I’ve had this game for almost a year now and just got around to playing it. I played it for about 8 hours or so when I first got it and really liked it but I can’t remember why I quit playing when i did. Attention span just aint what it used to be I guess.
Anyway, I’m about 20 hours into this thing and from what I understand that puts me about 1/2 way thru? I went thru Taris, the wookie planet and am now on tantooine. Very immersive storyline and its one of the only RPGs Ive played where I really feel like I can develope my char anyway I want to. To top it off, the Star Wars universe is presented beautifully and its also one of the few RPGs of late that I actually want to learn all the little side stories. Its such a LONG game too. Good value.
Great game folks. The second one is coming out in a week or two so my girlfreind is gonna be pissed.
I think it’s a great game too. Very immersive. It also has the rarest of qualities in games these days…the story is what drives the game!!! I’m hoping KoTOR II will be nearly as good.
Well, there’s Taris, Dantooine, Tatooine, Kashyyyk, Manaan, Korriban, plus 3 other areas so you have a ways to go yet. It’s a great game with an interesting story and characters that you actually care about. It’s ranked as one of my top two favorites. I got about 40+ hours of gameplay out of it the first time through. Now I can beat it in around 21 - even doing all the side quests - because I know where I’m going. I’ve played it through about 7 times, always on the lightside because I found out I’m terrible at being evil. I tried, really I did.
KOTOR 2 will most likely be better than the first, barring something really stupid. KOTOR was done by the same people that did Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 while KOTOR 2 is being done by the same people that did Fallout, Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment.
For those who haven’t played them, BG 1 & 2 are fun but very cliched and straightforward, while Fallout, 2, and P:T are very deep, well written and refreshingly devoid of cliche.
Heck, if the released game is as entertaining as the website, I may end up spending an hour or two just staring at the pretty buttons and randomly poking stuff.
KotOR had the added benefit of being amusing even after I was finished playing with it: I went through the audio files. There is a lot of stuff in there that didn’t make it into the final cut but they didn’t bother to delete them since there wasn’t much reason to. So for the courious with the PC version, you can listen to the XBox version of the Ebon Hawk ‘training’ level. Or, there’s a few instances of lines that have been re-rubbed: don’t know if they had someone do a few lines as a place holder then had someone different re-do the lines later on or what.
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While the first one is one of my favorite games, I don’t think I’m going to like the second one as much. From what I’ve read, they’re continuing the story as if the dark side won in the first game, hence invoking the old tired “the galaxy has fallen into darkness” scenario. I don’t tend to like “dark” toned games, so I’m thinking I won’t like in the second what was my favorite part about the first – the story.
I’m happy to wait and see what they do because so far the team responsible for part 2 has proven to be capable of going miles beyond what Bioware can do in terms of good storytelling.
“Cameo appearences from memorable characters of the first game enhance the continuity and story flow”
:smack: That’s why you couldn’t kill Carth in the first one.
I played through once dark and once light and I had the same problem “dissapointing” the NPCs at first, but you’ll soon get over it once you realize that you can be A LOT more powerful as a dark knight than a light one. I love plowing through hoardes of foes that smacked me down when I was a lightey.
laughs I stand on both sides of the Carth issue: RRROW! for the voice acting, but Carth tends to be a whiny little… Hm. Maybe he’s related to Anakin (and therefore Luke) Skywalker? That’d explain where all the whinyess in the movies comes from!
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Nah, I kicked butt - of course, part of that could be because I only went to level 2 and then just waited until I trained as a Jedi. 18 levels as a Jedi Sentinel, one-hit-one-kill on Force Leap, and badass hold/knockback powers, woo!
Bah, it’s an insult to compare Carth to Anakin. He’s just in the Bioware male romantic lead model (cf. Aarin Gend in Neverwinter Nights, Valen Shadowbreath in NWN: Hordes of the Underdark). Great voice? Check. Tragic loss of past loved one? Check. Has a difficult time opening up to you and trusting you fully? Check. Plenty of charm? Mmmm… (Yeah, OK, so he was a little bitchy at times, I still wouldn’t kick him out of bed.)
I only got to level 2 while on Taris. I just didn’t train, tried to not get hit, and when I made it to Dantooine, I trained all those saved-up levels as a Jedi. So instead of ending the game as a level 7 (or whatever) scout/etc and lvl 13 Jedi, I had 18 levels of Jedi - opening up lots more powers and Jedi Feats.
Ehh, a bit too whiny for my tastes at times. And hm, now that I think of it, the idea that Bioware has of what makes a romantice male lead tends to be too whiny for me. Touchy feely has its place, but when I’ve just sliced-n-diced my foes into cat food hearing someone whine makes me wanna smack 'em with the business end of my weapon a few times. (And yes, I did want to smack Bastilla few times as well.)
And I did the same thing you did with leveling up: obtain level 2 (because you’re forced to), then wait to level yourself up until you become a Jedi. Makes some parts of Taris harder because of this, but it is worth it in the long term.
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Weird. I finished it today. I was gonna post, but I figured it was too late to get any response. Another weird Straight Dope moment for me.
I loved it.
The game was bubbling with content. In contrast to the last game I played, CoH, this game was like comparing Xbox to Atari 2600. You had roleplaying, TRUE storylines, real choices, you could play poker, be a gladiator, be a race car driver, represent a murder defendant, and have dual lightsabers for a lighsaber duel.
I didn’t even play around with ALL the content. This game is DEFINITELY replayable.
And since Lucas just does all his FX in CGI, there wasn’t a lot of disconnect between the movies and the game.
SPOILERS: (How great is a game that you have to put a spoiler box!)
Unforunately, I already knew the twist in the game. In an unrelated thread here in Straight Dope, I don’t even think it was about PC Games, someone referenced the “Total Recall” type twist to a PC game. I had long since forget what game he was talking about, but I remembered the post when talk was raised of whether Revan had survived and was pretty sure it was this one. I knew I was Revan almost the whole time. Poor form, anonymous SDMB poster!
In all honesty, it is the best Star Wars MOVIE since Empire Strikes Back. I think it would make an EXCELLENT theatrical release. It was pretty good entertainment.
I was tempted to start a KotOR casting thread for a possible movie.
This is not true. The events of the first game are decided early on, but there’s a choice involved. The galaxy will still fall into darkness anyway, but it may or may not be Revan’s doing.
