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Don't get me wrong, HK-47 is funny as an old dog in a room full of kittens, but the healing thing makes using him in a party annoying.

You know, I will usually beat a CRPG once, then use a savegame editor on subsequent trips through the game. KotOR 2 is the first CRPG I've played where that really isn't necessary.

The only limitation is that the player character can't influence the overall outcome of events. You know what? That's fine. In order for a game to be good, the player character doesn't have to have the power to alter the course of events for the entire galaxy. There are some very moving stories in both sci-fi and fantasy that focus on "little people" who have no hope of changing the universe, and just want to keep their own little corner of the universe safe and sane.

In both games, I pretty much leave the droids on the ship unless they are needed (e.g. you have to bring Hk-47 with you for certain parts of Tattooine). that's mostly just because the Jedi heal spells don't work on them, so you're better off with a human "skillmeister" for slicing, security, etc.

Two. I avoided buying this game for the longest time because of all the complaints I'd heard about the game being unfinished. Now that I've actually played it, I regret listening to those comments. Sure, there a couple of minor plot threads that are left dangling, but overall it's a much more satisfying game.

You need to earn some influence with her, so you'll have to have her in your party for certain events in a variety of places. Then you have to win three duels with her, which you can't do until you hit level 18. After that, just talk to her, talk to Keira, then talk to her again.

Hey, he coulda survived the explosion of that ship. He is Jedi after all.

Mira's not quite that simple. You do have to earn a few influence points with her first, so you'll need to have her in your party for certain key events.

Whereas he doesn't actively hate the Jedi, he simply disagrees with them on certain minutiae.

Thanks for the heads up; that makes sense. I wondered why they had Bao Dur versions of all the other armor, but not Jedi robes. I guess they just ran out of memory. Heh.

I figured out what I did wrong. I didn't take her to the "special place" back on Nar Shadaa.

A Bothan spy downloaded the schematics from the Star Forge just before it blew up. Just kidding. I have no idea, and wondered about that myself.

Every once in a while, I get this bug where I go through the dialog to convert a NPC into a Jedi, but for some reason, we never actually get to the "training" dialog (where your character actually gives instruction/tutoring to the NPC). Is there a workaround for this? Or do I just have to wait for the next game?

Too vague. Could apply to any oxygen-breather.

I prefer "Terrans" myself.

Except that he doesn't just passively observe despite his claims otherwise. If your character turns to the dark side, he turns on you and you have to kill him. If you follow the path of the light side, he remains your ally and fights at your side.

I wasn't complaining about neutrality in terms of the choices available to the player, that discussion has already happened enough, I think. I'm talking about the listed alignment of NPCs and how they just don't jive with the NPC's actions. Jolee Bindo was not a neutral character. He was as goody-two-shoes as any other NPC in the game, yet he was listed in game as neutral. Darth Traya may have been kicked out of the Sith Order by her own students, but she never really stopped being Sith, which is evidenced by the fact that she derides you anytime you do something good and praises you whenever you do something ruthless. In the end, she's just another faction of the Sith, a faction that happens to consist of only one person. You know, there are NPCs that I would consider morally neutral, but of course they aren't listed that way at all. Meh.

No, he turned away from the Jedi Order, not from good.

In KotOR I and II, we have supposedly neutral characters who are anything but. During the course of KotOR I, Jolee Bindo never does a single evil thing and is pretty much indistinguishable from any of the good characters. Likewise, Kreia/Traya pretty much acts in a sinister ways and argues for things with evil ends even when she's supposedly posing as a neutral character. As Jolee's opposite, she never does a single noble thing, despite having the same "neutral" alignment as Jolee. Honestly, I feel kind of ripped off here. I don't mind that Jolee was a good character. Heck, I loved Jolee to death. But if they insisted on making Jolee a good character, why did they give his character a neutral alignment in the game? Grah.

I have no idea who Mara Jade is, but I have to vote against Bastila because she's whiny and annoying. No wonder Revan left known space.

I picked silver because I'm a clueless newb. (Isn't silver the color of the training light sabers the little kids use?)

Which is why PCs rule over consoles. Mods! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wouldn't the pc rule anyway? :D :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's not so much that PCs rule, but rather that consoles are like a kiddie bike with training wheels.

It's really frustrating if you convert Bao Dur to a jedi. On the one hand, you could decide to make him one of those armored jedi, only Bao Dur is a Consular and he needs his force powers. Argh! Why the heck did they do that, anyway? Every single jedi robe in the game specifically names Bao Dur as the only one who can't wear it.

Am I the only one who found Bastilla mildly annoying? She struck me as haughty and arrogant, and her battle cry is silly as hell.