I think the simple answer to why Andor, is that he is the type of character Tony Gilroy wanted to write about. His being situated in the star wars universe is mostly unimportant, aside from being an avenue to get disney funding. Andor could easily be sci-fi unrelated to Star Wars at all, there are some misc easter eggs and the Empire exists, but it'd be super easy to file the serial numbers off, and change some of the aesthetics and names.
Andor isn't significant to "skywalker saga" Star Wars, he's just some dude who is pretty competent who starts as a self interested disaffected lowlife dude, and who becomes radicalized to join the nascent rebel alliance. It's just a good story, and I'm glad Tony Gilroy was able to get disney bux to fund it. Its easily the best Star Wars that Disney has made, maybe that anyone has made if I take off my rose-tinted glasses. It's honestly kind of surprising to me that the script got past disney, given how they've gone about Star Wars.
This is basically my starwars story too, though I skipped book of boba fett, and watched obi wan. Obi wan was a huge miss for me, felt like it was 3 times longer than it really had the juice for.
All that said, I loved Andor and am excited for season 2, though I have basically no interest in any future Star Wars beyond it.
Harry potter and bethesda both have built in fanbases despite not being that relevant for the last decade-ish. I'm not very surprised they were able to make 7 and 8 on a top 50 list.
We'll be trying to get our hands on a nice flag with the original design#1953 on it to fly outside our house. This one is fine I guess, but it stings with what could have been.
I think they have to get to the point where they mightbplay a video game on their own before stardew valley would land for them. They weren't particularly inspired by the trailers.
I have a Wii U in storage at my parent's house, I might see about us checking some games out when we visit for the holidays in a couple weeks. I don't want to overwhelm them too much though.
I think this is gonna have the same problem as mario kart, so I probably need to wait until they have some more game experience. Last year when I had my last smash phase they enjoyed the music being on in the background though.
BG3 has been making me want to go back and play some of the earlier D&D crpgs, but it might be a miss for my partner at this point. Neverwinter Nights is based on 2nd edition right?
Looking into secretariat for gloomhaven quickly, it looks really useful, I've been thinking about the gloomhaven video game as an option too. There are things I like about physical more, but I also think it'd be very convenient.
I super appreciate the implied offer, and hope that someone fills your spot. I am however on west coast time, and am kinda half evening shift schedule besides, so I wouldn't be able to make that at all regularly...
Trine 2 got recommended by someone else specifically among the Trine games, and I have that and Magicka in my steam library, unplayed. So I think those might get a shot at some point.
Vermintide 2 is great! I've played quite a bit of it, but I don't think we're quite ready for that yet.
Thanks! I appreciate the rec even if I don'tthink it fits us right now!
Yeah, I've added like 10 games to my steam wishlist with the intent to run 'em by them tonight, might do a once over before though, as I don't want to overwhelm them.
I didn't know animal crossing had local coop, they mentioned being open to animal crossing specifically today, so maybe I'll pick it up. I haven't played an animal crossing game since the one on the DS, I could be down to be their player 2 on it.
I think the simple answer to why Andor, is that he is the type of character Tony Gilroy wanted to write about. His being situated in the star wars universe is mostly unimportant, aside from being an avenue to get disney funding. Andor could easily be sci-fi unrelated to Star Wars at all, there are some misc easter eggs and the Empire exists, but it'd be super easy to file the serial numbers off, and change some of the aesthetics and names.
Andor isn't significant to "skywalker saga" Star Wars, he's just some dude who is pretty competent who starts as a self interested disaffected lowlife dude, and who becomes radicalized to join the nascent rebel alliance. It's just a good story, and I'm glad Tony Gilroy was able to get disney bux to fund it. Its easily the best Star Wars that Disney has made, maybe that anyone has made if I take off my rose-tinted glasses. It's honestly kind of surprising to me that the script got past disney, given how they've gone about Star Wars.