Originally posted by Peach
Or just get rid of that ridiculous 'sith race' thing entirely and let people create the characters they want.There is no reason why I should not be able to make a Mirialan bounty hunter, damnit.
I really doubt a Miraluka would side with the Sith after their entire planet was consumed by Nihilus. And I personally like the origins of the Sith race. *shrug*
(and that was just a colony planet that was ruined by Nihilus, not their homeworld or anything...)
Hmm, I distinctly recall Atton mentioning that Miraluka were almost extinct becuase their home planet got blown up. Or at least that they were 'rare', which leads me to believe that a sizable chunk of their species got vaped.
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I'll admit, this looks ****ing awesome. I'm concerned that this'll mean less in-depth companions than we were lead to believe, but knowing Bioware, I'm confident this won't be the case.
SW:TOR! Now with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood action!
People are supposed to be excited they can get the computer to play the game for them? This is an MMO, longevity and amount of things to do is one of the main things the genre as a whole has going for it. Is it just gonna be set up so that you come back to your ship and the game's allotted a pile of resources for you?
Skeptical, is the gist.
Originally posted by General KalieroPersonally I don't see what the problem is, unless you're forced to use the feature. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with allowing people to dump time into only the things they want to do, while letting the computer handle the more mundane things. It caters to both the hardcore grind lover and the casual short attention span 8 year old.
SW:TOR! Now with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood action!People are supposed to be excited they can get the computer to play the game for them? This is an MMO, longevity and amount of things to do is one of the main things the genre as a whole has going for it. Is it just gonna be set up so that you come back to your ship and the game's allotted a pile of resources for you?
Skeptical, is the gist.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Yes, that Sith Race thing is a clunky bit of EU baggage. It is staggeringly obvious that the Sith were never meant to be a race any more than the Jedi were.
The Sith as a name, actually originated with the species in the Tales of the Jedi comics. It was only afterwards that the name was then applied to Vader and Sidious and the Rule of Two that the movies centred themselves around.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Personally I don't see what the problem is, unless you're forced to use the feature. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with allowing people to dump time into only the things they want to do, while letting the computer handle the more mundane things. It caters to both the hardcore grind lover and the casual short attention span 8 year old.
It just seems like a poor mechanic for an MMO. AI NPCs that can work with you - sure, that's not a big deal. GW used that to good effect, since everything was instanced. Letting them go do their own things...I don't see the point or how that will work out well.
Originally posted by NCRotCA
The Sith as a name, actually originated with the species in the Tales of the Jedi comics. It was only afterwards that the name was then applied to Vader and Sidious and the Rule of Two that the movies centred themselves around.
Wrong. The word 'sith' was first used in the novelization of A New Hope...which was actually published in 1976, a year before the movie came out; Vader is referred to as a Sith Lord. Tales of the Jedi came out nearly 20 years later, which is certainly long after all of the original movies. The term Sith most definitely did not originate in those comics.
Originally posted by NCRotCA
Only in revised editions, actually. It originated in the TotJ comics and that is where Lucas decided to apply it to the films.
No, that is incorrect, and I'm curious where you came up with that idea since everything I'm finding disagrees with you and states that the first use of the word Sith was in the ANH novelization, in 1976.
The sith species may have originated in those comics, but the word Sith most certainly did not.
Originally posted by NCRotCA
The Sith as a name, actually originated with the species in the Tales of the Jedi comics. It was only afterwards that the name was then applied to Vader and Sidious and the Rule of Two that the movies centred themselves around.
Indeed this is untrue. 'Sith' is a George Lucas term that he used a lot in the development of ANH, though in the end he did not use it in the film. However, Vader was described as a Sith for most of ANH's inception (changed to 'Lettow' at one point, as a trivia nod, and then changed back) and he finally got around to using the term in the prequels. Alan Dean Foster was working from GL's notes when he wrote the ANH novel, so he used the 'Sith' term from it as GL intended.
The EU authors nabbed the term because he had used it in early drafts, but their interpretation of what it meant was totally removed from GL's own.
These days, most sources use GLs interpretation- with good cause- Darth names and all, and the old EU idea that the Sith were a distinct race is aberrant.