Your Top 50 Games: 2013 Discussion Thread (The Final Day!)

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Mr Khan said:

Salnax said:

Kantor said:

Salnax said:

 

That's further away.

Knights of the Old Republic?

Correct!

I view KOTOR as sort of the best take on a license using the Dungeons and Dragons style RPG that I've ever played. It adds to and grows from its franchise, it has nice gameplay, interesting worlds, surprisingly good voice acting and characters, etc. Oh, and the plot twist was pretty well done too! The lack of any great boss fights, a piss-poor ending, and the game's failure to actually use its vast array of characters well in gameplay hold it back down in the 40's however.

I felt the combat in KOTOR was insanely unbalanced. It's not an issue of "lack" of boss fights, but that every single one-on-one boss fight almost required me to turn the difficulty down (a few of them, like the Wookiee chief, Bastila and Malak straight-up required a retreat to easy mode). If you didn't choose the melee jedi class, then the game just jabbed a giant middle finger in your eye and kept stabbing you repeatedly.

KOTOR II was so much nicer about it. Overall stability problems are what kept II out of my top 50.

Really? I've played through the game twice, and the only troublesome major encounters I had in either my Melee or Force oriented runs were the final boss both times and the last major fight on the Sith planet. And I didn't need to use easy mode either time.

I just found Malak infuriatingly long and arduous due to his huge de facto amount of HP.

As for KOTOR 2, I still need to play that, so maybe it'll be on next year's list instead of KOTOR.