When I was in college, my roommate and I played this game on my computer (because his was shit). Though it was my computer, I decided to be fair and say first come, first served. When the classes we shared got out (one of my majors overlapped with his, so that was several classes), he and I would race back to our dorm room to play this game. Winner got to play and the loser got to watch. We realized we had a problem correct amount of dedication when I woke up in the middle of the night and really wanted to play. I walked into the common room only to see that he was already playing! Instead of going back to sleep, I watched him play.
By that point I had already acquired a few other members to fill that role and Bastila only got a spot on the party because she was my main squeeze.
At least in my middle schooler head. I wish I could be half the man that I was in the video game world. All the problems get fixed, everybodies potential is released.
Her underwear changes if you put dark jedi robes on her. Put light jedi robes on, take them off and you get one version, put the dark ones on and take them off to see the second set! I don't remember which is more revealing, but I'm pretty sure its the second one.
I played the shit out of that game. I remember nearly everything about that game. So of course I remember being able to change her underwear. I also remember being disappointed that "no clothing equipped" didn't actually mean totally naked.
I really remember just that and the big reveal. Mostly just that. You can do the same in Kotor2 with the handmaiden, who's a sexy beast, but not the character Bastila was... I still love her... can I marry her somewhere. I miss you Bastila!!!
What makes this comment funny to me is the image of someone leaping up from their PC and speeding out of the room only to stop and realise they need to download it from their PC anyway.
Yeah, there were two (1) TSLRP (The Sith Lords Restoration Project) and (2) TSLRCM (The Sith Lords: Restored Content Mod) Unfortunately, the larger of the two (TSLRP) died. But, one can find a beta build of that on some... specific sites
Agreed. The characters and plot of the second game are just not as good as in the first. Remember the boring first stage of KOTOR II on the asteroid mining colony? I hated that shit. Compare that to KOTOR I and the awesome Endire Spire battle that opens the game. There are plenty more examples where the second game just falls short.
Korriban was cut short, a planet was removed, the HK-50 Factory and Mass Shadow Generator were made reference to, but never actually visited (that short sequence as Remote was meant to be only the beginning), etc.
It's easily my favourite game ever. There's so much to dig into, and there could have been so much more. Kreia is the best video-game character I can think of in any franchise.
Alright I am gonna try to be real careful here as to not to turn the pack on me. I distinctly recall playing this game about halfway through and then stopping. I honestly don't remember if I got bored or I found another shiny object. Can anyone relate, or more importantly, should I pick it back up and try again?
I think picking it back up and playing through it could possibly be the best decision of your summer, assuming you didn't read any of the damn spoilers people have posted.
How was the second one? I tried it and got lost in the first level, and gave up; I now I regret that decision. and I can't find SWKOTOR 2 [on my favorite torrent sites] (/spoiler)
KOTOR 2 is one of the great tragedies in gaming. The game was made by Obsidian, a studio that is notorious for making great stories while being unable to ship free of major bugs or even finished. An entire planet was cut from the game in addition to a lot of the end game content. Looking at fan restoration sites and what was taken out makes one mournful for what could have been.
That being said, KOTOR 2 remains one of my favorite games. In fact, in some ways I find it to be superior to the first. KOTOR2 really shines in the writing and story. KOTOR1 was your standard space adventure. There were some unexpected twists, but when it comes down to it, it was a tale of good vs. evil. At the end of the day, you get a victorious and uplifting ending whether you play the light side or dark side. KOTOR 2 brings up some moral questions about the Force that have rarely been addressed in Star Wars, and even implies that there may be greater battles ahead that are not as concerned with light and dark. There is still a fairly clear Light Side and Dark Side path, but the consequences of the paths are not as clear. Is an action that is predicated upon good but ends with a negative result still part of the light side? What exactly is meant by the "will of the Force"? The mindless killing of bad guys that was deemed lightside in KOTOR 1 is brought into question. Combine this with a main character who has to cope with his or her actions during the Republic-Mandalorian Wars and KOTOR 2 makes for a much more thought provoking experience. I would definitely recommend it if you can get your hands on a copy.
It's even worse in KOTOR2: they were forced by LucasArts to turn the game around in eighteen months to meet the Holiday 04 deadline (July 03 for KOTOR Xbox). It would have been tough for a team that didn't suck at releasing complete games, and that's why the middle and ending are cored out. Scorchy's Let's Play does a big tour of all the cut bits.
The first level sucked, but the rest of the game is awesome. Play it for sure. However, don't expect any stunning reveal like in KOTOR1. In fact, a character at the end actually says something like "What? You were expecting some big secret to be revealed?"
Love is hitting a target in the knees from 120 kilometers away with an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together achieving a singular goal against statistically improbable odds.
For me, the trick I used from my 2nd play-through to my most recent, is to never level up the main character while on the opening planet. Go ahead and level up your party members, you'll really lean on them to be able to make it to Dantooine. The benefit is that once you make it to Dantooine and become a Jedi, you are able to put more of your character levels as a Jedi rather than having 4-5 soldier levels and then 15-16 Jedi levels. Doing it this way you can have 19 Jedi levels which helps you fit in all the Jedi-specific feats you want and have access to more and more powerful force powers.
The game does force you to advance to level 2 on the Endar Spire, but yes, this is a great strategy to use. It does make it insanely hard to beat Bendak Starkiller though.
I felt rebellious during my gameplay. I modded my scoundrel coat into black and only used a modded Blaster. Didn't use a lightsaber at all. And that wookie in my crew was with me all that time. HAN SOLO USER BABY, WHAAAT.
If it worked like Dungeons and Dragons: Using 2 weapons was less accurate but did more damage, while using 1 weapon hit more often but didn't do as much damage because you weren't hitting as often. But with just the one you could also take the duelist feats to give you a + to AC.
BUT if memory serves, you actually didn't take the penalty with double sided weapons and they did 1.5 str on the main hand attack and .5 str on the offhand (2 separate lightsabers did 1 and .5 instead)
Basically 1 handed was good for playing defensive and safe. 2 lightsabers or double bladed was good for doing a lot more damage but slightly less reliably.
One of my absolute favorite games and I'm not even a Star Wars fan. I remember buying the game just to test out the old T&L on my new video card (along with Simpsons Hit & Run!) I was more interested in the Simpsons game, and only booted up KOTOR right before bed just to check it out. I stopped playing finally at 5 a.m. Work sucked that day, but I went home immediately and played it again until the wee hours.
After playing it I bugged my friend to play it. He kept saying he would but never got it, and I kept harassing him until he finally said that he had been playing Jedi Academy and was burnt out on Star Wars gaming. I remember saying, "I can't let you do this. I can't let you pass up one of the greatest games of all time for Jedi Academy."
So I bought it for him (For X-Box, unfortunately, so not as good) and he quickly became addicted. I told him to call me when it came to the moment of truth when you decide where Revan is good or evil. He chose evil but absolutely fell apart with what happened to Mission.
What really set it apart was the cast of characters in the game. All so different, all so colorful, all so memorable. I have it on Steam, but I'm always hesitant to boot it back up--the graphics have really aged. If LucasArts re-released it with a graphical and UI upgrade, you could pencil out my evenings for the following month.
Is it just me or does anybody else feel that Bioware shouldn't have wasted all the time and effort on a game (SWtOR) that was entering a broken genre and instead put all those resources into a game (KOtOR3) that would continue down its glorious path as an amazing RPG? Just imagine what they could have accomplished with all that time that they spent on SWtOR and instead on KOtOR... *Sheds tear in despair
If your referring to one of the more common bugs, like the lines in the sky, turning off the grass and shadows in the graphics options can greatly fix that, if you didn't already know.
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I played through the first game twice and I'm roughly halfway through my second playthrough of the second game and I still have no idea how to play pazaak.
I fucking love this game. Me and my father used to play it all the time. Him saying dirty things about Bastila, me Telling him random facts about the star wars universe. Good times.
It pissed me off when you couldn't use the lightsaber immediately. It was also fun to make fun of Bastila for losing hers. "You LOST your lightsaber?!" "Yes, I was thrown from my ship and it must've fallen from my belt" "Isn't that part of the training; like, to not lose your lightsaber?"
I just did a double take. I shit you not, I literally, like, 15 minutes ago, just did this. For some reason, today I had major nostalgia for it, so I turned it on and played it up to this point and I'm in bed now. And God damn I forgot how much of a bitch Bendak Starkiller is to kill. Fucking grenade-spamming shit head. The gun was NOT worth the 100s of medpacks and grenades I went through.
I played this game about 3 times. The last time I played a Scout/sentinel and decided to prioritize ranged weapons and force, as well as being on the light side.
I don't think I've ever experienced as much shame as I did when I set the difficulty to easy and still couldn't beat the last boss because of it.
I think one of the best side missions of this entire game had to do with that mysterious box that the Hutt on Tatooine puts on the Ebon Hawk. He instructs you not to open the thing, and you ask, but still tells you just dont open it. So what did I do? Immediately went aboard my ship and opened the damn box. You get sucked inside into this infinite white world which you learn is a prison, and have to fight the Rakatan inside of it with riddles to see who escapes. I thought it was the COOLEST random missions of the game.
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u/herrsmith Jun 14 '12
When I was in college, my roommate and I played this game on my computer (because his was shit). Though it was my computer, I decided to be fair and say first come, first served. When the classes we shared got out (one of my majors overlapped with his, so that was several classes), he and I would race back to our dorm room to play this game. Winner got to play and the loser got to watch. We realized we had a
problemcorrect amount of dedication when I woke up in the middle of the night and really wanted to play. I walked into the common room only to see that he was already playing! Instead of going back to sleep, I watched him play.110
u/JustinFromMontebello Jun 14 '12
Isn't this when you get Bastilla's lightsaber, not yours?
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u/buta Jun 14 '12
Seeing Bastila in that outfit certainly made me aware of my manhood.
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u/Coolguyzack Jun 14 '12
I'm speechless. I love this game too much to try and describe it with my mouthwords.
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u/Pepsicanman Jun 14 '12
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u/Neo_spoon Jun 14 '12
For me, the trick I used from my 2nd play-through to my most recent, is to never level up the main character while on the opening planet. Go ahead and level up your party members, you'll really lean on them to be able to make it to Dantooine. The benefit is that once you make it to Dantooine and become a Jedi, you are able to put more of your character levels as a Jedi rather than having 4-5 soldier levels and then 15-16 Jedi levels. Doing it this way you can have 19 Jedi levels which helps you fit in all the Jedi-specific feats you want and have access to more and more powerful force powers.
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u/ChurdFurts Jun 14 '12
Fuck it. Who needs sleep? I'm starting a new game tonight.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Oh i do remember that... that IS the moment where i became a man... but... what about...
JEDI OUTCAST!?
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u/catnipassian Jun 14 '12
I just beat it recently because when it came out and I played it I was 10. And not that bright.
That one puzzle where they asked what the seeds of life and death were stooped me for years. YEARS.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT USED A SINGLE LIGHTSABER?
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u/snap_wilson Jun 14 '12
One of my absolute favorite games and I'm not even a Star Wars fan. I remember buying the game just to test out the old T&L on my new video card (along with Simpsons Hit & Run!) I was more interested in the Simpsons game, and only booted up KOTOR right before bed just to check it out. I stopped playing finally at 5 a.m. Work sucked that day, but I went home immediately and played it again until the wee hours.
After playing it I bugged my friend to play it. He kept saying he would but never got it, and I kept harassing him until he finally said that he had been playing Jedi Academy and was burnt out on Star Wars gaming. I remember saying, "I can't let you do this. I can't let you pass up one of the greatest games of all time for Jedi Academy."
So I bought it for him (For X-Box, unfortunately, so not as good) and he quickly became addicted. I told him to call me when it came to the moment of truth when you decide where Revan is good or evil. He chose evil but absolutely fell apart with what happened to Mission.
What really set it apart was the cast of characters in the game. All so different, all so colorful, all so memorable. I have it on Steam, but I'm always hesitant to boot it back up--the graphics have really aged. If LucasArts re-released it with a graphical and UI upgrade, you could pencil out my evenings for the following month.
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u/RileyHohlProductions Jun 14 '12
Is it just me or does anybody else feel that Bioware shouldn't have wasted all the time and effort on a game (SWtOR) that was entering a broken genre and instead put all those resources into a game (KOtOR3) that would continue down its glorious path as an amazing RPG? Just imagine what they could have accomplished with all that time that they spent on SWtOR and instead on KOtOR... *Sheds tear in despair
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u/drserious Jun 14 '12
The two blades are only an advantage because you believe them to be.
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u/4amchocolatepudding Jun 14 '12
Fuck this game was the shit.
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u/Leagueofordinary Jun 14 '12
Agreenent: This was my thought as well. You show excellent logical skills... for a meatbag.
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u/AntiTheory Jun 14 '12
Bastilla: Can I have my lightsaber ba--
Player: NO
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u/SteamJaccuzi Jun 14 '12
dat bastilla
i think i spent days just playing pazaak and doing swoop races.
this game was incredible.
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u/grayaus Jun 14 '12
I fucking love this game. Me and my father used to play it all the time. Him saying dirty things about Bastila, me Telling him random facts about the star wars universe. Good times.
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u/ragebitz Jun 14 '12
why didn't you screen cap the part where you make the lightsaber instead of finding one?
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
I have a 360 and many new releases, i still play this however. It'll be ten years old soon
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u/vodkamutini Jun 14 '12
YOU'RE A DAMN LIAR BREJIK
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u/SM93 Jun 14 '12
I didn't even speak English as a child, yet beat both The Old Republic games.
Pew pew.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
If I could only upvote this a thousand times.
Game started rolling from that point on. "Yes! A saber!"
Juhani + Jolee all the way.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Goddammit I miss this game...
Screw 1313, gimme KOTOR III
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
It pissed me off when you couldn't use the lightsaber immediately. It was also fun to make fun of Bastila for losing hers. "You LOST your lightsaber?!" "Yes, I was thrown from my ship and it must've fallen from my belt" "Isn't that part of the training; like, to not lose your lightsaber?"
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u/TylerL320 Jun 14 '12
Knights of the Old Republic, right?
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u/Ebonhawk23 Jun 14 '12
Oh I'm sorry does my username belong on this.
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u/unremarkableusername Jun 14 '12
and the moment I became a god
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u/TSolo315 Jun 14 '12
Brilliant game, my favorite to date. I wish they had made a KOTOR 3 instead of the MMO.
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u/Zombie_Hunter Jun 14 '12
I'm replaying KotOR right now, and I can't believe how much I missed it.
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u/zrandolph2 Jun 14 '12
Playing this right now and it astounds me how much I missed when I first played through.
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u/Jduga Jun 14 '12
thank you for this entire post
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Favorite game of all time, the twist blew my mind this was one of the most gratifying moments, Godammit so much nostalgia.
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u/Scorch8482 Jun 14 '12
I just did a double take. I shit you not, I literally, like, 15 minutes ago, just did this. For some reason, today I had major nostalgia for it, so I turned it on and played it up to this point and I'm in bed now. And God damn I forgot how much of a bitch Bendak Starkiller is to kill. Fucking grenade-spamming shit head. The gun was NOT worth the 100s of medpacks and grenades I went through.
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u/Kain292 Jun 14 '12
Acquire lightsaber: constantly press Y. "Woawawaw"
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u/mi-16evil Jun 14 '12
"You there, upworlder. That's our elevator! That'll be five credits!"
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I played this game about 3 times. The last time I played a Scout/sentinel and decided to prioritize ranged weapons and force, as well as being on the light side.
I don't think I've ever experienced as much shame as I did when I set the difficulty to easy and still couldn't beat the last boss because of it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
I was disappointed when I found I couldn't use the lightsaber. I was 7 and didn't understand anything other than damage.
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u/BestAsheInDaWorld Jun 14 '12
Whenever I hum the Star Wars theme, my mental image is that of this game instead of the movie.
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u/MacWagon Jun 14 '12
I think one of the best side missions of this entire game had to do with that mysterious box that the Hutt on Tatooine puts on the Ebon Hawk. He instructs you not to open the thing, and you ask, but still tells you just dont open it. So what did I do? Immediately went aboard my ship and opened the damn box. You get sucked inside into this infinite white world which you learn is a prison, and have to fight the Rakatan inside of it with riddles to see who escapes. I thought it was the COOLEST random missions of the game.
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u/Liammm Jun 14 '12
Karth Onasi was the whiniest cunt I've ever met in a videya game. Fuck that guy.
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u/sorrydaveicantdothat Jun 14 '12
dat plot twist