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Find the remains of the Jedi that spawn the Hssiss. Everytime you do it, 2 more hssiss respawn. Try this.....repeatedly use it over and over very fast. This will spawn a ton of them. Then use force wave to stun ALL of them, and then use force storm to kill ALL of them. Easily the most bang for your buck with force storm, as you hit 50 guys with one attack. I would immediately level up (and I was about level 20 or so) everytime I did it, and I tried it about 3 times. You just gain so much xp for killing them, and you do it by the horde!

People aren't alerted to stay inside because of high carbon dioxide levels. There's much worse stuff emitted into the air than carbon dioxide. That smoky haze you see in big cities, is NOT carbon dioxide.

If Half-Life 2 doesn't have a story, then how can it possibly be a story driven game? And IMO, Half-Life 2 has just as much story as Half-Life 1...without the annoying Xen parts.

I think humans are a bit arrogant to think we are having as much influence as we claim to have over the climate. Weather has been doing wierd **** for millenia. Many of the same scientists that predict global warming were the same people predicting an upcoming Ice Age. And now with climate acting so bizarre, it's no longer being referred to as global warming, but climate change. There's still anticipation of a Little Ice Age in some circles.

Ok, I'll bite. I'll give an explanation for my stats as well. Everything will be 3rd Edition D&D, with 10 being considered average (and none of this average of tomorrow or medieval or anything....average by today!). Strength: 9 I'm not too strong. If given an extreme situation, I can usually dig a bit deeper...but I can't do much for weights, and my upper body is meh. My legs are strong though, which keeps the stat at least decent Dexterity: 12 My strong legs let me move fast :D Playing basketball has improved my reactions, and I seem to have decent anticipation IMO. I don't have any uncontrolled twitching or spasms, and can hold stuff with limited shaking. Constitution: 16 I barely remember the last time I actually had an illness. I've never broken a bone, and my experiences with basketball based on outside perspectives was that I was someone that would take a beating, dive for a loose ball, smashing myself into a wall, and still be the first guy back on defense :D I also do not drink and have excellent blood pressure and a good resting heart rate (although I am getting out of shape...but I've started doing cardio again). Intelligence: 15 Never had a real hard time understanding concepts in school. Slacked my way to a 90% average in high school and have a 3.85 GPA in University, which has also included some slacking. The two semesters where I didn't slack I had a 4.0 Wisdom: 14 I am not blinded purely by my own beliefs and have an understanding about situations from most (if not all) angles of it. I do not pass judgement on people or ideas, and always try to examine situations empirically. Not buying into the hype has led to startling discoveries about things previously thought to be only good (like recycling ). I considered going higher, but my tendency to slack off in my studies, particularly after a good semester, is certainly unwise " Charisma: 11 I can joke around and get along well with people. I have absolutely zero trouble making acquaintances, and consider myself to be a fun person. I'd consider having this maybe a 12, but I will admit I'm a dork when it comes to women. My mouth continually gets bigger as I never fail to put my foot in it

LOL!

I'm looking into it, since I was certain it was the other way. A friend of mine from University plays PnP games with a guy from Bioware, so he could provide some insight. Look at my address...the answer is literally in the proximity :D

I disagree with it because it'll spark pointless political debate on an otherwise interesting thread.

I would disagree. I liked the idea of when I helped a guy, Kreia started going off about how I didn't help that man, and it shows a guy getting jealous and mugging him. Truly my "lightside" ideals didn't make things better for that person.

I'm pretty sure that Knights of the Old Republic was a completely original idea by Bioware. It's just that all of their ideas had to be run by Lucasarts for approval.

That looks like Revan's mask.

Don't tell me what I do or do not think was hard in the game. What part of the game was hard? Because I never found any part of the game overly difficult. The "hardest" part of the game for me was beating Malak as a Consular, since it wasn't as goofy as just spamming Force Speed with Master Flurry and killing him in two rounds. I don't even think KOTOR 2 had two hard points in the game....both games were exceptionally easy IMO. Having said that, I didn't particularly care.....I still enjoyed both games. I wasn't playing them for challenging gameplay.

Wow. It's a bold move to go against pretty much the entire world of CRPG fans and say that Planescape: Torment had a plot that went nowhere. I'd wager the main reason why many people were excited about KOTOR 2 was that it was being made by the developers of PS:T.

It's only really possible by cheating the system. Even if you use Kriea a lot, you'll still finish the game around level 28-30. Exploiting the bug on Korriban is probably the only way to successfully pull it off...unless there's a different place that a respawning monster.

I suppose. I appreciated KOTOR for it's fun story...the character could have been alibashaselrkjv and I would've enjoyed it Having said this, I'm pretty sure it's the comments like this that caused the game to go against what Daniel would have wanted in the game. He was upset that Obsidian dictated what Revan's actions were, even if that's not what Revan would have wanted. I never really understood the love affair everyone has with Revan. I guess it's because he was the first character they played in KOTOR, so he's the one that all others will be compared with. Meh.

Both games were quite easy, and neither came close to requiring master speed and master flurry.

Neither is better. Just choose whether or not you'd like your character to be stronger or to be more agile. Don't let the stats dictate how you should play the game...play it however you like.

The only thing I don't like about the "Noooo" is that it doesn't seem to match the rest of his dialogue. I fully expect him to say no. But his speech is VERY angry just prior....and the "noooo" seemed a little soft. It should have been loud and accented differently.

You should get Mira always if you are playing Lightside, or neutral.

I don't think it's possible to get to meet all the Jedi without reaching level 15. This is a pretty combat heavy game...although I guess you could avoid it all.

*ding* *ding* *ding* The winnah! I'd much prefer to have a game where you start off as a young Padawan, and learn about the force and whatnot. Construct your own lightsaber, and take on the role of a Padawan to a master. Have real significant choices for your darkside/lightside crap. Have a guy kill your master and the way you deal with it determines your destiny. But still allow for redemption/fall. I played through as a predominantly light side Jedi as Revan in KOTOR 1, since I was trying to always do the right thing. But while on Korriban, I knew I had to embrace the Sith ways to keep my cover...upon learning about them, I figured it'd be good to learn about these teachings to further my understanding about the Force. Little did I know it would dominate my destiny! Soon I was betraying my friends, and exploiting people. No one would stand in my way! I had waaaaaay more fun playing the game that way than I ever did being all the way lightside or all the way darkside. I didn't get my darkside mastery bonus until I was on the planet and conviced Bastila to join me...which seemed just perfect! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There are easy ways to screw that idea up. What if a developer choose that a "young" padawan wasn't a 15 yearold, rather they make it so your character is 12 and you end up doing stupid puzzles for 5 hours till you get to see some real action. All I ask for is a game where you're a padawan, with a jedi master. With enemies that are not push overs (K2 cough). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Of course anyone can take an idea, no matter how good it is, and turn it into utter crap. If they were to have you doing stupid puzzles for 5 hours, then it'd be a design flaw. It's not what I wanted. If all you're looking for is a game where you're a padawan with a master, give Jedi Academy a try. It's not that I hate Revan and the Exile. I hate boring gameplay of excessively high levels where you fight "unique" and "rare" badguys by the dozen. It makes the "unique" and "rare" bad guys less unique and rare, and just gets old. If they can find a way to have a new game that still follows the same story line of Revan and the Exile, then great. I certainly don't need it. I would have preferred to have some large games where I only gained some levels and have a sequel directly carry on, ala Baldur's Gate. That way the story isn't so exaggerated and still falls neatly into the realm of relatability. I want to have an emotional connection with characters that are interesting and not superpowered. Thanks :D

I'd want them....but ultimately all I care about is the gameplay.

I liked the ending....as it was just as bizarre as the ending of the first one.