Jediphile

Please mention one comment I have made where I'm actually making the argument that anyone is threatening my enjoyment of MMOs. Well, if you post stuff like this... ... then you're either inferring it, or else you're stating your own opinion over and at the expense of someone else's, which seems rather impolite to me. Did jodo cast 5 insist that you or anyone else needs to conform to his way of thinking? No, he didn't. He just stated his opinion. But you inferred it and then voiced criticism of that, basically accusing him of something he hadn't done. Such as? Guild wars? Some obscure Korean MMO? I'm really interested btw. Guild Wars is not a free MMO, it just doesn't have a monthly fee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_MMOGs

Please mention one person here who has said you're not allowed to enjoy MMOs.

Say, isn't MMORPG a contradiction in terms? I mean, can you even have role-playing in MMOs? Not that I've ever seen or heard of it

That's how I feel. Seems you're allowed to say it and stand by it without being repeatedly deleted by the mods. Unlike me.

I remember seeing that submarine periscope scene. Not sure where, but I have seen it. I thought he took off his belt and used that on the periscope! Maybe not, been a long time. Possibly from the comic book adapatation, since they included the scene there.

I'm split between whether that statement is more insulting or just untrue. However, given how much I dislike it when people try to infer that they know better than I do what I'll do in the future, I'll probably go with the former

MMO with a regular fee = won't be playing or paying.

That's just a comic books adaptation of the stories by Fritz Leiber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser An entire campaign setting was decicated to the stories in the city of Lankhmar in early AD&D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lankhmar#Lankhmar_in_games

It wasn't that bad. I agree. I thought it was reasonably entertaining and better than I'd feared. The action is pretty constant and not incredibly unbelievable given what we've otherwise seen in Star Wars. My only two grips are Ahsoka and Jabba Jr, especially the latter who is clearly the JarJar of the film. But even so, he is far, far less annoying than JarJar. Ahsoka is a decent character, but suffers a little from "the spunky kid" syndrome, which reveals very clearly that this is a children's movie. Oh, Ziro the Hutt was also both awful and embarrasing. And not in a good way. But otherwise this was all a nice little Star Wars adventure. Definitely not a great film not to be missed, but if you go for straight, mindless entertainment for about 90 minutes, you could spend your money on much worse.

Also, the fuel quest itself is frequently bugged. You originally get the mission from Lt. Grenn on Telos, because Citadel Station lacks fuel after the destruction of Peragus (but you know all that). Once you reach Nar Shaddaa, you can take the matter up with Vogga, who insists you must deal with Goto for him first, before he'll make a deal. Now, once you've been to Goto's yacht (part of the main plot), you should be able to go back to Vogga and negotiate a deal to get him to deliver fuel from Sleheyron to Telos after you've gotten Goto's attacks on his ships stopped. The trouble is that like so many things in TSL, the mission is bugged, and the conversation where you negotiate with Vogga (with varying degrees on success, depending on your negotation skills) doesn't always trigger. Don't ask me why. I've managed to complete the mission in some playthroughs and not in others. You'll know it worked, if you can go back to Vogga and have him acknowledge that Goto's yacht has been destroyed. Once negotitations are over, you can go back and report it to Lt. Grenn on Telos. But don't expect big, whopping rewards and parades even if you do manage to get it to succeed. It's more along the lines of 'oh, you did get a new fuel source? Well, that's nice'. So don't worry if it won't trigger, because you're not missing huge xp rewards or items or even credits anyway.

Those scenes are the so-called "Lost Scenes" of Star Wars. Lucas originally shot them, because he was adviced by his fellow directors to introduce his protagonist early in his movie, even though he didn't want to, and when he saw the dailies, he decided he didn't need the scenes. I disagree with him, though, because Biggs' death at the end of the movie makes little sense unless you've seen the early scene establishing the friendships between him and Luke, especially if you put the scene with their reunion just before the Battle of Yavin back into the movie as Lucas did in the special editions and the later dvd editions. This is not all the lost material, though. There is an alternate version of the cantina scene in Mos Eisley, which Lucas scrapped and later reshot in the studio because he didn't like several things in it, one of which was the lack of alien feel to the cantina. The alternate scene also includes a woman hanging around Han Solo just before Chewie introduces Luke and Ben to him. All of these scenes were included on the Star Wars: Behind the Magic cd-rom, where they can be seen in far better quality. I have that cd-rom myself. Nice find, though. If someone finds the cut scenes from Empire Strikes Back (such as the Wampa attack on the rebel base) or Raiders on the Lost Ark (like the scene with Indy tying himself to the submarine's periscope with his whip), then don't hesitate to post them.

Nah, it's just a time right now, when an unsually large number of people have technical questions, while the rest of us have very little to say about the game. I mean, it's close to four years old now, so it's pretty much all been said already. When TSLRP is finished, I have no doubt that will change, though. But otherwise I don't expect much talk. We've simply analyzed and discussed the game too much by now.

I couldn't say for sure, but as far as I know the vast majority of published material approved by Lucasarts is considered canon, including all the comic books, novels, cartoons, computer games and what have we. The notable exception are the Star Wars Tales comic book anthologies, and even some of that is considered canon IIRC. The Infinities comic books, being alternate versions of mostly the movies, are naturally not canon either. Lots of people talk about A-canon and C-canon and whatnot, but to LA it seems that comic book characters like Zayne Carrick or Marn Hierogryph (from the KotOR comic book) are just as much canon as Wedge Antilles was in the movies. It's just that a lot of fans don't feel that way for whatever reason. Some of the alternate versions of the game endings are not canon, though, such as evil Revan in KotOR1 (since Revan is canonically light sided and male). Same for Kyle Katarn and Jaden Korr for the Jedi Knight/Jedi Academy games.

And that is no coincidence.

TSL is the ESB of KotOR even now, but I'd agree that is precisely the one reason why I'd pick K1 as the better game. I cannot in good conscience count an unfinished game as the better one. But that's the only reason K1 wins as the best game for me - TSL had far, far better plot and characters. It's just such a crying shame there should be laws against it...

Nope, other way around - the dark jedi conquered the sith species, then interbred with them until there were none of the original species left. This led to the formation of the Sith Empire. The Sith species had potential for but little knowledge of the dark side or the force itself - they learned from the dark jedi. Start reading here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hundred_Years_Darkness

Saw "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" today. Terrible. Even worse than the second - just lots of big explosions and CGI with mediocre acting. Maria Bello tries in vain to copy Rachel Weiss' performance as Evelyn and fails instead of making the character her own. There is no challenge to the her and Brendan Fraser as the couple of the movie, though, when Isabella Leong and Luke Ford play as terribly as they do here. Brendan Fraser and John Hannah seem to have looked around, noted the lowered bar when it comes to giving a performance and then shrug their shoulders saying, "Oh what the heck - it's just The Mummy AND a secure paycheck". Hint: You know things aren't good when upon leaving the theatre, you catch yourself thinking, "actually, Jet Li played pretty well in this flick." Big explosions and visual computer effects do not a movie make. They really should have let the Mummy rest in peace...

I love that, but I have a problem with that film, as I can never decide which is better - Slim Pickens keeping his Stetson locked in a vault on the bomber for the time when they drop the big one, or Peter Sellers (as President) saying to George C. Scott (playing an american general) og Peter Bull (playing the russian ambassador): "Gentlemen, You can't fight in here - this is the war room!"

Because he doesn't exist. And Bane, or any other darth, does?

But that would totally ruin Goto by taking the one thing away that made him original. , then he is just another crimelord like any other. You'd kill the originality of the his character and the sci-fi aspects of his origin as a crimelord. But how many crimelords put themselves in the service of others? Goto was in the service of nobody, unless you mean the Republic. And even then, he "served" the Republic only according to his own interpretation of what was best for it, not what the Republic might see so itself. He did not serve the Exile. On the contrary, if you talk to him, he insists tha the Exile serves him, and that if the Exile doesn't do as orders, he will detonate killing Exile and everybody else aboard the Ebon Hawk along with him.

I find this derailment... distracting

But that would totally ruin Goto by taking the one thing away that made him original. , then he is just another crimelord like any other. You'd kill the originality of the his character and the sci-fi aspects of his origin as a crimelord.

Saw the classic war movie Battle of Britain on dvd today. It has actors like Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier and Christopher Plummer in it. A little biased perhaps, but I like it a lot, and I must say that given that the movie is from 1969, the footage of dogfights they managed to get in there is very impressive. The drama on the ground is moderate, but the desperation of the facing Hitler's Luftwaffe with the significantly outnumbered Royal Air Force does come across, so I'm not complaining.

Erm, GOTO had little choice, seeing as how the Exile had just exposed his entire organisation to the Hutts and caused the destruction of his yacht, which served as his base of operations. Yes I know, what I mean is that he stayed with you. Sure he was a broken crime lord with nothing afterward, but that doesn't give him any reason necessarily to follow the Exile on his/her quest. Well, he had analyzed the situation and realized that only a jedi or sith could hold the Republic together whether by inspirate if jedi or through fear, an iron fist and conquest if sith, so as he explains on his yacht and if you pick the right conversation paths on the Ebon Hawk, he did need the Exile to be the figurehead that served as a stablizing force in the Republic after Revan inconveniently left. And he stayed because he saw that as the only way to "control" the exile and not let things get out of control around him. So I do think sticking around on the Ebon Hawk made sense for him. More than Mandalore, anyway.