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Indeed, the RPG "feel" of RTW is what I like the most about it. Of course, this isn't new to the Total War series, nor to strategy games in general, but I think RTW takes the phenomenon to its peak. A peak not even the immaculate Alpha Centauri dreamed of. To lead one's general, whose birth and ascent to glory or infamy one has orchestrated, who has a family, and a history, and monuments built to commemorate his battles of times past, to lead him into confrontation, and watch him make a speech to his troops which reflects his personality and qualities and habits as a leader...it's phenomenal. To lead into battle, say, the at this point elderly, dangerously insane, possibly homosexual drunkard adopted Celt son to a Roman Legate and have all of those things matter and have all of those things be linked to causal factors in the world. That's RPG magic. RTW makes actually roleplaying a character and not just being a munchkin all the time rewarding in a way that even most D&D CRPGs don't. That's especially remarkable because it's not an RPG. But there's more to character development in RTW than in most RPGs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well . . . It's a good game, but it has some flaws. The load-game bug alone is a game killer. It makes it impossible to play the game in the mid to late era without hibernating your PC for weeks. (it resets all the AI after every reload to 0, essentially paralyzing the AI into helplessness) That being said, yeah, I never really thought of it in RPG terms. The "family" aspect of the game is really neat. You can groom whole extended families through their entire lives and have them become very different kinds of people: heroic or cowardly, conservative or liberal, puritian or sexual predator; even little seemly obscure traits make a large difference, i.e. whether or not your character likes gladiator games, how "pure" your wife is, how do you feel about foreigners, etc. And you have about a 50% say on how your characters in your family develop. You'll have people in your family ranging from the wise, powerful elder, to the young, irresponsible, worthless kid. And yes, the battle speeches are excellent (well, the Roman ones are). And they are influenced on your character's traits. Is he brave? Is he a coward? Is he a tactictian? Is he inept? Is he a great speaker or a tedious one? Is he insane? That all being said, it'd be a great game if it wasn't for the load-game bug.

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Hi! I'm one of the few people left here that hasn't played the game yet. I guess I'm addressing this question to one of the people who is on the game restoration team (I don't have any of their e-mail addresses and the website is a minefield of spoilers). I've visited the game restoration site, and saw the downloads secton. Well, it seems that the makers assume everyone by now has played the game. The download section (as well as the entire site) is plagued with spoilers. Is there a way that the site could host a file that includes all the fixes without describing the file (perhaps could this be done in future releases as well)? Thanks!

Well, thanks for the feedback everyone. Yeah, well, I'd hope that the fan mod would solve all KOTOR2 problems, but as Spooky mentioned, mods rarely are ever completed, so I'll probably give the game a try after graduation. I'll just remember to keep my expectations low. I'll need something to play at night when I'm not looking for jobs in the day.

Hi! I've played the first KOTOR and loved it (I'm a relatively new CRPG gamer, my first one was BGI a couple years ago) and was eager to play the second KOTOR. However, after reading the boards, as well and numerous reviews, the conclusion has been that the potential was there for a great sequel, but didn't happen because of a lack of time. What I'd like to know is if I should get this game now or wait a while? I've seen that there have been some projects to help restore the missing content, the ending, the mono music, and fix the bugs (al la maybe a baldurdash patch for BGI and II). I suppose a patch from Obsidian "should" be released, but after months of waiting around the boards, I'm not too hopeful. On the other hand, very few fan mods ever make it to completion, even after many months, if not years. Anyways, what do you think? I've been really stressed out at school here (I'm near graduation, and need a job), so I can afford to wait a while if necessary if this game gets clean up and fixed.

not only that, I think I would actually PAY FOR IT!!!! :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ditto! I have been very reluctant to get this game because of school/bugs/incompleteness of the game, but this would be great when I do get to play this game (hopefully within the next month). Please keep up with good work!