Gorth

Imagine Gorth using HK-47 voice module... Translation/apologetic: Sorry Kevin, we have to received the message to redirect resources to do a sales pitch at E3, you have volunteered to sacrifice your work. Sarcastic: We can't just raise the standards of games, people have certain expectations of the name Lucasarts. Statement: After much reasoning/pledging/grovelling even L.A. realised that the original timeline was somewhere beyond ludicrous. Halfway through, a Microsoft death squad camped at our doorstep and the schedule was changed again. Translation: I'm only allowed to speak to the public in the presence of a L.A. representative/supervisor.

Not a big mystery. IIRC Akari (at least I think it was) said something to the effect of the resources being moved to NWN2 after the xbox release. Just a few guys left to do localisation and pc specific tweaks to the code in the two months between the releases.

Not completely true. The engine was based on the NWN engine. They already had a head start, if nothing else, then technology and expertise wise when recycling Aurora engine. That being said, the Kotor1 engine (can never remember it's name, Odyssey or Ulyssus or some such) was probably a closer fit for Obsidians needs than the Aurora was for Biowares needs when starting on Kotor1

Seriously ? They provided the funding. They provided the QA (technical and probably integration of stort with the SW universe, i.e. suitable or not) and a third from top of my head they provided the sound side of the game. Oh yeah, and the Star Wars name.

Horrorvisions of BG3 on Unreal 3 engines... :ph34r:

I voted no :cool: Maybe I'm just lucky. Maybe I'm just a geek when it comes to building my pc's. No "technical" issues in my first run through the game (not quite completed yet, but close). I've had more problems with Kotor1 than Kotor2 (no, I'm not kidding).

Just a guess... they were saving disk space (to make room for the spam/demo etc.) on the allocated # of disks ? No, no idea why they would do such a (stupid) thing actually.

Somebody please tell me when to stop playing... I love it so far, but I might want to skip the ending altogether from what I've heard Besides the obvious and usual things, I like the interface. That I hardly even noticed the interface is probably a compliment. That means, unlike the first one, it's no more a struggle Gorth vs. Game interface

Is it just me, or is Lucas' obesession with mutilating things connecting him to the past reminisent Michael Jacksons self inflicted mutilations ? As if they somehow try to forcibly sever the connections to a different time and a different life

If it's only to be based on Kotor2, I can't see any reason for me not to get the next game. I love the style (visual, audio, story (haven't reached the ending yet), dialogue etc.), it runs smoothly on my computer. No "obvious" bugs, nor crashes, average level load time less than 2 seconds. Pretty good stuff. Reson for not buying their next game would be it's association with the NWN name... traumatic experiences For that one, I'll wait and see the general concensus on the content.

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If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun. 15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy. 16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776). Thank you for your co-operation.

I would say play... but then, I'm one of the "lucky" ones. Got the game yesterday and is somewhere trying to decide what to do on Telos right now. Not a bug so far (and it's not because my computer isn't busy doing other stuff in the background). The game is awesome so far and I like the first 10 hours way better than the first 10 hours of Kotor

Whats your problem ? 38, married to my work, no acknowledged children >_ Usually end up buying a lot of stuff that I never get around to use Just bought Kotor2 during my lunch break today. Previous purchased Lucas Arts games were x-wing vs. tie fighter and knights of the old republic. I don't qualify as a Star Wars fan

China has been mentioned a couple of times... English civil war (might be too similar to MTW), Ancient America (Aztecs, Incas, Mayas etc.), Africa (Kush or Zulu empire anybody), Ancient Mesopotamia (Egyptians, Assyrians, Hittite) heck, could even be the Special Bible edition. Still some possibilities.

My greatest challenge was boredom (the original game). The difficulty level, you can adjust by your choice of henchman. If you take the monk with a deathwish, it plays like Dungeonsiege. If you take the thief, you are in for some serious challenge (the AI might have a bit to do with that too). If you've played Kotor, you've seen the advanced version of the story, if not, no spoilers in saying it's dungeoncrawl, fetch four objects, bring back, repeat etc.. If you need more of a challenge, play a spell caster, the menu system is a real killer then I bought the gold box set (the original plus the first expansion), so I ended up completing 3 of 4 chapters of the original and uninstalled it. Couldn't be persuaded to try Hordes of Underdark. There does however seem to be some agreement from various sources that the last expansion is actually a decent game, storywise and otherwise

Wow, it only took 1 (one!) reply to derail this thread. That should at least be a tie for the record (yet to see a thread derailed in the thread creation)

Thats the fun with PC's (w00t) So many variables that affect performance. What CPU and Gfx card are you running. Especially the latter can have significant impact your games (when you already have 1 gig of memory)

Regarding your little "problem", yes, there are solutions to that in the game, but way harder to get than in your average BG game. But it is in there... Combat is generally easy after you reach a few levels, you don't need the proficiencies that much, unless you want to bash your way through the game I would say, do what you feel like. Not much help, but you really should just experience the game

Impressions after completing the game as a male Malkavian, female Nosferaty (she was just too sexy to ignore), male Toreador, male Tremere (and currently playing a male Ventrue)... It's a rollercoaster of good and bad, with the good winning out overall. The combat sucked big time. This means, the last part of the game sucked as it was all combat and very little roleplaying. The atmosphere was great, if they could just figure out how to use the engine, I might even have been able to enjoy it in something other than 800x600 pixels. Voice acting was the best I've heard in any game. The experience/skill/ability/feat system was nice (I'm not a PnP player, so I've no idea if it was true to some kind of purists ideals). The player dialogue is AWFUL in places, especially when dealing with M. Strauss. Your typical case of a quite good game that could have been awesome with better QA, better use of the engine (assuming that it can do better than this) and dropping the incredibly boring combat from the last part of the game

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You dont have Snus in Denmark? in Danish 'snus' means sniff .. what exactly are you referring to? :ph34r: Snus as in Snus tobak ?

:D Somebody has a twisted sense of humour. As stable and as well as the first... The game was unplayable unless you exited it at two places in particular and started tweaking settings and resolutions. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to complete it, and that was after the 1.03 patch :("

Aww come on, everybody knows about the Hercules LUM-1138 with USB interface... Or not. Sorry, never heard of "external" graphics adapters

A lie. More lies. His logic is better than yours. http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html Encouraging the illegal distribution of copyrighted material is also a criminal offence.