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Astatine

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  1. Ah, time to break out the spoiler tags. These are for real, if you haven't completed the game do not read! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I agree with what you're saying, mostly... <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
  2. Ah, time to break out the spoiler tags. These are for real, if you haven't completed the game do not read!
  3. Graphics aren't always important. They're important to Doom 3 because they're much of what makes it scary; they're sort of important to Morrowind because the whole point of that game is to become immersed into the world (though it would have worked OK with less system-crushing eye candy, perhaps, I had to buy a new PC for that game... TWICE! ) I'd make a comment here about Far Cry if I'd actually managed to get more than a quarter of an hour into it, but I didn't. I'm too feeble. And too unforgiving of games that get you sniped by someone invisible every time you look round a corner. In a story-driven game the Big Thing is of course the story and so the graphics really don't matter so much, though the occasional moment of grandiosity is good. It was a shame the Valley of the Dark Lords wasn't bigger, though the statues in the sunset kind of made up for it. To name a couple of examples, the Unknown World in KOTOR1, and the tomb of Freedon Nadd, were really good. In a world-building sense more than a graphics sense, I really liked Peragus, because the different "levels" actually fitted together and made some kind of sense, making it feel much more real. The ultimate game that doesn't need graphics (discounting text adventures because I've never gotten into one) is Stars!, which is the turn based space strategy game (Master of Orion 2? Pfaugh! ) and has a simple, flat Windows based UI with a few small (though nice) icons representing ships, defenses, etc, and pretty much nothing else
  4. It's all too easy to scroll through a thread and hit something like that accidentally. Spoilers really ought to go in the spoiler forum. Or be enclosed in "{spoiler}...{/spoiler}" tags (replace braces with square brackets ofc)...
  5. Sticky, please? It's a worthwhile resource... (Maybe it'll avoid a few new repeat threads complaining about the same faults, heh) I hadn't seen the original Feargus email, only copied snippets (never had time to leaf through the entire old thread). I want to express thanks for the response
  6. Sorry to disappoint...but that wasn't me. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> GASP! Can it be?! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think hes here just for the free gizka .... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Damn, we can't lynch this one. Better wait for the next
  7. Hanharr's great, one of my favourite characters.
  8. I don't believe it's jumped down past the bottom of the first page of the forum! ~bump~ To the moderator who frowns at me for posting a bump -- I don't suppose this thread can be stickied, can it?
  9. I see lots of reappearing themes here... Hmm lessee. In no particular order apart from that in which they spring to mind (which, I guess, does mean something...) Morrowind Baldur's Gate Icewind Dale KOTOR2 KOTOR Unreal Half-Life 2 Civilization 2 Doom Exile (the BBC game, released in 1988... ahh, memories ) There, I think that's ten of 'em.
  10. He was uber, fearsome, and completely and totally vacuous! Deliberately! Obviously! Kreia even said as much! Of course they didn't give him much screen time! Sorry, still laughing at that... ~takes his pills~ "
  11. I never figured this out either. One of the (few) obvious deficiencies of the UI. It doesn't tell you. Not that you need feats like that, really, but hey
  12. I thought the plot was superb, and much as I have complained along with lots of other people about the cut material and the obvious rushedness of the whole thing, I'm very glad they did what they did in the time they had rather than release a "complete" and "bugfixed" game with a watered down plot.
  13. Okay. EpII was ruined in post production because they didn't cut the ghastly love scenes. Got it now. I rather enjoyed the factory scene in EpII. The action sequences were pretty good in general (if veering towards the silly sometimes) whilst almost all of the dialogue was awful. So it's a good thing there was more action and less dialogue, IMO... In today's Star Wars films we can expect the Sith to get a couple of decent lines, but that's about it
  14. No, it isn't. The Sith warships we see a lot in KOTOR1 and again in KOTOR2 at Telos have a curved underside. The Ravager is more triangular, like a Star Destroyer.
  15. EpII ruined in post production? Surely the worst parts of EpII were those painful Anakin/Padme love scenes! That's hardly post production material!
  16. 1 is not better than 2. Apart from the Big Plot Twist, Bioware's game is really rather simplistic and doesn't have the depth of KOTOR2.
  17. Cosmic accident that split the whole in two? Been reading too much Eddings, sir? I don't think there's any lore to suggest that's the case, but I'm not very up on my EU, so...
  18. I'm sure they meant him kind of as a parody of dull "Destroy everything!!" B-grade villains (*cough*Malak*cough*). I laughed, anyway.
  19. Argh!! There is no such thing as Midichlorians (eurgh). Write five hundred times.
  20. me 2 >< and i can't seem to get more influence w/ her >< <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thats because there is no way to do so. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sure there is...
  21. *Dark Side points gained* <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Never apologise, never explain.
  22. I know little of the post-RotJ EU but what I do know of it suggests "kinda lame" to me. So, no, get stuffed Set 1000 years or more after so it can't run into any EU material, yeah sure, fine, except -- there's still that Star Wars license lying around, so there'll still be arbitrary restrictions, irritations, and so on. Better the devs made up their own high-tech fantasy setting instead if you ask me, eliminate the baggage entirely The Star Wars license no longer needs redeeming by making games set in that setting, after all. That's been done already by the KOTOR series Edit: Movies 7-9? Well, if you feel like having a seizure, here are the supposed scripts for Episodes 7-9 (this has got to have been posted before, but heck...) *cough*
  23. kotor2 - >>>SPOILER>>> ever - Darth Vader afaik <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Depends on your point of view Darth Vader was just one of Sidious's tools, wasn't he... Nihilus?
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