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Akari is a nice guy No thanks, currently trying to spot the cause of a deadlock in a 250 user application... Thanks for clarifying. While it doesn't speed up the cutscenes in Kotor1, it's nice to know, that we aren't just waiting for arbitrarily timed dialogues....

20 minutes ? You don't know how lucky you are then... Try "The Hobbit" (the adventure game from Melbourne House), it takes 35 minutes to load from tape and crashes regularly. Personally, I prefer Ultima IV to V. V just felt "wrong" somehow, with those big chunky graphics. Didn't have the same kind of immersivenes as Ultima I-IV, because of the smaller field of view (well, it "felt" smaller, might just have been my imagination)

How about the ability to "jump to the end" to each individual script ? It may have been my imagination, but in some cutscenes you could "fastforward" it by clicking a couple of times, by others you couldn't. It was as if you had to wait for the voice over to finish, before the script could progress. One from top of my head is the introductions to the duel arena, where some lines of text could be skipped, others you had to wait for the guy finishing his introduction lines... If you could "speed up" things a bit. it wouldn't need to skip it entirely. Especially nice if reloading before long scenes or even when playing through the game for the umpteenth time.

What? Shooo! I was just trying to sound sophisticated.

Roguefrog, you are the born designer!

Jedi jogging pants ? Robes ? We need blue jumpsuits dammit! Starwars IV and V worked quite fine without jedi robes. Ok, Yoda might have worn one, but that felt more like part of him being Yoda than him being a jedi.

Look at it. Laugh a little about it. Let it die and disappear out the bottom of the topic list. The sticky will stick around for a long time yet.

Speaking of which... why the &^%$$# couldn't they have put that on a single dvd ? :angry: Farcry comes on dvd, UT2004 comes on dvd, you would think that a publisher like LA could figure out how to put files on a dvd too. Ah well, first thing I do when buying a new game, is to download the no-cd crack anyway

Personal oppinion ? He's a poor weak thing under pressure from way to many powerful interests. Probably not evil, just not too bright.

Please don't even think about it... A big unnaturally strong jedi, with a miniature giant space hamster pocketed in his jedi robes... wielding a two-handed lightsaber and yelling "Buttkicking for goodness!" B) Prone to go into a berserker rage when fighting Sith and smugglers

Much logic I sense in that one...

Pervert! Go look up under Volourns skirts... In the unlikely event that I should ever end up in the gaming industry, I would prefer something where I could exercise my AI skills. I really miss working with that. Not sure which job description it would fall under though.

Is this a beginning of a developer diary ?

I could imagine that swoopracing would benefit from Ac/Dc's "Highway to Hell" as background music.

I might just save that one for a future occasion Unfortunately you're right. Even the name TSR (Tactical Studies Rules) suggest that it's old games like DnD was about tactical combat and the fine art of creating a framework for all that combat. Also, one of the reasons that games like Fallout and PS:T has a cult status instead of being a commercial legend. In those games, you could avoid most of the tedious combat and find other things to pass time and gain benefits from. But like a previous poster mentioned, people who like a more complex approach to problem solving are a minority, compared to the munchkin masses with the loose money. Whether it's lack of imagination, inferiority complexes, plain boredom, whatever, the majority of buyers seems to prefer games where they can whack something on a regular basis (perhaps the wife is bigger and stronger than themself ?) So, gamers like "us" (us being those who don't care much for overabundance of combat in crpgs) will still be a small niche market, with the occasional exotic title thrown in our direction every decade or so.

What happened to producer ?!? Btw. how do you pronounce Urquhart. [ur-ku-hart] or [ur-kart] ?

How many npcs could possibly survive from Kotor1 to Kotor2... Revan Canderous T3 HK-47 Isn't that pretty much it ? The rest, including third party femily members etc. could be disposed of somehow, even if it was just at the end. Canderous and HK-47 are busy following Revan, so that leaves T3 for a new player. That means, T3 is pretty much the only one that can tie the old story in with the new story. ... Now comes the twist! ... Revan downloaded the blueprints for a weapon of gargantuan dimensions from the Starforge, aptly named "The Deathstar" and stored them in T3's memory. That would tie Kotor2's story neatly with the 27 sequels and the movies Episode I and Episode II

Kotor2: The Lich Lords... :ph34r:

Thank you And it probably didn't even hurt...

T3: Rise of the machines...

Charging into combat with the dark jedi on the Starforge, lightsaber blazing, to the tunes of "I was made for loving you" by Kiss... ...can't you get enough of me ?...

Why are you going through that much trouble to ensure that people do *not* read your post ?!?

...and a less obnoxious signature...

Since the announcement of KOTORII, i'd wager most of the pople here are mostly rabid teenagers... I would put my money too on that the announcement lowered the average age of the boardmembers.