Darth Jeff

Hmmm, I had just figured that since Bao Dur only called himself an Iridonian, and the only people who called him "Zabrak" said it out of disrespect meant that he was not a Zabrak. I kind of thought that the Zabrak were a sect of the Iridonians, but were not the Iridonians as a whole. I thought the Zabrak were like a bloodthirsty tribe of Iridonians that Darth Maul was a part of. But I might be wrong about that. I have no idea who the Iridorians are. Since that guy on Manaan had a helmet on, I have no idea what they look like, either. *edited for grammatical errors*

Those movies are 10 times better than 90% of all movies I've seen in the last 10 years, and believe me, I've seen a lot of movies, so shut it! Sure they're not in my top 10 picks, but they're in my top 10%, which puts them in the top 50 or so.

There's one more easter egg that I just recently realized. Mira and Atton both say that "things are gonna get real ugly real fast" on Nar Shadaa (or just Atton if you're dark side, and Mira says "quick" instead of "fast"). This is actually a quote from The Matrix Reloaded. When Trinity and Morpheus are about to drive on the freeway, Link says exactly that line to himself, apparantly. I'm currently watching the rest of the trilogy and see if that line's repeated eslewhere. It may be that this line is to the Matrix trilogy as "I have a bad feeling about this" is to the Star Wars series. I'll just have to watch the rest of the movies to see...

Hanharr is a great fighter, but Mira's hot! It's a tough decision, the big hairy ape with lots of power, or the hot little chick I can make wear the dancer's outfit all the time?

On top of influence, in Atton's case, you have to walk through the Refugee Sector on Nar Shaddaa and talk to those Twi'leks that approach you. They'll tell you something about Atton, and you can ask him about it. At that point, if your influence with him is high enough, you can turn him into a Jedi. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, the only problem is that if you open up that dialogue before you have enough influence with him, you ruin your chances of ever having Atton become a Jedi.

Nice diabolical plot. :D But is it actually possible to go from evil prestige class (i.e. strongly DS at level 15) all the way to LS mastery? Otherwise you'd have pulled a Bindo for a rug. Of course, people have switched allegiance for less ... In my current game I found that the mostly kick-the-kitten type DS options were not worth it to endure the horrible skin disease (even Visas and Atton looked awful). A few hearty chats with Kreia and Visas have cured the skin disease already, and for once my Exile will really welcome the LS options as chances to redeem herself. The black-and-red jumpsuit she wore for sparring with the Handmaidens was rather nice, though. :D By the way, I'd prefer the Enlightenment spell over Force Crush, especially for my Marauder. I mean, why waste a combat round for a spell that does something like 200 damage if you do ~500 damage per round with your sabre? Even Sion goes down in a single round. One good thing about the DS path is that you don't have to suffer fools gladly, instead you make them suffer. Especially Vrook. And Handmaiden looks really good in black. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's a couple of places in the game where you can exploit infinate dark side or light side points. The droid at the landing pad in Khoonda is one such place. As long as you don't have your lightsaber equipped and have a high enough persuade skill, you can ask the droid about what happened to the Enclave or something and he has a memory overload. You can use computer or repair skill to fix him and he calls you a Jedi. That prompts the machanic to come over and he asks if that droid calls you a Jedi. You say he must be mistaken, and use persuade to say "do I look like a jedi?" If you convince him you can either say "But the Jedi are protectors of common folk such as yourself," for light side points or say "I hate Jedi, too" for dark side points. You can fix the droid as many times as you want to repeat this, and voila, instant dark side or light side mastery. I do this so I can have enough of either side to get my prestige class at level 15, or to influence my companions in any way to bend them to whichever alignment I want them at. That way I can have a mixture of both light and dark side Jedi in my entourage. Or I can have Hanharr instead of Mira or something. Then I can use it to bring me back to neutral status so I can exploit both dark and light side powers with minimal penalties. When playing female characters, I hate being dark side, cause I'm a male and want my female character to be good looking, so neutral is about as dark side as I'll ever let her get, though I may let her go darkside just long enough to get Hanharr or become a Sith prestige class if I so choose.

That's what's so good about this game is that you're really not restricted to light or dark side. You can use the force however you please. I just hope that in KOTOR 2 they make a prestige class for neutrals, who say FU to both the Jedi and the Sith. The nuetral path is my favorite, because I can adapt the force to my will, and not have to be either a pathetic puppy-kicker or a sickening do-gooder.

I actually didn't like any of the robes in KOTOR2. I liked the concept of the armor that didn't restrict force powers, but the gay little cape at the bottom sucked. For the actual robes, I think they were to big and flowy, I liked the robes in KOTOR1 best.

I think for the plot, you're going to find Revan and the Exile and fight the "Real Sith" mentioned in both KOTOR's. (In KOTOR 1 Canderous Ordo explains that they don't know where the Sith went after the Exar Kun wars. So it's obvious that Revan and Malak's sith are sith in name, not reality.) On the way, you end in interesting locations trying to find out where the Exile and Revan went. Coruscant is a good idea, but I think Sleheyron is a definite must. I also believe Iridonia (the home world of Darth Maul and Bao Dur) might be a good posibility. For side parties, I think T3 and HK definately must be present, but everyone else can be secondary, possibly important NPC's but not actual side party particapants.

The way I interpret it is that the story is pretty much the same no matter how you see it in KOTOR1. Bastila and Revan were a couple or a pair, whether he went dark side or light side. If Revan was female, then Bastila joined her as a sith or was turned back from the dark side. If Revan was a female and light side, then Revan and Carth got hooked up, but she told him to "keep the Republic strong" because she couldn't take what she loved with her. I haven't played through the senarious as a dark side female, so I don't really know. There's a glitch in the XBOX where if you start a new game, it erases all of your older games for KOTOR2, so it's going to take me a while to play through all of the scenarios.

I did the same. There's nothing like having your character put his/her hand in the air and do a mass smack down with force wave. I swear that's the most powerful forcepower in the game. A sworm of enemies can't stand against it.

Sure where can you find that stuff. I too only found onasi's blaster and Jolee's band.

Same here, you get all the good skills with sentinal, and some good melee feats to make you a formidable lightsaber duelists, along with good force powers. Then you get increadible force powers as a sith lord or jedi master and nothing can stand in your way.

Nah, it was the AI. Dumb party ran off in all directions. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I turned solo mode on so they wouldn't go off trying to kill everybody and get themselves killed as well.

I agree, the Star Forge battle is by far the toughest fight in all the games. Malak was a very difficult apponent, but Darth Traya came close. But what got me in the Star Forge was all those Sith Troopers and their damn grenadiers, and the Dark Apprentices were a pain, too. What I did to get through that level was to start out as either a soldier or a scout, level up to 8 to get as much skills and feats as you can, and then become a consular and wipe away all opposition with force wave or storm. Taking cues from Jolee and Kreia, my characters always skirted the line between dark and light side to take advantage of both powers. I would take Jolee or Juhani and either Carth, HK, or Canderous. You need one ranged grenadier fighter in the back for support. I always wondered, the similarity in thought between Jolee and Kreia made me think that maybe Kreia was Jolee's wife that went to fight with Exar Kun back in the day. He said she died, but what if she didn't? Hmmm. For Kotor 2, I'd say Freedon Nadd's tomb was a tough fight, although the handmaiden and Mandalorian fighting rings were tough, too. Although Kotor had tougher battles, I think I like Kotor 2 more because of the storyline. Kotor did have a great storyline, no doubt, but Kotor 2's was very thought out. Now that's all I got to say about that. Now Shoo, Shoo!