First JK2 impressions

With Raven doing it, I'm about 500 times more interested than if Lucas Farts were doing it in-house.

The game will be out on time. Trust me.

I'm filing this under 'TF2 and related games' for now, ok?

That's why you shouldn't bother posting news..or opinions anyway. Why don't you look at raven's trackrecord for development cycles or something?

I just got back an email from Brain Pelletier of Ravan Software. Here's the question that I asked about and following that his reply.

Me:
With what you said in your last update http://www.bluesnews.com/plans/187/, I was wondering if this will stay true for Jedi Knight 2.

Brian:
Since Elite Force, John Carmack at id has made significant changes to the Quake III engine that allows for more vast level sizes. So rest assured, the levels in JK II will be much bigger than the ones in Elite Force.


Two things stand out with what he said. The Q3 engine will be modified a lot so it won't even look like q3. Second point is that Jon Carmack is still working on Q3? Wow. I thought the guy was gonna have his hands full with Doom. Well all this info makes me more interested in the game. :)

please no shacktags :(

Sander.

You suck!

"doubled the polygon capacity" hahaha..

What they really mean is that computers next year will be twice as powerful so they can throw really high poly shit at us using the same old engine and our comp's won't chug. Maybe.

Another wait a sec... the screens they show are the same as those being shown in Star Wars Galaxies. What gives?

Wait a sec... are they pulling a sorta "Hexen II" with the title scheme for Jedi Knight?

What I mean was Hexen was the sequel to Heretic as Jedi Knight was the sequel to Dark Forces...

Then Raven, being exellent game designers but not to keen on the concept of titles named the third installment of their Hexen/Heretic series, "Hexen II"... now they're calling "Dark Forces II: Jedi Night" "Jedi Knight 2"???

What the hell? I mean, tell me I'm being nitpicky, but what the fuck happened to calling it Dark Forces? Huh? Isn't this Dark Forces III? Are we just ditching that now? I'd personally like to see 'em call it by a totally different title but...

And, what the fuck, I thought Obiwan was Jedi Knight 2! AAAAHHHH. I'm confused.

And anyone else find it amusing that Raven has now done a game for both Star Trek AND Star Wars? Eeek. I wonder if there's any interesting internal conflict over series favoratism in there... hmmm... :)

I'm all over this game like flies on shit.

swiss jonez

Stve I demanad you go over to the LA booth and take video and pictures of jediknight 2 aand post them on the shack. I DEMAND IT!

hmm sof ghoul type animation system. /me fires up his lightsaber

Uh oh.. wait a minute. I'm starting to think that those Star Wars Galaxies shots maybe are on the wrong game, did we make a mistake?

That explains the super high poly models on a MMORPG...

Soooooooooo.... why are there Star Wars Galaxies shots accompanying this preview?

i want videos and screenshots

fuck you dognose

i almost had 1st post

Raven = good