the proctophantasmist

good news about not behing forced to play first. That said I must say I am not enthused about pazaak either. I really can't understand how you can praise this game for its strategical qualities. It is a money game ; just like for its inspirarion, blackjack, the thrill, if there is any, comes from the gambling, not from the actual play. Ever heard of someone playing blackjack without any money involved? I haven't, at least no one sane. For various reasons it doesn't translate very well in a video game. I wouldn't play blackjack because I have better things to do with my money, and I'm not very much into pazaak because I don't really care about loosing pixel-money, espeacially when I can reload. Things would be made much better if the game was used in side-quests, but in my mind this only reinforce what I think, in and of itself, pazaak is not a captivating game. I'd much prefer something like this (canasta makes for fun two player card games I think, and this version is very good and fast paced) : http://www.pagat.com/invented/manzana.html OK the AI might be slightly more complicated So instead why not this :D : http://www.shogi.net/shogi.html (with this one at least I'd be pretty sure to beat whatever you can come up with)

There is a difference between having no story and having a bad one... I'll let you decide in which category falls Pong. Where in the hell have you seen that the final fantasy games had good stories? I didn

Considering what I said of the reasons behind the admiration the Mandalorians give to Revan, I deserved that one. I thought you were talking about

I'm not saying you are wrong, but would you care to give me an example?

Sojiro Seta, I

He fought in such a way to win the admiration of the Mandalorian, which probably means in his view the end justified the means. You can fight with the "good guys" and still be a criminal of war you know... If you win, no one is going to bother you about it anyway, at least no one that counts. Someone would have noticed the rampaging fleet of destruction though. In the end it comes down to that: he must have done something to earn that flashy title of Dark Lord of the Sith, or else you might as well call him the Reincarnation of Gandhi. In particular he has led an army that appears to routinely commit large scale massacres. Don

I remember Zalbar(?) saying something like that. I purposely ignored it since I have mixed feelings about it :-D . I understand it makes Carth

Beware if you haven't finished KOTOR, huge spoiler ahead, don't read. I think Carth had an important part to play in the story, at least for the LS version - haven't played DS yet, considering who you are really playing. There had to be someone to remind you of the burden of your past actions. It gives the hero his/her tragic dimension. You know: Are you responsible for monstrous actions you don't remember committing? and all that... Whether that should have been one of your companions or not is open to debate. I feel the ending is a bit rushed on this point. Carth talks about it, but that is all he does, and eventually he recovers rather easily from the shock, and doesn't seem too bothered to go alongside the person responsible for the death of his wife. Something more confrontational, with different outcomes depending on how you handled it, would have been better I think. Similarly you are acclaimed as a hero in the final cinematic, with no mitigating factor. This evacuates all the ambivalence that constitutes the interest of the scenario I think. At the end of the day you stopped a big menace