Wulfram

I think it's best to just keep the ones you like and drop the ones you don't. There's nothing terrible you miss from not having someone with you You could always cheat to get the stats of the companions more to your liking

He gave Dragon Age Inquistion a better score with its laughable story and cartoonish world. That's the point. For that matter he gave Divinity: Original Sin a better score despite again having a vastly inferior story and vastly inferior world. Dude has bad taste, or simply doesn't play these kinds of games for the story and setting which is just bizarre. Well, I liked DAI too. Both games are good enough to justify a 10 and flawed enough to justify a 7, depending on subjective taste. But I don't really think the score matters too much. I was commenting on the text of the review, which I think contains valid and well explained criticisms while acknowledging the game's strengths.

I'd have liked to be able to negotiate a "stay, but promise not to eat people" option.

The wiki seems to suggest you can allow it to flee with it's kid, though only after it's mortally wounded. I don't know how to trigger that, though, it just died for me.

Reading the review, a lot of it rang true to me.

If it's a flat 20 damage per hit, then it seems like it'd be crazy good on a fast dual wielder. Maybe dual wield hatchets for the bonus deflection

Twin Elms was a boring place inhabited by boring "barbarian" stereotypes. I think my main problem with the Gods was that most of them felt like they'd had little real presence in the game beforehand. I mean, Eothas and Magran were a fairly big deal, but otherwise? Maybe I should read more of the Codex, but it was like "who the hell are Hylea and Rymgand?" And yeah, the god's quests were kind of short. The very final part was OK. It did feel rather like atheist propaganda with the saintly Iovara contrasting with moustache twirling Thaos. But that wasn't too much of a problem for me - after all I am an atheist and I generally prefer the villain to turn out to be a villain. The big revelation didn't feel very big since I didn't really care much about these gods, but it was fine. And I liked the way my previous choices shaped the dialogue with Iovara. I didn't really like the final fight. I died a few times and then eventually realised I needed to spam reflex targeting spells on Thaos

I didn't even notice there was no XP for killing stuff.

And what happened to Bastila? She was also tortured and had what was effectively her home on Dantooine destroyed. She will also have to live (if she does live) with the memory of having become everything she dedicated her life to fighting. All to save the man largely responsible for the near destruction of the Jedi Order and the republic. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> bastilla FAILS... she succumbs to malak's torture. you not recall that? and as to dantooine being destroyed, did anybody here feels bad for her when that happened? did she seem as if she were really saddened by such things? 'course maybe you can argue that as a jedi she would not show emotion... but did you, the reader feel particularly bad 'bout dantooine? is just one of the examples of bad writing in kotor. heck, unlike leia who is told that "in a way" she has chosen aldderan to be destroyed, you find out that dantooine is glassed regardless... has nothing to do with you. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You were talking about sacrifice, not success or failure. You cannot dispute that Bastila did show willingness for heroic sacrifice when she allowed the PC to escape from Malak. As for success or failure, accusing Bastila of failure is like accusing the spartans of failing at Thermopylae. She was a young and low ranking Jedi who would never have any chance of resisting the dark lord of the sith even in the best of times. Her "failure" just made her sacrifice greater, for she gave up not just her life but her soul.

I think that was actually one of the big failings of KoTOR 1. The evil of Revan is very underplayed, which to me rather robbed the revelation of it's impact. It also weakened the redemption theme, since it was hard to feel I had any guilt to be redeemed, and made it harder to sympathise with some of the NPCs attitudes towards you. Before you know of your past, I think the crimes of Revan should have been very explicitly shown to you, through seeing worlds that were devestated by him and people who had personally suffered because of his actions.

And what happened to Bastila? She was also tortured and had what was effectively her home on Dantooine destroyed. She will also have to live (if she does live) with the memory of having become everything she dedicated her life to fighting. All to save the man largely responsible for the near destruction of the Jedi Order and the republic.