they should start the game with you as an apprentice to a sith or something... they could make the story so much darker... like have a character that your character cares about and your sith master uses him/her as blackmail for you to stay under the wing of the dark side...
I guess I'm just sick of the whole "you start off as the lucky dude who happens to take part in this huge battle and thwart off this villainous plan which in turn does the greater good for the galaxy" mess.. *breathes*
You become a dark Jedi....which really means nothing at all beyond the fact that you fight Jedi now....JKA was such a horribly boring game. It scared me off from playing KOTOR because I worried it'd be the same 😐
They need to set it up more like KOTOR, where your path isn't really dependent on one choice (though...it sorta is...as you can be good the whole game then turn evil, or evil then good...) but at the same time have it so that as your actions turn you darker or lighter, some of the choices you have as the opposite side aren't available. Like the more you become aligned with the dark side, some of the choices you get that'd be more light side oriented aren't available to you. That would nicely display the fact that your alignment in the Force controls your actions, not vice versa, and would get rid of the whole "oh, I want to be dark today, hmm, I think I'll be light tomorrow" thing that's so easy in those games (and that annoys the hell out of me).
heh.. well I mostly played JK2 and JKA for the combat system.. where you're very much in control of when you get hit and which way you slash.. for a sequel I would just ask them to say "screw it" to those shooting weapons and try to be more 'next-gen' with the lightsaber fighting methods (in terms of new ways to fight with the lightsaber, such as perhaps disarming your opponent during a clash, or maybe even totally new fighting styles)..as for appearance, have the look of elderscrolls : oblivion engine and 'make your own jedi / sith' kind of thing.. I'd love to see star wars universe with that kind of detail put into it (high-res textures and models.. *drool* )... even a 'make your own lightsaber' .. choose hilt parts and force crystals.. that kind of thing
Originally posted by Lana
Yep.Well, I don't like the whole back and forth aspect from KOTOR either. You should be required to stick to a path once you pick it.
I disagree. That's stupid. Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad.
When you were a little kid, if you decided when you grew up, you wanted to be a fireman, should you have been forced to stick through that path for your entire life?
Or if there's someone who commited a crime, like robbery or murder, should he be forced to live his life as a criminal, a bad person? Is he not allowed to change his actions or his life simply because of a choice he made once?
In summary, your ideas [on this subject] are stupid.
well.. on that subject.. if you do commit a murder.. you usually get sentenced to death... so thats mostly a one-way ticket
if one 'was' to change sides in the star wars universe... I think it would have to take however much extra time to undergo that transformation, for how much time you've spent with said aspect of the force
but I think what Lana means is that when people choose thier path in life.. they are usually over-zealous about it... like anakin.. he killed a few peons and then all the sudden started talking about ruling the galaxy.. the feeling grows to be more intense leading to 'the bigger picture'... it takes alot to change someone.. but the change has to indefinately come from within, so I see what you mean about the possibility of change existing... at least thats my 2 cents.. 🙁
Originally posted by Ganner Rhysode
I disagree. That's stupid. Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad.When you were a little kid, if you decided when you grew up, you wanted to be a fireman, should you have been forced to stick through that path for your entire life?
Or if there's someone who commited a crime, like robbery or murder, should he be forced to live his life as a criminal, a bad person? Is he not allowed to change his actions or his life simply because of a choice he made once?
In summary, your ideas [on this subject] are stupid.
Too bad my ideas on the subject are in line with the canon ideas on the subject.
EU came up with this whole deal of someone doing one bad thing and suddenly being a dark sider, and going back to the light side just as easily. Guess what, that's bullshit. Anakin redeeming himself was supposed to be a one-off thing because 1) he hadn't fully given himself to the dark side and 2) he was supposed to balance the Force by destroying the Sith. Yes, that's how it was. Yes, that is from the mouth of Lucas himself. This whole "revolving door policy" (to borrow a term from Ush) has just cheapened the entire idea of falling to the dark side of the Force. It's something that's supposed to totally consume you, not something where you change your mind days later.
If you want to be some silly little EU fanboy, whatever. But don't tell someone who takes her ideas and opinions from canon sources that she's wrong because guess what. Canon is ALWAYS right over EU.