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Hetornormative is a game made for me :)

T3 might be unliked but he's actually the tankiest character in the entire game. He is capable of soloing most of the content by himself, even on Hard. Its pretty ridiculous how crazy he is with a proper kit. (Also he can't be stunned by the Sith Governor, or force powers in general, and is fully capable of beating him alone at that point. Again... Pretty wild)

I didn’t know that about the people behind the movie. Noice

_"This game was made with hetero -normative assumptions"_ Or you know your character is just straight as is 90% of the population (LGBTQ+ equates to around 10% of the population.)

when next video? been 11 months. this is really good

Great video

The android port is better at displaying modern video resolutions. Made the menus better.

The Raid divide the genre into before the raid and after the Raid

I will say that for the main character, you don't have to have a strength based build since lightsabers also use Dex for their attack rolls (if Dex is higher than Str) damage modifiers are strength based but (imo) it's more important to hit more than higher damage so I'd reverse add more into Dex and either make strength a 10 at the start or 12 if you want a little extra melee damage at levels 1-4. All of the stats are important in their own ways but for a balanced Scout (maybe even scoundrel) build, I'd have; Strength - 10 Dexterity - 14 Constitution - 12 Intelligence - 12 Wisdom - 14 Charisma - 14 If you don't care as much about HP because you're avoiding combat, finding creative solutions like mines or letting your party do 90% of the work since you're saving levels for post Taris (I didn't go past level 4) then use those 2 points to either put up your strength (if you want better damage) or Charisma/Wisdom. Intelligence is an easy dump stat too but i don't recommend it for this game unless you plan on bringing Mission, T3 or even a well invested HK-47 pretty much everywhere you go that isn't the forest floor of Kashyyk, the Tatooine desert, the Valley of the Dark Kings or half of Dantooine. Still, if you want to have it be no modifiers then add the 2 points i gave it anywhere you want I end up using more force based powers and don't pick a guardian build after Taris so that's why i add things to wisdom

“FOR THE REPUBLIC!”

Taris is an essential part of the game… the first time you play. It helps set the scene and shows you the class struggles (etc) that the galaxy is suffering through. But the second play through onwards… it’s a hell of a slog.

When I first played Mass Effect I sucked so so so bad at it... I gave up before even leaving the first planet. I played it like it was a FPS.... Then I played KOTOR, Went back to mass effect and went "OHHHHHHHH, It's a Bioware game.. I know how to play this now!"

This is a well done and in-depth video. I hope you get to make and finish the rest of the game. Makes me want to replay the game for the first time in like 17 years.

The player character's head on Malak's body is curse AF.

Bro we need a part 2, this is awesome.

The first voice actor I recognized was the anti-alien preacher in Upper Taris. That is Tom Kane doing a remarkably similar voice to Admiral Yularen. I know he was capable of doing radically different voices which is why I find it funny.

A good well made movie but an awful example of the book and terrible example of a religious belief of reincarnation, funny they had to put that silly Birthmark that looked like a scar that was to show the dumb audience the concept because they could not possibly figure it out. 😂

Amazing video, I really hope you finish this I'd love to see the whole game explored with this level of depth.

One thing I disagree with is the idea that kotor ending up being streamlined mechanically is a good thing. I mean I love kotor as it is, but a classic crpg style hard charisma or stealth run would do nothing but improve the game, my biggest issue with kotor one is just that. Like I guess an argument could be made that basically everyone who's playing this wants to be a Jedi, so a combat focused experience is just natural, otherwise how are you going to use all the fancy force moves and lightsaber and whatever, which makes sense, but I don't think its inherently the best choice. I'm replaying I now after years and stuff like manaan sticks in my mind. In a RPG more like the classics that would have had some amazing rp potential, like a neutral planet with both sith and republic with really heavy laws about combat, it was begging for a slow conversation and deduction focused experience but instead you're forced into two dungeons with basically no other choice, and then there's a dumb binary choice at the end that isn't really even a cool dark side choice its just "I'm too lazy to take slightly more time on this even if it benefits me". Kotor 1 and 2 are definitely my favorite star wars media but they're far from perfect.

what happened to part 2

I have played this game probably since it came out, I have NEVER seen the swoop platform room before

I was in my videogame prime, 19 yo, when KOTOR came out. I was a massive Star Wars fan back then, not beaten down yet from Disney cash grabs and awful story writing of the recent years, and I owned the game. However I never played it for more than just an hour. Watching videos like this is the closest I'll ever come to playing it as I don't play games at all anymore. So I thank you for giving me the experience I always wanted, but never had.

Taris is amazing

Great video dude! Excited to hear more.

I don't necessarily agree that the Undercity needs to go, having spent the vast majority of my time in KotOR on Yaris, I have am appreciation of that area and those characters, but I do like the changes to Mission's story you propose at the end.

I hate that fighter shooting minigame. I suck at it because of my eyes, and it's the main reason I've never been able to actually get off Taris, except for one time when I had my cousin beat that part for me, which was like, two weeks before I got a new computer and therefore meaningless. I played like, an hour on Dantooine in that time.

Other than the gay stuff, great movie.

I like naming my character something that makes the Jedi look really incompetent.

Have you ever watched Star Trek TOS, Deep Space Nine, Voyager or Enterprise? And if so, would you ever consider doing a top 10 of those series?

I love KOTOR and I love hearing people talk about it. I really enjoyed this retrospective and I`m looking forward to the next video(s). I had no Idea people acctually disliked Taris so much, they even made a Mod to skip it entirely. To me, Taris feels like comming home, because I had played it so many times as a kid. The ambience, the music, the side-characters you meet and the different buildings you enter. Except the slums, that shit was tedious. Also in all these years I had no idea there`s a shortcut in an apartment to the swoop-race front-desk. I acctually learned something new today.

This was incredible, can’t wait for the next episode!

I’ve watched this video multiple times now since I first discovered it a couple months ago, I have it on in the background while working. I love KOTOR, it is my favorite video game of all time, and I really enjoyed listening to your analysis of the first chapter of the game. I love everything about KOTOR, even the stuff I don’t like, if that makes sense. Thanks for your hard work in putting together this amazing video. I hope you are able to continue making these videos for the other planets in KOTOR. Thanks!!

Love the detail! Cant esit to watch the ehole series.

@1:44:25 You CAN kill the rancor ! It does require gimping it at the doorway though. Keep 2 ranged behind the door, use stealth char to trigger aggro if he breaks, and just let them rip on him. If stealth dies, they get back up when the rancor combat breaks, so other than maybe letting Mission repeatedly die to the rancor, you can kill it using weapons. You lose XP for this though as the datapad way gives you the kill XP + a quest XP bonus.

Such a thoughtful retrospective on a timeless classic. Commenting for this gem to get picked up by the algorithm!

@1:13:18 He 100% cheats, but, you can still win. You can't really beat him until you get a solid set of reversibles just before you leave for Davik's estate. You can only earn 200 credits off of him total before he gets you banned from all of the other two Upper City card players and refuses to play with you. He's a really sore loser.

Interesting bit about the promised land arc: according to SWTOR, they canonically find the promised land. But they essentially get trapped there and over the course of generations, their population dwindles down to nothing. And over that time, they lose all knowledge of how to make their tech function and even how to speak well. By the time your PC gets there, there’s nothing left of them but droids and recordings of their devolution.

I got so caught up with the similarity to the Hebrew malakh (angel, messenger) that i never made the Latin connection.

We aren’t getting part 2 are we

Episode 2?

Fantastic video, love the Trask bit

Man, I already liked Trask Ulgo but 18.5 minutes in and I would fight my way through hell for this man.