Ivan the Terrible

Keep saying that word, and I might just have to buy the game. Ehhh....if I wasn't going to buy it already....

No worries. I think most of us are the same way; everything I know about the Star Wars 'Extended Universe' comes from the Starwars.com encyclopedia.

Mandalore is more of a title than a person. 'Mandalore' is whoever happens to lead the Mandalorians at the time, I'm pretty sure.

What about HK, T3, and Canderous? I don't think there is any way at all to kill those three in the first game.

You have to be romancing him at the time.

Whenever I hear 'Darth Sion', I always think, 'Huh. He doesn't look Jewish.'

*shrug* I usually just use the random name generator until I hit one I like. Given that the game doesn't even use the name you select except in the occasional alien babble (apparently 'Moosha Shaka Paka' being Huttese for '<charname>'), it's always been somewhat unimportant to me.

Let the people who don't want to interact with the NPCs figure that out themselves. Given that some people don't like it, and it has absolutely no effect whatsoever on you and I since we intend to interact with the NPCs and there's nothing stopping us from doing so, I see no reason to force the interaction down people's throats except sheer selfishness and a demand that everyone play the game the same way.

To what purpose? If someone doesn't want to hear the NPC's sob story about how she was raised by her brother only to have him ditch her to join the Sith and bomb her home planet into ruins while she was left with her obnoxious mother who betrayed her in order to seize control of her tribe forcing her to abandon her fellow soldiers to win the battle more quickly and unlock her memories of an entire history of mass murdering her way across the Galaxy because she joined the Jedi and then fell to the Dark Side because she theoretically killed her master....*GASP*.... then why should they have to hear it?

Nope. New class: Tech specialist.

I've heard this phrase applied to KOTOR II multiple times now....and hopefully we'll hear it even more in future 'Designer Ramblings.' Replayability was something a lot of people found very lacking in the original.

So.....MCA said (theoretically) that we could get a Wookie in our party. In game, we're being hunted by an evil Wookie bounty hunter. Coincidence? I think not. Who else wants to bet that said bounty hunter will be a Dark Side NPC who can join our party later on (probably after we've stomped him a couple times)?

I'm not sure what the maximum weight limit is for the X-Wing, but if all it takes for one to explode in flames is for a fat man to sit in the ****pit, I'd recommend to the Rebel Alliance that they avoid putting up recruitment posters around the local Burger King.

Checked the script (easy enough; you wouldn't believe how many copies of the Star Wars script are online), and nope, that was 'Gold Five.' Porkins was the one, I think, who kept saying 'just a little further....' or something to that effect, then blew up for apparently no reason.

And according to his entry at starwars.com (yes, he actually has an entry) the novelization of the first movie gave him the nickname of 'Piggy.' <_<

Reporting for duty.

This is my bet. With all the comparisons to Empire Strikes Back, should it surprise anyone that the game might 'test' you by having you face off against people from your past (think 'Dagobah and the Dark Side cave')?

They also did their level best to avoid spoiling the 'big twist' in the review, which would be pretty pointless if they posted a picture which shows what the twist is. It would be like posting a picture of the cutscene showing Revan removing his mask in a review for the first game. I'm sticking to my theory that it's something inconsequential; a hallucination, an illusion, a training exercise, or something other than your character suddenly finding himself surrounded by Jedi who shouldn't be alive and a Dark Lord of the Sith who pretty clearly met his end in the first game.

With Malak's exact same head markings (or whatever they are) and outfit? It would be a stretch. Something is up, but I don't think they would have posted that picture if it were a MAJOR spoiler...which the return of the actual Malak as a Light Sider would be.

Probably some sort of training simulation or other illusion. There is no real justification for having the character fight a light side Malak, Bastila, and all those other Jedi....especially given that pretty much all the Jedi are supposed to be dead. And for the record, that review has clinched it; I must find a way to play this game before February. (w00t)

It would be alright if it weren't for the fact that no one gets killed. Ever. It's a show glorifying the military in which every plane shot down is inevitably accompanied by a parachute opening, and every gunfight ends with the bad guys surrendering without losing a man. Laser shots (not bullets) always miss their targets, and the most that's ever accomplished is the bad guys leaving the scene of their latest failed evil plan swearing they'll get revenge. Coming from an era where video games compete in thinking of new and more gruesome ways for your enemies to die, it's a frustrating show to watch.

Yep. That's pretty much what it amounts to.

Dustil was unlikeable because his story made no sense. How the hell do you spend even five minutes on Korriban without figuring out that the Sith are evil? Does anyone really need a little datapad to reveal that using Force Lightning on civilians, starving people to death for entertainment, and having Republic prisoners of war as target practice is morally questionable stuff? His story (and that of so many others at the Korriban Academy) reminded me of an old episode of G.I. Joe where a good guy switched sides and joined Cobra only to realize that, golly, the bad guys aren't nice people! Who'd have thought the Dark Side of the Force wasn't nice!? It boggles the mind! Talk with Carth every once in awhile, go to Korriban as one of your last two planets, and take Carth with you on occasion when stepping out on the landing ports of different planets (except Korriban.) Eventually, he'll be confronted by an old war buddy who tells him Dustil is still alive and has joined the Sith.

No, I like the original trilogy; some of my favorite movies of all time, in fact. The prequels, however.....

That ain't saying much. I hope he at least omitted 'Around the survivors a perimeter create.'