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[SW:TOR] Sarlacc announced as latest playable race!

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  • GungHoGungHo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    The Greedo race is called Rodians, and yes, it is very likely that Rodians will be playable in SW TOR. They are one of the most featured races in SW EU, and they appeared in both of the KotOR games.
    I want to be a Trandoshan bounty hunter who constantly makes ethnic jokes about Wookiees, but then says, "I'm just kidding, some of my best friends are Wookiees."
    delroland wrote: »
    The races that have showed up in the demo vids:
    Togruta
    Kel Dor
    Chagrian
    Dashade (thought this was a Savrip at first)
    Trandoshan (apparently, I thought this was a Duros at first)
    Nikto

    Screenshots:
    Gran
    Mon Calamari
    Kaleesh
    Selkath
    Kel Dors bother me. Without their masks, they have vagina faces.

    Gran bother me too. Something about them basically looking like three-eyed goat men bugs the shit out of me. I expect them to chew cud. And, every time I play PnP and fight them, I make called shots against their eye stalks to "fix them".

    Regarding the Nautolans (Kit Fisto), I liked them a lot more in the Clone Wars series than I liked the "real" version in the movies. In the movies, the rubber looks ridiculous, but somehow the CGI rendering makes it look less goofy. Though, I don't think I give the faux Jamacian accent a thumbs up.

    If I want to put my favorite race in the hat, I'm going to go with the Weequay. I also like Arkanians, but they're all dicks.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I have always been a fan of the Cathar.

    Also the Chiss.

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    GungHo wrote: »
    Kel Dors bother me. Without their masks, they have vagina faces.

    Without their masks, they also can't breathe outside of their home planet, so odds are you won't see many without the mask.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm going to feel like a horrible nerd for even questioning this but

    Wouldn't having the saber turned on underwater superheat the water and cook you? Boil 'im like a fish.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    jdarksun wrote: »
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    I'm going to feel like a horrible nerd for even questioning this but

    Wouldn't having the saber turned on underwater superheat the water and cook you? Boil 'im like a fish.
    Normal lightsabers just short out underwater. You have to make a saber with a bifurcating cyclical-ignition pulse for it to function while submerged.

    ...why doesn't it cook everything around it? I have no idea. How the hell do lightwhips work?

    Lightwhips don't exist lalalalalala

    NOT LISTENING

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Nerd fight.

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  • delrolanddelroland Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    The question I've seen raised though is will BioWare be willing to implement voice acting for non-Basic/English speaking races for every permutation of race and class? I believe that to be doubtful. This eliminates Rodians and Wookies as player characters, though they could certainly show up as companions (which requires a lot less voice acting, and only one set of lines instead of six).

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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    delroland wrote: »
    The question I've seen raised though is will BioWare be willing to implement voice acting for non-Basic/English speaking races for every permutation of race and class? I believe that to be doubtful. This eliminates Rodians and Wookies as player characters, though they could certainly show up as companions (which requires a lot less voice acting, and only one set of lines instead of six).

    I couldn't stop laughing as I thought about someone recording an entire voice track for a wookie PC in this game.
    It's a cute thought but I don't think that would stop them from recording a couple of hours of gargles and barks to mash together for wookie speech.

    I don't think wookie's will be player characters but not for that reason.

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  • RabidNerdRabidNerd Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Adda wrote: »
    I couldn't stop laughing as I thought about someone recording an entire voice track for a wookie PC in this game.
    It's a cute thought but I don't think that would stop them from recording a couple of hours of gargles and barks to mash together for wookie speech.

    I don't think wookie's will be player characters but not for that reason.

    Anything wrong with a wookie sith shooting lightning out of his paw?

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Well, he might catch his fur on fire, for one.

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  • SnowblindvictimSnowblindvictim Flying casual Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    GungHo wrote: »
    Kel Dors bother me. Without their masks, they have vagina faces.

    Giving new meaning to the term "skull fuck"
    :winky:

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  • CherrnCherrn Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Adda wrote: »
    delroland wrote: »
    The question I've seen raised though is will BioWare be willing to implement voice acting for non-Basic/English speaking races for every permutation of race and class? I believe that to be doubtful. This eliminates Rodians and Wookies as player characters, though they could certainly show up as companions (which requires a lot less voice acting, and only one set of lines instead of six).

    I couldn't stop laughing as I thought about someone recording an entire voice track for a wookie PC in this game.
    It's a cute thought but I don't think that would stop them from recording a couple of hours of gargles and barks to mash together for wookie speech.

    I don't think wookie's will be player characters but not for that reason.

    They just need to track down this thing.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIV8jHnfwP8

    Whoop, problem solved, infinite Wookiee voice acting.

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    delroland wrote: »
    The question I've seen raised though is will BioWare be willing to implement voice acting for non-Basic/English speaking races for every permutation of race and class? I believe that to be doubtful. This eliminates Rodians and Wookies as player characters, though they could certainly show up as companions (which requires a lot less voice acting, and only one set of lines instead of six).

    Howrawwhhhroohw whrahwhrhhahooowh
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    - Hrowhrawhrow
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    Rhhhhhhhrhhhhwooooooaaahhrrr!

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lightwhips are stupid. Why can't people just use a traditional weapon?

    Something like this for example:

    Kel_Dor_Jedi_Weapon_Master_SWG9.jpg

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  • GungHoGungHo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    delroland wrote: »
    The question I've seen raised though is will BioWare be willing to implement voice acting for non-Basic/English speaking races for every permutation of race and class? I believe that to be doubtful. This eliminates Rodians and Wookies as player characters, though they could certainly show up as companions (which requires a lot less voice acting, and only one set of lines instead of six).
    In Jedi Academy, Rodians and Kel Dor spoke Basic. Same in the Clone Wars series for Rodians. I don't believe there's a physical limitation to Rodians speaking Basic... they just lisp. Greedo was just poorly educated. Even Jar-Jar could speak Basic. Think about that the next time you see Greedo.

    Wookiees can't speak Basic, though, unless they have what their species considers a speech impediment.'

    The races that really can't speak Basic are relgated to bug-men, lizard-men, and bear-men. So, I don't think you'd have a big problem providing a range of characters. Hell, you can make a Rodian lisp via Auto-Tune.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    GungHo wrote: »
    The races that really can't speak Basic are relgated to bug-men, lizard-men, and bear-men. So, I don't think you'd have a big problem providing a range of characters. Hell, you can make a Rodian lisp via Auto-Tune.

    I just imagined a bunch of Rodians walking around the game sounding like Kanye West in "Heartless."

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  • ArchonexArchonex No hard feelings, right? Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Correct me if i'm wrong, but lightsaber nunchaku seems like a terrible idea. It's like a jedi got piss drunk and ended up convinced he could improve on the lightsaber.

    I'm picturing every idiot ever who tried to look cool while using them. Only instead of whapping themselves in the balls or face, he takes off several inches of flesh, or de-limbs himself.

    Hell, even a Sith would just need to force push the nunchaku into the user.

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  • GungHoGungHo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    People don't generally get hit by the chains of numb-chucks. In fact, if you're hitting someone with the chain of a numb-chuck, you're doing it wrong.

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  • BigityBigity Lubbock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm doing good if I don't hit my nuts with any part of the 'numb-chuck'. If I do I wish I was more numb.

    EDIT: Also, choking with the chain works great.

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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    GungHo wrote: »
    People don't generally get hit by the chains of numb-chucks. In fact, if you're hitting someone with the chain of a numb-chuck, you're doing it wrong.

    I think he knows how nun-chucks work, he's referring to the user touching the chains.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    The only alternative light-weapons I'm willing to accept are lightaxes and lightshields.

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  • GungHoGungHo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    lightspears

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  • delrolanddelroland Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lighterangs.

    Dental lightfloss.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    And this is the problem with the extended universe extending just a little too far.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    They had a laser whip guy in Johnny Mnemonic as well

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    Personally I want armor made out of lasers. I'd just run around screaming guttural noises while tackling people

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    Only in the movie so you could see it. In the short story it was just a mono-molecular wire.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    yeah, I always figured it was a super-heated micro-filament.

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  • LouieLouie Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    It makes sense that jedi weapons follow a similar evolution to real life weapons.

    Soon enough they will be using guns that shoot out these light/laser beams.

    I know, sounds ridiculous but i could see them being written into the EU.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Don't forget about muzzle loaded laser muskets.

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    or what about a spindisc launcher that shoots tiny lightsabers that are spinning at millions of rpms.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lightsabers evolved from Proto-sabers which were described as using "Frozen-Blaster" technology.

    But honestly, if you go to making a "projectile" lightsaber weapon you've pretty much just made the blaster again and a Jedi will be able to deflect it.

    And as far as practicality goes, these are the ones that make the most sense:

    Standard Sabers
    Dual-Phase
    Double-bladed
    Short Sabers

    After those four they start getting a little wiggy.

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    regardless, i still want lightsaber wolverine claws

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  • SparvySparvy Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Have there ever been a laser/blaster shotgun? Because that would be pretty sweet.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    There was a guy in one of the books who had a double-barrel blaster that was designed so the blaster bolts would intersect at a certain range and cause a big explosion.

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  • gigawatt666gigawatt666 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    There was a guy in one of the books who had a double-barrel blaster that was designed so the blaster bolts would intersect at a certain range and cause a big explosion.
    His name was Arb Skynxnex. A Glitterstim Spice spider ate him.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    There was a guy in one of the books who had a double-barrel blaster that was designed so the blaster bolts would intersect at a certain range and cause a big explosion.
    His name was Arb Skynxnex. A Glitterstim Spice spider ate him.

    It happens?

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    They don't so much eat you as absorb your body heat and energy.

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  • darkmayodarkmayo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Take "Sex Machine" from Dusk til Dawn and change it from a gun to a light saber.

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  • Shifty_CalhounShifty_Calhoun Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    "I see your schwartz is as big as mine"

    Wasnt there a gun in dark forces that was just like a shotgun? I think it may have been some sort of modified mining lazer....

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    they have flechette launchers and shit in the guide to weapons and weaponry

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