EnderAndrew

Dark Empire portrays Luke Skywalker going over to the Dark Side. Lucas went on the record of saying he frankly "hated" it, despite the fact it was a really good story and introduced so many things to the Star Wars EU that people commonly accept as cannon. I give you World Devastators, Nar Shaada, Holocrons, E-Wings, The Eclipse-Class Destroyer, The Cloned Emperor, Force Harmony, Byss, etc. Yep, all this from a comic book. I think you should be able to turn certain NPCs, and others should just frankly leave. I think there is something to be said for the strength of resolve.

Good luck finishing Ninja Gaiden.

So much for the game not having bugs.

Can't compare? Perhaps because you're comparing apples to oranges. PC surround sound systems are designed with carrying sound over a short distance, and focusing it on one point. A home-theatre system is designed with a larger area in mind. I'm a big audio-phile, and there are some incredible sound systems you can get for your PC. In addition, you can run your PC sound into a stereo system and run a convential surround system. Better yet, you can go the HTPC method, and set up a PC as the home of your digital theatre, kicking the sound into your receiver, and the picture into a nice digital projector and play the game on a 8 foot screen with amazing picture clarity that put's X-Box's progressive-scan picture to shame. Compare that to an X-Box.

Yes, Vader tried and failed. Some people can't be turned. (Though I find it hard to accept that Luke I-like-to-whine Skywalker supposedly has the resolve to resist the Dark Side and Lord Vader.)

Halo is the only FPS I've ever enjoyed on a console anyway. They belong on PC.

I think the UN invalidated itself by routinely failing to intervene in situations, and waggling it's finger for twelve years and doing nothing. If the security council didn't think Iraq was doing anything wrong, they why issue resolutions saying otherwise for 12 years? Why threaten to take action, and never do it? Either the intelligence was flawed, or there could be other factors. When Clinton bombed Iraq, he didn't give them warning. Some people suggest that Clinton hit a lot of their weapon caches, destroying much of their WMD/WMD capacity. Still others suggest alot of the weapons left Iraq to Syria while Bush gave them plenty of time to prepare. Who knows? I think we failed to finish certain jobs in Afghanistan, and we failed to establish a proper police force in Iraq quickly. These are the things that should make Rumsfeld nervous. I think 12 years of security resolutions, and the ties to Al Quaeda were enough for us to go in and liberate Iraq. Saddam openly admitted to giving money to the families of suicide bombers. I have little doubt he should have been taken out. The question is, were lives wasted by not taking care of business properly. I think we need to overhaul our intelligence community. I think they've given us too much swagger, and not enough credible intel.

There was a bug on Manaan that duplicated equipment that I discovered.

Reading Japanese fiction, I often read about Shoshoro eyes, or the eyes that have looked upon 1,000 deaths. Looking into my senior drill instructor's eyes during boot camp, I saw that. Here was a man that accidentally shot sixteen fellow Marines. He knew what it was to bring death to his enemies, and friends. I will never forget the look in his eyes. I've always wanted to see a character with that level of depth.

In the X-boxs defense, they get Doom 3 Along with Half-Life 2...Full Spectrum Warrior etc.... If Half-Life 2 coming out on the X-Box? I fell sorry for anyone who buys it on the X-Box since the greatest aspect of the game is the modding support. Would we still play Half Life today if it weren't for LAN games of Counter Strike, Day of Defear, and Team Fortress?

I'd had a playable alpha for Doom 3 for ages. They've had two years to improve what's already in my hands. I can only imagine.

For once I agree 100% with Drakron.

It could. We can only hope. Go T'Wolves!

This is why I avoid politics threads. Many of the opinions are not very informed. I'm not trying to knock on you. I blame the media and our education system largely, but I digress. You claim Clinton's lies didn't get anyone killed and that Bush lied to get us in a war. Allow me to play Devil's Advocate for a moment. Immediately after 9/11, the UN Security Council passed a resolution telling Iraq to comply (which it had failed to do) immediately, or else. Clarke, Gore, Kerry, and Clinton all said Iraq was linked to Al Quaeda. They all said Iraq was building and pursuing WMD. Several foreign governments, and the UN all said that Iraq was in violation of the litany of UN Security Council resolutions passed. All of this is also ignoring the fact that Saddam shut off water in major towns, and used chemical weapons on his own people. Torture and rape were used to keep the populace in control. The minority was in control, and the Sunni lived in fear. 6 million people lived in terror. Let us flash back a little bit. Clinton is in office. Clinton bombs four different countries. Yep, Bush bombed two, and Clinton bombed four. People seem to forget that. Clinton bombed Iraq with no warning, provocation, or permission from the UN. Clinton also bombed Afghanistan, linking them to Iraq. Hmmm.... Then Clinton bombs Sudan, claiming to hit Al Quaeda weapons plants, where WMD are being made for Iraq. This is the real kicker. Sudan, seeking to avoid further bombings, arrests Osama Bin Laden, and offers him to US custody. Osama Bin Laden at this point has publicly taken credit for three terrorist attacks against the United States. Osama Bin Laden is number one on the FBI's most wanted list. Clinton turns down the offer, saying we didn't have enough evidence to pursue a conviction. Yet, he's number one on the most wanted list. Why we do want him, and turn him down? And if we have no evidence on him, why are we bombing foreign countries? As icing on the cake, Clinton bombs Serbia, where the lines between civilians and rebels isn't clear. He drops yellow relief packages with food and medical supplies. He also drops bombs wrapped in yellow. That was brilliant. None of this was done with the UN's consent. Meanwhile in Liberia, people are being murdered under a cruel dictaror. In South Africa, people are being put down left and right in riots, and the AIDS epidemic rages across the country. China is practicing transmigration in East Timor, threatening Taiwan with nukes, and holding Tibet hostage. Go to Amnesty International's webpage some time and check out China's human rights record. What does Clinton do? He accepts money from the Chinese government on his election campaign, twice! To boot, there is a huge scandal with China pirating intellectual property from the United States. Arguably, this is the US's more important export. They're pirating billions and billions of dollars. Clinton ignores China's actions. He makes them our favored trading partner (easing tariffs on Chinese products sold in the US, while China maintains a limited embargo on products going into China) And Chinese business officials were found buried in Arlington National Cemetary. Clinton claims no connection. Then Clinton shuts down military bases, decreases training, kicks out most of the senior enlisted men (by not allowing people to reenlist). We have a young, undertrained, inexperienced, undermaned military. The thing is, he's cutting back on the military while bombing other countries and getting the US into a mess of a situation. Tell me again that Clinton's lies didn't kill anyone. Read the Starr report. And if Bush was saying the same things that Clarke, Kerry, Powell, Gore and Clinton were saying about Iraq, then how was he intentionally misleading the public, or the world about the war? People claim that Bush is being a war-monger. Consider for a moment that if the US invaded Iraq shortly after 9/11 like many people were clammoring for, we would have received far more support from the UN and foreign militaries. Iraq would have had less time to evacuate WMD from the country, and to prepare for our attack. (Intelligence has suggested that large caches of weapons left Baghdad for Syria, who was Iraq's ally in the war.). Bush pursued diplomacy for two years when the world supported war. When sympathy for 9/11 died down, and soldiers died in Aghanistan, the world's resolve faltered. Bush could have invaded sooner, but suffers in public opinion because he tooks two years to seek diplomacy. Does that seem like the actions of a war monger? And I though the liberals were all up in arms screaming that Bush was just going to steal their money and oil. What did we do? We set up a welfare program, giving oil money to the Iraqi people. We're spending tens of billions of dollars of US money to rebuild Iraq. We're not stealing money. We're giving them ours. Then dectractors claim that Bush is making a stand in Iraq and not in other countries. Check out CNN, and see what the US is doing in Liberia, or South Africa. We're involved for once. Bush took a stand against drug companies, bringing down the prices of AID medications for South Africa, and brought peace-keepers in to protect the populace. With diplomacy and peace-keepers, we helped deliver Liberia from a tyrant. Bush also passed legislation cleaning up our water, and making presciptions cheaper for senior citizens. Funny, you don't hear anything about those bills. If you want to knock on Bush, then do some research and come up with factual claims. Bush is supporting CAFTA, which is a mistake. Bush wants to make gay marriage illegal, which is unconsititutional. Read the 14th Ammendment some time. Bush wants to give illegal immigrants visas, while legal immigrants are sitting in a three-year backlog. If you want to knock on Bush, I'm game. Just don't bring media lies with you.

Let me reveal my geekdom here. There are two Han Solo trilogies. One was published by Del Rey ages ago, and is often sold as the entire trilogy in one book. The newer trilogy was published by Bantam, and written by A. C. Crispin. Both were decent, but I preferred the original Han Solo trilogy. Then there was the Corellian trilogy, which was alright, but a little wierd.

I wonder what the limitations of the engine are.

Audiences seem to be craving darker and darker tones. Perhaps we are entering a neo-Victorian era where morality is screamed by the masses during the day, and the macabre is all the rage at night.

Cassel might be back for 7, but I doubt he'll play 6.

I was really disappointed when I first watched Iron Chef. I figured they battled to the death in kitchen stadium, fending each other off with blenders and knifes. I'm waiting for Mecha-Iron Chef.

I don't think they'd reuse the Odyssee engine unless they were doing KOTOR:3. Their new project will either involve building an engine from the ground-up, or licensing an existing engine. While I'm somewhat wary of the concept, I'm also curious to see how Vamp comes out. Can RPGs make good use out of a solid FPS engine with good native scripting support?

To those unfamiliar with all the Star Wars novels and EU, I highly recommend simply giving the Timothy Zahn trilogy a try. If you liked Empire Strikes Back, then I think you'll like the Timothy Zahn trilogy. It is Star Wars at it's finest.

KOTOR is supposed to be an RPG last time I checked. RPG means, role-playing game. So, sometimes things that would kill the immersion factor of the game are important to players. Several people have responded with ridiculous claims that you might as well throw your weapons away. However, RPGs aren't about killing everything in sight. If you want that game, then go buy Battlefield Vietnam. Even Ultima VII allowed you to put your weapons away, and take them out. Funny that, there are umpteen million features Ultima VII had that many modern day RPGs still don't feature in their engines.

Ignore this nonsense. I'm pretty sure people realize a mutiplater/FPS option isn't going to happen.

With FU and MCA, I assume that storyline is a given. oh...you've forgotten that it's a starwars game...so its mcas and fus (and the rest of oe) ability of creating a story vs. starwars... There are millions of us who think there are several great stories in Star Wars.