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I haven't decided. I will eventually do both of course, but not sure which one I do first.

 

Playing Lightside first would make Dark Side that much more fun though I would think. =)

 

I have been waiting a long time for a DS game though, so I might be tempted to play that first!

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umm stupid question but I've never finished any of the SP games (JK1 or JK2) so I have to ask.

 

Does light/dark make a difference story wise?

 

Like multiple endings and such, or is it just you get different powers based on if you kill pedestrians or not?

 

JA single player actually looks pretty cool and I’m going to give it a try, I just wanted to know if it’s going to be worth playing as a light/dark twice to see different endings and such.

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Well in JK2 (never played the first JK) you can use dark and light force powers, so the ending was the same. I'm not completely sure, but anyone who has played SP more than twice (not me) would be able to tell you.

 

I think I'm going to do light first, then dark on my second time through. There should be different endings, I can't think of anything in any interview that said it, but I thought it would be a given.

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Ive played JK SP 3 times and i've gotten the same ending each time. There really isn't anything that would make you turn to the darkside in JK2. Killing stormies once you've taken their weapons? Er....no, JO didn't include this. And killing droids doesn't help either.

 

Regarding JA, i'm tempted to go the darkside route first, but I believe the "true" ending will be the light ending ( like JK1).So i'll beat that first, then followed by darkside.

 

Light Side : Female : Twilek

 

Dark Side: Male : Human

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Originally posted by FK | unnamed

umm stupid question but I've never finished any of the SP games (JK1 or JK2) so I have to ask.

 

Does light/dark make a difference story wise?

 

Like multiple endings and such, or is it just you get different powers based on if you kill pedestrians or not?

 

JA single player actually looks pretty cool and I’m going to give it a try, I just wanted to know if it’s going to be worth playing as a light/dark twice to see different endings and such.

 

In Jedi Knight II you couldn't decide to be on the light or dark side...you were sort of in between until the end when Kyle turned more lightish.

 

In Jedi Knight I, if you killed unarmed NPCs like droids and pedestrians, it would cause a light/dark bar to move right or left...left being light, right being dark. Once you could choose light and dark powers, choosing light powers would move towards the light side and choosing dark powers moved to the dark side. Very shortly after you could select light/dark powers, the game would reach the branching point where you'd go one way or the other...if you were on the light (left) side of the light/dark bar, then you would go to the light side and could only select light side powers (even if you had selected a dark side power...it would just take those points off)...if you were on the dark (right) side of the light/dark bar, then you'd go to the dark side and you could only select dark side powers. There were two different endings as well...you'd fight different Dark Jedi at a certain level depending on the path you chose and if you went to the dark side, Kyle would at one point kill Jan and at the end of the game you'd see a fairly long cutscene that was pretty cool. If you went to the light side, Jan would live and the ending cutscene would be completely different...it wouldn't be as long and not so evilly cool either. ;)

 

I've heard that Jedi Academy will just have a certain point where you have to make the choice of either the light side or the dark side...no light/dark bar. It was just something I read in a Raven interview and it didn't go into much detail so I may be wrong.

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Yeah, JK1 has been the only game so far to let you choose DarkSide or LightSide. The levels were slightly different, as well as having different cutscenes (including a different ending), but it only affected the latter half of the game really (though you could start playing whichever way you wanted early on).

 

IIRC, you got "light side points" by rescuing certain NPC's before they got killed by enemies, and you got "dark side points" by killing pedestrians. Killing droids incurred no penalty, but if you killed WeeGee, the family Droid, something really cool happens (just try it and you'll see).

 

However, what really affects your going to one side or the other is your choice of powers (picking a dark side power pushes you a lot farther than killing civies for example). Though if you "stay true" to one side up to the point of change, you could earn special bonus powers unavailable to your normally (Protection: Light, Deadly Sight: Dark).

 

It sounds to me like the choice in JA will basically be based on what powers you choose, which could be odd if you went around killing every civilian you saw, but chose lightside powers, so I'm not sure how they'll handle that (maybe they'll just say "mission failed" if you kill anybody, unless you choose darkside?). What would be cool is if they did it somewhat like how it was done in TPM the game... have everybody scared of you or gang up on you if you try to kill them earlier. ; )

 

Or maybe if you do bad stuff, the bad guys respect you and try to recruit you into their group or something... heh

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