Especially since we know he’ll fight Eobard Thawne at some point in the future.

Well Thawne said they were watching them all, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. Fuhrer Ollie decided that having them all in one place for a wedding WAS the perfect opportunity, but didn’t mention this to Thawne.

Fox only actually has exclusive rights to the Super-Skrull. Apparently Skrulls in general are fair game for Marvel Studios, and they’re going to be the baddies in the Captain Marvel movie.

Building a game from the ground-up to convince players to “waste” money on it is in no way something invented by EA. If you think designing games to manipulate people into spending money is a new thing, then you aren’t old enough to have spent much time in arcades and you’ve never played an MMO.

The 4000+ hours claim is spurious at best and doesn’t even factor in the question of whether unlocking every single thing in the game is even a desirable goal.

The upgrades you get from Star Cards in SWBF II are not “large advantages” in the game. They’re minor incremental upgrades. Having a grenade with a 7-foot…

How are they forcing anyone to buy lootboxes? Yes, they created an incentive to buy loot boxes, but there’s a vast chasm between that and “forced.”

See, I think that the paid lootboxes were an EA mandate, and I think the developers thought it would dovetail nicely in with their plans to release all DLC for free - paid DLC balkanizing the player base was a big problem for the last Battlefront. Obviously, that was a pretty far-off assessment of how it would be…

I think it’s eminently fair to describe it as an “arcade game.” I’m pretty happy about that fact, since I’m not really into hyper-competitive hardcore shooters.

This game, though? I’m having a ridiculous good time in this game.

The money is theoretically to pay for the development of future DLC, since they’re not charging for any of the DLC this time around.

I dunno. Mileage will vary of course, but I’ve been having a great time playing this game. Gameplay is quite fun, I’m especially enjoying Starfighter Assault.

I mean, sure he can whatever opinion he wants, but I think a significant number of people would likely agree that the theatrical experience is a crapshoot at best.

Agreed. I mean, “psycho bad dude is secretly gay” was a pretty popular trope in the 80s (and before, and since), but it’s one best left behind. I really hope that’s not where they’re going with it.

I’m kind of perturbed at how many people insist on reading “closeted” into Billy’s character. “Psychotic bad guy is (maybe secretly) gay” is an old trope, far older than the 80s, but it’s a toxic, harmful one and I really hope that’s not where they’re going with this.

50 cents per play is pretty optimistic. I don’t think I ever saw this game take less than a dollar, and sometimes it was 2 whole bucks.

I never did finish the game until they released it on Sega CD. If you play it all the way through with no mistakes, it’s over in something like 15 minutes or less?

I believe that Owens would have done what was necessary, but I also don’t believe that he would sleep very well at night afterward. I think by the end he proved himself to be a decent person who was in WAY over his head.

There was a Jennifer Beals from Flashdance as well, in the background of Billy’s triumphant keg swill...

Nobody’s assembled such a jackpot collection for a child-actor ensemble since the Harry Potter movies.

Thestory mode can also be played co-op with up to four players, as can the separate story chapters that aren’t part of the main story. I had a blast playing through it with friends.

The Ewok movies. Also, there’s the Droids and Ewoks animated series, which is really 8, so yeah nowhere near the bottom five.

My guess is, there was no villain they could have come up with that wouldn’t be seen as a pale imitation of Darth Vader, so they leaned into it and made him literally (and consciously) a pale imitation of Vader. I think it was a pretty good move, resulting in an interesting character.