Enchantermon on 6/9/2009 at 19:20
Was Kotor any good? The only games I've ever played with RPG elements were LotR: The Return of the King, SS2 and Bioshock, so I'm not sure how I'd take to a straight RPG, but for ten bucks, if it's good, I could test the waters with it.
mothra on 6/9/2009 at 19:23
I'm sure it's the old 1.5 patch meaning: no widescreen, numerous crashes.
I had to stop my last playthrough because it ALWAYS crashed at the same transition of level-cutscene. nothing I could do about it. ran it in safe mode / 800x600 and it still crashed.....if somebody gets it, PLEASE report the version number here, maybe they really fixed something
Sulphur on 6/9/2009 at 19:23
It's not a bad way to start off with RPGs, though a better introduction would be Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines or perhaps Fallout 3. KoTOR as a game is great if you haven't played any other 3D Bioware RPGs. It has its annoyances, but is pretty solidly crafted and not all that difficult to get into. Keep in mind that the really good bits come up once you get your light sabre and force powers, but that doesn't happen quite as immediately as you'd hope.
mothra on 6/9/2009 at 19:40
vampires is much better if you never played it (personal reference of mine), KOTOR is very easy and longer, I liked the scale of it, some missions are rather good, but on a whole it's BIOWARE settling into their current "drone"-writing of recurring themes only with different clothes. practically the blueprint for every other dialogue/quest in any other bioware game since then. and I doubt DragonAge will differ in quality, only quantity.
Enchantermon on 6/9/2009 at 21:21
Hmm...well, seeing as how Bloodlines is out of my price range and there's no way Fallout 3 is going to run with my graphics card, I may have to start with KOTOR. Then again, I don't really have the time to start anything right now, so maybe when I do, I'll be able to afford Bloodlines (or a new computer :p). Thanks for the advice.
Zygoptera on 6/9/2009 at 22:07
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Hopefully they've tested it properly on modern hardware and OSes. A few people that I know have had trouble running this properly on their newish rigs.
The biggest problem (there are others) was that KOTOR hates some card's openGL drivers. For some reason despite using almost the exact same engine K2 is far less prone to it.
IIRC there is a fix which works in most cases (basically grab the opengl specific bits out of a 2006 era driver pack, so not for the tech illiterate), though if it's a new release it really ought to be fixed, otherwise it ain't going to work for a lot of people.
