Selena Halcyon
Jedi Master
KotOR is by far NOT the best game ever. In its time it was good. But even in its time I never understood the interest in HK-47. Sure, he is funny with his meatbag comments and whatnot, but all around when I did my rounds on the Ebon Hawk between missions he was one of the people I was least interested in talking to. Oh... and the astromech equivalent. I was much more interested in speaking to Jolee, Bastila, Mission, and Carth. They actually grew as characters and had relevance to the story other than "Intimidating threat: Arg, I kill meatbeats."
Battlefront... fun also... not great... zero storyline, copied gameplay, only upside... it is Star Wars. Seriously. I mean, I'm a huge Star Wars fan boy... but even I can see it despite that nice shiney outercoating.
And I love me some Empire at War, but it is only half a game. Ground battles are just terribad.
Now, on to droids. Gotta say... I think CGI is some of the worst things that make droids look "cool". Sure, you can do grandiouse things, but they just don't have the... realism or the kind of reality in them for me. And I also am not too concerned with making droids a big part of the story, nor do I really expect it. I'm reading the new Legacy Series that is out right now... and really... they added a droid called AG and he's just not that interesting. And it is not him personally, it is just that droids... aren't. Outside of their gizmos or their look they just cannot offer too much that really rounds them out as a character. They can have nice quarks (like the meatbag stuff) but even then there is little reason for it outside of programming. They lack the meat that makes a character truly engaging, relate able, or capable of growing. A droid hero would act out of programming... that's not interesting at all. A sentient hero acts out of something else entirely, something tangible and of value and that is their choice to do so despite the odds.
So sure, I look forward to seeing more droids, but it really boils down to the same reason I want to see new ships and planets. It will look nice and be cool additions to the mythos. But I come to the movies to see the story and the characters engage in a problem that they need to dig deep into themselves to over come. Droids can't offer that.
Battlefront... fun also... not great... zero storyline, copied gameplay, only upside... it is Star Wars. Seriously. I mean, I'm a huge Star Wars fan boy... but even I can see it despite that nice shiney outercoating.
And I love me some Empire at War, but it is only half a game. Ground battles are just terribad.
Now, on to droids. Gotta say... I think CGI is some of the worst things that make droids look "cool". Sure, you can do grandiouse things, but they just don't have the... realism or the kind of reality in them for me. And I also am not too concerned with making droids a big part of the story, nor do I really expect it. I'm reading the new Legacy Series that is out right now... and really... they added a droid called AG and he's just not that interesting. And it is not him personally, it is just that droids... aren't. Outside of their gizmos or their look they just cannot offer too much that really rounds them out as a character. They can have nice quarks (like the meatbag stuff) but even then there is little reason for it outside of programming. They lack the meat that makes a character truly engaging, relate able, or capable of growing. A droid hero would act out of programming... that's not interesting at all. A sentient hero acts out of something else entirely, something tangible and of value and that is their choice to do so despite the odds.
So sure, I look forward to seeing more droids, but it really boils down to the same reason I want to see new ships and planets. It will look nice and be cool additions to the mythos. But I come to the movies to see the story and the characters engage in a problem that they need to dig deep into themselves to over come. Droids can't offer that.
