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  1. This went from a K3 Discussion to a YourOpinionMeansNothingYesItDoesNoItDoesn'tItDoesn'tMatterAtAllSoBeQuietButIfISayThisthenThisMustBeTrueNoItsNot.

     

    So back on Topic.

     

    Hi. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Albion. My views are often hated by everyone. So here they are.

     

    In a K3, when or if they release it, I would like to see these things:

     

    1. One more party member allowed at one time... So four instead of three.

     

    2. More advanced party features (Like forms, such as Agressive, Jedi Support, Stationary, Grenadier) so that we may make our 4 person party truly innovative to our playstyle.

     

    3. Of course, lots of lore.

     

    Well... Can't really think of much else that hasn'talready been covered.

  2. They obviously didn't learn form SWG, because they're making another MMO, and ruining KoTOR in the process.

     

    What would that have to do with anything? Really you have no idea what they have in store but still you sit here and critize. Its hilarious you think people care about your ramblings of how its going to be horrible. Bioware is an amazing company funded by EA they will deliver. Just wait and see :rolleyes:

     

    SWG, like all MMOs, sucks. Yes, I know that Bioware is a great developer, they're one of my favorites, probably my actual favorite. I just hold no like/respect for the MMO genre, and I don't think that will change. And since when has EA been good at anything except sports games?

     

    I will agree that most MMORPG's suck.

     

    However, MMOFPS is quite different, especially when that MMOFPS is PlanetSide.

     

    But still. I want teh Kotor 3 SINGLEPLAYER!

  3. Most of my dreams are re-living certain parts in my life, or something completely random.. For example I had a dream I was shopping for hunting equipment?

     

    That sounds interestingly interesting... lol

  4. 1... Can you clear up where official non-dragonball Z Star Wars cannon ends? According to Wookieepedia it ends iwth some Cade Skywalker or something and a New Sith order which I didn't really like the idea of. But according to what you are saying Luke is alive, when in the timeline look passed away some how. Some clarification would be aweosme because I really hate the DBZ form of Star Wars but I love Luke Skywalker. He was a childhood hero of mine as well considering I was born in 1984 and watched the old trilogy with my uncle in 86'.

     

    As you probably know, Star Wars canon is not written in a straight line, so there are a lot of unknowns. I actually have not read all the New Jedi Order (NJO) stuff taking place 20+ years after RotJ, but you can pick up the plots pretty easily if you look through Wookieepedia. For a long time, new NJO novels were always the chronologically "newest" stories in Star Wars, but a few years back, they decided to begin a new comic book set about 100-120 or so years after RotJ, the point being that all the regular heroes (Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, etc.) would be long dead and gone. And the galaxy is in trouble. The comic series is called "Legacy" and has Cade Skywalker as the main character. Luke actually appears as a force ghost in one story, though, so it does establish that he died at some point and became one with the force like Obi-Wan. Everything in the computer games, comic books (except for all but a few parts of Star Wars Tales) and novels is canon. Yes, some people assign C-canon and whatnot, but LA actually considers everything they've released to be canon.

     

    2. Perhaps Luke roams the unknown regions when he steps down as Grand Master and finds some clues as to what Revan and the Exile were doing? Nothing so epic as it changes a whole set of plots but just a few interesting details in their travels... Maybe Luke even finishes off a fight that Revan starts... I really like the idea of "A Mysterious Man" saving people from pirates or just showing up randomly to help out. :(

     

    Probably not the true Sith. For one thing, given that Kreia ends TSL with the comment that the great is coming, I'd assume the matter has long since been dealt with. I'm still clinging to the hope of seeing that resolved in a single-player KotOR3. Besides, the unknown regions of KotOR are not quite as unknown anymore in Luke's time 4000+ years later.

     

    Meh, I don't like any of this "Darth Krayt" business or whatever. It seems all too quickly written or something. I don't know how to explain it. To me it lacks "That Star Wars Touch".

     

    Well, I don't read it either, but maybe we just don't like all the new characters. Or maybe we don't like the idea that Han, Leia and Luke are dead - it's much easier to accept they are not born yet if you go back in time and tell stories in the Old Republic. Krayt is a creature of the movie era, though, as his origin is set in the Republic comic books between Episodes I and II, IIRC.

     

     

     

    Thanks for your praise, though.

     

    Ah ok. They haven't stopped with the legacy books have they? I guess the biggest problem I have with it is that... well... the Sith order won lol. They are ruling hte galaxy and I'm (I admit) a Jedi/Light Side fanboy.

     

    And are these comic books common? (Comic books based around the KOTOR timeline) I'd love to go pick up like 10 copies. :D Can I find them in most modern comic book stores?

     

    BTW I still think there are some unexplored regions of space. I know that Darth Sidious ordered the exploration of a lot of unknown space though.. (IIRC thats how he met Grand Admiral Thrawn.... maybe). But who knows. This galaxy is full of so much crap we can never be completely sure whats going to happen. lol.

  5. Here's one. And by all means there are other good hints... here is another..

     

    Bioware and Lucas Arts a currently hiring MMO experienced workers for Bio's shop in Austin. Check Bio's site and look under jobs.

     

    My faith is re-newed. In that link you posted I read one phrase.

     

    "Knights of the Old Republic Online".

     

    That tells me that KOTOR III will be singleplayer for one reason, mainly an example.

     

    World Of Warcraft came out after Warcraft 1, 2, and 3. They made the MMO Separate from the single-player story plot.

     

    Now, one last hopeful thought, maybe Obsidian will develop KOTOR III and LA and BioWare will work on the MMO, everyone is a happy camper then.

     

    That would rake in 2x the amount of money too then if they decided to develop one or the other. From a Financial Standpoint BioWare and LA have enough money to design an MMO which people will pay monthly for, even if you won't. And Obsidian has enough money to make a single-player game, even if they don't maybe LA will throw them some cash. Afterwards they have people paying monthly for an MMO and us who are buying the Singe-Player copies of the game and most likely even more people who are playing both.

     

    We'll see though.

  6. I dont understand what you mean, Military thinks terrorist are stronger???.... Stronger than who? Petty thiefs?

     

    No I was basically saying the same thing you are saying.

     

    Forgot who, said that the Jedi only care about the Sith because the Sith are stronger than the Jedi.

     

    Ergh, I guess to sum it up I'm trying to say that the Jedi DON'T care about the Sith because they think they are stronger, but because they are SITH, and will sooner or later start some craziness.

     

    Even if the Sith were the weak kids on the blcok the Jedi would still care about them because they wouldnt' want them starting any galactic conflicts.

  7. I'll try it.

     

    Do we know for sure if this is specifically the third installment? What if this is just a "KOTOR-Based-Time-Thingy" MMO. OR something entirely different?

     

    Did someone from LA or BioWare specifically come out and say, "KOTOR III will be a Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game?

     

    Just wondering if it is COMPLETELY CONFIRMED no hoaxes, no confusion, just pure truth.

     

    Maybe they'll have it as singleplayer and once you've beat the Singleplayer campaign which is the main plot you'll be able to play it with an MMO for those who like it with an expanded universe and MMO like qualities... who knows.

  8. Heh heh, I didnt say anything about Kotor, so your attempt at returning the favor truly fails.. I Bet you excited about E3 I heard Runescapes actually getting 2d graphics, what a great step up the ladder. And I practically have played every mmo, and mostly every xbox-xbox 360 game.

     

    Another person with no brains.

     

    Graphics don't equal good gameplay.

     

    Go play Crysis because we all know the better the graphics the better the game.

  9. I might get it if the game is not Pay for Play, otherwise there is no chance in hell that they will get my money. :bat:

     

    Hope you have fun playing Galaxies, it will be free when Kotor Mmorpg kicks it ass.

     

    And albion, you seem familar with Runescape and Hello Kitty, you sure know how to pick your games.

     

    So that was an attempt at an Insult? Fail.

     

    I am very familiar with RuneScape. Lvl 93. Is that bad? The graphics are bad, get over it. Didn't even know Hello Kitty was anything but a TV show.

     

    And I obviously know how to pick my games if I play the KOTORs, or are you now saying that KOTOR is lame?

     

    Go try every MMO and every console game out there before you tell someone who has that htey don't know how to pick games.

     

    Out of the multitudes of MMOs out there I am subscribed to 2 for about 20 dollars a month. I make that in 1/3 a day at work, and for hte enjoyment I get out of it, its wroth it.

     

    If you are referring to 3/4 RuneScapes playerbase, then I'll agree with you. It sucks.

  10. :( That was a hell of a dream... The game must have absorbed you completely, since that sort of dreams are of things that you have done during the day and your subconscient is trying to process it... Or, if you believe in dream interpretation you will have a hell of a test of some sort. Maybe a known uknown, if you get my point...

     

    Yeah, I think its easy to happen to me.

     

    When I was a kid I'd play with plastic Army Men (lol). I once dreamt I was on top of a cloud with this huge like 10x10 battlefield pro built/painted everything with all my little men.

     

    Good point on the dream interpretation, I'm just not entirely convinced by it yet.

  11. This is what I've experienced in MMO's so far. (With the exception of PlanetSide, which is an MMOFPS, and is everchanging, constantly fun battlefield on a massive scale [up to like 350 people in any one area!]) I hope the KOTOR MMO does not follow this pattern, if it does, it will fail miserably in the eyes of everyone on these forums.

     

    Leveling:

     

    Step 1: Kill 10 things to get to lvl 2.

    Step 2: Kill 15 things to get to lvl 3.

    Step 3: Kill 20 things to get to lvl 4.

    Step 4: Kill 25 things to get to lvl 5.

     

    Step 5: Sell the noob items and gold you got from killing 75 w/e and buy your lvl 5 weapon armor.

     

    Step 6: Repeat steps 1-4 with the amount you have to kill till you reach half the reachable levels in the game.

     

    Step 7: Go "OMG I WANT THAT ULTRA RARE GEAR SO BAD"

     

    Step 8: Kill like 5000 things for almost no experience so you can get enough money to buy whatever overpriced piece of gear you want.

     

    Step 9: Go PVP with it.

    Step 10: Go PVP with it some more.

    Step 11: Get bored. Quit for 2 months.

    Step 12: Come back, PVP some more until you realize its boring.

    Step 13: Move on. Realize the last 50000 hours of your life were wasted.

     

    QUESTS in MMOs:

    Step 1: Talk to an NPC

    Step 2: Go collect 10 hides for the NPC.

    Step 3: Get 5000 experience because you brought the NPC 10 hides.

     

    Step 4: Repeat Steps 1-3 except the amount of things you have to collect grows in number until you see the exp gained from quests is completely pointless so you go PVP but that is already boring so there is no alternative other than to quit.

     

    Thats why I actually like RuneScape. (Yes, you can make fun of me)

    RuneScape allows you to not only go kill 500000000000 things to reach the max levels in combat skills, but you can go fish, chop trees, hunt animals, summon things, cook very complicated meals, craft jewelry, armour, etc, smith metal armors and weapons, mine ores and smelt them into bars, fletch your own bows, etc. There are so many things to do.

     

    The RuneScape quest system for an MMO is the best so far. Graphics are bad but hey, RuneScape quests will befuzzle (lol) you for long periods of time. You literally have to search every brick on every wall for some quests, use certain items with certain things to get access to a riddle. Travel the world gathering information. Cast a spell on a wall (that you have no idea how to figure it out, you just do).

     

    IF the KOTOR MMO takes what RuneScape has done and makes it more Star Wars-like with better graphics, improved quest systems (even more-so) and lots and lots of star wars-like skills that I can mess around wtih, as well as an awesome MAIN PLOT, I won't mind paying montly. 15 dollars a month. You spend like 11 when you and another go eat at Burger King. Its nothing... Well I souldn't say that since I don't know where everyone works... sorry if I've offended anyone.

  12. I went on a 12 hour KOTOR II Marathon yesterday. (I didn't have any work, all the house work was done, I watered the yard at about 9 AM..... I had nothing to do the rest of the day so I popped in KOTOR II).

     

    I started at like noon and ended around midnight... can't remember which. During which the only breaks I took were bathroom, occasional eating break, re-fill water glass.

     

    I went to sleep that night and had a really crazy dream. Call me a nutjob but here is the summary. And yes, everything you read, I dreamt about.

     

     

    "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away......."

     

    DUH DUN... DUN... Dun dun dun dundundundundundundundundund DUNDA DUN! (Music continues)

     

    Star Wars: Episode X (Yeah really had that in my dream).

     

    The Evil Darth Trask (Have no idea why) has succeeded in resurrecting every past Dark Jedi, Sith or not. In an effort to halt the evil lord's efforts, Aquilinius (My characters name in KOTOR II) has gathered the force-ghosts of every past Jedi to figure out a way to resurrect an army of their own. Aquilinius succeeds.

     

    The two armies.... thousands of dark jedi pitted against thousands of lightsiders are on Coruscant... Sector E-17-2406 (Not relevant at all to anything in Star Wars). The ensuing battle looks as if it will ravage the planet until the glory of the Republic is nothing more but smoking ruins..... (Credits float off in space).

     

    (You see the chest area of two figures in robes, one in dark, one in light). BSHJGEEE (lightsabers ignite) and a ferocious duel follows. The two combatans lock lightsabers and stare at eachother face to face.

     

    "Your pathetic attempt to defeat my army will end in your DESTRUCTION!" -Dark Lord Trask.

    Aquilinius grunts, and then breaks away and the duel continues. The view zooms out to show thousands of force-users fighting with lightsabers all over the city. Blasts of pure force energy and force powers of all sorts are being used. The city is being destroyed very fast, block by block jedi are leveling buildings, using hte rubble as projectiles and what not.

     

    Nomi Sunrider cuts down Freedon Nad (Yep). Then it flashes back to the huge battle, it then zooms in on Aquilinius and Trask.

     

    Aquilinus uses Emerald Justice (i think its called that) on Trask and knocks him down. Dream ends with Aquilinus walking towards a (Seems like it) knocked out Dark Lord trask.

     

    Hehe, thanks for reading. Of course the plot really sucks (resurrect lol) but it was a dream, and I rather enjoyed it. I mean, seeing thousands of jedi against thousands of dark jedi just really kicked a lot of a**.

  13. I'd probably write about how the aging Luke Skywalker's last days as grand master of the jedi council. I like Luke and always have done, which is probably because he was one of my great childhood heroes (of which there are few indeed).

     

    I don't want to see Luke brutally killed, but the way the post-RotJ/New Jedi Order novels are going, it's probably only a matter of time, because Luke has become a force-god who can defeat any opponent, no matter how potent. The Sith or any other evil guys out there basically have no hope of success ever, unless they do old Luke in somehow. I'd hate that. I'd much rather see a slightly disillusioned Luke, who comes to term with the position he holds among the jedi can gradually comes to see that the order stagnates because of it, because everybody expects him to fix all the problems if things go wrong, and so nobody aspires to their full potential anymore. Done right this could even become a threat to the Republic itself. I'd have Sith and just plain criminals inspire a cult to Luke's honor and then use that cause dissent in the Republic that they can exploit through a "divide and conquer" tactic.

     

    It'll end with a big, dreadful confrontation, where a bunch of Sith and villains ambush Luke on his own, certain that as powerful as he is, he cannot fight an army on his own. They're wrong, though, and Luke hands them their rears in fierce duel. I imagine the major bad guy saying, "even you cannot defeat all of us alone," and Luke answering, "then maybe I need help from my father", after which he grabs both his own green lightsaber and Anakin's blue one. It ends with a Luke that is triumphant and is hailed as the hero by the people, who are then shocked to hear him announce that he is stepping down as grand master of the council and leaving the Republic. Leia will object, but Luke will remain firm and say that he has become a problem, because his presence impedes growth in the Republic and can be used against them - Luke is still just a man, but too many won't accept him as anything less than a higher being. With that Luke leaves the Republic, never to be seen again, but passing into legend with the obvious stories about how somebody saw him on this world saving some people from pirates or sightings of a mysterious robed person coming to the aid of the people in their time of need.

     

    It's a fitting end, I think, and avoids the problem of having Luke's dead corpse thrown upon us. Okay, so I take a page out of G'Kar's chosen exit from Babylon 5, but I find it even more fitting for Luke.

     

    Besides, Leia is then the likely candidate as grand master of the jedi council, which will be an entirely new challenge for her, creating the possibility of new plots.

     

    Hey I like this idea and it sounds really awesome but I have a couple questions/ideas.

     

    1... Can you clear up where official non-dragonball Z Star Wars cannon ends? According to Wookieepedia it ends iwth some Cade Skywalker or something and a New Sith order which I didn't really like the idea of. But according to what you are saying Luke is alive, when in the timeline look passed away some how. Some clarification would be aweosme because I really hate the DBZ form of Star Wars but I love Luke Skywalker. He was a childhood hero of mine as well considering I was born in 1984 and watched the old trilogy with my uncle in 86'.

     

    2. Perhaps Luke roams the unknown regions when he steps down as Grand Master and finds some clues as to what Revan and the Exile were doing? Nothing so epic as it changes a whole set of plots but just a few interesting details in their travels... Maybe Luke even finishes off a fight that Revan starts... I really like the idea of "A Mysterious Man" saving people from pirates or just showing up randomly to help out. -_-

     

    You should totally right that book... Just think of an Epic Title.

     

    I read Luke's Powers and Abilities article.... WOW LOL.... Overpowered much? :D Idc.

     

    Meh, I don't like any of this "Darth Krayt" business or whatever. It seems all too quickly written or something. I don't know how to explain it. To me it lacks "That Star Wars Touch".

  14. Meh, I'll try this "KOTOR MMO". I'm an MMO fan... but sadly this is how most MMOs work.

     

    1. Create Character

    2. Log in, gaze at the world around and you are amazed for 5 minutes.

    3. Find out the whole point of the game is an endless grind to the next lvl, with no plot, no awesome quests, nothing. Just kill more more and more until you are the max lvl then start over again.

     

    Quests go like this, "Hey Traveler, fetch me 5 snakeskins please?" You go kill 5 snakes and take it back, "Thank you brave one! Here is your reward!"

     

    "EXP Given, 500 Credits Gained".

     

    Oh and the "MMO Aspect" of gear.

     

    "Selling blue lightsaber 2m!" ....

     

    I fail to see how they can make plot work with an MMO, but I will try it nonetheless.

  15. Yeah, I was just wondering what the community on these boards would write about if they were Star Wars Authors.

     

    Personally, I would write about a Force-Sensitive Smuggler in the Core Worlds named Jok Vess who plays every piece on the Dijarik board very close to the chest. He doesnt' become a jedi, he doesn't fall to the Dark Side, he is an odd mix of Force-Sensitivity and Smuggling, with some neat characters mixed in (not too sure on a romance as I would be afraid to try and make it work).

     

    What would you write about?

  16. The Sith did not have an army when Sidious took over - he simply swindled the Republic's army, which included jedi, to turn against them. As for Revan, that's like saying the Sith would be stronger if they didn't do, well, Sithy things. Of course Malak betrayed Revan - he was supposed to as his apprentice. It's not like that's the first time it happened, or even the last. Evil always turns on itself. But I'd agree if you argued that's why the dark side will always lose.

     

    He started killing off the Jedi after he took over the Republic, thus gaining an army. AS for Revan, I meant if Malak hadn't attacked him like a ***** with his ship, but had fought him 1 on 1.

     

    And Revan (captured and reprogrammed by the jedi), Palpatine (killed by his apprentice), Plagueis (ditto), Naga Sadow (again, ditto). The list goes on and on. We don't know about Bane only because his story isn't finished yet. But no, the strong don't survive among the Sith - they are killed by the jedi or betrayed by their own who want their power or both.

    Only (with the exception of Plagueis) once their apprentices were stronger. Plagueis died because his apprentice (whose name I shall not mention so as to not draw the fanboys' ire :lol:) was also a *****.

     

    Based on what? The sith seem to be the one thing they are highly wary of and never underestimate.

     

    Exactly my point- they only care about the Sith because the Sith are stronger.

     

     

    Tell that to Palpatine or Borsk Fey'lya.

     

    Neither of whom (especially Palpatine) were typical figures in the Republic government.

     

     

    Wookieepedia tells a very different story with reference to Darth Bane: Path of Destruction

    http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rakata#Post-Civil_War

     

    This one I might have misinterpreted, but, in the book, it seemed to me like the Jedi didn't want the Rakata off their planet because they were DS users.

     

    Actually, they only care about the Sith because.... quite frankly, they are the SITH lol. Thats like saying Cops care about criminals because criminals are stronger. The Military cares about terrorists because Terrorists are stronger. The Jedi only care about the Sith because they are the main force of evil in the galaxy, the true threat to stability and peace.

  17. 1. I hope Obsidian gets the job. They've earned it!

    2. I would like a new character. I know that they could make returns from the old characters possible. I would like to see Revan come back into the story (the Exile not so much).

    3. They have to reveal the "true sith" in the next game. They have to be different in some way from other force users. They have to look awesome.

    4. Whoever is making the game has to make up some sweet a** threads.

    5. There has to be some neutral characters in the game (to balance out everyone else).

    6. They have to make sure there aren't any missing endings to the story.

    7. I can't think of any more points. >_<

     

    by the way... that sith dude who replied to my comment above (i think it's at the end of page 13).... he was totally right... :) well esabia... the whole mandalore the jedi thing was just an idea but.... you're 100% correct... Revan and the Exile could be put into the new game. i wasn't saying that it was impossible to put them in the k3.... i just think that the creators of k3 won't put them into the game (not the Exile... Revan... maybe).

     

    Why don't you think they will include the Exile?

  18. Sure you can play DS Revan, but its a non-canon player friendly option.

     

    But, if you are claiming one side of the force is stronger than the other, you still have to admit that a Darkside user could defeat the same opponents.

     

    .... because they don't want anyone to be upset.

     

    It would really make people angry, (even me) if they said that since canon Revan is LS then I can't play a different way sometime and go DS and win.

     

     

    Then why is it that its so much easier to kill all those foes as DS? Easier than it is as LS, and u cant say thats because they didnt want to make people angry, its just because DS is better

     

    You think its easier to kill them as DS? This whole time I've not been on the forums is because KOTOR II came in the mail and I've been playing it... Knight Speed, Force Valor, Force Armor, + other buffs is really easy. Force Enlightenment also makes it quick. I find playing DS is boring and slower. Instead of cutting down all my enemies I have to force shock them 8 times.

     

    The DS is not "better", Of coures it is better as far as offensive spells go because thats te nature of the DS, to be offensive.

  19. Nah **** that. I'll be damned if I have to go to Korriban or Dantooine again.

     

    I don't want to be seeing 9+ planets in KotOR3. No way would the developers have enough time to make them all good.

     

    I disagree.

     

    Unless the developers are somehow bully rushed into releasing the game, they should have all the time they need.

     

    + The technology exists. Its not like trying to push a 10 ton block from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

     

    There are a lot of games with more content than KOTOR (Not more options, just more content. Imo KOTOR is the master of options).

  20. Sure you can play DS Revan, but its a non-canon player friendly option.

     

    But, if you are claiming one side of the force is stronger than the other, you still have to admit that a Darkside user could defeat the same opponents.

     

    .... because they don't want anyone to be upset.

     

    It would really make people angry, (even me) if they said that since canon Revan is LS then I can't play a different way sometime and go DS and win.

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