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I too am on the hype train for the dark, depressing neon lit world of Cyberpunk. Yet I too am also sad at the majority first-person perspective even talking to people. Considering the amount of time I'll be making my two nerds look awesome I'd hope to see them outside of the inventory screen. Yet there is still time. They may change this but maybe it's too far gone. Disappointing but not a deal breaker. I don't know of any other dropped features.


There's a hard core mode which disables UI; to what degree I do not know but I think implants may circumvent this to a degree. Such as your eye scanner and tactile gun scanner. All in all I just love the feel of the world thus far and so I trust CDPR more than say, Ubisoft and EA. Those bastards have broken my heart too many times. Though I keep running back.

All in all I'm excited. From giving Jaxyana her signature (to those that know her) side cut to dressing Breholf up in tactical gear before shooting people. To neon lit walkways and immersive RP. You're damned right I'll be wasiting 15 minutes as my characters eat noodles at a bar.
 
I'm slowly learning more and more about Star Wars whole playing SWTOR with the fiancé. I'm not feeling the obsession (then again I never felt that obsession with things like Harry Potter either), but it's interesting.

The Jedi Code and Sith Code irritate the shit out of me because I don't fully understand the logic. Or, maybe I do, and that's why it's irritating. They're extremes of the two sides of a coin and I'm sitting here like BUT BOTH.
 
LOL You'd be surprised at how many people have come to that same conclusion about the Jedi/Sith dichotomy. Problem is, the hardcore obsessives like to very loudly scream about how only one side is ultimately right, and that the other side needs to be totally eliminated.

Personally, I fall somewhere more in the middle ground. I believe in doing the right thing, but I'm not about to die for any cause. I like living too much. XD
 
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With the Jedi and Sith codes its easier to see them as a religious belief as opposed to logical stances. The crux of which the Jedi believe that they serve or work with the Force where the Sith see it as controlling and bending it to your will. Emotions have a sort of metaphysical presence in Star Wars for people who can wield the Force with compassion and serenity fuelling the Light side and anger and fear fuelling the Dark.

In a way it's a competition to see who is right. Force Users used to use both but there was a sort of split way back when called the Force Wars. This set the scene for the Great Schism. Both sides are, in a sense, responsible for all these splits as the Jedi refuse any knowledge as gospel but their own and the Sith dicking about with powers beyond their ken.
 
I know the Jedi way is meant to be something similar to a Buddhist ideology but I feel like it's a mix of Buddhist spiritualism and early Christian stoicism, which is what leads them to be very close minded against other ways of thought and using the force.

The Sith way is bound by opposites and I see them attempting to disprove the Jedi way at any chance they get. Where the Jedi want to balance the body and mind, the Sith want to use the rawness of humanity (or force) and use it to obtain a stronger power within themselves.
 
That's a good real-life comparison though the Sith become less sympathetic when they crush you with their mind bullets.
 
It would make the day easier. The Force has some wacky PLSNERFOP powers.
 
so this thought just crossed my mind: the day and life of an average Joe in the Star Wars universe that has to deal with random Jedi and Sith fighting across their lawn. Like I imagine they have some kind of stand selling some really neat gear things and all you see is lightsabers wishing and hear the clang clang buzzing and two people force pushing each other and the dude is just sitting there watching and eating space popcorn.

if I ever did a SW rp I'd wanna be that guy
 
I'd argue that the point of the Sith and the Jedi is that both sides are ultimately wrong. The Jedi go too far into the light and turn self-righteous while proclaiming to want to protect everything, a task no single person or even group of people can feasibly accomplish, while the Sith believe power trumps every other thing and that you can only gain power by being a shithead, which is more blatantly wrong but still wrong. That's the whole draw of it for me--not the Force, which is poorly explained in any case and boils down to "space magic", but the moral implications of both the light and the dark side. The way emotions play into both as much as Jedi want to pretend otherwise. The whole thing is intensely fascinating to me.

Plus, when you go back to the origins of both Jedi and Sith, the Jee'dai, you find that they worked in balance with dark and light. You get too self-righteous, you go meditate on your feelings for a while. You get too nasty, you go balance your shit out. And there was none of this 'savior of all' bullshit. Just people with powers trying to figure them out and do the right thing.

Anywho, I'm sure nobody actually wants to listen to me drone on about Star Wars because I could for ages. Tl;dr, Dark Jedi are the only worthwhile force users.

Edit: Also, Episode 8 did the best job of explaining the Force to date IMO. The movie had plenty of problems, all of them Rian Johnson, but some parts were excellent.
 
It's a beauty for sure that every group has a flaw that can act as a snap to the kneecap for a plot to some degree. Still I've always been amazed how people play them than how the source material shows. People really work that toolbox well.

I've not tried to RP in the new movie era. I imagine it would be...interesting.