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West End Games, the creators of the old pen & paper Star Wars Roleplaying Game have been told that Lucas Films always held a tight control on their products.

All West End Games Star Wars products must have been certified from Lucas Films, sometimes this was leading to problems for West End Games.
Hm, maybe is should took a look about the B-Wings Speed in the rulebook of Star Warriors, the Boardgame of Fighter Combat in the Star Wars universe ? wink

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All West End Games Star Wars products must have been certified from Lucas Films, sometimes this was leading to problems for West End Games.

This doesn't in any way mean that they're accurate. If LucasArts did some sort of "lore quality control", the details of the games and books wouldn't be highly contradicting, inaccurate and plain wrong. For example, you wouldn't have one series (X-Wing) where the Star Destroyer's reactor is correctly depicted as a reactor, and one where it's a shield generator (Rogue Squadron).

Sure it got silly, don't tell me about it, but that's not the point.

Inaccurate, sure, but silly? Nah. Nothing is silly after Rebel Strike. T-47's picking up bombs with their tow cables and hurling them into walkers, Luke mowing down half the Imperial assault force on Hoth, singlehandedly, with a pistol, from astride a tauntaun; the horrible dialogue ("I see him!" declares a pilot when a TIE is two meters behind him; "the Imperials must be trying to protect something!" says Luke Einstein while taking on Imperial fighters guarding a facility he knows to be there)... I could go on and on.

Not even Galactic Battleground, with its gungans warriors riding birds of prey into space, is ridiculous after Rebel Strike. The game has vaccinated me for all eternity and nothing will ever make my jaw drop anymore.

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Safe-Keeper wrote:

All West End Games Star Wars products must have been certified from Lucas Films, sometimes this was leading to problems for West End Games.

This doesn't in any way mean that they're accurate. If LucasArts did some sort of "lore quality control", the details of the games and books wouldn't be highly contradicting, inaccurate and plain wrong. For example, you wouldn't have one series (X-Wing) where the Star Destroyer's reactor is correctly depicted as a reactor, and one where it's a shield generator (Rogue Squadron).

Sure it got silly, don't tell me about it, but that's not the point.

Inaccurate, sure, but silly? Nah. Nothing is silly after Rebel Strike. T-47's picking up bombs with their tow cables and hurling them into walkers, Luke mowing down half the Imperial assault force on Hoth, singlehandedly, with a pistol, from astride a tauntaun; the horrible dialogue ("I see him!" declares a pilot when a TIE is two meters behind him; "the Imperials must be trying to protect something!" says Luke Einstein while taking on Imperial fighters guarding a facility he knows to be there)... I could go on and on.

Not even Galactic Battleground, with its gungans warriors riding birds of prey into space, is ridiculous after Rebel Strike. The game has vaccinated me for all eternity and nothing will ever make my jaw drop anymore.

I whas talking about swg....

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Safe was explaining to you why there is no definative source of lore. All official SW games have to get the go ahead by LA but that doesn't mean LA actually goes over them with a fine toothed comb and forces them to stick to Lore, as long as the stormies are white and the DS roughly spherical they are good to go.

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True, i never looked at it like that. I just tought since its the official sw mmo everything gotta be lore-accurate.

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Then again, Battlefront is the official Star Wars "battlefield-clone" (in lack of better terms), but how lore accurate is it?

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LA is developing Battlefront 3, let's hope it's good. And let's hope they dump that childish engine for a more realistic engine. On topic, i think SWBF is pretty lore-accurate, since the game only re-creates the famous battles seen in the movies.

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