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TOS sold out nationwide
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Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
human5892 said:Yikes, someone hit a nerve!
Maybe KOTOR wasn't that fun for him -- everyone's entitled to their opinion.
Thanks for clarifying that. I thought it was some sort of genius, solid fact. Can you make another post where you explain my opining? I can single out stupidity with snarkiness, it's what makes GA go round.
Sure:Musashi Wins! said:
"Yikes! Sounds like I hit a nerve.
I was just pointing out that your reaction seemed a little over the top relative to his comment."
Classifying people expressing their opinions as "stupid" doesn't make the GAF go round. It makes it cry.Musashi Wins! said:
ok why the hell does ebgames NOT have any copies? it says back order! and that zip code search also had "no" under "more coming." If this is a hit why stop making copies? how much does a freaking disk cost? yeesh.
I may have to buy a pre-owned one like I did with Ico. I want a new one.
I may have to buy a pre-owned one like I did with Ico. I want a new one.
Alcibiades
Member
no need to buy pre-owned, check:
bestbuy.com
amazon.com
target.com
wal-mart.com
k-mart.com
someone is bound to have it in stock...
bestbuy.com
amazon.com
target.com
wal-mart.com
k-mart.com
someone is bound to have it in stock...
Meatpuppet
Member
Except for the fact that in buying pre-owned you are funding Gamestop or something similar, rather than the people who actually contributed to the creation of the game
Musashi Wins! said:
Battle systems are key for me. Battle systems must not be improtant to you. KOTOR battle system was nearly as clunky as Suikoden III's. KOTOR was mediocre at best. Decent story, but half-assed battle system. That isn't "trashing" KOTOR. i give reviews by mags and such a 6.8. They don't matter to me. YMMV. Don't take it as a personal affront. Yeeesh!
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
P90 said:
I only take it personal to the effect that I think it's worth noting that an opinion isn't very good if it's, "I love Kotor, it's like TOS except a good game, har har." Say something else outside of a troll, explain a take a bit. I fully realize someone could like TOS better, but why not say why? I'd take KOTOR's battle system over any part of Suikoden III, and ToS over that game as well. ToS has a really fun battling system linked to a story that's recognized as really lame outside this board, to me that's a problem for such a narrative driven genre, but you must not think that's important. Reviewer's play a lot of different games in the same genre and while I'll be the last to support everything they do it's obvious that while KOTOR was a breath of fresh air to the genre and voted to many GOTY awards, TOS is an above average title that won't be accorded near the same status as time passes. If you think that's due to the "hype" machine and not any sort of merit, that's fine by me. I didn't make the comparison.
KOTOR/TOS actually seem pretty similar it terms of early success imo. Both releasing on RPG starved platforms in the summer months, neither having much real hype prerelease, both having novel "real time" combat engines for the genre, high reviews all around, both selling extremely well... I hope Symphonia has the same staying power, it's definitely a strong canidate for RPG of the year awards (the only real strong competition would be Star Ocean, FFXI and Paper Mario 2 imo). I think KOTOR had not only the benefit of higher reviews generally but less competition and it being a western developed RPG scores points too.
Jupiter Jones
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Hellraizah
Member
My store is sold out of that title. We only received 14 copies since launch of the game, and it truely wasn't enough.
Alex
Member
Tales games > KOTOR. But I have an irrational hatred for all things D&D and Star Wars, so I'm not the one to ask.
Anyway. ToS has been cleaned out of my town, I had to order it from EB. Last time that happened was...HM64. Wacky. Pretty different story from ToE/D2 which had small shipments, but was still easy as hell to find, heh.
Anyway. ToS has been cleaned out of my town, I had to order it from EB. Last time that happened was...HM64. Wacky. Pretty different story from ToE/D2 which had small shipments, but was still easy as hell to find, heh.
Necroscope
Member
I can't find a freaking copy in Vancouver, BC. Futureshop said they might have some this coming wed.
MaddenNFL64
Member
No copies in my local Gamestop. It's very irritating. But I have a ton of games to play anyway.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
Coleosis said:
I'll give you $5.
namco just printed the game conservatively. i'm certain the chains will reorder, and then namco will reprint, and all will be well.
KOTOR vs. TOS argument is kinda bizarre. they strike me as not highly comparable on many levels besides being RPGs. that is to say -- i would expect someone who really loves one to not think the other is so great, given their various differences.
KOTOR vs. TOS argument is kinda bizarre. they strike me as not highly comparable on many levels besides being RPGs. that is to say -- i would expect someone who really loves one to not think the other is so great, given their various differences.
i have an entirely rational dislike of star wars and D&D, and thus didn't actually play much KOTOR. i feel like i ought to, but i can't make myself want to.Alex said:
P90 said:
Kotor won a handful of GOTYs from credible sites last year, it managed to rank amoung the top tier RPGS of all time. You honetly belive the mojority of gamers are jaded?
TOS isnt scoring nearly as well as KOTOR, its not reciving the same amount of hype from reviewers or websites alike. People feel the need to trash KOTOR because its an extremely well done Xbox game. And that its one of the few superior RPGs from the west.
worldrunover
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jarrod said:
Umm why does everyone seem to miss the fact KOTOR has NAME RECOGNITION? Seriously, it may come as a surprise, but Star Wars is pretty popular in this country. For this reason alone KOTOR will outsell ToS. It's a wet dream for gamers to be able to level up their young knight into powerful Jedis (good or bad).
Not saying anything bad about the game, but honestly, it could've sucked hard and still sold reasonably well. Every Star Wars game sells at LEAST reasonably well.
Prine said:
Or maybe they just don't agree with you. I certainly never saw anything in KOTOR to justify the scores it got. It was nice to have some choice over how the story developed, even if it was relatively minor, but the story itself was good at best, and the battle system was flat-out boring - especially compared to Symphonia.
Eh, it's getting high scores none the less and a good share of media attention. They're not exactly the same no, but they have quite a few surprising parallels.Prine said:
I agree with that though I'd also say KOTOR's success stems more from the quality of the game itself, a lack of competition on XBox and Bioware's reputation moreso than the Star Wars license even. Branding does help though, and it's something Symphonia lacks (in the west).worldrunover said:
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jarrod said:
Quality insomuch as if the customer asks for that " good Star Wars game for xbox" I'd point to KOTOR before Clone Wars. I won't believe that Bioware's name pushed the game more than the Star Wars license.
