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| beat it. ......so where's the ending? by FABIO 03/25/2005, 4:40am PST | ||||
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This game felt like a Jap RPG in the sense that they didn't know how to end it so by the end game the plot loses all cohesion. I guess from reading all that content that didn't make it in that they just ran out of time, but still, holy unresolved loose ends and plot holes
Creexul and Mrs. Johnson from another thread wrote:But wasn't that guy the destroyer of planets because of you or something? If so, what the fuck was he, and why? Ship? The ending I got was just zooming out of Malacor to some star cluster then the credits rolling. The one thing that was such a looming factor the entire game, that I thought was going to be some big revelation, but was never explained, was WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED AT MALACOR 5? As a general you ordered its destruction during the war? With some shadow generator thing? They made it sound like something much more dark and ominous happened there though. I was expecting some sort of "you ARE darth revan!" revelation at some point telling you what the hell happened there. I went darkside so I never got any influence with Atton or the horned guy; do they reveal what happened? As far as Darth Nihilus goes, yeah I'm officially disapointed. I thought he'd end up being the ultimate bad guy, the dark presence on the outer rim that everyone was talking about. I guess they were talking about the "true" Sith there though. His origins? I guess him and Scion were both failed results of Keria trying to train someone to bring about the death of the force. Nihilus sought to feed on every force user in the galaxy while Scion wanted to kill and torture them. She chose the exile as her next student due to him being "a wound in the force" (something that happened because of Malacor five THAT WAS NEVER EXPLAINED) and manipulated everything so her two failed students as well as the rest of the jedi would be killed. But that still doesn't fully make sense. I thought Nihilus would be somehow tied into the main character. They drop a shitload of hints that you were responsible for his creation, saying that his ability to feed on planets was "a technique learned from experience (what happened on Malacor 5)", that Nihilus was born from Malacor 5, and that both you and he were wounds in the force. I thought they were going to pull another Revan and have it turn out that Nihilus was some sort of dark mirror of you (revealing your face when you took off his mask *gasp*), your dark half of death and suffering that was somehow pulled from you at Malacor 5 or whatever the hell happened there GUESS I'LL NEVER KNOW. Or Nihilus was Revan returning from the outer rim? Hey Visas, what'd you see when you took off his mask? Never mind, I'll just take a look myself. Oh wait, I CAN'T! Kreia's deal? No clue. "There must always be a Darth Trayas" ? Whatever. They weren't seriously going for Final Fantasy 8's "there must always be a sorcerous" bit, were they? I guess she was just master of that academy, then got overthrown by her two apprentices. Even though she was a dozen times more powerful....I guess. I always did want to see some super powerful Jedi fighting with telekinetic sabres though. Points for that. What was the point of Go-To again? Or the whole Remote on Malacor 5 part if they were going to leave out the whole shadow generator thing anyways? Did they just want another "Villain, I've mined your whole base to explode, but it's pointless because I'm going to fight you hand to hand anyways" scene? Overall, I think they tried to write Planescape: Torment into the Star Wars universe then either realized they were in over their heads, ran out of time, or both. There's just too many similarities to deny this theory. You have the main character who mysteriously draws people to follow him. Two chicks, one who is always fighting with you (Handmaiden/Anna) and one who has "Fallen from Grace". You have the old woman Kreia/Nighthag who's setting everything into motion. The wisecracker in your group who follows you because of a secret guilt he carries regarding you (Morte/Atton). Some monotone sounding alien (Horned guy, Zerthamon guy). And finally some twisted soul who just enjoys suffering (HK47/Flame guy). The central goal is that it's time for the nameless one/force/jedi to finally die (though KoToR 2 did try to throw in the whole "every action causes a ripple" theme). So I guess KoToR 1 had the better formed, more complete plot, but KoToR 2 had the potential for something better. |
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beat it. ......so where's the ending? by 03/25/2005, 4:40am PST  another game they tried to copy by 03/25/2005, 5:08am PST Ve are Nihilus! Ve care about Nozing! NT by 03/25/2005, 9:37am PST Are these men going to hurt us? NT by 03/25/2005, 10:02am PST No, these men are cowards NT by 03/25/2005, 5:41pm PST Same writer as Planescape Torment. He had just enough material for one game. NT by 03/25/2005, 11:39am PST |
