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In my last game I didn't get any Disciple/Atton interaction at all. By the time I got Disciple, Atton was already a Jedi. That might affect things a bit. Or maybe it's just random. I've never got the cutscene where Atton finds out that the Disciple's sending stuff to the Republic, though.

I wonder if there was even a bond to begin with. Usually Force Bonds take time to be established and at the beginning of the game, Kreia and the Exile are practically strangers. Maybe Kreia was using a bunch of Jedi mind tricks?

Force-wise, I always felt that Revan would whip the Exiles bum. The Jedi Masters explained that the Exile was sort of a Force leech, right. So any power s/he exhibits doesn't really belong to her/him but rather everyone else their leeching off of, right?

I found Disciple to be the easiest to turn into a Jedi my first time around. I didn't even have to take him out and about in my party, I just ran through his dialogue tree. I was a goody-two-shoed light sider in my female game, so maybe that had something to do with it? If he's in your party when you first get Visas, he'll be the one you talk to and you get influence if you say the "I didn't mean to hurt her" bit. But he's a naive little boy who likes sweet little girls, so the options in the dialogue tree are pretty obvious. He never did tell me what his problem with the Jedi was, though.

As a general rule high awareness, computer, repair, intelligence and charisma are good for unlocking dialogue options. With the droids intelligence and computer come into play most, while awareness and intelligence is for the "meatbags." I've seen awareness options pop up for Kreia, Disciple and Visas.

Yeah, it's hard for me to fathom how Jolee could be dead (unless Revan hacked him to bits, of course). But knowing Bindo, if there's a threat this big, he'd have his nose right in the Exile's business if he were alive. Maybe he and Kreia did "Rock, paper, scissors" to see who got to play mentor?

Bao-Dur seems to be tougher, more vitality etc, but Mira seems to have a lot more to say than the Iridonian. If you can live without the chatter, I'd go with Bao-Dur, but I like to stick Mira in my party.

I agree that the game has many faults (Other posters have mentioned them numerous times so I don't feel the need to repeat), but I don't think explaining what happened to the original cast is one of those faults. Sith Lords is an entirely new story with an entirely new cast of characters. Why should the Exile even know or give a rat's ass about what happened to Mission Vao? While as a fan of the original, we're probably a little concerned or curious about the Ebon Hawk's original crew, it doesn't make much logical sense in terms of the story that Sith Lords has. As for Jolee and Juhani, I kind of assumed that they were dead, seeing as how many Jedi are left. Zhar and Dorak bit it on Katarr, so why not those two as well?

I really liked the quests on Korriban. The tomb that your PC tests themselves in was nicely done, in my opinion. And the little twist about Vash. How you go through all this trouble to find her only to discover she's dead. There goes your revenge/questions right out the window. It's a nice irony. But I do agree, it didn't really feel like a completely new planet. There just wasn't enough to do there. All the other tombs were blocked off and even if you do that little bit with the thorium charges, you destroy the holocron on the other side anyway. (But maybe I'm doing that wrong?)

I played through as a LS female and had Visas in my pocket. As a female I didn't really get any romance options per se, but she was a flaming light sider alongside me near the end of my first planet after Telos. You just need to be nice to her. Ask if she's okay, say that you never meant to hurt her, ask about her scars, things like that. The nice guy answers are pretty obvious and she eats it up. You also get influence on her if she's with you on Nar Shaddaa and you convince that diseased refugee to commit suicide.

Luke got his hand lobbed off too! If Obsidian somehow tied it into the plot, like in one of the battles against a Sith Lord that your PC got maimed, I think it could be cool.

Maybe the real problem with these romances are that the characters you get to chose from to romance are generally extremes. Aerie's all fluffy and naive and Bastila's a frigid bitch. Carth seemed to me like the most average, but then they had to toss in a "traumatic past" for him to be scarred and whine about. I guess there's few well-adjusted folk in these fantastical realms, heavily medicated in a galaxy far far away.

I'd say from the first drawing that the anatomy needs a little work. The legs are too short, noticeably the calfs and feet. That and she does look very masculine, I'd slim the waist a bit and define her breasts more, maybe slim her neck down to give her a more feminine look. But the latest drawings look better, I like the line quality.

Battles have to be sort of unrealistic to suit the game mechanics, don't they? I mean, how many times did a dark Jedi swat your PC with a lightsaber without your PC losing a limb? Sure it would make more sense in the Star Wars universe, but would you really want to waste time sitting around in a doctor's waiting room staring at a cauterized stump?

Storyline is why I play RPGs. Combat is secondary. If they have time, sure, tweak the combat, but not at the expense of the story. A move like that would make me want to wrap someone up in Saran wrap and set them on fire.

Tell me about it. Transvestite prostitutes rum rampant in Thailand. That wouldn't be such a problem if they weren't so hot. The moral of the story is boys and girls, to peek in your hooker's skirt before forking over any cash.

I believe in the first KotOR, the Carth romance was created solely by David Gaider. (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.) I'm sure if there's any more than 2 people working on a character's background/romance etc it might get a bit messy.

Yes! A Hutt with force-jump. That would be deadly. :D

As much as the idea of Bastila just being *poof* dead puts a really bad taste in my mouth, I could grudgingly understand it if the devs chose to go that way. Bastila played such an integral part in the first KotOR and it's been repeatedly stated that Sith Lords will be an entirely different game that even having Bastila's presence around could overshadow the new storyline. But, I will also say if they choose to kill her off, there better be a damn good explanation. An execution for war crimes would just be weak, especially since she'd most likely be punished by the Jedi if at all and KotOR I drills it into the player's skull that the Jedi don't believe in execution.

A rancor wouldn't be a race, it fits in the category of species. As much as I like Wookiees, their inability to speak basic bugs me.

I was kind of dissatisfied with the Dark Side in the first game. Far too thuggish for my tastes. I picked LS ending and following a LS game as a first game because if you picked a LS ending, all the KotOR I characters should be alive so you can find out what happens to them. Playing a LS game is usually the safest non-confrontational way to play a game for the first time.

George Lucas also gave us Howard the Duck.

Wasn't it a bit lopsided in BGII, 3 romance options for a male while the chickies only got 1? (I'm really not sure-- my PC cries whenever I try to do anything fun with it.) I sort of wish there was a poll with this topic so that the mods/game developers could see actual numbers and not the same few folks bicker back and forth.

:D I find it sort of strange that there are so many Carth hating threads on these Obsidian forums when Carth isn't really an Obsidian character and will have a very minor role, if any in Sith Lords. I will admit, though, as much as I enjoyed Carth as a female PC, I'm trying to play the game again as a male and he's driving me nuts.

I almost don't want any of the main characters to make an appearance. Sith Lords is an entirely new game with an entirely new cast of characters. I'm afraid that any cameo of a known and loved (or hated as some of the cases may be) may degrade them to a static caricature of what they were in the first game. (Ex. Jolee: Damn kids!) There is a part of me, however, that's incredibly curious. I don't think it would be a good idea to cameo Bastila, or any of the other Jedi for that matter. Firstly, Bastila had such a monumental role in the first game an appearance by her may overshadow the new characters and/or events of the game. And secondly, the entire premise of Sith Lords is that the Jedi are being hunted down and exterminated.