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Schua's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (PC)
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| [March 6, 2008 07:59:32 PM]
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Entry #2
Gameplay:
As I play more of this game I begin to find the fighting somewhat disappointing. Whenever you encounter an enemy, the game pauses and lets you decide to use what skills you desire for the upcoming round. Therefore the fighting is round-turn based which doesn't fit to my taste. I prefer more like active fighting such as World of Warcraft play style where you and enemies fight with no pauses to choose your next course of action. Despite this, the jedi skills that you will gain are pretty entertaining. The effects are nicely done and implemented. The arts are detailed and characters' attacks have some nice nifty moves.
The game promotes social interactions quite nicely due to the variety of responses every time when you encounter a NPC. Some of these responses are quite funny and you can share with your friends. Some choices are difficult to decide because all the choices seem to be quite appealing to choose. I occasionally would ask my friend to decide my next course of action. I was playing this game in my dorm with my roommate, we decided that one of us would follow the path of the light while the other decides to follow the dark. It was quite entertaining to find all the variety of responses offered as we played through the game.
Design:
Without a doubt, the most innovative elements added to this game is the ability that user are able to choose what response to answer back to the NPC's. Depending on these choices that user made, NPC's will respond in differently and with different tone. This makes the game very interactive not only in the game, but also in real life. Players must give thoughts on predicting what the NPC will answer next as well as what side (dark or light) are they trying to lean on.
The map level of the game is brilliantly done. Each world that you travel to have a completely different surrounding. Throughout the journey, you will have to travel to worlds that are forest based, desert based, and city based style. This allows the player to never be bored of their surrounding and gives the player a chance to explore where ever their heart desires. It adds variety as well as more effects to the game that keeps the player continuously interested to play.
The only thing that I would change about this game would be the fighting style that I mentioned earlier. I think this is the downfall of the game because it makes the fighting much more boring due to the fact that the game literally pauses so player can chooses their next course of action. Furthermore, clicking on the skills is quite painful because you must literally click to scroll through the skills. The game does not offer a long hot key bar like World of Warcraft, so you must be constantly click to select the skill or item you desire. You are technically stuck with one skill throughout the game if you are too lazy to click to scroll for skills.
Overall Knight of the Old Republic is a decent game to play considering the time it came out. I find it
very entertaining and anyone who is a Star War fan would find this game entertaining.
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| [March 6, 2008 06:58:32 PM]
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Entry #1
Summary:
In Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic, you play the role of a Republic super soldier who is fighting against the evil Sith. This is a RPG game that as you progress in the game, you will find many new items/weapons as well as new skills when you level up to aid you on your quest to defeat the dark side. You will also gain many allies as you travel from planet to planet whom all have different traits to aid you in your journey.
Gameplay:
I have been playing this game a while and I have to say that the story of the game is extremely rich. The story slowly unfolds as you progress through the game, and you find out that you play a great role upon defeating the Siths. I find the story very entertaining, but the best part is that any NPC's that you talk to in this game contains background story of the world you're in so you can learn even more about the Star War galaxy.
The game is extremely fun to play too because of the multiple skills that you can earn from levels throughout the game. The most intriguing aspect of this game is that you are able to perform evil tasks on any interaction given to your character and eventually join the dark side. So from the beginning, you already able to choose what to do to join what side you want. Whenever you interact with another NPC's you are given multiple of responses to answer back. Each response can affect the destiny of your character.
The characters that you talk to offers a variety of personality. One of the features that impressed me was that they actually spent time to implement voice acting on practically each NPCS, sort of like Oblivion. You can use your force powers to persuade NPC's action to offer more aid that will benefit you. Character response may have a mean tone or gentle tone depending on what NPC's you encountered.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a very fun game that captures every aspect of what a RPG game can offer. I recommend this game to anyone.
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Schua's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (PC)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 5 March, 2008
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