re: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake 

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What is this game? The gaming boards rants and raves about it all the time.

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The two games are some of the best RPG’s ever, or at least of their era. I played it on the OG X-Box, but they’re frequently for sale on steam for cheap if you’ve got a PC.

Truly epic story, great graphics and world-building for their time, sorta open-world, turn based combat based on D&D, and a solid skills tree make it a really fun couple of games. In addition, it’s one of the first and best games to force the player to make moral decisions which actually impact the story and direction of the game as well as your playing style, abilities, and party members.

The first one is substantially better than the second one from a story standpoint because the second one was basically rushed to market and unfinished. As a result, the end of the game feels empty and it’s a lot glitchier. However, it does have some interesting features like item crafting, an improved item upgrade system, and a better system for improving influence with characters in order to unlock parts of their backstory or even help them to achieve force sensitivity. There are some mods available that try and improve on the glitches and add back and flesh out some of the content that had to be stripped from being rushed to market.

By 2021 standards, the games are a little short, with impersonal combat, clueless puzzles, and blocky graphics, but in the early 2000’s, they were revolutionary, a piece of gaming history which all hobbyist gamers should try at some point.

Finally, these games were supposed to have a Part 3 that never happened for some reason, so the end of the story of KOTOR 2 feels very...unfinished. I hope that a successful remake gives us this epic part 3 of the story.