STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™

Needs an update for modern machines. Do not buy unless you want to hassle downloading hacks to make it playable.

I absolutely recommend this game WITH A CAVEAT: be prepared to jump through some HOOPS (installing mods) to get the game running at widescreen resolution. There's apparently a Switch version and (I think?) a mobile version, plus there are *emus* (the bird, definitely the bird ;D ) that I'd guess can reliably run the old console version(s). Look into your options before buying this one. I just happened to already have this on Steam from a LONG time ago (in a galaxy blah blah blah...) so of course I was determined to make it work on a PC from 20 years in the future. FOR CONTENT CREATORS: if you have any intention of recording or streaming the game, bear in mind 2 things before buying this version: 1. the cutscenes don't capture natively, not with game or display capture. You'll need a capture card to stream them or have to rip them from somewhere to cut into a video. 2. Even with all the work required to get the game running native on a widescreen monitor, it will NOT run in fullscreen borderless (I couldn't find anything that would work anyway, and I spent HOURS one day fixing and tweaking and modding things). This wouldn't be the end of the world, except if you alt-tab out or alt-enter or ctrl-alt-del or whatever, the game will minimize and not reopen, effectively crashing. This also makes streaming or recording or any kind of multitasking a massive pain with only one PC. The only solution I could come up with was to move all my streaming software, settings, and peripherals over to my second PC and stream from there. Alternately, you can just run the game in windowed mode, but I personally would rather put my [redacted] in a vise.

Absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ worth it, wonderful story telling, lore building, character writing even most of the music was really solid. Again, the gameplay sucked, I'm upset that on Normal difficulty it only took 30ish hours to complete (mostly because I was accustomed to the gameplay beforehand because of Kotor2) but that doesn't change the fact that I truly dug this game in all of it's flaws and perfections. If you have the patience to play an older game (which is a detriment to modern age gamers like myself) you should absolutely give this a real shot. The real issue is that modern gaming ruins how you try to play an older game like this. Most games these days hold your hand a bit, but this game really expects you to be retaining certain information or read between the lines, which my old ass hasn't done in years (didn't play this back in the day) so this kind of tested me a bit. The puzzles (specifically two) can be rather challenging, purely on the basis that you again, are so familiar with modern games that going backwards in how you are used to playing these games will hinder you. I am not totally sure how to convey this but I assure you that once again, this game is absolutely worth it. Please do give this a shot, coming from someone who doesn't even like Star Wars. Gonna go back and play Kotor 2 now because I loved this experience so much. Which again, played this in the wrong order and didn't ever play them back when they came out. 31 years old btw, dunno if that accounts for anything but hopefully that gives some clarifying context. ====== Everything below this was made at about 8.7 hours in according to Steam ====== Played KOTOR2 before I played KOTOR, and only did it a few years ago; not way back in the day. What a huge missed opportunity for my childhood. I thoroughly enjoyed KOTOR2 when I played it and figured that had to be the upgraded version of this game, not realizing the writing is just as strong in this game. The gameplay is kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥, I won't lie but everything else in this game infinitely makes up for the weird combat and what not. It is certainly dated but absolutely worth your time. I don't even like Star Wars but I adore Bioware (from back in the day) and this is definitely when they were hitting their stride and just making banger after banger after MF banger. If you wanna see the ground floor for Bioware right as they started their hotstreak with Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age: You absolutely should check this out. Can't believe I got this for less than $3 on sale.

This game may have been a classic back in the day, but it has aged like milk. First of all, the levels were clearly designed around fitting on an old Xbox, so they are all small and uninteresting. Basically just a bunch of corridors with loading screens every five steps. Second, the combat is absolute trash. With NPCs who don't follow your orders and an extremely basic system of assigning support roles. Fights are of two kinds: one to three easily beaten cannon fodder (animals and bugs and such) and boss fights where you will get your ass handed to you in an insane difficulty spike. So watch out for those and make sure you have enough medpaks, because all you can do is watch your so called jedi miss constantly and take massive damage. I should also mention the lightsabers in this are of the "wiffle bat" variety. You can hit that dog or insect as hard as you want but nothing will slice off. You may as well be clubbing them with a stick. If you want to live out your jedi power fantasy, this is not the game for you. I dunno, maybe this was ground breaking back in the day, but these days it is absolutely nothing special. Even the lore has been retconned to hell so a lot of what is in this makes no sense to modern Star Wars audiences. Also, it crashes constantly on a Steam Deck and barely functions on Windows.

Tek kelimeyle muazzam. Star Wars için yazılan en iyi hikayelerden biri. Orijinal evrenin en mükemmel parçalarından. "Savior, conqueror, hero, villain. You are all things, Revan.. and yet you are nothing."

WE'RE FINALLY GETTING A THIRD! Been playing KOTOR 1&2 since they come out and am still playing. That's how good they are.

If you play this game, know that you're not just playing the best Star Wars game ever developed, you are also playing one of the best games ever made. It's a roleplaying game that still, to this day, offers countless choices to dealing with enemies, obstacles and quests, all in very different, creative and fun manners to do each of the former. It is however, important to know that this is an old game, as such, it requires support from the community to mod properly and play it with higher resolutions and proper graphics. Nothing overly complicated but something you should keep in mind.