Raithe

Heh, an authors blog..

Gamespot - Kotor2 Updated on Steam Again

... And you get a montage sequence. Along with Star Wars music as it might have been done in the 80's....

Washington Post - Better reasons to boycott Star Wars

Well, I'll say that the change in how the companions work is growing on me. It's a little shift to adjust to, but seems to work. All companions that don't change their appearance due to gear apparently now no longer get to wear any gear. They just carry their weapon, so any gear they were wearing is dumped into your inventory or mail box. The first four "chapters" of the new story are actually more like solo flashpoints to establish the backstory to everything. But they do seem to have the music and a few cut-scenes following the rule of cool to feel that Star Wars space opera. One of them being a kind of dream sequence. Throw in a little twist as well which shows why they were happy to do the reveal about the Eternal Emperor before hand.

Because we can't have a Star Wars thread without... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgJeVwjnpc

Well, sketch it out here.. Palpatine spent 20-30 years destroying all information about the Jedi and the Force. He demonised the Jedi, he turned them into a historical throwaway about "hokey religion" rather than millennia old keepers of the peace. The majority of the galaxy didn't know that Palpatine was a force-user. Only a small amount of high-ranking Imperials knew it, and Vader was basically the iron-fisted trouble-shooter and the common populace didn't deal with him in any real matter. Sure, the Rebel Alliance might have thrown a bit of the old "Jedi Restored" PR around when Luke turned up and blew up the Death Star - but wait, the Rebels didn't know he was a Force-User then. They just knew he'd been friends with Obi-Wan and had a lightsaber. He didn't really pick up any serious force skill until the end of Empire Strikes Back that the rest of the Rebels would have seen. Even his turning Vader back to the light and the subsequent "death" of the Emperor was out of sight of everybody, and even if he told people about it... It was overshadowed by the 2nd Death Star exploding. As far as most people knew, Palpatine died because of that explosion. So unless there is a really serious push to raise awareness of the Force, and just how Palpatine manipulated information about the Jedi... Who is really going to be paying attention to that stuff when the Imperial Remnants are still fighting the Rebel Alliance / New Republic? It's going to stay pretty much the hokey religion to most people unless they have a direct encounter with it.

San Francisco Principle delays vote because winners aren't diverse enough...

Scientists Discover that Earth is Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant-Humans

Thought I'd create a new level 60 Jedi to have a look at the new stuff. I like the glitch that has all your companion's pants are stripped and put in your inventory now... And now Bioware have put a dream-sequence "level" in the game.

Well, it's got the twists, turns, some ups and downs, and the music which helps pack an emotional punch. Then it has a rather surreal section right before the ending choice. I think over those episodes that are a lot of little choices that shape the play through, but the ending choices do kind of turn it so that all other choices don't matter. So its very much "choices affect the play, not the ending" type of routine.

About to start on the final episode of Life Is Strange. Of course, once I do that I might just replay the whole thing from the first episode again and see how the different choices spill out. The question is, can I avoid being an adult long enough today to focus on the gaming...

Eh, from all accounts and backstage stories, he was ruined by his parents and was a really, really annoying little **** to everyone because "I've been picked to play the hero!"

The trouble with Lucas is that he directs for the edits. He shoots stuff with an eye for how its going to look and how he can cut and splice it and shift from one scene to the next. Editing is where he has serious talent. Unfortunately, that leaves his style of directing as basically "faster, louder, more intense". Which sucks for the actors (and one of the key reasons Ford disliked working with him). I will also say that Hayden doesn't deserve the title of Mannequin Skywalker, it was that annoying kid in the Phantom Menace who gets that award.

Corellia is on planet that I do tend to loathe. The world arc is okay, but just the maps and the distances... I get it, they're doing "war-torn planet" and showing the grind and horror and destroyed buildings and all that. The maps are just generally horrible, and the whole thing feels like a final grind to distract you from the class story parts of it. Still, I will say that the ending cinematics and conversation choices you get for finishing the world story are fun (Imperial and Republic versions).

The pacing of the book was better. They compressed a bunch of things down and simplified a few others, and the montage sequences they used to cover stretches of time did feel a little weird but understandable since they had to make it fit in a film. Hm, I remember Nasa saying that most of the science in the book was pretty accurate just the most egregious error being the central premise - dust storms on Mars do not get that strong/violent.-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ27iS1mkuo

I will say that while I do like that this game won't hold your hand about a whole heap of things, I do kind of feel like it also means I missed picking up a bunch of side-quest type things in my first run through. And side-quests are in many ways one of the key things that helps flesh out the world and provides you with more background info about characters, events and places usually. Unless you spent a serious amount of time moving, and then running the cursor over everything on screen to find out if its an item clickable or a person you can speak to.... I think that you will miss stuff really easily.

Heh. For the film trivia of it all... Jennifer Grey on Dirty Dancing