TentamusDarkblade

What are you arguing here? Where did i imply that i could drive while drunk? Calm down. Breathe. Then post when you start making sense. I think most people are idiots and alcohol just gives them an excuse to act that way. Alcohol lowers inhibitions, muting that little voice in your head telling you that mooning a cop car is a bad idea. But it's the alcohol sure as hell didn't put that thought in their head to begin with, it just quieted the voice that might have counselled against it. Might have counselled. Are you saying that your friends and dad would never do anything idiotic sober and that alcohol makes them act that way against their will? The very first post Oerwinde says alcohol causes all these bad things to happen, that's scapegoating. Saying that these bad things wouldn't happend if alcohol ws eliminated, that's scapegoating. Now, think things through then post and we'll see if this conversation can go someplace constructive.

well, my problem is: 1) LA provided all of the QA and set the ship date. 2) Stuff gets cut from games all the time due to time constraints, balance, over-all sense of cohesion, and bugginess. 3) I can't recall being promised anything for this game Done deal. If folks have problems, then flaming the forums is a waste of time and bandwidth. You don't know how the industry works and you have no idea what sort of contractual agreement OE was under with LA, so poundung your chest and proclaiming what they must do for kotor3 is just retarded. on a side note, i actually would like to see what plot holes you found. Not so much to argue over them, but just because i'm curious and I'm wondering if i either filled in the details on my own as i went or if i just looked at them in a different light. Edit: i realize i come across pretty harsh and i apologize. I have a pretty brutal writing style and i'm developing less nad less patience with "fans" on forums, which i need to work on. I get agrivated because most devs houses i've worked with honestly want to make good games and are just as upset, angry, and frustrated as the fans are when publishers push dates or provide piss-poor QA support. Just think how much it burns them when they're already pissed at LA but can't say anything at all because of contractual obligations and then log in to see "fans" flaming them for the exact reason they're pissed at LA. It's an unfair situation to them and yet folks are still completely happy dog-piling on them for **** they couldn't have changed. So, once again, i apologize for snapping but please try to see things from OE's standpoint too before you start flaming on them next time.

Taks and Ellester hit it on the head. People will always find something else. Nature abhors a vacuum. There is also the physchologyical aspect that folks will always find scapegoats. The Booze made me wreck my car, my allergy to pollen made me wreck my car, my radio made me wreck my car, my "compulsion to ram things that i'm getting therapy for" made me wreck my car...you get the picture. Our society is full of people who want to point fingers and shift blame. Our kids shoot each other because of violent games and sex on TV, not because i'm a failure as a parent. I've got a disease that makes me snort coke, it's not that i'm just weak willed and unwilling to help myself. etc etc etc...It's really depressing, but true. jesus, sorry about hopping on the soap box. Guess it bugs me more than i thought

Volourn hardly looks for answers, generally he just posts for the sake of posting his opinions.

Thank god someone said it.

If ole' lucas refers to wholesale slaughter of men, women and children in a fit of anger as sort of doing something inappropriate then that just shows how bat-**** insane lucas is. So when Alderaan was blown away, was Vader just doing something mildly unacceptable? Lucas struck gold with the original trilogy, but has done nothing but ruin the franchise with his handling of the prequel trilogy. So excuse me if i completely disregard what that hack has to say.

umm..you do realize that GameRankings.com just averages all the individual rankings that a game recieves from various independent sources? Alot of game devs and publishers use the numbers off of GameRankings and similar sites because of this lack of bias.

have any of you opened your manuals and looked at the QA credits? You'll find them right under the heading "LucasArts, a division of LucasFilms". if you want to keep flipping out and flaming about this games lack of polish, go do it on the LA forums.

Phosphor is dead right on that. Every game i've ever worked on ended up with erroneous code. Bits and pieces of ideas that never panned out, got re-worked, or just plain didn't fit with the rest of the project. Also, it should be noted that OE does not have any full time, in-house QA. They are completely reliant on LA to provide their QA as well as any compat testing. Just take a look in the back of the manual. QA was all from Lucasarts.

it's a random loot generator, so it's just a matter of luck of the draw.

hhmm...i didn't try it on difficult, but on nromal i was able to blow through them with Atton. You'll never get your old lightsaber back, but you will encounter it later. If you reply with not caring then it's just the defualt saber for your class. the LS/DS Mastery bonus is just based off of your base class. LS Guardian: +3 STR DS Guardian: +1-8 Damage LS Sentinel: +3 CON DS Sentinel: +3 DEX LS Consular: +3 WIS DS Consular: +50 FP It seems to increase Difficulty rolls and puts the scaling enemies up just a notch.

much easier to read now

well, my first thought is you should try to break up your paragraghs so people actually read it all.

KOTOR2 PC = 84% KOTOR2 Xbox = 86% With scores in the mid-eighties on GameRankings.com, i'd say that Obsidian got it right with KOTOR 2.

Again man thats so stupid. How are you going to disregard what George Lucas the creator of Star Wars! What you are saying makes no since. In other words you are saying that Anakin didn't fall because thats how GL set it up but in YOUR MIND you say he fell. So really what you say isn't a truth but more of an opinion. I guess I just spend too much time around TFN....people who actually know the Star Wars movies. Anakin DOES NOT turn to the Darkside in EP2. Did his journey to the DS begin in EP2? YES! But that does not say that he went to the DS. If I take a 10 day journey from North Carolina to California today, does that mean I'm in California today? Hell no! It just means that I'm heading to Cali and I will be there really soon....but I'm not there yet. Same with Anakin in EP2. His journey to the DS begun at the Tusken Camp, BUT that doesn't mean he is on the DS, it just means he is heading there starting from that point. The Clone Wars is where he continues his journey and by the time EP3 comes thats where the journey ends and where he reaches California. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> did you even read what Fearless Jedi and I discussed past that? You comparing I'm not going to argue this with you, you're a blind lucas fanboy and aren't going to listen to reason, logic, or anything else. Go back to whatever TFN is and have them pat you on the back for such admirable blind devotion to that hack lucas.

i'd wager that they are waiting for a green light from LA to announce that they are working on a patch.

i just thought of it as he got mindwiped, you played out KOTOR1, then after that his original personality came back and over-wrote/intergrated the one you created/played. just my own way of suspending the disbelief though

did ya hear about the woman who is being charged for her husbands death by giving him a sherri enema. crazy.

thats true for Dark Jedi. The true Sith though built an empire on the foundation of dark emotions like anger, hate, greed, jealousy, etc and then refined their culture over 15000 years.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> your idea? sure, i'll give you that...even though it's heavily implied in KOTOR2.

here's my thoughts - not that they really hold any weight: The double bladed lighsaber is a Sith design that was popular during both of the Golden Ages of the Sith. Since KOTOR1 and KOTOR2 both take place during a Sith upswing, i don't find it surprising that they are more often encountered than they were seen in the movies. Remember, the movies take place 150000 years after the first Sith Golden age and roughly 4500 years after the second Sith Golden Age. on a different note, my LS character used a single Silver bladed lightsaber and my DS character used dual bronze Lightsabers. I found the duel sabers to be more effective since i could use 4 of the high end crystals i found instead of just 2 of them and the extra attack was just icing. In my subsequent play throughs i've messed around with a dual-bladed lightsaber, but it just doesn't seem to pack the punch of the dual lightsaber load out.

ok, maybe he didn't hit bottom at that point. But i'd still argue that he fell there. We see plenty of other areas where his emotions rule him (hell, most scenes show his emotions ruling him in Ep2). All of this illustrates that he's walking a dangerous path and would be enough to just show that he's on the path to a fall. But the slaughter of the women and children in the Tusken Raider's village and his complete unrepentence for it seems to be (to me at least) evidence beyond just being on the dark path. Maybe i'm reading to much into it, but disregarding what Lucas says, everything shown seems to point at this being where he fell. I think Ep 3 will just show that he accepts his fall and stops struggling to live under the Jedi code. You're right though, Anakin didn't Fall all the way down when he killed them. It seems we're arguing at what point you consider something fallen. Here's a ****ty analogy, but it seems like dropping a brick from a bridge. Is it considered to "Fall" at the point of being let go, halfway down, or only after it lands? I'm arguing that Anakin fell at the point of "being let go". (i hope this makes sense)

i don't think we have long to wait. THe Xbox 2 third party announcement black out is endind in roughly within a month, so we're gonna see a bunch of XB2 game announcements hitting the mags. Then there's E3 in may and alot of publishers hold on to announcements till right about then to really announce with a bang. I think the combination of E3 and the end of the announcement black out will create a flood of game announcements through march and may.

Thanks Fearless Jedi I'm getting ready to play through KOTOR1 again, so i'll take better notes this time around.

well, i'm gonna take that has a pretty solid rumor if GameInformer really did print that. GameInformer is the largest circulated gaming mag on the planet, so that does give some weight to it.