Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

Oh, I did not know there was a HK-51 droid in SWTOR. Hope it's as funny as its ancestor.

Oh, one more thing

If you have the time, I strongly recommend you put down the game and first read the novel "Star Wars the Old Republic: Revan"

I've read that fans have mixed feelings about this book.  Then again I heard the same thing about SWTOR.  Though I never read the book I do know what they did to my beloved Exile.  Anyone who knows me knows that KOTOR 2 is my favorite Star Wars game and that I preferred the Exile over Revan.  So when I read what they did to her.  It turned me off.  My main beef was that Chris Avellone respected Revan and made him better in KOTOR 2.  Drew Karpyshyn never played KOTOR 2, so he did not give the Exile the same respect.  BUT!!!  Like I said I also read mixed reviews on SWTOR and I am enjoying the game.  So I will check out the book.

I agree I think what DoctorDAM meant by referring the novel was to use it as background lore.  To be honest I don't know what happens to Revan after KOTOR, I do know what happens to the Exile because I remember the uproar from TSL fans.  So I will read the novel just to find out what happened to Revan and their companions like Canderous or Bastila.

It's alright if you don't like the game many prefer the original. I just preferred the Exile's more personal story. As for Kreia I like her but I find it has to do more with the quality of her voice acting. But I can see how some may not like her. Yes, as a TSL fan we are left wondering what could have been if the game had been given more time. I use the restoration mod but it does not add everything like Bao Dur's death. But yeah I don't wish you or @jolt any ill will.

DoctorDAM I checked the book out on amazon their selling with three other books apart of the SWTOR timeline for a reasonable price. I bought the bundle. But I will start reading the Revan novel after I finish Tatooine with my Jedi Knight. Oh I forgot to mention this my favorite era in Star Wars is the Old Republic era. Has been since I first read the Tales of the Jedi comics when I was a teen back in the 90's.

I think Kotor 2 was more of a product of its time. They never did explain the fate of Juhani, Jolee, Zaalbar, and Mission either even in the EU. 

I wonder if EA will ever capitalize on the original "Clone wars era Old Republic" pitch set during Episode 2-3? I'm over Swtor's amazing CGI trailers and then being let down by the potato face wow-clone shit at this point when there are no real technical reasons why SWTOR cannot look like that with current gen tools and hardware if they started on a new MMO. Hell Even ME3 more closely resembled its own CGI trailers and there was no such drastic bait & switch in its art style.

Geonosis being the only planet would be boring so it would be nice to revisit Rhen Var, Jabiim, Saleucami with the 91st recon, and other classic planets again as a new force sensitive character since Anakin/Darth Vader is not the omnipotent marvel super hero that Disney painted them out to be extremely aggressively early on in the Dark Times.

Its hard to really care about Swtor's story at all when its clear they tried to combine mass effect's barebone 3 dialog "choices" system into a game series that is all about having 8 or more possible lines of readable conversation per npc and then all they do is awkwardly stand around and flap their gums and are even sometimes in the wrong place running to where they need to be to talk in the cutscene in the entirety of the basegame. This can be seen consistently during one of the Tatooine heroics where the boss does a dorky run up the ramp before catching up with his guys and confronting you.   

The Zakool dudes fanfiction club expansion tried to rectify that with some success but they gave up shortly into the venture. There are bits and pieces of the Kotor-dialogue that are still used to this day even in the current onslaught expansions, but its used sparingly while they did consistently try to make the characters seem more alive and actually at least be animated during story segments. Malgus was the most notable improvement other than going back to his default pose every time he shakes his fist angrily at you during one of the flashpoints that don't exist because they were not fun to play more than once. This game is "hammer station" simulator for good reason. 

Was cool to glitch the game and turn that expansion into a co-op campaign. The walker segment was super broken and could sometimes see unused areas off in the distance as anyone who isnt the host/party leader can just walk through level load triggers and not set them off.

There were some things that she said I was skeptical with. For example the lethality of her and the Exile's Force bond. Many of the Jedi Masters all say that such a bond is not possible. By that I mean a bond that if the Master dies the student dies. I think she was using that as an excuse to control the Exile. I also think she lost her duel with Darth Sion on the Harbinger on purpose. Just my theories.

That's true I did not consider that. I guess you do have a point when you say she was the most honest antagonist ever then. The beast riders analogy is a good one when describing Kreia's lesson to Darth Sion and the Exile.

Yeah, the Revan and Darth Malgus are the ones that peaked my interest. Hopefully tomorrow the delivery guy will bring them to the right house. Oh in SWTOR I finished Tatooine. Czerka was trying to uncover an ancient device which turned out to be a prison for a Rakatan known as The One. After a brief fight my Jedi Knight destroyed the device and killed the leader of Czerka on Tatooine.

DoctorDAM Czerka is the planet story for both faction on Tatooine.