new game obsession

[melchar]

Am recovering from the head cold & hope my voice will be back to normal by the weekend [for refereeing both days]. And am now playing 'Knights of the Old Republic', trying for a complete lightside PC and a darksider. The game is a TON of fun.

However, I have a serious case of WTF-itis about the backstory there. OK, so this is supposed to be 4,000 years befor the events in the film. Huh? Makes no sense. This would assume there has been no effective change in fashion, tech, ships or most of ANYthing that whole time. Plus the galactic civ is supposed to be thousands of years old -then-. Now _I_ can get away with this silliness in Gaea because of magic & the fantasy rpg setting. 'Star Wars' is supposed to be sf. Now if they said it was _400_ years, I could believe it a lot more. But we are talking MAJOR suspension of disbelief here.

Even with the WTF back-story, it's still a lot of fun to play.

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[pusifoot.livejournal.com]

If I tell you, it will ruin the utter shock of what you get to do as an evil player, so... no! :) It is, however, absolutely evil.

The character portraits are just FUNNY - standing in that column of light, nose in the air? How can you not love it? :)

There is a romance option with Carth as a girl - I did it without even having to look at a FAQ :) It takes a while, but you can draw him out. I actualy really liked his romance option. There is one other character that you can have a romance with (as a female) but again, it is more fun to discover that one yourself *grins evilly* *taunts the Melchar*.

The dark side powers are more fun, hands down. I mean, come on, Force Lightning! (And man can you have some serious fun with that power in the sequel...)

I ended up going soldier with both of mine because I REALLY REALLY wanted to dual weild light sabers. Besides, Force Jump is just FUN! Wheeeee!

Ok. Better now. As far as where to get patches, check out http://www.pcgamemods.com/user/3458.html. There are approximately a ZILLION mods there, and some of them are even really cool. Some of them are game breakingly powerful (yay!). The Bastila romance one you would need to start a new game for - you can't install it and have it affect an existing game - it makes things go... funny.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

So - which one is the pervy one? I checked the link and there are a kajillion patches - but the thumbnail descriptions don't give enough info.