The re-play thread

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:03 am

JA2 + many bigger mods, although it's not like replaying since I play that game since its release, or rather since its demo came out. :O

Apart from that Fallout 2 and XIII in MP. Geekiness

Post by **King of Creation** » Thu May 12, 2005 6:01 am

I'm going to start replaying KOTOR 2. What a shitty game. Maybe I can make it better by playing it as an evil character though.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:01 am

Don't get your hopes up.

Even the original had more variation in good/evil gameplay.

Post by **Alexander** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:42 am

King Of Creation wrote:I'm going to start replaying KOTOR 2. What a shitty game. Maybe I can make it better by playing it as an evil character though.

I was thinking about doing that ever since I finished it the first time... just that it was such a big disapointment that I have not gotten around to actually do it...
The worst thing about it is also that the only time I played through it I played as a 'neutral' charecter, but I was trying to do more evil things... but it is harder to be an extremely good/evil charecter in KOTOR 2 then in the first game... so, I could not get inside the tomb on Korriban.

Kashluk wrote:Don't get your hopes up.

Even the original had more variation in good/evil gameplay.

hmm.. it did? perhaps.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:29 pm

I started KOTOR 2 again, but gave up pretty fast... all the shit with going through the meteor-station is waaay too boring.

The easiest would be to decide a few steps further ahead, where you save the game, and make the true choices from there.just after the meteors...

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:03 pm

Bah, I didn't bother finishing KOTOR2, once you get to Malachor the game gets incredibly boring.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:19 pm

Not to mention pointless.. I bought all kinds of wicked equipment for all my chars, only to discover that you use 2 of them... what a ripoff...

Post by **King of Creation** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:25 pm

Kashluk wrote:Don't get your hopes up.

Even the original had more variation in good/evil gameplay.

I doubt it. The original had pretty much zero variation. You character could only "diverge" and choose either light or dark side at the very very end. You either choose to go with Bastila, or against her. I have high hopes that Obsidian had at least a little more variation.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:16 pm

I kinda started replaying Deus Ex. Stealth as always, but this time I don't care about killing.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:52 pm

I'm replaying Solitaire for probably the 1,000,000th time.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:17 pm

half life 2 and Rome:Total War

the latter being the better and instantly replayable.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Thu May 12, 2005 5:29 pm

I should play these KOTOR games you people speak of.

Post by **Alexander** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:49 pm

Koki wrote:I kinda started replaying Deus Ex. Stealth as always, but this time I don't care about killing.

I remember Deus Ex being more challenging when not playing a stealth game.

avenger69 wrote:half life 2 and Rome:Total War

the latter being the better and instantly replayable.

How much replay value did Half-Life 2 have?
I ought to buy that game so I could waste most of my time playing the stupid mods or something... is it worth it?

Mandalorian Fallout God wrote:I should play these KOTOR games you people speak of.

Yeah, you should.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Thu May 12, 2005 6:39 pm

Alexander wrote:
Koki wrote:I kinda started replaying Deus Ex. Stealth as always, but this time I don't care about killing.
I remember Deus Ex being more challenging when not playing a stealth game.

Sure, as JC Parkinson spends 10 minutes trying to aim.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:10 pm

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:I should play these KOTOR games you people speak of.

Not really.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:36 pm

KOTOR games are just a big deception, and it grows more and more boring each minute, as you fend off waves of sith ninjas.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:01 am

Koki wrote:Sure, as JC Parkinson spends 10 minutes trying to aim.

Given that with regard to shooting, maiming and killing things, Deus Ex is more a twitch game than an RPG, I usually boost my gunnery skills to master level before starting. In my mind it would be somewhat different if combat did not rely so much upon player reflexes. It's irritating enough to fight hordes of goons, it's all the more so if one is also fighting the interface.

Moot though, as I both rarely play Deus Ex these days, and on the chance that I do, I rarely kill people with anything ranged.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:09 am

On completely unrealted note, I noticed that when a game allows stealth, people will mostly use it.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:17 am

Only if the stealth element is good. I never use stealth for DE, because for starters it's a really shit game. And I find the stealth element to be rather crappy too. Same with Vtm, although a I do have a love of invisibility.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri May 13, 2005 8:05 am

King of Creation wrote:
Kashluk wrote:Don't get your hopes up.

Even the original had more variation in good/evil gameplay.
I doubt it. The original had pretty much zero variation. You character could only "diverge" and choose either light or dark side at the very very end. You either choose to go with Bastila, or against her. I have high hopes that Obsidian had at least a little more variation.

Well your doubt is in vain.

The decision at the end doesn't really exist with KOTOR2, because you're "driven by things that are beyond your control" or some chit. So it's the same ending, nothing special really.

And the game's buggy too. And it doesn't allow me to kill all the people I want (some bad guys oppressing goodie-two-shoes peoples, I'm not allowed to kill them, because they are crucial to the story or something?)... well I can kill some of them, but you just *can't get hostile* with most of them.

Deus EX was ok, but there's not that much replay value, really. I've went it through three times and I've seen all there is to see (including the three different endings, the brother chit, obedience chit etc. etc.)