Seriously?
I am, the law.

My favorite thing about the original SW trilogy has always been the music. I love the movies, of course, but the music is probably the single element that stands out most to me.

Ah. Then I can somewhat understand you. I don't agree but I sort of understand. The latest Rambo wasn't bad at all for example and Verhoeven is a genius.

As good as the game is, it has a very high difficulty curve. The only reason the lower-end ships have a chance is selective enemy AI targeting. You need your dodging, target selection, and power management at full potential to beat many missions.

Well, I suppose it's just a matter of opinion. The visual effects in the prequels didn't seem always convincing to me. For the most part they are good, but many times, you can feel these are just computer images. Creating scenes that are difficult to make without computers is one thing, but if I can't help seeing the artifiact, it kind of defeats the purpose. And they didn't use CGI for space battles only, they used them for too many things, like costumes for clones, which looked terrible.

That's the thing. Everyone plays in from X-Wing, where you have shields, then you're in a TIE Fighter and you're suddenly incredibly exposed. First death I encountered in it was by destroying a ship, and being killed by the debris.

It's not selective targetting, it's just that you need to be a constantly unpredictable target while targetting them. It's why it's so great.

It's epitomised by the mission in which you're in a TIE Interceptor, and asked to clear a minefield. That's a seriously tough mission, but after that you're pretty much in line with the way the game wants you to think.

Who then were the prequels aimed at? Because they sure as hell aren't appropriate for children. The original trilogy was at least moderately child friendly at most points.
I take it you haven't seen the Langoliers....

I literally snapped a joystick handle off on that mission. Winning it is mostly a matter of evading nonstop, but getting all the bonus objectives is close to impossible.

Target selection has more to do with how quickly you can lose when you aren't dying from collisions. TIE Fighter has the same demanding victory conditions as X-Wing on top of the added challenge of keeping yourself alive. You have to shoot down enemy attackers or destroy the right enemy objectives to win. If you don't, the mission critical ship dies too fast or you run out of time.

Great game, but tough. Very tough.

I loved the last Rambo. A movie about a guy who spends half an hour at a heavy machine gun tearing people into pieces - that's pure genius. :D

That scene was brilliant. :)

The prequel trilogy are absolutely dire. Unintentionally funny, sometimes poorly acted, have laughable dialogue, a tedious and sometimes incoherent plot, and the worst, most embarrassing 'romance' in cinematic history.

Oh yeah, remember one scene where you see that black officer dude of Princess Amidalla "walk" wearing some armor which was clearly fully rendered in 3D with his head pasted onto it. After the CGI walk animation he actually raises his head in the most unnatural manner that should break his neck. I just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that. How am I supposed to take a movie seriously when friggin' everything except for people's faces is coming from CGI?

A scene I have in mind is during the battle in the second episode: the soldier has a helmet but it's a closeup and, contrary to the panoramic scenes when you can only guess that all the soldiers are computer generated, you can see instantly that it's not a guy in a costume. I was shocked that they didn't bother hiring an actor and make a proper costume.

to be fair, episode IV also had something goofy and downright hilarious. I am talking of course about the stormtrooper banging his head against an overhanging door (or the top part of an entrance). I've only seen clips of it so I'm not sure whether it was in die theatrical release though. I never noticed it - its one of those blink and you miss it things. You have to decide whether you want these things to bother you or not, like the stormtroopers on the deathstar who seriously need extra firerange blaster training. I also found the stormtrooper costumes in the original trilogy to be very silly, but again, I do not let it bother me too much. And don't get me started on the teddy bears in die forest ;)