Gamespy does KOTOR 2, PC style
Friday, February 4th, 2005 - 10:56pm
Dude, if you don't know where it's from by now, you're too drunk.
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Unfortunately, as good as the storyline and basic gameplay are, there are more than a few issues that keep this game from reaching the bar set by the first KotOR. The first: bugs. There a lot of them; most are just annoying, but a few are deadly. While I didn't experience any total crashes, it happened to our managing editor twice and neither of us have underpowered systems. A more annoying bug was one that caused the game to fold down onto my Windows taskbar whenever it switched out of the game engine in order to show an FMV cutscene. There was a weird bug that caused in-engine cutscenes to be blurry if your character was running with Force Speed just before the game shifted to the scene.
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Maybe I should cancel that pre-order now. Sounds even buggier than Vampire Bloodlines.
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'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
While some of the bugs do sound bogus (especially the blurry cutscene one, but more importantly, the crappy AI), something has to be said for a game that the story is so good you don''t care that the code is buggy.
However, with the price of games being what they are . . .
I guess we''ll soon find out how dedicated Obsidian is to patching their products...
I''m glad to hear that the story and RPG elements are top-notch though! It seems Obsidian is off to a great start (gameplay-wise, at least). Now for Neverwinter Nights 2.
Swing harder! Swing harder!
-- Lilarcor, Baldur's Gate 2
While disappointing, bugs can always be fixed. A good storyline is harder to come by though...
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I''m still playing through Vampire, despite some really annoying bugs (even a few that have forced me to reload the game). So I''ll probably enjoy this anyway. Sadly I''ll be punished yet again for wanting to play it on my PC.
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GameSpot, too.
Walking through walls? Walking through walls? Even Vampire''s bugs weren''t that crazy.
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"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
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'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Those bugs don''t sound too bad after playing through Vampire. At least none of them force you to reboot before playing. I may pick this up after I get through with Vampire.
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I won''t be paying full price for this. Then again, the ""scourge of all humanity"" (WoW) has dulled any excitement I may have felt for any other game. Maybe in a few months they''ll have the problems patched, and I can pick it up for 25-35 bucks. Yeah, that sounds like a good arrangement...
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Yeah sounds great....errr
Cripes. They regurgitated the original review from the Xbox one. Bogus. It smacks of a lazy ""review"" process on Gamespot''s part.
And remember, the Japanese aren't commercially whaling. They're conducting "research". Like "researching how delicious this whale is". - Paleocon
And, just to clarify, this was pre-ordered for me for my birthday, so I''m gettin'' it bugs and all.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
And I have to say as someone who finished the Xbox version I pretty sure the reviews didn''t finish the game.
Unless the PC version is vastly different at the end than the Xbox version it has serious flaws which should be at least mentioned in a review.
What flaws are those? I finished the Xbox version flaw-free. Great game.
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Those guys need a spoiler tag or something. I just met Kreia in my game, and was looking forward to finding out why she was so mysterious and what were her reasons =P
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Been trying to play it for the last few hours for so, and wow, I''ve never seen a game with this many show-stopping bugs before. It seems like every ten or twenty minutes or so, the entire program locks up. This has rush-job written all over it.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Well, that''s it; this game is going back on the shelf until eitehr a work-around or a patch is developed. It''s sad when yet another highly-anticipated RPG for the PC is brought down by major bugs.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Thanks for the heads-up, Rat Boy. Was planning to pick this up on release day over here, but now I''ll probably hold off for a while.
Swing harder! Swing harder!
-- Lilarcor, Baldur's Gate 2
A lot of it is due to the fact that the game has compatibility issues with ATI cards. Every driver I''ve tried has failed to resolve the problem.
Edit: In fact, if you have an ATI card, don''t buy the game, not until there''s a massive fix released. It seems that Obsidian and LEC launched the game knowing full well there was going to be problems with users with ATI cards, but put the game on the shelves anyway. Ridiculous.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Well that does suck, but I have an NVIDIA card so I''m probably going to pick it up. I''ll let you know if it works any better.
That seriously bites though, if it weren''t universally hailed as a really good game otherwise I probably wouldn''t bother. But as I just played all the way through Vampire and loved it, despite having to turn on noclip at times, I think I''ll be okay with this.
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Really? It runs just fine on my 9600XT, except for what appears to be a memory leak that makes me restart the game every couple of hours to get rid of stuttering.
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I''m with ALG, no crashes or slow-downs or any bugs at all for me so far and I''ve got a X800 Pro. That said, my character''s ass is too big.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Try turning on anti-aliasing.
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Crashes, lock-ups, video errors, AI idiocy, corrupted save files; I''d call this a screwed pooch. I guess this means I''m taking NWN 2 off my anticipated list, if this is what Obsidian is capable of.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
I haven''t had one bug yet. It doesn''t really feel polished either, but I haven''t had it crash or screw up. Though the AI is dirt stupid. And the environments pretty generic (even worse than the first game). The story is way more improved, but there''s a sh*tload of it. I''m only on the second chapter so I have no idea if it''s worth it yet.
And no widescreen support, even though the first one on PC supported widescreen.
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I''m sad that such a great game is getting such a terrible port.
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Just to contribute personal experiences, I''m on four CTDs so far in about ten hours of play. I''m not happy about it, but it''s not making me put the game away. The CTDs are almost exlusively when loading a new area or playing a cutscene, which is fortunate because the game auto-saves before both of these. It''s only a matter of restarting the game, and not an issue of time lost.
This is with a Radeon 9800 Pro.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Well, to paraphrase a line: anytime bugs and errors gets in the way of fun, fun loses. Probably took me about double the time to beat it with all the lock-ups and corrupted save files (which was even more annoying than the other errors), and that probably made the ending more annoying and disappointing than it probably was. Now, I''m not so eager for a sequel.
Edit: That''s not to say that KOTOR 2 doesn''t have its moments. Kreia''s probably the most interesting EU Star Wars character since Grand Admiral Thrawn himself, and the Handmaiden is 10 times hotter than Bastila (would have been nice to see Mira or Visas strut around in lingerie for comparison). Now if only the plot didn''t feel like it was rushed faster than a golf game in a thunderstorm...
Double Edit: Well, apparently there''s quite a bit more to the game if you obssessively explore every little nuance and facet...
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* Apparently, you can convert Atton, Bao Dur, Mira, and Handmaiden/Disciple (they depend on gender) into Jedi. I only got Atton and Handmaiden to tap into the Force my first time through. This all depends on your influence on them, so it kind of behooves you, the Exile, to spend as much time with them as possible.
* No matter what, you can''t get your old saber back from Atris. That crazy bitch...
* If you have a high enough computer skill, you can access a message in T3''s core from Bastila to Revan, if Revan was a light-side male.
* If you have a high enough influence, you can get Kreia to admit that she was both a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord, where she shows you a cutscene that illustrates her rather brutal fall.
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They''d better hurry on that patch so I can go back through it again.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
There are quite a few more cool little things than that, too. I hadn''t known about the extra cutscene, though. Hmmmm...
I''ve always thought that Bioware party members lacked the character of Black-Isle ones. Any party configuration in KotOR2 is going to be interesting, in some way. I especially liked the ''return'' of a certain party member from KotOR1. Anyone who didn''t play the first one would be none the wiser. A nice little nod.
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Open swkotor2.ini, edit width and height under [Graphics Options] to 1680 x 1050. Once back in game it will still say another resolution but it will be the widescreen res.
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I tried that and it was in 800x600 the enitre time. On my monitor status, not in the menu.
*edit* Do I have to turn AA or something off?
"You just checked in to Hotel Califoni-getyourasskicked!" Steely Dan said to The Eagles
I played for about 6 hours last night with two CTDs... and yes, I do have an ATI card. That said, I was up ''til 2AM ''cause the story had me from the get-go. It''s good, and so far I don''t regret anything. It''s not pissing me off nearly as much as HL2 did.
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