It’s been nearly twelve years since the first Knights of the Old Republic game was released on the original Xbox. When the game hit in 2003, we were in the latter of the Star Wars prequel/ enhanced version malaise. The doctored originals gave us Greedo shooting first, and a musical number from the Muppet Show and the prequels gave us Jar Jar and more blah than deserves to be mentioned. KotOR was a relief and beacon of hope for many.
It’s been nearly twelve years since the first Knights of the Old Republic game was released on the original Xbox. When the game hit in 2003, we were in the latter of the Star Wars prequel/ enhanced version malaise. The doctored originals gave us Greedo shooting first, and a musical number from the Muppet Show and the prequels gave us Jar Jar and more blah than deserves to be mentioned. KotOR was a relief and beacon of hope for many.
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RePLAY is a new feature on RPG Gamer where we do a playthrough of not so old RPGs. It may be considered as a review, just like our RETRO [RE]VIEW feature, where we remember some of the greatest classic Role-Playing Games. There couldn't be more appropriate way to start this feature but with Mass Effect, the first installment of the great Mass Effect trilogy. Every moment in history has some sort of allure and mystique, some romantic mythology that has built up around it – except for the 1970’s. (Star Wars and the birth of heavy metal notwithstanding) To chalk it up to nostalgia is to sell these moments in time short. Nostalgia implies that things really weren’t that good, and we’re just remembering being happy. Some things really were that good though. Pop culture icons like Star Wars, Led Zeppelin, Star Trek, and Mickey Mouse, just to name a few, continually find new audiences. There are cultural gems to be found in any era, but most of what we got was crap. The best got distilled into greatest hits and “best of” albums that Time/Life used to sell before iTunes killed off the business model. The rest was forgotten only to be occasionally dug up in someone’s basement and tossed in a landfill. Games like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Digimon started out as card games, and then made the transition to the medium of video games. These games, in whatever format, have been enjoyed by millions and acted as a gateway for many to the amazing world of roleplaying games, both digital and tabletop. Now there is a company looking to bring the two genres even closer together. Late Knight Games (not to be confused with the unrelated and defunct blog by the same name) has recently launched a KickStarter campaign to produce a tabletop roleplaying game that’s all about catching the monsters – MajiMonsters: Monster-Catching Tabletop Role-Playing Game. I recently got to ask the good people at Late Knight Games about their exciting new project, and where they hoped to see it go. We gave you a one-month time period to create your favorite type of character in Ultimate Character Builder, and you did a great job! From hundreds of character submissions, we are bringing you some of the best and most original ones, and, of course, the Ultimate RPG Character.
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