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Joystiq reports on an effort by fans of the Knights of the Old Republic series to actually finish the second game in the series, something developer Obsidian was unwilling or unable to do. The prodigious amount of deleted content towards the end of the game is being put back in, with more solid endings being offered for the diligent gameplayer. From the article: "You can check the Restoration Project web site for weekly updates as they near completion of a PC patch that should give fans a more complete KoTOR2 experience than the standalone retail edition. Team Gizka is also considering an Xbox patch, but a decision won't be made until after the PC update is released."
Link to actual restoration project websiteh (Score:5, Informative)
http://team-gizka.org/ [team-gizka.org]
I have been putting off playing KOTOR 2 for a long time waiting for them to actually release. Hopefully it'll be soon.
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There's at least one major plotline, however, which is frustratingly incomplete.
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haha!! (Score:1)
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Why is this even news? (Score:1)
I was as happy to hear about this project as anyone else, but I heard about it 4-6 months ago on wikipedia!
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Games we don't own, however, are fair game [ukresistance.co.uk].
Hot jabba mod. . . (Score:4, Funny)
If you haven't played, WAIT FOR THIS UPDATE! (Score:1)
I didn't wait, and ended up with the incredibly unsatisfying ending that KOTOR2 shipped with. Waiting will be worth it, trust me.
I don't know whether to be sad that today's companies ship unfinished games or happy that today's games seem to be designed with fan mods in mind.
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KOTOR2's updated influence/dialog model was pretty cool at least... if a KOTOR3
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Or not. Go go Gadget-gaming-apathy! You saved me from FFVII, Chrono Cross, and the entire series of Disgaea and the slew of similar-looking console games that I'm constantly confusing it with. I'm more partial these days to games that start up in four seconds, anyhow--like Cave Story.
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I was so excited about this too... (Score:1)
I bought KOTOR 2 pre-order. Played it through in 2 weeks or so after I got it. Great game until you reach the level of being about 85% through the game. Then it just goes to hell.
I was SO SO SO excited about this project. I figured 6 months or so, they'd release a patch "fixing" as much of the end game story as could be done. I checked back daily for a while, then weekly, then monthly...
While they talk a lot about progress, and show some screenshots, etc - there is no download available. Hell I'd
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Titles like Lego Star Wars cost less money to make, and sell more copies.
I sure hope Obsidian gets to finish what they started, but I'm not sure it will happen.
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Titles like Lego Star Wars cost less money to make, and sell more copies.
And the Lego SW games are Fun, as well. Someone should probably mention that.
There's nothing quite like busting Lego bricks with a lightsaber wielding Lego Jedi.
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The big difference is the accessibility of the gameplay and the polish of it. From things like the humour in the cutscenes (Stormtroopers giving each other noogies when you escape Mos Eisley!) to technical matters like supporting 16
KOTOR3 (Score:2, Funny)
Text KotOR3? Sign me up! (Score:4, Funny)
Bastila is here.
> kill Bastila
You kill Bastila.
You gain 2000 experience points.
You gain 30 Dark Side points.
You have gained a level!
Obsidian or LucasArts (Score:4, Interesting)
LucasArts was really hurting for money at the time. I'm not sure if anyone recalls, but LucasArts was folded, they closed shop and reopened in name within the ILM offices, but almost everyone was fired, and all their current projects (including KOTOR:3) were scrapped.
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Sure is a shame, too. I loved KOTOR2 so much more than KOTOR, but I tell my friends that if they play it, they might as well just quit when they get to the last planet. It's about as satisfying as actually playing the game, and it's act
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There was an entire planet and major plot cut from the game (the droid planet) but redoing all the art assets is no small feat.
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on choking and lightning (Score:1)
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No way dude! Light side for life, dog!
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Loved the mentat class, whatever was the force power main class. Force lightning group attack. Fotz! Fotz! Move on.
Couldn't stand the half-and-half class. Jack (well, Jill) of all trades, mistress of none, doesn't suit my minimax personality.
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Necessity of the prequel (slightly OT) (Score:1)
How necessary is playing through KOTOR1 to understanding what's happening in KOTOR2? I ask because I bought the PC version of KOTOR1, and was enjoying it immensely until some nasty bugs cropped up on the second planet in the game and made it impossible for me to play further (all attempts at reporting the bug or getting tech support went completely unanswere
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If so, make sure you have patch 1.03 and add Disable Vertex Buffer Objects = 1 under [Graphics Options] in the swkotor.ini file in the game root directory.
Worked like a charm for me (not sure where I read about it, and this was a year ago.. so I don't have a URL for you) -- the only other major bug I can think of is that God-awful corruption/crash when you go to save (inclu
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Yeah, I couldn't believe it myself when I found out HK-47's brain would, 4000 years later, be used by Anakin for 3PO's brain. I was like FTW!
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I might have to buy this now ... finally (Score:1)
I was kind of a noob to RPGs at the time that KOTOR1 was released, so I didn't buy it right away. I had been playing Diablo 2 for years, had played some BG2 and a little bit of old school D&D, but had never really finished a real RPG (I hadn't finished BG2 at the time). Then, a friend came to me absolutely gushing about KOTOR1. To him, it was the best game ever, combining RPG and action elements in a way that no other game had done.
For me, KOTOR1 was a great game because it opened the gates of RP
I was actually about to replay it anyway... (Score:2)
So frustrating, because it was a genuinely enthralling game - right up until the final world, when it all fell apart and offered up a feeble 'was that it?' ending. Yet another example, along with Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness, of why games and quarterly earnings targets just don't mix.
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No wonder KOTOR 2 was released early (Score:1)