SteveThaiBinh

The pictures for the box probably have to get sent away to the printer months before the game is released. The more surprising thing to me is that important plot decisions, like only having the Handmaiden with male PC, seem to get taken relatively late in development, perhaps even after voice recording. That's the same box I have, by the way - early UK release, I guess.

Whose portrait appears on the party selection screen? Handmaiden, Disciple, or a bizarre fusion of the two? :ph34r:

What KotOR Character Are You? Right now, I feel like the guy in the locker in the underwater base on Manaan. Here, fishy fishy!

Tell her she's wrong. Then duck.

The worst is the camp on the surface of Telos, where you have several groups of enemies scattered across the area. It's hard to persuade your party not to split up and attack three different groups at the same time. Another problem is when you kill one opponent, your character is automatically instructed to attack the next opponent. Even if you force her to run away to heal, she'll often immediately try to run back and get slaughtered. Still, it's not as if the combat is actually hard, so I'm not that bothered.

There's always one.

Ooh, pretty colors...

Says you.

In which case they could quite easily make a statement that they cannot release the patch because of bandwidth issues. Why the deafening silence? If that is the problem, it's not going to be fixed by waiting. This really does not reflect well upon LucasArts.

Virtue is its own reward, huh? A different approach is 'What goes around comes around". If you do good, you should be rewarded, although the rewards are less tangible or direct. I would be happy if the only reward for doing good was reputation - that word got around of your deeds and people reacted to you accordingly, opening new dialogue options and so on. Having no reward at all doesn't make for a good game, I suspect.

It's coming up for five o'clock where I am, but I'm still not going to the cantina with you. I know what you're planning. :ph34r: You and Silvershadow together. :ph34r: :ph34r:

Errr, do you mean the cut endings didn't come up? That's because they were cut (removed from the game by the developers).

Wow. Looks epic - really engrossing. What was it about the game that got you so involved? I've never kept a diary of a game, but there are plenty of games that have felt like epic journeys or titanic struggles. My fourth ever game of Civ 3 is still my hardest and most memorable struggle, just for survival. No victory was ever as sweet as losing, but surviving to 2050, in that game.

Yes, but as Carth, I can't trust you or what you say, Silvershadow. You're only saying that to deceive me as you plot your betrayal.

Give us a typical entry.

Well, that was depressing. I'm guessing that post-apocalypse Earth is not a nice place to be. Where's the crazy mutant comedy sidekick? Still, it's very well drawn and creates the atmosphere very successfully.

You cheat - either by exploiting a place in the game where you can gain masses of experience and go up in level very quickly (the game gives you powerful items when you're high level), or by using the save game editor (or maybe the cheat console?) to give you the items. A few of them might have been cut from the game proper and only be available by this second method, but I'm not sure.

Didn't Atari (Infogrames) sell the rights to Civilization not so long ago? An incredibly stupid thing to do, unless your company has severe short-term money worries. So I guess they are in trouble.

Rewards which you then tend to refuse for even more LS points. But money doesn't matter in Kotor 2 because you can't buy anything that compares to the stuff you find randomly. Giving up the rewards isn't a real hardship.

Even if the information you receive is the same, sometimes it's worthwhile to address these concerns directly to the company, in an email or even a snail-mail letter. There can be a degree of satisfaction in getting the information 'straight from the horse's mouth', it tests their customer service, and it also reminds them that you are more than a fan complaining on the forum - you're a consumer and you're their customer.

OK, I get it. I thought you meant support from gamers for the production of a third game. Yes, even very buggy games like Bloodlines were eventually patched. If what we have now is the final version of Kotor 2, it's not very impressive.

The chimps have given up on conquest/domination and are going for a cultural victory. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4109664.stm

First rule of politics - bribe the historians.

First conscientisation, then exercise of political rights, is part of the human development of everyone. As a tyrant prevents this from happening, his actions can be said to be bad or evil. He may of course be full of good intentions and a decent person - which case it might be more accurate to describe him as a dictator, since the word tyrant itself has evil connotations. Or he may be insane, or a genuinely evil person. But tyranny itself is bad.

If you actually want an Obsidian employee to answer your questions, you might have better luck if you email them. The devs don't seem to post on their own forum very often.