Jediphile

Impossible owing to the fact that Bane is dead by then. Not even Yoda lived a thousand years, and Bane is human.

Always being LS ( ) I did so the first time only to decide to reload because the Selkath promptly threw Sunry in jail for years and cut the Republic's access to Kolto on Manaan. So if I'm to take the moral choice, I must hinder the Republic war effort against the Sith by denying it a vital resource of healing essential to saving the lives of soldiers defending the Republic across the galaxy from the Sith's domination? Yes, I realise the obvious choice is to always see the guilty pay for their crimes. Justice must be served. No argument. But isn't it a little too easy to do that while you insist on ignoring the implications? Are the resulting consequences to the Republic fair and just? Somehow take that choice seems "easy", which usually translates into "wrong" where morals and ethics are concerned. Of course Sunry deserves to pay for his crime, but during a war you might not be able to afford to choice to be so gullible in your choice. "Silent leges inter arma," as they say - "laws are silent amidst arms", which means during wartime. You also cannot ignore that the Selkath are completely superficial in their ruling, insisting on looking only at the absolutes - Sunry killed her, and he is a representative of the Republic. Hence he goes to prison and the Republic is banned from Manaan - case closed. So in this case I'll choose to withhold evidence not because Sunry deserves it, but because the Sith did plot against him, and because while he deserves punishment, the Republic - and its soldiers - do not, and I can't ignore that. So Sunry gets to walk off and I sweep it under the carpet... on Manaan. Sunry better not look forward to the end of the war, because when it's over, I'll bring the matter up again and add that he took the Republic's safety hostage during a time of crisis to cover up his own crime, and so, while there might have been extenuating circumstances for the crime itself, Sunry's subsequent choices to protect his own hide do not reflect well on his character or his dedication to the Republic at all. But that will have to wait until after the war.

Are you serious?... I'm trolling by saying the MMO might be decent? Good point there, you're really smart. It's silly to think people won't give an MMO sequel to a former GotY title a chance. The MMO won't flop. I'm saying you're trolling because you keep insisting that we're "lying" when we say we're not interested in playing the MMO, for our own given reasons, and keep on insisting we will play it. Please take your own advice. I already did, and it helped too.

Actually you're right, but somehow I don't think that was the intention. Hence I included it

Easiest, yes, but not the best for the Republic. Because Sunry insists on either being acquitted or else dragging the Republic into the matter, you must choose which goal it is better to serve - to see justice done in spite of the selkath consequently denying the Republic access to Kolto on Manaan or whether you must prove his innocence despite knowing he's guilty for the Republic to retain access to the Kolto essential to the war effort against the Sith. The latter is harder, but might be considered one of those lesser evils you must choose for the sake of the greater good in a time of war. It's one of the points I like in K1 - it's deliberately morally ambiguous.

Intelligence check - Failed. No, I merely don't see the point of arguing if you persist that your opinion equals the truth without providing a basis for why that should be considered the case. I could persist myself, but to what avail? And if you persist, the result is more likely to be for me to not respond to your posts in the future - as I didn't both above and in the MMO discussion- than it is for me to concede anything.

Well, those are the options - you can either fight and kill Jagi, or you can - with good persuasion - convince that Canderous was justified in his choice, in which case Jagi will kill himself as a sign of dishonour or whatever...

Ehm... Because

Then for God's sake, don't watch Leaving Las Vegas Or Titanic... or Seven... or Alien 3... or Dances With Wolves... or Blade Runner... or Ran (by Akira Kurosawa) or The Seven Samurai or 21 Grams or Hamlet or Reservoir Dogs or The Usual Suspects or Citizen Kane or Braveheart or Ghandi or Taxi Driver or Brazil or Wag the Dog or Fight Club or Saving Private Ryan or a plethory of some of the best films ever made. In fact, stop watching good movies altogehter - the danger of depression is far, far too great.

I suppose you'd also want Michelangelo to reduce the Sistine Chapel a little so that it "flows better"? Or maybe Jackson should have cut "Return of the King" down to less than two hours for the same reason? It's the fact that Nolan dares to take a Batman movie to a new level and end it on a "dreary and depressing ending" that makes "The Dark Knight" a movie classic and not merely an above average superhero flick. It's not a superhero flick at all. Superheroes always defeat the bad guy in the end. That doesn't happen here. "The Joker won," as Gordon puts it. THAT's the reason this movie has a complex plot that justifies the movie's length. To say that the ending should have been more coherent and make more sense is just untrue - watch the film again and you'll note that it IS coherent and DOES make sense! This is a serious movie about real issues disguised as a superhero movie. If you don't like complex and serious movies like that, then fair enough, but at least say that's the reason. Your comment reads to me like one of those "this doesn't follow the rules of of comic superhero movies"-types of comments. My apologies if that is not your intent, but I'm frankly so sick of people saying crap like that. If Nolan can deliver a movie of this sort of quality, then such "rules" and "perceptions" should not apply to him as an artist, but sadly there still people - and note that I'm not saying you're one of them - who insist comic book superheroes (whatever that is) should follow a strict certain formula, which is just so untrue, especially for Batman. Anyone who ever read Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" or "Batman: Year One" or Moore's "The Killilng Joke" (which has inspired the Joker in this movie) will know, that Batman is precisely the one "superhero" that you cannot make that assumption about. This is not a superhero movie and should not be holden to the "standards" that are said to apply for such movies.

You neglected to add "IMHO", "in my opinion" or similar to that. You have a right to your opinion, but that is what it is. Repeating it does not make it fact, and neither I nor anyone else must agree with it. And as I've already stated, I don't.

Every developer makes bad games sooner or later. It's only a question of time and money. Besides, why should I have faith that Bioware can make an MMO that I'll like when nobody else has been able to? I liked K1, but frankly TSL would have been a far better game if LA hadn't pushed the deadline. I certainly liked TSL's plot a lot more, so "returning" KotOR to Bioware does not have THAT much appeal. See Deadly_Nightshade's response above, which it now falls upon me to wholeheartedly agree with...

Playing LS never stopped me from using Force Storm

That is just so untrue. I've never been attracted to MMOs, even free ones like Runescape. If a KotOR MMO costs a monthly fee on top of the price of the game, then there is no possibility I'll try it. None. And even if it has unrestricted free online play - which I sincerely doubt will be the case - then it's still astronomically unlikely I'll ever even try it, let alone pay for the game. MMOs simply don't attract me. I agree with GhostofAnakin that the game would then still have to get impossibly good reviews for me to even consider it.

Yeah but... dialog is kinda the biggest aspect of the Kotor games. True, but that's what "replay value" is all about. As far as I know, Int 16 and Wis 16 will as well as high values in certain skills, particularly Awareness, will allow you to see all conversation paths, depending on chosen responses obviously. Me too. Kreia may be annoying, but her mentor ability sure rakes in the xp. Besides, you can't escape her rants anyway. Also, you don't need to exploit cheats for infinite xp. The trick is a high Demolition skill and lots of mines. Just plant a bunch of them. Then leave the area, return, then retrieve them all again. You get an xp award for every retrieved mine, but you must have left the area before you do so. Cheating? You tell me... After all, the game allows it without restriction.

No, it's fine. I usually have a similar set up, except I put 14 in Charisma instead of Strength, which I lower to 12, still taking 10 Dex. But then I tend towards the sentinel/jedi master combo. One thing to note, though, is that skills are far more important in K2 than they were in K1. Most of them are highly useful if not essential at some point during the game, and none of them are useless. Hence I prefer the sentinel (who gets more skill points) over the consular or guardian in K2, whereas I always went for the guardian in K1. You'll be hard pushed to create a character combination to bring you into trouble, though, because this game is easy - even set to highest difficulty level, my sentinel/jedi master still walked through all opposition no problem with all the buff items and stuff you'll find in this game. So don't worry about that. At most you'll miss some dialogue options and such along the way. Oh, if you like implants, note that there are no Implant Level feats in K2 like there were in K1. Instead ability to use implants defaults to your Con ability, with an 18 Con required for the most advanced implants (and bonuses to Con from items and similar will not count toward that goal), but you can up your Con when you get your stats upgrade every four levels, and unlike K1, K2 does not have a level cap of 20. It actually has a level cap of 50, but you're exceedingly unlikely to ever get there or even want to - usually you complete the game around level 27-28, unless you exploit bugs or similar to go higher.

Why bother? If the LA/Bioware MMO is KotOR, then they already made their choice. Besides, I'm sure LA already has someone skimming boards like this one for reaction from the fanbase. And if they're not, then they don't care anyway.

I'd probably write about how the aging Luke Skywalker's last days as grand master of the jedi council. I like Luke and always have done, which is probably because he was one of my great childhood heroes (of which there are few indeed). I don't want to see Luke brutally killed, but the way the post-RotJ/New Jedi Order novels are going, it's probably only a matter of time, because Luke has become a force-god who can defeat any opponent, no matter how potent. The Sith or any other evil guys out there basically have no hope of success ever, unless they do old Luke in somehow. I'd hate that. I'd much rather see a slightly disillusioned Luke, who comes to term with the position he holds among the jedi can gradually comes to see that the order stagnates because of it, because everybody expects him to fix all the problems if things go wrong, and so nobody aspires to their full potential anymore. Done right this could even become a threat to the Republic itself. I'd have Sith and just plain criminals inspire a cult to Luke's honor and then use that cause dissent in the Republic that they can exploit through a "divide and conquer" tactic. It'll end with a big, dreadful confrontation, where a bunch of Sith and villains ambush Luke on his own, certain that as powerful as he is, he cannot fight an army on his own. They're wrong, though, and Luke hands them their rears in fierce duel. I imagine the major bad guy saying, "even you cannot defeat all of us alone," and Luke answering, "then maybe I need help from my father", after which he grabs both his own green lightsaber and Anakin's blue one. It ends with a Luke that is triumphant and is hailed as the hero by the people, who are then shocked to hear him announce that he is stepping down as grand master of the council and leaving the Republic. Leia will object, but Luke will remain firm and say that he has become a problem, because his presence impedes growth in the Republic and can be used against them - Luke is still just a man, but too many won't accept him as anything less than a higher being. With that Luke leaves the Republic, never to be seen again, but passing into legend with the obvious stories about how somebody saw him on this world saving some people from pirates or sightings of a mysterious robed person coming to the aid of the people in their time of need. It's a fitting end, I think, and avoids the problem of having Luke's dead corpse thrown upon us. Okay, so I take a page out of G'Kar's chosen exit from Babylon 5, but I find it even more fitting for Luke. Besides, Leia is then the likely candidate as grand master of the jedi council, which will be an entirely new challenge for her, creating the possibility of new plots.

Personally, I'm sold on "The Dark Knight". I think it's the best film of 2008, and I say that knowing full well we're only half way through. But really, I see nothing on the horizon to challenge The Dark Knight for the title. I love the X-Files too, but I have to admit that I see no way for Mulder and Scully to top Batman this year. None. That goes for everything else out there too. "The Dark Knight" is not merely a Batman classic or even a superhero-movie classic - it's simply a movie classic.

To quote from a similar discussion in the game Band of Brothers: "...He can shoot lasers from his eyes. From his EYES!" Superman doesn't have laser-sight, just heat-vision. That can be deadly, but then Batman seems to have a tendency to carry Kryptonite around, it seems...