User:Cornwallismorgan87

ATTENTION: I'm new to this site and I'm new to guide-writing; I'm also pretty limited in HTML coding because, well, I'm a nursing student and I do this for fun. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is actually the first guide I've ever officially written ('officially' meaning nifty tweaks and pretty pictures displayed in a coherent fashion on a website). I'm working out kinks as I go, so please be patient. Bossiness and nick-picking will also be responded to in the manner I see fit (hint: it probably won't be very nice). I had this on my page before, and I'm putting it back permanently: if you have a problem with something I'm doing, provided it isn't a big deal, fix it yourself. That's why the "edit" link exists. I'm the one compiling a strategy guide after all. No, it doesn't make me special, but it makes me the author, photographer, editor, and everything else. I will not take kindly to someone sitting on their throne of entitlement barking orders at me. I'm open to critique, and it doesn't need to be positive critique, but if I consider that you are whining or otherwise picking at minute-detail editing (e.g. HTML code vs Wiki code), I will probably tell you to stuff it. I tend to vacillate between the two, because I am learning something of a new code as I go (HTML is my default coding language), so if I'm using HTML, you get to learn a new code too. :) I also ask questions because I don't like combing through a huge guide just to answer a simple question, and if you start being snide with me in your response, don't expect a kind reaction.  Being on the interwebz doesn't give you license to be an asshole.  Mmkay?

I guess a little bit about my gaming history: I've been playing games of some kind since I was in kindergarten; always loved them. For me, I enjoy observing how everything is put together and how it works; I love game mechanics and graphics. I rarely play a game just to play it. If I'm not drawn into the story, I will probably not have much interest. I like a whole variety of games, from '90s Apogee games to modern releases. I love Fallout 3 and New Vegas, as well as Oblivion and Skyrim. Adventure games are my favorite. I also enjoy sandbox construction games like Minecraft and Space Engineers, and also enjoy The Forest.

As for guides and things of that nature, I take pride in my work. I saw that there was no strategy guide on this site for one of my favorite games in the universe (Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II), and since writing a guide for it has been on my bucket list for 17 years, I saw the opportunity to make it happen. As you can see from the portions of the guide I've completed so far, I dabble in basic HTML coding and know how to make things look nice. The portions I've completed took me a sum total of about 10 hours. Still alot of work to be done, but for something like this, I will settle for no less than the best.

My grandpa bought JKDF2 for my brother and me when I was in the 4th grade, and I've been playing it off and on for 17 years. I'm currently 26 years old and am a nursing student, so compiling a guide is wonderful decompression for me. I enjoy a wide variety of video games, most of them falling into the adventure genre.

On the internet, I go by my gaming alias, Cornwallis Morgan. I bought Fallout: New Vegas and shortly afterward, I bought Fallout 3. My brother had already purchased it and we played it together, me as a good character and he as an evil one. It was also within our rules to come up with the most ridiculous names imaginable, and thus my character Cornwallis Morgan was "born." The 87 was added at the end to denote my birth year. My user name on here is also my user name on Steam; I figure it should all correspond.

If you're interested in following the guide's progress, you can check in here: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Jedi_Knight:_Dark_Forces_II

I've added everything that's there, aside from the box cover and its corresponding information. I also added extra sections under Getting Started and Appendices. Only a couple of the pages are complete, but I think it's coming along quite nicely.

Still to be completed: the walkthrough (will be completed on a level-by-level basis) appendices for NPCs, the Seven Dark Jedi, items, power-ups, and force powers basic gameplay embedded links to Wiki/Wookiepedia (for character back stories and other extraneous information) updated shots of enemies