The stagnation of an empire shouldn’t necessarily equate to a lack of technological development though.

Now, If you pardon me, I have to change the hydrospanners…

@Kadayi: Probably thats the idea. You get a big empire (or republic) and is stagnated to death. Much like the Asimov books “Fundation”, withouth the collapse (but with the civil wars). Star Wars is a very medieval future.

Like TheDeadlyShoe I always thought it was Nal Hutta too – I’m pretty sure it is in the expanded universe books at least. Kind of a shame they simplify that.

According to Star Wars wiki thing it’s “Nal Hutta, sometimes referred to simply as Hutta at around 3-4,000 BBY”. So i guess it’s no actual change there.

I just personally find it all a little tired I guess. I liked KoToR as a game, but the one thing I didn’t like about it was the fact that the technology in the game wasn’t significantly inferior to that in the movies. 3000 years is a long time for there to be literally no technological advancement of any note.

Was excited, then played KotoR1 and realized how trite and grade-school the whole “light side vs darkside” thing is.

.. you didn’t have that when you first saw the films?

Unfortunately, I fear that this will never change for me – although its diminished in recent years, I’m still a highly competitive gamer, particularly in MMO’s, and that playstyle simply doesn’t lend itself to the world-exploring, NPC-loving playstyle of my single-player ways.

That said .. I’m not particularly interested in ever playing another level-grind gear-grind game again.

Seriously, the way combat animations play out will be a deal breaker for me. If my character doesn’t look like he’s dodging blaster fire, or parrying (etc) with his melee weapon then I won’t bother with this. I’m not attaching myself to another MMO of this style, till they go beyond characters hacking the air wildly.