[starbug]

Guys need some advice i noticed in my local game Knights of the Old Republic is down to £8.99 and i now hear is free to play? Is it worth getting people say its really good but i don't like MMO's but i also hear that it can be played like a single player game. Does anyone here play it and could give me some advice please?

[Polpolion]

Apparently KotOR is considered a really good RPG but I always get bored out of my mind whenever I try and play it. Can never last more than an hour or so.

[headdie]

Personally I enjoyed it.  Character setup is simple (perhaps too simple iirc for hardened D&D types), good length main campaign with a fair few side quests both companion and other char driven. many companions to recruit and choose from with varying alignments with a large number of interactions between them which some cool dialogue.  all in all its a good game in my books

[Scotty]

Guys need some advice i noticed in my local game Knights of the Old Republic is down to £8.99 and i now hear is free to play? Is it worth getting people say its really good but i don't like MMO's but i also hear that it can be played like a single player game. Does anyone here play it and could give me some advice please?

Knights of the Old Republic is not the same game as The Old Republic.  One is a very, very good single-player, non-multiplayer Star Wars RPG using a system that harkens back to DnD, specifically 3rd edition.  The Old Republic is an MMO that isn't doing very well financially and has a passable story.

[MP-Ryan]

KOTOR is totally worth it.  The Old Republic, on the other hand... from what I've heard, not so much.

[StarSlayer]

First time I stepped out onto the street on Taris I remember having a big **** eating grin because I was "in" Star Wars.  Sorta like the first time you walk into Afterlife in ME2.  Even though its probably not as visually splendid as it was back in Oh Three, the story and atmosphere are great.  I'm not even a big RPG fan, in fact I played it about as close to action as possible but its still one of my favorite games.

[MatthTheGeek]

Just be advised it's a buggy game, especially on recent machines. I just can't go out of Taris' underground without having a ****ton of graphical glitches eventually leading up to crashing here.

KotOR2 isn't much better bug-wise. I never managed to finish it simply because there are a few game-breaking bugs mid-game.

TOR, on the other hand, is going to be free-to-play, soooooo you won't loose anything giving it a try.

[Colonol Dekker]

KOTOR is totally worth it.  The Old Republic, on the other hand... from what I've heard, not so much.

Bastilla  I wuv you so much...................

WHY AREN'T YOU REEEEAAAAL!!  (My Jennifer Hale crush still ahsn't abated)



Srsly though, KOTOR, KOTOR2, Freakin awesome games.

TOR, no idea.

[starbug]

Cheers guys and I did mean the mmo. I've got the first games of the series and loved them and was wondering if the mmo was worth getting

[MatthTheGeek]

Just wait 'till it's free to play, somewhere around this fall. Better wait a bit and not waste money if you're afraid to be disappointed.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

The Old Republic isn't terrible, but it's not terribly good, either. It isn't really breaking any new ground besides being fully voice acted. Like any other novelty, it eventually wears off, and when you think about how much time and money they must have spent on the voice acting when there are a lot of other substandard facets of the game...well, yeah.

When it goes free-to-play, give it a shot, if just to play through the class stories. Most of the characters are good, in typical BioWare fashion. I've got a 50 Trooper (can't resist more Jennifer Hale) and a 50 Sith Warrior, which is great if you enjoy being a dick. I've heard good things about the Imperial Agent storyline as well.

A totally random observation about the game is that someone in charge of camera angles totally has a thing for ass. Not sure why I thought of that, but I haven't gotten much sleep lately...

Oh, one more thing: I don't know how much has been fixed by now, but TOR is brutal on computers. The engine is really poorly optimized and has a hell of a HDD bottleneck - if you can't install it on a SSD, expect long loading times. A lot of people also have problems with framerates. BioWare was trying to blame it on people's crappy computers from the beginning, but that wasn't the whole story. A lot of people with rigs that could curbstomp the best looking DX11 games were still having issues. My old laptop would drop to 5 FPS or so in combat or in the fleets...not completely unplayable, but a total PITA. Plays fine on my new computer, but it could be luck. Just had to make sure that warning was out there.

[starbug]

Ok cheers guys, I think I will put it of then till its free, ah well roll on next week for darksiders 2 and fall of cybertron!

[Scourge of Ages]

Even now, I think ToR is free up to level 15 or something. It's free to download and play up to that, and then when it goes FTP you should be able to take the character(s) the rest of the way.

[MatthTheGeek]

IIRC, when it'll be FTP in fall you'll be able to take it up to lvl50, according to the FAQ. They also say the whole character story arcs will be playable in the FTP package too.

[SpardaSon21]

I'll certainly be going through TOR at least once when it goes F2P.  The various class stories were written by BioWare after all.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Yeah, basically, play it like it's a singleplayer KOTOR3 with some really annoying NPCs that occasionally get in your way, finish the class storylines that interest you, and get the hell outta Dodge.

That'd be my advice.

[An4ximandros]

Bioware has horrible and cliched writing. Yes, I said it.

I Liked KoTOR 2 the most, yes it tried new things and burned because of it (screw you Lucasarts) but at least they tried!
They didn't go the Bioware route of "We must make a bigger rehash of the 'Bigbad has a weapon that can end all as we know it' plot."
I find it funny that when Obsidian did the Sith Lord that can eat planets everyone whined about it but when Bioware did it now they are OK with it.

-- Rant over --

If you don't mind Carth annoying you every five minutes, the game is fun to play through once or twice, but for the love of Guda, Taris has to be the worst torture an RPG has ever engineered... beside Peragus II

And no words can describe my hatred for Selkaths.

And from seeing my brother play TOR, I can safely say it's not really anything more that WoW with fully voiced dialogue set in the STAR WARS Universe.

(Allow me to apologize in advance if the wording of the post makes it sound rude.)

[soilder198]

I haven't played that game since I was 8. All I can remember was sitting in front of my t.v for hours on end having a damn good time haha