Knights of the Old Republic - your path
 

ok, so im kind of a johnny-come-lately with games, i don't buy or play most games when they come out. case in point: i just beat KOTOR tonight. i (and pretty much everyone else who played it) really enjoyed it, and i was wondering what everyone else's experiences were.


*big fucking spoilers*


I went the dark side route, and I was very fucking suprised to find that the game actualy changes near the end. Instead of resolving to destroy the star forge, i convince bastilla (when i found her in the ancient temple) to help me capture it so i can reclaim my rightful Sith Lord title. Because of this, i end up killing Jolee and Juhanni, as they refuse to join me. Carth runs away, and I force Zalbaar to kill Mission because she won't co-operate.

I can't say i've ever played a game that actualy let me be evil, and that actualy had believable concequences for those evil actions. Hell, i cant remember how many times people have said "it would be neat if there was a game where you could be a super-villian", and i actualy got to be that. so now i've got to beat it as a light side, and probably a neutral character as well.


so my question is: what career/force/moral paths did you all take?

I gave in to the temptation... I could not resist...


I WAS A LIGHTSIDER! What have I done, oh Lord what have I done? (Sounds of weeping and gnashing of teeth)

You were able to get Zalbaar to kill Mission? When I tried it he refused me and I had to kill them both. Waste of a perfectly good Wookie.

Someone once described the Dark Side in KOTOR as "chaotic stupid", and I can't say that isn't true, but it's so much fun to play. I don't get people who can't play Dark Side because they feel too bad about being so heartless -- the only people who suffer are fictional characters, it's not like the game makes you go out and kick real live puppies and set real live nuns on fire or anything. My only regret is that they won't let you kill Carth too. Has anyone played a female Dark Jedi and gotten the romance subplot with him, where he begs you to turn back to the Light Side for his luuuuuv? I didn't get it, which is too bad because it would've made my turning to the Dark Side even funnier, what with having killed his kid during the Sith Academy mission and all.

I didn't get to play all of the game, but the little I did play I was headed for the light side because my brother had been playing it too and he was doing the evil path, so I wanted to do something different.

But if I could get that sidething where Carth asks you to return to the light side, maybe I'll be evil. Mua ha ha. It's fun to be evil.
I hate Carth, it kinda stinks that it won't let you kill him.

hehe...I chose the path of the dark side. I knew this from the start, so I started to look around for evil things to do. (ie find an apartment, kill ALL of the residents and steal their stuff). i managed to get my force dark/light side meter somewhere between dark-side and satan-with-a-lightsaber before I even got off the first planet... Good times... :D

on a side note, does anybody find the bipedal robot (forgot the name) to be one of the best aspects of that game?

HK-47? he's my friend. actualy, that homicidal robot kinda freaked me out sometimes. it made a whole lot of sense when you found out what he really was.

i do agree that a majority of the light side/dark side choices were painfully obvious and cliche. there were usualy a choice for "kill this person for no go reason", and most of the quests in the game were focused around you doing good things. or at least, thats how it appeared to me.

oh, i do regret not taking medium armor proficency, when i got to the end, i had Darth Revan's cloak, but i couldn't wear his Vacuume Mask.

I hate HK-47. To me, he's weak. I prefer an all Jedi crew, but before I had all Jedi, I'd use Carth and Canderous as alternates.

The first time I played it, I made decisions the way that I thought I would actually choose if I were in such situations. So I didn't necessarily make choices based on if it would give me dark or light points. In the end I was about halfway up the lightside meter. I beat it in 46 hours, which was within a week of purchasing it (I had just gotten laid off, so I had a lot of time on my hands before I went back to school). Now I'm playing through again purely dark side, so I can see the other ending.

Malak Tip: I found that once I took out all the, uh, health giving bodies Malak had, I only had to run in a circle, get him to chase me, and hit him with force lightning when my meter filled up again. But you have to exit combat mode(press B) to this. Did anyone else do something like this? That made Malak a bit too easy, if time consuming, to beat?

I borrowed the game, but stopped playing after Tatooine (First planet I went to after Jedi Place). Played both a light side and a dark side game at the same time. Favorite dark side choice is making the two familes kill eachother.

I need to buy that game and finish it...

I haven't beaten the game yet since I'm just...well, painfully lazy and unmotivated, but I'm a hardcore goodguy right at the moment. Used the unlimited lightside point trick so my Jedi has rainbows shooting out of his ass.

HK-47 and Canderous are awesome characters, but generally lousy NPCs. I regret having Canderous stick with blaster-type weapons, since he can't hit anything for shit later, ditto for HK. HK gets pretty nice though if you're enough of a hotshot robot repair expert to restore a lot of his functions, since he gets permanent stat increases and free feats when you succeed.

I usually just have Jolee and Canderous in my party because they're my two favorite characters. Not too good for inter-party banter though...

I wanted to restart the game and put points in repair just to repair him... Then I got lazy and stopped playing...