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Probably because of Star Wars:Jedi Knight.

Or it could be a roleplaying game about how the PC goes from an administrative aide to Grand Chancellor of the senate. Just imagine the possibilities: Assemble a party of adventurous cabinet members, and other politcal hopefuls. Including, rogueish space yatcht captains, quirky protocol droids, devoted secretaries, aging war heros, and the token wookie ambassador Growwerrrowrrroarrrowlarlowlrorill. Travel to exciting new worlds on good will tours of the galaxy. Gain political influence by pandering/bribing to the various factions you meet along the way. Help the galaxy's less fortunate, or sell out to crime and corporations. Your choice of honesty or corruption, will decide "The Fate of The Galaxy!"tm. (untill LA decides that it didn't and that your char. was really an HS male ) ..actually I *would* play that... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As long as gaining political influence could be reduced to a mindless abstract, like pressing the "g" key as many times as possible whilst in "clandestine negotiations" mode, the secret Jedi mind mode the Ambassador can activate during normal conversations .... Maybe a civ-like game that lets you build your own Galactic Empire (

I'm particularly disrurbed by the 'Leia Slave outfit'. I'm not sure what kind of relationship they are suggesting their customers might have with their pets. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There are so many disturbing items, it's hard to pick a favourite(!). (Maybe they're just casting aspersions about Princess Leia ... y'know: she's a biatch.) ... There's more than a few adult costumes there, too ... If you look a few pages on, you'll see all sorts of cash-ins (lightsabers for all the characters that "light up and extend" ... (gratuitous innuendo removed). I particularly want to know how that actor feels now he has been photographed in the Count Dooku outfit. He looks genuinely distressed!) :D

No Force powers? Then you must be a Scoundrel, with that uncanny knack for always surviving as long as your not the last party member standing! Or a bowl of petunias.

I thought I read (PC Gamer? in the last couple of issues) that Sam & Max 2 had been picked up by another publisher. Or was that a new development house? Whatever, it'll probably be excellent when it comes out because it won't be squeezed into a 200 day development cycle ... " I don't think LA are totally financially illiterate: any old story with a light saber would sell by the millions, even if I did the art work. Sam & Max is a niche market, so it probably has been de-emphasised and not abandoned altogether, and will be more in tune with the better-defined market segment. ( Well, it sounded good before I wrote it, anyway.)

On behalf of the entire community of loyal and disloyal >insert name of popular sci-fi opera first seen in 1977< fans, I apologise profusely and without reservation for the criminal neglect displayed by >insert publisher's name here< in their cavalier attitude towards their audience.

KotOR3: Return of Sam & Max

Super-intelligent shade of the colour blue.

TOO BIG!!!! What are you? Crazy? I want there to be like 10 planets each morrowind size or bigger. And like 10 million side quests. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just so long as the side quests don't entail spending eight hours (real time) running around looking for a couple of mushrooms to make into a stew for Yoda .... "

hahahah .. no .. it's me! :D (Never knew I looked like a transvestite!?) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's the hair. :D Darth Coran: Sith Strategist. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Odinson: is it true that Wookies have 147 different words for "hair" in their language? Rosbjerg: you ain't no Buddhist monk with a scalp like that, that's for sure! (More like Richard Gere than the His Holiness the Dalai Lama). Sith Lord for sure!

Mu! It is a lovely refreshing breeze washing over the mind after disappearing up one's own metaphysical bottom trying to untie the Gordian Knot. Shoot, I forgot that Nike was a Greek Goddess (equivalent to the Roman Goddess Victoria). Now, I must return to my meditations ... "Who said that? ... Who? ... Who?" (Dang, how do you do this without sounding like a blasted owl?)

"... now go away and stop bothering me, I have a meeting with my bank manager ... Muwhahahahahahaha" LucasArts leads by eample: The Way to The DARK SIDE is easier than you think ... will they be redeemed like a certain dark, mask-wearing character?

And certainly not Lord Pookie. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wouldn't that be Lady Pookie? Or is it a Pooka ? :D

Three Cheers for Aurora and the team! :cool: Hip Hip

2. hmm you seem to focus a tad too much about refering to sources .. that's cool with me, and as long as you are doing the work for me .. who am I to complain? :D "Calvanism: (who are we to second guess God -- but I thought we were talking about The Force?)" .. yes well since we are talking about The Force as a a kind of sentient being, it's normal, albiet not correct, as a western, to assign ceartin Judeo-Christian ideas to the properties of such a force.. 4. http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma/mu.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Too many references? Well, I just want to make sure we are all talking about the the same things: if we get agreement on the background facts / statistics / theories, then we are free to discuss them and come up with (perhaps) some new interpretation or master theory. If we spend all the time arguing what Calvanism is -- for example -- then we don't actually get to the interesting philosophical stuff. Feel free to call me on any reference, that's why I put them there (and why it takes me so long to compile responses ... I'm checking the references to make sure they are good enough). :cool: Apologies, it was late and I forgot to add a (") emoticon to that quip about God and The Force. Yes you are quite correct -- my bad, no offence meant. :"> MU: great link, thanks! (Who are you calling a cowherd? ) Nice hosing down of the Western Philospohical obsession with deconstructionalism; :D I shall indeed meditate to selflessness to feel the disapearance of the "I", and attempt to become one with The Force. But, as well, I cannot in good conscience cease my Western analysis, either, as my Left Hemisphere of Logic hungers too. (And it kind of kills the thread, too. Sort of like a metaphysical Shoe company saying "Just Be It". " ) Excellent! (w00t) :cool:

Not quite what I was saying. The Force is merely a reflection of life. It is a BIG mirror. It wants the same thing life wants. Its only 'emotions' are those that life has. Its only patience is what life has, as well. [1.] The Force is am embodiment of all that is living. It isn't necessarily alive itself, but is a connection. Since it IS life, naturally it will act like it. [2.] If life stayed single celled, then the Force would have too. But Life went and got a brain, and discovered "Hey, if I run this through an old lady, then she dies! FEEL THE POWER! I can take away life!" and other such emotions and morals. The Force, being an embodiment of life, had to follow suite, and also developed a form of sentience, but it is only a mirror. It wants balance (because it is a more powerful reflection of nature). [3.] As for it guiding you: It will only follow along for the ride. It's more of a cause and effect thing; As you make choices, it 'determines' the eventual effects, and MAY (or may not) 'send' (via the Jedi) somebody to a critical point in the new timeline that was just created. BUT, there are THOUSANDS of MILLIONS of things like this going on, which is why only those that can also control the Force are likely the only ones that feel like they have a responsibility to preserve Balance and Peace. [4.] Now, ask a more-than-average person what their favorite state of being is. Most people (if they actually dig in deep; I've had a teacher that did something like this at one point) will say Peace. Anything else is turmoil, or another taxing state, and can be quite uncomfortable. Nature (all of it) naturally seeks this peace and tranquility, which is also the Force's goal. [5.] It's not good or evil, but a reflection of those that it touches. Each person can see it as something different, based on their personality (either something that can give you power: You'd be controlling the ONLY thing that ALL life has in common; or something that should be preserved and protected: once again, it's the ONLY thing that ALL life touches). [6.] I still think that you shouldn't believe Kreia's reason for hating the Force. It is likely that she blamed it, because her tormentors were (rather coincidentally, I might add) those touched by, and could control, it. Kreia was quite like Ca

... and then being miraculously saved by some young wannabe hopefuls, to become the greatest LightSide Jedi Master, ... oh, hang on, maybe that has been done before ...

(w00t) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Beware the Broderbund undead hunters! They shall sweep all away in their path, in their dark quest to make the ultimate cRPG adventure for the PC -- Frankenstien-like -- from Loderunner, Karateka, Ancient Art of War, The Mask of the Sun and Choplifter!. Shares in other publishers, such as LucasArts, have droped over 20% since the news was released. "

"Medic!"

Awesome (w00t) He might even be trained in the force by Yoda Q: Does he die in ep.3 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I suppose that would be a musical. :ph34r: A. We live in hope ... "

Yep, I concur with that. Lucas should listen to Dirty Harry and "know his limitations": farm out the dialogue to experts, and don't try to be too clever (pretending to be Shakespeare -- yes I heard the rhyming couplets at the end of the Acts in the NT). Reminds me particularly of the wince-inducing interpresonal-relationships and female character sketches in general drawn by a very young Isaac Asimov (in his early pulp sci-fiction short stories, c.1950). At least Asimov added editorial apologies in his collected works. Maybe it will be possible in the future to create a "SW Popular Cut" where the annoying characters (Binks, ewoks, muppets -- including the Gamorrans) are digitally remastered as believable digital characters and all the cheesey dialogue is replaced ... naw that wouldn't work. Incidentally, here's something to scare you all! :ph34r:

"We have no choice." "Step up to the fight. Take 'em down." "Complaints?" (as spoken by a clerk in the Complaints Department) "Is this the right room for an argument?"

---- 1. And we have seen, in the universe of SW, multiple beings trying to take ultimate power .. but thus being consumed by their own desire according to the well known quote of what power brings .. Is The Force involved? Who knows .. 2. Well Rasputin wasn

It's a misquote: "If you want a quote for your news buletin ... I have every desire to be famous for saying something stupid enough for you to mention my name," wrote "Obi Geewhyen" at the fan Web site Liningup.net. "I'm in it for the egomania only and don't give a darn about the idiocy of my lackluster, so-called 'Geek' brain." "

I'm...telepathetic!! No offense intended, in fact I think that game would actually be pretty fun...what? Don't you? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sort of like "civilization" ... or c-Diplomacy (wait, that wouldn't work unless it was multiplayer only ... dang!) :">