Astatine
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I loved this game, incomplete ending and all. I got it for PC, and had been following the posts here, so I was already aware of disappointment at the ending when I started playing.
It's true that you see the "Big Bad" coming from a mile away, and it's true that there are many things about combat that could be improved, but the story totally redeemed the rest for me. As I watched the end credits, I wasn't so concerned with the way it ended as playing again as a DS -- and I *never* replay games right away, even when replayability is one of the big draws.
Ah, time to break out the spoiler tags. These are for real, if you haven't completed the game do not read!
It's true that Kreia is obviously, from the outset, not a Jedi (for otherwise the Exile would not be the "last of the Jedi") and her entire manner suggests "sinister". I think in this case it's the how, and the why (especially that). Right at the end of the game, when Kreia says she hates the Force -- I'd been wondering what her motivations were and I was not expecting that. I was really quite shocked. It fits very well (I caught myself thinking, "yeah, I understand... I sort of agree"), and kind of crowns the story -- whatever deficiencies the ending might have, they're really in terms of the other NPCs, not the Exile and Kreia.
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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 
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All im trying to say is apart from the bugs. The game is great i may have used a different way of doing it though . And on the spoiler i said SPOILER AHEAD so dont complain... !!!!
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)...
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Who voted for the fat one? Own up!
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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
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Having said that, wasn't Brian Lawson also the guy who wrote something in GameSpy that arrogantly dismissed the initial criticism as a "few" disgruntled players?
Sorry to disappoint...but that wasn't me.
GASP! Can it be?!
I think hes here just for the free gizka ....
Damn, we can't lynch this one. Better wait for the next
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Hanharr's great, one of my favourite characters.
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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?
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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.
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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~
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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
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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.
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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
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Man...the Ravager is a Sith warship-Republic model...where on earth have you been while kotor 1 was out there?IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME MODEL Sith were using in kotor 1....It's exactly like the leviathan...
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.
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EpII ruined in post production? Surely the worst parts of EpII were those painful Anakin/Padme love scenes! That's hardly post production material!
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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.
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From the movies, games, books and etc, it sounds like something that was once whole and then from some sort of cosmic accident or otherwise was split in two. And from that point on the two halves, have been warring in contest to overcome the other, either trying to bring back balance (light side), or have dominance(dark side).
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...
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[quote name=Darth Abomination' date='Feb 25 2005, 09:13
Darth Nihilus was the worst villian in any game. He reminded me of the fellow in the Scream movies with the black robes and white mask. No intelligle lines, he does not rise to grade B villian status. Let him stay dead.
I'm sure they meant him kind of as a parody of dull "Destroy everything!!" B-grade villains (*cough*Malak*cough*). I laughed, anyway.
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Argh!! There is no such thing as Midichlorians (eurgh). Write five hundred times.
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I don't know. Every time I talked to her she called me old.
me 2 >< and i can't seem to get more influence w/ her ><
Thats because there is no way to do so.
Sure there is...
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I hope it will fix the E N D I N G and maybe put some R E A L one. I guess that shouldn't be hard because the materials are ALREADY IN THE
GAME but for unknown reasons were not used - so instead of dramatical and beatifull ending we got so early alpha version .....
But I guess I'm just dreaming ......
You're dreaming...
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Never apologise, never explain.
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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*
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i meant overall, like the most powerful ever.
wasnt nihilus the most powerful in kotor 2?
kotor2 - >>>SPOILER>>>
Darth Traya
ever - Darth Vader afaik
Depends on your point of view
Darth Vader was just one of Sidious's tools, wasn't he...Nihilus?
Nihilus was progressing to the stage where his mere existence could snuff out all life. Was that power? Of a sort, but it didn't save him, did it
Darth Traya was the one who wrought the instrument that destroyed him (the Exile), so that makes her more powerful, from another point of view.
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) and has a simple, flat Windows based UI with a few small (though nice) icons representing ships, defenses, etc, and pretty much nothing else 
Darth Traya was the one who wrought the instrument that destroyed him (the Exile), so that makes her more powerful, from another point of view.
What I Liked About TSL!
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Aaaah. I see how that could put a bit of a dampener on it. My first time I played a darksider who saw Kreia as his main route to power, and so... up went the influence