Game News KotOR screenies on Gamer's Hell

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

<a href="http://www.gamershell.com/">Gamer's Hell</a> has served up <A href="http://www.gamershell.com/game/MMORPG_Star_Wars_Kotor.shtml">gobs of screenshots</a> of <A href="http://www.lucasarts.com/products/swkotor/">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic</a>.
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<div align="center"><a href="http://www.gamershell.com/game/MMORPG_Star_Wars_Kotor.shtml"><img src="http://www.rpgcodex.com/images/screenshots/swkotor/tiny001.jpg" height="120" width="160"> <img src="http://www.rpgcodex.com/images/screenshots/swkotor/tiny002.jpg" height="120" width="160"></a></div>
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Okay, if it's 4000 years before the Star Wars movies, how come the technology is the same level?
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Spotted this over at <A href="Http://www.rpgdot.com">RPGDot</a>.
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[Section8]

And according to Gamer's Hell, it's a MMORPG. Good to see the usual top notch journalism we've come to expect from them.

 

[Constipated Craprunner]

Actually, it is more advanced.
The period of Star Wars could be viewd as a dark age, not unlike the Third in LotR.

 

[Rosh]

And according to Gamer's Hell, it's a MMORPG. Good to see the usual top notch journalism we've come to expect from them.

What do you expect? Gamer's Hell, where the stupid are sent for eternal damnation. It's like a black hole of idiocy.

If GameSpy and PC Cattle didn't already own the position as the AOL of gaming, Gamer's Hell would certainly be a contender.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

And according to Gamer's Hell, it's a MMORPG. Good to see the usual top notch journalism we've come to expect from them.

Yeah, you have to admit that it's a beautiful thing that they gave all those screenshots to a pitiful site like Gamer's Hell and now they're going to have to deal with people asking if it's an MMORPG or not.

 

[Sol Invictus]

GameSpy does have some nice and fairly well written pieces on it every once in awhile, though. I can't really same for Gamer's Hell at all. Heck, they gave Syberia a 50% rating because the reviewer felt that Adventure games were not his forte.

In any case, it's good to see that we're (RPGCodex) a breath of fresh air to the enveloping cloud of non-journalistic garbage.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Actually, it is more advanced.
The period of Star Wars could be viewd as a dark age, not unlike the Third in LotR.

That makes no sense. How the hell can a REPUBLIC have a 4,000 year old Dark Ages which is what would have to happen for tech to stagnate that long. Honestly, I see no evidence of Dark Age-ism at all in Episode 1 and Episode 2.

 

[Sheriff_Fatman]

I thought the technology level was the same because the Star Wars galactic civilisation (whatever) is supposed to be 50 - 100k old, or something. On that scale, 4k isn't really a big gap.

 

[Constipated Craprunner]

Eeeehhhh what do you mean?
Episode 1 and 2, and most likely 3 are about as advanced as you get, but when the Empire takes over you are in a dark age.
That explains even the crappy clothes.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Then why does KotOR have the light sabers, the droids, the faster than light travel, and so on? 4,000 years is a hell of a long time. That's 160 generations there, but it looks like they have the same tech base in KotOR as they did in Episode 1.

 

[Sheriff_Fatman]

Maybe they hit a plateau during the preceding millenia of development.

Then again, I vaguely recall someone (Luke?) making some comment about a speeder model coming out. Also, someone (Han Solo, I think) makes a crack about Lightsabres being antiquated technology. That'd be a pretty weird (although accurate) thing to say if they'd been around for 4000 years or more.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Well, what gets me is that they're constantly developing technology in the movies too, at least in appearance. You have the clone armor, which is an older version of the Storm Trooper armor. You have the older versions of Star Destroyers and AT-ATs in Episode 2 as well. You see the trade federation's motherships, which lead to the Deathstar. You see a logical progression of technology in the 30-40 years between Episode 2 and Star Wars.

Then enters KotOR, set 4,000 years before Star Wars... And the technology is the same. I'll grant you the argument that Star Wars is basically a fantasy setting in space thing, and technology never advances in fantasy settings.. But there's dozens of references TO advancing technology in Star Wars.

 

[Constipated Craprunner]

They reached a technological crichendo- anyone seen Waking Life?
A) They where not "older". They where by diffirent groups who need diffirent units.
While the ATies desing allows them to move in almost any terrain, the hover desing seen in the new Star Wars movies could only work in some enviorments- say, for instance, someplace extrodiarily rocky.
I went off track, but look at Hellinisain Greece and Rome. Both where similar in technology, but the Romans won out because Philum and close melee tactics won over the Phalanx.

 

[Sheriff_Fatman]

I don't think there's any denying the type of flaws S_P is talking about. They were probably pretty inevitable given the weird episode sequencing. Star Trek, the only comparably extensive sci-fi universe that I can bring to mind, suffers similar inconsistencies for similar reasons.