Omg, TSL better than KotoR 1 ? Thats most ridicoulus thing that iv ever heard. Lets find out why:
In KotoR the party members were have much more interesting personnalities, and there was much more dialogue content (i think about 50% - 25% average) per character that in TSL. In TSL, theres only one char who is comparable to those from original geame - Kreia. Handmaiden is bad quality equivalent of Bastila, with simple and borring personnality, similar as Visas. where are those "rommantic affairs" with Bastila ?! In TSL the both Ladies are in love (or something likt that;) ) with You nearly from the beggining , and i dont like this. Atton is quite nice haracter, ok, but hes not better than average, compared to Jolee, Bastila or Kreia. Droids, especially HK are playing very insignificant roles (drawback of rushing the game <_< ), and Goto i also very iritating and boriding char. Mandalore dont speak to much either, so we dont have to much chances to "get close" to this char. Bao-dur speaks much but his extreamly irritating voice make makes all conversations nearly painfull. And whos left ? Hanharr, Mira and Disciple. About Disciple i cant say anything, because i dont ever played as female, and the Hanhar is ok. But only OK, not COOL or smth (se my point about Atton). Hes story is lacking depth of Zalbars one. And, on the end - Mira. Il be brief - how do you think, how many pinquins (bounty hunters with ethics and morality) lives on desert (Narshadda) ? You get my point ?
Lets now consider the overall plot - In KotoR : We have bad Sith, Good Jedi, NICE suprise in the middle of the game, when Malak tell us that we are Revan, epic duel with opur fallen love (and chance to return her to ligh side), and about 30h of extraemly interesting game (if youre on LS. If otherwise, i agree, the DS plot is little crappy). What we have in TSL ? Borring 45 min with hacking through stupid droids on Peragus, Borring hacking through aliens and droids at underground base on Nar Shadda and Gotos ship, and the main "suprise" is that with Kreias betrayal, wich was predictible from the first "movie" with her and Siths (of course i dont say that her plan to destroy Sith, Jedi etc at once was predictible, but thing that shes "up to something" WAS, even more than that "revan plot" in K1). There is also lack "ending" worth this name. We just "fly far, far away" or staying at Malachor (what for ?).
Considering this i really cant understand people who are saing that TSL is better than KotoR. Thats all i want to say, have nice day (and i hope that you understand what i was trying to say despite my poor english )