[SimeSublime]

Not to certain. I'll be over there tomorrow, so i'll get his stats then if I can remember.

[Jordan]

I've been flipping throught he instruction manuel for KOTOR. It seems to me that the Dark side is much more powerful and exciting than the Light side.

Is this done on purpose so that you will be tempted to go bad? If you go bad, do you lose the game?

Other than force heal, the Light side powers seem weaker and far less cool than the Dark side.

This post has been edited by Jordan: 03 August 2004 - 10:11 AM

[SimeSublime]

I checked with my friend. Turned out he was running it on his good computer, not the crappy one. As such, it was like 2.something GHz. He was under reccommended with video cards and RAM though, and it ran fine.

I find the sides rather balanced. I mostly used master speed, which both sides have, and stasis field(light) and insanity(dark) are about identical. The dark get lightning and death field, the light get destroy droid and heal. Both get force persuation, although light characters are better putting points into non-force persuade. I didn't bother with the other powers, so I can't really judge them. As far as I can see, as long as you go either full light or dark, its pretty even. If you try and go neutral though, you may get some troubles.

[Jordan]

He was under reccommended with video cards and RAM though, and it ran fine.

Thanks a lot. So CPU speed is important. That means I need a new mother board. Oh well. I'm looking to upgrading my ram from 256 to 512. I've also got my hands (almost) on a Geforce 2 vid card.

I think I'm going to go Light side. And if that fails then go dark. I wish you could customize the other characters.

[Helena]

I've been flipping throught he instruction manuel for KOTOR.  It seems to me that the Dark side is much more powerful and exciting than the Light side.

Is this done on purpose so that you will be tempted to go bad? If you go bad, do you lose the game?

Other than force heal, the Light side powers seem weaker and far less cool than the Dark side.

You can play through the game as either Dark Side or Light Side - there are two different endings depending on which one you choose. Like SimeSublime says, the Force powers are pretty well balanced - the Light Side focuses more on defensive powers, the Dark Side on offensive ones. But the Light Side also gets Force Heal and Destroy Droid, both of which are very useful.

[barend]

I really fluctuated over the corse of the whole thing...

[SimeSublime]

How did that work out? Especially earlier on, you don't seem to have a lot of force points, so I thought taking higher penalties would be quite crippling? But then again, my first character wore armour, so I can hardly speak.

[barend]

Chefelf, if your reading this...

i'm proud of this and would like to humbly request that this be put up somewhere of importance out side this message board, if you think it's worthy...

but here is my overview of KOTOR NPCs...

presenting...

[SimeSublime]

I quite liked, especially Salad Bar's name.

[Helena]

*claps*

[Lynxfox]

I had to buy more RAM just to get KotOR to run at above 800x600 resolution, but it was worth it. Best game EVER.

Taris does get a bit repetitive after a while, but it picks up again once you finally leave the planet. There's quite a lot of variety in the sidequests - you even get to act as a lawyer in a murder trial at one point! The story gets better too - there's a great plot twist in the middle of the game.

Of course, the best part is the dialogue - I would save before almost every conversation with my party members so that I could try out different responses. Too bad I was playing Light Side the whole time, because many of the nastier things you could say were incredibly funny. Make sure to try out different combinations of party members - they sometimes talk to each other as you wander around, and some of their conversations are absolutely hilarious.

I had to get a whole new system to get off Taris! My computer just couldn't handle the space battle sequence and it made me sad.

[Chefelf]

barend,

That's a very nice pic and a very good observation. However, I think I would have picked Salad Bar before Jumanji as a second alternate.

I think you should create a new thread for discussion of that pic! (Don't really know where to put it otherwise).

Lynxfox,

How's the new system and how are you enjoying the game??

[Slade]

I always use my favorite meatbag slayer (He's freakin' hilarious!) and either Bastila (Except now I can't [Really pissed me off not being able to {edited for spoilers}]) or Canderous. Also, it's fun being neutral. Force lightning/stasis for humans, destroy droid for droids. If you keep near the middle alignment (your flame background thingy is greyish) you don't get any penalties. However, the light side gets some sweet armor/lightsaber crystals.

Yes, Jordan, the game does try to get you to go dark side (normally it involves stealing from/killing lots of people) because you tend to have more money. Light side stuff is usually irritating, like paying off peoples debts for them instead of killing them and taking their bounty. Although you can get some decent cash as light side too. Just not as fast.

[barend]

I was going to start a new thread, but i thought it might be a bit much...

but while i was out just then, i found myself singing:
I'm to sexy for Manan
to sexy for Manan
Kashyyyk or Koriban

sorry, small things...

[Jordan]

I had to get a whole new system to get off Taris! My computer just couldn't handle the space battle sequence and it made me sad. 

This game is a nightmare. WTF? I'm selling it to my firend. I've had it with this shit. I was going to up grade the RAM and Vid card, but now i'm thinking screw it. People here complaining that the game did run, but failed later on because some levels are too tricked out.

I hate bioware. I'm sticking to blizzard entertainment. I was a fool to leave them in the first place, great games that can be run on a peice of shit from 2000.