KOTOR Knights of the Old Republic (2003)

SWTOR changed a lot a couple of months ago, but it is a typical MMO in its set-up. It has loads of abilities you have to KB to play fluidly. I had 40+ keybinds per character to manage pvp and raiding.

If you have never played a MMO, there is a lot to take in, particularly after the last restructure that made gearing multiple characters much, much harder than before.

The game has a huge variety of content, but a lot of it is best experienced with a good guild or MMO friends. Solo, the game does have tons of content as well, between the class stories, heroics and the alliance building in the end, so if you like story or achievement hunting or strategy type constructs, it might be okay solo for a few months.

I would recommend subscription if you want to try it, if only for one or two months. Without sub, the game is hard to enjoy as it limits a ridiculous amount of things.

If you have never played a MMO before, a better, very streamlined and short MMO that you can solo free to get introduced to the concepts like crafting and gear progression, dailies, class roles, raids, etc, is Blade and soul. It will take at most a couple of weeks to get through it and as long as you don't do the extensive end game there, it's a nice MMO demo with a great combat mechanics and somewhat entertaining story. It's probably also pretty much empty now, and they retrofitted it to hand out much of the gear you need to get through the story,so you can figure stuff out without people bothering you.

No, you have to play a race to level 50 to unlock it for all classes or buy it from the GTN or cas shop. If you are subbed, some classes will be available as Twilek at creation, so you'd take that guy to 50 while subbed, then can make any other class Twilek. The only two species opened without sub is Zabrack and human.

Damnit... Guess Zabrak it is then, since humans are too overplayed. Thanks...

Zabrak Master Race

Out of my 7 characters, 4 are red Zabraks, one is a human, one is a Mirialan, and one is a Cathar.

They also brought Thrawn into the new continuity, but Zahn's stories aren't canon. The old EU is now a buffet to pick and choose from.

KOTOR 1 is what got me into Bioware games. I went backwards to BG after that. Then to ME1. Wonder if they will ever make a KOTOR 3.

KotOR was my first Bioware game and the first RPG that I ever played. I still love the story (the second game just a little bit more though), but the combat makes me want to laugh, nobody taking cover when using blasters, etc. I think Mass Effect ruined the combat in KotOR for me.

Still an amazing game given it's a decade old.

Kotor 2 is such a mixed bag for me. The gameplay somehow got worse from Kotor and the game is littered with the same named items to the point of absurdity. It also takes control away from the protag way to often, like almost every planet you have to play some random companion for a section. Or how story elements are being revealed to the player before the character, which is ok in small doses, not as exposition heavy as Kotor II and NWN II. 

There are so many frustrations that ruin the experience for me. It breaks immersion, which is a shame because it is after all a fracking amazing game in the writing department. It is a problem i have with Obsidian in general, the exceptions are Fallout New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, which i enjoy every aspect of.

So as a pure game i am going to play and experience, i think Kotor is better, but it is after all a game that got to properly finish its development. I feel for Obsidian when it comes to publishers deals, they've had some bad experiences and left a few games cut off from their true potential.

Love, love the game, just played it through again recently. I even like the combat, I think it's fun.

well do you have a computer? because you can get it on steam.

Sith Lords (kotor2) is great, I think it has better environments, great story, and you can persuade companions to come to the light or dark side. But it is much buggier. It can be super buggy.