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Tags: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

<a href="http://pc.ign.com/">PC IGN</a> has a new <A href="http://pc.ign.com/articles/383/383038p1.html">developer diary</A> on <a href="http://www.swkotor.com">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic</a>, written by <b>James Ohlen</b> of <A href="http://www.bioware.com">BioWare</a>. In it, he covers things like how important story has always been to the studio, how nonlinear their CRPGs are, how exciting combat it, and so on. Here's a clip:
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<blockquote>In addition to the amazing models and backgrounds, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic also has more movies than all of our previous games put together! The movies range from enormous 'Return of the Jedi' style space battles, to intimate romantic interludes. One of the reasons we have so many movies is to cover all of the different quests and paths that the player might come across. <u>Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is as non-linear as the Baldur's Gate series</u>, so you'll probably have to play the game three or four times before you see every movie that's in the game. The sheer amount of things to do in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is overwhelming. We have space battles, lightsaber duels, hundreds of enemies and monsters, swoop races, card games, romances, bounty hunters and smuggling runs. We've tried to crunch in everything that a Star Wars fan has ever dreamed of doing into a single game. </blockquote>
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I wonder if this is the same guy from <a href="http://www.bioware.com">BioWare</a> that said <A href="http://www.swkotor.com">Knights of the Old Republic</A> would be <i>turn based like <a href="http://nwn.bioware.com">Neverwinter Nights</a>.</i> When in doubt, redefine terms. It's been working well for <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">MicroSoft</a>.
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Spotted this at <A href="http://rpgvault.ign.com">RPG Vault</a>.
 

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Lasse said:
As non-linear as the Baldur's Gate series? Sounds depressing.

Makes you wonder if they just don't know what these terms mean or whether they're just bullshitting, doesn't it?
 

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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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XJEDX said:
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
-PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982)

That's fairly true. I've argued with people who insist that Bladur's Gate was, in fact, turn based, because you could pause every round.
 

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XJEDX said:
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
-PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982)
That sounds suspisously like NewSpek, or whatever the language was in 1984.
Though Dick was great.
TB because you can pause?
Sad.
I really belive that at some point Ill stop liking BG because of all the other people who like it.
Kind of like disliking Metropolis in the 1930's because both the Nazies and the Communists claimed it was proporganda of the opposing party.
 

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Constipated Craprunner said:
TB because you can pause?
Sad.

It's true. On the Pool of Radiance 2 forum, there were a bunch of Baldur's Gate/Infinity Engine trolls there, and a whole mess of them were claiming BG was turn based and they know this because they played it in turn based. "Am I the only one that played BG in turn based?" was the particular comment I remember, since I flamed the hell out of him for saying that.
 

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I wonder about BG fans some times. Seems that they can't comprehend simple concepts, NPC, Turn-Based, a well made game, ect. ;)
 

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Well, in the defense of the BG fanboys, it does say that you can play it in turn based mode on the game box.

So they might just be ignorant instead of completely stupid.
 

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