Just finished MOTB

[Purkake]

After KotOR II, anything resembling an ending is a job well done from Obsidian

[Oner]

I prefer KotOR II's ending over I's.

[Raithe]

I prefer KotOR II's ending over I's.

 

Kotor I was interesting in that the "Dark Side" ending was very much more cinematic, star wars feel to it then the "Light Side" ...

Maybe it was just me, but the "Light Side" win just felt.. sort of anti-climatic.

[Oner]

Anti-climactic is an understatement.

[Walsingham]

NOthing outranks the anti-climactic nature of the ending of Fallout 3.

Especially if you have a radiation-proof assistant.

[HoonDing]

Story & characters aside, MOTB's combat is disappointing. Just letting Gann & Kaelyn spam high level druid/cleric spells is enough to easily win every fight. Or just putting Okku in front and have a Kit-Kat. I only lost a fight when I entered the Vault of Myrkul too early & unprepared.

 

SoZ's combat required some tactics here and there, and like in BG if you entered some areas too early you'd get clobbered. Especially the end fight required some good tactics in order to win.

[ramza]

I have started playing SoZ and am already in the middle of Act I. The game is really inferior to MotB, and even the OC. I know it's not about the story or the dialogue, but more about the exploration and the micro-economical management, but I feel I already feel I am not going to like this expansion.

 

I like the fact that you can change party members during dialogue so as to make the most of each skill, but I really dislike the overland map. It reminds me too much of Final Fantasy and I prefer the old-school exploration system.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I prefer KotOR II's ending over I's.

I preferred everything in KotOR 2 over 1.

 

More feats and force powers, more ways to approach situations, much better choices an consequences, better writing, better characters (HK factory is just an awesome moment), etc... Also KotOR 1 is surprisingly a terrible PC port and has crashed three times as much as KotOR 2 so far, and I'm not even halfway through the game.

 

The problem is KotOR 2 is only really great if you have the restored content, which I tried and it frankly adds a lot to the ending.

[Raithe]

I prefer KotOR II's ending over I's.

I preferred everything in KotOR 2 over 1.

 

More feats and force powers, more ways to approach situations, much better choices an consequences, better writing, better characters (HK factory is just an awesome moment), etc... Also KotOR 1 is surprisingly a terrible PC port and has crashed three times as much as KotOR 2 so far, and I'm not even halfway through the game.

 

The problem is KotOR 2 is only really great if you have the restored content, which I tried and it frankly adds a lot to the ending.

 

The HK Factory? I didn't think the sith lords restoration project had wrapped up and released that stuff yet.. or did you get access to it via some place else? I wasn't sure on who else was trying to restore the content that hadn't been technically finished...

[Pope]

How are they doing with TSL Restoration Project btw? I was planning to replay KotOR2 once that was finished, but I haven't been keeping an eye on it.

[213374U]

http://www.deadlystream.com/forumdisplay.php?f=123

 

^ TSLRCM. Those guys release stuff first, build hype later.

[Nepenthe]

http://www.deadlystream.com/forumdisplay.php?f=123

 

^ TSLRCM. Those guys release stuff first, build hype later.

 

 

I know what I'm doing next week. Thanks for the linkage.

[Oner]

I prefer KotOR II's ending over I's.

I preferred everything in KotOR 2 over 1.

 

More feats and force powers, more ways to approach situations, much better choices an consequences, better writing, better characters (HK factory is just an awesome moment), etc... Also KotOR 1 is surprisingly a terrible PC port and has crashed three times as much as KotOR 2 so far, and I'm not even halfway through the game.

 

The problem is KotOR 2 is only really great if you have the restored content, which I tried and it frankly adds a lot to the ending.

And no rak'ghouls. /facepalm

Do you have an ASUS card? They didn't make the game compatible with it's drivers or something and that caused crashes.

Edited October 25, 2009 by Oner

[Walsingham]

I have started playing SoZ and am already in the middle of Act I. The game is really inferior to MotB, and even the OC. I know it's not about the story or the dialogue, but more about the exploration and the micro-economical management, but I feel I already feel I am not going to like this expansion.

 

I like the fact that you can change party members during dialogue so as to make the most of each skill, but I really dislike the overland map. It reminds me too much of Final Fantasy and I prefer the old-school exploration system.

 

 

I think it's only reallly showing its stuff if you multi=player it. Bickering on teamspeak [a separate voice sharing program] adds even more fun. It's almost like tabletopping.

 

Of course, we had 'yackety sax' going in the fight scenes.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I prefer KotOR II's ending over I's.

I preferred everything in KotOR 2 over 1.

 

More feats and force powers, more ways to approach situations, much better choices an consequences, better writing, better characters (HK factory is just an awesome moment), etc... Also KotOR 1 is surprisingly a terrible PC port and has crashed three times as much as KotOR 2 so far, and I'm not even halfway through the game.

 

The problem is KotOR 2 is only really great if you have the restored content, which I tried and it frankly adds a lot to the ending.

And no rak'ghouls. /facepalm

Do you have an ASUS card? They didn't make the game compatible with it's drivers or something and that caused crashes.

EVGA GTX260. In any case, if it wasn't for the crashes, the UI still sucks compared to K2's. Also it doesn't support widescreen at all since the UI doesn't scale and overall it just feels like a bad Xbox port while K2 feels like a bad PC port on the Xbox.

[HoonDing]

KOTOR runs worse than KOTOR 2 on Vista for me. It tends to crash every five minutes sometimes. On XP, though, it's a no-brainer.

 

The HK factory in the restored content has great dialogue, but the gameplay itself is horrible there. Shooting thousands of HK-50s in RTwP. Yey.

Edited October 25, 2009 by virumor

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Get a good droid killing blaster or rifle and it becomes a lot less frustrating. Heck, I kept getting 130 damage shots, it was awesome.

 

Now if only the enemies weren't so ridiculously long to kill...

[Wrath of Dagon]

MotB is more mediocre than the OC. The story is written well, but promises a lot more than it delivers. The plot is basically just advancing through portals,

the whole thing could be short circuited if Safia's mother just thought to pass along the sword of the Gith to you, and then you asked Kalemvore nicely for your soul back

The quests are uninteresting and mostly filler, there are tons of boring filler combat, there are a couple of good dialogs and that's about it. I realize I'm being a little unfair since I only played the good path, while it appears the evil one was a lot better.

[Purkake]

Go play evil instead of complaining here. Go Now!

 

Only pansies suppress the awesomest ability ever. Actually destroying someone's soul is really damn hard in DnD, BTW.

Edited October 26, 2009 by Purkake

[Wrath of Dagon]

I play extremely slow, so any kind of a timer is a big problem for me. I actually had the Spirit Meter disabled most of the time.

[Volourn]

MOTB > SOZ

[Purkake]

I play extremely slow, so any kind of a timer is a big problem for me. I actually had the Spirit Meter disabled most of the time.

Use the handy pause function or disable it this time around as well?

 

MOTB > SOZ

That's like saying that eating a cake is better than eating mud. Try harder

Edited October 26, 2009 by Purkake

[HoonDing]

Only pansies suppress the awesomest ability ever.

I don't like role-playing as Elric of Melnibon

[Purkake]

Only pansies suppress the awesomest ability ever.

I don't like role-playing as Elric of Melnibon

[HoonDing]

"You fiend!"

 

Strangely enough, I didn't mind the constant need to soul-sucking in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. But that's because it was never a problem with the constant barrage of enemies thrown at you. In MOTB there are large areas without any soul available... and if you've gone chaotic evil and been sucking every available spirit in the game, increasing your hunger to the max, it means you're pretty much screwed until the next [Devour Spirit] dialogue option.

 

Of course, it hardly matters since your henchmen can solo the game anyway.

Edited October 26, 2009 by virumor