{"id":28971,"date":"2015-10-14T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T22:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28971"},"modified":"2015-10-14T17:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T22:48:14","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep19-is-this-the-sexbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28971","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP19: Is THIS the Sexbot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g05TbR5zM2c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g05TbR5zM2c'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Around 13 minutes or so, we meet an NPC asking us to look into the disappearance of his son. It&#8217;s the voice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0743719\/?ref_=tt_cl_t2\">Neil Ross<\/a>, who to me will always be the voice of the Narrator in the Leisure Suit Larry games. I associate this voice with innuendo, sarcasm, and dick jokes. It&#8217;s very strange to hear this voice talking for three whole minutes and not making one joke about screwing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking off-the-cuff, I commented in this episode that in KOTOR, the introduction zones of <em>Endar Spire + Taris + Dantooine<\/em> would be as long as all of Mass Effect 1. And then today I started wondering how far off \/ reasonable \/ hyperbolic that guess was.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of this week we&#8217;ll be on episode 21, and (spoiler) we&#8217;re going to be on Dantooine until nearly the very end. If we estimate episodes are about 25 minutes long<span class='snote' title='1'>Sometimes we run long, but then subtract a couple of minutes for the credits at the end of each episode. For the purposes of simplicity, I&#8217;m going to call it a wash.<\/span> then Josh will finally get to the main &#8220;open&#8221; part of the game around the 8.75 hour mark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLIN36m4vlapYBpzR81KpUwOscls-IMbCx\">Spoiler Warning season one<\/a> is embarrassing in its crudeness and I never encourage people to watch it, but that clocks in at around 11 hours.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe I was overstating things? Except, we&#8217;ve been skipping quite a bit of content here in KOTOR. We skipped the ages-long dialog-based crime solver quest. We skipped the Romeo and Juliet thing where you have to storm some guy&#8217;s house, which is a huge maze of mines and killer robots for some reason. We skipped all but the first of the arena fights. We only played one round of Pazzak. I think we only did one of several bounties. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, we did a good bit of optional side content in Mass Effect 1. The idea of &#8220;side content&#8221; is somewhat nebulously defined, so it would probably be hard to get a proper apples-to-apples comparison that everyone could agree on. But still, I think my statement isn&#8217;t nearly as ridiculous as it sounded at first. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/howlongtobeat.com\/game.php?id=5698\">How Long to Beat, the Mass Effect main story (no extras) takes around 17 hours<\/a>. The fastest time on the site was 12, about an hour longer than the Spoiler Warning play through, which included side content like the Moon. Also, Josh and Randy didn&#8217;t skip dialog, and most players skip at least some of it. So I dunno. <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, they don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to. <\/p>\n<p>Except for Witcher 3, in which case they make &#8217;em like they used to, only moreso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Around 13 minutes or so, we meet an NPC asking us to look into the disappearance of his son. It&#8217;s the voice of Neil Ross, who to me will always be the voice of the Narrator in the Leisure Suit Larry games. I associate this voice with innuendo, sarcasm, and dick jokes. 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