New Mini Games

[mr_sir]

you would think that, with all the technology in the star wars universe, somebody would have invented something like a pinball machine for the cantinas lol. even if they just had a different card game, maybe something along the lines of poker even. or they could have proper betting on swoop races, not like the little betting dialogue in kotor2 on nar shaddaa, and have swoop races with 2 or more at a time racing against each other (although then they are getting close to pod racing)

[marten0305]

I liked hunting i just wished we could do hunting on other planets, hunting different creatures. The player can get alot of good rewards for hunting on different planets.

I liked the fastest racer to finish wins but i'd like to be given a choice or even challenge other swoop racers to a head to head race, not the fastest time but the first to cross the finish wins.

[Suicide Girl]

Originally Posted by KyLewin

I wouldn't mind seeing some new mini games, personally. It would be kind of nice to see the people of the galaxy far far away having more to entertain themselves with than one simple card game and some dancing girls.

On that happy note, we could have Cluedo and Monopoly in KotOR III, not to mention how fitting Risk would be!

I am very very sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude to anyone or anything; I just couldn't resist the sudden temptation to say something very stupid and annoying... Sorry. NHF, anyone?


And as for the swoop racing ideas... It would be kind of cool to have a more complex form of racing, but isn't the main point of swoop racing that it's different from pod racing? And anyway, racing swoops against five opponents would kind of make for a game itself (or maybe I've just been playing too much Need for Speed...) But head-to-head races would be very nice, and I daresay implementable. (not a real word, is it?)

[KyLewin]

Originally Posted by Suicide Girl

On that happy note, we could have Cluedo and Monopoly in KotOR III, not to mention how fitting Risk would be!

I am very very sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude to anyone or anything; I just couldn't resist the sudden temptation to say something very stupid and annoying... Sorry. NHF, anyone?

Temptation is tough to resist, no worries...

Originally Posted by Suicide Girl

And as for the swoop racing ideas... It would be kind of cool to have a more complex form of racing, but isn't the main point of swoop racing that it's different from pod racing? And anyway, racing swoops against five opponents would kind of make for a game itself (or maybe I've just been playing too much Need for Speed...) But head-to-head races would be very nice, and I daresay implementable. (not a real word, is it?)

Well, swoop racing isn't really that different from podracing to begin with. I mean, you race along at high speeds, avoiding obsticels, trying to get to the finish line as fast as possible... the only difference is that you aren't racing against anyone else. Racing against others might be enough for a game in and of itself (except it's been done about a thousand times), but many games now a days go that route (I'm pretty sure GTA: SA is a combination of about 4 different games at least, even if you don't open the "Hot Coffee" mini game). It's nice to be able to take your mind off of saving the universe, kick your feet up, and play a relaxing game of Yahtzee with the Ithorian you saved from a gang of Sith and the Twi'lek you convinced to give up her sinful ways and join the LS again.

[Suicide Girl]

Originally Posted by KyLewin

It's nice to be able to take your mind off of saving the universe, kick your feet up, and play a relaxing game of Yahtzee with the Ithorian you saved from a gang of Sith and the Twi'lek you convinced to give up her sinful ways and join the LS again.

Now that sounds tempting...


I know swoop racing's basically like pod racing, and the only real difference is that, well, pods are like formulas (as in Fomula 1) and swoops are like bikes, and swoop racing is done like rallying. So if swoop racing suddenly became a multiple-opponents-simultaneously event, it would just be too similar to pod racing. And why not?, she asks herself, realising she is trying to make a very obvious point for no apparent reason...

I'm really ranting here. It would be interesting to swoop race against people in real time. And there was also something else I really wanted to say, but I seem to have completely forgotten what it was even about, so I might as well just shut up and stop embarrassing myself...

[Macen Press]

Down with mini games they re boring. Add more missions.

[mr_sir]

Originally Posted by Macen Press

Down with mini games they re boring. Add more missions.

i agree add more missions but they should keep mini games - after all they are optional so if you find them boring then you don't have to do them. i personal quite like mini-games within a game (they are sometimes i welcome break if you just feel like relaxing on your pc for an hour or so and don't really feel like playing properly)

[marten0305]

You are all wrong, the difference between pod racing and swoop racing is one is done with a pod racer hence pod racing and the other is done with a swoop bike hence swoop racing. podracing is around a course and swoop racing is a straight point to point. And since they probably didn't have podracing in the kotor times i think they could fit in one on one swoop races. You have to remember that one on one was just an option in my idea, i didn't subtract the beat the time swoop race.

The OPTION to do a mini-game is one of the great things about kotor, why would you want to get rid of it? It's not like you have to do it hence option

And different subject, none of you had comments on the hunting thing, none of you liked or disliked it?

[mr_sir]

must have missed that hunting idea. i think hunting would be great as i liked wandering around tatooine in kotor1 but was disappointed that you were so limited with what you could hunt and where. for example, hunting in the shadowlands would have been so much fun.

[marten0305]

The whole hunting and bounty hunting are two cool ideas, i know that would be one of the first things i do in the game.

[Hill-Shatar]

You are all wrong, the difference between pod racing and swoop racing is one is done with a pod racer hence pod racing and the other is done with a swoop bike hence swoop racing. podracing is around a course and swoop racing is a straight point to point. And since they probably didn't have podracing in the kotor times i think they could fit in one on one swoop races. You have to remember that one on one was just an option in my idea, i didn't subtract the beat the time swoop race.

Not all wrong, just with slightly different or incomplete views. While an opponent might be fun, could you imagine trying to have two swoops going on the same sized tracks as the last two games?

It wouldn't exactly be the same type of swoop racing that we started with... which I rarely played anyways in the second one.

[marten0305]

I guess you got a point there, but i'm sure there must be away to fit it in somewhere in the game.

[micahel]

an xbox live/network play option where you can load your saved game characters and fight in arena battles(like on Taris in KotOR 1)
dejarik would be cool, as would more opportunities to use the turrets

[KyLewin]

Kotor was originally going to start out with the PC and Carth at a Republic base that gets attacked by the Sith and then have to find/rescue Bastila within the mostly destroyed base. At one point the PC would have had to use a turret to take out some circling fighters. Personally, if there's any sort of base on a planet visited in the next Kotor, I wouldn't mind shooting some Sith out of the sky above a planet (it's the same as shooting them in space, but the change in senary might be kind of nice... like using the gun in Kotor II to take out the Sith in the hanger).

I also think a bounty hunter minigame could be fun. Maybe actually have the character have to solve some clues or something to figure out exactly where the person with the bounty is at (rather than just going door to door until you find the person). And hunting could be interesting if it's done right. Mostly it would depend on how much of the planet is explorable. I know they tried having it in Kotor I and it was mediocre at best, but if there had been more of Tatooine open for exploration, it could have been interesting. Just so long as they don't have the exact same number of animals in one of three spots (that rotate in sequence) everytime you enter the area... that was part of what made it boring in my opinion.

I was thinking that some sort of lightsaber-construction minigame might be fun (or annoying if you hate minigames). If nothing else it could let your character make his or her lightsaber somewhat unique rather than something that is so ordinary that it stacks in your inventory with the lightsaber of every no-name Sith you slaughter on your journey. I'm not nearly creative enough to think up how such a minigame would work, but it obviously wouldn't be the twitch-type game that Swoop racing is and not too based on luck like Pazaak... some sort of happy medium, perhaps? Obviously it would have to be different from the regular workbench upgrading that you do, but I don't think that would be too difficult. Anyway, at least it would be something new.

[FighterTundra]

i think of a turret-tower mini-game, which has blaster-mini-guns (the ones that bring you down in kotOR II when you land the shuttle on the telos surface).