STAR WARS™: Knights of the Old Republic

Outrageous... Zero value for the customer

I've actually played through most of the first one and a chunk of the second one. I do like the star wars franchise but most of their games are weak at best. I really don't understand the fascination with this game or the reviews.. Graphics, story, combat, script / characters and level design are all average at best. I cant help but feel most of the reviews are paid reviews or just sock puppet accounts, but then it's highly rated on Metacritic too. I just don't see the fascination myself..

I played KotOR for the first time, in 2010. I had extremely high expectations because everyone who talked about the game, spoke about it as though it could cure cancer and mend a broken heart. Never before has a game so thoroughly disappointed me. Obviously an old game is not going to have the most impressive graphics but what struck me most was how dated the gameplay felt. The light and dark side choices were cartoonish (one of the early choices gives you the option of giving money to a homeless person, or killing them in cold blood. Very subtle). The combat was just plain boring. It had all the fun of an old hotkey mmorpg, but with none of the social interaction. By the time I got the advanced flurry ability, I just have to spam that and would easily win every fight. I didn't realize you had to compulsively talk to every character in your party in order for them to have any development at all, and as a result my entire party was just a bunch of strangers throughout the whole game. The story is just...okay. There's a twist about 3/4 through the game that most people found to be Earth shattering, but I didn't find it particularly surprising at all. Aside from that, the plot of the game feels like something from someone's fan fiction. Dialog was also a letdown. Many conversations seemed like they could only go a couple of ways but you had multiple dialog options, so I would often talk to someone, choose a dialog option hear their response, go back, pick a different dialog option, and hear the exact same response. I know I'm shitting all over this game but I really do seem why many people liked it. For it's time, I'm sure it was revolutionary, but everything it did well, has by now been done better, by a hundred different games. If you never played KotOR before, just try not to buy too much in to the hype

Most overrated piece of garbage console port ever

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