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I'd second that, but that would seem pathetic... Oh!

Geez... I've watched those vids now, and I gotta say - there are some really depraved people out there...

Alas, I was mistaken. Farewell to Spain. Then again, I didn't see the Spanish team in the second half that I've seen in the rest of the tournament. They seemed a bit scared of the french and didn't support their strikers with fast movements forward as they have in their previous games, which made it rather too easy for the french defense to to unravel. France wasn't really that dangerous, but when have four or five chances to score while Spain has none, it becomes very difficult for Spain to win. I'm sad now - I thought Spain was the better team and a strong contender for the cup. I suppose my money's on Argentina now

Kreia: Gives extra xp. Disciple (once jedi): Can heal and restore force points. Visas: Already a jedi. As various other characters are "jedified", they may enter the party instead of Visas or Disciple, but no particular preference.

That looked awesome. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed. Thanks for the link. And hearing Monty Python can never be bad, as you watch various players make complete and utter fools of themselves

1-1 between France and Spain so far. What an excellent game with lots of good football. The French have surprised me today - they're much better than previously in the cup, though I still think Spain will wear them down and win the game. Still, with the game they have today and their obvious routine, France may yet walk away in triumph.

Well, so long to Ghana... They were a breath of fresh air in the cup, but were punished heavily for being very aggressive in their game (aggressive in the sense of trying very hard to go on the offense and score goals) and forgetting their defense. Though I'll join those who cry foul over the second goal for being off-side, I do think Brazil earned their win, and could easily have scored several goals in the last 15 minutes or so. Ghana's goalkeeper got to show his skills, at least. So Brazil is through to the next round. Still, if it turns out as I expect, Spain will win later tonight against France, and then Brazil will be kicked out by Spain in the next round. If Spain can keep up their game, they're strong contenders to win the cup, methinks.

Amen I'm not so impressed by Ghana. Sure they can win - football being a very random game - but I doubt it will happen. Brazil will win that game. I think Spain will win against France, though. The French game has been horrible in this world cup and was in the last one too. Why they haven't built a new team is completely beyond me, but they'll pay the price for it, I think... again! Besides, if Spain can play up to the high standards they demonstrated in their first two matches, France won't have a prayer (and Spain's last game doesn't really count, since they didn't even try to win... and won anyway). EDIT: Brazil leads 1-0 against Ghana. That's it for Ghana, I fear...

Precisely.

Only for a short time... It just wasn't a challenge...

What would prevent him from sending some nameless underling to retrieve the lightsaber that was thrown out the window after Mace is dead?

I'm just glad it wasn't a bunny - imagine the bodycount then...

Definitely Aribeth - I just can't stand a paladin's "holier than thou"-attitude. I like Priam Agrivar, but he didn't preach every two seconds or regard himself as being better than all the rest of creation...

GAH!!! Don't even say that in gest That would make KotOR just like all those other hordes of MMORPGs out there. Don't give LA any ideas, please MMORPG for Star Wars is called "Galaxies", not KotOR.

I wouldn't call it a good game, but I'd agree that the penalty at the end seemed like a compensation for reducing Italy to 10 players. Yes, of course he tripped over that player in the box, but it's not as if he was trying to avoid it. On the contrary, that was exactly what he wanted to happen, and the referee just decided to go along with it. No, I didn't want another 30 minutes of it either, but if Australia feels cheated, then I can't blame them. I can't blame Italy for the win, though. The played a fair game and deserved the win just slightly more than Australia did IMHO.

I tend to agree with you. The Jedi Knight games may have good or bad story (I not going to say either way), but whichever is true doesn't matter so much, because the point of the game is to have a backstory and some cutscenes that set up the player for the subsequent level that must be completed. Rarely indeed do you see the plot evolve much until you've moved from one cutscene through a level to another cutscene, unless you count horror stuff like Resident Evil, which is really more about shock effects than plot. Sure, you can have great plot in an RTS (I like Starcraft's, for example), but it really doesn't matter for the game to work, because even if the story is terrible, you can still have fun killing the baddies. The same is not true for RPGs and adventure games. Quake3 has a story Same thing as Far Cry, I guess, but then the story didn't matter much there, either - it's just an excuse for the action. Yes, but the most memorable moments I have are still from CRPGs and adventure games. Especially when you're betrayed by someone, because in RPGs you usually have to rely on other people, whereas in FPS or RTS, it's just you against everyone else, and if a character betrays you in the plot, then you just get to look forward to one more notch on your gun. As a player, you just don't have to care.

Oh, they can pick up on it very easily. And as for the unexplained Force Bond going poof, I suspect that is by no means an oversight, but rather sets the stage for a big revelation in K3, or at least was intended to. Can't get into it more than that, though, since that is pure speculation on my part. Suffice to say that I think the ending was always intended to be open. That such much was cut just makes it look unfinished rather than with an open, sort of "to be continued", kind of ending.

Well, I liked it. It was a very ambitious attempt at adding to the saga, though the strain was showing at times (Palpatine was clearly a challenge to do). But as Star Wars fanfilms go, this one was among the better IMHO.

Obsidian has said before that they could do K3, if LA wanted them too. So I'd prefer they do it, IF Lucasarts gives them the time to actually FINISH the game this time.

What? Someone scored in the game between Ukraine and Switzerland? Oh, it was the penalty shoot-out... and Switzerland still couldn't score... Now I can go to bed. Trouble is, I've already covered my need for sleep just watching the game...

Agreed, but I still can't tell whether that was a deliberate headbutt or not. It did not seem violent enough to me to count as such when it happened, even after watching several replays of it. But yes, if the ref thought it was a headbutt - attempted or otherwise - then that's a red card.

"It is such a quiet thing to fall... but far more terrible is to admit it!" Or if include the cut content, my sig might be a contender too.

Kreia wanted the Exile to kill her. She even says so herself. And I do think she died. In the DS ending, she falls down an abyss. In the LS ending she just falls over dead, then Malachor V goes kaboom, as the Ebon Hawk makes its escape. Either way: One dead Kreia. But I am wondering whether there was some deeper and darker intent behind her desire to die on that precise location at that specific time. I wouldn't put it past Kreia to have done this for some dark purpose that we may see in K3. Still, even if that's not the case, it still makes sense to me. Kreia knew that she had gone as far as she could in her war against the will of the force. Her own death was her own final triumph, as she decided her own fate and that of the Exile, while the will of the force did not. And I'm still wondering whether there is some deeper meaning in her comment about "a final gift, one exile to another..." She's sly and slippery, that one...

Yes, it was. Edit: I'm not saying he shouldn't have gotten the red though. He should. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed. Bloody stupid of Figo, but either it's a nudge and not so bad, or it's a straight headbutt and should give straight red. Seemed more like the former to me. But if the ref thinks it's worse, then it should have been a red card right there.