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Posted in: The trailer has confirmed my fears
  toms
05-15-2003, 1:24 PM
#32
What does this mean? It means saber combat where I KNOW WHATS HAPPENING, I'am in charge of every swing movement and reflex, skillful fighting. Retain your weapons and your fast movement, but consider that. don't worry smood... at least i know what...  [Read More]
Posted in: Look closer at the "non-linear progression system"
  toms
04-30-2003, 3:42 PM
#13
although the plot in deus ex had to be linear (but they did do a VERY good job of disguising it with little differences based on how you played (characters you saved appearing later etc...) and the dialogue reflecting your actions). The levels howev...  [Read More]
Posted in: Woah... TRIGUN IS AWESOME!!!
  toms
05-30-2003, 1:42 PM
#157
how does trigun compare to Neon Genesis Evangelion? Cos that is about the only anime series i have seen and i thought it was awesome? Does it have a decent plot and characterisations like NGE, or is it one of those anime deals that is just OTT sex an...  [Read More]
Posted in: Raven, Please Do Your EU Research
  toms
04-14-2003, 12:19 PM
#31
this may be totally wrong, but i remember hearing somewhere that they basically got a load of authors together and mapped out the very rough outline of the EU right at the start... then george approved it. From then on all the authors have pretty m...  [Read More]
Posted in: UK PC Gamer
  toms
04-14-2003, 11:54 AM
#48
well, sounds like a mix of good and bad news. Picking weapon loadouts sounds cool (glad i suggested it :D ) Dumping stealth is probaly a good thing since they can't be bothered to do it properly. More non-linear levels is good, dumping puzzles i...  [Read More]
Posted in: New Force Powers?
  toms
04-09-2003, 1:37 PM
#11
i'd like a decent JK style force throw... maybe where you targeted a box and pressed the button, then targeted an enemy and released it... sending the box flying at them. Smashing up crates would provide more ammo. A decent force sight... allowin...  [Read More]
Posted in: civilian npcs
  toms
04-11-2003, 12:31 PM
#11
or just mid trick them and get them to hand over the security pass. "you DON'T WANT that security pass, do you?" :D...  [Read More]
Posted in: civilian npcs
  toms
04-09-2003, 1:27 PM
#9
other npcs in military bases would add to the stealth element as well... you couldn't kill them (unless you wanted to decend to the dark side) so you will have to find other ways to stop them running off and sounding the alarm... (stun batton, avoida...  [Read More]
Posted in: Force Powers in SP
  toms
04-30-2003, 3:30 PM
#19
i realise they should be weak... but it did get a bit silly... run into a room of stormtroopers, use force pull and the watch them run around like fools with no weapons... im not saying they should turn down the powers, more that they should turn up...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rancor problem-any answers?
  toms
04-09-2003, 1:46 PM
#20
it would be nice if they made it a section where there were several options to "kill" it. You could do it with your saber... but it should be hard, with only one or two vunerable points so you have to time and aim your attacks correctly....  [Read More]
Posted in: Saber blocking, manual, or automatic?
  toms
04-11-2003, 12:28 PM
#84
what you need to do is make repeated blocking more difficult. Have either a minimum time between blocks that goes up with repeated blocks, or a percentage chance of blocking that goes down with repeated blocks. This would reset slowly over time when...  [Read More]
Posted in: Saber blocking, manual, or automatic?
  toms
04-09-2003, 1:28 PM
#65
saber throw on the second mouse button did get a bit OTT didnt it? :D making the second button a counterattack/reversal button would be better than making a manual block. HOlding it would just attempt to block... but pressing it at the right time w...  [Read More]
Posted in: Saber blocking, manual, or automatic?
  toms
04-08-2003, 2:13 PM
#53
the problem (from my very limited experience of JK2) was that the blocking animation was so short.... meaning you could block anything that flew at you. in JK (which wasn't perfect either) at least the blocking animation took a few frames, so if yo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you want to fight Imperials in JA??
  toms
04-09-2003, 1:10 PM
#51
they got a bit repetetive in JK2, but i still think that the more enemies as we can get fron the movies the more it feels like "real starwars". in JA I'd like to see: snowtroopers. :snow: speeder troopers :speeder: royal guards. :guard: n...  [Read More]
Posted in: thoughts
  toms
04-14-2003, 12:45 PM
#9
or, in an alternate form of parallelisation (sp?): people have been calling for ages for a JK2:JA style game where you get to make your own bounty hunter and select cool weapons, armour etc... and select your missions. This game would rule! So, spl...  [Read More]
Posted in: Kyle - are you gonna miss him?
  toms
04-09-2003, 1:16 PM
#46
hmmm.. there doesn't seem to be any way to bring him back as the player character when they do make JK3... unless they go for the alternate JK ending. If I had to pick an alternate character to play in JK3 it would be Aurra Sing... it would be nice...  [Read More]
Posted in: Kyle - are you gonna miss him?
  toms
04-08-2003, 11:57 AM
#34
He reached his peak in MotS... and became quite an interesting character. A jedi who had fallen to the dark side, but then come back. (And he got to wear black, always cooler). Unfortunately they pretty much dumped these cool aspects from his chara...  [Read More]
Posted in: MP vs SP
  toms
04-08-2003, 2:12 PM
#33
grrrr... lost my reply. SP cos i like a story to my games and my connection sucks. I might try MP if i absolutely love a game, want more of it and can be bothered making it run smoothly and learning the "scene". unfortunately jk2 wasn't...  [Read More]
Posted in: Location! Location!
  toms
05-14-2003, 2:20 PM
#96
that devastated town in DF was excellent... with all the charred corpses lying around and burnt out buildings. Somehow it managed to capture exactly the look when luke's farm gets destroyed and you see the skeletons of his relations.... pretty impre...  [Read More]
Posted in: Location! Location!
  toms
04-14-2003, 12:30 PM
#28
Hoth was the one i realy wanted (i hope they make it like the ICE levels in DF, they ruled). Also lots of opportunity for using sabers to drop icicles, colapse ice bridges etc... I really liked the Red Pallette on the gas mining level from DF too....  [Read More]
Posted in: Bring Back The Imperial Commandos
  toms
06-03-2003, 1:51 PM
#22
sounds like a good idea to me. shouldn't these guys be weaker that stormies though? but maybe faster. Personally i wish they would start setting games a bit further back. By continually adding 10 years between each game they have pushed it so far ou...  [Read More]
Posted in: Space combat among other things...
  toms
06-04-2003, 1:56 PM
#25
didn't Alleigence allow one player to RTS and give commands to the other players who were actually flying the units... that game looked cool, though im not sure it is still going. i still think that until lucasarts can start doing ONE genre right t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Space combat among other things...
  toms
06-03-2003, 2:03 PM
#17
i love space combat... but unfortunately you would almost certainly get something with terrible, FPS-like physics which actually felt more like you were FPSing in space (Freelancer anyone?) than something that felt like a proper space sim. Very few...  [Read More]
Posted in: Concussion confirmation? in Elecplay Preview
  toms
06-04-2003, 2:19 PM
#28
I always thought they should get rid of that secondary fire.... the main danger of the conc (at least to me:D ) was that if the enemy charged you you tended to blow yourself up as well. but giving it a secondary fire without an area effect negated t...  [Read More]
Posted in: <GuNs>
  toms
06-04-2003, 1:13 PM
#95
Originally posted by babywax Why would you race into an army with a gun, when you can have something that enables you to block all of their bullets, not only shielding you, but reflecting their bullets back into them? ;) i think in that situation...  [Read More]
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