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One of my mother's favorite sayings about people learning from their own mistakes rather than from the mistakes of others is "Some people just have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." Apparently you're one of those people!

Some speculation in the thread I linked suggested that the interview was from Feb or March, but! this is another quote from that thread. Let's just say I'm hopeful... even if I shouldn't be...

I'm afraid this is it. We're geeks, we don't throw much of a party. I brought pi though!

No desire to mock, but a great curiosity as to *why* you would purchase such things... there has to be a reason, right?

It's especially interesting considering this post http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=50011 Though, I really hate to get my hopes up, I can't help but be giddy with the possibilities.

Generally, I think they're a curse. But before the last few years comic book / superhero movies were generally pretty bad too. But now they're starting to get those right. Is it wrong to hope that *somehow* they will start making decent game movies?

I'm sitting huddled in the corner of the room staring at the open door. I stagger to my feet, kick off my broken high heels and try to refasten my torn clothing as I stumble out the door, hoping to get help. In my drunken haze I run into the street into the path of an oncoming car.

Nope, not at all. I'll be the first to admit that the whole K1 story works a lot better with Revan as a guy.... even if I never could stand Bastila (blech). Perhaps I'm being too harsh, really. I liked the first game enough that I immediately went out and bought the second. It's just that in the three years since I first played K1, it's story is... *yawn* but the K2 story still keeps me interested. Why? Probably a lot of it has to do with K2's cliffhanger ending, all the unfinished subplots and the incredible depth that Kreia added to the nature of the force. It would be great to learn more about Revan & the Exile's past... sort of... You just have to remember that these are Player Characters. Their past is what YOU as a player want them to be. In my stories, I have two completely different Exiles with different pasts and different motivations as well as two completely different Revans. That's what is so great about an RPG, the characters can be whatever you want them to be and that adds a much greater depth to the story in general. If LucasArts ever decides to canonize more of the K1 & K2 stories, I'll probably be the first in line to buy it, play it or read it, but until then, I'll keep reading the stories that the players have come up with. It's fascinating to see how a fairly talented writer can take a story you thought you knew and twist it and bring the characters to life. I hope that whatever K3 winds up being, they don't completely throw out the PC aspects of Revan and the Exile. I really like the idea of playing a level or two as them to "set" their background and think that would be a great way to include them in the story, but leave them in the players hands.

Is this the wrong place to mention that I really can't stand Revan? Ok... maybe that's not right... I liked Revan when I played through the first time... Maybe I just can't stand Revan fanboys. Revan is an interesting enough character, but nothing compared to the Exile... Actually though, until K2 came along and gave Revan the "he was always working for the good of the galaxy" part of his motivations, Revan was flat out boring.

I'm really not sure I'm interested in playing ME2 or 3... the first just didn't do enough to hook me.

I let out a high pitched shriek as I kick gftd1 in the face and begin clawing at the stock room door, unable to figure out the locking mechanism in my drunken haze.

I have no idea what this means... but I imagine that's probably a good thing...

*giggles vapidly and leans over the bar exposing ridiculous amounts of cleavage as her gaze drifts over her target predatorily* "Better now you're here..."

Since this is "roleplay" I'll be the drunk skank at a bar trying to pick up someone who's about to get bitten...

I suddenly got the mental image of Spongebob and Patrick sitting in their giant box with their eyes closed going - "beep beep" "Arrr, you'll walk the plank" *giggles* Imagination!

Riiiiight... I sure didn't get stuck on Nar Shaddaa on my xbox after 30+ hours of gameplay... And I've never *ever* had my xbox crash because it got upset with me for something... And I just adore how slow the load screens are... /sarcasm

Nah, you just don't level Atton until he gets to be a Jedi. Then he's nicely tuned. Kreia and my PC can usually take care of all the baddies till then and Nar Shaddaa is always my first stop.

Oooohh, nice interview.... Check out all his cool toys on the shelves behind him! Niiiice! :D

15 years???? He kept a woman and her children in a cellar for 24 years and he gets 15, ****-ing years??? How is that justice?

Leviathan was the KotOR1 ship, Ravager was the KotOR 2 ship... As far as ME goes, while I didn't suspect that Sovereign was anything other than a ship, when it was revealed it was just another piece of information, not a twist or a surprise... at least to me.

you guys saw this article, right? i think it's on the money: on the one hand, being able to carry unlimited amounts of loot is silly. on the other, it's kinda dumb to make carrying your gear such a major part of gameplay. as the article points out, most story-driven CRPGs approach it more sensibly, by having weight limits tied to character strength. but it still comes across as kinda arbitrary sometimes, e.g. you get DEX penalties for wearing a certain kind of armour, but no penalties for hauling fifty scrolls, fifty scrolls, two staffs, two swords, three shields and twenty library books into combat... But obviously you wouldn't carry all that into combat, you'd have your bag(s) off you and on the ground in a heartbeat if any fighting broke out.

What are you talking about, ME came out here at the same time as everywhere else in the world. Hell if I know. When Amazon was taking pre-orders for the PC, they weren't shipping to Australia according to the friend, so I bought two copies and sent one to her when it finally came in. I just took her word for it that she couldn't get it there. *shrug*

I'm suddenly a little nervous, because I shipped Mass Effect to Australia for a friend... I don't know if it was banned, but it wasn't available there yet... ruh roh...

Woohoo! Add that to the list of "awesome things I've done"! or not...

Yeah, that's how I feel about Speed Racer... it seems like I'm the only one who has seen it...