Exitium

Who cares if it's only a video game. I've heard of such a thing as 'quality control' and having a mongoloid romantic female interest whose eyes are too far apart, chin's too broad (even compared to males) and whose lips are larger than even most girls with silicone injections in their lips just bothers the hell out of me. Same with movies, really. When someone makes a crappy movie or TV series (like Mutant X, for example) the viewer will be inclined to criticize it for its hackneyed plots and poor quality acting. Oh well, sure, it's just a TV show. Why make a fuss, right? I don't think it's too big a fuss to comment on it, is it? It's not as if any of us are rallying outside of Obsidian to picket the ugliness of Mira's model, are we? No, I didn't think so. Sigh. Why must things like these be blown out of proportion? The solution's pretty simple: fix the model or she'll be ugly and people won't like it. Before anyone says "Hah, who cares what people like, just play the damn game." Hey, need I remind that person that we're the potential customers?

Almost everyone I know, including myself, left him to die, because we didn't think there was any option to save him. Took me two plays, after reading on some forum that I could save him.

Hopefully. I'd definitely like to see another original title (Llike PS:T) from MCA.

I'm going with 75%. There's probably certain things that won't be entirely based on the starting sequence and I'm fairly confident (based on nothing whatsoever) that she will make a cameo appearance, if not a full blown one. It really isn't too hard to script 3-4 separate versions of dialogue for her and a couple of different scenes depending on what you pick at the beginning. Bearing the fact that she was in the Star Forge, a location of immense strength in the Force, anything could have happened. What I'm more curious about is this whole 'Sith Lords controlling the universe' business with Jedis believed to be extinct. That can't possibly be the result of a good ending in KOTOR.

I'm wondering about that myself. Perhaps Atari has contracted them to develop Baldur's Gate 3.

You'd be wrong in thinking that. There's a huge difference between having a cute girl, who looks like a girl as an NPC and a mongoloid who's passed off as a cute girl because all the descriptions say so.

Compare: to

I don't recall Bastila looking that bad in any close up shots. You know, there's a difference between real people and textured models. Textures never change from shot to shot.

You're going to refer to me as s***ty? why? I don't care that Canderous had a robotic arm or that the weapons he's carrying are huge. Even though the huge weapons are quite clearly ridiculous and pointless, and dont actually offer much style other than suggesting that the game is set in one of those cliche futuristic settings where guns have to be big for no reason whatsoever, the only reason I posted in this thread was because Weiser Cain completely lacks artistic talent and I had to point that out - not for any other reason. I don't know what gave you the idea that I had anything against the big weapons.

Hopefully they'll explain the workings of her wrist-rocket launcher weapon in accordance with the SW universe so it doesn't seem out of place.

You are telling me to shut up? Don't you know by now that never works. Argh... noobies. She looks likes like Tank Girl meets Bobba Fett. Wrist Rocket in that pic of her is highly improbable however. Wrist Rocket system would be too heavy for a mere flesh arm to hand. She will would burn her hand each time the rocket is released. She will either need to have a cybernetic appendage or a full battle glove on that arm. I haven't seen that video either so its it an instant firing of the boosters or is it air propelled from the jettison device which then the rockets fire after a good 4 to 6 feet distance from Mira? They're just micro-missiles. I'm sure Star Wars technology is sophisticated for miniturization to have a huge role in technological development. Just as well, I'm certain there's probably a few kinetic sponges to soak up the recoil from the initial launch. Stop making a fuss about that.

Then why bother with anything at all? Why bother about the quality of graphics - who cares if it's in 8bit, right? It's just a video game. Why bother about sound effects? Beeps and 'ding' sounds will do just fine as lightsaber sounds. It's just a video game. Good, interesting gameplay that's exciting and doesn't bore the piss out of you? Who needs it. Just clone Pong instead. It's just a video game. Who cares if the NPCs only say a single line throughout the game? It's just a video game.

You know, it is just a computer game. If you desperately need an attractive women, go out and meet one, or, failing that, watch some porn. Having "totally hot bounty hunters" in KOTOR 2 should not be a priority. Then what is the top priority? If making good looking models and skins isn't a top priority for the artists I'd be hard pressed to believe that they would make anything else a priority. It's nice that you would stuff your mouth with such a stupid argument about how I should watch porn or that it's 'just a computer game' but all I'm saying is that if Obsidian isn't going to put the effort (and I'm not saying that they won't, given the amount of complaints about Mira) to make characters with high aesthetic appeal, certainy a lot of people are going to be unhappy. You might not think of graphics as a top priority, and neither do I (especially since gameplay is more important) but where's the harm in modifying the texture of her face? As a texture artist, I'll say that it isn't difficult. If built from scratch, and given some talent, an artist can produce a high quality facial texture in just a matter of hours. It doesn't take days, much less weeks or months. When you're working on a triple A title you can't afford to neglect certain elements just because they aren't a 'priority'. It would be a huge niggle if many of the characters looked as messed up as Mira - and she's a main character. This sort of substandard design doesn't impress gamers, much less reviewers.

You have no taste at all. Feel ashamed. Very ashamed.

If you think he's doing a good job you have absolutely no taste in art. Go to www.cgtalk.com and see some real art. Lol "good job". Yeah, good one.

Yeah, inspite of Paris Hilton's likeness to a farm animal, I'd take her over that man-thing any single day of the week. I'd have to be absolutely hammered to find the Mira model as it is currently attractive in any way.

Paris Hilton is hardly the highlight of beauty. She looks like a very orange goat. It'd be nice if the character actually looked like the concept art, which resembled a feisty dark red-haired (dyed, not natural) girl in her 20-somethings. Naturally red haired girls have a tendency to have really pale skin and a ton of freckles to boot. I'm thinking she should look somewhere along the lines of that girl from the Lexx sci-fi series. But even a cute befreckled pale-skinned red haired girl would look better than Terry Jones in drag.

I just hope that Obsidian is paying attention to this thread and take the suggestions to make her look more like the damn concept art (a cute girl in her early 20s) and not like some 40 year old female impersonator with really big lips. Reminds me of John Cleese's female impersonator sketch in Monty Python.

Well what do you know! She looks as ugly as one of Weiser Cain's random scribbles.

There's some weird HK-47-esque robot in the new game. Read about it in the EGM preview. Wonder who it is.

I am unimpressed. The graphics look very bland compared to upcoming RPGs like Guild Wars, Bloodlines and Dungeon Siege II. The action trailer was even less impressive because the animations look rather crap for lack of better description.

This stuff is horrid and whoever made it should have his fingers broken.

Blah blah blah

Are you sure? They're ducks, not ravens. They aren't exactly the brightest of the flock.

It's natural selection - and ducks just happen to be urban dwellers these days. Think of whoever took the picture as a documentarian. National Geographic doesn't help all the animals they film to survive. It happens occasionally (like with Steve the Crocodile Hunter and his wife who goes out of their way to protect endangered wildlife) but naturalists generally don't encourage it. And besides, what could he have done to help them?