Brianalot Curren

Thats what I tell everyone. The game (story not technical) was an engrossing story and great character development. Then the masters reunited and it just got screwed up and was crap after that.

Ya, I have had the same thing, and people might say its the XBOX. But thats rubish, I have over 20 games in my library and have not had any problems with any of them, including Top SPin, and the former load king Morrowind. Thousands of people have had problems with Morrowind and I got the XBOX in the first few months and no problems (So I have an "old" XBOX with the "old" DVD Drive). Morrowind does have an excuse for that and because of its major size. But it shouldn't take 10 minutes to load the cantina, and then when it does everyone is frozen in that no animation state. You know I don't blame Obsidian, because obviously they wouldn't want to ship a game the way that it is (some people dont have problems I know). I would blame lucas arts for giving them a contract that required them to make the game by the end of the year. This game needed just a few more months, and Im quite frustrated they didn't get that. The only thing they needed to make this game really great was a few more months to optimize the code and make is easier to load which is called optimization. I don't even know how they got it past Microsoft QA, because with most games (Im familiar with the process), they are quite picky. Sometimes they wont aprove a game because for example "when you take the controller out of slot 1 and put it into slot 4 and have a memory card in it and put another controller in slot 1 when the game is playing you cannot save on the memory card," and trust me, that example caused a certain developement company not to get their game approved by Microsoft QA (I mean, something like that doesn't take to long to fix but still). And for RPGs from what I hear, its a "rule" that they have to be at a constant 30 fps no matter what. So what I'm trying to say is that I think everyone from Microsoft to LucasArts just pushed this game out for the Christmas rush, and didn't care on making a glitch free game. Which is probably why Bioware didn't work on it, the whole little probable clause in the contract to finish it before 2004.

Why don't you just max out your INT, and then use implants and belts to make up for your DEX, STR, and CON.

I do believe hes referring to something to the affect of in AOTC when Anakin and Dooku fight it out and its super dark and all you see is the sabre and the faces. I think he wants to have a fight in the pitch black and the sabres create light that only the people are visible ala AOTC. I really kinda wanted that aswell, and in the Star Forge it was close but the sabre didn't cast enough light. Alll they would have to do is make the sabre cast more light.

If they said Winter 2005, it would imply Dec 2005. I really think Winter 2004, includes Dec, Jan, Feb. This is the sole fact that winter technically starts Dec 21 and if they wanted holiday season it would obviously be released ealier than that but then it would be Fall 2004. And the winter season coming up is Winter 2004. What im saying that "Winter 2004" still means Febuary in my opinion.

Im sure the whole apprentice thing is going to be a secret until it comes out. It would be really cool to have one, thats why they wouldn't reveal that you will get one until you buy the game. It might be also a major plot point.

I always use the black dude faces. I use the one with the corn rows because hes the one that resembles me the most.

The whole teaching theme he was talking about makes me wonder. Will my idea of an apprentice for your PC actually come to frutition? I always wanted that since I first played KOTOR, having an apprentice of your own would be awsome, considering the whole new feature of shifting your NPCs to the ds/ls throughout the story is great. Maybe my prayers will be answered.

Somebody said Malak made a mistake attacking Revan's ship during a heated battle. But if you know Malak and the dialouge you know that he was really really POed about being the apprentice. I mean with other cases we have seen the master was there and he handpicked the apprentice like Palpatine and his many apprentices. This was the first time two guys go in there and then somebody chooses who is better. It mustn have been good for his ego. And the apprentice always knew that for the time they were weaker, and someday they would be more powerful. So they have at least some gratefullness for it, and will always have in the back of there mind they will take over someday. But with Malak, he always thought he was more powerful than Revan. And thought he should have been choosen, so he was in self-denial that Revan was in fact and always will be more powerfull than him. So I think the characterization of the Sith was done properly, especially at this time Malak the grand sith lord of them all got to where he was by killing the master. So maybe the ideology of the Sith changed when Malak did this, because like someone said the sith with somewhat different than other novels and movies and games. I could imagine many sith apprentices having somewhat unwritten rules about not killing masters. But when Malak did that, they thought to themselves, well he did so can I. Then you have a bunch of snot nose sith on Korriban wanting to take over.

Thats what annoyed me a little bit. It wouldn't be hard to add one animation with a player lunging a sabre into the door. It would look better then the slash/take a break/slash/take a break.

They said the quest was optional. Your lightsabre might have a special crystal in it making it more attractive to get it. The lightsabre thing must happen very very early in the game. If they said its optional, Im prety sure they'll make it so you'll just find one on a dead guy. I am sure you will only be sabreless for an hour.

Those pictures from the German site looks so much like Coruscant. If you look at the buildings, they are almost identical from the building design in the movie version which is the one everyone goes by. If that isn't Coruscant, I would like to see what it is. Besides it would be perfect. The jedi order being disbanded, and you would have to go to the heart of the Republic to get them reinstated, very BG like.