Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Comments by Kieron Gillen
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The fun of an RPG, isn't being able to do new stuff, but improving the odds of doing something (many times revealing new and more powerfull stuff).
Pratical example while in FPS you'll be rewarded by your advance with a new powerfull weapon, in a RPG, you'll get a new skill, which will let you for example do an enraged attack with lesser odds of connecting than a normal attack. Yes, you don't control the odds, but you control the strategic selection of the abilities (both in getting new skills, and using them in battlefields). This translates to a more strategic factor, which you don't seem to favor, given you compare it to RTSs. (might I had, RTSs offer plenty of strategy and few randomness. A plane fighter might be a powerfull weapon, but if it gets in the reach of a Flak cannon, it'll be easly taken down. A Flak cannon which is weak versus normal tanks, which in turn are probably weak versus airplanes. Strategy, see?) I like strategy alot :D I also dislike regular FFs (I like the story, bt not the gameplay). FFTA for GBA, is a jewel though :) |
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Most important thing here: they don't assume console players are dumb and want less than their PC-equipped friends.
Finally! Someone realises that owning a console doesn't mean you want a watered-down, mass-market, arcade-action version of the game. Everyone else - take note. Ya buggers. If I had an Xbox I would get this. No question. It looks brilloid. |
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Pac-man ate my wife
12/09/03 @ 13:49
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Blimey, this might be the first game I play on my Xbox since Halo...
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After wiping the dust off the XBox, and remembering how to turn the thing on, removed Halo from it and spent a few hours on this last night....till 2 am....
Plus a card game I can understand, and win! I always shudder at the thoughtof them, after FFVIII, where I used to just throw cards down at random.... Tried to persuade my wife to spend another night away on business tonight, but she wasn't having it. The minute Gardeners World starts, I can nip off, using my "pish tv " excuse! |
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just spent the last 3 hours playing it, and two last night. Compleatly outstanding...allthough i did notice a few jaggies (on xbox...eh?) but gameplay is spot on, voices are great, and i feel as though im actually going to be drawn in to actually care for the characters and what happens to them. Only two other games have ever done this for me, Zelda - Ocarina of time and the 1st metal gear, yes thats right...no blummin magic land dizzy :). oh and maybes ico, allthough i didnt play it loads, my m8 stole it off me.
top top game...and about bloody time too. |
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tbh, its a strong rpg, with a decent story line, and very strong rpg elemnets, weather it be set in starwars land or not. Lightsaber is just like a magic sword in the likes of nwn, and the force powers are basically magician skills from nwn...fan of rpgs, fan of starwars...either will like it in my opinion. Thankfully, im a fan of both.
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gamesb*tch
12/09/03 @ 14:56
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LOL... this is from the same guy who's mag puts Vice City at the top of the 100 PC games of all time... LOL
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BremXJones
12/09/03 @ 15:09
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Long time reader, first time writer. Love the show!
K.A.G. "Whos this Kieron Gillen reviewer bloke? Is it the same guy was or maybe still" Got to Deputy Editor, then quit to become a freelance writer. Blerk: "Finally! Someone realises that owning a console doesn't mean you want a watered-down, mass-market, arcade-action version of the game. Everyone else - take note. Ya buggers." I agree totally. Hopefully Bioware have started something interesting. KG |
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Yeah my gf objects so I play on my gba sp golden sun 2 after 12 o'clock (when she's already asleep) - which is a killer the next day.
By the way, I don't get it: what happens when some character is touched or hit with a light sabre? How did the developers dealt with that: the character should loose a leg or some other organs, and not just health... |
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BremXJones
I thought i recognised your mug shot from all the crazy photochopping your head onto games characters used in the mag. Recognised your nick from the CS antics back in the day too. Either that or i secretly stalk you through the wonders of the internet.
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incidentally, what kind of PC is one going to need to run this?
An average one, stuffed inside a black box, with naff stylings and a big green X. As for FVIII cards, maybe I should have persevered! Looking back I am sure I tried a few times....I may have even read the instructions. BTW, does anyone know why sometimes on KOTOR you enter an area, there is a wee noise, and your character face bit at the bottom RHS of the screen has a big arrow on it? Couldn't find it in the instructions, don't recall it being mentoned in the game. Both my guys had it on last night (this morning!) when I saved. |
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"Whos this Kieron Gillen reviewer bloke? Is it the same guy was or maybe still is Editor of PC Gamer???"
He's only a former JOTY and the best darn thing that ever happened to PCG, his departure from the mag taking with it all the character that PCG once had. Fortunately for the mag, he still contributes now and then. Great to see his quality journalism spreading to games websites I frequent! :D (Not that there's owt at all wrong with Mugs, krud, mouse, etc.!) [Edit: Yep Kieron, I'm Sam, if you remember me. Allo! :o) ]
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