KOTOR Knights of the Old Republic (2003)

Finished Kashyyk and of course I forgot about poor Matton before getting the Wookies all worked up. So missed out on finishing up that quest.

Also did Tatooine. I quickly transferred my save from the iPad to the PC in order to do the swoop race. There is just no way to do it on the mobile. Hell, it's super tough to do it even on PC with M/KB. Will have to go through those shenanigans again on Manaan I'm afraid but I do want those sweet sweet racing bonds. 🤑
I decided to not upset the story teller of the sand people and leave them in piece. I know in terms of game mechanics, it makes more sensee to slaughter them all in the end but I'll do this much role playing with me good guy light side Jedi hero.
Also, can I just say, I love Jawas? Utinni!

Also did a quick trip to the Yavin station and played pazaak with the rodian dude there. Glad that's over with.

Now it's off to Manaan and the fish people.

AnDromedary Is this your first time playing the game? This is the game that made me a Star Wars fan. I have some words of advice avoid looking up character information or walkthroughs, because the game has a great classic Star Wars story and there are many spoilers out there. When you're done with KOTOR are you going to try the sequel? The sequel is very dark and the opposite of the first one in terms of atmosphere. But KOTOR 2 is my favorite Star Wars game of all time. If you do decide to play it play it with at least twom mods. One the TSLRCM mod, this mod restores some of the content that was cut due to a terrible deadline set by LucasArts. The mod also fixes many bugs that were present due to the rushed deadline. The second mod is the 'Community Patch' it fixes the bugs not fixed in the first mod.

No problem just didn't want the story to be spoiled for you if it was your first time. I bought KOTOR 1 back in 2003 on the original Xbox. It was my first Star Wars game and my first BioWare rpg. Before it I never watched a SW film. Never read a SW novel/comic. But I knew who Luke, Leia, Han, and Darth Vader were. But for some reason the premise of the game had me interested. Then when I saw a commercial for the game on tv and saw Bastila twirl her double bladed saber for some reason that cemented my mind into buying. I bought the game did not understand anything that was going on. I knew what a Jedi was but I did not know what a Sith was or Mandalorian. Oh and it was my first D&D crpg. Long story short I stuck with the game and enjoyed it immensely and grew attached to the companions especially Mission who felt like a kid sister, and Jolee who felt like a cranky grandpa. Afterwards I saw every film released up to that point, and read the Tales of the Jedi comics.

When KOTOR 2 was being developed I remember not liking the idea of playing as a new protagonist with new companions. I wanted the old crew back. But like in Mass Effect 2 a decade later I enjoyed the crew in the second game than in the first game. Anyway both games are great imo and still hold up.

Finished Korriban. It really is the best planetary story in the game. The way you kinda have to deal with and impersonate a Sith but still, you can absolutely stay on the light side is great. Also, since I played it after the Leviathan, I love how you almost always get the option to say even if no one will believe you.

And speaking of the Leviathan, always a fun little interlude. I played it with Juhani (who is my usual choice for this. Good combat skills plus self healing, she's perfect to go at it alone for a bit). The big moment of course looses a lot of its splendor if you know what's coming but still, gives me chills thinking back to the first time I played it.

Oh, and now that I am getting ready to go to the end game, I read up on some things I didn;t quite remember from back in the day and realized i messed some stuff up. I didn't take along Bastila or Carth enough it seems, so their side quests never trggered and now I am locked out of both of them. Ah well...

Also, I am not sure if I should do the Genoharadan quests. I already lost access to Dantooine, so that guy is out of my reach but since I am playing a light side Jedi, I am not sure I want all these dark side points on me.

Anyway, just got my two new fancy light saber crystals from Yavin Station and after finishing up a few loose ends, I guess it's off to see where that star map is leading me.

I wasn't worried so much because of the game mechanics. It was more of a role playing consideration if I should do it.

Surprised by all the hate for Taris, I think it's an amazing intro to the game, with a really interesting concept of having a 'rich' top side an sleazy sub-city run by criminals and an utterly decaying undercity filled with monsters. I always really enjoy Taris, in fact the only part of KotoR where I start to feel little bit burned out is the Unknown World.

But I guess I'm a weirdo as I also love the Peragus Mining Facility of KotoR II, and love the Fade section of Dragon Age Origins.

As for Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor, I do like the idea of these games, the story, and the concept - in fact I'm watching a Many a True Nerd stream of Fallen Order on Youtube right now, but I could never play them myself - just not my kind of game. Far too much platforming (which I hate) and the combat appears to rely mostly on super-fast twitch reflexes and absolute precision aiming - things that I royally suck at.






From a purely mechanical perspective they won't affect you too adversely over the long term if you choose to do them as a light side character. You can take the dark side hit, but easily recoup the light side points afterward.

From a role playing perspective I personally never do them on a light side character, as there is no justification for assassination for one who is following the Jedi code. I've done them on my neutrally-aligned character though as his code was entirely different. I personally never play full darkside as I find the early bioware game morality systems to be rather binary and extreme - kind of a 'Save the burning orphanage and give them your worldly possessions / or / tell the orphans their puppies are dead, stab them in the face, eat them, burn it down, and piss on the remains' kind of extreme.

OK, I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea. 

Recently bought KOTOR 1 & 2, Jade Empire and Dragon age Origins on Steam because they were on offer and I enjoy replaying those games. Unfortunately KOTOR seems to be far less stable for me than it is on console, getting occasional crashes and some pretty bad clipping at times. Dantooine in particular was getting serious graphical issues with the sky box which was due to the grass effects (had to completely turn the effects off to get a stable image). Its a bit disappointing to see quite a few bugs popping up so early in the game, im hoping the issues go away once I progress further.

Still one of my favourite games of all time

I know you're already on Dantooine but there's a Community Patch for KOTOR 1: deadlystream.com/files/file/1258-kotor-1-community-patch/  I use the patch and I've only encountered two bugs in my last playthrough which I finished a couple of days ago.

Also if you're planning on playing the second game I recommend to mods that in my opinion are must haves.  The first one is The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod.  It restores whatever cut content was left on the disc.  This is both a good and a bad thing because as Chris Avellone said that not everything the modders restored was meant to be in the final product.  But there are two reasons why I recommend it one is that it restores cut scenes for the last planet Malachor, and two it fixes bugs.  The second mod I highly recommend is the KOTOR 2 Community Patch Mod.  

Here are the links to both mods

TSLRCM: deadlystream.com/files/file/578-tsl-restored-content-mod/
K2CP: deadlystream.com/files/file/1280-kotor-2-community-patch/

If you want to mod your games more I recommend following these mod builds guides:  kotor.neocities.org/modding/mod_builds/

It's a lot of mods but you don't have to install them all.  just pick and choose what you want.  There are also some tips on how to get both games to run well on modern hardware.  I downloaded almost all of the mods listed in the mod builds and followed the tips to make the game perform better on Win 11, and it it is the closest to a remaster I will ever get to play.