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Review Better late than never: a KOTOR review

Vault Dweller

Commissar, Red Star Studio
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Tags: BioWare; Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Just when you thought that everything stupid about <a href=http://www.bioware.com/games/knights_old_republic/>KOTOR</a> had already been written, <a href=http://www.2404.org/vgportal/>2404</a> has decided to share these <a href=http://www.2404.org/vgportal/reviews/154/Star-Wars:-Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-Review>deep thoughts</a> with the unsuspecting public:
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<blockquote>Otherwise, welcome to the RPG system of your dreams. Its foundations lie in a fully 3D world, combined with a D&D-like turn-based combat system and a powerful keyboard/mouse user interface. Most of your time playing it will be spent exploring medium-sized 3D environments, very frequently interrupted by combat, which takes place seamlessly in those same environments. Almost as much as you'll be fighting, however, you'll be speaking with a positively gigantic cast of characters from a multitude of Star Wars' fascinating worlds. The dialogue is extensive and interactive, to put it mildly, and usually has huge repercussions on both the flow of quests in the game, as well as the game's subplots and main plot. Add to that a bit of Deus Ex-like hacking/stealth/repair abilities, some puzzles, a couple action-oriented minigames, and a card game - most somehow involving the game's well hidden D&D combat core - and you've got easily one of the deepest gameplay systems of any RPG, ever.</blockquote><a href=http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=delusions&x=0&y=0>Delusion</a>:
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Main Entry: de·lu·sion
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2b : a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self
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Vault Dweller

Commissar, Red Star Studio
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Yep. The review was written 3 days ago. I guess someone told them that the game is out.
 

Pr()ZaC

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I actually would like to see new reviews of old games, so that they can play it patched and it can be compared to newer and older titles.
KoTOR was just a stupid excuse for a poor RPG.
 

TheGreatGodPan

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Was I wrong in my belief that Bioware has never done a turn-based game? Or is that guy just being an idiot?
 

Section8

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Actually, KOTOR did have turn based gameplay... in Pazaak. BUT HOW MUCH BETTER WOULD IT HAVE BEEN IF IT WAS RELTIME!!!! OMG!
 

Rat Keeng

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Pazaak wasn't turn-based, it was phazorz-based real-time with forced pause every round. Get it right n00b tbh :cool:

a more vibrant Star Wars universe than in at least two of the actual films
Quoted for truth.
 

Chefe

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Pazaak > Rest of KOTOR

Score: 3.2542 / 76.589
 

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