Lifthransir Bane

On the Xbox harddrive: Tony Hawk Underground 2 with about 3 hours of play (can never figure out where the levels end) X-men legends (finished it once) Fable (loved it until I got bored about 5 hours in and never played it again) Kotor (about ten or twelve different characters worth) On the PC: NWN platinum(?) -got bored 3/4 of the way through chapter 1 (or 2?) of the first story and never touched it again, though it did have promise Eastside hockey manager-GM hockey game that has become special to me because of the lockout Heroes of might & magic 3 AB- I loved this game but can't play it because I got used to heroes IV Heroes IV- I hate this game except for one Necromancer scenario that actually seems to written by someone with, if not pedigree, certainly promise Diablo II- never got around to deleting or finishing it Freecell Solitaire- I can never get enough of it Minesweeper- Love it. Did you know that minesweeper has some sort of permutation involved in it that inadvertantly led mathematicians at MIT (or some other math college) to the solution to a previously insoluble theorem? As I get older the only things that seem to be able to keep my attention are kotor1 and Bill Gates brainwash games. That's why I'm so looking foreward to kotor2/

I think the review was hinting at the fact that the 'I am your father' thing made a the original trilogy's story great, and in the reviewers opinion the original trilogy's story wouldn't have been great otherwise. The suggestion is that Kotor II has an overall better STORY than the original trilogy, not necessarily a better surprise. Whether this will bear out we shall have to see.

Lifthransir Bane. I picked it up from the name of the old windows 3.1 Castle of the Winds sequel, Lifthransir's Bane, and used it for KoToR1, and liked the ring to it.

Flashbacks aren't necessarily unplayable. I can remember playable flashbacks as long ago as FF3 (6?).

since blue isn't an option, I'll go with silver

Talk with Carth every once in awhile, go to Korriban as one of your last two planets, and take Carth with you on occasion when stepping out on the landing ports of different planets (except Korriban.) Eventually, he'll be confronted by an old war buddy who tells him Dustil is still alive and has joined the Sith. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Because the sith wrap their evilness in a social darwinian philosophy that someone looking for excuses would buy into-i.e. if the sith allowed the weak to live, then the sith might one day be populated exclusively by the weak. Some rightist thinkers justify changes to the tax code on this rationale-if you are born rich, you deserve beneficial tretment since you posess genetic similarities to those who proved their worth to society by becoming rich in the first place and are more likely to follow in their footsteps and produce regardless of what has been shown in the first place.

Brava, lady and gentlemen.

I just plan on doing a lot of Karaoke until february. At local dives not with that stupid japanese playstation karaoke helmet.

Someone said you should take a hit to speed when dual weilding or using a double bladed sabre. I disagree. It seems to me that the disadvantages of using two sabres would be to defense against melee--e.g. a hard two-handed on sabre strike would be difficult to block using a blade in the off hand. It seems that the deficiency of a staff sabre should be in defense versus ranged/blaster deflection. Since a blaster shot would be coming directly at the wielder, an attempted block would most likely hit the machinery and not the blade--unless the blastee were to swing one end and deflect the shot like a baseball which could not be a consistently viable defense. Staff sabres should be good defensively against melee and dual sabres should be just fine for blaster deflection.

Yeltsin was a drunk. Glasgow's a much safer place without him ordering the KGB director to give him 'an irish carbomb' every five minutes. eh, I got nothin...

Agreed completely. We heard about bad stuff Malak did, but didn't hear anything evil that Revan did after assuming the mantle other than attack the republic. I suppose you could say that he/she looked really evil, but that's about it.

You are rewarded dark side points for not helping the philanderer on Tattooine escape his droids. As far as the selkath, is that treatment any different than the treatment that Uthar gives to anyone who has failed a mission, e.g. Shaardan if you give him a fake sword. The selkath failed to become sith, thus they were killed. The sith only appear to be rascist against the weak.

East of the undercity camp. I think southeast of the sith patrol you come across a sith corpse next to a piller. He gives you a bunch of things, so you have to scroll down to realize you are getting the rakghoul serum.

In the old game my least favorite playable character was Zaalbar because of his constant pessimism and tendency to clone himself. My least favorite character was Lur Arka Salas (sp?) because he wouldn't even look to see if the runaway human named sasha on your ship was the same runaway human named Sasha that he wanted unless you knew every dang thing about her. Don't know anything about the new characters, yet.

Still think it's the A name chickon the splitting banners. Marketers never sweat blowing plot points if it sells movies like in the TV spots for the 'I see dead people' movie. M. F. Shyamalan.

Plus, according to the load screens, vast segments of the galaxy are unexplored in KotOR which could be where a lot of non-humans live.

We know that Sion's in the scary meathead mold of Vader, Maul, Malak, and to a much lesser extent, Tyranus. We know that Sion's chasing the PC around threatening him which is something Vader, Maul and Malak did. The Revan and Sidious brain types never do that. We know Malak was weaker than Revan because Revan had a greater mind for the force (tacics and such). We know that Scion means next in line to be in power, e.g. apprentice. We know that the guy who operates from the shadows is always stronger than the guy that you think is the bad dude. But in terms of assumptions, I'm not meaning to make one, just an hypothesis.

I'm just kidding. No, they just changed the spelling a little so it would be a name not a word, e.g. Darth Sidious instead of Darth Insidious.

What you're saying here is logical but I kind of disagree. The Old Republic sith are worshippers of power, in whatever form. They have a sort of meritocracy/social darwinism thing going on. They don't seem to look at people in terms of human/alien, but rather useful/useless or powerful/powerless. Palpatine, on the other hand, eliminated all powerbases to further the worship of himself. Most likely the Empire's racism came from Palpatine having to deal with aliens such as gungans or viceroy dudes. Most likely the abundance of sithoid humans came from bioware animator laziness.

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A scion, in royal terms, would be the next in line to be king. Once he takes the crown, he ceases being a scion. I'm still betting a pair of toenail clippers that Scion is the apprentice.

In KotOR Bioware probably knew that we wouldn't finish it if we had to hear even one more twilek say "mujawanababaneedybobo."

I thought Malak sent the acolytes in along with Bastila to protect it from Revan.

Learn something new everyday. There isn't any way to kill Carth as a man, is there?

No. Heightened conflict and suspense are two easy and effective ways to keep an audience's attention-especially for a star wars license. Some of the complaints I heard about the Phantom Menace were that it was boring; complaints came in the 'Who gives a crap about trade agreements and cajun frog people' vein. I just hope in any suspenseful movie/game the plot doesn't become so ludicrous that suspension of disbelief is broken. For examples see Armageddon or the last hour of Metal Gear Solid 2.