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In this episode Alex and Jared discuss Star Wars Squadrons, background lore vs main lore, good and bad game remasters, and how to properly make a game free-to-play.

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Timestamps:

2:41 Star Wars Squadrons first impressions

10:02 Complaining about characterization in Star Wars

19:06 Background lore is better than main lore

19:53 Star Wars Legends lore is way more interesting than cannon lore

25:36 The Halo books deserve more attention

30:09 Background lore needs to be better implemented in mainline series (ex.: cloning Palpatine) and there needs to be an actual vision behind movies

34:56 CGI is not a replacement for good filmmaking (Davey Jones effects vs every single shot in the Star Wars prequels)

44:16 Are Gungans racist? I feel like they're racist

48:03 The Separatists' motivations need to be explained better. Also WTF is the Techno Union?

58:46 Please for the love of god watch Star War The Third Gathers Backstroke Of The West

1:00:53 We don't need a Spider-Man PS4 remake

1:02:10 Our ideal Peter Parker

1:05:02 How not to release a game remaster (Spider-Man PS5 vs Mario 3D All-Stars)

1:10:17 Maybe don't make expensive games free-to-play after people drop a bunch of money on them?

1:17:48 DLC should always be available

Additional Resources:

The opera scene from Revenge Of The Sith: https://youtu.be/VsnJfPcaTP8 (skip to 4:20 to see what I was talking about)

Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke Of The West: https://youtu.be/XziLNeFm1ok

Backstroke Of The West highlight reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DI5WyiHQno

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