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Yeah, cut the revisionistic crap, we saw it back in 1977, Han murdered Greedo in cold blood

It's the bird in the hand thing. A thousand bucks in the bank is better than a million well-wishes and pats on the back. Big-ass publisher asks you to do a job. BAP tells you terms and conditions (which probably suck). Do you turn offer down and worry about the next rent, or do you take it and worry about getting your next project after that one. I think it says a lot about the publisher wanting a sequel to a major title done in a year (read: "$"). So, developer is left with doing the best possible job on a project where the deadline plays the yo-yo game and bounces back and forth during the project. If you, as you claim, are a developer, you should know that this is a real killer for a product, when you have to start cutting on your feature list on a short notice. And when the developer is new and doesn't (didn't) have it's own QA department, it was all in the hands of the publisher, determining both if and when it was fit for release. Not a situation I would put people in, if I could avoid it. Given that, I thought they did quite well, what they managed to come up with. As for the technical side of things, both 1 and 2 had an existing engine that needed reworking to fit their needs. In this case, I would consider it a fair assumption that engine work happens simultaneously with the game content (assets, story etc.) work, as some engine features might depend on requirements from the actual game design. It's a fun thing about writing... it doesn't go ten times faster because you put ten authors to write ten different chapters in a story. There are things where you can't force results by adding more manpower, it simply requires time. By comparison, that gives the first game 3 years of story writing, character and plot development etc. The second game had 1 year. Again, I think they did pretty well, having had one third of the time... I know, you can't judge people by a few posts, I just found you to arrive at all the wrong conclusions in a single post, hence my somewhat (perhaps undeserved) sarcastic response

If this is the extent of your knowlegde of the development and busniess side of things, remind me never to offer you a job

If you are thinking story/plotwise, I suspect Goto was hit the hardest. Otherwise, I would say Remote. He is the one you get to control, that ends up doing absolutely nothing

The thing with the holocron is what you set Revan to be.

It's a flaming longsword + 2 (+5 vs. missiles)

Meh, If it had to spread to other genres, I would like to see a Master of Orion 2 SW version (especially if a re-release would fix some of the bugs in there) Edit: Or a Jagged Alliance 2 with stormtroopers and republic soldiers...

1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, master carpenter and joiner, establishes his business in the village of Billund, Denmark. His firm manufactures stepladders, ironing boards, stools and wooden toys. His son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, starts working in the business at the age of 12. 1934 The company and its products now adopt the name LEGO, formed from the Danish words "LEg GOdt" ("play well"). Later, it is realised that in Latin the word means "I put together". The firm has 6-7 employees. Ole Kirk places the following motto on the workshop wall: "Only the best is good enough". From http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline7

After Revan got his force lobotomy, he was only half the jedi he used to be

Hanharr was an awesome character. So much anger in one pelt :cool: The way he elaborated on how he killed his own people, starting with the children, staring them in the eyes when he strangled the life out of the kids so they may know why they were to die for his hand, then moving on to murder the adults etc. Thats one angry wookie, unlike the tribe of whiny whimps from the first game. Besides, dual wielding Gamorrean battleaxes and with wookie fury, nothing stands alive when he's done

Kreia. To me, she's the female version of Palpatine from ESB and ROTJ. Scheming, manipulating, etc. Malak is just the stupid schoolboy bully who stole the big stick from the guy who was supposed to use it, and now goes on a whacking spree to show how bad he is. Stupid evil as apposed to clever evil. Whats with all the Darths anyway ?!? I'm pretty sure that in most parts of the games, they are referred to as Malak, Revan, Sion, Kreia etc. There might have slipped a Darth in there, but I suspect it's something all the Darth wannabes are attributing to them. Heck, I can't even remember Nihilus being called by his name, he's usually just "Visas master"

From a duplicate thread:

Favourites as in on board the Ebon hawk or favourite "away team" ? Makes quite a difference. I love the discussions with Kreia, but she always stays on the Hawk. It reduces the xp I get. When going away, I usually take Hanharr and T3. The little Tin Can is just a main battle tank on wheels Probably two of my favourites too anyway. Least use... would be Goto and Handmaiden. Goto just has that "feel" that there is something missing to his purpose in the game and Handmaiden, despite using Lingerie of Mass Seduction DC20 and a nice voice, I find little use for her. Hanharr is just more interesting.

My characters are all named Gorth :"> Except on the rare occasion when trying out a female, then it's Gwynn (sounds better than Gortha). K1 and K2 were the first time since BG2 was new that I tried that one again. All nice 5 letter names, that I can actually pronounce

Since my whimp of a Revan ended up being a level 12 Jedi max (IIRC), and my Exile ended up level 25+ Jedi... I would say, looking only at the force perspective, My Exile would wipe the floor with my Revan (which was much happier being a scoundrel than a jedi) anytime

I try my best to keep him a tech specialist as there is way too many jedi's in a game featuring the last jedi...

It's not that he is better or worse than any other character, that can throw punches, but he does have a special attack form that only works when using fists. If he uses fists, you get it on the same combat menu, where you find flurry, power attack etc. it's called "shield breaker" or some such. It only takes one hit of that attack to remove an opponents shield. Then you don't have to do like 60-100 whatever damage first and then injure the opponent. If you send Bao Dur on a quick trip from one veteran merc to the other of those who uses shields (those who "glows red"), they die a lot faster when you and Atton start cutting/shooting them.

Just a few tips for this one... The "secret" for me on this one was micromanagement of your troops. Tab between them all the time and keep their command queues full with the things you want them to do. Keep an eye on your shields. In this fight, I prefer energy shields, as the guys can usually hold their ground in melee. "Force speed" powers are your friend. Remember Bao Dur's special ability, let him use his fists, thats what he does best, and especially let him have the first go at the veteran mercenaries (when they glow "reddish") with his special shield breaker attack. Use stimulants. Use medipacks. It's one of the few interesting (challenging) fights in the game

Exactly I rest my case :)"

This reminds of whatshisname from PS:T, Giscorl ? The guy who keeps following rituals for rituals sake and forget what the purpose behind them was. Why stick to continuity if it's counterproductive to improvement ?

Basilisk war droid...

I guess all kinds of ideas get their own fundamentalists and extremists...

What is this "Holocron" ?!? Is that the comic where it's from ?

Exactly. Thats why it was presented to Lucasarts for the Aye or Nay and it was accepted by the powers that be, that at least one droid now looks like the fighter in the Mandalorian garage. How many people actually knew the "lobster" version anyway ? And no, it might not be continuity, but that doesn't sound like one of the virtues of the SW universe anyway.

Somehow, I could just imagine riding one of those to the tunes of B52's "Rocklobster"... :-" It might be deadly, but it still looks stupid and not to mention the impracticality of wearing all that personal armour. If the guy ever fell of his lobster, he would never be able to stand again without somebody dragging him up. Definitely looks more like some superhero comic stuff than space fantasy.