EnderAndrew

Well Star Trek deals with aliens and space-ships too. Those must be the same. Why couldn't I play as a Vulcan?

No, there was great irony and a tasty joke to be found. I think you missed it. You want to be killed because you refuse to deal with stupidity while admitting to eschewing the opinions of experts. You then rip the American educational system while falling prey to a litany of spelling and grammer errors. I have patience for people learning English. And in another context, I wouldn't say anything. But when you cap those comments off by ripping the American educational system, and make a grammatical error in the statement itself, it's pretty damn funny. I gave you an example of the deeper signifigance of one scene. I can break the movie down all day long. But you've made it clear that you're not listening. I don't waste my time on close minded fools. But if you're lucky, I'll buy you a dictionary for Christmas.

The settings of Star Wars (which largely suggests movie time-frame), NJO and KOTOR are vastly different.

KOTOR:TSL could do this except for two things. It would mean junking the rule system it's based on, and Akari said it's not going to happen.

I hope KOTOR:2 features dueling Death Stars being taken out by the Sun Crusher.

I like to pretend the Sun Crusher never existed. I did like the Maw though.

I do believe the title of the game was Knights of the Old Republic. The KOTOR setting is Jedi vs Sith. The overall Star Wars setting is far more diverse. Hades said that setting dictates options, and he's fine with that. Well, setting in KOTOR dictated Jedi vs Sith. There you go.

Akari, Can you make TSL harder to necessitate a save game editor?

I agree knocking those changes. The only change I really liked was the window backdrops in Cloud City. It's supposed to look like paradise up there, and the old Cloud City looked like a hospital. As far as knocking Williams, I contend that the Episode 1 score was as good as ANH. It may be the best score he's done. I've heard his new score for the Terminal is quite good as well.

If someone took the Fallout engine and made an isometric Star Wars RPG total-conversion, I know I'd give it a try.

I really liked the series. It was what NJO wanted to be in a sense. It got away from the standard Star Wars characters, and focused on a new crew of heroes. It linked the two generations with characters like Wedge (whom everyone loves). The first few books seemed a little technical and focused on battles, but as the books go along the characters get fleshed out more and more. And bad things certainly happen. Fighter pilots don't have a lengthy life-expectency.

From a mechanical stand-point, I can see affecting droids to a certain extent. It's just the sensing part that is a bit of a stretch since Droids don't add to the Force. Only living things do. I think the instictive astrogation is a good example though. I suppose it could be done, but it would be pretty difficult. As a GM/Storyteller, I try to be pretty fair in adjucations. I'll give players a chance to argue their side when making calls.

I read the whole X-Wing series and enjoyed it. Corran had a spin-off hardcover book called I, Jedi that was pretty sad however.

From what I read at theforce.net today, it won't just be the special edition, it's been touched up again. I thought they would release the "Archival Editions" down the road, but these are them, or so it would appear. Ian is now Palpatine in Episode 5, Hayden is Anakin's Force Ghost, etc. A shot of Naboo celebrating will be seen at the end of ROTJ. They also said they were going to fix the awful CGI for Jabba in ANH. We'll see. I heard Williams say a few years back that he wanted a chance to rescore the OT now that the prequels exist. He said with the new characters and stories, he wanted to tie everything together better. I love Williams work, and I'm curious what he might change in the OT. Hearing a new Williams score might be worth suffering through the other changes at least once.

You can invent powers if you so desire. I don't know that I'll approve all of them. I've always been wary of droid-affecting powers on a certain level since Droids don't exist in the Force per-se. You can zap them with a variation of Force Lightening and fry them pretty good. You can pick them up with Telekinesis. I just don't see how you're supposed to reprogram them, or affect them with the Force. I know young Anakin did it with the Force in the novels, and during Tales of the Jedi, the Sith had droid control powers. I just don't quite understand how. One thing I was thinking was having the ship be a hyperspace exploration ship. If we set the game around KOTOR, then most hyperspace routes weren't explored, and astrogation computers were first being developed. I think there is a lot of potential with a galaxy-expedition-theme.

Kevin J. Anderson picked up on Exar Kun from the comics. In fact, Kevin picked up a lot from the comics, and injected it into his Jedi Academy trilogy, being a hack. And after establishing this wonderful villian in Exar Kun, he dispatches the villian like nothing. This villian was the most powerful Force User to ever live. It's Force Ghost possessed Luke like it was nothing. And twelve weak students meditate for a moment, and Exar Kun is taken care of. Weak sauce.

I could quote your last post and break it down. It would give me a headache. Let's start with the basics. Spellmar says: exstrapolations = extrapolations whatching = watching relogious = religious beleives = beliefs inquiritive = inquisitive nebolous = nebulous colloqualism = colloquialism whichout = without fullfillmen = fulfillment pshyche = psyche scrypt = script deliver = delivery laught = laugh corrisponds = corresponds beleives = beliefs That's not using a spellcheck. I picked those words out by hand looking at your last message. That's just spelling. You might come back saying they were typos, but some of these were repeatedly mispelled such as "choises" and "beleives". Punctuaction and grammer also be damned in such nuggets as: If you can't see the joke here, I'm not pointing it out. Irony And for the record, while American public schools vary, many of the finest colleges in the world are found on American soil.

Your choice was to degrade the mutual of expression of opinions into a flame war. And spellmar says, it's spelled: choice Okay, perhaps you did pay attention more than I gave you credit for while watching the movies. I thought it foolish to call the effects in the Matrix poor. I tried to clear up what appeared to be a misunderstanding by throwing out my assumption that I feel you were more upset with the concepts applied in the Matrix, and not so much the effects themselves. You respond with: Spellmar says: Irrelevant Spellmar says: believe and portraying So you deny that you had a problem with that they were trying to achieve. Here you blast the effects, and say they failed miserably in their attempts. You later admit they have technical credibility, or as you put it "brilliance". The effects of the liquid metal morph were phenomenal for the time being. I just rewatched T2 last month. I still find the film enjoyable. I think the performance of Edward Furlong to be underrated, and regret the fact that he didn't get a chance to reprise his role in T3. I digress. Looking back, the effects were great for the time, but aren't the best effects I've ever seen. I maintain that if a person takes offense at the story being thrown his/her way, they will step outside the willing suspesion of disbelief, and nit-pick. I think that may be why you did not care for the visual effects. I also maintain that the Matrix had a few really great scenes in the sequels, but that does not make the films in and of themselves great. The freeway sequence was like nothing else I had ever seen. I consider it a great compliment to compare it to T2's chase sequences. Even years later, when they did T3 with the same technology as the Matrix crew, they could not touch the earlier greatness of the T2 chase sequences, nor the freeway sequence in Reloaded. From an action standpoint, there is some validity there. The city of LA wouldn't even let them film the sequence because they considered it pure suicide. No city would. So they built a stretch of highway in the Australian desert to film that sequence. You ask about the deeper messages. Okay. Gnostic Christianity has several differences from Modern Christianity. It is based more on a personal loving relationship with God than establishing chuches on earth and judging your fellow man. Many of the messages within Gnostic Christianity, such as love performing miracles and being the most important lesson, have roots in the Bible, and thus Modern Christianity, but have been glossed over for other lessons. During the cannonization process, certain texts were removed from the Bible, such as the Gospel according to St. Thomas, which remains at the center of Gnostic Christianity. The journey of Neo (new representing the new thinking, and the new covenant with God) is one where he overcomes the limitations of what he believes to be reality (the mundane world). Influxed with the Christian superman to matyr story, are the lessons of Buddhism (Which you called retarded). With the Architect scene, we see a choice being given to Neo. And while you are correct in pointing out that Neo ultimately has all the power in that scene, the Architect does put up the facade that he is a perfect creator. The Matrix is his, and his solely. Humans are too stupid to accept the perfection of his original creation. He speaks down to humanity with his ten-cent words to show disdain for Neo and his kind. You're meant to hate his smug disposition. The Architect would like Neo to make the decision to reboot Zion as it were. He tries to paint the picture that this is part of his equation, and that no other choice is possible. But he reveals the flaw in the Matrix to begin with. The Architect does not know everything, so his threats are meaningless. And the Architect also takes credit for too much, discounting the Oracle's role in shaping a working balance to maintain the Matrix. In this role, the Architect represents the modern Church. The Oracle (being the Word, and Holy Spirit) guide us to the answers we seek without forcing hands or smacking us over the head. But the Architect would subsume that role, and be the one to dictate our decisions and judgements. This one scene is one small example where the movie is drawn to point out the flaws in conventional thinking, and modern churches.

In all fairness, I'd kill for Fallout 3 as well.

This coming from the guy screaming for Fallout 3?

Are you saying that Canderous liked to putt from the rough? That he was a butt pirate?

Well, using starting characters (even fairly powerful ones) it wouldn't make much sense to throw you up against Exar Kun. Existing characters from continuity may appear, but why play existing plots? You know exactly what happens. I like to focus on the behind-the-scenes stuff while other major meta-plot happens in the backdrop.

I severely doubt Indy 4 is going to happen at this point. Lucas was a fool to turn down M. Night's offer to write a script, and an ever bigger fool to throw away Darabont's script after saying no one could write the script but Darabont. Darabont has done some brilliant script-work so far in his career. Spielberg liked Darabont's script. Ford liked it. Lucas said everyone hated it. Hrmm.... Spielberg has far too many projects on his plate, and Ford is getting old. Connery is getting, well, ancient. I hear they are digging his grave as we speak.

I'd like to suggest either pre-KOTOR itself, or quite a few years after it. When KOTOR 2 comes around, I don't want to have to worry about matching the chronicle with the plot of that game.

When the prequels make you lose faith in all is Star Wars, go read the Timothy Zahn novels. You'll feel better.