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What do you mean by "better party support"? The only problem I can see is that the game doesn't let you use NPC skill in places where it should (item breakdowns, building stuff on the Hawk, repairing T3) As it works currently, you pretty much always control your protagonist, adding party members to increase the number of blades or guns a protagonist can bring to bear in a combat situation. In party based adventuring, you do (at least I hope so) get the feel of being a team instead of a souped of protagnist. It's a bit hard to explain, but I think the biggest problem is the POV and the onedimensional combat, whereas if you could zoom out and up from the combat (and de-attach the &^%$ camera from the character that is currentlly "active") you might be able to apply a bit of tactics to it. Like sending in your one or two tanks as a screen for your ranged guys, whether these then lob grenades or shoots fireballs. As it is now, you usually ends up with a 'lump" of 1-3 characters, where you focus on one of them and hope the other two doesn't get you all killed in the process (by getting trapped by obstacles or blocking each other, allowing only one guy to attack etc.). Heck, even Fallout was more fun getting yourself killed by Ian in. So, what I'm probably missing (in the combat aspect of the game) is the expansion from one (headlong rush towards enemy) to two (using the area in both x and y directionsm terrain and different ranges of attack) dimensions. I thought some slightly random thoughts in another post once, just speculating how Kotor (1&2) would have been, if designed for something like the ancient Infinity engine because I missed party based adventuring... it was fun speculation but just that, speculation.

Thanks for digging it out and putting it together. It was fun reading.

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Possibly, I might just have jumped to conclusions because the name and the drawing was the same colour

Less npc's that you get more attached to. IIRC, you are not exactly a fan of PS:T, but I did like that your choice wasn't between which half or third of the available ones went into your party, but which one or two didn't make it with the rest of the group. This is based on a condition though, that the game runs on an engine with way better party support than the current NWN/Kotor engines, otherwise npcs are just there to feed you some voice overs and the illusion of being a team, where what it really does is just adding more damage potential to the protagonist (who can now wield 6 lightsabers instead of 2 etc.).

It was very funny reading, forget the gamespot and all the other interviews, this one beats them all :cool: Still not sure how that highschool crpg of his would turn out, I mean, the guy did do New Reno after all...

One my favourite dialogues is from a very unlikely candidate, Goto.

:D Ahh yes, those. Bless whoever wrote the mini mod to remove them from the game...

How can you fail in Kotor ?!?

If nothing else, I got a good laugh out of the "concept art" for Sion on that whiteboard

Okay, now you've gone and done it. You know how when you're watching a movie and somebody says something like that ... and after that, all you see is that damned nose? Arrgh. And here I was, watching her mouth when she talks. Blame this: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=32124 You'll never look at the characters the same way again...

I'm still missing an option in that game, to wield a blade of some kind in my left hand and a pistol of some kind in the right hand, just for that super comic book hero look

IIRC, you get more XP when Kreia is in your party (the Mentor feat ?).

Try asking that here: http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/ :D

This seems to be the boys poll (toys, gadgets & girls)... I picked force persuade. Should give a fair chance of getting all three of the last options at the same time... Edit: Although I'm not so sure about the Visas thing, she does have a big nose.

She said I was too old. Now her bones can rot on Nar Shaddaa, I'll take Hanharr anyday

Urghh... Now is the time to cheat and go back and edit my original post :"> Only two noses right. Who could have guessed that Visas had a big ugly nose

Korriban was just an example of something that had little to offer, except nostalgia for K1 players. The one you were looking for could have been on any other planet, no particular reason for it to be there. Same thing with the thing in the cave, it could have been moved to somewhere else without much of a loss. Just thought it would have been nice to see more "previously unseen" seen worlds, Dantooine already covering the flashbacks to K1...

It would be interesting to see if it could handle npcs in your party and tactical combat well...

The the "drab brown" underwear with the sexy read sneakers looks like suspiciously like the red swimsuit underwear from K1, just with the brown painted on top of it. You can even see the remnants of the original layer beneath it along the edges of the new texture put on top of the old. Just for fun, you can copy the old swimsuit texture to K2, just have to rename it from the "small" names to "medium" names (s to m iirc). Unfortunately, the uv mapping looks different on the old medium (scout) and large (soldier) textures, so they don't work right out of the box. Edit: Oops and the basic caucasian texture needs an A before the 01 in the filename.

I think I can answer yes to all of the above and still like the story, mood and journey in the second one better. When I think of K1, I often mentally compare it to an episode of Teletubbies. That isn't meant as a negative thing, just observing, that sometimes there is beauty in simplicity and K1 had that. Cardboard heroes and villains with appropriately villaineous motives and laughter. Besides, it managed to make me play through it more than 6 complete times, so it definitely has some kind of addiction effect. Still, the "look and feel" (not to mention the much improved interface on the PC version) of the second one appeals more to me for some reason, that I can't point my finger at. To the original poster, you are missing out on a great game if you miss the first one, once you've done that, come back for the second

I would have had a little bit of respect for the man, if he had just left the original alone and then done a completely new set of movies. Might have made the transition from episode I-III to episode 0,V and VI more painless

Like yelling "Carrie!" (instead of "Leia!") in the celebration scene at the end of the movie... Wonder how that one got through Lucas's QA ;)"

All fear the power of paradoxes! If a thread turns into a singularity, you think it goes poof! ?