Sounds like they went overboard with the enemy count. Maybe they just really, REALLY don't want you to miss the HK factory, so they're giving you every chance to have HK-47 in your party?

I'm just about to leave Peragus, and like you said, there's basically no change. On the other hand, my upgraded rig can maximize all the settings and still have everything be lightning-fast, including the save and load times. And I haven't gotten a single bug so far (though that's guaranteed to change). KOTOR II the way it was MEANT to be played!

Might be, since apparently discovering the HK plant takes several encounters with the HK kill squads while having 47 in your group - but having a HK trio show every third time you switch modules is overkill. Since these guys also drop HK components, I was able to assemble HK just after Telos - which is kinda nice, but still.

And yeah, the game looks much more nicer with better rigs. Even the discussion animations, as mechanical as they look, are better than the ones Bethesda tacked onto Fallout 3 or Oblivion. :p

Well if you're going to set your standards THAT low...

Ahhh, I still disagree, and I always have baout this game.

I would argue that when the experience that a game delivers transcends its flaws, the flaws do not need to be forgiven but need to be understood in the context that the "best" game is not the most perfect. The experience that KotOR2 conveys is unlike any other RPG - or game - I've experienced, the writing so tight and bold and confident that there's nothing else rally quite like it.

It's still in my top ten of all time, by power of Chris Avellone alone.

That's understandable, but the problem for me is that in this particular game too many strands end up leading absolutely nowhere. They do such a fantastic job of setting up aspects of the late game (see: HK's story, the Mira/Kreia relationship, G0-T0's manipulation of the droids, damn near everything about Bao-Dur) and then leave them all hanging.

To me, that's little better than cockteasing, especially since the set-ups were all so well done, and that frustrates me to no end. Don't mistake me. Despite being incomplete, it's still a great story, and one of my favorite RPGs ever. But I can't overlook the fact that it is incomplete.

It'd be like seeing Othello, and having the entire final act be replaced with Iago saying "it was me all along!!!" and then having the curtain fall. It is with little exaggeration that I say that it almost hurts me to finish this game, because it could have been so much more.

Shame they didn't have another year. I would have liked to see the Droid Planet.

Agreed. Although I know at least one modder was able to add it in using what few notes remained. It wouldn't have been the same though, since the dialogue was mostly left unwritten, and even the quests were more in the idea phase than anything.

Alas, what might have been....

It's cool though: I still love what we've got. I'm debating if I want to have any of my party kill each other. Lord knows that they've always wanted to. Which is another thing I really like about this game: unlike every other RPG I can think of, almost everybody on your team hates each other. That's something I've never seen before or since, and I think it's really, really well done.

did the complete the romance with the female character and the first male NPC?

They were never intended to have a "completed" love story (ditto with the male character and his 'potential' interests). Obsidian doesn't do romance stories, and I applaud them for that. However, Atton's scene at Malachor is restored, yes.

Cool. Now I just need to play KOTOR and KOTOR 2.

I've always wanted to, could never find them, found KOTOR, wouldn't work on vista... etc.

Maybe i'll find a way to finagle enough money out of the budget to buy KOTOR 1 and hope for 2 to come out. (Yep money is that tight)