In 1.7 I get to look like Tron. When do I get my Lightcycle?

So only Tron can have flashy lights now? Guess you've never played Halo Reach as the covenant architecture/lighting looked that way as well. Tron wasn't the first to come up with that too.

We should be so lucky.

it's just recoloured vendetta armour (with a different helmet), imp agent only armour at the moment.
It's already in the game, it just doesn't glow like that. (which i actually like so meh)

The first tron movie came out in the 80's. Thought they were the first with glowy suits.What other movie or games used them kinda suits? I want to see it, you peaked my curiosity.

when they did this stuff in SWG it drove me crazy.

Raver glow sticks for entertainers, with accompanying raver dance moves.
Cupid Ewoks
halos and devil horns
candy corn lightsabers


just plain stupid.

Well, I would actually like to see some Ewoks, no idea why some people hate them. Though "cupid" Ewoks is a bit much for me as well.

No. They don't. Leland Chee does. And I'd like to get his opinion on it. As for all the other things, I turn nameplates off. As for an axe, all it needs is to be made of phrik to repel lightsaber blades. Considering the high amount of lightsabers in the galaxy, that might be prudent. We see phrik vibroblades blocking lightsabers in KOTOR I & II. The staves the IG-100 Magnaguard use phrik to parry Anakin's and Obi-wan's lightsabers. So it's not immersion breaking at all.

I'm more concerned with consisency across the brand than immersion. I don't know where you jumped to this conclusion. As for Leia, you asked for one example where it happened in universe. I provided it. You want to salvage your position by saying "forced to wear."

As for the rest, OrionSol has some examples:
But he also forgot the angel and bat wings that were also availible.

There were aspects of SWG that were better than what is found here, but that didn't make the game "Perfection." The sentiment was that certain aspects of SWG should have been folded into this game. SWG being perfect? Far from it.

Before Tron (1982), there were no examples of glowing, highlighted clothing. Once that happened we had "Automan" (failed TV show featuring Desi Arnaz Jr and Chuck Wagner), Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, and all sorts of glowies found in raves and clubs across the globe. So Tron being a pioneer of the vision, gets the credit for the concept.

Good point. The Star Wars universe was supposed to have that "lived in" feel. The further this game advances, the further away from the Star Wars universe it gets. While cool, it's not Star Wars. Introducing new things doesn't mean it needs to be shiny.

The write up on Wookieepedia sees Gree in a different light, given the information availible. While they still describe the tech as "the oldest Gree technology in existence was remarkably advanced with their high technology on a level far beyond the Imperial equivalent", but still ancient. Their contemporaries, the Rakata, have ancient looking tech, even though it is beyond the capabilites of the time. The tech of the Rakata calls to mind some mix of Meso-American and Assyrian architecture. Why they went with Tron for the Gree, baffles me.

What's next? Dragon Age armor?

Tron was kind of cool.

Those octopus aliens came straight from a off the wall movie called "Galaxy Quest".
I was watching it a little while ago on TV.

Thermian
Galaxy Quest aliens

We are starting to have all the movies in this game now. Heehee!

I don't think the octopus design of the Gree come from this movie in particular. It seems to be pretty common to see aliens looking like octopus things (I don't count the number of mangas and animes where random aliens are drawn as walking octopussies)

I think the Infinite Empire induced humanoid drones on Tatooine are more zombie like.

As to the subject at hand i don't mind the look of the new armor in the recent screenies at all. On another forum someone shouted at me for saying the gree are obviously fans of tron and Disneys influence is shinning through. They accused me of being anti-disney and in fact I'm happy they bought SW as we will get more movies now.

Cheers,

BadOrb.