I felt a great disturbance in the force (Star Wars Kinect)

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as if a million star wars fans cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

The link leads to video of Star Wars Kinect gameplay. I never thought Lucas could screw up worse than Greedo shooting first or that floppy eared Steppin Fetchit in The Phantom Menace, but he’s outdone himself here. Maybe it was just an insane game designer and Lucas O.K’d it because he just doesn’t give a shit anymore, or maybe Lucas really wants to kill the entire franchise and rape the corpse. Whatever the reason, Han Solo just doesn’t do that. Damn you, George. Damn you to Mustafar.

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Are you kidding? That’s awesome!

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Love it. That’s fantastically cheesy and funny.

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Fact: The [del]Prequels[/del] ENTIRE STAR WARS FRANCHISE would have been over 9000% better if it was just this looped over and over.

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OK, first of all, what the heck is a dancing minigame doing in Star Wars? Second, what the heck is that song doing in, well, anywhere in existence? And third, what’s with all of the >AWESOME< crotch shots?

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I feel like I just watched a Robot Chicken sketch.

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:confused:

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This.

Star Wars nerds are far too precious about stuff.

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Ha, the “Chewie Hug” and the “Double Blaster”. At least they came up with some good names.

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Did you see how close they were dancing to an open Carbon Feeding Chamber?! The Bespin chapter of OSHA will not be pleased.

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C’mon, now. I’ve seen you get “precious” when it comes to Doctor Who.

Even though my OP might seem otherwise, this is less about nerd rage and more about “that’s just wrong! … but it’s fucking hilarious”.

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My view is that it would be hilarious, if it were fan-made content like Robot Chicken. But it has no place in officially-licensed material.

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Agreed.

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Why?

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Nah. I just think the most recent series was crap and River Song annoyed me. Precious is nerd rage over the string bits in the theme tune or that the Daleks are the wrong colour.

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Just noticed my phone changed “Freezing” to “Feeding.” Guess now I have to give back my Tauntaun sleeping bag :frowning:

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Put me down for Awesome. Do/will they have it for the Wii?

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It’s distributed by Microsoft Studios, so it seems unlikely.

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And this is of the same level. This is disliking the direction a video game is taking the character.

I’m trying to figure out how to explain the reason I wouldn’t find this sort of thing funny in an official release, but I’m having trouble. The best I can do is point to something I actually am a fan of (Star Trek) and point out that, if in the new movie, Spock were to start dancing to a song about a certain hobbit, I would not be amused, despite the fact that I would think it hilarious if this showed up on something like Family Guy. The latter is referencing and making a joke, The former is retconning a character.

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Nope. The difference is the level of outrage. I didn’t like the most recent series of Doctor Who (yet still watched it, would still call it better than most TV of that type right now and have been watching the show since I were a nipper) and didn’t liek one character and mentioned so in a couple of threads that directly dealt with that series and that character. Nerd rage is when the sheer mention of it becomes “MY GOD THIS IS THE WORST THING EVAH LUCAS HAS RAPED MY CHILDHOOD” over reaction that is all over the net regarding this Kinect game.

The reason why? Far too precious about their little Star Wars and having absolutely no sense of humour.

That’s right, people that get all bothered by this have no sense of humour. That’s a fact.