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Hilarious.

That is nice and all, but the exile isn't learning how to use the Force again, because he isn't actually using the Force. He has some Force-like abilities that he leeches from those around him and presumably from those he kills, through some weird Force bonds. So all of the losing an arm and suddenly getting it back analogies don't really apply. But you are forgetting something even more important, Kreia herself had had her own connection to the Force somewhat severed, so her situation isn't any better than the exile's. No, I didn't like Kreia lecturing me all over when supposedly the exile is a war veteran and an accomplished Jedi. I was really expecting a game in which the PC got to be the master, but this time around you're just another whelp. The whole Kreia mentor business is just a plot device to give the Darth Traya plot a deeper involvement for the player. If you try to dissect it, it doesn't hold very well.

Different unarmed combat animations would be nice. But then again, so would be different animations for each of the lightsaber forms so, yeah.

And I'd have to agree with Jags here. However, I'm almost done with my third playthrough and already thinking about the fourth...

Well, he's not so famous to begin with. If you play a female PC, you won't hear anything about him whatsoever.

You've got a point. If the trailer sucked, there's no telling how bad the movie would actually be.

So, how exactly you want combat to be civilized? Nothing wrong with liking the old style saber fights better, but civilized combat is like dry water.

Yeah, I can accept that those Sith "assassins" (funny they are called assassins when the only thing that ever gets killed when they're around are themselves) are easy at the beginning of the game because you are a hole in the force and stuff. But not the main baddy that is on the game cover and is so powerful that he can't even control it. This game has a lot of good things, but the balance got blown to pieces the moment they decided to remove the level cap and take a D&D approach to items. A shame, really.

All of that storywise explanations are BS. Nihilus is a pushover just like Sion and Traya, and well, everyone else in this game. The reason is simple, the balance in this game is just broken, and that can't be blamed on time constraints, but bad design decisions.

As far as I know, that's all there is to Exar's story. There are some books set in the NJO era in which his ghost does nasty stuff, but there is no novelization of his "adventures".

I agree. If anything, dropping the bomb probably prevented an all-out nuclear conflict as a result of the Cold War.

Yet another Xbox Scraps Project proudly brought to you by MS.

LS mastery often involves being an idiot/wussie. DS mastery often involves being a stupid thug. So, I don't bother with that mostly, and just try to stay consequent with the RPing.

You can't expect to be taken seriously when you compare it to Blade or Titan A.E.. Fifth Element wasn't so bad, but it still doesn't compare to the SW feel. Come on, Planet "Bob"? Oh, and I remember hearing you say "KotOR 2 will suck because this and that..." ) Your hater credibility < 0.

Again, it's all about the semantics. Killing 200,000 people on a single stroke is undoubtedly a morally contemptible act. I'm not going to argue if it was necessary to do so, or if in the end it saved more lives than it took, that's beside the point. But since the intent of that action was not to extend fear but to force surrender by means of a show of force, it's not terrorism.

Well, it might not be a bug, but it's definitely more proof of the state of the game. If you actually can get close enough to them, you will see the extremely low quality of those characters. It's not only the ultra lo-res of the textures, but the simplicity of the models too. Those models have no eyes, teeth, or even mouth to speak of. I'm ok with them not being dressed in some weird way since it's an academy after all, but man, at least give them eyes.

Well, at least his laughter isn't Malak's. "

Depends on which definiton you choose. I would say yes. It created fear and awe, it did not specifically target military structure, it killed indiscriminately. Still, the goal was not to create a permanent state of terror, but to demonstrate the power of a new weapon against which there was no defense. Therefore, it was not a terrorist attack, despite all the moral labels you want to apply.

No, no, no - everyone knows XWA > XvT. Then "everyone" is obviously wrong. "

No. That's a leftover from NWN.

Indeed we have. And the results were usually very bad. I don't think I'm wording this very well. Let's see. You can tell whatever you wish to the soldiers, if that will improve their morale or make them obey orders more willingly. You can only do that however if you are going to do something that could be considered revenge, for other reasons than revenge itself. Any military action whose only objective is revenge is fundamentally flawed. Yes, but that's the politician's job. In fact coups are bound to happen when the military takes too much interest in politics, not the other way around. That's why military officials should have no political authority or influence whatsoever. I never said the world was perfect.

For me it's both, but I tend to be more of a SW fanboy than a RPG maniac. While there's seldom a SW game that I haven't played and liked, there were a lot of RPGs that I started but quickly got bored with.

In fact droidekas are a joke. For some reason, their shielding seems to be much weaker at the rear. All you have to do is have it focus its attention on a squadmate (one that is preferrably behind some cover) and then circle it to get behind. Don't even bother shooting, just punch it to death. Which raises another question. How the hell is a punch more damaging than a blaster shot?

No. Armies are not democracies. In war there is no time to waste convincing soldiers. And while war responds to politics, politicians shouldn't be allowed to direct war, the same way military commanders shouldn't be allowed to practice politics. Hence, the army shouldn't be concerned with "revenge", because revenge at such a scale is a political act.