I understand the back-compatibility issues involved with playing an original Xbox game on my 360... well, alright, I don't understand them, but I understand enough to realize that issues exist and that it isn't entirely unreasonable for Microsoft to ask me to do the occasional update to these games to make them run slightly better.

However.

The latest update I was required to do to KOTOR II seems to have bunged the game up to the point where I literallycan't play it anymore. All the text is garbled gibberish, and I mean all of it, from the opening screen-- which now lists partial descriptions of several weapons (I think one is a stun baton, the others are so fragmentary that all I know is that one is upgradeable), to the descriptions of the areas you're about to enter (one says "Cut scene" ummm....) to the conversation options. Conversation options are pretty pivotal in that game, and if my options say things like "Kfoialkne_pc_238472" I'm going to have a very hard time making appropriate responses. I did try to guess my way through one conversation and got trapped into replaying the pazaak tutorial. Yay. To make matters worse, the next time I ranblindly intocombat (distant enemy so small as to be inidentifiable, labeled "uranDuros") I never did get to find out what I was fighting because the game froze completely to the point where I had to get up and restart the whole console to get out of it.

Sweet update.

I want the old version back.