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ninja_turbo

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Dec 08, 2008 15:42

This started out as a 21st Century Geeks blog post, but as it developed, it became more personal, so I've decided that I'd rather post it here.

( Star Wars Force Unleashed Review )

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Comments 5

lillornyn December 8 2008, 21:29:58 UTC

Man, I need to sit down with you sometime (an unrealistic idea, to be sure) and let you in on everything that was going on (or was going to go on) in the KOTOR game I was running with you. Lots of stuff to talk about there.

In related news, did you know that Obi-Wan had a secret lover as well? So even Kenobi missed that part of the asceticism, leaving Yoda as the only paragon of the code.

ninja_turbo December 9 2008, 05:41:53 UTC

Last I'd heard is that they were supposed to give Obi-Wan a Jedi Girlfriend in Ep. II, but never heard that it became canon somewhere along the line.

Now I want to read the fanfic of Yoda's wild youth, filled with temptations of the Dark Side and torrid love affairs.

swan_tower December 9 2008, 00:17:09 UTC

I'm operating almost exclusively from the films here, but the only way I've ever been able to make sense of the philosophy is to assume that neither the Light nor Dark sides of the force are good or evil, but rather that it is possible to do great good or fall to great evil either way. More a yin-yang thing: one side exemplifies attachment (Sith), while another exemplifies detachment (Jedi), and letting either one overwhelm you -> badness.

That is the only interpretation that allows me to accept the moment where Obi-Wan walks away from the screaming, mutilated wreckage of a man he called his brother. If that isn't Light-side detachment leading to evil, I don't know what is.

laurelwen December 9 2008, 00:45:13 UTC

I wouldn't really say that the Jedi forbid love. I would say that they *do* love, though often it is in the more general, agape sense. Love after all is one thing, and *attachment* is another. It is possible to love and not be attached--some would even say that love without attachment is the only real love period ( ... )

anonymous December 9 2008, 14:50:54 UTC

Okay first, minor nitpicky thing; Lucasarts did not develop any of the physics engines or the AI. The two super cool physics engines were Havok for rigid body physics developed by the company of the same name, and Digital Molecular Matter (or DMM) developed by Pixelux. The AI simulator is Euphoria developed by NaturalMotion. Havok has been around for quite a while but DMM and Euphoria are the two super new spiffy things that were in the game. What Lucasarts did was get all three of those engines/simulators to talk to each other and work together, which was the hard part for them. I know that's sort of nitpicky but, you know, giving credit where credit is due and all that.

Now regarding the main part of the your post about the Jedi code, and love, and all that stuff. I think about this stuff all the time, both from an inside the Star Wars universe perspective, and from an outside the universe perspective ( ... )