TentamusDarkblade

Im pretty shure its Xbox exclusive. Part of the deal Bio did with M$ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bioware's exclusivity deal with MS would not preclude porting Jade Empire to the PC. if anything, it almost ensures that it will be ported.

it has nothing to do with Demolition skill. If you said that Revan was a Darkside Male the holocron has Bastila talking about Revan leaving, the Sith on Korriban turning on themselves, and her eventual departure to go look for Revan.

i played through as a true neutral character and beat it without a prestige class. It's harder, but do-able.

some folks are more comfortable at a computer desk, some are more comfortable on the couch. Personally, i sit at a computer desk all day at work so it's nice to get home and plop down on the couch and play a console. Plus, with having a spouse it's nicer to be able to play multiplayer games together on the couch. Computers generally can't offer that type of multiplayer experience.

even though i consider 50% to be a rather large exaggeration, thats still only 50% of registered forum board users. Considering that only about 10-20% of consumers who by a game actually go to the forums about a game, your numbers are completely pointless....just like this thread.

classic hades....don't you ever get tired of adding your cynicism to every thread?

Well, then it's new policy as of about 6 months ago. When i was with Xbox cert it was a standing rule that no patches came out for games unless it was to fix a major issue that had never been seen prior to ship. And those usually one went out for large titles or for publishers who had alot of clout. In the time i was there i can remember only a couple patches that were snuck in as "Content Updates".

yeah, an actual demo is the best shot. But the original poster seemed to hint to that not being an option. I know two guys who've both pitched ideas to their companies and one got a greenlight to create a demo. So, it does happen.

i think it's Left, Down, Down, Right, Right, Left

rumor: Bioware is in a publishing deal with MS. Thus the xbox and pc exclusivity of it's titles. I would lay down money that MS publishes DA, barring of course they pass on their first rights of refusal.

so nobody has been tempted to play the Star Wars RPG in the KOTOR era? man....

you can try sending queries out though. Write a letter saying "Hi, i'm so and so. I wrote a game design involving X,Y, and Z. I think that it would be a great game for your company because A, B, and C. Would you be interested in looking at the fulll game design document?" now, odds are that they're respond with "Thanks, but we already have a full plate" but you never know. The next track is trying to get a low level position with a game company then pitching it internally. Many companies will take the time to at least look at employee pitches, plus you may be able to get a designer to take a look at your rough draft and give you polishing pointers.

OB can't create it's own content for KOTOR2 without LucasArts. They'd need the funding to assign staff to working on it, they'd need LA's QA team to test the new content, then they'd need LA's approval to ship it out for KOTOR2, since KOTOR2 is LA's property, and they'd need LA to get the new content through Xbox's certification process. Right now i'd pin my hopes on either a re-printing of the game that includes bug fixes or that LA moves quickly to start production on KOTOR3 so we have something to look forward to.

couple points... 1) Xbox does not allow "patches" for their games. They do allow "content updates". Now, there is grey area concerning "content updates that over-write previously buggy code". This isn't guessing, this is fact. I worked at Xbox for a couple years and was on the certification team that yeah or nayed games, content, demos, etc. 2) Xbox live enabled is a remarkably tricky thing to add to a game, especially with the latest updates that live! has gone through. For most games it's expensive and not really worthwhile. Look at KOTOR. They probably blew a couple months integrating Live! and then they released a single content update that kinda blew. Not a big time/profit payoff. 3) Whether Obsidian pursued making KOTOR2 Live! enable came down to the money men, namely LucasArts. If they decided that it wasn't fiscally lucrative to make KOTOR2 Live! enabled or they decided that they weren't going to fund any additional content creation, then Obsidian had it's hands tied and couldn't do it. 4) The game magazine industry is really bad about going to print with information that is already dated and wrong. The january OXM probably was created in oct/nov, printed in Dec, and then shipped in Jan. Most game mags follow that pattern. I hope this helps Retnuh

they're spoilerish, but also incorrect. Did anyone else notice the tid-bits that just didn't jive with what was actually said in game?

Check out these links, the first two pulled up from a google search, and let me know what you think then. http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/flash.html http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mstarwar.html

nothing there about the era, races, or factions. any thing else?

Does anyone know of fan created PnP rules for playing in the KOTOR era? I want to get a game going, but i'm hoping that someone else has already gathered all the scattered info for Mandalorians, Miraluka, Echani, etc of the era as well as other useful info. Any information would be useful

You might want to look into the names i mentioned before calling me a dumbass and stating that i shouldn't state my opinions without "full details". Akira Kousawa did the following with the western remake after it. Yojimbo - A fistful of Dollars the Seven Samurai - The Magnificent Seven The Hidden Fortress - Star Wars At least we can agree on liking kotor and enjoying kotor 2.

maybe not a directors cut, but a new release of the game with the following: 1) Cleaned up dialogs - updated dialogs for Visas and Handmaiden in the end game 2) The Droid planet being finished and inserted back into the game 3) The HK factory mission finished and re-entered 4) Polish for the existing missions (Jedi Redemption as a prime example) 5) Re-balancing the random loot table to make drops more contextually consistent with where the drop is taking place (dark jedi items more weighted in Korriban and Dxun, light jedi items more weighted on Dantooine and Telos) 6) Re-balancing the end game force powers. Lightning Storm and Force wave are still unbalanced in end game, just as they were in the original KOTOR 7) Fleshing out the end-game. Possibly re-balancing of the enemies on Malachor V, additional side battles, additional cutscenes explaining where Mira goes, and additional lines of Kriea's dialog to give more of a since of closer for the NPCs and the exile. Personally i'd like to see a slideshow of static images showing how things end up with Kriea providing a narrative over it.

1: In the storage container apartments and in the Cantina there are thugs you can sneak up on to get information about Vogga's treasure room. Once you have the information you can go to the bartender in the cantina and get a flask of juma juice. Once you have the juma juice go talk to the Twi'leik who is looking for a dancer. Either have Handmaiden, mira, or yourself (if you're a female) volunteer to dance for Vogga. Once you've danced for Vogga he falls asleep. Use the Juma juice on teh Krath hound water dish and then have a character with high security pick the lock on the treasure vault door. Voila, you can collect your reward. 2: i can't think of what rooms you're talking about. They might have been for a mission that never got finished. 3: There are numerous threads about how to complete this quest. I'd recommend searching for them. 4: The "Loosing time" thing is a form a jedi meditation. Kreia talks about how many jedi learn how to better access the force through using manual skills (which leads into a different side quest). Using your Repair and Computer skills on T3 leads to the exile sliding into a meditation. If you follow these branches to the end and you have a high computer and repair skill, you will gain the ability to regain FP while healing T3. 5: G0t0 disables Remote and then adds his own programming to it. At the End of the game G0t0 uses this programming to stop Remote from activating the generator and destroying Malachor.

umm...just to clear up some serious misconceptions you seem to harbor...George Lucas is a hack. period. Like i said, he borrowed heavily from Akira Korusawa's The Hidden Fortress and Flash Gorden serials. All he did was take a japanese movie he really liked and put it in space and then try to make it into a Flash Gorden movie (which he tried, but couldn't afford the rights to Flash Gorden). Then he relied heavily on Leigh Brackett and lawrence Kasdan to write The Empire Strikes Back and Irvin Kershner to direct it. Then, for Return of the Jedi ole' lucas once again relied on Lawrence Kasden for writing support and Richard Marquand to direct. Take a look at episode 1 and 2. They are rubbish. Poorly written and equally poorly directed, all soaked in special effects. Lucas may have done a good thing once with his plagerized script for Star Wars, but thats where it ends. Star Wars now lives on due to folks like Bioware, Obsidian the folks who made the Clone Wars cartoon series, and the folks at Dark Horse comics. now, you ought to re-evaluate your likes and dislikes...i think you may be the one confused.

anyone play through as pure neutral yet? I'm thinking about trying it for my next play through, but i was curious to see if anyone else had given it a shot.

my first post here was talking about the movie "The Entity". I think my first ever post was on the BIS boards talking about icewind dale 2.

The Suffering. I thought it would be a mindless action game, but was pleasently surprised by how it handled moral choices and it's overall narrative. Katumari Damacy was also wickedly surprising. I normally hate novelty japanese goofy games like this, but when a friend brought it over i found myself instantly addicted. It's like crack dusted pringles...you just can't help but get hooked.