Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | Fully Ramblomatic
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oh man, this makes me want to see a throwback review of Star Control 2
KOTOR II is superior, rushed story aside. Playing a dual-wielding blaster jedi and the build actually being viable is so much fun, and I appreciate they placed a greater emphasis on moral ambiguity.
I do think that part of the disconnect with this game is that, unlike most modern 1st/3rd person rpgs, this had the old school crpg style of trying to be a tabletop game (that so happened to be 3rd person) Hell, if you look closely at the games systems they鈥檙e just modified D&D rules.
Logically I know Yahtzee is right and it doesn't hold up but the nostalgia is strong with this one
I never quite understood why you could choose a ranged build when you were definitely always going to be a Jedi or Sith and armed appropriately. Felt like one of the many 'illusions of choice' that were the hallmark of games back when.
It's almost as if Jedi should have just been using guns all along.
This game is really tough to go back to, but it certainly captures the Star Wars fantasy about as well as anything could back then.
As a weeb, I'll repeat what he said last year. "Maybe enough old people will have died next year. "
This game was one of my formative CRPG experiences. Overly combat-heavy back-segment aside, it just *wowed* me, in spite of the jank, that even at the time was evident. A hard game to go back to, but one I'll always have a soft-spot for.
Joke at the end was legit funny. I played this game as a kid and never noticed how dumb it is that they basically push Darth Revan back into a position where they could be powerful and possibly evil AGAIN. Great writing lmao
The steam version is broken garbage, unfortunately. Zero efforts made to make it compatible or functional on modern windows machines. The gog.com version works out of the box because the gog gremlins actually cared. Also switch, ps4, or xbox backward compatible layer. It's a shame yahtzee experienced it through Steam, he surely had a harder time than he needed to.
Also, we have to take in account that some people only played the xbox versions which had a pretty different UI setup. Which, not only the xbox version of the game worked surprisingly well with a controller, some people like myself have the hot take that it was better UI than the pc version.
The little FR logo with Yahtzee鈥檚 lightsaber and Doggy Darth Vader is just perfect. Never stop, you beautiful British bastard.