Grandpa

Yes, the devs stopped by the last thread on this topic and said it was up to LA.

I really wish people would stop giving attention to this vacuous twit. I surmise that Paris Hilton doesn't even know what a "record" is, and that she only used the word as part of the company name because that is what she has seen used by other (legitimate) record companies. I note that Paris Hilton manages to exemplify all three of the standard definitions for "vacuous". Even the quote referencing swine eyes seems to fit like a glove. vac

Can't get all the typos all of the time.

Yeah, until the next wave of cards comes out. Personally, I've no plans to drop $500.00 plus on the latest from either card company. I can run KoTOR I on my GeForce FX 5600 Ultra with the settings maxed without a hitch. I can run FarCry beefed as well. Would I like to have the latest? Sure, but I have bills to pay...and I like to eat, too...and the kids won't stop growing....

Being an nVidia person, I can empathize with you on this issue, however, I can't go so far as sympathize. Unfortunately, just about every game out there runs better on one card versus the other. Most of the time it's the nVidia people who have to wait for patches and driver fixes to play the games to their fullest. Why, then, do I use nVida? I just do...it's what I've used for a long time. Besides, they almost always seem to come up with an update in a reasonable amount of time that fixes whatever issues were hurting the game environment. Unfortunately, I don't think this is an issue that the devs have much of a control over, since the card makers are constantly trying to improve the overall functionality of their products. If the devs stopped and regrouped at every driver change they'd never get the games done. I could be wrong, and it could be a very simple issue to work with, but I don't design games, so what the heck do I know...

Oh, poor baby. Do YOU like runnig through pointless areas because you can't use rapid transit. Maybe my version was broken, but I couldn't rapid transit off the floor of the forest. ???? Still that's getting away from the point of the question/suggestion. Would you or would you not prefer to have more areas within the expanse, to actually explore? Open doors, look inside. Wander out into the forest. That kind of thing. With things to interact with there, not just a huge empty area.

Oh, I'm sorry, you must have misspelled "satirize" as "complain", funny how the spellchecker didn't pick it up. "Google" is a verb, by the way. http://www.wordspy.com/words/google.asp I'd like to welcome you, dear grandpa, into the third millenium. No flying cars yet, but we're trying. Thanks for clearing that up...I wasn't aware that the Word Spy web site had the task of recategorizing and restructuring the English language. Just as you don't like the new styles of music, I don't care too much for the new urbanization of the English language. But in both cases, it is our perogative to like and dislike what we want. com

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Oh, poor baby. Poor, yes...baby...not for a long time.

A fridge. How can you keep the beer cool without a fridge? Seriously...How about a work area to upgrade your now-upgradeable swoop bike?

Right, but wouldn't it fit the known method of operation for Star Wars evacuations if you also had to fight a few bad guys on your way to the ship itself? I realize that this is supposed to be an RPG and not an Action/Adventure, but it would be appropriate I think.

Since dueling is very unJedi-like (as was pointed out earlier) why not have areas where you are tricked/trapped and dumped into a pen with a beast like a Rancor? That would fall more along the "proper" lines. Get scammed by a Hutt, get dumped into a pit, survive, the Hutt pays up for providing quality entertainment.

This could either mean more open doors or bigger areas with more doors closed...which do you think? I'm afraid it might mean more burning of force energy to use Knight Speed to get through the boring areas.....Like when you've cleared out Kashyyyk and gotten the star map, and now you have to run aaaaaaaaaalll the way back.

To add to it, add some "fighting your way out" action like in the original trilogy...they were constantly fighting their way to the ship to get out of Dodge.

Does that sort of answer your suggestion? No. My question wasn't "Will we have a bunch of new planets/planetoids to explore." My question was regarding the content there in. For example, and granted a desert planet my be a poor example, but in the original, the Tatooine desert was relatively large...but it had nothing in it, save a few creatures and a shot-up crawler. In the port, there were doors everywhere, but only a select few opened. I'd like to see a world where every door opens to something. Every area allows for expansive exploration. Kashyyyk's explorable area was tiny, despite being in a HUGE forest. Things along these lines is what I was asking about. We may be getting 7 planets, but will they be any more explorable than the 5 in the original?

Why I cannot validate the murder story being real or not, it has never been beneath the slugs that promote wrastlin' to use real life trauma and troubles as fodder for the show.

I'd like to see a more explorable world in KoTOR II. In the 1st, there were too many doors that didn't work, and nothing in the wilderness worth looking at (save the scenery itself). Is there any chance of getting more, superfluous, places to explore regardless of placement in the plot?

I would hope that Nur would have openned his mind a little and listened to what people have been saying here. All he wants to do its be "right". Unfortunately, his point of view sounds to be skewed with some sort of inherent bias towards Americans for whatever the reason. Maybe an American tourist to his country once stole his bicycle? The current "superpower" is always hated by theglobal masses, and nothing anyone from that nation can do to convince those haters otherwise. The US is despised because it is currently the most powerful nation in the world. A little more than 100 years ago it was Britain and France (collectively), prior to that is was France alone, prior still, England, and we can continue going back to ancient Macedonia and Babylon, but what's the point? Narrow minded people will refuse to look. What has the US really done to peeve so many citizens of so many countries? When our borders were sealed in the late 1800's and again in the early 1900's, and trade was all but cut off, people complained that the US wasn't sharing it's wealth. Now the US spends more money abroad than almost every other nation combined (look up the stats on that), including paying 40% of the UN budget, and still the US is hated. Why? We're bigger and stronger than you and that scares people. Forget how benevolent the US has been. I know people like Nur have. And forget that not everyone in the US is a corporate executive with a hand in the till of the government and armed forces. 99.999% of us are nothing but common citizens striving to make a living in the place where we were born, just like everyone else. Where was I born? Trenton NJ. Did I have a choice? No. Did Nur have a choice where he was born? No. But no matter where we were born and live, we all want the same things from life. We just do it with our particular cultural tendancies and in our native languages. I want to make sure my kids get a good education, have food and clothing, etc etc. Just like someone from Russia, someone from France, someone from Cambodia, or someone from Indonesia. So, instead of feuling Nur (et-al) and catering to his ingnorant logic and half-heartedly researched "facts", just ignore him. He will, like so many other, find that no one cares to hear it any longer, and drop it. When people like Nur (and I use Nur only as an example because he has been so prolific) start spewing their hate, ignore them and continue with the topic of the thread. Eventually they will either go away or back off the insults. And thats the last I have to say on that topic in this forum.

Thanks, Hydrogen, that's pretty much what I assumed. Given that LA already has a "demo" out in the form of KoTOR I, I wouldn't expect to see anything but preview clips for KoTOR II. Marketing would recommend to anyone looking for a demo to simply "Buy a copy of KoTOR I. The engine is essentially the same, but there will be a different story...."

I'd like to hear the devs take on this. Is this even a remote possibility?

I want to see Jolee come back. He was cranky (and funny) without being whiney. I would not want to waste time with Zaalbar. I never took him along anywhere, even on Kashyyk (sp). I just let them get him from the ship. I don't even know if he has any dialog beyond the bad breath and combing dialog with Mission.

I disagree with the Japan-sideshow thought, but agree with you here. The Nazi's were about genocide (And not just the Jews). The Japanese were about Imperialism. Apples and Oranges. Should the Axis have won the war, Germany would have eventually gone after Eastern Asia. Given Germany's superior scientifict research, they would have likely wiped the Japanese out.

Wow....some of you (no names...you know who you are) have really got to get a broader range of resources. Some of this "we did this" "you didn't do that" is so incredibly school-textbook it's laughable. For history, you cannot trust the textbooks of the country of origin because they will always be skewed. Likewise are the wave-the-flag websites, who are written by die-hard nationalists for the most part. Read some of the work of the true historians. Read some of the textbooks from the other nations. Educate yourself to know what and how the "other side" views these topics. Real quick...Germany had a vested interest in throwing a majority of it's armed forces to the east...natural resources. Russia had them in abundance. If Hitler hoped to continue his aggressions he needed the resources, and a subjugated Russian populace, to succeed. The overwhelming Russian forces, coupled with weather conditions the Germans were just not used to, spelled Hitler's doom. And Nur Ab Sal, it was 1942...not 1944. The US also participated in Africa. In the Pacific, Japan had already been on the rampage, overtaking other Asian nations, and dropping into China, again for those all-important natural resources. Their ultimate objective was to control the entire Pacific, including the West coast of the US, which they felt was rightfully theirs anyway because of the Asian background of the native US people. Keep in mind that the war in Europe, from the US perspective, was about preventing the Germans from having the ability to cross the Atlantic with anything other than U-Boats (which were all up and down the east coast of the US). The US was far more interested in the war in the Pacific. The Japanese possed a far greater immediate threat to the US than the Germans did. Because we were helping no one but ourselves, really, in the Pacific, the war there did not get the same press and glory that the European war was given. We were helping our friends (in Europe) and that is always good press....