JawaJoey

Curses! Why must I suffer due to someone else's awful judgement call!?

Is there a way to keep frame buffer effects on, but turn off speed blur? I love the effects. They make precognition look cool, stealth looks cool, and my computer can handle it all fine. But the motion blur from speed is ridiculous. It doesn't look cool, it overdoes it, and it really bothers me. Unfortunately, it's all a package deal. One of the great things about Speed is that you move faster so getting around is quicker. But that implies a lot fo movement, which is the part where motion blur is annoying. So, anyone know how to seperate the effects? I really don't get it, there's enough room for each option in the menu, and I don't know who thought the motion blur as it is was good, but I'm forced to either get no effects, get an aggravating one, or not use Force Speed.

Throughout the game there were various glitchy and plot holey things that showed bit of a lack of polish and a little rushing, but they were totally acceptable. Especially considering that the rest of the game was basically a fantastic sequel. More options, more variation between playthroughs, more skills and powers, new features, better graphics. A+. It starts out slow but once you get off telos it picks up, and it's good times. But everything after the main part of the story (the four planets) didn't make any sense. Plot hole after plot hole, lots of things which could easily have been explained by adding a single line ina conversation, but they were left gaping. I wasn't too disappointed that some cool features got cut out, like the multiple (real) endings, and the HK factory, I understand pressure to publish the game, but leaving basic plot exposition out of the picture doesn't work. The character epilogue thing was nice. Too bad she didn't care to explain what was going with the rest of ending. Some of those have explanations, but the game doesn't tell you that. And those are just the one at the end, not even counting the nonsensical Darth Nihilus, the total illogic of Visas staying with you and her feelings toward your character, the vague, easy to miss explanation for what goes on with Visas and Nihilus on his ship, that scene where G0-T0 literally destroys the Remote and nothing happens. It's a lot of crap, plus some dumb glotches that really seriously stick out. I don't like the idea of the plot at all, even if you know all the pieces, but it's incomplete, so why even bother criticizing it for it's content. If the game weren't so darn fantastic in execution in terms of playability, replayability, options and improvements over the original, I wouldn't be playing it for the fourth time.

I'm having problems with K2, and I have a dual core and an Nvidia 7800GT. I just checked what you said, and mine already says provider as Advanced micro devices, and the versionis 1.2.2.0.

It sucked. I don't blame obsidian, I blame their deadline, but that doesn't mean the end didn't suck. Everything after Dantooine just stopped making sense and became boring. The mass shadow generator wasn't explained at all and came out of the blue, and you have to do that dumb remote interlude just when the PC is about to get somewhere interesting. Then the interesting part isn't that interesting. The final battle was revealing and exciting, still not challenging though. (I seem to recall Malak actually killing me a few times before I won...) She talks about your party, and it seems kind of like a cheap way out of an ending. Then the planet arbitrarily starts to crumble, the ebon hawk flies out of a random pit, after it had randomly crashed into a completely different one. Then you don't see anyone in your party as you fly off into the sunset. It just isn't satisfying and doesn't make sense. That's no cliffhanger. Cliffhangers don't bother me. Stupid endings filled with random, unexplained events, and unthrilling scenes bother me. And don't get me started on the ravager. Ok, blow it up. Ok, wait it's not working ok do this, now it's blow up, but first go kill this guy who we never told you his name, but it's Darth Nihilus and he can eat planets and kill you with a thought, but don't worry, he's nothing special in combat. Ok whatever. Thanks for the info.

The last peice I needed was the chassis, and I got it from T3's encounter. The other peices I looted. I'm pretty sure I bought one, and all the vendors had the same one. The other three i had to loot.

When I played for the first time, I talked to the guy and he told me about the compartment. I didn't know that was a difficult thing to get. What sucks, though, is that I totally forgot to look for it. I completely forgot until just now.

You mean the Greater Storm Beast on Malachor V? What class are you? I didn't find it that hard at all, as a Sentinel/Weapon Master. When I saw it, I buffed myself (Master Speed, Master Force Barrier), and it went down easy. Use all your buffing Force Powers while it's running towards you. Hyper-adrenal stamina helps your survivability alot. During the fight, use your medpacs from the inventory screen to save a combat round. Switch combat difficulty to easy if you still have trouble. If you're a Jedi Master, you should have plenty of buffs to keep you strong and healthy while you try to fight it. If you're a Sith Lord, then you'll have a lot of offensive powers to damage, which you can do from range, even easier if you have plague. Really, it wasn't that much harder than any other difficult enemy, you shouldn't have to resort to desparate tactics like running and gunning or mining.

In ROTJ Yoda says: "When 900 years you reach look as good you will not" So it definitely isn't a holo recording of Yoda on dantooine. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I thought it was 800... either way, Yoda's less than 1000 years old, and even if he wasn't, he still wouldn't be old enough to have been in KOTOR. That's not Yoda in the holocron. Did you think Vandar was yoda, too?

What is to be expected from a Bet....I mean xbox version of the game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OH SNAP!!

That's a pretty big if, right there. Not to mention if he can actually see them, and actually remember which ones the infidels are, even if he does get out of it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey! Don't disrespect the pope! Just because he's a senile old man who probably called Jesus "Sonny," doesn't mean.... oh crap... straight to hell with me I guess.

For some games an auto-patcher is nice, but for KOTOR it's really unecessary. How many patches will come out? A handful at the most? I just don't see an auto-patcher being worth employing considering the limited usage it would get.

Uh-oh. He's getting defensive, that means he knows you're right. Just kidding. I'm a PCer, but I hold no malicous feelings for the Xbox, nor Xbox users.

I really don't want the game spoiled. I find that any game is a lot more fun when you just play it, rather than finding out everything about it, then playing it, getting nothing out of following the story. I don't want to know when and where I find who and what happens at this time or whatever. I'm going to find out when I play, and the reason I anticipate the game so much is because I want to play, not because I'm eager to find out the inner workings of the plot.

I run KOTOR on my laptop, and it's doesn't have that great specs (decent, but not great). I can run it with reasonable graphics pretty well (but for some reason I can't have grass effects turned on, or else the graphics get WAY screwed up. Poor Dantooine ). Only every once in a while, in very big battles, does my framerate decline. The only real consistent place of FPS decline was upper city Taris, due to the many people, many big shiny buildings, and all that other stuff going on in the background. Also, sometimes Mannan would get a little choppy. But it never gets very bad, and it's never for very long. Plus, the rare crash, but it's never been often enough to make me mind a whole lot.