TentamusDarkblade

not be point fingers Oer, but i think instead of less beer we had more personal accountability those things you listed wouldn't be issues. I'm not saying that they don't suck (and i really do want to extend my sympathies to your girlfriends moms situation) but blaming them on beer is eschewing the personal accountability of the situation.

if it only crops up on some computers, then it's a compat issue. Odds are that one of the following isnt' jiving: a) Graphics Driver b) Sound Driver c) Raid driver or it could be your virus protection software, or the porn spyware on your system, or...or...or...or Point is, Bugs on PCs happen. It's impossible for a dev house to test every possible software/Hardware configuration that a consumer may have. Just testing compat on various OSs and just the top brand hardware can cost up around $20K. But even that is generally done off site by a third party test company like Veritest and generally only gives the most baseline results. and about the Beta testing, since when have you head of single player games having open betas? Sure, they may have some in-house pizza playtests that we'd never hear about, but a true blue open beta? you've got to be kidding.

You're starting to sound like a broken record Laozi. Sorry if i hurt your tender little feelings elsewhere.

Customers who visit a forum board for a game they've bought is something like 5-15%. The ones who actually post is about 25% of those. That hardly represents the views or play experience for the whole customer base. Calm down, avoid the hyperbole, and just wait for the patch.

Anakin killing a tribe of men, women, and children doesn't seem like, oh i don't know, where a jedi would fall? I don't care what Lucas the hack says, you kill a bunch of women and children you've fallen. done deal. Just because he still struggles to maintain his oath to the jedi afterwards means nada, he's an unrepentant murderer at that point. But whatever man. You've proven to be just another blind lucas fanboy and i'm sorry i even bothered to help you in the first place.

might as well just ignore him and let him vent. He just wants to piss and moan. Rational arguements against "Wronged Fans" is a waste of time?

but we already have Paul Anderson...we sure don't need two Ed Woods this generation.

And where's your worth? Is it in whinning? Where is it said that I can only post if I like TentamusDarkblade's conjectures? If you don't want your opinion to come under scrutiny then don't post them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hhmm...must have struck close to home for you to do two posts on this. Now, scamper off.

wow...simply wow. I was trying to help you with your article, but man...forget it

nope....no loophole for you. THe bonus from lightside mastery is applied the same as the bonus from items.

Maybe i'm confused on this, but i thought that when the Dark jedi were expelled from the jedi order some 20000 years before ep 4 they found a new home on a planet with a race called the sith who they basically became god-kings of. 15000 years of living with the Sith caused the original dark jedi to merge with the Sith culture. Since that point there has been Sith - which represents twenty thousand years of dark side learning and culture, Dark Jedi - which represents the teachings of the Jedi corrupted by the dark side, and Fallen Jedi - which represents Jedi who have begun falling but still try to follow the Jedi code. Do you have any references saying that the Sith race died out before the dark Jedi encountered their teachings? I'm trying to gather information about that period and that fact would change alot of what i've been writing.

NN is right, any reason given for why or how would lean towards being spoiler-ish. but yes, i did make me look at the events of KOTOR1 differently.

I didn't want this to turn into a Revenge of the Sith discussion but if you followed the spoilers for EP3 which are true this is why Anakin falls to the DS in EP3: Wouldn't you say that is very similer to that of Revan? Once they accomplish what they want they will put away the DS ways, but unfortunately they both got too deeply consumed in it. Anakin fell to the DS with good intentions JUST like Revan did. But like I said, it consumed them too much and that right there makes it even more Tragic. He wanted to do good but somehow it all back-fired on him. "Once you stare down the Dark Path, forever it consumes you" Anakin didn't fall to the DS in EP2 when he killed the Sand People. It was an act of the DS yes, but he didn't fall there. It begun there just like Revan begun when he found the map on Dantioone, but he fell in EP3. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nope, he fell in Ep 2. He gave into the dark side to slaughter the sandpeople. Episode 2 is the fall of anakin. That's why Yoda "heard" Qui-Gon yelling for Ani to stop through the force when Anakin torn into the Sand People. He just may not have realized how far he fell until he made the deal with the devil in the Ep 3.

which post would that be? the one where i was agreeing with DarthRevans comparison in regards to the ongoing discussion? It may have been a short post, but it was directly tied to the discussion at hand and was posted with the intention of carrying the discussion forward. Your post is made in a feeble attempt to troll, like most of your posts around these forums. You've got nothing to add, so take your annoying self elsewhere.

don't you ever have anything worthwhile or positive to add to a thread or are you just always a waste of bandwidth?

i played the demo and it seemed more like "Grand theft Mecha" than mechassault. i wasn't impressed and decided to skip it after checking the demo out.

Ala Luke in Dark Empire. He feel to the darkside to destroy palpatine once and for all. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> bingo.

whoa...Anakin fell to the dark side out of anger and out of pride. He fell when his hatred of the sandpeople erupted into a killing spree. He started on his path to the dark side because he believed he was better than his master and better than the Council let him be. His fall wasn't well intentioned or even that tragic, just the result of an unstable boy put under the pressures of being "special". Revan didn't fall so much as sacrifice himself. He saw what was coming, looked at the Republic and the Jedi, and realized that someone had to unify the galaxy through force and rally them all under one strong banner. When this failed, he set off to take the fight to the Sith Empire...alone. A near suicide mission to protect the Republic. Now that is what i call a tragic hero

I think Revan always stayed Good. He discovered a threat to everything he knew and, like any general in any war, Revan was forced to make the hard choices. He had to fall to be able to use the Sith weapons of war, since they were the most powerful. Revan didn't fall for power-lust, or for the thrill of battle, or for any typical dark side reason. Revan fell because it was the only thing he could do to save the republic. It's a wonderfully tragic idea, i think. I soldier who's sense of duty drives him to shoulder such weights and to face his own damnation to fulfill his duty to the Republic.

I, Jedi is enjoyable. None of the SW books are Dune though

Wasn't there a line of dialog that mentioned that it was possible the "True Sith" spur'd the mandalorians into waging war on the Republic? For some reason that seems correct, but my memory is hazy on it.

Brief history lesson 20,000 years prior to Episode 4 there was a jedi civil war. A dark side faction of the jedi warred with the light side jedi and after a century of fighting were driven from the republic space. They settled on an uncharted world already inhabited by a race called the sith. After years of cross-breeding between the races, the cultures were one and they were considered the first "True Sith" This "Sith Empire" enjoyed a golden period for twenty thousand years. It stretched to cover many systems. Places like Korriban, Malachor V, Arkania, and others. No one knows how far the Sith Empire spread. 5000 years prior to episode 4 republic explorers stumbled on the Sith Empire, igniting the first sith war. This was the Great Hyperspace War. Also, during this time, there was a schism in the Sith Empire. Marko Ragnos, the Great Dark Lord, had died and two Sith Lords feuded for control of the Empire. They were Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh. With the arrival of the republic exlorers, Sadow was able to use them as a rallying point and gain control of the Sith Empire by thrusting them into war with the Republic. Ludo Kressh was not defeated though. While Naga Sadow took the Sith Fleet to wage war on the Republic, Kressh stayed behind and built up his own faction within the Sith. When Sadow was defeated and chased back by the Republic, Kressh and his supporters turned on them and attacked. The Republic warships that had followed Sadow back torn into both sides. Sadow escaped with a group of loyal sith followers, limping away to the jungle moon of Yavin where Sadow quietly strove for more power. The Sith Empire was scattered and thought to be all but destroyed. There must have been pockets of the Sith still active and thriving, since they gave birth to Feedon Nadd, who, in his desire to be the Great Dark Lord but fear of challenging the current Great Dark Lord, set out to create his own kingdom on Onderon. So, this shows that the Hyperspace War scattered the Sith Empire, each of which become their own version of the once great empire. Many Great Dark Lords rose, each commanding their own small empire. It's also possible that the Sith Empire was able to breach the outer limits of the Outer Rim, creating empires beyond the furthest reaches. The known Siths that followed - Ulic, The Krath, Exar Kun - all were force users or sensitives who fell to the teachings of the old sith. The Sith War faought by Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-droma and the attempt at creating a new Sith golden age came from the knowledge of Sith artifacts and the influence of Sith Lord Spirits. Even at there heights, these new Sith were but an echo of the previous Sith Empire. The Sith that are encountered in KOTOR and KOTOR2 are like this Sith, echos from a Sith Golden age. They are shadows of the power that the Sith once held. They had fragments of the old Sith Empires knowledge, but even those fragments almost led to the destruction of the Republic. Compare that to the possibility of a true sith empire, one that survived the Hyperspace War and continued to prosper. An Empire that had spent the last thousand years strengthening itself and learning new secrets of the dark side of the force. I believe that's what Revan discovered while searching the outer rims - possibly while looking for the real cause of the Mandalorian war or possibly while looking for more sith knowledge during his war with the republic. A true Sith Empire, cut off after the Hyperspace war but still prospering and still terrifyingly powerful. An Empire that was starting to return to the known galaxy of the Republic. Revan knew that only a unified and prepared Republic could stand against a Sith Empire like this. The Jedi of the era had grown complacent, prone to debate and discussion instead of action. Revan fell (although whether he fell or merely followed the only course he could is debatable), using every Sith secret he had learned to build an army that would sweep through the Republic and bring it under his control. Revan left the Republic infrastructure intact, knowing that it would be needed in the fight to come. When Malak turned on Revan, the plan went awry. Malak hadn't been informed of the master plan, of the "Why" of the war. Malak struck at whim, nearly crippling the Republics infrastructure in his bid for power. When Revan defeated Malak, Reven knew that the Republic was weakened by the whole ordeal - though tougher for having gone through it. It wasn't enough though and Revan knew this. He set off for the Sith Empire, for reasons unknown. hope this helps. I drew this from various sources including KOTOR< KOTOR 2, The Star Wars RPG Sourcebooks for the dark side and the light side, and my on thoughts on how they all fit together.

you're telling me that Taris wasn't slow???

Peragus...by far. It had a great ambience to it, it set a great stage for later in the game, and was just better written. Taris just didn't hook me in and by the end of it i was annoyed at the idiocy of the Sith troopers walking around.

you need to give us more than that Volourn....don't leave us wondering