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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:45AM Shmil said

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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy. I feel something wonderful has happened.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:36AM (Unverified) said

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CLASSIC!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:42AM (Unverified) said

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I think it would be a real tragedy if KOTOR3 was an MMO.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:05PM R V said

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It would also be a real tragedy if Kotor was EA-ized, with lackluster graphics, story, missions...

That is my favorite rpg of all time. Kotor 2, I must admit, I never finished. My xbox 1 broke and I never went back to it when I got 360. I should go and play it.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:54PM (Unverified) said

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No one ever finished KoToR2 because Obsidian never finished it...
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:50AM (Unverified) said

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Bah! Jedi Knights Acadamy FTW.....

Besides, the New Republic is SOOOOO much more badass...
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 6:53PM iofthestorm said

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Yeah, Jedi Academy was kick ass but KotOR is actually an RPG. And sorry, but the Old Republic is much cooler than the New Republic because there were more Jedi.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:01PM (Unverified) said

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Jedi Academy was a slight improvement over jedi Outcast, which was a massive drop from Jedi Knight.

Both JO and JA felt more like playing star trek games..
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:56AM Tez said

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Until I get home to open my new PS3, this news has made my day.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:58AM foxhound said

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I will buy this if there is only an option for:

- Store sales date broken

- "Rug Doctor" innuendo & scenarios between HK-47 and the Crushinator. "A woman that fine, you'll have to romance first!"

- FOX News bears a biased, knuckleheaded approach about the game, claiming it "SW fans sexually forced Trekkies to buy the SeXbox6969, Pr0nStation3(what a 'shocker'), and the Wii(no perverted alternate name necessary)just for this game".
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:59AM dustindeckard said

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Hell. Yes. Thank. God.

I went back and played the two Kotor games a few months ago, and a friend of mine was watching me play them every once in a while.
After I finished Kotor 1 and started the sequel, he was watching me play and said "Dude, this one looks like crap compared to the first one. This is supposed to be a sequel?"

So thank goodness for this piece of news. Now no matter how long we have to wait for KOTOR 3, at least it will be worth it.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:03AM copa said

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Coming soon...

KOTOR 3: Elevator Action!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:06AM (Unverified) said

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One of the higher tier force powers could be the ability to shut off the horrible muzak the Sith would undoubtedly pipe into elevators just to watch people suffer.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:08AM Zertoss said

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Also force push/pull to make the elevator go faster and keep all the textures from tearing.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:07AM (Unverified) said

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If this were to go to MMO I can only say that I won't be there.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:08AM (Unverified) said

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i love the kuhnniggits......long live Python!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:18AM Ballistic3188 said

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hopefully the whole EA city state idea holds. cause i don't want another KOTOR2 kind of fiasco of releasing before it is ready.

that said. hopefully they stay in the spirit of Kotor. mass effect was a disappointment. the side quests were quite bland. all of them require you to go to a planet x to investigate/kill rebels y. also the good and evil choices need to be more different in effect. intimidate did the same effect as diplomacy.
we need more of the side quest like the guy is imprisoned in the desert by his own robots cause he was not faithfull to his wife. or the woman that had unnatural affection to her protocol droid.

we need more of the truly evil actions. like the double betrayal of the sith master appretice in Korriban. or making zaalbar kill mission vao.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:25AM demauk said

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KOTOR single-player adventure > online organic meatbaggery, any time of day.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:25AM ForTheHuynh said

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Damn you Joystiq. This is my favorite pair of pants. Now it's all sticky.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:52AM Anonononomous said

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Well, this is disappointing. KotOR 2 was a much better game ... minus,of course, the lack of polish an an ending.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:04PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah... cos endings aren't important at all :-o

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I get the sense that somewhere deep inside KoToR2 there was a good game, but the cuts just destroyed it. They neutered half the characters, made the storyline illogical, and made the whole thing really repetitive and pointless.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:54AM FraGNeM said

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KOTOR is old and busted.

Mass Effect is the new hotness.

Seriously, why would anyone desire that Bioware restrict creative freedom by being held within the already-too-inflated Star Wars universe?

Yes, I know that they've allowed for a bit of freedom by setting the game thousands of years before the famous trilogy, but Bioware has its own epic franchise now.

I just don't see the point.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 5:01PM (Unverified) said

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I just got SW:KOTOR last Sunday. I love it. If they want to make a 3, I'll be glad.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:59AM logicbus said

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I listen to the Joystiq Podcast every week, and now when I see posts with stuff like "Kuhniggets of the Old Republic" or "That's What I'm Tolkien About," I think to myself, "Did Ludwig write this post?" Then I scroll up and sure enough, he did.

The only time I'd be able to spot a Justin McElroy post is if it contained the word "gigglebytes."
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:14PM Alahmnat said

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Not to mention "Kleptomaniac on the Origami Recliner"... Ludwig is definitely on a roll today.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:12PM (Unverified) said

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FOOLED YOU!

Bioware is working on KOTOR, but it's Kittens of the Open Restroom.

Meow!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:16PM Deck said

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Oh man this just made my day! Any KOTOR from Bioware I will be happy with it!

Oh and Ludwig, what puns you have today!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:23PM (Unverified) said

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My friend let me borrow the original KOTOR when I got the 360, I still have it and still haven't touched it.
Not that I didn't like the 5mins I played of it, I just have 4 other XB games, and 6 new 360 games....


(Guess I'm not used to being able to borrow games or having new ones come out all the time since my only last-gen console was the GC.)
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:25PM Rax Dakkar said

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You guys didn't quite "will" it into existence like I asked, but this is close enough! Thanks!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 2:21PM chrisgrant said

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Do you really think we didn't pull strings to make this happen?! Well, pffft. Last time I will a game into existence for you!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:54PM (Unverified) said

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This will be a day long remembered!

This is great news indeed! Obsidian would have turned out a great product if they didn't bend to LucasArt's call to rush the product, turning a game of promise into crap. With BioWare at the helm once again, it's restored my faith in another quality Star Wars game.

A KOTOR3 would be ever so lovely, BioWare... :)
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 2:28PM (Unverified) said

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I really like where they were clearly going with KOTOR 2, and the few gameplay adjustments they made were for the better. However, they DEFINITELY did not have enough time on the game, and released a very much unfinished project which they never even bothered to patch to completion.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:54PM (Unverified) said

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I fired up KOTOR for a few minutes to compare it to Mass Effect and boy O boy are the graphics FUGLY. I know its a great game but I have become a shallow graphics whore. Now a pretty KOTOR 3 would make me happy.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 2:20PM (Unverified) said

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KOTOR 2 was one of the most unfinished games I've ever purchased. Obsidian should never be allowed to touch a great franchise again.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 4:53PM (Unverified) said

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I hope it doesn't come to the PS3.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 3:46PM DonaldMick said

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And so this is how the waiting ends - with thunderous applause.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 4:34PM colinisrad said

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I'm excited now, KOTOR is one of my all time favorite games. Please not be an MMO. And if it's Kleptomaniac on the Origami Recliner, I'll still be excited.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 4:31PM finnith said

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In defence of Obsidian, it seemed that the game could've been really good but was rushed by the upper-level execs.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 4:46PM (Unverified) said

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I will definately get KOTOR 3 if it is not a MMO game and if it has a real ending. I was shocked to see the credits run in KOTOR 2, I didn't even realize that I had just beaten the game.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 5:45PM Twist said

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I wouldn't mind seeing a KOTOR MMO for console, but I too would rather just play a standard single player KOTOR3.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:29PM Batzarro The worlds WOrst Detect said

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Good. I knew the Sith would win.

Seriously, I played KOTOR one like 5 times in a row. But KOTOR2? There was something unlikeable about it, and I didn't finish it a second time! The only good part of it was Visas Marr!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:51PM (Unverified) said

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I'd like to see a new KOTOR game as much as the next person but I've got a feeling that people just see what they want to see.

That screenshot looks more like a list of EA's studios/partners with the game titles they have licences for. Isn't it? Notice that KOTOR is listed as "KOTOR" (which is what BioWare had made) and not like "KOTOR 3", though "Mercenaries 2" is specifically listed with the 2.

And who exactly is that analyst and where's his report? All I can see at the eurogamer.net's link is EA's corporate profile and annual report. Not a word about neither KOTOR nor MMO.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:04PM (Unverified) said

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Ah-ha! Just saw a post at BioWare's forum which confirms my suspicions:

"the picture with the bioware=kotor+mmo etc, is a slide from an EA Q+A to explain where EA stand against other companies in top game sales, not what games are being developed, I just listened to 2+ hours of the thing, and the only mention of Bioware is that EA will be looking in to Taking over the RPG market in the next few years..."
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:16PM (Unverified) said

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I just came buckets
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Posted: Feb 14th 2008 12:05PM dtrain1183 said

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Not that I didn't love KOTOR 1 but I'd much rather they kick ass making Mass Effect 2. I'm sure whatever they do in the Star Wars universe will be amazing, but Mass Effect really hooked me and I look forward to further adventures in that universe. If Bioware is going to make a new Star Wars game I'd rather they do it in the New Republic. That source material has gone untapped for far to long. Who better to make a game about this than one of the if not THE best developer in the States?
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Posted: Feb 14th 2008 7:57PM Batzarro The worlds WOrst Detect said

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Uh...Technically thay are from Canada.
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Posted: Feb 17th 2008 8:04PM (Unverified) said

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Well, let's think. If those were only games BioWare had the rights to, then Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, and Baldur's Gate would be on that list. Besides, they don't have to call it "KOTOR III". It could be simply 'KOTOR: The Return of Revan', etc. However, all those other games are in progress, as we know there is a planned Mass Effect sequel.

Nice try, EA. We all know that KOTOR III is on its way. They don't want to announce it because it would steal thunder from Dragon Age, among other things.
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