Star Wars - KOTOR Combats Sith

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 2, 2003 @02:38AM from the bioware-trains-young-paduan dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the IGN Xbox preview of Bioware's Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, the Xbox RPG that's now a couple of weeks away from release (and has a PC version shipping in October.) The article suggests that "..serious pen-and-paper role playing fans will appreciate all of the stat-heavy terminology deep within the game's menu system but run-of-the-mill Star Wars fans will still get a kick out of all of the Greedos, wookies and laser blasts going on", and according to another preview at GamePro, this title from the renowned PC RPG creators has a "..battle system [which] is perhaps KOTOR's most singular achievement - it looks like it belongs in an action RPG, but it's actually turn-based and not far removed from the Baldur's Gate fight engine."

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Older RPGs by Gr33nNight · 2003-07-02 03:18 · Score: 2, Insightful

Am I the only one who wishes Bioware would make more RPGs in the vein of Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment? Those were excellent games, and took forever to get through. Im very disappointed in these new 3D RPGs, that are a whole lot of flash, but (to me) not very fun.
1. Re:Older RPGs by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-02 04:09 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Or even Black Isle. Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale were not developed by Bioware. Look out for Lionheart in the future, that could give you what you are looking for.
Ugh.. by CashCarSTAR · 2003-07-02 03:39 · Score: 2, Insightful

Baldur's Gate style fighting

Count me out. That was the ugliest mess I've seen in a long time.

Give me the old Gold-Box combat. That is still wicked fun.