Star Wars Galaxies...

Oh yeah that is definately the way it's supposed to be AT, but that doesn't make it fun for me. I'm not interested in playing anything else other than a Jedi, so playing for months before I can even unlock a Padawan would be mind-numbingly boring. Also it's pretty wanky that you only get ten planets to play with, when Elite 2 and 3 on the old 16-Bit systems used to let you visit bloody thousands!

One out of a quarter-million? Ok, this game's not for me. I mean, it is a fair representation of the Star Wars Universe, as even at the height of the Jedi Order, there was perhaps one Jedi for every few billion sentient beings. However, it doesn't translate over to a game very well, if that's the sort of experience you're looking for. It's great if you want to role-play is the Star Wars setting, but like Jim, I'm more interested in the Jedi aspect.

I'm getting Jedi Academy after I upgrade my vid-card or it goes to console, whichever comes first, as I've heard good things. Jeff, is KOTOR really that good? If so, it may affect my choice as to which console to get. I'm leaning toward a GameCube, as they carry the Rogue Squadron titles that I like.

KOTOR is widely recognized as one of the best games to hit the XBOX ever, and it's certainly my nomination for the best. It's a really clever roleplaying game, with a remarkable variety of choices to make. It has a lot of replay value, I've played it through from beginning to end four times just to see how different things work out. The best part is how they've made the dark-side/light-side aspect work. The choices you make in the game, and there are many many choices, determine how light or dark you are, and in the end those choices can completely alter the ending of the game.

And if you go dark, be prepared to go VERY dark, they aren't kidding around:I was pretty shocked by how despicable it let me get 😉

And on that note, I felt, and I just read that it's a common reaction, actually a little twinge of guilt over some of the dark side choices I made. It's a VERY convincing game.

The sword combat is sweet too. I wouldn't go so far as to call it realistic, but it's visually stunning and interesting to watch, especially when there are a half-dozen jedi fighting a half-dozen sith, some with one saber, some with a double-bladed saber, and some with one saber in each hand. Sparks flying everywhere, the air hissing with energy, loud claps of colliding energy beams going off all around you. It's pretty compelling 🙂

Sounds good, but also sounds beyond my reach. I own a PC, a PS2 and a Gamecube. I'm not gonna buy an X-Box for one title, even if it is for a Star Wars game. I just don't have enough interest in multiple X-Box only titles. Shame really. Still, it's not all bad. As I said earlier I'm more interested in playing a Jedi in the NJO or EU timelines, rather than during the old Republic or as one of a scattered cabal during the Galactic Civil War. I think it's because that period of history hasn't been written yet. The timeline only goes up to a certain period during the war with the Yuhzan Vhong and then the history is a blank page.

Of course there's always the D20 books that deal with Star Wars RPG's after the fasion of D&D, but that presents several problems.
1/ The thieving bastards are charging £25 for each rulebook/gamebook/core description book. (That's nearly $40. Rip-off Britain eh?)
2/ If I can't find anyone within a hundred smegging miles who wants to play D&D, then I'm damn sure the even rarer SW RPG won't have any local players. Sadly it'a bit difficult to play that sort of thing over the net. Arse!

KOTOR is either available for the PC or due to be any day now, so no need to worry about the wrong console. I'm thinking about getting it myself actually, they added a new area for the PC release, and some new equipment.

I found the history in the game to be pretty interesting. It's mostly about the birth of the modern Sith. I'm not conversant in the general Star Wars timeline, but I read that Lucasarts gave the developers of the game a fairly free hand to design their story, because it takes place so far in the past from the perspective of the movies (4000 years back), and that the events of the game are officially part of the timeline.

Out on PC? That's good, I may just have a goosie gander then.

4000 years?!?!?!? Damn, but when they say Old Republic, they MEAN Old Republic!!!


That would mean of course that there would be many more than two Sith Lords at any one time. That particular stipulation was brought in by I think, Darth Bane, when he discovered that due to their dark side nature, multiple Siths were too busy murdering each other for the next step up the ladder to bother about piddly little things like whooping Jedi ass. After that the one master and one apprentice rule came in. There would be many Dark Jedi of course, as a Sith was a few ranks higher in the pecking order than a mere Dark Jedi. The bad guy in the first Jedi Knight game was a Dark Jedi called Jerec who served Palpatine as an underling.



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Given that Mark Hamill has made a career as a voice artist, it's always niggled me somewhat that he never voiced Luke Skywalker in any of this series of games. Hey they even managed to dig up Billy Dee Williams to voice Lando Calrissian for smeg's sake! Well I've just read that in a review on gamfaqs.com that Hamill provided the voice of Luke in the Jedi Academy game. Does anyone know if this is true?

looks like he did:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362179/

Why does it give two names for providing Luke's voice? Was Bob Bergen the guy who did it in Jedi Outcast? 😕


Thanks for that anyway Jeff. Amazing to see how old Hamill looks now. Carrie Fisher has aged a lot better than him. If they ever make films of the EU novels, Hamill is gonna need a shit-load of make-up. 😱

I didn't notice the other guy playing Luke too, maybe they used stock footage from the original movies and had to credit Hamill for that reason.

BigJim said:

That would mean of course that there would be many more than two Sith Lords at any one time. That particular stipulation was brought in by I think, Darth Bane, when he discovered that due to their dark side nature, multiple Siths were too busy murdering each other for the next step up the ladder to bother about piddly little things like whooping Jedi ass. After that the one master and one apprentice rule came in. There would be many Dark Jedi of course, as a Sith was a few ranks higher in the pecking order than a mere Dark Jedi.

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I wondered about this in the current movies being released, it seemed like there were three Sith for a while, but I guess really it's Darth Sidious and the former Darth Maul as the two Sith, and then Darth Christopher Lee is a simple Dark Jedi?

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I wondered about this in the current movies being released, it seemed like there were three Sith for a while, but I guess really it's Darth Sidious and the former Darth Maul as the two Sith, and then Darth Christopher Lee is a simple Dark Jedi?

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No, Chris Lee is a Sith alright. His title is Darth Tyranus. It's fair to say that he was simply an outcast from the Jedi until Palpatine needed a replacement for Maul after Obi-Wan made sushi out of him. After that Dooku rose above being a simple Dark Jedi and became a full blown Sith-lord.


I'm assuming of course that Dooku left the Jedi order before the events of Phantom Menace? Master Davey-Wan, answer that for me?