Talk about game ending bug, that would totally piss me off.

Reminds me of a character I had in "Sacred" a couple months ago, the developers released a patch that killed all previous characters. So a character I nurtured and played for nearly 4 weeks, was gone.. That day I posted the game on Amazon and got rid of it.. Do they not even consider these things? Ugh.

Lucasarts has been nothing but a letdown for me, I gave up on their games a long time ago. Kotor (original one) was too slow for me anyway, and seemed to drag on and on and on. I listed Kotor as one of the most overrated games of all time. So I have zero incentive to buy an Xbox so I can play Kotor2, and even less incentive after hearing about your problem.

Damn bugs.

KOTOR 1 also suffered from this problem which seems to lie in the way it's cut-scene movies are loaded up. Often you can go around this error by either going to your autosave and simply doing some other things for 10 minutes or so and then ree-attempting the action that loads the movie, changing the members of your party before you go into the movie load (crucial in late stages of the game as it crashes at one point everytime unless you have the right chars (even though it doesn't tell you you have to)), or by going to another planet or doing something that causes a different movie to load first. These things seem to reset whatever sticky bit the game has a problem with.

By all indication I've read on this game (and I was very tempted to buy the XBox version) is that the game isn't exactly a complete product. The major complaint is that the dark-side storyline isn't complete.

Originally, both PC & XBox version are supposed to come out at the same time. I'm glad that they've held PC version over to Feburary. It certaintly give them time to fix the bugs.

Of course, IGN is right there, ready to plant a "93% Editors Choice" award on it - idiots.. I swear the gaming mentality at IGN is of the level of a 14 year old. To this day, I still maintain, Kotor1 was one of the most overhyped titles in history. I found it overall, to be only an average game. But then, I said the same thing about Black and White - overhyped, and way overblown. Years later, I think most people are starting to agree with me.

As for Kotor2, the "Real" review sites aren't being so friendly with it. Most saying its buggy, has too few improvements, and the story is lacking.

Metacritic yields some interesting contrasts. Link

Glad I'm playing Light then.

I've seen a similar game-crashing one with KOTOR2, entering a transport tube on the station around Telos. Went to black, couldn't do anything.

Fagboy got owzed by Microsoft.

easy to say as an anonymous coward:)

They're now on all consoles these days.

hmmm sweet sweet Soldner... How I relished throwing your disc across the parking lot....

Out of all three consoles, the XBOX has the worst problems. Having to reload a disc over and over again just to get it to boot do to a disc read error is annoying. The disc read eror problem didn't rear it's ugly head until after a few months of use. I did a Google search and found that "disc read error' is a common problem on the XBOX. I only have an XBOX for the exclusive games, otherwise I despise the XBOX.

It's a console game. They won't "fix" it and remanufacture. I guess we'll see how the PC version does.

kotor 2 was rushed for a Xmas release by lucas arts, obsidian had no choice in the matter.
Don't get me wrong, the game is bugged to hell, but the PC and International console version released in a couple of months should definetly be a much cleaned up code.
I had major issues on kotor2 like not being able to talk to members of my crew and the inability to progress in the story.
Luckily enough I have a modded xbox, I say lucky because unlike an un-modded xbox I was capable of deleting all the cached files on my xbox hard drive (usually residing in the X,Y or Z partition) which was causing problems due to the all the global variables getting messed up.
Don't even try to give me a hard time about having a modded xbox as I live in the UK and the ntsc and pal releases were about 4 moths apart, and no, I don't have a huge ass hard drive, I still just use the original as supplied with my machine.

All that said I've played through to what I think is the last battle and as soon as my xbox is back @ my house I'll just finish it off.
I will however definetly be investing in the International version when it's released.

I know about 4-5 people with Xboxes vs about 30 with PS2s. The PS2 folks talk about their games. The Xbox guys talk about their bugs. 3 of us have issues where sometimes the box appears to have difficulty reading the disk and will take upto 20 minutes to finish whatever it is its reading - if it doesn't bail out entirely. Sometimes it gets corrupted and loads garbage in. Most of us are on our second or third Xbox - only to find the problems continued. We all bought from different places.

Perhaps Kotor1 pushed the limitations of the Xbox, but Kotor2 might as well be called "Kotor1 continued" there's nothing really new or exciting in it on the Xbox. Infact, all your old favorite bugs from the first engine are still there Quick example: Friendly AI only move toward you, so you will find yourself getting stuck countless times simply because none of your characters can move and you have to mess about with swapping chars in/out at xbox-like snails pace. Numerous NPCs get stuck in a sub-plot state or fail to come out of it (e.g. salvagers still have join the militia option).

I'm hoping the PC version is delayed not only for bug and content fixes but also because the PC version is going to be making full use of the video and sound features available to those of us with more sense than to buy a hunk'o'junk manufactured by Mickeysoft.

Summary: Don't buy Kotor2 Xbox unless you are a masochist.