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Solo4114

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Posted in: Confirmed Demo!!!!!!!!!!! (NOT for download yet, sorry)
  Solo4114
07-17-2003, 8:36 PM
#15
Well, then we can hope that they'll release one to US before they release the game. You'd think they'd learn from the mistakes of last time......  [Read More]
Posted in: Confirmed Demo!!!!!!!!!!! (NOT for download yet, sorry)
  Solo4114
07-17-2003, 2:44 PM
#12
The SMART move would be to release a demo BEFORE the game is actually in the stores so that players can give feedback and Raven/LEC can see where the pitfalls are that they missed. I never understood why it took them so damn long to release a demo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Whats left??
  Solo4114
07-18-2003, 3:51 PM
#30
Originally posted by txa1265 Very true ... and that has implications down the road. Say you hold off buying a game for economic reasons, deciding to wait until the spring. Depending on the reviews, and what else comes along, you might never get it -...  [Read More]
Posted in: Whats left??
  Solo4114
07-18-2003, 11:59 AM
#27
Originally posted by txa1265 And Solo4114 - are those US$ you're talking? I've assumed $50 + 5% MA sales tax (unless I go home via 'tax free' Nashua NH ...) or almost $60 per game. Based on that your $120 becomes $240, or >$300 for my list for th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Whats left??
  Solo4114
07-17-2003, 8:54 PM
#18
I actually know very little about Doom3 aside from the fact that my system probably can't run it without a major upgrade in my video card. I've never been terribly impressed by Id's single player games, although I hear Doom3 will be entirely single p...  [Read More]
Posted in: Whats left??
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 3:17 PM
#6
Yeah, I can see the testing phase taking a while, and thank god for it. I say take all the time you need and GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. Hell, I'd be perfectly happy waiting 'til X-mas '03 for a good quality game that had been thoroughly tested and...  [Read More]
Posted in: How do we level-up Force powers in JA?
  Solo4114
07-18-2003, 3:21 PM
#29
Exactly. Or something that made the bowcaster and the DEMP, oh, I don't know...useful? :) I can't believe the DEMP is coming back. Unless we're faced with some serious mechanical badguys, that gun just took up space in the game where a cooler gun cou...  [Read More]
Posted in: How do we level-up Force powers in JA?
  Solo4114
07-18-2003, 12:07 PM
#27
Originally posted by txa1265 Back on topic - one of my sons got the 'Star Wars Epic Duels' board game for Christmas, and it has 'special' cards for attack/defense which were about aim and power and movement and such ... and got me thinking. It would...  [Read More]
Posted in: How do we level-up Force powers in JA?
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 3:21 PM
#18
Yeah, JO definitely subscribed to the same style of game design with ever increasing guns/powers the higher your levels go. And yes, when you were finally adept in the force, you didn't need the guns at all (which I thought was kind of cool). Be that...  [Read More]
Posted in: How do we level-up Force powers in JA?
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 12:14 PM
#15
Originally posted by txa1265 I'm just hoping that DeusEx2 and JA signal the return to the open-ness of DeusEx1 and JK1 ... the whole 'Q3-Engine Era' has seemed to be about games that are very graphically nice and realistic with great sound and contr...  [Read More]
Posted in: How do we level-up Force powers in JA?
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 11:18 AM
#7
Actually, I always thought it'd be better if you rewarded not just finding secrets, but playing a particular role once you have the ability to choose light or dark side. Assuming you're a student at the academy, you're presumably going to be picking...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-18-2003, 3:23 PM
#54
Good catch. :) Yeah, it's been about gameplay and such so far, but personally, I don't mind debating the pros and cons of the NJO in general and not tied to gameplay concerns. I'd be curious to hear if anyone can offer ideas on how an opponent like...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-17-2003, 12:16 PM
#52
Yeah, I'd be cool continuing this discussion in the Swamp section (especially since it'd give me a reason to go in there -- I actually have never been there). We really have kind of gone off track. Or we could just start up a new thread on the Vong i...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 3:58 PM
#48
Yeah, the Vong just don't have the Star Wars feel. Other stories/series have come up against the same problem of stagnation in storylines and have found ways to bring in the big badasses from beyond, but they've done so much more successfully than...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 11:47 AM
#44
Originally posted by Anakin1607 Did you or did you not read the half dozen forcepowers I posted that are still very effective against the Vong? The Vong don't stop the Jedi from USING the force. It's just they can't be SENSED. An ambush for example,...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 1:50 AM
#39
Yeah, good point. The Dark Horse comics stories which originally developed the time period in which KOTOR takes place did a good job of taking the Star Wars universe in a new direction, while maintaining the spirit and feel of the universe. I would...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-16-2003, 12:43 AM
#36
Well, the explanation for some of the technology may come from the Star Wars EU, but I still think that the more important issue is that the Vong seem (at least to me, and only in theory, since I haven't read any NJO books) to depart too much from th...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-15-2003, 3:36 PM
#33
You know, if Lucas ever did decide to make sequels to the original trilogy, he'd drop the NJO stuff in a heartbeat. It'd just have occurred "in an alternate universe" or something. Now, personally, I always thought that a sequel series wo...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-15-2003, 11:16 AM
#25
Originally posted by Anakin1607 "Now I hear that there's a new enemy, some biological, non-force enemy" Yup, "the Jedi are split into different camps" That was a temporary plot thread, they never actually split, it was an ide...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-14-2003, 4:05 PM
#21
Well, unless you're reading all the extra stuff they periodically unearth by Tolkien, you must be running out of material or rereading the same stuff over and over. PM me if you're looking for some other good sci-fi/fantasy series. I've read a bunch...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-14-2003, 1:48 PM
#19
Yeah, from what I heard, the Yuzhan-Vong thing IS pretty Star Trek and borg-esque. It just really seemed to get away from the true feeling of Star Wars. I recognize that they needed to come up with something fresh because the Empire was basically d...  [Read More]
Posted in: How will players deal with Yuuzhan Vong if the make an appearance??
  Solo4114
07-14-2003, 11:12 AM
#15
Oh god, please leave the Yuzhan Vong out of this. I stopped reading the SW EU books after the Black Fleet (or whatever it was) crisis took place because the books just had so little to do with the films I loved. Timothy Zahn's original three books we...  [Read More]
Posted in: New Force Drain in JA: Scored one for the whiners!
  Solo4114
07-11-2003, 12:32 PM
#41
Well, I see your point guys. Like I said, I left JO for good shortly after 1.04 came out precisely because all I saw were people using the force and executing uber-moves, or just spamming kick a lot. It got very VERY boring for me, precisely because...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sabers vs Blasters?
  Solo4114
07-14-2003, 11:15 AM
#31
Yeah, the lowered blocking of 1.02 was more suited towards CTF/FFA and the higher blocking of 1.03/04 to dueling. That's what separate operation of weapons for different game modes is a good thing. :) I'd still want SOME blocking in FFA/CTF, but you...  [Read More]
Posted in: Jedi Academy Mod for JK - JA!!!
  Solo4114
07-14-2003, 1:40 PM
#18
Well, I never really played this mod, so I can't say specifically. As far as the emote mods go, I don't really care about them, as long as I can find a good server that plays the way I want to play. Frankly, I don't have as much of a problem with t...  [Read More]
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