KotOR II is here!

Kraven · 12-07-2004, 01:33 AM

Yes! The hour is upon us! Imagine my surprise when I listened to my voicemail tonight and it was an automated message from GameStop informing me that KotOR II would be in tomorrow (now today) afternoon. I was caught completely by surprise which quickly turned into elation. I knew it was coming out this month (maybe mid- to late), but not this soon. And the best part is I won't have to spend any money to get it since I'll be using the last remaining funds from my store credit. Oh joy. I can hardly wait! 7½ more hours till GS opens.

Hughes · 12-07-2004, 04:45 AM

Don't you check release dates at the gamestop or EBgames website? Its had that December 6th release date for awhile.

Kraven · 12-07-2004, 12:49 PM

To be honest, no. Not to sound like an ***, but I really don't have time to bother worry about checking up on game dates all the time. I've been so busy lately with work that that's all I do. I'm lucky to get an hour in of Xbox playtime a week. And I sort of prefer it this way because then it's a pleasant surprise in my day instead of killing myself with anticipation when a game is coming out.

Darth Sidious · 12-07-2004, 12:54 PM

Dammit! I have to wait another two months for this one!

Still, the Chronicles have been interesting >> http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swkotor_sithlords/indexLight.html

Kraven · 12-07-2004, 02:58 PM

The only gripe I have so far is quite petty and trivial, downright superficial, but I hate the color scheme they chose this time for the menus. As you all know in KotOR it was a beautiful shade of blue. Now take all the menus from the first game and turn them aqua-marine. Yuck. But other than that it's pretty cool. You run a lot faster this time around so all that back tracking and exploration seems to go by a bit faster.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and the ability to switch weapons on the fly is awesome and much appreciated since in the first one, once you acquired a lightsaber it basically made all other weapons obsolete and I hardly found myself every using anything else. And you can also bust down doors or containers. So you don't necessarily need to invest skills to lockpick, but it does help. And not all doors or containers can be busted so it is still essential to invest points in the lockpicking skill area. They face lifted the menus and the loading times seem a bit faster. Graphics are very similar to the first. Those are my initial impressions. Sorry, not much time to play since I have to be at work in an hour.

Boondock_Saint · 12-07-2004, 06:29 PM

Good I'll be able to keep my character from KoTOR I. He had picklock at like 10 and could hack into almost everywhere. Strong, duel lightsabers oh man he was bad ***!

Amutt · 12-07-2004, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Boondock_Saint

Good I'll be able to keep my character from KoTOR I. He had picklock at like 10 and could hack into almost everywhere. Strong, duel lightsabers oh man he was bad ***!

... I am farily certain you can't use your old character.