Phil Owen's discussions

That's just because more people played it than the others since it was a launch title. I will say that key folks on that franchise see it how I do, for whatever that's worth to anyone. Read more

the creative director name dropped it in one of the quotes (after I brought it up to him), and in an earlier draft I did have an aside about that game being the start of Insomniac's rehab but I think I lost it in editing. Read more

I think it's just more that Insomniac didn't quite figure out how to do those concepts well. I'm sure they could get it over time (see: Resistance, which had a bad first game and then significant improvements from there), but I doubt they're going to do anymore like them. Read more

Perfectly smooth, though the demo didn't have to render the whole city. It did crash on me once, but that doesn't mean anything now. Read more

not YET, maybe. Read more

who said it was bad? Read more

It's many things, but yes there's definitely some Crackdown 2 in there. Read more

and those were good! The not so good ones were All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault. Read more

I tried out that energy drink, btw.

The be fucking sure, we're talking about a fictional fucking universe that has had six movies, hundreds of novels, hundreds of comics and dozens of video games set within it. And in this universe, in which there are thousands of species of aliens everywhere at all times, the primary protagonists are left-wing… Read more

I bet you're just a joy in real life and this comment is merely an anomaly. Read more

They're putting it at 30 years after. So between the New Jedi Order and Legacy of the Force, kinda a ridiculous context for a movie since the Vong burned down half the galaxy in the NJO. Read more

If I could give you a negative star I would do it. Read more

There's a picture of them in the article above the section that is about that era? Read more

See also: Dromund Kaas. Read more

Zahn was the only one who did clones decently in the EU. Specifically by making his villain clone Jedi Master be fucked in the head, and by having a clone Luke that is little more than a unsettling robot. And in Hand of Thrawn, he did the "these are new, unique beings" thing well before Clone Wars with the… Read more

There's already a Star Wars version of that called Infinities. This is more like what DC did with The New 52. Read more

sadly Durga killed poor Crix Madine beforehand, though. Read more

I like Stackpole's stuff. Allston's has more personality, though. Read more

Well, the day Disney announced more movies was the day I knew this was coming. So I've had a while to deal. Read more