Regarding some posts of the the thread starter:
So, your point is? Another way to say Xbox suxxors and PC rox and "we" are L33t? "
Because first you seemed to have some point, but after some words i think not.
Regarding the question of leveling up, there is no point comparing different games, specially on that question and in RPGs. Most of the time the level up system is different from some RPG to other, even if they have some foundation like d&d rules. One can have level 40, other level 20, 30, other 255 or wtv, not a big problem for me and again, depends on what the game does with them and the style of the game too.
And what made Kotor, and many other RPGs that i love like PS:T, Fallout, BG, Icewind so great, was never, in my opinion, cosmethics and graphics, and you seem to focus too much on that point, or in useless stuff (for this kind of game and RPG) like jumping (unless we consider the power Force Jumping here...). Wrong game perhaps? <_<