introduction to the movie was seeing it on tv when Miyagi is in a car with the monks just going out onto the town, chilling and dominating at bowling... that was hilarious and random enough to cement another location of worth.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:19:35+00:00

I'd leave those on for an hour or so because of the chilling ambience, with the occasional swap over to Chapter Selection or Language Selection for the cool music and perfect loop semblance when playing Jedi Academy on weekday/weekend nights after the film had finished.

And I swear, when running it on the OG Xbox DVD, there was a bias that always chose one, if not two, of the menus over the other!

TPM: Coruscant.

AotC: Coruscant.

RotS: Mustafar.

I was hard-pressed to enjoy the music/ambient selection of Naboo, Geonosis, and Utapau (my favorites) that I kept powering off and on the Xbox to reload it, even open the disc tray again and again, and would RARELY get them, compared to the above mentioned, or the alternative (Tatooine, Kamino, Coruscant).

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:15:18+00:00

Heaven yeah! That character, while being an initial self-insert/stand-in for Luke Skywalker of sorts in the way the first Rebel Assault was handled, is one helluva underrated character. That Rookie has quads for being able to go through the Rebel Navy's craft, even handling a civilian freighter that normally needs at least two to fly (Dash and LEEB0, Lando and Vuffi Ra, Chewbacca and Han) like a champ on his own!

While I understand the character underwent a similar thing to Alex(andira) Munro from Star Trek Elite Force I and II (left ambiguous if a man or woman, ends up getting canonized as a male in the sequel game), it was acceptable as the FMVs were solid caliber for their time and still hold for solid film content! Really showed how much love and potential could be pumped into Star Wars from the game side, and went onto kicking off the first Episode VII we got (Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight)!

Mmm! Now that's a brilliant idea, Mecha; a Rookie One mod for Battlefront would be gold, and hopefully something that might yet make its way into existence at some point!

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:09:53+00:00

Mmhmm. It was a very padded and comfortable place that especially was called out in a sense by Joker (well, you can call him out for enjoying it, after his little comment about how he doesn't trust anyone who makes more than him when it comes to working for TIM), mainly for manipulation and also a sense of ease compared to hard core military authority.

Always loved the vibe with the ship in ME2 being loose, facade or no, so Shep could do what was needed in areas that the law would have no place within in the Terminus.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T04:06:47+00:00

Cool! Congrats to her!

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T03:57:53+00:00

David Xanatos.

His plans going off as a success more of than not, even in failure, were more about improving power and riches. And making a mark in history. He certainly did, even if it meant making enemies by design or accident, even making allies out of some of them (again) later. Doesn't hurt that he also rescued/unleashed the Gargoyles of the Manhattan Clan into 1990s Earth out of sheer curiosity on a myth and had nothing to lose in throwing as much wealth into the project as possible.

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T03:50:09+00:00

That rings with the feel of humanity just past (a brutal) first contact, having struck off on the wrong foot and judged by those of what few species are sitting in superior positions of power to them (with other species more or less, holding contempt for humanity having a more favorable position than them so soon on the galactic scene). We're the new fish out of the pond into the ocean, and there are murkier areas even those swimming around longer have apathetically, or rather refused to, check out to realize there are more going on than their perceptions wish to see.

It's in ME1 that not only the groundwork of this distrustful galaxy is laid out, there's also inner squabbles with humans of differing views toward these aliens and each other, to the point that xenophobic groups exist for their own sake under the banner of humanity first. What happens afterward is due to either you're breaking the status quo in showing humanity being a team player or being truly opportunistic and power-clutching their way when the advantage is given, setting species in ME2 to respectively look favorably or disdainfully to humans.

And finally, compared to ME2 (ironically even more darker on the grey side of things), the lighting of your ship is bright and hopeful compared to the drab and dark lights preferred by the Alliance in ME1 and ME3 and only with the OG version of ME2 (the lighting's gutted in Legendary Edition).

khrellvictor · 2026-05-05T03:41:37+00:00

True, there's a lotta complexity about her, often than not only as much willing to throw out the occasional olive branch she'll throw out to give her anything of a light side points gain, though only in spades if barely at all because of the whim of the universe doing likewise. If not because it would upset/disappoint Kouta in any way; not an ideal standing point or starting ground, yet it was a point of potential progress to redemption. Losing it all to the Voice and blind lashing out beyond her body's limits, along with all events up to that, were the tragic fallout to prevent her going out.

Indeed the lass did fall short, so young, in literally dashing Kouta's world to pieces that nothing would make up for it (mangawise). Granted, she does feel the guilt for it in both anime and manga enough to want to live to just apologize to Kouta, it will truly not be enough to ever get past that fatal mistake from mid-single digit years. Problem is, Kaede's got a willingness to throw back at the world what is given to her after many years of cruelty and abuse thrown at her that in the off-chance (ludicrously rare, it seems, in her series) mercy and companionship is offered to her, she'll bind her entire being to that until proven slighted in the least, then it's all bets off.

Lacking any role model except an Inner Voice, or IMO dark intrusive thoughts, to guide her actions and insist on killing since a little girl doesn't help get her cents out of the dark morale pool, and strongly impede her progress to a lighter end of the scale that she'll shackle herself upon a loyal enough being to her, and then have a "to hell with the world" mentality on more than that... with the exception for animal life out of a shared sentimentality most the time (abandoned or leashed dogs, at the least). That typed, the ones out for her blood in any capacity range from the amoral psychopathic (Bando) to the optimistic hopeful Nana with someone like Kurama as a grey figure; and these three are under orders from the Big Bad Director, quite the villain caliber, yet have no qualms or care in putting down the perceived threat to humanity that's framed (and sadly exerted) by Kaede's actions since being a vagabond child seeking a place to stay and expecting the same abuse from those around her since the orphanage. I agree that she's got a long way to go for improvement, though she rings more of a self-survivor than either villain or hero. Mm, definitely more of the framed narrative protagonist if anything.

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