Judge Hades

A level 1 jedi which often has the power of a 3rd level non-Jedi.

I played the first KotOR, seen the movies, read 3 novels, and read the PnP rules system that the game is based on. I think I have a rather informed opinion on this game, moreso than other non-developers/non-publisher people.

Like I said, the main character will have one about the same time in gameplay as we did in the first KotOR. I don't see anything special about this. Also it make it sound like they are doing a more abstract treasure/loot system. I mean if I go against a Dark Jedi using a Lightsaber I should find it on his corpse. Only makes sense that way, but if you are going to make it rare then you either make that we don't find lightsabers on Dark Jedi, which is lame, or we will be going agianst non-Jedi which will be a pushover against a Jedi, which is also lame.

Thing is the foucs of Star Wars is the uber-cool factor of Jedi. Just take a look of the recent rash of movies and related material. Its not about character development or even story. Its about the Jedi swinging lightsabers killing everything.

I am expecting we will have a fully functional light saber by 6 to 8 hours in the game. Same in K1.

Once you get lightsaber there is no reason to use anyone else for such things. Its not like you aren't going to be playing without your main PC 99% of the time of the game. Having a Jedi makes the rest of the NPCs worthless. That is the nature of uber munchkin characters.

You know, I never used the tunnelers in my K1 games. Never figured how to use them so I just ignored them and sold them off whenever I could. As for using demolitions to open containers that might be all well and good for the non-Jedi but a Jedi could just use the lightsaber and open the containers and doors with far greater ease. It seems to be waste of code to put that in since the game focuses of Jedi.

In a proper role playing game you use the PC skills and abilities to do actions within the game, not a player's twitch ability. Also the interface for the arcade sequence was downright horrid on the PC.

Buy the book. :D

Yes, but you still had 20 character levels.

An arcade sequence has no place in a PC CRPG. If they wanted to do space combat they should have looked at the rules governing space combat in the Star Wars d20 System and used that.

Hell, Emporer Palpaltine was only 19th level if I remember right and Darth Vader was at most 17th level.

You can't be more farther than the truth. Frankly the best game I have played is Fallout and Fallout 2. Morrowind lacked story cohesivness. It was too open, but Fallout/Fallout 2 was open just enough and had a good story to boot. You can have a strong storyline without the need of cheating or having the player have uber characters. Its called having the talent to do so.

I am not saying that we need to force the players not to be Jedi. I am saying let those who don't want to play a jedi play a non-jedi. Sheesh. I want to add in role play options, not eliminate them. Also I have no intention of playing Bloodlines. I hate the Vampire setting. I don't like playing vampires, werewolves, or any of that uber bullcrap.

There are no such thing as epic levels in Star Wars d20 and putting them in was just a bad design for the game. Instead of properly regulating experience through out the game and place proper level pacing Obsidian took the lazy way out.

Actually someo fo us have PCs and this drought of good CRPGs, which seems will go on for another 3 to 5 years, is downright tiresome.

Thank you Jagster, your sentiments are appreciated.

Nah, if she was a real bounty hunter she would try to collect on your head.

Man, I can imagine Mission in heavy armor. BWAAHAAAHAAAAA!

Hmmm... Interesting. I will have to give that a try.

By posting.

Um... What toolset? I am not a modder, I am a gamer. I play games, not mod them.

Of course! It is I who is playing it. I am not playing the game in the third person you know.

Which mod is that. I haven't seen it. Only mods I have seen is those making your party even more uber.

You forget another part of this "cycle". That being, someone makes a comment about it getting old. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> BWAAHAAAHAAAAA! (w00t)