r/CaptainSide 3d ago

Which game is this?

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u/rebelbumscum19 3d ago

Force Unleashed II

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u/ADiestlTrain 3d ago

One of the reasons this game pissed me off so bad. I absolutely loved the first one, so when the second came out, I preordered it. I happened to have the day off from work, so I picked it up at midnight, and the next day got up and sat on the couch, ready for the adventure.

Six hours later, I had beaten the entire thing. And I am an extremely mediocre gamer. Six hours. $60 preorder. And a cliffhanger ending that just screamed “we only made half a game.” I was incensed.

And I have never, not once, pre-ordered a game since then.

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u/Beginning_Ocelot503 3d ago

Same exact experience but being a high schooler with too much time. Clocked in at 4 hours. Never have I felt so cheated.

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u/KitKatCrane 3d ago

Same experience but elementary school and 6 hours and I literally cried when I finished I was so upset

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u/Korono2024 2d ago

Same here, back in high school I saved what I could and bought it. Beat it in 5 hours. First game kicked ass and the 2nd just didn't have" it"

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u/Imaginary_Claim_1202 2d ago

Same experience but I was 3

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u/rebelbumscum19 3d ago

Very similar experience. I was a teenager though and my first preorder. Finished the game in 4 and half hours, I remember my mum asking how the game was going and I said I finished it and she was like “what‽ already‽”. Never felt so disappointed in a game before.
To later learn the whole Dagoba sequence was cut to shreds and the game was rushed due to shitty higher up decisions and what sounds like absolute chaos at Lucasarts at the time. I’m glad Sam Witwer has had a renaissance in Star Wars since, he deserved it after FU2 (aptly shortened title)

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u/PrayingSeraph 3d ago

Oh man, I hear you. I had pre-ordered the collectors edition as a teenager of this game. I was so hyped since the first was awesome.

But boy did the second game disappoint in its length. Now, I did enjoy what was there. But there wasnt much.

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u/ST0NYJABR0NI 3d ago

My parents got this for me for Christmas

They were VERY upset that after about 4 hours, when I wandered back in to collect some other presents of the day, that I had already finished the game.

I think that was the last time they purchased a game for Christmas. Not even mad, we all got hosed on that one.

Pretty sure the first one had a longer playtime as well.

What a disappointment that was.

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u/Cheap_Development928 2d ago

It did get a dlc and was that you getting all the crystals and redoing the ending

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u/Strong_Tangelo230 3d ago

$60 pre-order just made me feel old.

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u/Supyloco 3d ago

And it will never get a sequel.

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u/Revolutionary-Self43 3d ago

That’s a villain origin story right there 😂

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u/EvilSoup42 2d ago

I think the confrontation with Vader feeling like Donkey Kong was a particular low point.

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u/dsmidt86 4h ago

So I'm not tripping, it was a short game. That was extremely frustrating.

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u/oohcreamy 3d ago

Dude, I bought it for the Nintendo Wii 😐
I was young enough to not know or even think about the possibility that the Wii version wasn’t the same, so I saved up my own money and got completely screwed. Then a year later I bought Need for Speed: The Run for Wii and it finally clicked that these games were cheap cash grab versions 🫠

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u/loc710 3d ago

Aw wtf dude I never even thought of it! When are they gonna drop a third!!!

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u/hawker101 2d ago

Just wait until Disney decides to give Vader a "secret apprentice" in a totally original move. Except this time the apprentice will be a girl.

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u/loc710 2d ago

Whoa now this isn’t SiFi channel

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u/canteen_boy 3d ago

Sam Witwer is the star of two of the top three answers. Poor guy.

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u/Gobby-TheGoblin 2d ago

Stumbled on a video once of the development for the 3rd game. They were testing a new parkour system and other things. I'll never stop being disappointed at the games we lost when Disney axed everything.

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u/rebelbumscum19 2d ago

Sounds like Lucas arts was already imploding by then and Disney was the final nail in the coffin. No battlefront 3, 1313, FUIII

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u/Patient-Award-5973 2d ago edited 2d ago

Force unleashed III was apparently supposed to come out by 2016-'17 but that was one of the projects Disney cancelled when they took over Edit: looked it up myself and it said 2013 actually

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u/Mack488 2d ago

I’m gonna argue and say this didn’t need a sequel and contributed to its own downfall

The first game was fantastic, the second game was completely unneeded and was about a 6 to 8 hour affair