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.

I've got an even better idea. Instead of hoping they will delay the release to fix all the bugs, hope that they're already fixing all the bugs, and the reason it's coming out in Feb is because they're taking the time to make it perfect. Isn't that a much better alternative? Don't ask them to make a good game, tell them to have made a good game.

Good point Alan. I didn't really considered this possibility because: 1) Most PCs that haven't been modified since they were bought and that are performant enough to play KOTOR with a decent frame rate are very likely to have been sold at a time at which DVD-roms were almost as cheap as CD-roms and therfore were very likely to come quipped with a DVD-rom. 2) The PCs that were sold before the "DVD era" are not likely to be performant enough to play KOTOR with decent graphics and framerate and were probably modified from their original state by their owners to add a diretx 8.0 graphic card (or better) and therefore those owners already had the case opened and either already know how to replace hardware by themselves or know someone who could take 10 minutes to plug-in a DVD-rom or could go to a shop where they could get a DVD-rom installed. I don't really understand where your computer falls in but my guess is that you are probably running on a Directx 7.0 or below videocard and that you will be missing the nice visual effects in Kotor:TSL that, from what I have seen on the Xbox console, are much more visible and present all through the game than in the first one. If you don't own a Laptop or a computer that is hardly evolutive, you might someday consider getting a new videocard at at the same time have DVD-rom installed. But again I am not against a CD-rom release. I am FOR a DVD release. I would like that if we could get a package with the two games on one DVd as some already said. I already own the first game but would like to have it aswell on DVD-rom. It is a game worth having twice . <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Seriously. I wasn't aware that any computer that didn't come with a DVD drive is up to date enough to even run KOTOR. If you don't have a DVD drive built in, then chances are you'll be needing to upgrade your computer any minute now, or better yet just buy a new one.

All the alien lines are just repeated over and over. Muck Shack Packa is just the one that stuck out the most. I guess it's the ONLY quick line they recorded for female twileks. Sasha said it the most though. I especially liked how it was Twi'lek, but supposedly was Mandalorian, and somehow translated to "Nur sa abds" or something like that.

Spike TV, formerly the New TNN, has some good shows (MXC), but their video game award show sucked last year. It was supposed to be cool because of instead of going about drawing out the announcement of who won each category, they just said the category and then the winner. So they filled up the rest of the two hours with untalented "musicians," because listening to random people scream about random stuff and call it music is so much more entertaining than actually hearing about the games they should be talking about. It was pathetic. An award from Spike isn't exactly prestigous, begging for votes for an award is sad, and begging for votes for an award from Spike is down right pathetic. Frankly, I don't think the 1up review was very fair, and the score didn't seem to match it either. They spent half their time complaining about the minor technical issues and how it's not really better than KOTOR 1, then spent the second have talking about how it's better than KOTOR 1. It wasn't so much a review as a half compare and contrast, half complaining about the graphics, article.

All these replies and no link? Now I have to go find it myself. Yeesh. EDIT: For all you lazy people who want someone else to post the link. http://media.xbox.gamespy.com/media/679/679264/vids_1.html

It's good for balance. And it does make sense. A punch with your right hand is more powerful than a punch with your left. (Assuming you're right handed) And if you punched with both at once, both of them would probably be less powerful.

That 1up guy basically said that it's a lot like KOTOR I. Which apparently is a bad thing (???). Except for some stuff which makes it better. It sounds like he didn't like the original very much, and since it's not better (except for the parts that are better), it's obviously worse.

"Hello Mr./Ms./Mrs. [Darth] Revan. How are you? Nice job defeating Malak. So what happened with that whole star forge thing where (you helped destroy it/took control of it). [And hows your relationship with Bastila/Carth been going?] And what about Zaalbar and Mission? Are they still (living happily/rotting on a beach)? Well, cya later Revan. Maybe I'll see you next game, where the possibilities will have quadrupled!"

The more complicated a game, and the more useful a manual would be, the more you can be sure that the manual is incorrect and/or out of date. I haven't bought a game in months with a manual that was both correct and thorough. Apparently manual are written during the alpha of the game or something, because more often then not, they contain big errors, are missing things, and have some information about stuff that is either changed or removed. MMORPG manuals, are somewhat forgiven, (due to the changing nature of the genre), despite the fact that even at release most of them are totally out of date. But most every game has things wrong in the manual. So wrong, that the manuals can't even be trusted most of the time.

I have never played this game but I liked the other one, therefore I have the right to say that these people don't know what they're talking about.