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That, and HK-47's Translation protocol (was that the right name?) feat where he can speak to non basic speaking droids. Smells very much like intended use on the droid world that was cut

If working for a large company, supplying specialised tools for others is your only reference, that would explain the tunnel vision on your perspective. Games developers are twelve by the dozen and don't tell a publisher "to wait". In this case, the deadline became set in stone for reasons not entirely known, possibly, they figured that with a game getting released together with the third movie, a second game released at the same time would hurt the buttonline. So it get's released at xmas where the seasonal extra sales would cover up for any shortcomings in the released product, since other products presumably are lined up for the movie release. For the publisher, all that matters is return of investment, reputation doesn't really matter, they are the sole provider of Star Wars products. If you don't understand that a new company don't put the same weight on the scale as a decade old, multi million dollar company, then it might be time to get out of your protective shell and see the real world a bit. Reminds me a bit of the used cars salesman in "True Lies"

I was going to write an awfully long and detailed explanation for AgainstOne why the earth is round, despite it being flat from his perspective. Unfortunately, the quoting kept getting screwed up for me, so I decided, some things aren't worth the bother of proper quoting, much less valuable time.... ;)" That would explain why the missile tests keep failing...

I'm probably the only Hanharr fan around here, so I'll just say, he was one of my two favourite npcs (T3 being the other)... A complicated character with a troubled past, no whiny Zaalbar that one. Have him dual wield Gammorean axes (or their "named" equivalents) and watch him when on a fury induced rampage

Ironically, in K2 I thought of HK-47 as one of my only two honest NPCs (Mira/Hanharr being the other). Even T3 is a lying cheating tin can, manipulating everybody to his/it's own ends. Quite refreshing with somebody that makes no secret of what they desire

Looks like Sim Life, The Cool Version

Replaying it for the umpteenth time. My only technical grievance is the quests that don't disappear from my questlog when they are unsolvable (escaping criminals &^%$#@ !!!) Edit: Oh, and some weird fast forwarding (broken?) dialogue.

Yup, according to the flanneled one himself, if it's in a feature movie, it's canon, otherwise not. Of course, with his habit of changing the already released movies, old canon might be replaced with new canon at a later date

I don't agree, but that was comedy gold

Well, there is sort of a difference between wanting to force somebody at gunpoint to do something, giving them fair warning that deadly force may be applied if they don't comply and then killing them outright with no warning. Anyway, I liked the original unedited movies way better...

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