Because KoTOR's designers didn't have any other way to accurately depict the character's descent into evil. Physical alterations were the most convenient and viable. The game being an RPG, you can understand where they're coming from.
Palpatine's is a result of a blast of lightning, I'm frankly amazed he isn't charcoal coloured.
In-Universe explanation for KOTOR: I honestly don't know. Revan and the Exile hate some bad Rodian-burgers or something.
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It makes sense.
The general idea is that the Dark Side is unnatural and unhealthy, originating with the Emperor looking like an ancient, decaying old man and Darth Vader being trapped in an iron lung without his skin seeing the light of day for twenty years.
Ventress, I believe, is a species that is already albino in skintone, but her depiction follows the idea of followers of the Dark Side looking sickly. Maul looks unnatural in a different way, with his ritual tattoos, but his teeth and his horns give off the appearance of rotting bone. Dooku... is just really old...
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The Majority of Bane's life was lived in the dark Cortosis mines, odds are that not only that you lost your hair in the mines but that your skin pigment became incredibly pale, since you were so rarely in the sunlight (Well at least in Bane's case since he worked the day-shift.) After several decades of working in the mines, you probably effectively albino.
Ofcourse It could also be explained that the dark side effects its users differently. For example some sith had the "Sith Eyes" (Maul, Anakin on occasion) but some didn't (Dooku, Palpatine, Anakin on occasion).
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I agree with Kapton JAC on why Bane had pasty skin. Oh, and Asajj Ventress had that pasty, bald freakishness always, since those are traits of her species (Ratattak).
Darth Caedus has Sith eyes too, as do Darth Revan, Darth Malak, and a bunch of others.
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In his appearance in ROTS, at least, Palpatine was portrayed with Sith eyes.
"His avatar was the image of a man who had succumbed to the physical corruption that sometimes affected those who delved too deeply into the power of the dark side." - [Darth Bane: Rule of Two]
Enough said.
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