So my first experience with an XBox comes from my little brother. My family has always been a Nintendo family, we got a Super Nintendo when I was ...6, I think, and then got a Nintendo 64 when that came out, and a Gamecube when that came out, and my mother even camped out at a Wal-Mart to get us a Wii (even though none of us asked for, or even wanted, one). Sometime during high school, we also got a Playstation 2, and a Sega Dreamcast, albeit a while after the Dreamcast stopped being popular. I went off to college, and when I came back for Christmas Break, my youngest brother had gotten himself an XBox, and a few games to go with it. One of those games was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
I don't know if I've shared my love for Star Wars yet. In fact, I'm almost positive I have not, but that is a post for another time. I DO know that I've shared my love for RPGs, though, so the joining of an RPG and Star Wars was like crack for my little nerd heart. I devoured that game like a voracious old man who just discovered Viagra and hookers devours well...Viagra and hookers. However, Christmas Break came to an end and, since it was my brother's XBox, I had to bid adieu to it until summer break. But glory be! when that came around, he had obtained Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. And if I devoured the first game like Viagra and hookers, I devoured this one like a nursing home located in between a pharmacy and a strip club. It was an unhealthy obsession. I think I played through KOTOR2 about ...3 times over the summer, playing as different characters, using different romances, and making different choices every time. Much like I did with Dragon Age: Origins (see my old blog post: http://adayinthelifeofanerdygay.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-three.html ). Unfortunately, it was my brother's XBox, and he did not really appreciate me using it so often.
I went back to school, and came back home for Fall Break. I noticed that the XBox was free, found the KOTOR2 box, put the disc in, and booted it up. Only to find that the game wouldn't play. Baffled, I pulled the disc out and wiped it on my shirt, thinking that maybe the disc was just dusty. Still no luck. Confused and a little angry that my addiction was so close and yet so far, I pulled out the disc again, and glanced at the back. And was HORRIFIED. My brothers had scratched up the back of the disc so that I couldn't play it anymore. I couldn't be TOO mad, as it was not my disc, nor my XBox, but I was PISSED. And have been looking for the game ever since (it was not a new game when Dan got it). Now, I didn't look very hard until October 2010, when my friend Chad sold me his 360, but I did look. And this weekend, I FOUND TWO OF THEM! Now, I am a cheapskate, so I got the cheaper of the two ($23 vs. $35), and booted it up! Minus an occasional sound-glitch, it works just fine!
I started a game as a Jedi Consular (the mage), but I'm not really feeling it. In the Dragon Age series, I usually play the Rogue, so I'm thinking that I'm going to restart as a Jedi Sentinel, because I like skills, and they're somewhat useful. But playing this game after playing Dragon Age: Origins is ...unsettling. It's not just the graphical difference (with KOTOR being an XBox game, and Dragon Age being a 360 game), but I just see lots of improvements that KOTOR could make, if they were still making KOTOR games. Not that The Old Republic MMORPG bullshit. Just a few simple tweaks. Getting rid of used dialogue options would be a big help. Being better able to customize my character's looks would be nice, too. Among many other things. Things that, if Bioware were to make a new KOTOR game, they would fix on their own, based off of what Dragon Age and Mass Effect have done. IT WOULD BE AWESOME.
I'm...really tired...so...I feel like this post was a bit more ADD than my other posts (which, to be fair, are all pretty ADD). I apologize for that. Also, it occurred to me about halfway through this post that all of my posts have been more Nerd-based and less Gay-based, so...maybe I'll do a more gay-oriented post next time. I make no promises.
Also, what older games have you played lately? Or do you only play newer games?
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