OT - your fav games

[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!

[Vicious Love]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Try Frank Herbert.

Inventor of the beefswelling. Nonetheless, point taken. Dune just never springs to mind when I think of SciFi. Personal bias, coupled with repressed trauma. Both Herbert and Tolkien took a real dive in writing quality after they changed their first names.

Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke (as has been mentioned by Leif) were full of interesting ideas that they wrapped into stories.

And how! Though Asimov did have a tendency to repeat himself, hence my assertion that much of his stuff wasn't all that good, conceptually. His best was brilliant, though.
Clarke had this distressing tendency to occasionally try and focus on the narrative, which really wasn't his forte. His nonfiction is usually much better than his fiction.

Heinlein, I must disagree, did write decent novels.

Actually agreed. For some reason, I felt it'd be splitting hairs to digress any more than I already was. My bad.

I know people (who I think are culturally blind) who don't care for G.R.R. Martin

Heh. The only author who kills off major characters in footnotes and appendices. What's not to like?

[Vicious Love]

Getting back on topic, again, how's everyone here feel about Dungeon Keeper and Giants: Citizen Kabuto?

Update: Also, what's everyone's favorite Ultima? I dug The Black Gate, personally, and my left eye still twitches when anyone mentions Ascension.

[ July 22, 2004, 04:18: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]