I just finished replaying KOTORFollow

I had forgotten what a truly great RPG felt like. Dragon Age: Origins was the last one I'd consider "good," but it didn't feel as fresh as KOTOR did.

Bioware is sex.

If bringing out many great games over the years makes you a mess, then i wish i was a huge mess.

Every single bit if I had to guess. EA and Bioware were perfectly compatible businesses before the acquisition.

KOTOR 1 is a masterpiece.

KOTOR 2 with the restoration patch is one of the greatest games of all time.

Both games are fun to play as the bad guy, but you actually feel bad for doing some of the things you do. KOTOR 2 takes it to a new level... you have to actually manipulate your party members to get them on your side.

I've been playing them lately and I forgot just how difficult they can be, even on normal difficulty. But then again, I suck at games.

I can't wait to see what Bioware pull out of the bag in SWTOR. 300 years after Revan... we'll finally get closure on her story :)

And Bioware are being absorbed by EA? Really? I haven't seen any evidence of this.

No, EA just removes the element of creativity and turns companies into machines that churn out mass appeal games. This often has the effect of the games being considered crap by many, but if you're a Madden fan then you don't consider Madden 20XX to be a craptacular remake.

Buying Bioware would be a great move for EA. Their design policies are very similar, but EA has focus on mass appeal sports game and FPS games while distinctly lacking mass appeal RPGs, which although a small market is still quite sizable. If EA acquired Bioware they'd pretty much tell them to keep doing exactly what they're doing.

Edited, Nov 7th 2010 1:09am by Allegory

Dragon Age: Origins was published by EA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWare

I'm surprised nobody bothered to even look at Wikipedia.

Purchased in 2007, they already put the RPG/MMO groups through a restructuring in 2009.

You can force windowed mode on KOTOR.

Graphics are passable. They scale up reasonably well, but they aren't overly high res textures wise and the animations can be a bit clunky at times.

I like them though. They're good, considering they're 7 years old.

My PC's only 2 years old (ok, so I have Vista, not W7) and it runs perfectly. I bought it from Amazon for about £5.

If you haven't played them, why the hell not? They're epic.

If you preorder before Jan 11th you get a free upgrade to a special edition of some sort.

this reminds me, how have kotor and kotor 2 NOT been added to xbox live's game on demand service? considering some of the crap that's on there, classics like those seem a strange absence.

The Black Isle refugees do seem to have this nasty habit of of ruining all the sloppy seconds they get.

1) Go into the folder where you installed KOTOR or KOTOR2;
2) Open the file called swkotor (or swkotor2)
3) Add the following to the bottom of the graphics options section: AllowWindowedMode=1 (case sensitive)

Your graphics options section should be something like:

[Graphics Options]
Anisotropy=16
Frame Buffer=0
Grass=1
Soft Shadows=1
Shadows=1
Brightness=58
EnableHardwareMouse=1
FullScreen=0
RefreshRate=60
Width=1280
Height=960
V-Sync=0
Texture Quality=2
Anti Aliasing=8
AllowWindowedMode=1

Mess around with screen resolutions to get the best setup for your PC, get the settings right so it runs smoothly while windowed, and you're good to go!

This SHOULD force it. It does for me. If not, I'm afraid I can't help any further.

You get an automatic upgrade to the signature edition, which includes:

-Some kind of free DLC greatsword, bow, shield and staff.
-A free character and missions.
-The game soundtrack.

Apparently the DLC costs of all that stuff will add up to over $20.

If you plan on buying it anyway, and have the money now, it wouldn't be a bad idea to pre-order.