View From the Bushes

In a coincidence which has yet to be remarked on by any of the stories I have read (possibly because it's pretty slim), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic went gold (game complete, in stores within a week) on the same day as the first jedi appeared in Star Wars Galaxies. Which leads to some very interesting questions, the first of which is, "Do you want to be a Jedi?" If you answered "no" then just get out of here, stop reading, find somewhere else to go on the Internet, because if you can't see the appeal in choking people with your mind, then I'm not sure where this world failed you, but it quite clearly has.

On the other hand, if the answer is yes, then you have the two aforementioned choices. I concede that this eliminates all the non-RPG Star Wars titles, but let's face it, unless there's a Star Wars shooter out there that lets you say, "These aren't the droids you're looking for," you're not really playing a Jedi. So the question then becomes so you want to become a Jedi by spending hundreds if not thousands of hours surrounded by annoying 14-year old griefers and 35- year old misanthropes pretending to be 18-year old girls, in an effort with an overwhelming probablity of being utterly fruitless? An effort which, even if successful, could all be taken away in an instant with a single unlucky death?

Or would you rather pick up a game which guaranteed you the role of a Jedi? A game where rather than being surrounded by hundreds of people with an average maturity best expressed in single digits, you meet elegently crafted and scripted NPC's. A game where you're essentially the single most important person in the galaxy, where empires and civilizations rise and fall based on your actions? Assuming that you're not suffering from a severe chemical imbalance, I predict you picked the second. That being the case, go out and pick up KotOR and stop paying a monthly fee to play a chef in the Star Wars universe when we all know you really want to be a Jedi.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross