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Comment by Mr_Eri_Atlov

5 hours ago

Knights of the Old Republic will forever be one of my favorite games

RIP to an amazing creative group

maybe obvious, but Baldur's Gate 3 is really that level (or better) of a game (recommendation)

  • game to game, sure. story to story, I disagree.

    kotor was one of the first interactive media franchises to showcase that era in the Star Wars universe, and it was an era that's radically different than anything in the movies.

    bg3 is a typical DnD setting + sex + lovecraftian elements and flayers sitting in for beholders to spice it up; and they were only there because during dev-time lovecraft was a huge gaming trend.

    don't get me wrong; I love both of them, but the BG3 story was the one that ended up feeling like -- for me -- something that would have been a modpack for Neverwinter Nights.

    • Likewise. The bg3 story felt like a very long, strung out and milked dry "you have sickness x, go the hospital and figure out a treatment" level of depth

    • > they were only there because during dev-time lovecraft was a huge gaming trend.

      I guess you have the edition of Deities and Demigods where they were cut...

  • In some ways yes, in some ways no.

    To me at least, somehow KOTOR and KOTOR 2 made me care more about the characters and story than BG3.

    BG3 has better systems and combat and gear and such, but for many the worldbuilding, story, quests and such of KOTOR have yet to be beaten. Bastia Shan, Carth Onasi, Visas Marr, HK47.

    The story of Revan and its twists.

    Perhaps its just nostalgia and many KOTOR fans having been at an earlier age when they played those Bioware games compared to DOS 2 and BG3 though. Maybe people who were teenagers playing Larian games feel as attached to the characters and story as those of us who were teens in KOTOR's heyday did.

>RIP to an amazing creative group

i can assure you that the original amazing group has been gone for over a decade. modern bioware has only been good at dragging someone else's legacy through the mud.