AlBQuirky

If that is what you got out of my post, try reading again. Nowhere did I say "the battles are too tough." Quite the contrary. What I DID say was that the battles are tedious. Quite a difference there.

Thanks, Bulgaroctonus. That explains quite a bit Back to my thoughts: I have only made it into the first Czerka compound on Telos. I am uninstalling the game. Since meeting Bao Dur, He has demanded to have a conversation in the most inopportune times twice. I used him to "stealth" to the 4 mines before the Twi'lek droid master and lo and behold, she decides she can see Bao and speak as if *I* am there. Everybody blows up. I get to the Mercs next up and Bao Dur just WILL NOT stay put. He dies in the first battle. I rez him with Kreia and off he goes, to the next merc. I try to click on him as the lead character and run him back to the group. Too bad, so sad. He is dead yet again. AI: I have tried all three character AI (aggressive, ranged, and jedi support). I have tried making me aggeressive, Kreia jedi support, and Bao ranged. I did not get very far. I ran into the mass of mercenaries on Telos (5 mercenaries with 2-3 critters) and Kreia and Bao were both ranged. Contrary to what the ranged description says, they did NOT switch to their melee weapons when in melee. Battles are NOT supposed to be execute one round, pause, set up for round 2, execute, pause, set up for round 3, execute, pause, ad nauseum. One can try to set up 4 rounds at a time, but MANY times, what I had set up was lost when I went to the next NPC. Sure would be nice to have AI's that actually DID something. This is the second time I have exited the game in disgust since my last post on 2/14. For me, this game is unplayable. I take that back. The game IS playable. It is just not enjoyable for me. I applaud those of you who have finished the game. You are all better than I am. I am NOT going to fight tooth and nail with a game's mechanics which I wish to "have fun" playing. For my first experience with Obsidian, I cannot say they strike me as a "good game company", much less a great one. SW:KotOR 2 may have a great storyline. I'll never know. What I do know is that I spend 75% of my playing time fighting with the game mechanics, which amounts to reloading often due to no fault of my own stupidity, which is usaully the case for me playing games. Oh well...

True. I tell Atton "I heard Revan was good and saved the galaxy" and he replies, "Could be. Lots of rumors floating around." That just does not cut it for me. Also, Revan was a woman? When *I* was Revan, he was a man. I told Atton this, also, but he had some other flippant comment about that and more rumors. I just see a huge gap here. Had I played an evil, darkside female Revan, all would be well with the world. Instead, I played a good, lightside male Revan and nothing is right. The Galaxy I worked so hard to save is now all tattered and ruined. I was Revan. I killed Malak. I trashed Korriban and the academy. The Star Forge was demolished. Now, it seems time has played tricks on me and apparently this is a different galaxy. Master Vrook (The Yoda twin) handed me my medal at the festivities afterwards. The big thing is I am unsure if I am supposed to act like I am Revan in this game or not. Do I know what happened? Nothing indicates I should know. Many of the dialogue choices I see I find myself wondering if my character knows the information given as choices. To touch on the "last Jedi" bit again... Apparently, I have not been with the order for about 10 years. I have been stripped by the council of my force connection. I think it is Kreia (or possibly one of the NPCs on Telos) that talks about so many Jedi leaving the order after Malak and Revan wreak their havok. I definitely am not the last Jedi in the order, having been kicked out years ago. Am I to believe that no other Jedi in the galaxy exists, in or out of the order? No. Because my mentor is a Jedi. As I said in the first post, I am just beginning. There is much to the game I have yet to experience. I just hope things start falling into place and I begin to feel I have a direction soon. A reason for being. PS: And what was with that losing the hand thing?

Jon, I just picked up the PC version last night. I loaded it with anticipattion and set forth to playing my new Jedi. As I read the history and storylines, I found myself kind of disappointed. In KotOR 1, Revan did NOT go to the Dark Side. He slayed his former pupil and saved the Republic and the galaxy. Now, I am supposed to believe that this did not actually happen? For me, this is NOT KotOR 2, but rather KotOR: A Totally Different Story and Timeline. I have so many questions in game that are not options for information and history, I am getting frustrated trying to follow what little they do give me. I am "the last Jedi", yet here is this old woman with whom I have a "force connection" and seems pretty much a Jedi to me. That makes two, right off the bat. I am NOT the last Jedi. *POOF* There goes my suspension of disbelief. I have only made it to Telos, and am seeing a pattern developing. I may be assuming way beyond my knowledge, but I get the feeling this game go thusly: 1) Arrive at new planet. 2) Be held/imprisoned for some reason. 3) Lose the Ebon Hawk. 4) Find and/or repair Ebon Hawk. 5) On to the next stop. 6) Repeat. Granted, I have only been to 2 stops thus far, but the similarities are enormously similar. HK. What a disappointment. He "looked" like old HK, but definitely not him. The voice was similar, but not quite the same. The attitude seemd "fake". Something got lost in the transfer to Obsidian. I bought the game to play a Jedi. How did I start? As a droid. yay... I think I am 6th or 7th level already and still no lightsaber on the horizon. Will I go through half the game saberless? On the positive side, the User Interface is much improved! I did have a couple of "medpak" mishaps (like healing an already fully healed character), but overall, I like the UI. I like the added powers, though I have not tried any of them out, yet. From the little experience I have had, I like how the "workbench/labbench" system works. It makes so much sense to be able to "undo" something you do not need and scavenge their components to make other, more useful items. Comparisons: KotoOR 1 I knew who I was (yet proved to be wrong later on), a Scout working for the Republic. I had a missions: Get off of the planet I was on; Rescue Bastilla. While doing this, I find I am a Jedi. Next mission is to go to Dantooine and become a Jedi. Then came the Star Maps. There was rhyme AND reason for my journeys. KotOR 2 I have no clue who I am, I am a Jedi with no powers, I have no missions except to run away from Sith, and I just do not feel my character has any direction whatsoever. My "guide" here seems to be more frustrating than a help. She has such an attitude it is tough to be "good" with her. I had a "force link" with Bastilla. Now I have one with this unknown person? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Bastilla's storyline was awesome. I do not see this storyline with Keira(?) going the same route. I could be totally off, as these are my very first impressions. Overall, I am disappointed, though not outraged. KotOR 2 just fell far short of my own personal expectations. I figured as much as KotOR 1 was the best game I had played to date. This is just first impressions, remember. I have much more to play.

I have a theory that since Revan was wearing his robes before he ever found the Star Map on Dantooine, he was Darkside then. His robes did not change to "Darkside only" with him, did they? Revan also wore his "Darkside only" mask there! It is my belief that Revan never "fell" to the Darkside, but was a Darksider all along. I doubt the Star Forge corrupted this "greatest of Jedi's". How easy was it for Darkside Players to "fool" the Jedi council?

CD. Not everyone has a DVD player on their PC. Does Obsidian want people to consider upgrades just to play their game? One has to remember that only a small percentage of people have top of the line computers with all the latest bells and whistles. DVD players can read CD-ROMs. The reverse is not true. Personally, I would like games that do not require you to keep their cd/dvd in the drive in order to play. I realize piracy is a real concern, but if I play 3 games all requiring "CD in the drive", I end up switching all the time and have no use for desktop or menu icons. Also, if I feel like listening to an audio CD while playing, it is not possible. Just my two cents worth...