Great news, GG. Gaming sucks anyway.

gamingeek said:

Well no gaming for me. My wrists are feeling a lot better and the tendons in other parts of my body hurt less.

I'd say I'm about 70% recovered from it. The wrists tend to flare up a couple of hours a day but it's nowhere near where it was. And the tendons where the feet meet the ankle play up occasionally. I guess resting them for weeks/months has helped and I think all the supplements I've been on have helped too. Not sure I should restart gaming yet.

Don't rush your recovery.  I would take another few weeks off gaming.  And even after that you shouldn't do any overly stressful gaming ... just Animal Crossing and Endless Ocean then.

~~How Red Fly Studios Got the Job to Work on the Canceled New IP from Nintendo and LucasArts

~~“They kind of kept us on the hook,” Borth recalls. “They told us Force Unleashed III was coming, and there were some rumors we might actually get the next-gen versions to prove ourselves worthy, but they just kind of dismissed us as, ‘You are just the Wii guys. You can’t do that.’ When publishers look at you, you have to fit into their wheelhouse or you don’t get the job.”

~~“They kind of kept us on the hook,” Borth recalls. “They told us Force Unleashed III was coming, and there were some rumors we might actually get the next-gen versions to prove ourselves worthy, but they just kind of dismissed us as, ‘You are just the Wii guys. You can’t do that.’ When publishers look at you, you have to fit into their wheelhouse or you don’t get the job.”

~~“We wanted people to see him as a kid kidnapped by emperor Palpatine and tortured – physically, mentally, and emotionally – becoming this powerful Sith Lord,” says a developer who worked on the project but wishes to remain anonymous. “You got angry, you got frustrated, and you made the same mistakes he did. No one has ever seen Sith training up close. No one has ever seen how to construct a Sith from kid to adult. We’ve only seen the five-second turn: Anakin Skywalker cries a little bit, and then he’s evil.”

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“We were told Maul survived his encounter with Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace,” says a former Red Fly team member who wishes to remain nameless. “We fashioned robotic legs on Maul after being told he had them. Then we were told he had a brother named Savage Opress. He was supposedly green. Again, we were not told of the Clone Wars storyline at this time.”

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“We were kind of fumbling around in the dark in terms of lore, so we just started making a game instead, which was kind of fun,” recalls another anonymous ex-Red Fly employee. “The initial plan was to explore making a stealth game that was action-centric. So instead of a stop-and-wait game like Thief, it was more forward stealth, like kill that person before they can actually alert someone, then disappear into the rafters. We also started developing the concept of Maul as a glass cannon. Taking our cues from Arkham Asylum, you are insanely powerful and deadly, but one or two hits will take you out.”

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“We discussed ways to make the core gameplay loop compelling,” recalled an anonymous source. “We said Darth Maul’s connection to the Force was through generating fear. The idea was to f— with the A.I., and generate fear to build up your ability to use the Force, execute stealth kills, and manipulate the environment. It was exciting, cool stuff. Later on, we learned this was probably a little bit of a misstep.”

~~“Before they could finish their spiel, Lucas cut them off, stood up, walked over to the statues, rotated them to be facing the same direction, pushed them together, and said ‘They’re friends!’” adds the source. “He wanted these characters to be friends, and to play off of each other. He talked about the show Bum Notice as a reference point. He likened Darth Maul to Sonny from The Godfather, and he likened Darth Talon to Lauren Bacall. He actually did an impersonation of her. It was supposedly the weirdest impersonation of a ’40s actress going, ‘Don’t you know how to whistle? Put your lips together and blow.’”

~~“We had this Arkham mechanic with lightsabers, and he wanted us to come up with a mechanic that would allow the player to deflect incoming laser fire, which is not that difficult,” remembers a former Red Fly developer. “But at the same time, we had to direct it back, and control it while not breaking combat or using time dilation. That was quite a feat. We almost cracked it, and we came up with something that was kind of a hybrid and almost workable, but we really didn’t feel like deflection was a Maul trait. Maul is just about attack. Attack, attack, attack, attack. We had heads flying everywhere.”

What did Lucas want?! Weird.

Of course Maul could deflect laser, wtf is he supposed to do if someone shoots him. All Jedi's deflect lasers, if they couldnt there would be no point in being a jedi, you'd be dead.

Lucas wanted Burn Notice Star Wars. Buddy cop game.

Lucas is either permanently drunk or suffering from the 4th stage of syphillis when dementia starts to kick in.

HOLY CLUSTERFUCK!! REGISTERING FOR A SQUARE-ENIX ACCOUNT WAS NEXT TO FRICKIN' IMPOSSIBLE!!! IT TOOK ME OVER AN HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES ! ! !

...and now it's downloading a 580MB... something...

OVER TWO HOURS AND I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE GAME YET ! ! !

I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD GET SICK OF THE FINAL FANTASY THEME SONG, but AFTER IT LOOPING FOR TWO HOURS, I HOPE TO NEVER HEAR IT AGAIN.

I AM SOOOOOOO REGRETTING MY PURCHASE ! ! !

So you are going to start now Leo? What server?