Jade Empire

[Longdan]

Your kindness is perceptible.

[Bison]

Nah.  We just like different kinds of games.

No.  We just haven't killed anything together for awhile.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I keep sending you invites.  Somebody's gotta watch my back when Command Tent is around.  I think he may be a collaborator.  he's got one enemy kill in Chivalry yet he's managed to kill me three times.  Makes ya wonder....

[TheCommandTent]

I keep sending you invites.  Somebody's gotta watch my back when Command Tent is around.  I think he may be a collaborator.  he's got one enemy kill in Chivalry yet he's managed to kill me three times.  Makes ya wonder....

I really have no defense other than my ineptitude at the game in general.  :o

[Arctic Blast]

I liked it. It is the most over the top 'white hat good guy/black hat bad guy' choices game BioWare has ever done, which is kind of annoying. And it really is more of a straight up action game. But you get a fair amount of customization and new powers and moves as you level up, so that the way your character and my character deal with a fight is likely to be completely different based on what we can do.

[JasonPratt]

Sounds like an amped-up version of Kareteka.

[Tpek]

I actually liked it.

It's more customization than SDR listed.
For one thing, you can choose your character and then choose his starting Kung-Fu style.
You can improve it throughout the game and learn additional styles and magics.
You can invest in improving your conversation skills allowing you to intimidate better and such.
It's got an interesting theme that is very rarely explored in good western games.
You have interesting followers with secrets to uncover and who can change their personality throughout the game thanks to your actions.
It's got an very original optional ending not usually explored in other games.

Of course it also has the bad sides of many a Bioware game:
You can usually only take a single follower with you.
That idiotic Jedi/Sith points system from KOTOR, including making the entire point of having it moot by having a single choice in the end of the game affect your score completely.

[BanzaiCat]

I bought this for the Xbox way back when and didn't get very far past the first major battle. The graphics were terrible and not very appealing.

I went ahead and bought this on Steam (3.75 this week) and have to say it looks a hell of a lot better than it did.

If you enjoy Kung Fu stuff, you'll like this. Hopefully I'll think of it a bit more than "meh" but I intend to eventually hopefully see it through to the end.

[mirth]

I liked this game a lot. I'm currently on a replay of it on my Mac. It is much better looking than it was on Xbox.

I really appreciated that this was an original story, not based in the Star Wars, or some other pre-existing, universe. I thought it compared well to KOTOR and having recently replayed that I can say a lot of the dialogue in Jade Empire is better than KOTOR (more natural, not as stilted and forced).

I did prefer the turn-based combat of KOTOR over the real time action fighting in Jade Empire.

[BanzaiCat]

The voice talent leaves a little to be desired thus far. I would have preferred that they tried to sound less like they're from the Hamptons and more like from China. I think I caught an "aboot" in there too somewhere. Freakin' Canadians with their voice talents all up in my KOTOR and Jade Empire and Mass Effect games. ;)

TBH the Master is the only one thus far that sports any kind of accent. There might be a couple of other exceptions in the minor characters, but overall that's a little off-putting. No, it doesn't need to be like that ending scene from A Christmas Story with "FA ra ra ra ra" or anything, but, I don't know, I was expecting a bit more immersiveness. I had forgotten about this from the Xbox version.

Dawn Star's dialogue is pretty awesome, though. Like I said I'm still early in the game; there's plenty more ahead that's good I hope.

[mikeck]

It's been a while since I played it but it basically works like this.  You select from one of a half dozen or so pre-made characters.  The're classified as one of the following archtypes: fast, strong, magical, or a mix.  I think they each start off with a different fighting style as well or you may get to choose a fighting style when you start.  I can't remember exactly.  Fighting is 3rd person and ver similar to console type arcade fighters where timing and button combos are what win fights.  As you gain xp, you get to add perks/special moves to your fighting style

It's got a good/evil moral coice system very similar to the Bioware Star Wars games.  You can either choose to follow the Way of the Open Palm (hippy dippy Jedi) or the Way of the Fist (puppy raping Sith).

Graphics are very low polygon as it was out for the XBOX originally.

It's not a terrible game but it's kinda bleh.

Is it possible to be a hippy raping Jedi?...kind of a mix

[Gusington]

Hippy raping or hippy rapping?

This game has elements of fantasy right? I've been wanting to buy it forever.

[Nefaro]

Hippy raping or hippy rapping?

Granola smackin. Sandal packin, yo.

[mirth]

Hippy raping or hippy rapping?

This game has elements of fantasy right? I've been wanting to buy it forever.

Yes, it has fantasy elements - ghosts, demons, magic.

You can't go wrong at $3.75.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/7110/

[Gusington]

Of course tonight I won't be home til late...is this a 24 hour jammie?