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Also, I haven't read the ROTJ novelization in over ten years, but I recall reading somwhere where Luke felt a tinge of the darkside when he choked the Gammorean guards in Jabba's palace, and thusly avoided killing on the sail barge. But then again, he blew the barge up and probably ending up killing a few people that way. Am I crazy? Does anyone remember this?

Drakron, KOTOR isn't Star Wars D20. KOTOR doesn't give stats for Yoda. The rule systems are fairly different. Regardless, within the context of the story, it made sense for Revan to be uber-powerful. And we haven't heard anything official about a level-cap. It seems to be popular speculation based upon the dev's statement that there will be prestige classes of a sort. Everyone is assuming that these prestige classes work just like D20, when in fact, the dev's had said the prestige classes will be considerably different from their D20 iterations and won't have level requirements. So, you may have access to a Prestige Class after level 6 if you tweak correctly. Who knows? The level cap may be at 20 again for all we know.

Well, I play both PC and X-Box games. This is what I know to be factual, and not based upon opinion. The Yavin-4 content was available for download on the X-Box, though not right away. The devs have said there will be content available for download on the X-Box version right away. I have heard no such claim for the PC version. At launch, the PC version had extra content first, but it was also buggy and needed patches. The X-Box version required no patch. Normally I lean towards the PC because I can download mods, but I haven't been too impressed with any of the KOTOR mods so far. Show me a mod that adds planets, and more gameplay and I'll pay attention. Frankly, I don't care. I just want to play the game.

Square-Enix is the company that produces titles like Final Fantasy, and Dragon Warrior.

With different writers at the helm, who knows? Bioware may have layed hints at what they wanted to do down the line, but they're not developing this game.

My roommate had Max Payne on the PS2. I had it in my house for over a year, and never played it. I saw some of my buddies play it from time to time. It looked nifty, but then again, it seemed that the point of the game was to kill every single person in NYC. You see someone, you kill them. Then again, is this a bad thing?

I haven't played Max Payne, Deus Ex, or Beyond Good and Evil. Starts making notes...

Given the option of having more animations for attacks, or adding animations for flying limbs, I'll take animation variety over decapitation. Now, if this was Onimusha 4, I'd say let limbs fly like mad!

Tonight Ender gives out the very prestigious, Ender Awards for Star Wars titles. Starting off with: Best Star Wars Arcade Game: Star Wars Trilogy There wasn't much competition. There was the old, old school Star Wars arcade game with infinite death star trench runs, and a few Star Wars pinball games. Regardless, Trilogy is a good game in it's own right. The controls are ridiculously simple. You can start playing ANH, ESB, or RoTJ in any order. You move, and shoot. Some levels are on foot, others on speeder-bikes or what not. Gameplay is just challenging enough to eat quarters, without being so hard as to force you to walk away. Bonus levels have you square off with Boba Fett and Vader in nifty duels. Graphics are pretty sharp, too. Best Star Wars Game on a Nintendo Platform: Shadows of the Empire - N64 Nintendo has had by far the most Star Wars titles on a gaming console between the NES, Gameboy, SNES, N64, and GC. I realized I have missed many Star Wars titles, since I haven't played any of the gameboy titles. Anyway, this was a really tough category, and I have a strong soft spot for Super Empire Strikes Back. When I used to run a Star Wars RPG, I had the SNES hooked up, and the game set to debug/music test mode. I used that for sound effects. When an AT-AT was shooting at the players, I would cue up the sounds. But despite my love for that game, Shadows of the Empire still wins. The Hoth levels were as good as Rouge Squadron, if not better. The FPS levels were better than Doom 64. Gameplay was fairly varied, bosses were difficult, there were many secrets to discover, and the game had a plot. Also, getting away from Luke as the main character was always a plus. For the time, gameplay was as good as you got, and the game remains fun today despite being an N64 title. Honorable Mention: Super Empire Strikes Back - SNES Worst Star Wars Game on a Nintendo Platform: Star Wars on the NES. The controls sucked. Gameplay never remoted resembled the movies. It didn't feel anything like Star Wars. It was insanely difficult. Most importantly, the game never resembled anything fun. Honorable Mention: Star Wars: Clone Wars on GC Best Star Wars Game on a Sony Platform: Jedi Starfighter on the PS2 This game wasn't phenomenal, but examine the competition. Racer Revenge, Episode 1, Jedi Power Battles, Rebel Assault II, Masters of Teras Kasi, Starfighter, Bounty Hunter, Dark Forces, Demolition and Clone Wars. Jedi Starfighter was fun, and offered up decent multiplayer, which many Sony titles sadly lack. I am guessing Battlefront will steal this award next year. Honorable Mention: Jedi Power Battles on PS1 Worst Star Wars Game on a Sony Platform: Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi This was a really bad Toshiden clone on the Playstation. Clunky controls, impossible combos, bad graphics, and the ridiculous notion of having a Star Wars Street Fighter style game in the first place, make this the worst Star Wars Title. Honorable Mention: Rebel Assault II (How did Rebel Assault get a sequel, anyone?) Best Star Wars Game on the X-Box KOTOR. Do I have to justify this? Honorable Mention: Starfighter Special Edition Worst Star Wars Game on the X-Box Obi-Wan Honorable Mention: Clone Wars Best Star Wars Game on a PC: X-Wing Alliance You may be screaming for KOTOR, or Outcast, Battlegrounds, or what have you. X-Wing Alliance has an active community still producing content for it today. It has incredible multiplayer, and is just a fun game. And while LA is trying to breathe life into Galaxies, they're doing it win an expansion pack to the game that looks just like X-Wing Alliance. This was the TOUGHEST category. Try comparing a RTS to a Racer, to a FPS, to a RPG to a Space simulator. I still play the game many years later, and I stand by X-Wing Alliance. Honorable Mentions: KOTOR, Jedi Academy, Yoda Stories Worst Star Wars Game on a PC: Rebel Assault - How in the world did this game get a sequel? Controls were horrible, level design was bad, voice acting was bad, and it didn't sell. It wasn't true 3D space like the X-Wing series, and inspired a laundy list of bad spin-offs like Rebel Assault II, Rouge Squadron, Battle for Naboo, and Rouge Squadron II. To think, if it wasn't for Rebel Assualt, LA may have focused on better games like the X-Wing series. Honorable Mention: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace Worst Star Wars Videogame (any platform): Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi - Playstation Honorable Mention: Rebel Assault I made a claim on the board a few days ago that I may have played every Star Wars game LA put out. I realize now that I missed Super Bombad Racing, and the Gameboy titles. I have Flight of the Falcon on the GB emulator. I may give that a try, but I don't think I'm really missing anything with Super Bombad Racing. I may be wrong. - Flame away!

Maybe this is just me, but this bothers me. There was a game called Dark Forces. Then came Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight The next game is Jedi Knight II, not Dark Forces III. It's like First Blood, First Blood 2: Rambo, and then Rambo 3. It irks me.

Well, the link to the mod is to a free web site where bandwidth has been exceeded. The "team" of modders hasn't cracked modeling, is making ridiculous claims for features and a finish date, the team members are contradicting each other in posts, and many of the "team members" are people who have no idea how to mod anything, but are eager to join this ambitious project. I haven't seen so much as a screenshot of this uber-mod. I'll believe it when I see it.

I think the gal in your sig would do Wookie Style for 25 cents.

Fun and games? Nude jello twister? What kind of rating would that game get?

Between City of Heroes, and Tabula Rasa, I think I may have to give MMORPGs another try. Tabula Rasa looks like the first MMORPG ever designed around "having fun" rather than maximizing profitability. It focuses on all the good parts, while cutting out the rest.

Hades, I reiterate, there will be non-Jedi NPCs. You can focus on playing them.

There are Sith on the streets of San Francisco?

We all seem to agree that P:T had incredible dialogue. Do any other games spring to mind?

This thread hurts my head like math. Anything but saffron.

I think a two-foot-tall green muppet using a mystical energy field that can't be seen to lift a spaceship out of an alien swamp could be consided more of a stretch than a lightsaber deflecting a solic object. Willing suspension of disbelief means just that. When you go out of your way to nitpick, you are doing just the opposite. Why do people only focus on the small stuff? I don't really care if it deflects bullets or not. However, in the spirit of trying to put the issue to rest, let us consider Return of the Jedi. Luke is on the sail-barge, forgetting that he is supposed to be a pansy-Skywalker, and grows a pair for a few minutes. He goes ballistic, knocking people around with the saber. What we don't see, is any limbs flying off (despite Lucas doing it in other scenes). We don't see any blood (despite Lucas showing blood elsewhere). We don't see people being sliced into. We see people being "batted" around with the lightsaber. The old Star Wars RPG theorized that a Jedi with control of the force can effectively add to, or subtract from the damage of a lightsaber considering their power. By holding back, they don't tear through items with the saber, but use the weapon more in bludgeoning fashion. Not everyone accepts this theory, but an argument can be made that we see in the OT a lightsaber deflecting solid objects (Gamorreans in this case) rather than slice through objects.

No one has love for the Nohgri?

I wonder if there's a law in the Star Wars galaxy against Wookiephilia? If LucasArts didn't want to encourage this, they shouldn't have given the fan-boys the option to have Bastilla run around in black lingerie.

Seriously, I didn't know that. I blasted the Rancor with mines/blaster.

I don't understand how stuff like this isn't caught in beta-testing and fixed.

That really made me chuckle for some reason.

Wow. I didn't know that.