Dranoel

The guy has a mutant thumb- I'd get that checked out/removed if I was you!

You have never played V:TMB I take it. It uses the Source engine and is a very atmospheric (on the whole) rpg interrupted with what it hoped was going a dynamic combat system. In short combat sucks but it looks a hell of a lot better than KoTOR1&2, the rpg elements have much greater depth and it remains a monument to what could have been. The action in starwars films ahs always tended towards fast paced chaotic action, something inconsistent with the KoTOR games. Furthermore all the Jedi are dead at the end of KoTOR2 except the Exile and possibly Hanky (atton), Spanky (disciple) and the rest of the gang and there is no reason to believe they would have been trained at all either. Therefore a game that doesn't revolve around gay arsed light sticks is probably more plausible than one that does. Jedi have died out - get over it!

Suggestion 1: Get rid of the stupid lame arsed glow sticks. They suck! Suggestion 2: bring back Bastila (without a lame arsed glow stick - see suggestion 1) Suggestion 3: Make the game much larger with more to explore and make it feel much more epic in scale rather than four or five formulaic planets as in the last one. Suggestion 4: Replace the character advancement system to make it far more customisable. (look at current mmorpgs for ideas perhaps) Suggestion 5: Consider leasing the new unreal 3 engine (is it no.3?) and making a hell of a fast paced shooter with lots of vehicles weapons etc. (check against things like Half Life 2 and V:TMB for reference about what to do and what not to do!) Suggestion 6: Make the storyline less predictable more varied etc. Suggestion 7: Replace the music - it is old, outdated and frankly a relic of the seventies. Suggestion 8: Stop wearing flares! Disco is out and it is not the time to go for Brian May style floppy hair! Suggestion 9: Get a far more flexible time frame and schedule for this one! The last one was rushed and felt very incomplete. The good projects often have to extend development time to fit everything in.

What? No megadrive or saturn. How's about the handhelds? Gameboy, Lynx, PSP... Personally I started playing DA2 again recently (for a short while) and there is so much i hate about it. I dislike the graphics, the POV, the controls, most of the characters and their skills - Vhaidra is good but all the others starting ones wind me up (haven't played with Drizzt or the trenchcoated one, who has obviously just visited a brothel - hence his attire, to develop a serious dislike of them yet) and above all the repetitive missions and lack of any decent city setting such as those in BG, ToSC and BG2:SoA. Even Icewind dale had fairly decent towns settings (the music was pretty damn good at least!) and that was a repetitive and boring game too!

Karka You are not particularly lucky - all the new content is for high level characters almost exclusively, furthermore things like skill purchase have shot through the roof. In short, you're b*ggered!

Lets face it - making a game Xbox only is a good way to bugger up your sales. Halo and Halo2 are the only ones which have truly excelled as Xbox only releases. Big franchises can survive and flourish on single platforms, new ones can't. I wanted to see Unreal Championship 2 but they made that Xbox only and it's sales were unimpressive. maybe they will start taking the hint!

The problem is that you are playing it 10 years too late. Fallout 1 was exceptional when it came out - decent graphics, funky gameplay and a great story! Now the first two are very dated whilst the novelty of the storyline has been eroded by the crappy sequels and various rival games that have "borrowed" heavily from its atmosphere and storyline.

My understanding is that the "elite" (in the loosest possible sense!) gamers found and repeatedly abused an exploit which effectively enabled them to take down pretty much anything in the game without any need for tactics or skill. This seemed to be achieved by whole groups targeting the enemy's "mind" energy (don't really understand it myself as I never felt any desire to play SWG) which effectively stopped it from using skills etc. This was fixed by drastically altering the combat system and all the whingers quickly realised just how **** they actually were when they were not abusing the exploits. I think that pretty much covers it!

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Plus if Kreia dies then so does the exile and you would finish the game a whole lot quicker

Anyway I consider the gay arsed light stick to equate directly with (Timmy) Mallet's mallet. They are both ****ty little concepts which should never have left the drawing board and which are about as dangerous as each other - though I admit that an inflatable mallet might inflict less damage than the broken glass from a neon strip light might, though that is a bit of a one trick pony. Once the light breaks you are left holding the shards, whilst the mallet can keep swinging until it connects with a sharp implement!

Darth Malak. Face it people he couldn't even eat non-liquified food without the aid of machines.

Well previously they only made FPS now they make melee combos too. Also how hard could it be? Bioware have already ****ed up with the bollox that was NWN!

Did you find Yuthura Ban's boutique of sensual delight in Ajunta Pall's tomb? It rocks! "

I think Epic (I stand corrected) should make it. They've just finished making Unreal Championship 2 which sounds like a great action game combining high speed melee and fire arm combat (and they are well acquainted with the various Unreal engines cos they made them)! KotOR could use a high speed upgrade just so long as Raiden, Scorpion and the rest of the MK posse don't turn up though. Selkath could though cos she looks sweet! My God you actually liked any of those characters? They are cliched as hell and very frustrating to play with. The only characters I like from KotOR one are Bastila and to a much lesser extent Canderous. The choice of voice acting for some of the others was truly dire particularly Mission and Carth. I'm on the fence with that Bindi bloke cos the voice was good but the character and comments just irritated me. HK-47 has improved massively in KotOR2 both the voice acting and the dialogue text which highlights just how irritating he was in KotOR. In short keep Bastila and screw the others!

StarForge sucked arse cos the AI on the NPCs is so ****. The number of times I stopped to pick up dropped items or recover health only to find that they had run off round the corner to die in some ridiculously lame encounter just took the piss. I know what my least favourite encounter in KoTOR2 is though. It is the hike across Telos' surface to get to the military facility, particularly the bit in the enemy camp. AI is so poor there that the party splits up and starts attacking about 4 seperate groups simultaneously and invariably die as a consequence!

I heard Mira just returns to Nar Shadaar where she opens a pizzeria. She marries a Quarren, has lots of baby octopuses and dies in a rather amusing industrial accident involving a chipmunk and a herring. The End.

Lets face it - most of those wouldn't even need to be jedi. Personally I feel the whole franchise has run its course and should be allowed to flounder and die. Maybe George Lucas will die soon of grossly fat neck disease and Star Wars will die with him (we can but hope!)

Wow there is a character called Luxa who you have to kill? If we follow your logic we can't even how topics entitled things like "man on Dantooine" cos we just spoiled the casual reader by telling them that Dantooine is in the game as are males, and there is a male upon Dantooine. Terrible - this would leave them traumatised for life no doubt. Furthermore we should remove all threads with references to weapons, classes, character names, discussion of the background or anything. That would leave just the one thread in the forum - the one with rules - rule no.1 don't post anything! The spoil factor in this thread is so low that only an anal retentive would care if they read it by mistake - and then you would have to ask what they were doing even visiting the forum in the first place!

If u really want to make the game more challenging you could play it with no weapons, armour, shields, stims, grenades or other such equipment on its hardest setting. As long as you keep Handmaiden and possibly Kreia in the party it should be challenging but doable. Good Luck and tell us how it goes!

I'm pretty sure you can do it all in one go providing you're not a lame arsed noob! One Walkthrough even claims you can get the holomessage immediately once you take out the swoop racing droid (can't verify that myself though)

You what? You're making as much sense as the Readme file.

Well she does mention that she was confident of escaping from the cell in her datapad entry! Maybe that is why, she had a spare one in her left sock. I don't understand any of it myself! I think Lucas Arts made the patch by looking at the readme!

After what I consider to be an unparalleled failure with the non-humans Party members in KoTOR, particularly Worm head and moaning rug thing, I think they were better off to stick Visas as an exotic!