LadyCrimson

I was wondering if Annie & Obi were using the Force to shield themselves from the 2000-3000 degree heat (or whatever) of all that molten lava they were fighting directly upon. A FES - Force Environmental Suit?

Highlighting it and cut & pasting it to notepad makes it readable, too. As to the subject...um...well....censorship sucks, but occasionally (very occasionally) & in some kinds of extreme circumstances, it's useful for keeping things from getting out of hand...at least, if that matters to people...which for some it doesn't. So then you could debate the rights/wrongs of that aspect forever and ever...yawn. That's about all I have to say. <_<

First movie, in the theater, I'm around 9...theater goes dark...the previews end...the screen is black and the speakers are silent...nothing but a few whispers from the auidience here and there...and then.. BOOM....the SW theme blares out in a sudden and startling burst, as the big yellow words STAR WARS flashes on screen and then pulls back...I almost leaped out of my chair, and several people in the theater gasped. Other than that....I'd have to go with the Obi-Wan/Darth Maul fight at the end of the 1st prequel, for action...and for humor, many of the original droid moments. Tho the Emperor intoning that all of Lukes friends will die was right up there.

Always used robes...tho my 1st time through the game, I found those fugly armors and used those for a while. Once I knew there were cool black robes, I never wanted to wear anything else. Some of the later robes had some great stats, but I still wore the black robes. Never had a need for those 'great stats'....you still kick butt. Heck, you could kick butt wearing nothing but your skivvies, so it's all about looks to me. Yes I'm shallow.

For the one-liner types: "You...have fallen far." -- Disciple (wait...I guess that wasn't in the finished game...oh well it's still my fave) "Apapthy is death." "That's where you're wrong." -- Atton to Disciple "You said you wouldn't laugh!" -- Atton to BaoDur "Are you sure you need healing? You look good to me." -- Disciple For the longer/very long quotations...oh wait, I'm too lazy to type those out.

I also dont' like rushing a game. One of the reasons I can rack up so much consecutive game-play time is because I spend way too much time doing things like playing with the workbench. Or, in other games...fishing...exploring every inch of the map...hitting every single wall with the spacebar to try and find hidden rooms...(that's a Doom1 reference)...killing low lvl monsters for hours to collect enough chipped gems...etc. hehehe I think with Kotor2, my total-game times were always around 35-40 hours. I usually blew through the intro peragus stuff in no time flat, but after that I'd move really slow...and sometimes I'd even try and extend the play time by avoiding doing certain stuff until I had nothing else to do...

What I really want is the original trilogy...the original, non-'improved' versions...on DVD. Alas, I don't think I'll ever find them. Legally. As to the prequels...I'd already bought the first two, so I figured I'd complete the set. I paid $22 for mine at the Evil Blockbuster near you.

Invasion - watchable, decent acting, nothing super-special tho. Surface - horrible acting that made it impossible for me to even notice whether or not the actual show was any good. Stopped watching. Haven't seen the other two. With Lost, I think it has one of the worst cases of the 'to be continued forever so we have to stretch out every plot point for miles' syndrome.. like soap operas. Tho of course, they're all like that to some degree. <_<

It doesn't show up as well on the stills...but trust me, it's weird when you're watching it...once you notice it anyway. Haha! Good one...perhaps I should have said...has anyone here not *seen* it... :D

Neat, thanks for that in-depth review. I was originally just going to get the music one, since I've never cared much about the movies in games, but I think perhaps now I'll get the movies too...if only so I can say I've compared with my own eyes. Since I can get 1600x1200 resolution etc., I should notice the differences, whatever they are. Besides, your review made me curious, and that means I do things I wouldn't normally do, like waste time on things I don't care about. Haha!

Skin sags as we age and/or gain weight, that's normal. Having a 'short' chin affects it too, sure. But if it was just that, I'd expect something more like this: Lucas' just looks swollen - look at the bottom line of his neck...it's like the people in The Stand with the Superflu or something. Maybe it's some really weird form of goiter. If you were hoping for more explantion about the 'he's learned how to defeat death' thingamijig, nope. There's the 1st long scene I mentioned, then a few short ones showing that Padme (and the Council/Senate/somebody like that) originally had a bit more to do in Ep.3, and a very short 'Yoda landing on his planet of Exile' bit, and...er...I don't remember the 6th one off-hand. EDIT: The one's with Padme, they were all fairly short, but were interesting character-wise...and included a little bit more of Mr. Cackling Evil Lord trying to influence Mr. Soon-to-be-BBQ'd Jedi by sowing psychological mistrust.

Anyone here who hasn't bought it yet? I like the first deleted scene the best....especially the funny bit where Anakin & Obi-Wan are using hand signals to decided a path of action...too bad they didn't have it in the movie. That's gotta hurt... And I'm not trying to be mean here...but I am curious....Does Lucas have some health issue or something? His neck has this really disconcerting appearance.

Since I don't work or go to school, lead a so-called quiet life (by choice), and have a very patient & understanding husband who has his own time-consuming hobbies, I've gone 24-30 hours all at once before. It's called lots of caffeine and some goal (or friends) egging you on. I don't think I did that with this game tho....I don't play games with that kind of single-mindedness much anymore...but during my Doom/Diablo/Diablo2 playing phases, I had some verrrry long gaming sessions, yessiree. Just cause people occasionally play a game for an extreme period of time, doesn't mean they do it every single day and 'have no life'. I hate that assumption. Anyway, with Kotor2, I think it was about 12-15 consecutive hours tops...more typically, 5-7 hours a day during the first couple play thru's. After that, it dwindled down to about 2-4 hours a day, then...well, y'know how it goes. :D

But he can't take movies with the in-game screenshot function! :D And actually, unless you like Fraps logos on your images and movies and only being able to get screenies in jpg format, Fraps isn't free. I'd give anything to get rid of the GUI in screenies. Well, almost anything.

The same. I also was one of those who never had any serious problems originally..just the occasional minor/humourous visual graphic glitches that didn't interfere with gameplay at all ...the patches did nothing to change things for me, one way or another.

Hmm.....I haven't had the game installed on my PC for some months. Never got around to re-installing after a HD reformat, heh. Figured I'd pretty much played the game out for myself so why bother. Guess I'll have to do it now tho...just to check things out. Tho it would appear to me from reading this thread that the music one is the one most 'worth' checkin' out.

First time through the game, the mercenary fight on Telos, too. I was tooling along thinking "man this game is easy fight-wise" and reached that spot near the entrance to the...uh...mercenary building...dungeon...whatever....got ambushed by those guys, promptly died. Took me a few tries to get past it. Later on, it became easy because I figured out the 'trick' to the group, but that first time threw me for a loop. Overall tho, I'd say the end fight...I didn't die, but it's the only fight where I had to run away a couple times so I could arrange to take on the sabers one at a time. Without mods, I never could take on all three at once - unlike being able to take on leagues of Sith dudes, haha.. Oh yeah...and if it's your first time through and you're not using a walkthru, when you run around as Remote, and if you didn't kill every monster beforehand, that was hard. There was one corner Remote had to go to that I'd missed and I spent a long time running back and forth to try and lure and then lose the baddies into out of the way tunnels so I could go back to push the button/pull the lever.

There's a difference between 'useless' as in not being able to be an effective/useful party member, and 'useless' as in redundant/don't like the character. As to Atton's level....after my first run through the game where I 'knew nothing', I kept him at lvl 7-8 and made him Jedi as fast as possible...usually skipping a lot of 'quests' and plot stuff first, and going back to do them later. I concentrated on Critical Strike as well, simply because I'd always have another be Flurry and didn't want to duplicate, but I ignored his Scoundrel stuff completely since I never used any of it after that first game of trial and error.

Ahem....Atton is not useless, nor does he suck after Citadel Station. If he did for you, you didn't build him right. He works just fine as a Jedi...he always kicked bad guy butt all over the place for me. *shrug This is, of course, assuming you didnt level him up too much before turning him to Jedi - this applies to most of the Jedi-turnable classes, really.. There is no bad party NPC...just personal preference, how you like to use them, and how you build them. Like someone else said, by the end you're all so uber it doesn't matter. Me, I couldn't stand Hanhar, or whatever the wookie's name was.

Yes...classical ones like chess (not very well...), RISK (love it), Scrabble, Monopoly, Go/Pente. I don't play them much anymore because not many of our friends play them...plus after 20 years anything gets old. I remember a period of trying to find new board games to try, and it was rather abysmal during that time....everything was a knock-off of Trivial Pursuit, which I couldn't stand, and made of really cheap materials to boot - like how RISK went from wood squares to ugly plastic pieces - I did notice they put out a set with the wood pieces again, but they still aren't the same. heh Board games for a while became more about yakky-social and not the game, if you know what I mean...I didn't like that. Haven't looked at or paid attention to the board game type market in a few years, tho.

Housework, sex, read, take pictures, spend money.

Bao's voice annoyed me quite a bit when I first got him, plus yea, he seemed weak when I knew nothing about the game initally, hehe, thus the first play-thru I stopped using him as soon as I could. But later, I gave him a chance and turned him into a Jedi and all of that, and he was quite decent. Plus he has the coolest DS 'look..' His background/motivation is pretty interesting, but as others already said, in-game he was lacking something. I still don't like his voice tho - it's too whispery for me. I don't think he sounds anything like Walken tonal-wise. The throatiness yes...tone no.

You can also set mines in front of one 'area load' doorway, exit the door, go back through the door, disarm the mines you just set for the experience. Course, you have to have the skill to disarm it, so to get the really good experience w/the higher level mines you have to wait till you get the skill up...plus it's a damn sight more boring than the two combat exp. exploits. I also finished the game for the first time around lvl 30-32, I forget exactly. I'm a real stickler for doing everything possible so...

When all else fails, re-format. Once you learn to keep your system organized in such a way as to make it a fairly simple process to save the files you must have, it's really pretty painless to reformat. Tho the re-installs of software is always a pain. I've known people who've spent hours to get rid of a virus/trojan when it'd take half that time just to re-format/re-install everything.

Oh fine...semantics...I think my point that it should not be illegal just to posses it was clear enough. :D Sure, if you're stoned and driving, an arrest for driving under influence is suitable. But for having it or even smoking it while sitting out in your backyard? Something that marks you as having a 'criminal record?' Nah. The illegal = forbidden excitment also is a good point, for many cases. But I don't think that's really the biggest cause...I mean...booze is legal, and I don't exactly see that harming the booze business/drunk driving problem much... :ph34r: