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*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.

I would recommend not dual wielding with only one dual-wield feat personally. According to your stats though, you should be doing fine. Although I was usually a Master Flurry - Master Speed guy, so I was doing 5 40+ attacks a turn usually

No Revan and no exile...certainly not as main characters. I'd go for some sort of Jedi Fledgling that has just reached an appropriate age to begin higher level force training. The game would start with your lightsaber construction and all that jazz, and you would gain a few levels through your teachings of the Force. You'd then become a Padawan and go on missions with a Master. In some way, the darkside should come into play and have a character's turn to the darkside be more real than the thuggish way it was portrayed in KOTOR.

*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!

Still, I think it would be hard to conceive a game where you beat up on these uber-powerful "True Sith" for an entire game is silly. It's difficult to relate to. I mean, if we as level 20 Jedi can absolutely decimate other Jedi and virtually any other creature that we've seen so far, how much do we need to stretch things beyond our reason so that we fight powerful creatures. Also, if there are so many of these insanely powerful True Sith, why did we have to go hunting for them. If one Revan or one Exile is so powerful in the current galaxy, I don't think the True Sith (that would be even more powerful) would just be sitting back waiting and building up an army or whatever. One of them could probably take on whole worlds, even ten of them would probably be too much for the galaxy to handle. Yet we have these uber-Jedi ala Revan and the Exile that are suddenly even more powerful than we originally thought. It's like looking at Yoda, and realizing he's only a fraction of the power of Revan or the Exile, and then people just start saying "yeah right" and suspension of disbelief goes away. Eventually you turn into Superman. You create a being that becomes so powerful that virtually nothing can destroy him.

I'd rather avoid Bastila (and Revan) personally. I didn't much care for her in the first one. Although I didn't feel Bioware spent enough time on any of their characters in the first. I appreciate the efforts of Obsidian for their character interactions in KOTOR2, although they again weren't fully fleshed out.

Just thought I'd voice my support for the idea. Good job! :D

Part of the fun I find is becoming a Jedi that is growing stronger with the force. Playing an Uber level 50 Jedi would be rather bland as I have 70 or so Force Powers to choose from, and a BAB so high that nothing can resist. Unless I'm fighting godly beings, which loses it's lustre because you can only fight so many godly beings before it just gets old. It's also harder to relate when you are fighting nothing but superpowered baddies for the entire game.

I was thinking it'd be neat to have a story where you start off as a fledgling Jedi. You start as a Padawan with a relatively slow beginning where you hone your training as a Jedi. Afterwards, you go on with a master and perform missions and whatnot. The story could be presented in such a way that you could have a realistic seduction to the darkside possiblities, at which point the game splits and you either help destroy the Jedi or help destroy the Sith or whatever. I think it'd be neat to take on a role much like the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith.

I suspect this would be "funny" in the terms of "Wouldn't it be funny if his head exploded?" type funny. It sounds funny on paper....but I doubt anyone watching the video would find it funny, between the horrifying shrieks of terror of being severly burned and the visuals of it all. Watching someone get burned alive is really not all that comical. Heck, just hearing someone get burned alive is much less funny in reality. Watching it just illustrates exactly what happens and engraves the images in your memory. Although I suppose it would be easy to disconnect yourself emotionally from it being that you are just watching a video of it. Fortunately, I doubt any real footage was caught on tape once the events took place.

How did the KOTOR stuff get wiped from the Canon map in Episode 3? From what I can tell KOTOR takes place far enough in the past that god knows what could have happened in between.

Meh. Surprises like that have been around long before soaps. I'd just settle for "opera" rather than the soaps. Too large of scale for soaps.

what??

I remember feeling sad when Simon Birch accidentally killed off his Ashley Judd's character, who was easily the person Simon admired the most. Poor kid....finally says screw it and swings at a pitch, and kills one of the very few people that always treated him like he wanted

No, there were some Ewok Adventure movies (they may well have been animated, though -- I never watched them). I liked Willow, but was that made after RotJ? (Certainly GL has displayed a proclivity for height-challenged actors in his career, what with the above mentioned films and the Jawas, too.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "The Ewok Adventure" and "Ewoks: The Battle For Endor" were the two movies. I don't know if they were theatrical releases though, but I know I liked the Ewoks when I was a kid. The Cartoon never appealed to me though.

Losing Wilson was one of the saddest moments in movie history as far as I'm concerned. Shawshank Redemption was an emotional ending, for all the right reasons. Few stories have made me cheer for the main character so much. Andy was such a rock solid character who tried his best to make the best of the situation, and to see him get out and feel the rain of freedom upon him was great. In fact, Shawshank was a very emotional movie period. The poor old guy who just wasn't ready for the world anymore and hangs himself in the halfway house. It was sad/neat to see Red get the exact same apartment, and leave his mark beside his old friend. And in the end, he reunites with his old friend on the Pacific, ooo....getting goosebumps just thinking about it :D

I didn't mind the Vader "Noooo" scene. He basically crushed everything in the area, and it's basically the last bit of his humanity leaving him. I also loved the Emperor's reaction. He tells Vader that Vader killed Padme, and Vader loses it. A quick shot of the Emperor shows a little smile on his face. I also didn't mind the "quick" turn. He'd already begun his turn to the darkside in Episode II when he butchered the sand people. Killing Dooku, and his confusion about everything. I don't think the turn was "quick" at all, since it started in the previous movie.

Excellent, lets keep game developers focusing exclusively on graphics even more, that way costs skyrocket even higher to the point that no one takes any risks and the only people that can afford a game are already established developers!

Except anybody you're fighting should anticipate it through the force. I think it's "usefulness" is dictated by how common it is used (i.e. pretty much not at all).

I didn't have a problem with Dantooine, as long as I didn't finish it off completely.

People really need to study up on the BBB. File a bazillion complaints with BBB and see what it does for you. All filing a complaint against Obsidian to the BBB would do, would be IF Obsidian is a part of the BBB, they would then have "negative feedback" from the BBB. That is, if I phoned the BBB up and asked them about Obsidian, they'd tell me that there has been lots of copmlaints " Wow, a lot sure has been accomplished there. The Better Business Bureau has no power to do anything against any company, except tell customers to "beware." Whoop-dee-do.....a lot of good it will do you. As for the Attorney General.........

Such a naive response. If you were a start-up company, you'd have no choice but to let Lucasarts push you around, since you're dealing with their IP. Only the well established companies don't have to worry about being pushed around. If you tried to stick up to your publisher, the publisher would just pull the plug on your project. Whoops, no more game for you. Guess that wasn't such a good idea after all.