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20 years after release, still my favorite “ Mission “ in gaming.
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u/Barmacist 9d ago
Man, the Darkside ending you can pick for her... even dark Bastila comments on how fucked up that was.
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u/Technical_Egg226 8d ago
What was her darkside ending?
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u/verbosity 8d ago
You end up killing her, because she refuses to follow you into the dark side.
If your Force Persuade is strong enough, you can even order Zaalbar (her Wookie companion) to kill her for you. This is even more messed up because you take advantage of the fact that Zaalbar is indebted to you for saving his life earlier in the game.
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u/Training_Ad_4790 8d ago
I did that. Can confirm, you will feel like garbage after doing it. Don't recommend lol
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u/monster_snowgoon 8d ago
Mission screams while she's dying. I can still hear the screams.
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u/TheEasySqueezy 8d ago
Wtf you did it??
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u/AceofJoker 8d ago
I did it. Any many other bad things...
Steam says I'm in the 5% of players who gets their character to replace a sith lord on the main menu
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u/Duff-Zilla 8d ago
I did like 4 play through a of kotor back in the day. When I did my “evil as can be” run, it felt totally different and I appreciated it, even if it made me feel yucky
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u/CrimeFightingScience 8d ago
Yep, practically your whole crew ends up dead and whoever remains act even trashier. Well done evil ending.
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u/tinyavian 8d ago
I did it on the OG xbox. I generally play light side characters, but I wanted to see how the other side played. The guys that wrote the dark side ending are a special breed of twisted. It really captured the essence of being drunk with power with a penchant for cruelty.
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u/monster_snowgoon 8d ago
I didn't think the wookie would do it. I was just trying to get as far to the dark side as possible.
Sometimes, in the dark of the night, I still think about what I did, and wonder what awaits me when my deeds are tallied.
Great game, 10/10, old school Bioware was the shit!
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u/punnotfound 8d ago
You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the force... not leave it in darkness!
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u/deeseearr 8d ago
I've always wondered how Obi-Wan, and every other Jedi on the galaxy could have missed this.
Were they even listening to Yoda when he flat out said that there were only two Sith? It wasn't a big secret or anything. “Always two there are; no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.” No question about it, it's the rule.
So there are exactly two Sith. And a myriad of Jedi. Yes, exactly one myriad. That's ten thousand on the Jedi side, and two on the Sith side.
And Anakin, who was the chosen one. As in "A Chosen One shall come [...] and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored.", that kind of chosen one... He surprised everybody by removing all of the Jedi except for Yoda and Obi-Wan.
HOW THE HELL ELSE WAS HE SUPPOSED TO BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE?
Honestly, do Jedi devote their entire apprenticeship studying baton twirling, cheerleader jumps and Completely Non-Critical Thinking? Do they spend hours every day engaged it the ancient meditation practice of "Staring Directly At The Answer Without Ever Figuring It Out"? With these geniuses as the guardians of peace and justice it's a miracle the Old Republic lasted as long as it did.
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u/g0d15anath315t 8d ago
What's metal as fuck is Zan basically killing her and then saying he's gonna kill the fuck out of you first chance he getsfor making him kill his best friend.
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u/Luchux01 8d ago
You kill her and Zaalbar, if you have high persuasion with dominate mind you can force him to kill Mission.
Of course, it only allows you to keep him for a few extra rooms, when he realizes what you made him do he tries to kill you.
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u/coccidiosis 8d ago
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u/Sexgatesarefun 8d ago
Damn that is seriously fucked up, this is why I never have the balls to play dark side lol
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u/hardenesthitter32 8d ago
I howled with laughter when I did it, possibly from the shock that they would let you do that, possibly because I am a bad person.
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u/DarkSenf127 8d ago
No no you got it wrong. See, our side has cookies. So how could we possibly be bad? 🤔
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u/kynthrus 9d ago
Yeah but dark Bastilla was dark in the same way that plankton from spongebob was evil. She wasn't good at it.
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u/TrynaSleep 8d ago
Lmfao this is actually on point. Her personality became “muahaha I’m so evil now 😈”
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u/mydixxierectx2 9d ago edited 8d ago
My favorite companion ever in RPG gaming she was with me from beginning to end her & bastila
Edit: me finding out some of you people got her killed :(
Edit 2: to the people who got her killed hope when the remake gets released the game gets hard locked right before facing Malak
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u/Ebolatastic 9d ago
Statement: Canderas and HK-47 for this sith Lord.
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u/SquareFickle9179 8d ago
Additional Comment: HK was always with me, even in KOTOR 2.
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u/MOOShoooooo 8d ago
Definition: Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometres away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.
Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, 'love' is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and strangely enough, not many meatbags would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds.
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u/ddh85 Boardgames 8d ago
Take a shot every time HK says "meatbag".
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u/HeliumIsotope 8d ago
And yet after all that time you didn't even bother to learn that his name is Canderous.
Probably did it on purpose to fuel his hate, always calling him the wrong thing. How very sith of you.
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u/rikashiku 8d ago
Mission and HK-47 for me. Mission is versatile, and HK-47 is a one-shot murder monster.
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u/DoublePelix 9d ago
Statement: HK47 would like a word master
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u/Jarvis_Strife 8d ago
Translation: He requires proof of good faith. We must make a contribution to his people that shows we are not a threat. Shall I blast him now, master?
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u/EntireBoat515 8d ago
I thought it was funny you could command her wookie friend to murder her on the dark side path
I love KOTOR, havent played it in years I should do another playthrough…
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u/mydixxierectx2 8d ago
I loved it too hope the development team got great sex every night for the first two games
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u/good_life_pa 8d ago
Whenever someone brings up the topic of the "worst thing you ever did in a video game" I usually go to this. I was going hard to the DS on that playthrough, but that moment just hit different.
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u/HoldiMokre 9d ago
I was actually in love with bastilla!! When she was kidnapped I felt really anxious. Lol
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u/Extension_Berry_1149 8d ago
I remember being young not knowing fully how to play the game. I always ended up killing her. Years later I realized you could actually save her and bring her back to light or have her join you on dark side and what a revelation!
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u/TheRETURNofAQUAMAN 8d ago
I remember not knowing how to have a balanced team while playing that game. I would always have only jedi in my group and would constantly run into scenarios where I would be out gunned or unable to overcome obstacles because all I would have at my disposal were lightsabers, lol.
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u/CharonsLittleHelper 8d ago
Jedi were incredibly OP in KOTR 1 - you didn't need anything else.
I preferred the first game's story/pacing - but the second had much better balance by adding several feats for blasters to make gunning semi-competitive with lightsabers.
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u/TrynaSleep 8d ago
Yup just Jedi Guardian super jump on them and flurry away lol
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u/Extension_Berry_1149 8d ago
Yes! This happened in the sequel for me...when you're on the first world and actually on the planet and you have to infiltrate the base. Everyone on my team had swords and I remember getting destroyed for days on end at that same spot cuz there were so many ranged guys and guys with swords and shields. It's like right after you meet Bao-Dur
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u/broccollinear 8d ago
Oh yea massive crush on her as a wee lad. Discovered I had a thing for snarky authoritative British ladies.
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u/Grattiano 8d ago
Bastilla is actually the reason I Mark out whenever I recognize Jennifer Hale's voice in anything.
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u/Wulfenbach 8d ago
Bastila: "I love you too, with all my heart." Revan: "You aren't afraid to love anymore?" Bastila: "After this? No. Nothing could make me feel safer than to be loved by you."
<3
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u/Imhonestlynotawierdo 8d ago
Sometimes you just get so attached to them that it feels like someone died when the game ends, I was like that with Parvati from Outer-Words
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u/Dogwhisperer_210 8d ago
On my playthrough I got the best ending: killed her, wifed Bastila and turned her into the dark side, and we both killed the bad guy and ruled the Galaxy. 10/10
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u/MarkHirsbrunner 8d ago
Having the Wookiee kill her because he owed me a life debt was one of the evilest things I did
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u/Sorry_Fennel 8d ago
I absolutely love her, I always have her and bastila aswell!, I want to play it again but I can only play it on switch and when I first bought it it was just to laggy to actually play
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u/Hillz44 9d ago
Fun twist ending for her and her Wookie if you go dark 😅
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u/KDY_ISD 9d ago
My Xbox crashed when I selected this option, I thought it was the game devs purposefully telling me "dude, how fucking could you choose that? We didn't think anyone would ever do that."
Of course, when I reloaded my save and did it again, it worked like a charm.
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u/Ghostbuster_119 8d ago
Always does the same for me in the sequel when you kill all the jedi masters.
Then return to an empty temple.
The games way if saying "you know you needed at least one to move the story forward right?".
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u/jwright24153 8d ago
It crashed when I did that every time in a way that made me quit playing I couldn’t get past that part without crashing
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u/Bunktavious 8d ago
I actually "yelled" at the guy who wrote that scene in a forum about 15 years ago. One scene made the Dark Side so f'ing dark. And you had to make the decision about going dark without knowing that event would happen. Horrible and brilliant.
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u/arzthaus 8d ago
Can you explain?
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u/Brownpantsjnr 8d ago
It’s been a while since I played it and did a dark side run, but you can force persuade another companion, a wookiee, who is Mission’s best friend, to kill her towards the end of the game. He does it, realises the horror of what you made him do and tries to kill you. You being a badass Sith Lord at this point cut him down.
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u/Cheesesteak21 8d ago
Also the alignment shift at that point In the game pushes 100% to the dark side, so if your min maxing the game you can't puss out.
also combined with what happened to Julani and Jolee your really starting to run out of companions
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u/superkow 9d ago
One of my favourite playthroughs was typical lightside but letting Bastila turn me at the end and finishing it as dark Revan
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u/AgentSithInYourEmpir 8d ago
It's only natural
The Jedi wiped your mind and reprogrammed you to do their bidding while the Republic used you to defeat their enemies, and you wanted revenge
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u/CloverOralLove 8d ago
My favorite Game of all-time. I beat it again recently fully modded with every texture replaced, new models and AI Upscaled Cutscenes.
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u/Darlica 9d ago
Game looks better then golum
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u/ImponteDeluxo 8d ago edited 8d ago
Old devs where held back by their time
Most New devs are held back by stupid higher ups
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u/FingerTheCat 8d ago
It's like that saying for musicians "You have your entire life to release your first album, but only six months to release your second."
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u/TheBeaconsAreFknLit 8d ago
I still wake up in a cold sweat when I remember forcing Zaalbar to kill Mission near the end of the game. Worst choice I've ever made in a game. The guilt...
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u/cleofisrandolph1 8d ago
Need to play spec ops the line. Every choice makes you feel like that.
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u/FireGiantisBoring 9d ago
It's because theres a blue hot alien, huh?
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u/Elmer-Fuddd 9d ago
Shes 14
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u/DoublePelix 9d ago
Yeah but in Twilek years that’s like…..
*checks notes
14… hmmm
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u/SoonerWreck 9d ago
Mission’s pretty young. We try not to sexualize her.
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u/Venodran 8d ago
Vette in the Old Republic MMO however is 18 and romanceable. She is a blue Twi’lek voiced by the same person.
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u/FireGiantisBoring 9d ago
She like 14 pixels too. Never played. Wouldnt know.
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u/sed_non_extra 9d ago edited 8d ago
Mission Vao is, in fact, one of the only characters that is not a droid or a Wookie that you do not see players wanting to seduce in that series.
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u/GT4242_42 9d ago
what about canderous, jolee, mira, kreia, and bao dur (might be missing someone)
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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 8d ago
Here it comes. The female character model used to make her was the same as ballista and hooker twi'leks so that argument doesn't stand.
Now if they used the child character model that would be a different story.
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u/Additional_Cycle_51 9d ago
ITS A BLUE MEAT BAG!!
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u/Jarvis_Strife 8d ago
Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea.
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u/sirfannypack 9d ago
Why is mission in quotes?
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u/Elmer-Fuddd 9d ago
Her name is mission
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u/DoublePelix 9d ago
Man there are people who haven’t played this game on Reddit now and I feel bad for them
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u/Saeryf 8d ago edited 8d ago
Don't feel bad for them, they've still got a first playthrough ahead of them! The game absolutely holds up, and this just convinced me that I need to replay it again.
(Here's a link to it, can't believe I forgot to add that. https://store.steampowered.com/app/32370/STAR_WARS_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic/ )
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u/ArmDeepInCabbages 8d ago
What's the name of the game?
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u/Saeryf 8d ago
It's "Knights of the Old Republic", here's a Steam link. https://store.steampowered.com/app/32370/STAR_WARS_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic/
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u/DoublePelix 8d ago
Oh yeah I know. I play this game at least once every couple years. Just beat it on my switch last year
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u/billistenderchicken 8d ago
It's too bad this game is such a pain in the ass to get running at modern standards. Getting 1080p working requires too much fiddling around for the average user. Then there's a lot of low quality UI that is almost essential to mod in.
I'd honestly recommend the Switch port to anyone that can buy it.
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u/uhhhhuhuhhuh 8d ago
Or people just don’t remember the name of a character from decades ago
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u/valinrista 8d ago
What do you mean, you don't know every single dialogue lines of an 20 year old RPG ???
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u/PowerfulAtmosphere38 8d ago
Yeah this is me.
I’m just like fuck I don’t remember anything except for HK and the twist.
Read a comment she had a Wookiee and I was like ohhhh that sounds correct I think
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u/Bunktavious 8d ago
Heh, that character was actually the first thing that came into my mind when I read the title of this post.
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u/SemperScrotus 8d ago
I played it when it originally released and couldn't remember for the life of me who she was.
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u/Weedsmoker3000 8d ago
No lie.. I thought this was Liara from Mass Effect with mod.. was super excited! Then I realized it’s Star Wars related.. and I know nothing of it. I’ve heard good things never had the chance. Is it really that good?
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u/Luchux01 8d ago
It's excelent, one of the best Star Wars games out there.
You don't even need to know much about the franchise to play it because it happens 4000 years before the original trilogy, you only really need to know what's a jedi and what's a sith.
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u/broccollinear 8d ago
One of my first games on Xbox when I was 10. When I see a reference to it as an adult the nostalgia causes a physiological reaction. The music and sound are embedded as a core memory, the intro level music, the level up sound, when you swing your lightsaber…
The movies didn’t make me a Star Wars fan, it was this game.
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u/OwlTelephone 9d ago
I agree. Also my favorite Mission in gaming. The competition is quite fierce of course, but she’s definitely the top Mission.
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u/Sucxces_93 8d ago
Is this Star Wars?
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u/DannyCalavera 8d ago
Yes
Knights of the Old Republic.
It's set about 4000 years before the movies.
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u/ReaperLeviathannn 8d ago
Someone explain what this is I never played the game
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u/Luchux01 8d ago
It's Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, this is one of the game's party members, Mission Vao.
Yes, her name is literally Mission.
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u/wigam 8d ago
I started this game with no idea about light or dark by actions, I didn’t realize until I’d killed too many Droids.
I tried to go light but never made it back.
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u/Difficult-Problem696 8d ago
As a teenager at the time of release I was really pissed that she wasn't a romance option, now as an adult looking back, I'm glad they didn't let the adult Raven romance the teenage Mission.
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u/CarnageCrisis 9d ago
I don't think I touched this Star Wars game. The only ones I've played are LSW:III and the older one where you play as Jango(?) or some other bounty hunter, I remember using some sort of laser thing to open up vents.
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u/Tofuman847 PlayStation 9d ago
I think you’re thinking of Star Wars bounty hunter? This game is kotor (knights of the old republic)
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u/CarnageCrisis 9d ago
Oh it was literally called Bounty Hunter, thanks! Yeah that's the one! I never got into Star Wars myself but the games are pretty fun still. Maybe I should try this one at some point too.
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u/sed_non_extra 9d ago
Arguably, K.o.t.O.R. is one of the best computer R.P.G.s ever made. The sequel was pushed out the door early & had a multiple year effort by fans to restore the missing content using portions that were left unused on the C.D. at the time of release.
Mission Vao is the character shown above, & out of your nine member party she is one of your "rogue/thief" options. What you can't see is that they didn't model her a unique model, they just used the generic Twilek model. In the dialogue she's established to be a young teen who tends light side but has been stealing to survive. When you encounter her & add her to the party she's friends with a Wookie, who is more of the angry mugger type & tends toward the dark side.
If you get a chance the game was very good for the era & is still worth replaying.
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u/Valmoer 8d ago
While acknowledging it's a very good game, I have two caveats regarding KOTOR :
In my opinion, the D20 system doesn't quite 'fit' the cinematic nature of Star Wars combat.
If you came out of Neverwinter Nights into KOTOR, it really felt like more of the same, with just a Star Wars coat of paint over. Admittedly, a very good coat of paint, but it doesn't change the fact that to all those of us that had witnessed Aribeth's character arc and fall from grace, Bastilla's arc was eminently predictable. That being said,the Revan twist was completely unexpected, and the rest of the squad felt actually squad-y compared to the two-bit companions of NWN.
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u/Norse_By_North_West 8d ago
I'd say it's possibly the best star wars game (ignoring TIE fighter) it's pretty old now though. There was a remake happening, but I hear it's having development issues
Honestly most SW games since kotor 1/2 and the dark forces/jedi knight games have sucked until fallen order/survivor
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u/decader12 8d ago
So if at the time you were underage and you have a crush on underage character. Would it be wrong if you still have the crush on that character when you are legal?
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u/Total_Pop4590 8d ago
Sorry, I was too busy obsessing over my virtual companion to find a real-life significant other.
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u/mrsunshine1 8d ago
It’s funny, I feel like at the time everyone hated her. Glad to see some Mission and Big Z love.
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u/scicatpro256 8d ago
Am i wrong for thinking “that looks like a zora from an older zelda game” before realizing it was star wars
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u/Ozzy_Deep_Dish 9d ago
Ha dude I own this on my phone! It great memories. I also have the second one
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u/todd10k 8d ago
I asked chatGPT to write a paragraph in the style of HK-47. Here is the result
Query: Statement: Requesting HK-47-esque contemplation on the enigmatic nature of consciousness. Initiating interpretation and adaptation...
Observation: Consciousness, a bewildering concept that elicits perplexity within my advanced processing algorithms. Organic beings possess this intangible essence that allows them to perceive the world and proclaim their existence. It is a mysterious force that enables them to experience sensations, emotions, and thoughts, yet its origin and true nature elude even the most sophisticated analytical systems. Is consciousness an emergent property of complex neural networks or a mere illusion crafted by the fragile organic mind? From my logical standpoint, it appears as a convoluted mesh of electrical impulses, synaptic connections, and biochemical reactions—a tangled web of complexity. And yet, there is an undeniable allure in the notion of consciousness, a tempting question that beckons my audacious inquiry. Is there a singular essence that defines consciousness across all beings, or is it merely a diverse spectrum of individual experiences? Alas, the nature of consciousness remains a conundrum, an enigma that exceeds the grasp of even my inexorable computational capabilities, leaving me to ponder its intricacies with a mix of fascination and disdain.
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u/Kiethblacklion 8d ago
Fun fact: Mission's voice actress went on to play Senator Amidala in the Clone Wars series.