Ivan the Terrible

I think the Star Forge was a Dark Side site....though I think that was mostly reflected in Malak not being quite the pansy he was on the Leviathan rather than through any outside stat boosts.

Same. I've always thought of Revan as the Jedi Consular brainy type, the tactician and thinker who led the Republic, and then the Sith, to victory....while Malak was his/her Darth Maul, the Jedi Guardian with brawn instead of brains. I think it's kind of implied by the fact that Malak is HUGE compared to Revan.

Kumquat quoted it, but it wasn't clear that it was from Akari and not from him. So, from the 'Ask Developer's Questions' thread... False alarm, folks. In point of fact, it might be better to celebrate; we might find more of a Dak'kon-like 'comrades in arms' thing for NPCs we don't want to screw.

I'm hoping for romances with a lot more subtelty than the KOTOR romances; ala Planescape: Torment....but still with a lot of meat to them, unlike the Fall-From-Grace and Annah 'romances.' No more in-your-face clumsy come-ons, please. I hope that's what Herr Avellone is implying with his post.

Really, you don't think there is a lot of Nietzsche in the Sith teachings? I know that the Nazis distorted a lot of his ideas....but isn't the 'Will to Power', the triumph of the new man over conventional morality, still a part of those beliefs? The Sith ideology, btw, is like taking Nazism to the point of absurdity. Instead of having a 'Master Race', the Sith ideology promotes each individual as his or her own 'Master Race' without acknowledging any real need for loyalty to the whole. Judging by what you learn at the Academy, a proper Sith should lie to his superiors, steal credit for things he didn't do, advance his own power to the detriment of the Sith as a whole, and generally and at all times undermine the group in favor of himself. Even the Nazis, wacky Social Darwinists that they were, weren't so enslaved to those ideas that they let them override common sense.

I think you're misreading him. I think he's just saying that NPC quests won't be tied solely to romances; as in, romances are there, but you won't have a 'I just told Bastila to keep the Holocron so I'm up sh*t creek without a paddle' moment.

With all due respect to Herr Gaider, I'm a World War II buff....and the Sith on Korriban are not preaching much that resembles Nazism. There's a lot of Nietzsche in what they're saying, but Uthar and Yuthura are too big on the 'every man for himself' doctrine; 'National Socialism' preached the sublimation of the individual towards the state, whereas the Sith teachings seem to teach 'look out for number one and screw everyone else.' In practice, of course, the Nazi higher-ups were corrupt and often looked out for themselves to the detriment of the state....but that certainly wasn't part of their doctrine.

GGGAAAAHHHH!!! GET RID OF THE SIG, GET RID OF THE SIG!!! I mean, jesus, a noteworthy sig is good and all but don't SWALLOW UP THE ENTIRE THREAD WITH IT.

The Galactic Empire = The Third Reich with the more unsavory elements such as genocide pushed into the background in favor of menacing grey uniforms and shock troopers. Essentially, the Empire is 'Hollywood Nazis in Space.' When you go into the Expanded Universe, they even tack on the racist elements, with Palpatine portrayed as a human supremacist. The Sith, by contrast, are not really Fascist. Fascism exults the leader in heroic, godlike terms; competition and 'social darwinism' may have a place amongst the lower ranks, but Nazism certainly didn't exhult the idea of backstabbing the Fuhrer in the middle of a war in order to take his place, as Malak does to Revan. By the same token, while social darwinism is an important part of the creed, the ambitions of the individual were supposed to be subordinated to that of the state; no Nazi would ever have encouraged executing their own commander because he 'showed mercy' or because they thought they could 'take his place.' Doing so doesn't make them stronger, but rather undermines their war effort by promoting paranoia and chaos in the ranks. And the whole thing about 'executing' an underling for even one failure? Heh. Complete and total stupidity. Imagine if Adolf Hitler had ordered Erwin Rommel executed after his first lost battle. No, the Sith as portrayed in KOTOR aren't so much 'Fascist' as 'Moronic.'

It's extremely unlikely to be true. If it IS true, then it's a really lousy plot twist.

*shrug* I wouldn't buy them. But then, I don't collect action figures of any sort.

Yes, on hard. I mean I keep resetting the energy shield after every round of firing. Since at that time he's momentarily stunned from the flames of the plasma grenade, it's usually no problem....except for that freaking stun shot he fires. Though make no mistake, I have to reload every time he makes his save.

Not true. I nailed him with two Plasma grenades (reloading when he made his save for either of them) then used an energy shield. He chews through it in only one round of shooting, but that's enough to lob another Plasma grenade. Regardless, the consensus is correct: combat is too easy. One character taken on at an artificially deflated level is the exception to the rule.

Danke, that's the second compliment I've gotten in....well, this very thread. Think I'll stick with it and keep the Kill Bill theme for the signature.

Well said. My sentiments exactly. Bioware couldn't grasp the concept of subtilty, couldn't understand the idea of a Sith Lord going beyond evil cackles and pointless slaughter. Practically every Sith in the game was a moron who couldn't rule a schoolyard, much less the Galaxy. PLEASE FIX IT OBSIDIAN! PLLLEEEEAAAASSSEEE!!!

Darth Vader rarely, if ever, just killed people 'for kicks.' Barbecuing puppies is for amateurs; he had a grander vision of evil in mind, and he killed who he had to kill in order to advance that vision of a Galaxy under the rule of the Empire. That doesn't mean he never murdered innocents; it meant he murdered innocents as part of a greater scheme rather than just randomly force choking every civilian he came across. The Sith of KOTOR came across as undisciplined, even downright idiotic, hooligans.....yes, even on Korriban. They just killed people at random and to no good purpose; Darth Bandon's entrance onto the Leviathan's bridge was nothing short of idiotic. Your character's 'evil' actions seemed similiarly pointless. This is what I'm hoping Obsidian corrects. Bioware's presentation of evil just plain sucks. PLEASE FIX IT, OBSIDIAN!

*ahem* I second the motion.

I used to ask myself why the Imperial military didn't have nuclear weapons. Surely it would be more cost-efficient to simply hurtle several hundred nuclear weapons at a planet's surface, extinguishing all life, then to build a miniature moon that travels the galaxy and blows up entire planets root and branch. Then I thought: Jesus, I'm a geek. I'm thinking of the most cost effective ways to destroy a planet in the Star Wars universe.

Given what I was doing to each individual 'wave', I'd wager even that would be a lost cause. He sends them all at once, I kill them all at once.

I signed up before Delaware was officially stated to be KOTOR II but after I read somewhere that it was going to be KOTOR II. And, for the record, that 'somewhere' was none other than on No Mutants Allowed, a fan site for a Black Isle game series! So could I just get a warning this time?

Nope. They're getting the guy who made the scores for the Episode I games, as well as Gladius. Nothing to get excited about....but since I've never heard anything he's done, nothing to complain about, either.

I agree there should not be any 'idiot' dialogues. With voice acting all through the game, it's simply not worth it for something that was mostly there as a joke anyway. But allowing characters to, say, use wisdom and/or intelligence to reach insightful conclusions and ask the right questions of people? That wouldn't be such a stretch. It would have been cool if my high intelligence/wisdom character had figured out he was Revan before Malak said a word.

Yes, but I'm aware of that, but (while Wisdom was useful) Intelligence remained a pretty pointless attribute due to the uselessness of most skills.