May be so, but at this point I have such a bad association with both Bioware and Mass Effect, I don't think I could play it. Besides, they forced me to save Joker, when I desperately wanted to shove him out the airlock.

Ah, ya, it starts off pretty slow, particularly if you have just come from ME1, well, the intro to 2 was fantastic though, very beautiful environment. All of the DLC is top notch, and the game picks up a lot, you just need the incisor sniper rifle hehGet through the first mission or two and find a familiar face, it gets better after that. Arrival is a really good DLC and so is Overlord. As bad as the Arrival DLC ending scene was (I believe it was this that created the problem for ME3), the bit before that was very well done.

I said ME, as did the quote from the article. I haven't played ME2. I tried the demo, but it was so boring I couldn't wait for it to end.

My favorite moment is that karma is largely cosmetical in KotOR II - you don't have to play a walking Jedi/Sith cliché. In my signature playthrough I help the "good" sides on planets with internal conflicts (Ithorians on Telos, the Militia on Dantooine, Royalists on Onderon), but exterminate the remaining Jedi thus playing someone akin to a D&D lawful evil or a real-world Machiavellian - creating a stable and largely just system, but without haughty, while, at the same time, indecisive and cowardly moralists living in their ivory towers and refusing to resort to rough measures when needed. You cannot do anything like that in KotOR I. At best, you can play an evil character speaking without too much pathos. KotOR II is much more realistic. Such a story could have happened in some real-world post-war setting, largely without changing its narrative and premises. Today no one (at least, no major studio) can rival Obsidian in writing stories. Fallout New Vegas is another good example.Empire at War is also a good thing. Perhaps, my third most favorite Star Wars game, especially with the FoC add-on. Vader's flagship rocks. Just like SMPA-T SPHs. For someone with a military background like me, it's very pleasant to see a game, where the artillery is as much capable of turning the tide as on the real-world battlefields.

I play them almost annually, not Icewind Dale, I never loved that. But Baldur's Gate, Planescape, Neverwinter Nights, yes, I lurve them a lot.

ME2 lack of content? Okay, as I approached the ME games more as adventure games, I did not see them that way. Morrowind was a game I didn't get into until much, much later after Mods and patches had made it pretty and just like Oblivion, there's lots to do, so you are correct on that front.

You can make one of my favourite characters though in 2, which you couldn't do in 1. I made a screamer!She could only do boosts, screaming and hand to hand attacks (as in punching and clawing).The RP of it was that when in battle she just beserked, dark side obviously.I like 2 more than 1 but it's hair's breadth between them. The fan patches and mods have cleared up almost every issue I can think of.When moving, I found some of my older games boxes, and one game I really liked for a while was Empire at War. It was basically Risk in space with some other stuff but I played the heck out of it.

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Comparing Morrowind and Mass Effect is bizarre, unless to note ME's lack of content.K2 has moments which are better than anything in K1, but overall K1 still wins on quality and being the original, at least that's the conclusion I came to after I replayed both several times. Also Canderous is the best character of either game (and I don't mean Mandalore, who's boring).

My impression is exactly the opposite. KotOR II NPCs are much more realistic - there are literally no good or bad characters in your party: all "good" NPCs have their darker side, all "bad" NPCs have one or another sort of integrity and, say, personal code. While KotOR I characters are - to me, at least - straight like an avenue. You know how they will react after thirty minutes of playing.As to the ending... I liked open-ended games yet before it became mainstream. Whether it was intentional or not, it fits a game of undertones like that. Much better than what BioWare made out of it in their subsequent MMO.