Star Wars: KotOR worth getting?

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#1 MJPK
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I've heard alot about this game but I never picked it up but I noticed that it's on steam now for €9.Is it worth it? Has it aged well? and is there any issues with it with Vista 64-bit?

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#2 sloakz
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Get it, its a cracking game! dunno bout any complications with Vista 64.

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#3 Legendaryscmt
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Some parts of it still hold up today, but it is a must buy.

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#4 Marfoo
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EDIT: I stand corrected, it runs in Vista, but I think it must've had problems in the past because it used to come up a lot. Thanks for correcting me people.

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#5 gameguy6700
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Go ahead and pick it up, it's one of the best WRPGs ever made. The graphics definitely show their age but otherwise the game holds up flawlessly.

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#6 tony2077ca
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its a great game you may need to do some stuff to get it to work on vista or nothing at all depends on your luck

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#7 vitriolboy
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KOTOR does not work with Vista!!!! :(, it's a great game though, you'll need XP.Marfoo

The Steam system requirements say it works on Xp and Vista

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#8 pvtdonut54
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it is brilliant.

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#9 Meejoe27
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I hadn't played it since it was released and bought it on Steam. Now i can see it actually aged quite gracefully, still a lot of fun and great story.

I'm playing light side for this run through, I just got into the Jedi order. I went with Jedi consular.

Dark side is way more fun, more powerful. and the story is actually better in my opinion. but i'm holding out, putting it off for a more thorough playthrough.

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#10 MetalManSD
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I'd say it's still worth buying too, but I played on XP and finished it. Not sure about Vista, but there are probably workarounds.
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#11 sloakz
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Thread here says it works on Vista 64 and Win 7.........

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=960121

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#12 Vaultn00b
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Bought it a few days ago from steam and man it's a must-have game! Only issue I've run into so far is that the game CTDs every ~hour. But it's not too bad because I can just save a lot.
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#13 blade55555
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KOTOR does not work with Vista!!!! :(, it's a great game though, you'll need XP.Marfoo
Yes it does. Works for me on Vista ^^. Great game definitely worth the buy I can't believe how much I enjoyed the story. I got so into it :P.
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#14 MJPK
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Thanks for the help.I'll buy it tomorrow

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#15 deactivated-6243ee9902175
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Have it on Vista and steam. Works fine, the game itself is spectacular. I HATE Star Wars for the generic ideas it is flooded with but Bioware did a pretty great job at painting the characters as realistic instead of the cardboard "good and evil" cut outs from the movies.

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#16 Mythomniac
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It's an amazing game with amazing gameplay, awesoem WRPG.
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#17 Tyson8earzz
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KOTOR does not work with Vista!!!! :(, it's a great game though, you'll need XP.Marfoo
I dont know why some ppl just blurt out things like this. The fact that YOU (Marfoo) cannot get the game to run in any flavor of Vista is YOUR problem, but dont go around shouting out that it wont work when it does fine in both Vista 64 Ultimate AND Win764. Ive tried the game on both and its possitively working great!
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#18 Marfoo
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[QUOTE="Marfoo"]KOTOR does not work with Vista!!!! :(, it's a great game though, you'll need XP.Tyson8earzz
I dont know why some ppl just blurt out things like this. The fact that YOU (Marfoo) cannot get the game to run in any flavor of Vista is YOUR problem, but dont go around shouting out that it wont work when it does fine in both Vista 64 Ultimate AND Win764. Ive tried the game on both and its possitively working great!

How gentlemanly of you to make false assumptions about my experiences with Vista and/or KOTOR. I haven't tried running KOTOR in Vista at all. I had seen several complaints on these forums that KOTOR didn't run on Vista, perhaps that was back when Vista was still new and compatibility issues were still being worked out. I have a friend here who tried running it on his laptop recently and couldn't so I figured it was still a problem. I know now that the game works fine, as other politely pointed out to me.
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#19 Angry_Beaver
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Now I just hope we can get KotOR2 on Steam, as well. However, the will-be-released-sometime Team Gizka mod for the game might not be compatible with any Steam version of KotOR2.

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#20 Cheveros
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it has aged pretty well - it isn't like you start it up and are like "ARGHH, IT BURNS MY EYES!!!" (unless you have a 30' monitor)

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#21 tony2077ca
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it has aged pretty well - it isn't like you start it up and are like "ARGHH, IT BURNS MY EYES!!!" (unless you have a 30' monitor)

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i think mines 21 inch or somewhere around there
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#22 Wrecked69
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get it, its amazing
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#23 flipin_jackass
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As said, it's an amazing game. This won't help- but I had issues installing it with Win7 64-bit which I didn't resolve.
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#24 Krypt_Kreeper
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I don't have KOTOR on PC but I do have the Xbox version and it is on my list of top 5 favorite games and I'm not even an RPG fan. The story is better than the last 3 movies imo, the charcters are some of the most interesting and memorable in the EU and the gameplay itself is easy to learn and fun enough for even an RPG hater like me to get into. If you can find a way to get it to work on your PC get and don't look back.
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#25 Rollsta96
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no star wars is so old and outdated find a better game like GTA IV or something

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#26 zomglolcats
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[QUOTE="Tyson8earzz"][QUOTE="Marfoo"]KOTOR does not work with Vista!!!! :(, it's a great game though, you'll need XP.Marfoo
I dont know why some ppl just blurt out things like this. The fact that YOU (Marfoo) cannot get the game to run in any flavor of Vista is YOUR problem, but dont go around shouting out that it wont work when it does fine in both Vista 64 Ultimate AND Win764. Ive tried the game on both and its possitively working great!

How gentlemanly of you to make false assumptions about my experiences with Vista and/or KOTOR. I haven't tried running KOTOR in Vista at all. I had seen several complaints on these forums that KOTOR didn't run on Vista, perhaps that was back when Vista was still new and compatibility issues were still being worked out. I have a friend here who tried running it on his laptop recently and couldn't so I figured it was still a problem. I know now that the game works fine, as other politely pointed out to me.

Problem is, that was the old version. If it's on Steam, it will work on Vista.
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#27 zomglolcats
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no star wars is so old and outdated find a better game like GTA IV or something

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In what possible way does GTA 4 make a good alternative to a Bioware RPG?
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#28 SgtSilock
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If you aint already, hell yeah! Be advised though its an old game now and decisions you make dont excatly have the impact of later bioware games, and theres not THAT much you can really do to decide the story other then just be nice to people or not, story stays the same 90% of the time. For e.g, i would of liked to have become a sith and trained in the sith academy but nah, the game makes you think its gonna be like that, buts it not, it doesnt let you :( Lots of stuff like that in the game.
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#29 mrbojangles25
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Yes....a million times yes!

Likely one of the greatest RPGs...and definately one of the best of the Star Wars franchise

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#30 mrbojangles25
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no star wars is so old and outdated find a better game like GTA IV or something

Rollsta96

w...t...f?

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#31 Marfoo
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[QUOTE="Marfoo"][QUOTE="Tyson8earzz"] I dont know why some ppl just blurt out things like this. The fact that YOU (Marfoo) cannot get the game to run in any flavor of Vista is YOUR problem, but dont go around shouting out that it wont work when it does fine in both Vista 64 Ultimate AND Win764. Ive tried the game on both and its possitively working great!zomglolcats
How gentlemanly of you to make false assumptions about my experiences with Vista and/or KOTOR. I haven't tried running KOTOR in Vista at all. I had seen several complaints on these forums that KOTOR didn't run on Vista, perhaps that was back when Vista was still new and compatibility issues were still being worked out. I have a friend here who tried running it on his laptop recently and couldn't so I figured it was still a problem. I know now that the game works fine, as other politely pointed out to me.

Problem is, that was the old version. If it's on Steam, it will work on Vista.

So then I wasn't misinformed, there was an issue with it at some point. Glad to hear it's fixed on Steam, I'll have to give it another run through sometime.
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#32 dinuattila
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[QUOTE="Rollsta96"]

no star wars is so old and outdated find a better game like GTA IV or something

mrbojangles25

w...t...f?

Ouch.... KoTOR is old yes, but believe me it's one of the best game of this decade. I don't know but I would definitely chose KoTOR over GTA IV, I wouldn't even hesitate, even though I'm a GTA fan.
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#33 KalDurenik
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Yes

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#34 MJPK
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I got it today but I'm wondering is there anyway to increase the resolution to 1680x1050?

I highest I can get it to is 1240x1080.

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#35 Marfoo
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The game is meant to run 4:3, and there is no way to alter the aspect ratio. I would run the highest 4:3 you can and leave scaling 1:1. I remember I played it stretched out at 1680x1050 and it looked funny the whole time, so I bumped it down and letterboxed it.
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#36 MJPK
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The game is meant to run 4:3, and there is no way to alter the aspect ratio. I would run the highest 4:3 you can and leave scaling 1:1. I remember I played it stretched out at 1680x1050 and it looked funny the whole time, so I bumped it down and letterboxed it.Marfoo

ok but every time I start the game it screws with my docks(objectdock) and makes them really small and I have to reset them to fix them.It's not a big issue but it is annoying.

Is there anything I can do to stop this?

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#37 Marfoo
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[QUOTE="Marfoo"]The game is meant to run 4:3, and there is no way to alter the aspect ratio. I would run the highest 4:3 you can and leave scaling 1:1. I remember I played it stretched out at 1680x1050 and it looked funny the whole time, so I bumped it down and letterboxed it.MJPK

ok but every time I start the game it screws with my docks(objectdock) and makes them really small and I have to reset them to fix them.It's not a big issue but it is annoying.

Is there anything I can do to stop this?

Sorry, I don't use objectdock so I don't have experience with what could be interfering with it.
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#38 dakan45
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yeah far better than mass effect.
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#39 tony2077ca
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yeah far better than mass effect.dakan45
not for me i think there at the same level
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#40 Marfoo
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[QUOTE="dakan45"]yeah far better than mass effect.tony2077ca
not for me i think there at the same level

That's how I feel, different experiences but both plenty good in their own ways.
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#41 hawkeyes1234
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if you like star wars then you should definitly get this game it has lots of weapons charactors and enemies and locations all over the galaxy. On 64 bit im not sure if it works because for me i cant even play the game because of a windows data prevention execution thing and i cant disable for the game which is stupid.
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#42 dakan45
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[QUOTE="dakan45"]yeah far better than mass effect.tony2077ca
not for me i think there at the same level

Kotor has better planets and an actual rpg combat system plus a nice twist in the end and very nice characters, awesome spaceship Mass effect has the ability to choose whatever you want to be, even if you want to be known as some war hero in the game backstory, it really lacks rpg elements but that can be also good for those who dont like DnD stuff, but the combat feels lame, not exactly an action rpg. The characters are generic, the ship interior is pretty meh and the few planets you can actually explore are small and linear as hell.