Rogue Jesusfish
I found this while browsing throught the forums of The Escapist. You may ask why I’m posting this.  Because this happened to me.  Knights of the Old Republic is a fantastic fucking game.  Amazing take on the Star Wars universe, and it doesn’t interfere with any of the previously-established canon that I am aware of, unlike Some other entries in the series…. Except for one thing:  As you progress through the game, your have the option of outfitting your character with both light and dark side force powers.  You can mix and match if you like, but my chosen style was to use only light-side powers.  Which is all fine and dandy, until get to the very last boss, who has a collection of imprisoned jedi sitting around the room that you two are gettin’ it on in.  I which you two are gettin’ it on.  The fight. Both you, the main character, and he, the dark antagonist, are fighting in a room. Anywho, the DA has a tendancy to, when his health gets low, zoom over to one of the many, many tanks containing an enslaved jedi, and go all Count Dracula on them, killing them, and refilling his health completely.  This sucks, until you realize that you can use a number of dark force powers, or one or two light force powers to break the tanks, killing the jedi inside, and robbing the DA of a snack. Again, fine.  It’s a neat mechanic, once you figure it out.  Here’s the shitty part:  It’s possible to get to the end of the game without obtaining any of those necesary force powers.  The game has a level cap of 20, and each level after… five or so, gives you the opportunity to learn a new force power, or upgrade an old one.  I know that this is possible, because I fell victim to it.  And that was it,  I couldn’t beat the game.  It is theoretically possible to kill the DA 20 times over, or whatever it would take, but that sure strikes me as something that only a masochist or someone asking for a challenge would do.  Considering that I always play games through on the easiest setting the first time,  I fall under neither category. Game Designers take note:  DON’T PULL THIS CRAP.  Don’t ever ramp the difficulty up so much that the game becomes all but impossible on the easiest setting.   And you know what?  Especially don’t do this because someone procedeed through the game in a completely realistic fashion.  And finally, if you are going to do this,  Give some goddamn warning, well beforehand.

I found this while browsing throught the forums of The Escapist.

You may ask why I’m posting this.  Because this happened to me.  Knights of the Old Republic is a fantastic fucking game.  Amazing take on the Star Wars universe, and it doesn’t interfere with any of the previously-established canon that I am aware of, unlike Some other entries in the series….

Except for one thing:  As you progress through the game, your have the option of outfitting your character with both light and dark side force powers.  You can mix and match if you like, but my chosen style was to use only light-side powers.  Which is all fine and dandy, until get to the very last boss, who has a collection of imprisoned jedi sitting around the room that you two are gettin’ it on in.  I which you two are gettin’ it on.  The fight.

Both you, the main character, and he, the dark antagonist, are fighting in a room.

Anywho, the DA has a tendancy to, when his health gets low, zoom over to one of the many, many tanks containing an enslaved jedi, and go all Count Dracula on them, killing them, and refilling his health completely.  This sucks, until you realize that you can use a number of dark force powers, or one or two light force powers to break the tanks, killing the jedi inside, and robbing the DA of a snack.

Again, fine.  It’s a neat mechanic, once you figure it out.  Here’s the shitty part:  It’s possible to get to the end of the game without obtaining any of those necesary force powers.  The game has a level cap of 20, and each level after… five or so, gives you the opportunity to learn a new force power, or upgrade an old one.  I know that this is possible, because I fell victim to it.  And that was it,  I couldn’t beat the game.  It is theoretically possible to kill the DA 20 times over, or whatever it would take, but that sure strikes me as something that only a masochist or someone asking for a challenge would do.  Considering that I always play games through on the easiest setting the first time,  I fall under neither category.

Game Designers take note:  DON’T PULL THIS CRAP.  Don’t ever ramp the difficulty up so much that the game becomes all but impossible on the easiest setting.   And you know what?  Especially don’t do this because someone procedeed through the game in a completely realistic fashion.  And finally, if you are going to do this,  Give some goddamn warning, well beforehand.

Posted 2 years ago
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