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Why do you consider this game to be better than KOTOR 1? I'm replaying it again for the first time with the restored content mod and I'm seeing samples of brilliance with its critique on the Republic and Jedi (though it's kinda one-sided so far). I'm only on Telos atm.
Major spoilers for those who haven't beaten the game:
Kreia talking about the third enemy who betrays is a terrible giveaway unless I'm missing something. Yes, I beat the game on Xbox. I have no idea why the game would even bring up Traya this early.
The touch controls work well, but if you choose to use a controller there's some quirks in the mapping (there's no one button to select between your party for instance... you need to to go to a menu and then select the party member before you can assign them actions).
Very, very cool. The native widescreen support is actually the most important thing to come out of this, as the content restoration mod was fairly easy to track down and install. Widescreen and custom resolution (1080p) support was a huge pain in the ass to get working, though, and my game would still crash from time to time on transitioning from gameplay to FMVs.
The restored content is meant to be available in the workshop for today and working, but it seems that they haven't got it uploaded correctly.
As far as the restored content goes - you want to play the game with it. When KOTOR 2 release on all platforms, it was rushed and had a bunch of stuff cut, and particularly the rather abrupt ending. Turns out that that stuff was actually just locked away with in the game and not quite completed, so some modders got it sorted out and released. It makes the game a ton better to the point where it rivals the first game.
To get the content, you can head to the workshop * as posted above * and just subscribe to it. Steam will automatically update the game for you and will keep the mod updated along with the game should either be altered
Many reasons really. The story is more interesting and nuanced. The characters are more well-developed and unique. The dialogue is far better written. And even in terms of gameplay, the RPG system is more involved and complete.
Here's a request for everyone who catches this post:
Why do you consider this game to be better than KOTOR 1? I'm replaying it again for the first time with the restored content mod and I'm seeing samples of brilliance with its critique on the Republic and Jedi (though it's kinda one-sided so far). I'm only on Telos atm.
Major spoilers for those who haven't beaten the game:
Kreia talking about the third enemy who betrays is a terrible giveaway unless I'm missing something. Yes, I beat the game on Xbox. I have no idea why the game would even bring up Traya this early.
Can confirm that controller support works fine (at least for the MS controllers/DS4 tool)
The button layout is a bit different than the original versions on Xbox so I have to relearn that. (For example, flourish weapons is Y on Xbox on both Kotor and Kotor 2 whereas its now L3)
Here's a request for everyone who catches this post:
Why do you consider this game to be better than KOTOR 1? I'm replaying it again for the first time with the restored content mod and I'm seeing samples of brilliance with its critique on the Republic and Jedi (though it's kinda one-sided so far). I'm only on Telos atm.
Major spoilers for those who haven't beaten the game:
Kreia talking about the third enemy who betrays is a terrible giveaway unless I'm missing something. Yes, I beat the game on Xbox. I have no idea why the game would even bring up Traya this early.
I'm biased because I loathe the fanbase's idea that this is the be all end all of Star Wars but without the restored content mod I just found myself not caring at the end compared to Kotor 1 which I thought had a pretty great third act.
Probably not, and no, its not necessary to play 1 in order to get whats happening in 2. Also 2 was made by Obsidian, which we all know makes better sequels/spin-offs than the original developers.
And here I thought Journey would be the best new release of the day. What a pleasant surprise but now I regret not picking up the Steam version during one of the bigger sales, only ever had it on disc.
Many reasons really. The story is more interesting and nuanced. The characters are more well-developed and unique. The dialogue is far better written. And even in terms of gameplay, the RPG system is more involved and complete.
Well guess KOTOR II gets shuffled to to top of the backlog pile. Ben interesting to see about pushing that '5k support'. What DX version is this again? Please be 9, please be 9, please be 9.
By the way, this is why PC is dying.
On consoles you could do the same thing (up the resolution with widescreen support and add achievements) and BAM there's your new $40 product
It loads up the Logos, then it increases in Res, and the entire image is shifted up leaving only a black screen. I can hear menu sound but see or access anything
Here's a request for everyone who catches this post:
Why do you consider this game to be better than KOTOR 1? I'm replaying it again for the first time with the restored content mod and I'm seeing samples of brilliance with its critique on the Republic and Jedi (though it's kinda one-sided so far). I'm only on Telos atm.
I think the game isn't even a pimple on the ass of Kotor 1. The writing is fanfic level and the unfinished state "because they had no time" is not an excuse gamers should care about. I don't want to spoil the game, but I will say that an important turning point in the game's story is nothing but a meaningless phrase which is meant to justify the overall "tales from my ass" feeling of the game's plot.
Kotor 2 feels like they wanted to make a Planescape game (and I actually adore Planescape: Torment) but were forced to work on Star Wars and they did so reluctantly.
I'm biased because I loathe the fanbase's idea that this is the be all end all of Star Wars but without the restored content mod I just found myself not caring at the end compared to Kotor 1 which I thought had a pretty great third act.
Ive just installed it and had a quick go and it worked fine on my monitor at 3440x1440p and im using a Samsung S34E790C 34inch. Im also on windows 10 and no problems there aswell.
Awesome this came out as ive been wanting to replay it for ages.
I think the game isn't even a pimple on the ass of Kotor 1. The writing is fanfic level and the unfinished state "because they had no time" is not an excuse gamers should care about. I don't want to spoil the game, but I will say that an important turning point in the game's story is nothing but a meaningless phrase which is meant to justify the overall "tales from my ass" feeling of the game's plot.
I largely agree, but I think that the story/plot is a bit weak, and it gets by on the strength of the writing. Here's my post on it from a LTTP thread we had a while back:
On a line-by-line basis, KotOR 2's writing is great. Fantastic, even. The conversation trees were always interesting, and if nothing else, god damn all the Jedi doublespeak sounded so freaking cool when voiced by Kreia. The thing is, a lot of her dialogue is just that - doublespeak. It adds a lot of flavor, but doesn't always move the story forward in the way that it needs to, nor did it do a great job of explaining some of the more abstract concepts of the story.
I think the abstractness is ultimately the weakest part of the core plot. By the end of the game, characters are throwing around
"wound in the Force"
every other line, but I never quite grasped exactly what that meant. I think the
scene at the Jedi Enclave where they tell you that you form bonds easily, you're a wound in the Force, etc.
was supposed to be the game's Big Twist, like
Revan from KotOR 1
, yet I came away more confused than anything else. The game's final confrontation -
Kreia manipulating you to bring about the end of the Force - felt a bit hollow because, well, how the hell was she going to do that if you lost to her?
I knew that the stakes were high, but the core plot points being so abstract didn't help establish why they were high.
KotOR 1, although perhaps a bit weaker when it comes to dialogue, has a Big Twist that's solid, that's memorable, that probably blew people's minds when it happened. It's the more crowd-pleasing story of the two, and I can see why people would vastly prefer the first game. I certainly wouldn't blame them. It can be argued that KotOR 2 wasn't aiming for a Big Twist, and I guess they weren't, but I still say the overall plot could've used more concrete plot points.
I do think the characters and mechanics are a clear step up in KotOR 2, and it's great that you can only pick two of four party members for any one playthrough.
It is likely this was spearheaded by whoever did the Mac and Linux ports, and KOTOR already has one so it does not seem likely we'll see them going back to that.
Yeah. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether it's project mismanagement or simply an unreasonable timeframe, but in this particular case it's easy to see who is to blame.
Not that KOTOR 2 wouldn't have been obscenely buggy even with another year, but it certainly wouldn't have had the ending it did.
As for the game itself, I think it's about on par with the first, for different reasons. Which is saying a lot because KOTOR 1 is probably my favorite game of that gen.
Yeah. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether it's project mismanagement or simply an unreasonable timeframe, but in this particular case it's easy to see who is to blame.
Not that KOTOR 2 wouldn't have been obscenely buggy even with another year, but it certainly wouldn't have had the ending it did.
Here's a request for everyone who catches this post:
Why do you consider this game to be better than KOTOR 1? I'm replaying it again for the first time with the restored content mod and I'm seeing samples of brilliance with its critique on the Republic and Jedi (though it's kinda one-sided so far). I'm only on Telos atm.
Major spoilers for those who haven't beaten the game:
Kreia talking about the third enemy who betrays is a terrible giveaway unless I'm missing something. Yes, I beat the game on Xbox. I have no idea why the game would even bring up Traya this early.
