That Is A MAN

That is a MAN

does the Barriss Offee fanfic I'm writing reference KOTOR 2 in like the second sentence? yes. obviously, yes. who do you think I am, even.

My season 2 prediction is that we're going to get a single line mentioning Hego Damask as a main backer for that Senator's reelection campaign

Kotor2 doesn't hate Star Wars

Quick addendum to the Kreia post, because this kept coming up and it drove me insane.

It gets said a lot, and I mean a LOT, that Kotor2 is Chris Avellone "tearing Star Wars apart", that Kotor2 is "Seething hatred for everything Star Wars stands for", that Kotor2 is about "How the Star Wars is bad, actually"

For a game that preaches thinking shit through, it is hilarious how much that stance is just not thought through. Because I'm kind of thinking the opposite, I think Kotor2 loves Star Wars.

Yes, sure, Kotor2 is "deconstructing" Star Wars, it's criticizing the heroic ideal of the Jedi, it's dunking on how metatextually the only thing that matters are these two Orders dragging everyone else into their shit.

But then there's the player character. Who stands up, in the literal center of this conflict, and goes "The Jedi are pretty good, actually."

You fight the Sith, you save the galaxy, you rebuild the order, you be the ideal Star Wars hero that everyone thinks this game is dunking on. People will throw criticisms of the setting at you and you, the player character, will be able to choose dialogue options that defend it.

Someone had to write that dialogue option. Someone had to think it was a worthy argument to make.

The people who wrote Kotor2 had to have a level of appreciation for Star Wars to be able to make such a genuine criticism and defense for it.

Running back and forth across the upper city bridges is the most annoying part of a KOTOR playthrough