Maria Caliban

Awww, that

Grey: "At any rate, my rebuttal was of excellent quality and proved all my assertions beyond argument and doubt. Take my word for it, and we'll go from there; it's the only logical thing to do, afterall." How could I argue with logic like that? Why, Aristotle himself would have to reconsider his arguments after that rebuttal. That said, I think we should all get high and love one another no matter what we thought of the first game. It would help the Knights of the Old Republic: The Sith Lords community.

Jolee doesn't have digital boobs and he seems to be ahead of HK-47. Psychotic robots are amusing but rather one-dimensional.

Kumquat: "I am just implying that if you choose to answer a question posted here, be prepared to back it up and Maria has a tendence to make stuff up it seems. That being said, I would be shock if T3 was the only joinable party npc from last game, but you never know." "Tendency" You know, kumquat, I understand you dislike me but I think there are better ways of handling it then calling me needlessly anal or a liar. You asked a question and I answered it, the same way I try to answer the majority of the questions I come across. As for backing my facts up

Hades: "Why bother picking one over the other. It will all play the same anyway." It will all play the same only if I play them the same way.

Kumquat, I lack the ability to point through both time and space and as the only 'proof' is the game itself...

Different people will like different NPCs. There are always going to be NPCs that you don't have meaningful relationships with the first time around but that simply increases the replay value. As long as all the NPCs are fully developed then I have no problem with there being five, or ten, or twenty of them.

Rats, foiled again! Time to move on to evil plot number 453.

I absorb data from as many sources as possible.

Kumquat: "Gamespy (I hope i'm not mixing up previews) suggested that T3 is the only ::party:: NPC from last game that will join up with you in K2. Is that the case?" No. TrueNeutral: "Will any non-party member NPC be appearing in KotOR II: tSL?" Yes. Drakon: "Can we customize underwear?" Your underwear? Yes. The character's? No. Jaguars forever: "But will the recruitable NPC options depend on alignment, unlike KotOR where initially you had to have the same NPC's regardless (despite later on being able to kill them)." Your ability to recruit an NPC will depend on the storyline you are following, which is influenced by your light and dark side choices.

Like this will stop me from making up new information. My next thread? The Sith Lords - Exposed!

I am somewhat partial to the Sith Assassin but given my habit of doing good deeds it's most likely I'll end up Jedi Watchman my first time through.

Loose: Become less tight. Lose: Fail to win.

I picked Bastila as well. Jolee was the NPC I found to be the least interesting.

Add this to the pile, Ender: The total number of NPCs you can get going through a particular path of the game is 10. But there are more than 10 total potential NPCs in the game. You will never reach a situation where you are forced to chose what NPC to get rid of because you've run out of party slots. -Akari

my point is this: does the number of possible recruitable npcs exceed the number of "party member slots"? Yes. Or, rather, the total number of NPCs you can get going through a particular path of the game is 10. But there are more than 10 total potential NPCs in the game. You will never reach a situation where you are forced to chose what NPC to get rid of because you've run out of party slots. -Akari Damn, that's what I was about to post.

Oh, you think we're Vulcans but the twist is that we're actually Romulans.

You are so wrong. This is the twist! You arrive on [insert planet] with dreams of becoming a Jedi. During your first night, Bastila stumbles out of the woods with amnesia. In your search to find out her past you discover thousands of credits in her backpack and a BLUE KEY. [insert scene of druids in restaurant. They go to the trash compacter outside and are attacked my a homeless Vendar with a BLUE CUBE] You go through Jedi training and Master Drook wants to make you his Padawan but Sith Lords force him to pick someone else. [insert scene of Sith troopers arranging for a hit on Bastila's life] You head to the restaurant with Bastila and notice there's a waitress there with the name of

McCarthy. Powerful and evil, he ruthlessly destroyed lives, corroded the very American values he sought to protect, and was convinced that what he did was for the good of all.

Grey: "The way some people tell it, the bad plot twist, NPC, romance, dialogue, breach of canon, etc, ruined the game in its entirety. It's likely that he's replying to those very same people, and not those who write an eloquent and critical opinion regarding an apsect of the game they didn't like. Logic dictates that he was talking about the former, not the latter, thus your questioning of his logic is illigocal. You questions his conclusions, yet you draw conclusions regarding his intent that likely aren't present." It is logical to base your questioning on what another has said, not what he might have said or what he might have meant. If I were to do that, I'd be making assumptions about someone that I have little to no experience with and that would be illogical. At no point did I question his intent; rather, I questioned the logic of his statement as it stood. The illogical thing would be to add or subtract from his statement based on what I perceived as his intent

The Third Man Maria <- Who does enjoy the classics.

Ghost of Anikan: " It's amazing how many people seem to whine about the twist in KOTOR being terrible. It's amazing that these same people, for some inexplicable reason, keep posting and playing said "crappy" game and are eagerly awaiting the sequel to said crappy game." Let me get this straight: if you think one part of a game boring, you must automatically think the game is crappy and not look forward to its sequel? Even if that part is several hours into gameplay? Which would suggest you enjoyed the parts before it. Is this really a logical conclusion to make?

Gorth: "Somebody once said something to the effect, that there was only seven movie themes." I'm going to guess that this "somebody" was your elementary school English teacher. Does "Man versus Man, Man versus Woman, Man verses Nature, Man verses Community, Man verses Fate, Man verse Self, and Man verses the Supernatural," sound familiar? I recall that was a popular break down when I was younger. It's somewhat unfortunate that they taught us that conflict was the same as plot. There are as many 'archetype' plots as there are people who want to write about 'archetypes'. Joseph Campbell said there was one. Rudyard Kipling said there was sixty-nine. Carlo Gozzi and reprised by Georges Polti say there are thirty-six. Ronald Tobias claimed there were twenty 'master' plots. William Foster-Harris insists on three. And, of course, no one agrees on what they are. The general gist seems to be that every plot has been done so focus more on the telling then on making a new plot

HD-4E (whatever the other droid's name was) will be joining your group.

Dereth: "Does an NPC's opinion of you change according to how you treat him/her? In the original game I could be a jerk to everybody and they all acted like I was going through a phase and ignored it. Since you mentioned that you're effect on someone's dark/light meter was determined by your standing with them would mean that I, as a dark Sith perhaps, could make an NPC go toward the lightside by making them oppose me?" Yes and maybe. Some NPCs will eagerly follow you down the light and dark paths and others will oppose you if you move to far from their ideal.