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D'oh!
Against better judgement, have ordered CoH from Merka. Fool that I am! I'm sure I won't make up the cost in play-hours. Oh well. Those in the know: is the character generator available for use offline? If so, might get some use out of that even after I stop subscribing to the online game...
Completed KotOR, on Light Side, and am now playing it through on Dark. The game itself is much quicker, easier and more seductive, though I'm personally having a hard time burying my benevolent instincts and being mean to people. (Partly because I know you get rewards and snackies from completing quests... it's hard not to volunteer to help people, or to find a way to do it for selfish reasons.) Despite this, have rapidly gravitated to the very bottom of the dark side scale - which I didn't manage to do on light side, and I'm now considering playing through again with a really determined lightsider, since the absolute-dark graphic on the character summary screen is so cool (my first character was a bit of a fence-sitter to begin with and kept asking for rewards, though he was able to fight it somewhat later on when the importance of being earnest became apparent). I'm, like, almost invisible in the dark smoke around my feet while the red mist behind me glows brightly and I'm on fire. You may be aware that the character's appearance changes as you go darkside too, which is bizarre as it isn't really reflected in the dialogue - as a hideously deformed and obviously malevolent woman I've still got Carth (primary male romantic interest) coming on to me with lines like "You're a beautiful woman". I get to flirt back, too, which is really odd because I picture myself as having a corrupted hissy voice. "Oh, hssss, I could never stay angry, hsss, at you..."
(Rather disappointed that the scriptwriters only allow for strictly hetero couplings, also. Oh well.)
In fact, the extreme darksider is not particularly well catered for in the dialogue ... I'm wandering around casually murdering people, doing things specifically designed to make people suffer, my skin is white and covered with veins and my eyes are a dead yellow colour, and the best Bastila can come up with is vague concerns that "These actions may lead towards the Dark Side". Perhaps my companions are too scared by me to say anything really definite on the subject.
So cool. Shame it has turned me into a social outcast, but you can't win them all. And this way I get to be in Star Wars!
so lonely
Completed KotOR, on Light Side, and am now playing it through on Dark. The game itself is much quicker, easier and more seductive, though I'm personally having a hard time burying my benevolent instincts and being mean to people. (Partly because I know you get rewards and snackies from completing quests... it's hard not to volunteer to help people, or to find a way to do it for selfish reasons.) Despite this, have rapidly gravitated to the very bottom of the dark side scale - which I didn't manage to do on light side, and I'm now considering playing through again with a really determined lightsider, since the absolute-dark graphic on the character summary screen is so cool (my first character was a bit of a fence-sitter to begin with and kept asking for rewards, though he was able to fight it somewhat later on when the importance of being earnest became apparent). I'm, like, almost invisible in the dark smoke around my feet while the red mist behind me glows brightly and I'm on fire. You may be aware that the character's appearance changes as you go darkside too, which is bizarre as it isn't really reflected in the dialogue - as a hideously deformed and obviously malevolent woman I've still got Carth (primary male romantic interest) coming on to me with lines like "You're a beautiful woman". I get to flirt back, too, which is really odd because I picture myself as having a corrupted hissy voice. "Oh, hssss, I could never stay angry, hsss, at you..."
(Rather disappointed that the scriptwriters only allow for strictly hetero couplings, also. Oh well.)
In fact, the extreme darksider is not particularly well catered for in the dialogue ... I'm wandering around casually murdering people, doing things specifically designed to make people suffer, my skin is white and covered with veins and my eyes are a dead yellow colour, and the best Bastila can come up with is vague concerns that "These actions may lead towards the Dark Side". Perhaps my companions are too scared by me to say anything really definite on the subject.
So cool. Shame it has turned me into a social outcast, but you can't win them all. And this way I get to be in Star Wars!
so lonely
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We'll all miss you
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CoH
Re: CoH
Why aren't they releasing that as a standalone product? Damnit.
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How can you be lonely anyway; you are adrift in a sea of love, remember.
I find it helps to be spiteful to young lovers. It not only cheers me up, it gives them a "crisis" to triumph over, which apparently is good forthem. Although, of course, any relationship founded on crisis tends to fall apart shortly after the credits roll.
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I suppose it's not so terrible, given that much of the relationship depends on prompts from them and their sexuality could be considered "set". It's amusing when you're captured and they torture your "loved one" because they suppose you'll be less resistant to that. (Good players refuse to answer because it's the galaxy at stake, no matter how much you care about them dammit! Evil players refuse to answer because it's fun to watch the goody-goody love interest suffer ha ha ha. Or something.)
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SPOILER!
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PS, having looked oh-so-briefly at CoH website I suspect Hostage Lass would, bizarrely, be a Tanker. Primary power would be Invulnerability, along with Super Strength (purely for the Taunt ability), and invisibility from the "Power Pool" section where it looks like you can buy a random unrelated power to unique yourself up. Initially I thought "Controller" but there's no "attack me instead of my friends" powers there, only "don't attack anyone" or "attack your friends" ones...
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