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coolbeans said:

Regarding KOTOR...

While I know she left the project a while ago, it was the first warning sign for me.  My internal monologue literally said: "Oh shit... they're going to be tempted to alter Bioware's original storylines, dialogue, and so on.  Fuck!"  While I've always wondered how great KOTOR could look with current-gen graphics, maybe this news is for the best.

If you look at her writing credits, so far pretty much every game she has worked on in the story department has been notably lacking in terms of story. Anthem (50 something metacritic, criticized for it's disjointed story), Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance (50 something metacritic, criticized for poor storytelling), Call of Duty Vanguard (considered by many CoD fans to have the worst campaign in the series, and even critics from Polygon and Kotaku, 2 of the wokest gaming websites, criticized the game for wokewashing history too much), Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (worst story and characters overall in the Borderlands series to date, and Sam Maggs was responsible for the worst character and worst sidequest line in the game from what I've heard), an early access Steam game called Scavengers that currently has a 59% user score 2 years into early access. She also claimed that she was lead writer on Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart and that Mark Stuart at Insomniac stole her work, yet had no proof of that allegation, and Sony subsequently didn't put her name in the game's credits at all. 

The fact that Sam Maggs is still employed in the gaming industry tells me that the gaming industry needs to start hiring based on merit again, instead of hiring to boost a companies ESG score.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 18 November 2023

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Angelus said:
konnichiwa said:

Wanted to buy Jade empire/Kotor I but the one star rating told me enough, all comments were about the digital games only being in French for KoToR and German for Jade Empire... An old issue that Xbox never fixed.

Anyway bought instead Lego City undercover and Mega Man Zero/zX collection.

A friend of mine in Italy only just recently bought and played Jade Empire, digitally, on Xbox. It wasn't in German

It depends on location but it is silly that we can't choose a language version to download 

If I want to download KOTOR 1 I get comments how it is in French only

but with KOTOR 2: I get it is only in English X_X comments.






I just don't get why production numbers for Xbox Series are still this low. They needed to be able to stay in stock all of November and December to have a good chance of reclaiming the launch aligned lead with Xbox One. 

Xbox One sold 4.4m in November and December 2016, while Xbox Series sold 3m in November and December last year, so Xbox needs to sell like 1.7m more units in November and December than last year just to tie up Xbox One. It just doesn't seem like they're going to have the stock levels to pull that off so far. 

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 18 November 2023

Ryuu96 said:

Q: Is there a chance that, with its overseas popularity, the Persona series could sell 5 million copies in its first year?

A: By increasing the number of platforms it is available on and the regions it is released in, we have been increasing the sales of Persona 5. We believe that it would be possible for a major Persona title, such as a numbered release, to sell 5 million copies in its first year by releasing it on multiple platforms and simultaneously worldwide from day one.

We also have high expectations for the new IP Metaphor: ReFantazio from the developers of Persona 5.

Sega Targets 5 Million Sales in Debut Year for Next Numbered Persona Title - Persona Central

Sounds very likely that Persona 6 is launching on Xbox day one.

It only took them 20+ years.



konnichiwa said:
Angelus said:

A friend of mine in Italy only just recently bought and played Jade Empire, digitally, on Xbox. It wasn't in German

It depends on location but it is silly that we can't choose a language version to download 

If I want to download KOTOR 1 I get comments how it is in French only


but with KOTOR 2: I get it is only in English X_X comments.

You probably didn't notice but you literally posted the solution.

There is no French version of Kotor that you could buy. You can only buy Kotor. The version that will be downloaded depends on your region/language setting. Since you're located in Belgium and use Dutch as a language, the system will download the version that is linked to your settings which is French since French is one of your countries official languages and a Dutch version probably doesn't exist. (Btw. French is understood by 89% of the population according to Wikipedia while English is only at 40%, so why should English be the default language?)

Change your location (and/or language setting) on your Xbox. Simple as that. After the download you can (likely) switch back.



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