No Malak ????

"Palanthian;c-1806212" wrote:

I didn’t play KOTOR when it was released but tried it recently, enjoyed the story element but couldn’t continue playing due to the dated gameplay. While the story is fun, let’s not exaggerate the quality - it’s like a piece of fan fiction, it’s entertaining but sometimes a little incoherent and with frequently laughable dialogue.

Entertaining, incoherent, laughable dialogue... so you're saying it's just like the movies? If we're not going to exaggerate quality, let's not do it for any part of the franchise. I've never argued KOTOR is great literature; I just said it's better written than anything George Lucas personally wrote, which it is. The Star Wars movies are praised for many things, but when it comes to the entries where Lucas wrote the scripts, the writing is not one of them. And let's be real here, HK-47 has awesome dialogue. Lucas always tried to shove comedic characters into his movies, and none of those characters hold a candle to HK.

There was a wide, wide, wide variety of quality in the old EU books, but sadly I would have to argue that they peaked with that original Thrawn trilogy. Nothing else was ever quite that good.

As to age, 37. Not old enough to have seen the originals in their first theatrical run, but old enough to have owned multiple VHS copies of the unaltered theatrical cuts, and to be aware that they were better before Lucas decided that in addition to not having respect for anyone else's work in the setting, he didn't even have respect for his own older work. Those "special" editions were an atrocity, only getting worse with every iteration.