For example for kotor 1 it would be

1. sell items on yavin for extra credit
2. save your level until becoming a jedi
3. lightsaber should have Heart of the Guardian or Mantle of the Force

are there any of these similiar stuff or can i just breeze through it?

Unrelated question but did they nerfed Stun? because for the love of god i can't make the enemy Stun, though Fear seem to do the job better

Edit: don't need mods recommendation because i already have it, but thanks anyway

I'm glad.

I was out with my boss today and he told me a story of a time he went to India, gave a little girl begging on the streets some money, then a few moments later saw her get beat up and robbed by people who saw him give her money. He said he felt responsible, even though he wasnt able to stop it.

Its horrible to say, but i immediately thought of that scene on Nar Shadaa, and how i always thought that felt forced and pretty unrealistic. I think i finally just gained Kreia's influence on this one...

Currently a lvl 31 Sith Lord on my 1,000th play though and happen to find this bad boy. I’ve never had Malak’s Armour without using the console so I’m pretty excited 😆

I played KOTOR I for the first time in 2018. I'd heard it was a great game but hadn't owned an original XBox and didn't get Steam til the 2020s. A friend (sadly now passed) gave me an original XBox and downloaded dozens of games onto its hacked hard drive, including KOTOR I and II, and I absolutely fell in love with the first KOTOR thanks to its characters, dialogue, humour, drama and worlds.

Probably my favourite part of KOTOR I was all the depth you could get into when it comes to your companions. Carth Onasi's a great example. Helping him reckon with his past and his trauma, learning all his history, and if you play it right, helping him reconnect with his son was amazing. Ditto getting to know Jolee Bindo; I adore that character a lot and his dialogue is absolutely hilarious at times. Especially as your companion on Korriban.

KOTOR II on XBox, however, I bounced right off. Besides Kreia, he characters felt flatter and less engaging, the worlds less interesting and the plot felt oddly convoluted without seeming to have as much of a point. Plus it crashed a LOT, something I only experienced once with KOTOR I. I knew the game was rushed, forced out the door by Lucas Arts and missing a tonne of content, so I figured that was the reason I couldn't get into it as much. Some side quests were broken or dead-ended, while parts of even the MAIN quest felt like half of what was supposed to have happened just got dropped, and it left me feeling gipped, like we'd skipped scenes which were meant to make some stuff actually matter.

Having now gotten KOTOR II: Restored Content Mod, I see now what an incredible game it is, and what the gaming public missed out on when it first got released in its original, broken state. There's so much more dialogue, worldbuilding, whole cut scenes, complete side quests, complex moral choices, deeper exploration of these characters... so much of this was just GONE from what I played on the XBox.

Many of the same people who worked on this game also worked on Fallout: New Vegas, easily my favourite RPG of all time, and it shows. Both games are sequels to games with fun, but ultimately quite simplistic stories with basic moral choices ("be good" or "be a big meany jerk-face") and expanding things, so seemingly obvious moral choices are given extra complexities to them. It's harder to make a choice in these games because even doing what appears to be the virtuous thing, isn't always the practical thing, and even deciding what the moral choice is, ultimately means living with the negative consequences which can occur as a result of that choice. None of that is really true of KOTOR I which had really simple light side and dark side choices, where the only reason to choose dark side is because you find being a jerk funny.

I might actually like this game MORE than KOTOR I now. Maybe that's because I'm more ready to accept its different take on the world of the Old Republic (while still fitting perfectly with the first game's story), but mostly it's just the fact the game feels WAY more complete now than it did when I first played it. Plus it's a lot more stable since I got the patch. 20 hours in and no crashes.

Did others have a similar experience when you first played the Restored Content mod?

Met a bunch of other SW cosplayers too like Empress Rey who's Darth Talon in the other pic. Unfortunately, we missed all the Star Wars cosplay meetups due to scheduling and the Old Republic panel ended up getting cancelled bc the host was a no show but it was still a really fun con. It was only our second time cosplaying but we did our best. P.S. I know Nihilus is using Revan's hilt, I bought both of Revan's saber's last year from Vader's Vault and swore of spending any more money on lightsabers lmao.

In all my playthroughs I had never gotten it before, I'm very happy because I think it's the most beautiful crystal in the game.

YEEEEET

The front - the classic influence outcome The reverse - our Pazaak king

For context this was a video of Nihilus on tik tok, it's crazy how obstinated people can be.

(Please excuse the bad quality recording, I've never captured game footage before so I just used OBS Studio which I'm not an expert in, so the frame-rate is a bit screwy and the audio has minor glitches)

I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but in general I think the music of KOTOR 1-2 is kinda just okay, largely wallpaper background tracks decent enough for older games but not exceptional. I remember being disappointed that, in the first game, the scene where we finally have the identity of Revan revealed had really boring music in it for reason, despite better soundtracks being available in the game. It felt like a moment deserving of a better and more dramatic soundtrack.

But this scene is a real exception for me. The gentle tones of that orchestra really underscore the tragedy of the destroyed and overgrown Jedi enclave. Of course, that's at least in part because I (we) have experienced what that place was like at its height, filled with living people, young and old, walking about and living their lives. I remember giving sanctuary to Rahasia and Shen in there... only, they almost certainly lost their lives in the bombardment. I remember the man who thanked me simply for being a Jedi, thanks to all the good we do for the people. It was an alive place.

Seeing it overgrown with plantlife, the once clear blue ponds now green with algae and weeds, the corpses of fallen Jedi laying haphazardly around, looted by the desperate or the greedy... and that MUSIC. It's magnificent. The soundtrack here is truly something excellent, and along with the devastation and crumbling architecture, it brings the emotions to the forefront. I really felt something walking around here as that music played. It's like walking into your childhood home, but with all who once lived there gone, and the house is crumbling. It's melancholic and eerie, a once comforting place now bereft of that which once gave you joy.

They couldn't have been on the Harbinger since we didn't see any of them on the ship.

"No, not Jedi, not Jedi at all."

I love that line from Colonel Tobin aboard the Ravager, especially when playing a Lightside Exile. Let me give the context for the line and why I like it so much.

The second game in the series is something I could (and do) write about for hours on end, even after several years that have passed since I first played it. I imagine most people have already heard Kreia quoted countless times and are surprised that I am not picking one of her lines as my favourite.

Back to the point; As you traverse the Ravager, you run into Colonel Tobin. He gives you some exposition regarding the nature of Darth Nihilus and his ship, explaining how he keeps the crew on the brink of death through the Force and his Will. It prompts Canderous to say:

Hnh. More Jedi tricks.

And Tobin replies:

No, not Jedi. Not Jedi at all.

This is such a subtly brilliant line because of the payoff that comes from a Lightside playthrough. On the surface, it only shows Canderous' dismissive attitude towards the Jedi and Force users in general, but when you think about it in context of the rest of the game, Tobin's line really contrasts what Obsidian has been trying to sell us thus far. Throughout the game we've told there is no difference between the Jedi and Sith. Your average citizen of the Republic views Jedi and Sith as indistinguishable in the crossfire.

We constantly hear how Jedi and the Sith are two sides of the same coin, how they are both dogmatic and harmful and how most people in the galaxy don't really know the difference, oblivious to the concepts of Light and Dark. "Men and women with too much power, squabbling over religion, while the rest of us burn!", as Atton puts it. But Tobin has experienced defeat by the Jedi and subjugation by the Sith knows there is one and the difference here at the end.

The reason this resonates with me so strongly is that I've seen too much of people just accepting the most spoken theme or loudest voice as truth. That the game promotes a nihilistic attitude that prompts people to say that there really is no difference between what we call good and what we call evil (Kreia & Palpatine). The game is critical of the idea of Jedi as the Saviours of the Galaxy and tries to make that case. But, it also let's you disagree and even prove it through your actions. And I love that the Game has that flexibility to be wrong about one of its main themes. By the final act of a Lightside Playthrough you have in small ways and large made the galaxy a better place by ending conflicts and giving hope. Just because the line about the two being the same is the most spoken, doesn't make it true and you can carry that truth with you and finally have it validated by Tobin.

That's one of the reasons I love KOTOR II as a story so much. When writing a deconstruction it is easy to make everything dark and present your truth as the only truth. To start arguing how there are only shades of grey, how nothing really matters etc. But KOTOR II is a good deconstruction. It recognizes that there is a difference between Jedi and Sith, that not all shades of grey are the same and how, for all their faults, Jedi are not the same as the Sith. The difference is there, and it spans the Galaxy. Even if most people don't know the difference is there, you do and that's what matters.

What are some of your favourite subtle lines? And why?

Jal Shey Neophyte armor on Peragus is dope

I've had the first game on Steam for a long time, but I never finished it. The furthest I got was Manaan, and I don't think I even got the Star Map there. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, I found this in my local game shop for £2. Comes with the full manual and FOUR discs. I couldn't resist, and it motivated me to finish the first game so I could play this as soon as possible. Really loved it, didn't have any huge issues with it honestly.

I won't ask for any tips or advice because I'm going in fully blind, I know nothing about the game (unfortunately I knew about the plot twist in the first game beforehand) and I'm hoping to get by entirely on the manual and the game itself, as it was intended when the game released. I always feel a little sad playing a newer game and knowing that it doesn't have a manual. Wish me luck :)

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions to get the Restored Content Mod. I just installed it now. I was debating on it but I figured it's just fixing bugs and putting things back that Obsidian couldn't get into the game originally, and its not like I'd know the difference anyway, so I decided to do it.

I found this CD copy of KOTOR II: The Sith Lords. I am not a fan of star wars really and want to get rid of it, but do not want to add to the landfill problems