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[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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That's what so great about KotOR: it has a real plot, great characters, and the only people trying to kill you are scripted to do so for logical (plot) reasons. No random (stupid) mayhem.

KOTOR had several planets with extremely hostile and violent wildlife that displayed incredible resilience to being shot. I'm also pretty sure they showed up more or less randomly for the sole purpose of mayhem, since I'm pretty thorough about clearing things out behind me, and when I came back out of a dead-end passage, there were more of them. But I feel a little bit of random mayhem every now and then is a healthy thing.

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If you'll reread my posting a wee bit more carefully, you might notice I said "people" when referring to random mayhem. Not critters. KotOR doesn't have such things as random dark jedi (random ninjas) or wandering random stormtroopers.

The critters outdoors on Dantooine do respawn, as do the mutant ghoul thingies on the first planet.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Vicious Love:
I can think of very few SciFi authors from Back in the Day who had more than a rudimentary way with words.

Try Frank Herbert.

Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke (as has been mentioned by Leif) were full of interesting ideas that they wrapped into stories. Asimov and Clarke weren't particularly good writers, but they were prolific and intriguing. Heinlein, I must disagree, did write decent novels. Especially his non-children's books. It's just that his style doesn't appeal to everyone. Just as I know people (who I think are culturally blind) who don't care for G.R.R. Martin or Steven Erikson (yes, odd as that may be to believe).

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
If you'll reread my posting a wee bit more carefully, you might notice I said "people" when referring to random mayhem. Not critters. KotOR doesn't have such things as random dark jedi (random ninjas) or wandering random stormtroopers.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the final level did. I remember ducking into a room to catch a breather, after making sure everything looked cleared, and coming out to find that a MILE WIDE MASS of "wandering random Stormtroopers" had set up shop there. This happened multiple times, so I can only figure they were random, respawning hordes.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Actually, I'm pretty sure the final level did. I remember ducking into a room to catch a breather, after making sure everything looked cleared, and coming out to find that a MILE WIDE MASS of "wandering random Stormtroopers" had set up shop there. This happened multiple times, so I can only figure they were random, respawning hordes.

The station had areas that would keep spawning bots until you destroyed all the bot generators in that zone. And there were areas that would keep spawning troopers and jedi until you did something else. They weren't exactly random as it was quite predictable. Since you had no way to seal doors, and it was a HUGE station, it made sense that reinforcements would keep showing up to slow your progress.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Since you had no way to seal doors, and it was a HUGE station, it made sense that reinforcements would keep showing up to slow your progress.

Well, yeah, that reasoning makes sense, up until (and I tried to keep out) you've killed about about 500,000 of them. It took several days.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Well, yeah, that reasoning makes sense, up until (and I tried to keep out) you've killed about about 500,000 of them. It took several days.

So sad. You must not be very good at this sort of thing. Only took me a few minutes. You really should have paid closer attention to your instructors at the Jedi academy ...

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
So sad. You must not be very good at this sort of thing. Only took me a few minutes. You really should have paid closer attention to your instructors at the Jedi academy ...

And miss out on some perfectly good wanton and indiscriminate carnage at the very end of the game? I don't think so!