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  1. He/him can be used as gender neutral terms when you're making general statements that could apply to either gender (or if the gender is unknown). Example: "If a customer were to visit a Baskin-Robbins store, he would probably be there to buy ice cream." This doesn't somehow mean that the customer is automatically a male, it just means that the person's gender is indeterminate and that "he" is being used as a gender neutral term because, after all, the customer could just as easily be a female. It would be incredibly awkward to have to constantly use "he or she" when you can stick to the nice, streamlined gender-neutral use of "he" in such cases.

     

    In some manuals and strategy guides, I've seen the PC referred to as she/her despite the fact that you can choose to have a male PC. Does this mean that the PC is automatically a female just because "she" is referred to as one? Of course not! In such cases, I certainly don't go around acting like a j------ claiming that the PC is a female just because the writer of the manual/guide opted to use feminine pronouns instead of masculine ones (for once). I find the whole "Revan's a male because they used he and him, not she and her... so nyah!" argument to be ridiculous, immature and highly annoying.

     

    I suspect that LA just used "he" for Revan because his/her gender is determined by the player who may be either male or female. Of course, if they've posted some specific image of Revan as a guy and specifically stated that that is what he looks like AND that it is official canon, I can live with it. However, as far as I know they haven't, but I guess it'd make avatar selection a lot easier if you only had one image to choose from and absolutely no choices about anything (hooray for fewer options)! <sarcasm> Everyone knows that the dialogue is just plain screwed up and flip-flops from one gender to the other because the devs messed it up. Trying to claim that the use of "he" is a sign that Revan is definitely a male is just plain silly! At any rate, Revan should be whomever you want her... or him to be, just don't try to force it down other people's throats.

  2. Meh, it's only been a couple years... and since none of the characters said anything specific about either Jolee, Mission or Juhani, technically they could all still be alive. I'd like to see Jolee & Mission back in K3 (Jolee 'cause I love his humor & Mission, because I'd like to know what happened to her weasel of a brother Griff <snicker>).

  3. Vrook doesn't strike me as a character that would pass up on a chance to complain about what you do. He could probably have found something wrong with the way you looked at him or how your robe was fitting if he ran out of other stuff.

     

     

    Clearly Vrook is actually my mother in disguise then! <ROFL> I think Vrook's kind of like Jolee... if you subtracted all of Jolee's humor and compassion but left in the grumpy old man personality and multiplied the stubborness factor by ten. <chuckle> Of course, I suppose that if, like Vrook, you had a former student suddenly decide to lead a war on the Mandalorians & then decide to take over the galaxy, it'd probably leave you more than a little pessimistic and suspicious about someone's (like the Exile or Revan) motivations. Perhaps it would make you overly, umm, judgemental (to put it politely). :) So, although I don't like Vrook much as a person I guess I can see where he was coming from.

  4. I like Atton (second to his Carth-ness, whom I adore :o ), but Bao-Dur's got a nice voice. Now, if only he'd use it more often aside from that "Yes, General" line. <chuckle> Back to Bao's fate, maybe the fact that Kreia couldn't see anything about his future was due to the fact that she couldn't read his thoughts at all! If you will recall, during one of those telepathy lessons with Kreia you're able to hear Bao-Dur's thoughts whereas Kreia cannot.

     

    After the lesson, she mentions something about Bao-Dur's thoughts being too alien & whatnot, but you can tell her that you were able to hear him (or lie about being able to hear him if you want to). I've always wondered if that was meant to have some sort of impact on Malachor V if the original ending had been implemented, but I digress! Bao might still be alive after all and is just "invisible" to Kreia. However, I must say that the holo that the remote played on Mal V does have me worried about Bao's fate. Oh well, I guess I can pretend that he was just knocked unconscious on the Hawk or something after it fell into that chasm, yep, I'll just go with that one! ;)

  5. Hmph, well I've always asked for proof (then he mentions the compartments) and agreed to give the Hawk back to him, but I haven't been able to find that @%(!ing compartment. I've just given up all hopes of ever seeing what's inside & console myself with the fact that whatever it was, it was probably a piece of crappy eq anyway! :(

  6. I want the Revan/Carth thing resolved once & for all! After the investment of time I put into their story, I want my frigging happy ending alright?! <snicker> Besides, I think we females are owed that much after being disappointed by Atton Rand (I liked the character, but he could've been a touch more communicative and/or romantic)... <chuckle> Hopefully, males will get some sort of equally satisfying ending with their preferred love object as well. :thumbsup:

  7. I don't understand why so many people hate Carth. I'm a guy and I thought he was a great character. Although I have to admit, him running away on darkside was COMPLETELY out of character. He was built up to be a huge hero, and I was actually expecting him to be the 'boss' type character representing the republic on dark side, but then he ran away. That was just plain bad writing.

     

    Also, that theme was in Episodes 2? I guess Williams ran out of ideas, because I have the same theme played several times throughout my Hook soundtrack.

     

    Heh, the Carth runs away during the DS ending being out of character issue, thought I'd never see that one again! <chuckle> A lot of us went back & forth over that one at the BioWare boards a while back (Carth fans vs. Carth haters, natch :thumbsup:). My argument has always been that Carth running away is part of the DSF ending because Carth has to escape to make it to the Star Forge in an effort to save Revan/stop her (which would've worked even better if the DSF romance ending as originally planned had been in there, not that I would've seen it, still can't make myself go DS).

     

    Unfortunately, this totally screws things up if you're DSM. It would've been nice if they could've programmed for every alternative, in which case Carth could have stood his ground and died a tragic, yet heroic death if the player were DSM.

    Summing that up: due to the programming/scripting, to guys Carth's behavior looks like cowardice, whereas for girls he shows up again in a last-ditch heroic effort to save your PC (if thing went right prior to that, hehe). ;)

  8. Yes, I've finished all the planets except for Onderon (I still have to kill master kavar).

     

     

    Hmm, well I'm LS, but I'm guessing it ought to trigger more or less the same way. Assuming you've done all the other planets, somewhere along the way T3 should say that you have a message from Kelborn, so go back to Dxun to the Mandalorian encampment & hopefully events will properly unfold. You might want to hop from planet to planet a couple of times first & see if the scene triggers, if not just try heading straight to Dxun (can't hurt).

  9. That reminds me, RS was on Without a Trace ( :) one of my favorite shows) last season, ermm, maybe it was this season... at any rate, just keep an eye out for the episode about the guy who believes he was abducted by aliens if it ever comes up (I suppose you can catch it on TNT, as I think they air WaT repeats). Hmm, time to go check out that audio!

  10. I put down RPG of course, because I love them so, but if you could cross it with a GTA/Morrowind-type world environment(s) with a truer freedom of movement that would be cool (plus throw in more quests & interaction too, natch).

     

    Translation: Are your words the kindness/mercy of dreams, I wonder? Lies can hide all. It is unfair, isn't it?

     

    Out of curiosity: A) Am I close on that translation? B) Where is that from? I probably screwed up line two, but cut me some slack, it's been years since my last Japanese class! <chuckle> :devil:

  11. I did things in a slightly oddball manner this time around. I went to Dantooine first (as usual) because I wanted to try changing the salvager's will this time. Naughty me, but it was the one DS thing I was willing to do... I just didn't want it to impact my LS points later on, hehe. Plus, I like the crystal caves & hey, who doesn't want their own pet rock, err, personal lightsaber crystal! Then I went to Nar Shaddaa but switched up & hit Dxun/Onderon AFTER the confrontation with the Red Eclipse. What can I say, I was getting tired of the big city & wanted a change of scenery. After all, I just adore the lovely pastoral landscape of Dxun! :- I'll be heading back to Onderon afterwards (currently on G0T0's yacht) & then off to Korriban, whee. <chuckle> Basically, I'd stick with the Dantooine-Nar Shadda-Onderon-Korriban order too(when not being intentionally goofy that is).

  12. Unfortunately I have no screen shot of this, but it occured when I was in Iziz and met with Kavarr at the cantina. At the end, he & Tobin were supposed to run out the cantina, but I could see both of them stuck in the doorway like bugs in amber. <chuckle> Anyway, I went outside & then I went back in to check, but they were frozen in the entrance. Talk about weird!

  13. Why have people complained about the ending? It's perfect the way it is. It is meant to be that way. If you don't get it, then maybe you should think harder about everything in the game.

     

    It doesn't need to be modified at all. Obsidian has plenty of resources and money. If there was going to be something else, they would have done it. Just let it be.

     

    Uh, meant to be? I don't think so, because what we have right now is clearly NOT the ending that was meant to be. After an enjoyable two-thirds of the game, the ending just felt so wrong. Indeed, the final act completely fell apart & left me with numerous questions, which subsequently led me to visit the forums once again and read the missing content thread (wherein I found the answers I was looking for at least).

     

    Personally, I can't believe that OE actually meant to leave us hanging with the currently bewildering final act and its accompanying truncated (and equally bewildering) ending. If you've read Chris Avellone's post about the bug patch, he mentioned that they've tried talking to LA about getting a content patch done, which would seem to indicate that even they don't think it's perfect the way it is. At any rate, I think it's safe to say that most of our collective discontent/anger has been directed more at LA than OE for what happened. OE just suffered the misfortune of getting caught in the middle.

  14. Personally, I prefer loads of content and a deep story with complex characters and don't give a hoot whether it's 2D/3D or what (still love Fallout series/BG series), but I think that having high-end graphics is a must for drawing in those who aren't RPG fans and may be a more casual gamers or FPS players (which is why I voted for graphics). As a RPG fan, I was happy enough with the current engine except for some of the cinematics, which really did look pretty low-res... I mean, even I've got my limits, hehe. If you've seen screen shots for Oblivion, Bethesda might pull it off and combine the best of both worlds, pretty pictures + deep RPG action <crosses fingers & hopes for the best>. At any rate, I just hope KoTOR 3 will run on my machine whenever it comes out (and darn it, I want to know what happened to Jolee! :blink:).

  15. Well, if you need a moderator I'm available as I have no life... I'm just not available when Lost is on and have absolutely zero experience moderating! <snicker> Seriously though, as others have pointed out it's been a fun place to hang out & discuss both the merits and the flaws of the game, so I hope the forums aren't shut down permanently. As a fan from back during the BIS/Interplay days, I do hope things work out on KoTOR 3 if Obsidian's handling it, but please work a little harder on the romances to make them fulfilling (especially for us female players) and add in more dialogue + triggers to improve the pacing... Hehe, it's just a little pet peeve of mine, so I had to mention it again if it's one of the last things I get to post here! Hugs to Feargus & co. :)

  16. Ooo, finally a poll where I can vote for Carth! :) Yeah, I like Atton well enough, but I've gotta say that I worship his Carth-ness! <snicker> Seriously, how can you not vote for him? Waiting four long years for Revan, searching for the woman he loves, etc. Now THAT'S dedication (or obsession depending on how you look at it). ;) Actually, I was always partial to the Candy-man myself, personally I liked his sense of honor & pragmatism as well (but I had to go with Carth). If Canderous had been a romantic option in KotOR 1 I think that it would've been quite interesting. It's a pity that he was wasted in KoTOR 2 though. Candy should've had more dialogue options with LS players, and really, shouldn't he have edged a little closer to neutrality after the events of KoTOR 1? It seemed that they threw a lot of his character development out the window, oh well... Mandalorians will be Mandolorians I guess.

  17. There's another subtle difference.

     

    For the guys, Nar Shadaa Pazaak rules is no blasters.

     

    For the gals, it's no clothes.

     

     

    I actually had Handmaiden and Visas get into a cat fight in one game.  And because of it, Handmaiden refused to talk to me at all anymore.

     

    Ironically, I hadn't talked to either one of them at that point because I was trying to finish getting my DS mastery for my prestige class.  I'd lost a big chunk working on T3 and Bao Dur for influence.

     

    Handmaiden to me seemed even worse then Disciple.  Aside from her devotion to her echani fight training, she had some severe insecurity complexes on whether you had a relationship with anyone, including Atris.  She was the Juhani of KOTOR 2 IMO.

     

    To see the holovid with Carth or Bastilla with T3, all you need is enough influence, and a 16 INT.  Force Valor works.  Just don't skip through the dialogue too quickly.  I did that and had a holo version of Carth on the Ebon Hawk until I played through the video again.

     

     

    Overall I liked Mira, Atton and Kreia the best.  For KOTOR 2, I'd have to say T3 really eclipsed HK-47.  It's hard not to like Canderous.  He's as honest as he is blunt.  The others I could really have cared less for.  I REALLY missed Jolee, but Atton filled the gap.

     

    Ah, 16 INT, no wonder... I must go try that immediately! I have to say that I missed Jolee too, sigh, I hope that we find out what happened to him in KoTOR 3 (even if he's been killed, it's better to know than to not know).

  18. Yep you need your lightsaber(s) equipped, a clear path to your enemy (no obstructions whatsoever) and a fair amount of distance between you & the target. You MUST use regular attack as well to initiate the force jump (special attacks will only cause you to run towards your target as opposed to jumping them). That should solve your problems!

  19. Yeah, even moreso with how K2 adds to the K1 romance...  I mean, it sounded like Carth was just starting to get comfy with the whole love thing by the end (LS ending), but in K2 he cares about Revan exponentially more.  With T3's recording of him and his own request from you about Revan, he's got a very touching/bittersweet/desperate love thing going on.

     

     

    Whaaaaat? T3's recording of Carth?! Doh, I missed that the first time around (didn't fix T3 up all the way)... Hmm, does this option come up right after you repair T3 fully, or is triggered by planet or something? I managed to fix him up completely this time (got the meditation option) but haven't seen any Carth holo yet. Sigh, Carth was the only guy who was could actually be called a romantic figure in KoTOR 2 as far as I'm concerned. :lol:

  20. I meant like he sounds like Prince Charming and looks like him. At first glance I thought he looked just like him. Especially the hair.

     

     

    Ah, now THAT'S why he seemed so familiar. The Disciple rather does resemble Charming physically now that I think about it (personality-wise, totally different <chuckle>). Addressing the Atton as psychopath thing, well he was obviously highly conflicted after the Mandalorian Wars, which twisted his views on Jedi & the Republic. Heck, even formerly respectable people like Saul Karath succumbed to the dark side...

     

    In the end though, Atton obviously changed after that incident with the female Jedi. Geez, people make it sound like he's some creepy raving lunatic serial-killer when he said that he killed her because he loved her. I think you're supposed to recognize that at the end he learned how wrong what he had been doing was (when she opened her mind to him) and that killing the female Jedi was in fact a mercy killing to prevent her from suffering further at his hands or any of the other Sith assasin-types.

     

    Besides, if Revan can be forgiven after destroying all those worlds & whatnot (well, if you were LS in KoTOR 1 anyway), then Atton can be forgiven for what his misguided beliefs led him to do. After all, you're only talking a little torture, some assasinations, etc. not planetary destruction on a massive scale like Revan & the Exile managed to do. However, I'm not so sure that I can forgive him for not telling the PC that he has feelings for her... oh well, maybe I'll address that one in fan-fic. <snicker> :lol:

     

    Me and my tangents, ahem, I forgot to add this: yes, the female PC romances do SUCK!!! :blink:

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