KOTOR Kinghts of the Old Republic (Remake)

So it's certainly coming to Xbox. Color me interested too.

I believe a poster mentioned one change might be removing a path to play on the dark side  a couple pages back? I don't recall the last time I played the game, but I do recall liking the ending if the player were to choose the darkside. It would suck if that were removed. And since I like playing the role of someone extremely ruthless, see my playthrough in my signature, it would be a big letdown. It would also lose replay value only doing one side. I don't believe that will happen. 

Since there's very little information at this time, I will make a prediction. The game releases November 2024

I hope they won’t allow for only Light sided play as well, but it depends on what type of game they’re making.  It is a remake, so vast chunks of it could be considerably different to what we remember from the original.  I only did one Dark Side PT, but it was fun and the cutscenes bear the end were very well done.

Not quite related, but something that shows that Disney doesn't mind SWTOR things to make it to SW canon. The Star Wars Visions anime has the XS Freighter (the smuggler's ship) in it and the ship has been shown in canon stuff since 2014. It was first mentioned in SWTOR prequel novel Deceived released in 2011 and designed by BioWare for SWTOR.

If it were remade today, by Bioware, I would say that this is absolutely not going to happen. Aspyre might keep it turn based, but I don't see it happening. It will probably move into ME territory, in terms of gameplay.

The author of the article is wrong about the combat type KoTOR had thought. He claims that you mapped the character's action before combat started, but KoTOR was RTwP, you gave order when-ever during combat and you could setup auto-pauses if you wanted turning it into a wannabe-turn-based.

The last few "big" RTwP games all had true TB modes (Pillars of Eternity and Pathfinder series went that way and I think I'm missing another one).

Juhani was my first video game romance and my oblivious asexual butt didn't even notice.

Now i have still the hope that they do not mess up the Story with modern Social Justice

I have rather mixed feelings about this remake. 

It's not a big deal, as I can still play the original, which is still a wonderful game in most respects, it's not like this remake will replace the original.

But in my experience remakes very rarely live up to expectations. If they'd announced a remaster I'd have been quite excited and counting off the days, but a remake contains a tonne of variables, unknowns, and potential pitfalls - all of which are based upon the whims of the developers and the things they decide to change.

At it's worst KotOR Remake would be a shallow, dumbed-down looter shooter with most of the RPG elements streamlined away, sacrificed on the  alter of convenience and accessibility, with the usual flashy, fast-paced combat coupled with a bit of inventory management. There'd be a super-simplified  levelling up system with a few rudimentary things to put talent points into, but nothing close to the complexity of the original.

You see whenever I hear game developers use terms like 'modern audiences' 'broadening the game's appeal' - that kind of thing, my heart invariably sinks because I remain convinced to this day that what the average game developer creates a mental picture of a 'modern audience' what they imagine inside their heads is a bunch of baying frat boys with the attention span of goldfish, sitting around their console, munching Doritos and bunny hopping around like loons in the latest Call of Duty for 20 minutes before getting bored and spending the rest of the evening giving each other wedgies to the sound of troll-like laughter. 

In reality there's still a huge appetite and market for deep, impactful, story-driven RPGs with complex systems and meaningful choices, even among 'modern audiences', but current-day devs so often seem to cater exclusively to the lowest common denominator - which is why I've not found a single new video game I am interested in playing since around 2018.

At it's best KotOR Remake will be respectful to the original release, incorporating broadly similar mechanics, and largely following the same plot with perhaps a few additions, and maybe even toning down some of the more ridiculous 'Save the burning orphanage vs stab a kitten in the face' dark side choices that plagued the original.

As usual in these situations the end result is likely to be somewhere in between the two extremes. I think we'll get a competent 'third person shooter' with good voice acting and a vaguely similar plot, but I think that it will also tone down quite a lot of the original's complexity and systems, which will be considered 'too complex for modern gamers'.

If I had my wish they'd offer the choice between playing using the old-school dice roll system for combat or using a 'modern' combat system, allowing me to toggle between in the settings menu, but I'd be surprised if I got my wish.

Guess we'll see next year.