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  • Yea me too, there are certain aspects of emulation that gives a better experience that in my opinion makes up for not playing on original hardware, such as save states and fast forwarding. I dont have the time to play games for two hours at the time often so if save options are scarce i wont progress without save states. And skies of arcadia would have been a nightmare to play without fast forward, i think i skipped 6-8 hrs of repetitive attack animations in my playthrough (as judged by diff in play time in retroarch vs in-game).

    But i would love to play on original hardware once in a while still











  • From a lore and world building perspective, absolutely. If you like what Andor has done with those, and I’ve particularly been enjoying the world building, CW will probably hit the spot for you.

    This sounds very good! :)

    There is a lot of Clone Wars. It’s not going to be as tight as Andor or even all relevant, especially since it’s an anthology series.

    Yea thats what keeping me from just diving in without seeking the jedi council for advice first!

    There are some real stinkers and some boring episodes/arcs. The Jar Jar stuff, the droid stuff, a lot of it is a miss for me.

    There was posted a list above here with essential episodes - i hope that perhaps skips the worst of this. I would really not like to sit through too much jar jar - he was more insufferable than i could remember…

    Really makes the Clone Wars as an event seem very important to the universe, whereas going by the movies alone it’s almost a background event that we get at the end of one movie and the beginning of another. Overall, I think it does a really good job of fleshing out the characters, their motivations, and their relationships. Adds a lot more weight to RotS, especially season 7.

    Yea i always found something lacking when they didnt go into this. Seems like it is worth a watch from my perspective!



  • Ah good to know - i really enjoyed some of the EU back in the day, like the kyle katarn stuff and shadow of the empire (maybe its mostly nostalgia). But i guess whatever happens in the clone wars game will not be “accurate” as the lore input im after. I did barely play both it and republic commando as a kid - i remember republic commando being pretty cool, but at the time i couldnt get into it (maybe i couldnt figure out the tactical stuff or maybe i was just too busy force grip kicking people online in jedi academy?). Cool to hear it has a widescreen fix! I see its on gog, so i might grab myself a copy!



  • Without getting all the references we at least found lower decks to stand very well on its own. Will rewatch once ive seen all of the tng-era shows as i think you obviously get more out of it if you also get the references, but my point was just that its not a prerequisite to enjoy it.

    Im only about 4 episodes into s02 of tng so far. I was just expecting s01 and s02 to really suck based on discussions and recommendations to skip straight to s03. But ive had a good time so far and now i am really looking forward to s03 if it is so much better.