The best place to start in the Expanded Universe

I'm going to reveal just how bad of a Trekkie I am and remind you people that in the time period, the Feds and the Romulans don't like each other... at all (they fought a nasty war back in the day). If a Starfleet captain showed up at Romulus with a plan to **** up their star, you can bet they would blow him to pieces... ASSUMING Kirk/Spock could get the Enterprise past the Neutral Zone, into the Beta Quadrant and into Romulan territory without being blown up.

Nerd.

Originally posted by Tsal Can
Aren't you biased against everything KotOR related after all?

my e-mail address is naga sadow wrath. that is because he is one of my favorite characters and his age is one of my favorites. 😐

I'm a Trekkie to!!!!!!

Long Live Trek! and Star Wars! and Halo! and nah..not the matrix...

Star Trek... meh.

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
my e-mail address is naga sadow wrath. that is because he is one of my favorite characters and his age is one of my favorites. 😐

Thats more Tales of the Jedi I would think.

that it is. bane isnt kotor either though... >.>

No, but it is linked because the influence of Darth Revan is directly felt by Bane(i.e. his teachings). That and Drew Karpyshyn wrote both stories.

theyre all "linked" considering revans power and teachings were derived directly from ancient sith, such as naga sado.

i mean honestly there is zero point in nit picking.

Play kotor. its definitely a highlight and one of the best rpgs you can get your hands on.

Also if you plan on doing any arguing in the versus forum, i suggest assessing what people are saying about things for at least a week before even posting there to get the hang of how things work.

Its good by Star Wars standards (Path of Destruction is bettar). By RPG standards, as with all Western RPGS, it fails, miserably. If you want the best that the genre offers, try Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Tales of Phantasia, Final Fantasy VII, or Xenogears.

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
theyre all "linked" considering revans power and teachings were derived directly from ancient sith, such as naga sado.

i mean honestly there is zero point in nit picking.

Sado is never named as one of Revans indirect teachers. If anything Revan just entered his tomb. A tomb with no body in it.

Originally posted by ApC
Its good by Star Wars standards (Path of Destruction is bettar). By RPG standards, as with all Western RPGS, it fails, miserably. If you want the best that the genre offers, try Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Tales of Phantasia, Final Fantasy VII, or Xenogears.

Flawed as your opinion of Eastern RPG's may be, what does anything like that have to do with Star Wars?

It has everything to do with Star Wars, and my opinion fact is absolute. Japanese RPGs are masterpieces that are beyond just being games but the most incredible storylines you can find in any medium. Western RPGs are average games with average storylines that almost in every case conceptually fail.

If your fact is indeed a fact, then calling it absolute would be redundant.

That's your opinion.

Needless to say, noobaris is WRONG. Japanese rpgs are coupled with bad graphics, bad physics, and they rarely have anything to do with star wars. Kotor is considered by many to be the best rpg ever made.

Kotor is a good game but don't go into it expecting it to the best anything. It's a good game, with a decent story set in the rich sw universe.

The best way to start in the EU is to follow the timeline, so that you know where whatever book you pick up fits.

I'd suggest "The Truce at Bakura" as it takes place right after Luke has buried his father and is still feeling the after effects of Palpatine's lighting. Outside of that "Rise of Darth Vader" set right after episode 3.

http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/starwars/timeline.html This is a simplified time line, past-to-future arranged in ascending order.

Originally posted by Dark Exile
Sado is never named as one of Revans indirect teachers. If anything Revan just entered his tomb. A tomb with no body in it.

but it doesnt matter because ti still involves the ancient sith age... thus its all linked.

Originally posted by ~:Mr.Anderson:~
Needless to say, noobaris is [b]WRONG. Japanese rpgs are coupled with bad graphics, bad physics, and they rarely have anything to do with star wars. Kotor is considered by many to be the best rpg ever made. [/B]

So far i believe that kotor has been surpassed by mass effect, made by the same game developer and written by the same guy that wrote the bane books.

Kotor 1 was pretty good, but kotor 2 was dissapointing at the end.

Kotor 2 had so much potential but thanks to impatient lucasfarts, the game got cut in half.

But i have a feeling that the old republic might vastly surpass kotor and make a joke out of WOW(i played that game, i tell you its decent
, but its not THAT good, its super overrated)