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I love Battle Grounds. one of my first star wars games. probably spent atleast 500 hours of my life on it. also like Kotor 1 a lot. I've played that through 7 times.(last time was my personal record time, 14 37 mins. hours on difficult!). I really like Kotor 2 except for the ending. love little things in it like how it tells you if youve opened a box before or you dont need to wait for party members to leave an area. hated the ending so much though that i actually threw-up, no joke. my favorite game is probably the first Rouge Squadron. I am probably biased though because that was the first Star Wars game I ever owned. I have definatly spent hundreds of hours playing that.
I know, I play video games to a sick extreme
Galactic Battlegrounds was fun. That and the expansion. But since I got Rise of Nations, I seldom play it. My personal favorite is KOTOR II for five main reasons:
- It expands on the customisation of the first game.
- Battles are enjoyable.
- Robes. And good ones.
- A reason to replay it more than once.
- Everything the first game had made ten times better.
Well, going back and replaying the original, my problems are as follows:
- Drawn out planets. It seriously takes longer to complete KOTOR I, and most of it is ridiculous back and forth sidequest stuff or just long halls down which you must walk. That was annoying. Only Korriban didn't get on my nerves.
- Swoop racing is too simple in the original after having mastered the sequel. (I love the swoop racing minigames, and I am getting into pazaak, but I hate the turrets. Ach.)
- The level twenty cap was just abysmal. You could have at most, 17-18 feats before your character was capped. Seeing as you became a Jedi usually between levels 6 and 8, you had a chance at about 10 to 12 Force powers before the game was over. Also, very few feats are given at the beginning (Compared to the exile's unique War veteran feat, plus 50 HP, force sensitivity, level one for all attacks, etc.) And skill points are worth jack all in KOTOR. You can have a treat injury of 6 and two life support packs will do the job.
- The helmets all sucked. They not only looked weak but they didn't do much either. Implants were rare, too expensive, and only a few people could use it. You had a chance of using a feat to give implant level one, but what good was that? One point for a reflex throw? Pathetic. The robes and amor sucked, too. In fact, I thought that before I played KOTOR II.
- While I did enjoy the secondary character interaction, and I don't exactly like the influence system (Just because it means, in many cases, you can only achieve influence by having a person in your party for say, almost a whole planet.) It was still very limited. Perhaps it's just personal preferences, I just liked KOTOR II's party better.
- Battle imbalance. In KOTOR, battle is just boring and annoying after awhile. Party member AI is weak. Half of the time they don't realize there's danger, even in a hail of blaster fire. Battles themselves don't last very long, and it's usually a few seconds of one of three attacks... bleh.
- As much as I think Revan is a badass, he's a better badass as a nonplayer character. I mean, you all got whupped in that cave on Korriban. You think you could do that with KOTOR I Revan? Level 20 cap?
I'm surprised anyone thinks KOTOR 2 is better. While it had its strengths, it had many more flaws than the original.
While I agree with most of the advantages Janus named about KOTOR 2, they really aren't that important. Sure the original had boring parts on planets, but they were bigger. Sure the skills were practically useless, but did you really use them alot in KOTOR 2? Sure the swoop racing was boring, but it wasn't that much more fun in the second. I thought the battles were actually better in the first because you fight more interesting opponents. In KOTOR 2 its usually those stupid Sith Assassins or droids. whoopee. In KOTOR, you fight Rancors, dark Jedi, Sith, tarentateks, tusken raiders, etc. There's just more variety.
The robes were seriously lacking in KOTOR 1 except for the Star Forge robes and Darth Revan's robes (which I thought were even cooler than any of KOTOR 2's). The level cap was a little annoying, but the average person would still have only ended with Level 21 or 22 probably. Capless takes away from the main storline because your repeatedly doing the same thing over and over.
Lastly, KOTOR had far better music, storyline, characters, and endings I thought. I consider it almost totally superior to KOTOR 2.
well, I beat kotor 2, and I still like it better than kotor 1, I dont think the ending is that bad....heh....the ending has not changed my opinion on this master....I am playing kotor2 again.....haha....it is as much fun as it was the first time! I even found some different quests I didnt know about last time, and finished a couple I never completed last time...this will most enjoyable master......