Gheralt

*gives Hades a cookie with his name on it*

Pish-posh. In the movies, you only got shot if you were an inconsequential character, and if you were a Storm Trooper, you could forget being accurate unless your target was a big, huge, Jawa-operated scavenger do-hickie.

In my experience, a pair of Barangwin Assault Blades with flurry active gave the lightsaber a run for its money. Of course, there was no real incentive to refrain from the double bladed lightsabers of DOOM, but such is life. --Gheralt

As someone from the foothills of Northwest Georgia, I believe I can lend some expertise on the subject of mullets. A mullet is best described as "business in the front, party in the back." So, the archtypical mullet has a high and tight in the front and along the sides, and raggetty and long in the back. The most famous mullet? Probably Billy Ray Cyrus. If you don't know who he is, consider yourself thrice blessed. The worst mullet? The fem-mullet. You often times see these on women in Wal-Mart on Friday nights cruising around the sporting goods section. :ph34r: --Gheralt

I don't know if it's been said already, but Revan got a whopping 50 bonus force points just for being...Revan. Even though he had less powers than the other Jedi in KotOR, he pretty much always had more force points by end game. Since most of us probably only used a handful of powers over and over again, that's a huge boon. I doubt the protagonist in this one will have that extra nifty bonus. --Gheralt

I tend to prefer the Light Side of things. Any attempt at Dark Side makes me feel the need to go take a cold shower. It's not my thing.

A Jedi would not use a blaster. As said, blasters are crude weapons. Jedi choose lightsabers out of necessity to have a weapon to defend themselves. They only use it as an offensive tool if necessary. Also, they are looked upon as superior to those who use blasters because the lightsaber is a graceful weapon. They use them with skill and finesse, and those not trained in their use are more likely to injure themselves than anyone else...as opposed to plasters, which anyone who can grip a gun can use. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's worth noting that Star Wars d20, upon which this series' combat system is loosely based, has several prestige classes for Jedi that don't rely on lightsabers. --Gheralt

I think the Star Wars setting is what makes Star Wars so successful. The plotlines (at least, by today's standards) aren't that mindblowingly complicated. From what I can tell, it's more things like "Let the Wookie Win" and lightsabres and such than anything else. I mean, can you imagine A New Hope working in Ancient Greece? *shudders*

I've set it before, and I'll say it again. Give Carth two Barangwin assault blades, have the moody fellow flurry, and he pwns. Actually, ranged combat works very well in the arena on Taris. Run, run, run, turn, fire, run, run, run! So far as force wave goes, I much prefered being a scoundrel/rogue with a double bladed lightsabre, master speed, flurry, and stasis field. La-de-da. Five hits with sneak attack damage. Then you get to Malak, and you, having terrible, terrible hitpoints, get massacred. *sulks*

I would go with Hutt, but I can't help but think of Jabba. And that makes me think of Leia. And that makes me thing of slug sex and IncestiKisses<tm>, which makes me all nauseas. So, we'll vote Kreia.

Quoting Darth Sun Tzu, because I've no idea how you actually do it: You were a bit late with that point, Adria already said that. *blush* I feel like Gottfried Wilhelm inventing Calculus two seconds after Newton. *goes off to drown himself in a pool of holy water and raspberry sauce*

Assassins are supposed to be stealthy, right? What, precisely, is stealthy about someone who has a rotting carcass you can smell from half a mile away?

Maybe he's, like, someone we've never met before. :ph34r:

I just watched the Telos flyby, and I noticed it was...busier, I suppose. Are there sections in The Sith Lords where stuff is happening in the environment? (Like cars buzzing by, or what have you.)

Hmm. The city sections of the film reminded me a lot of the Hong Kong section of Deus Ex. Of course, they were probably cribbing heavily from Bladerunner. . .

*scratches his head* Perhaps I'm confused. The Revan robes had leather straps and buckles (and look very nice on a fallen Bastila, but nevermind that), but the Star Forge robes, which look like something a crazed but powerful desert hermit would wear, are effeminate?

Why are we stalling the third volume to a game series that was almost universally accoladed as Game of the Year?

On the subject of Prestige Classes, It's all about specialization. I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons for about three years now, and while I have never been in a Star Wars campaign, I do have the revised core rules, which I've read several times. I've copious amounts of Prestige Classes on hand, and the general trend is specialization. You have Cavaliers, who excel at mounted combat, Thief-Acrobats, who can steal while walking tight ropes, and Red Wizards, who specialize in a school of magic, sacrificing their abilities in the other schools. So, I suspect the prestige classes for this game will operate on a similar basis. You specialize in a given area, and as a result, you probably aren't as good in other areas. So, I suspect the Jedi Weapon Master, for example, will be better at melee combat than a plain 'ol Guardian, but it will have less access to force powers. By the way, Star Wars d20 doesn't use force powers. The force abilities are based on feats and skills which require vitality points to use. There is no force meter. Finally, I'm not sure how close the Jedi Master will resemble the one in the Revised Core Rules. Light sabres work a lot differently in Knights of the Old Republic than in the RCV. Basically, they default at 2d8 damage, and every so many levels, the class adds another 1d8 of damage. So, KotOR is based loosely on Star Wars d20. That about does it, methinks. --Gheralt

So far as waking up and not knowing where you are or how you got there goes...Ever been extremely drunk? You might wake up lying next to heaven knows what and having to chew off your arm to slip away quietly. Anyhow, it could be that Our Hero got konked on the head while reading the New York Times and got dragged there. Stranger things have happened! --Gheralt

History of Language Lesson! The Romans spoke Latin. Well and good. In a mixed group, they defaulted to the masculine. What does that mean, you ask? Well, the word for boy is puer. We get the word "puerile" from it. Now, if you have two boys, that's pueri. It's the same for fifty boys. Now, if you have fifty boys and one girl, Latin still uses pueri. By contrast, a group of puellae, or girls, can only have girls in it. Stick one boy in there, and you're back to...That's right! Pueri. Now, what does that have to do with KotOR saying "if he joins us..."? Very simple. When English grammarians were making the rules for the language over the years, they had Latin in the back of their heads. This is why you aren't supposed to "split an infinitive." The most famous example of this error is Star Trek's "To boldly go..." line. In Latin, infinitives, which are translated as "to go," "to run," "to love," etc. are one word: ire, currare, amare. So! The reason the people at Obsidian said "if he joins us..." is probably because of a Latinate tendency to default to the masculine in cases where the gender of the person is unknown or mixed. This is also why Canderous repeatedly called Revan "he" in the first Knights of the Old Republic. It's not a sexist thing, so far as I know. --Gheralt

I don't think the extra content is worth shelling out thirty quid. However, I've played both the X-Box and the PC versions, and I much prefer the WASD character map to that X-box controller.

Yowzers. Why do we need romances, again? *scratches his head* They're pixels, man. Pixels!

Light Side. Knights in armor intent on chivalry, and all that jazz.

I found the arena fighting to be a wee bit broken, m'self. How did I kill Bendak Starkiller? I ran, ran, ran, ran, ran like a chicken with my head cut off, turned, fired twice with rapid shot, and resumed run, run, running. Boy-o never laid a finger on me. --Gheralt

It's very legitimate. I dutifully skipped any and all narration in Icewind Dale II because the Voice Actor was the woman who played Aerie. Now, imagine if they have her playing Atris.