4th August 2004, 12:10 PM
Nice. I know you didn't like the lack of the ability to fully control your party in the game (and let's be honest, that's a bare bones feature they really should have at least allowed custom map makers to do), but it really is a great game for multiplayer and some really good single player community scenarios have been made too. The latest expansion pack was actually made by the community, but pushed so hard by Bioware's official site it might as well have been an official pack :D.
Anyway, if they can make up for the various failings (allowing full control over party members (in multiplayer, having certain charcters assigned to certain players in a party), camera issues (KOTOR ALMOST got it right, but it didn't allow much up and down movement, even in first person view, which meant I couldn't get just the right view of the cooler looking stuff a lot of the time, but it got close to nailing it), and some limitations of the Aurora toolset (just some various weaknesses that had to be worked around, namely things like adding additional races which got tricky)), as well as making an official campaign that's actually interesting (not storyline, a lot of the gameplay just seemed to be a tech demo of what the engine could do, so the game only really got fun in single player when the community made GREAT custom campaigns), as well as the obligatory graphical boosts, this should end up a great game.
Anyway, if they can make up for the various failings (allowing full control over party members (in multiplayer, having certain charcters assigned to certain players in a party), camera issues (KOTOR ALMOST got it right, but it didn't allow much up and down movement, even in first person view, which meant I couldn't get just the right view of the cooler looking stuff a lot of the time, but it got close to nailing it), and some limitations of the Aurora toolset (just some various weaknesses that had to be worked around, namely things like adding additional races which got tricky)), as well as making an official campaign that's actually interesting (not storyline, a lot of the gameplay just seemed to be a tech demo of what the engine could do, so the game only really got fun in single player when the community made GREAT custom campaigns), as well as the obligatory graphical boosts, this should end up a great game.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)