L.G.C. |Reviews| — STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II

Game: STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/208580/
Devel: Aspyr
Engine: Aurora
Price: $9.99

Wazzat: 5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?

Systems of business:

Venn:
CPU: AMD 8150 X8 OC 4Ghz
GPU: NVIDIA 980 4GB
RAM: 8GB
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Kernel: 3.13.0
DM: XFCE 4.12
Video Driver Version: 358.16

Jordan:
CPU: Intel i7 6700K X4 @ 4.0GHZ
GPU: MSI NVIDIA GTX 980
RAM: 32GB Corsair
SSD: Crucial MX 200 512GB
OS: Fedora 22 64 Bit
Kernel: 4.2.6-200
DM: XFCE 4.12
Video Driver Version: 358.16

Pedro:
CPU: AMD FX8370E x8 OC 4.2GHz
GPU: Asus GTX 970 STRIX
RAM: 16GB HyperX DDR3 1866MHz
SSD: #yol0raid 2x250GB Samsung 850 EVO
OS: Fedora 23 64bit
Kernel: 4.2.6-301
DM: Cinnamon 2.8.5
Video Driver Version: 358.16

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Makes with the working

V-

Can’t Alt+Tab, Brad.
Well I can but the game always regains focus.
Switching between 1080/2160 causes the game to revert to 720 (same shite it does on first launch) and the gerbil click-targets are off causing you to use the controlla or arrows to set the proper res.
60 @1080 and 2160.

J-

M-

Worked flawlessly at launch
Aspyr source port done almost perfectly
Community patch to fix things actively supported by devs? Very nice.

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

Ass-Pyre originally ported this for mobile devices and I’m betting it looks passable on a 5 inch display @ 720/1080.
At 2160P on a 28 inch display… not so much.
I was thinking about using a re-texture pack but upgrading from meh to meh+ is hardly worth the effort.
I know the game claims to have shadows but FK and ALL if I can see them.
Voice acting is passable and the background racket is very Star Wars.

J-

Holy 2004 batman!
And these weren’t the greatest graphics back then either
Voice work is as good as you get for 2003 Video games. Standard stable of 7 Actors

M-

60 ferps at UHD
Being a droid on the outside of the ship looked pretty neat
Playstation 2 complexity geometry, even rendered at a high res, still looks dated
Does look very “Star Wars”

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Control

V-

Ass-Pyre added controller support and it’s… funky.
We’re talking unwashed shirt that you wouldn’t wear to the grocery funky.
I noped on over to the keyboard/gerbil within the first 10min.
Gerbil-look requires holding down the right button because raisins but A and D work so get yourself some of that redundancy.

J-

Exactly how I remember them
Clunky

M-

The “intro tutorial” has you plant some explosives on a door which I couldn’t get to work, required switching to keyboard+mouse and restarting the game
Most awkward camera since Mario64
Seems like a gamepad-type game, better off on the keyboard+mouse

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FUN

V-

I’ve never played this game so don’t expect any cocaine coated nostalgia glasses excuses.
Let’s start with the “combat”
This is the first game IN MY FK MOTHERING LIFE that made we whisper I wish this was 4X
Really, what the hell is this? 1X lite?
Me: Hey! That orb thingy keeps healing the bots so I best target it and give it a case of the nopes!
Game: Na, Brad; IMA stay right, FKN, here, locked on to a droid until you are killed to death.
Me: Fk that! *runs away /w a quickness and uses a medpack only to find that it only works if you click on ‘A To Use’because a double click will take one away from your inventory and not do shite*
This game suffers from the early 00s “we want to tell a theatrical story but the tech is not quite there” syndrome.
+D20 in my Star Wars game?

J-

So I first picked up this game close to 11 years ago, back when I was really into the Star Wars D20 RPG, and I loved this shit
I Played through about ¾ of the campaign, Reassembled HK47 and was on my way to becoming a super bad ass Jedi. Then I hit a game breaking bug where if you’re too neutral, you can’t progress
My rose tinted goggles seem to have some scuffs on them
I don’t recall the pathfinding being that pants on head retarded sometimes
The AI when you relinquish control of your dudes is rock stupid as well. Let’s all run into minefields
Still, I had fun playing the game. It really does pick up once you get through the telos city bits
I’m trying to go through as a sith this time around, but I keep accidentally doing good deeds!
And now I’m at the part where you, as Atton, a ranged character, have to fight two melee fighters by yourself. So much save scumming

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Really wanted to like it
Typical of Obsidian to deliver a very ambitious project without even a touch of polish… like F:NV and PoE
Aspyr didn’t do much to clean it up either, other than “controller support” and making the graphics run at 500fps.
Community mod should just be part of the game. I’m sure there must be legal issues.
Chris Avellone is a good writer/designer, but this game didn’t give me the chance to appreciate it

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