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Kreia is the One True Prophet! (w00t)

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... NOT Chinese babies. It's no wonder they have such a problem containing their population; if any babies look like little dolls, it's theirs.

Well, no argument here, then. At least that beats the traditional amnesiac / raw Republic recruit thing. I agree that it is better to have a heretofor insignificant character for a PC that may (and does) go on to be the saviour of the universe (Flash! A-aahhhhh!) than it is to have an all-powerful amnesiac that has to learn their past to fulfill some great task. In short, it's better to have the central conceit: "many have tried, all have failed", rather than the "No, you can't be the chosen one! I will try valiantly, but -- ultimately -- fruitlessly to defeat you!".

I think it was a Ray Bradbury short story, but anyway it dealt with the issue of unswerving loyalty, bravery and a dedication to idealistic interpretations of the law for the good of society. Only those who possessed these requirements were permitted to be in the armed forces, let alone be officers and command the military. And there was a mandatory retirement age of 19, so that these people were not in these roles by they became jaded ...

I see. My mistake. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not at all, I perhaps might have been a little less oblique with my emoticons and a little more direct with my question. Or the developer might have been a little less ambiguous when he was being interviewed, or the interviewer might have been a little sharper and clarified the point. As long as they don't just rehash the same storyline again, and the engine doesn't fall about our ears, I'll be satisfied.

It's got a 4-6 week lead time, though. <_<

Stop hijacking my hijacking of your thread!

Maim children?! Alright! That's a done deal, then! :D That's okay, it'll just re-inforce my already low estimations then ...

Ha! Not without checking the testimonials of acctual players in the printed media (PC mags) and on fora like this. I will not be pre-ordering, like the first two KotORs. I will watch and wait. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

one of the problems with these games from a story point of view, IMO, is that you used to be a Jedi. I agree that starting off as a Sith recruit would allow for more possibilities. you get a dialogue trigger within the first hour about your view on Jedi and Sith and you have the ability to leave the Sith academy on someone's ship, etc. I suspect most people will do that but those that want to stay DS and actually pursue the Sith/DS path can do so.....what if you want to play DS and be anti-Republic and cooperate with the Sith? Right now, the DS guy really only has one viable path -- to be the reluctant ANTI-HERO and defeat the Sith. There needs to be an actual pro-Sith DS path in addition to the pro-Republic LS path, absolutely. And, if you want to go the DS path, you should not be chasing after Jedi mentors for training....you have Sith mentors for that. Faction membership in general needs to be implemented alot more, IMO. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, but the downside is you will have alienated a lot of the potential audience. E.g. check out all the posters in the KotOR 2:TSL General forum who can't play DS (<{POST_SNAPBACK}>). If you give them a character that is a (fully cognizant) Sith apprentice, then they just won't identify with them and there goes your immersion and suspension of disbelief. It seems that it is better to have a small number of well-researched and documented characters, with varying backgrounds, then one main character.

I never understood which part of the strip search ended up with the underwear on the person's head ... "

PacMan Perfect Score Hey, my high score is about 350,000 on Donkey Kong, so I might start practising for the tournament! :D

I still like Pong. And the original Space Invaders is kewl. (w00t) Bom-Bom-Bom-Bom, Bom-Bom-Bom-Bom, wee-plink, wee-plink. Bom-Bom-Bom-Bom ... That sound track actually starts to set your heartbeat ... you end up with a racing pulse by the time you finish. Brilliant.

This sort of topic should be in the SPOILERS forum. <_< Oh, look! A seach function! Now you can find the other forty-nine threads about this in the Spoilers forum!

Look at the very bottom of the article and it says that it was posted in august of last year. Here is a quote for all of you who may doubt me. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Talk about a slow news day. So, if you were Peter Hirschmann (vice president of product development -- a two-year LucasArts vet and former Electronic Arts producer), who would you want to make KotOR3? Now, as a fanboy, what developer would you want to make K3 ?

Sounds like a good candidate for internet relay (and email). I don't like it when the DM sits there rolling countless dice throws and totalling them up in some abstruce way ... always means something bad is gunna happen. And the DM should have asked us a crucial question at some juncture that was glossed over, so we can all argue about how the fatal ending never happened on a technicality. (LA friend lost a ranger to a doppleganger that way, donchaknow.) I've never played CoC, I know a little about it (although I ain't read the book, neither), because a friend at uni was always bragging about how we'd play a game and my character would die of insanity pains to the head in seconds. I could never work out if he was serious or not -- certainly couldn't understand what the point was to play a game only to die quickly ...

I guess an idea of when the next version will be ready, and any tantalising tidbits from part 2 ... (And get your DM client server fixed. )

That was my bolding.

Do you mean I will think less of more recent games, or it will spoil my appreciation for the Fallout series?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

I guess it could have been something else. Silk paintings are kinda sorta not the most detailed art medium ever, at least not the old ones. It probably could have been a recreation too. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh, you sounded so definite. Okay, well, they do tend to eat just about anything (and the weirder it is the more of a "delicacy" it is ...) Maybe it was a century egg ?