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The original wasn't really all that buggy, atleast post-patches (which is how I played it). Bioware had nothing to do with II, outside of passing the game engine along to Obsidian. Obsidian's problem with that Microsoft and Lucasarts pushed the release date far before it was ready to go (and/or Obsidian set deadlines to get the job they could never meet).

I think originally the rumor got started when Bioware announced they were working on an MMO, and everyone hoped they would see a KotOR game. As far as I know, this is the first time a major gaming mag picked up the story, and within spitting distance of the 30th Anniversary.

Official launch dates for SWTOR: December 20, 2011 for North American, December 22, 2011 for Europe. I've stumbled across this report on several sites, but figured I'd throw up the one I found on TheForce.net. New Star Wars MMO in the works? 15:30, Apr 25th 2007 by Ben Parfitt Reports suggest BioWare is working on Knights of the Old Republic multiplayer online title. Widely celebrated as the best Star Wars game of recent years, rumours have emerged that RPG specialist BioWare is hard at work on an MMO version of its hugely popular Knights of the Old Republic franchise. CVG reports that the latest edition of US games print mag EGM includes the snippet in its Rumour section. No confirmation has been forthcoming from the developer as of yet, but were the game to emerge it would almost certainly be a sure-fire contender to better LucasArts’ previous MMO outing, the troubled Star Wars Galaxies. Knights of the Old Republic was a critical and commercial success upon its release on Xbox in 2003. Its fortunes were mirrored by an equally celebrated PC version shortly afterwards. Obsidian took over the reigns for the second instalment in 2005, which whilst failing to win over the critics was again another firm retail success. EGM also revealed a couple of other BioWare rumours. Namely, that current PC-only title Dragon Age will also be heading to PS3, and that the as-of-yet unspecified DS game already in development at the studio will be a new instalment in the Baldur’s Gate franchise.

Generally you want to have your RAM paired up, so you run in dual channel.

That's Super "Dimension" Fortress Macross, King.

Everything that is wrong with the Macross universe can be summed up in one lyric.

An Old Republic MMO done by another company would get my attention. Sure sure, I know, everybody is a Jedi, but think about the Mandalorians!

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Totally agree. I don't like any of the Force hocus-pocus stuff, either.

Yeah, you can't mix Robotech and Macross timelines. It simply doesn't work.

Except there was a Sith Academy. And Darth Traya, and considering the time line, Sion and Nihilus too. EU cannon, as it is, establishes Bane as the one who set down the rule of two. Otherwise, we end up with what we saw in the Old Republic period, with Sith spending more time fighting with eachother than against the Jedi.

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Rule of two comes up with Darth Bane, which is around 1,000 years pre-ANH. And yes, you got me on the Dark Jedi thing... been a good while since I had played it. And I totally agree with you on KotORII. I'm not much of a fan of II, though I am eagerly awaiting the release of the Restoration Project, which is rapidly approaching its completion. Thinking about it now, you actually fight Dark Jedi at more than one point in KotOR, LOL. Well, anywho, back to what I was saying about the Saga. It just doesn't seem to fit in with what was going on. Vadar wanted Luke to kill the Emperor ("he has foreseen this") to become his apprentice, and the Emperor wanted Luke to kill Vadar and well, become his apprentice. I don't see these kind of folks just saying to these other guys, oh yeah, you're a Dark Jedi, come hang with us. I heard someone joke before there were more Jedi after that purge in the EU than there were before it. When you get right down to it, Star Wars is a genre, and it has many interpretations.

Old Republic doesn't have Dark Jedi. Its Sith vs Jedi. We're talking 4,000 years pre-ANH, and also long before the rule of two. One of the reasons why I prefer those games and the continuity they follow, because it lacks alot of the Force hocus-pocus you seem in much of the EU. The period of the Saga follows the rule of two when it comes to the Sith. The "Dark Jedi" thing was always laughable to me.

Well, its the "Dark Jedi" working with the Sith that confuses me. They are clearly unstable force users, I can't imagine the Sith working with them, let alone letting them live.

This is where the EU loses me. Dark Jedi? What is that, Sith Light? They are all over the Saga period EU, even though it totally goes again Saga continuity.

Battlefront II (EU, of course) talks about the Troopers knowing well ahead of time what was coming, talks about the affection some of them felt for their Jedi commanders, and I think it even states that some troopers rebelled against the order.

Yeah, pretty much.

I figured I'd throw my deal up here, never know when it will help someone else. CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Mobo: MSI P965 Platinum Limited Edition RAM: Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4, DDR2-800, 1GB (x2) GPU: EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS, 640MB DDR3, Superclocked HDD: Seagate ST3160812AS, 160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II (x2) Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS PSU: Antec NeoPower NeoHE 550 Case: Lian Li PC-V1000 OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 I put this thing together a little over a month ago. The hard drives and sound card are hold overs from my last build, as is the Lian Li case. My 3rd self built system. It was hard giving up on AMD after so long, but the Core 2 Duo's are just SO good, I would have been doing myself a disservice if I hadn't gone Intel. My experiences thus far: The MSI mobo got great reviews, and its a great stock performer, but it has problems. There have been USB issues and RAM timing issues. Latest BIOS is 1.4, with 1.5 in beta, and each release is buggier than the next. The biggest problem I have had is with RAM timings. My Corsair RAM is rated at 4-4-4-12 at 2.1v, but setting CAS Latency in the BIOS to 4 actually sets it to 3. There is no way to set it to 4, and its been an issue since release last September. So, I am forced to relax timings or suffer severe stability issues. I went back and forth between the MSI mobo and the popular ASUS P5B Deluxe, and decided to save myself 40 bucks and go with the well reviewed MSI. That was a mistake. Right now I am just holding out for the new Intel chipset coming out in the coming months. On the Corsair RAM. It seems they are (as of last summer/fall) using cheaper quality RAM on their sticks unless you buy their very top tier products. I paid the same price for the exact 2GB of RAM that not even a year ago was a higher quality product. Its simply not what it was. Same money would have gotten me the same timings and higher quality RAM from another vendor. Ah yes, the big boy, the video card. The GeForce 8800 is blazing fast, its big, and surprisingly quiet. I've been an ATi user FOREVER, this is my first nVidia card. Now, I may have been spoiled, but man, nVidia is HORRID when it comes to driver support. I had no idea, and reading what there is to read out there, this seems to be a pretty standard issue for them. Don't get me wrong, I'd buy the 8800 again, the driver issue is more of a nag than a true issue (at this point atleast). Anywho, just my experience with the current hardware out there.

Oh, its not that the translation was wrong, it was some of the choices they made in the translation that bothered me.

I do have to say, however, that there are occasionally dubs that I find to be much more engaging than the original. Just because its in its native language does not mean its good.

Let's be honest here, 90% of dubs are really bad. I'll go as far to say if the recent Gunbuster DVD release was done as a dub, I would never have bought it. And I could be wrong, but the anime the dub crowd watches is generally not the same stuff the sub crowd goes for. Its a different type of fan.

Oh, I thought I was paying that price so I didn't have to hear a dub.

*cough cough* Gunbuster was a homage, not a parody!

Yeah, same reason why they translate "Top o Nerae!" as "Gunbuster" in the opening credits of the original OVA. I was rather surprised how much time people spent complaining about the BGM in the first episode, and not the shoddy translation of the entire set.