Jediphile

I wouldn't have liked that, since I like Revan. That said, I might have gone for it just at the thought of how utterly it would annoy all the shameless Revan fanboys

Are you playing the pc version or the xbox? Not sure if your game is bugged, but I've always found the Onderon swoop race challenging, and I think it's supposed to be. But yes, it does jump pretty high. I don't think I've ever won it using the keys only (I play the pc version), but only when I got around to using my trackball and memorizing the course. Even then it takes practice.

My pleasure.

Doesn't quite ring a bell, but maybe you're thinking of this... Kreia: "It is sometimes... difficult to find truth in the Jedi Civil War.Was it the Republic that defeated Malak, or was it Revan? If it was Revan, then the Republic was never truly tested.A culture's teachings, and most importantly, the nature of its people, achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves... or find themselves lacking. Too long did the Republic remain unchallenged. It is a stagnant beast that labors for breath... and has for centuries. The Jedi Order was the heart that sustained its sickness - now the Jedi are lost, we shall see how long the Republic can survive."

Ah, that's the "rotating puzzle" in Vogga's warehouse, right? If it is, the point here is that the each four symbols can be turned both clockwise or counterclockwise like a dial, and since there are two line with four symbols in each, that gives us three "dials" - the four to the left, the four in the middle, and the four to the right. It's a nice little challenge to figure out, so I recommend you think about how to do it. It's not that difficult really. But if you can't wait, here's the total spoiler

Where? Sure, teh glowing spine is one example, but it's what I consider a "that didn't happen" kind of scene in that it is there to illustrate something to us as viewers, not to express something that happened in the plot. You can call that a plothole, but then we've also seen Roslin, Six and Athena chase after Hera in the opera house and Baltar being downloaded as a cylon, all of which we know are dreams. And the less said about Baltar's imaginary Six in this regard the better... You may think I read too much into things. Fair enough. But I happen to like speculating about these things, and I don't think I'm doing anything wrong by posting my musings. If people don't like it or don't agree but don't want to argue it, then they are free to not read my posts or not reply to them or both. Moore is one of the more consistent guys around when it comes to this sort of thing. Maybe not Straczynsky, but DS9's plot was fairly solid if examined. But be assured I'll be calling foul, if he begins contradicting himself wildly. I recently pointed to Galactica going to the carnage of The Hub's destruction and then getting back to the fleet soon enough to make Apollo president and lots of things, while the basestar itself got there much later in spite of allegedly jumping back right away. A very minor plothole, but not terribly consistent nonetheless. Didn't ruin the story, though, which is more important to me. Such as? Yes, we want to apply logic, because that's how we solve puzzles. Battlestar Galactica is a puzzle. Who is the last cylon? What has happened to Earth? What happened to Starbuck when she apparently died? I like speculating about these things. If you don't, then fair enough, but don't tell me I can't. As for this disease, we can argue it would not spread if it was so insignificant to humans that it was immediately or very quicked destroyed by the human immune system. And that's just one possibility.

They are already significantly different. You can't just draw an arbitrary border on what point you think makes them being one of the 12 models is irrelevant. I can draw a border between the spiritual and the physical. They ARE cylons physically. And we KNOW that cylons CAN reproduce, because Helo and Athena did, and Tyrol and Callie did as well. Now, even you dismiss Tyrol from that on the basis of him being one of the final five, Athena is still just one of the seven known models who up until her were unable to reproduce. That allows us to conclude that the inability to reproduce among the known cylons is not based on the physical, because she did not undergo a physical change or transformation in order to gain the ability to reproduce. Besides, you're the one saying the final five are so different that it's reasonable to assume the have the same immunity as humans do, so who is drawing an arbitrary border here? After all, you still give no reason for why that assumption is reasonable, except "they are different", which you don't tell us is significant to your point in what way. All I'm saying is that the final five are different. Thus being different, you cannot say they have to follow the same rules as the original. Thus, you can't say Helo can't be one of them because he doesn't follow the same rules. I'm not saying they don't follow many of the the same rules or this particular rule. I'm saying you no longer have any basis to say that they do. All I was doing was calling into question. With it called into question, Helo is then a possibility. Only if you decide to ignore all the clues we've been given in the series. I have expained why. But naturally you still have provided no basis whatsoever for your position except "the final five are different." Am I not allowed to know what that basis is? Disagree with me, if you will. That's fine. But you do not provide counterarguments to support your position, I will assume you have none and consider your position flawed and wholly unsupported.

I didn't say they had immunity. I said it's reasonable that they do. Why? I have argued why I do not think so. You may question that, but the discussion is unfair if you will not be called to do the same.. I don't know for fact that they do, no. However, I can speculative and have stated why. You, however, say that it is reasonable that they do, only you feel justified in doing so without providing any basis to do so, while calling mine into question. If you cannot or will not provide any observations in support of your position, then you have no argument. You might as well argue Tigh is actually God and the whole series is his dream or some such. It does follow that they are different and that some different rules apply. Quite possibly, the human rules. Again, why? They are not humans, but cylons. They are different from other cylons, yes, but why does that make them more like humans than like cylons? Where is your basis for reaching that conclusion? I refuted one point of yours. I called your other points into significant question that you can no longer say that Helo definitely can't be a Cylon. Actually, I can if I'm allowed to take what the episode tells me as factual in the discussion. The episode tells us that Athena, who is NOT one of the final five, has become immune because she had a child with a human - Helo. If that is to be a valid argument - made by the episode, not by me - then Helo must be human. QED. Unless, of course, you want to argue that he is "special" or that it doesn't apply if the person in question has given up his seat to a traitor to stay behind on a dying planet ravaged by nuclear winter beneath a moon made of cheese or whatever...

Besides, you can use the Qixoni crystal, even if you're LS, you just have to put it in the same lightsaber as you put the "name" crystal found on Dantooine. Not sure if you need to "level up" the "name" crystal to the max, but I've managed to have them both in the same lightsaber while having LS mastery (and without cheating).

O RLY? Yeah, given how they made Shaak-Ti look in TFU, I find that hard to believe...

Well, it would make the entire story arc about Hera pointless. For one thing, since the known cylons initially staged the relationships between Helo and Athena because they were unable to produce children among themselves. Another reason is that Athena survived disease on the basestar in "A Measure of Salvation" early in the third season because she had conceived a child with a human, which somehow made her immune. Had Helo been a cylon, that could not have happened. And I should correct myself. I thought the same episode established why Roslin cannot be a cylon, because she met one of the infected cylons and yet did not contract the disease. I was mistaken, though, because I forgot that Baltar injected Hera's blood into Roslin during "Epiphanies" half-way through season 2, so naturally she would be just as immune to the disease as Athena turned out to be. And if you think it's a plothole that Tigh, Tyrol, Tory and Anders were not affected by that disease, then nope - it's not, because conveniently (and perhaps a little too conveniently), none of them ever met an infected cylon in that episode. The same disease also establishes why Baltar cannot be a cylon, since in the preceding episode, "Torn", the cylons sent him to investigate the disease on an infected basestar precisely because he was immune as a human. All of this is debunked by the fact that the final five are close enough to human themselves that they can manage to have children with other Cylons (RE: Tigh+Six). This outright refutes your first point. Accepting this, it's easily possible that they also have the same immunity. Because the final five are different. And exactly by which basis do you proceed to postulate that the final five have the same immunity? Just because the final five seem capable to reproduce with other cylons (and that is assuming Six's child is Tigh's, which we actually don't know either), it does not automatically follow that they must have the same immunity. Hence you cannot refute the point. At most you can question it. The final five may different, but we don't know in what ways. They are different, but they are not a different species from the other cylon models we know. At least, I would not conclude so, since the "there are twelve models" bit then begins to border on the irrelevant. The cylons changed when they were confronted with mortality, and at least four of the final have always been faced with that. That might just as well be what allows them to have children - as long as they retain immortality they cannot reproduce, but when they accept mortality they gain the ability to do so. Granted, that is a supposition too, but it is just as valid as yours. Besides, if we're to believe Cottle's conclusion in "A Measure of Salvation", humans are immune to the disease because it's fairly common to humanity, whereas it is totally unknown to the cylons, who thus have not developed the defense against it over the generations as humans have, because cylons have no generations, as they never reproduced, but just kept cloning the same originals over and over. No, that's not proof, because we can't have that, but it's what we're able to assume based on the clues we do have.

which full Cylon child? You have Hera (I never quite understood if it's Caprica 6 + Baltar's or Athena + Halo's?) which is Human/Cylon and Tyrol + Cally's kid, which is also Human/Cylon. Yes, I noted that too. I guess that will later point to other differences between the seven known cylons and the final five. Haven't gotten there yet. I'm pretty sure Tyrol's son will also be significant, but except for Hera, the others have been left in the background so far. And about the final cylon, D'Anna says four are in the fleet. However, then only humans she has seen at the time she says so are Helo - whom we know is not a cylon - and Roslin. And she did ask Roslin if she knew she was a cylon, didn't she? And come to think of it, didn't Roslin act confused as if she blacked out for a second when the fleet jumped to the nebula at the end of season three, when Tigh, Tyrol, Tory and Anders found out they were cylons. Then again, there is evidence to contradict that as well, assuming Moore has been consistent and known who the final cylon was. How can we know Helo is not a Cylon? Well, it would make the entire story arc about Hera pointless. For one thing, since the known cylons initially staged the relationships between Helo and Athena because they were unable to produce children among themselves. Another reason is that Athena survived disease on the basestar in "A Measure of Salvation" early in the third season because she had conceived a child with a human, which somehow made her immune. Had Helo been a cylon, that could not have happened. And I should correct myself. I thought the same episode established why Roslin cannot be a cylon, because she met one of the infected cylons and yet did not contract the disease. I was mistaken, though, because I forgot that Baltar injected Hera's blood into Roslin during "Epiphanies" half-way through season 2, so naturally she would be just as immune to the disease as Athena turned out to be. And if you think it's a plothole that Tigh, Tyrol, Tory and Anders were not affected by that disease, then nope - it's not, because conveniently (and perhaps a little too conveniently), none of them ever met an infected cylon in that episode. The same disease also establishes why Baltar cannot be a cylon, since in the preceding episode, "Torn", the cylons sent him to investigate the disease on an infected basestar precisely because he was immune as a human.

which full Cylon child? You have Hera (I never quite understood if it's Caprica 6 + Baltar's or Athena + Halo's?) which is Human/Cylon and Tyrol + Cally's kid, which is also Human/Cylon. Yes, I noted that too. I guess that will later point to other differences between the seven known cylons and the final five. Haven't gotten there yet. I'm pretty sure Tyrol's son will also be significant, but except for Hera, the others have been left in the background so far. And about the final cylon, D'Anna says four are in the fleet. However, then only humans she has seen at the time she says so are Helo - whom we know is not a cylon - and Roslin. And she did ask Roslin if she knew she was a cylon, didn't she? And come to think of it, didn't Roslin act confused as if she blacked out for a second when the fleet jumped to the nebula at the end of season three, when Tigh, Tyrol, Tory and Anders found out they were cylons. Then again, there is evidence to contradict that as well, assuming Moore has been consistent and known who the final cylon was.

And when you get the scene where she admits to her feelings for you, but concludes that it's only due to your mutual bond, tell her that she's hiding from the truth. She'll say that such feelings are not allowed among the jedi, and you have to tell to give in just this once. That should trigger the scene in the cargo hold that HK-47 mocks in the sequel. You'll still have to be firm that she is hiding from her feelings and admit your own to her as well, though.

Perhaps. He does seem to be the favored contender for the title. But the jury is officially still out on that one until LA sees fit to tell us who it is. But honestly, I don't think it's particularly important, so maybe we'll never know...

D20 rules, which KotOR is based on, use the Two-Weapon Fighting feats for both a weapon that requires both hands to use and two weapons (one in each hand). Although the feats have been revised heavily for both games, that principle remains the same. To compensate the Dueling feats were introduced to make a single weapon a viable option (it doesn't quite do the trick IMHO, though). The Dueling feat does not appear in the D20 rules, at least that I've seen. Then again, I hate D20 and its ilk with a passion...

And you can put more crystals in two lightsabers than one... And you can really find some saber crystals in TSL that will buff damage, speed and particularly stats to absolutely ridiculous degrees, even without cheating.

Darth Bane is the sith lord who implemented the "rule of two" among the sith about a thousand years before the movies (about 3000 years after the KotOR games). If you're interested, start your reading here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Bane

No. Just plain no, you don't need good graphics. I played games with terrible graphics back way back, and I loved it. The graphics of Tetris was woefully outdated when the game came out. Did that stop from being great or even popular? No. It was a good game - a classic - and that is all there is to it. It's even true today. Heck, some of us still play Fallout 1 and 2. Or take another example, I don't play Star Trek Armada II because I don't like the plot, but I loved it in the original and would still play that today if it worked on my system, and that game far less features and not nearly as good graphics. Quite simply, if the game is good then the graphics are a total non-issue. The only reason that graphics seem important today is that the developers are so out of ideas that pushing the technical limitations is about the only frontier they got left, and naturally graphics is the frontrunner there. Besides, the graphics in TSL are EXACTLY the same as in KOTOR - that they used the EXACT same graphics engine was what allowed them to do the game in about a year. Had it not been the same graphics, the game would not have been released as soon after KotOR as it was.' And storyline was the one thing where TSL beat the original hands down. TSL is original. I'll grant that it's told badly in places, and one of those is regrettably in the endgame. It's why I consider K1 the better GAME, but it doesn't change the fact that TSL was far, far more original and had much, much deeper characters. You've got about one of the best characters in any computer game plot ever in Kreia, both from the plot around her and the voice-acting. K1, by comparison, had a carbon-copied plot stolen from the original movie trilogy with Bioware's by-now mandatory "I have amnesia and must find and confront my dark, evil past"-plot thrown in for good measure, complete with about the cheesiest villain imaginable.

As much as I like KotOR, I'll be wary of K3. LA rushed TSL and released a game that is IMHO unfinished. And the reaction and reception was not kind, because a lot of sources seem to agree that Obsidian had done a fine job, which LA totally dropped the ball on. My own suspicion is that this matter is still so embarrasing to LA that they've put a hold on K3. I mean, they even nixed the content patch that Obsidian wanted to do, and now the FANS are finishing the game. Can it get more embarrasing? I wouldn't be surprised if LA is waiting for TSLRP to come out and make some waves, and once that's all over, then we'll hear about K3. Pure speculation on my part, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Seems the last "half" of the final season 4 has been extended with two more episodes. Yay! http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-200...ry_list;title;0

Yeah... You know what that means.

No need. I've never had to do that, even though I max my influence with Visas in the first conversation. You just have to make sure your influence is pretty high with Handmaiden before you talk to Visas. As for sacrificing Visas, that can be done only at one point in the game

The problem with Peragus is that it's just such a long, long walk through the tunnels and corridors as you kill droids. There is virtually no interaction at all. Until you meet the HK unit, of course, at which point you're drowned in dialogue... Taris at least gave you a sense of being in a place that mattered a little and was not the hind-end of space that everybody forgot about. Not that Taris doesn't have it's flaws - it's actually impossible to make the Sith troopers aware of my status as a Republic soldier, even though it's blindingly obvious and they are supposed to be actively looking for me...

I didn't this time