"He used to smuggle spice and blasters along the Corellian Run. The Republic figured since they couldn't catch him, they might as well hire him. The Republic is in desperate need of someone with his kind of skills. Desperate enough to overlook his shady past." "Is he the kind of person we want protecting the galaxy?" "He's the only kind of person who *can* protect the galaxy."

This was my beginning right here. Never played an RPG before KOTOR. It changed what I thought a video game could be. These are masterpieces.

Map: "What would I do without Trask?" Trask: *Immediately dies*

37:40 You've got low Strength and dual wielding further lowers your chance to hit. In your inventory you can see "to hit" modifiers at the bottom, these being -4 for main hand and -10 for off hand. It's a dnd like system where the chance to hit is determined by a d20 roll + your modifier, so having it even at -1 is pretty terrible.

I hope you enjoy the game! A bit of friendly advice from someone who learned this the hard way: don't look up anything on the Wikipedia for this game, even something innocuous. The Wikipedia is not kind for first time players and drops spoilers incredibly casually.

KOTOR 1 and 2 are must plays for any RPG-holics . I hope the upcoming remake lives up to the original.

Part of the reason for there being so many aliens in this game is so they could reuse the same "alien dialogue" instead of recording so much voice acting for all of the possible conversations in this game. Instead of recording 5000 different lines, they just had to say "Yamma yamma koonya!" and play that with subtitles! It's not the best, but it feels better than just having no sound at all for the unrecorded lines. :D

Might want to look at attack bonuses a bit more when equipping stuff. Dual wielding swords with no ambidexterity or dual wielding feats imposes a HUGE penalty!

We will watch this playthrough with great interest!

HAHAHAHAHHA Putting on a Mass Effect song on the intro credits to a Star Wars game was a genius play, well done Mapo

You should know it gets very difficult later and auto pause before combat can be incredibly helpful to plan out your actions and party positions.

First Half-Life and now KotOR? Man you are hitting all my favorite games from my childhood!

This game sparked my interest in Star Wars when I played it some years back and turned me into a full blown Star Wars fan! Glad you're playing this game, I think you're gonna love it

As someone who has just recently played this for the first time as well...you're in for a treat

I just screamed from joy as soon as I saw this. I can't wait to see how you play through it

"I know there's a chacter called Darth Revan" gave me a good belly laugh... wish I could have watched these as they came out (although I like being able to just binge these for the next ~forty hours, lol) -- luckily it seems II is not nearly finished, so I'll enjoy that (when I catch up) and will ride that ride with you... though I'm not quite sure anything in II even comes close to Darth Revan :D. So fucking good. Story telling in games (imo) hasn't yet come close to the story of Revan, haha. Fuck, I love it.

A great choice for a game! I played the hell out of this when I was a kid, and still do a replay of it every now and then because it's so good. Hope you have fun with it!

1:27:50 no one: Mapo: “Dude it looks trash I love it” I love this

I hear that Taris theme with the Force theme and I’m 12 years old again. What a game!

This is probably the only game I’ve replayed close to as many times as I have Mass Effect. Excited for the play through!

Taking me down memory lane one playthrough at a time. So excited to see you get into this, the hype is unreal.

This is was the best surprise! I love your soulsborne play through and kotor 1&2 are my favorite games of all time, so excited to follow along

Reading out the alien dialogue is probably a good idea. Even just read it yourself at your own pace first then skip ahead and summarize it at the end, if you can't be bothered reading all of the text word for word.

This game is so fantastic. I swear you don’t miss. It’s like you’re methodically playing through all my favorite games ever and I love it 😭

Ok alright let’s get it. I remember having PS2 and wanted to buy an Xbox just for this. Played only an hour over a friends house but it took 9 years after it came out until I finally played KOTOR 1&2. Loved every minute of it.

Ooooh, I was waiting for HL2, but this is another of my fav. games ever! :) (You rolled a pretty good character, I think! Also, I've used that look for my first char. too. :)) I hope you can get through the whole thing without encountering spoilers. Best to not read up on things outside of the game before you finish!

the Sith Troopers are voiced by Simon Templeman. you simply can't mistake that voice with someone elses.

Awwwww, you are making me so happy playing this. KOTOR is one of my personal greatest games of all time, both of them. Just played through the first again recently, so this timing is just.... *chefs kiss*😙👌 Cheers Mapo, im sure you will fall on love with this epic star wars story.

Bro. I love this. I was legit just watching another guys let's play for KOTOR and thought it would be more enjoyable to watch someone play blind. That made me think back to watching you play dark souls 1 and 2. So, I came here to see what you've been up to and I see KOTOR. I absolutely love it. I am subscribed now. Absolutely loved your previous content and am so glad to see your playing a game for the first time just as I am. Keep up the great work.

I like the reading of alien dialogue as I put your videos in the background while I work. Much appreciated!

This is where the fun begins!

so funny that you heard carth and thought: "that's kaydan!" because i had the exact opposite reaction hearing kaydan for the first time having already played kotor. loving the playthrough!

I love that you know both Star Wars and D&D, perfect for going into KOTOR!

May have giggled madly when I saw this on my notifications. It's finally happening. Enjoy Mapo! Some of the best dialogue (what isn't generic alien speech haha) in Star Wars within KotoR 1 + 2.

Just stumbled upon this series because I thought about how I wanted to play it again since I haven’t played it since I was 6. (23 now) and I’m gonna HAVE to watch you play it all the way through just to see your reaction to playing the game. The best game ever made in my personal opinion

Just starting watching this series now. My favorite video game of all time. Subscribed.

Kotor Blind? Amazing! I also only played Kotor for 1st time around two years ago. Such a great game. You're gonna love it!

I've got chills. To get to see someone experience for the first time. This will be a pleasure

Love this! I guess HL2's on hold for now then? My brain would probably explode if you played them alongside each other 🤯

13:00 I totally agree about Star Wars names having to have the right ring to them. Mine is Duraan Entelan, a Mirialan Jedi!

goddamn you have been playing a lot of awesome games, ive got alot to watch, thanks!

Another one of my favorite games. I hope you have a good time!

Seeing Mapocolops play this game really makes me want to redownload and play KOTOR 1, 2, and SWTOR (Star Wars The Old Republic) Great stuff, I'm going to watch more of him play KOTOR!

Remember that pausing the game and queueing up commands for each party member is a huge advantage you have while playing this game! You're essentially playing a turn based game that plays out in real-time for the purpose of looking cooler and trying to attract players who don't like turn-based games by slightly disguising it. You can queue up actions for each character in this type of "real time with pause" RPG game, or if you've never played a game with this type of combat system, you can even think of it like The Sims. You can pause, tell each character a bunch of commands like "attack, heal, attack, strong attack, heal, attack, attack" and then once you've given your whole team their orders, unpause and watch it play out. Everything works like a turn based game, and you can even see the log of dice rolls in one of the menus (useful for checking why you keep missing!), except you're seeing the turns take place in real time with you and your opponents alternating making one move per round every 6 seconds.

Yeehaaaaaw! I’ve been waiting for this a loooooong time. Enjoy the journey, bro

I am very excited to watch you play one of my favourite rpgs

I love KOTOR. Though I've never managed to finish the game, I've definitely started it dozens of times. Super excited for this.

My favorite Game of all Time

This is where the fun begins.

This video is my first exposure to anything nights of the old republic, loving the half life lets plays too so far

Awesome! What a ton of content to listen to while doing other stuff.

Nice! KOTOR 1 and 2 are the only Star Wars games I've played and they are great! Now I want to replay these myself, it was so long ago I played them. 🙂

Nice, looking forward to this one! Enjoy!

I can't believe I missed that you started this game! It's my favorite game of all time.

Holy shit HYPE! Best Star Wars game of all time hands down. Well, with and asterisk, because I actually like the sequel a bit more :D

Holy shit youre playing kotor? I just found you through your dark souls playthrough which I was really enjoying so far and then by chance I saw this. Crazy since I was just looking for a new blind playthrough of this game to watch but theres so few. I love this game, hope you enjoy it too!

Oooh just found the channel! Excited to see the rest!

1:05:13 About the languages, Bioware did that with Jade Empire and the Dragon Age series, but I don't think they did that with Kotor. I always read and skip aliens VO because it takes such a long time for such small dialogue

I love this game! My favourite sort of build is a Scout, with most stats except charisma raised with focus on strength and dexterity. This is a combat heavy build, to make sure that when you are a Jedi later, you have a high chance to hit your target and deal serious damage, whilst having a high chance to dodge. I tend to go dark side with this, as you tend to not need charisma as much if you're being an asshole. I also do the save level thing when on Taris, where I don't level up my character past level 2 until I change class at the Enclave, which grants me more force points.

Yo bro! You are in for a treat! You’ll love these games!

Also, Jedi Academy was a banger of my childhood. First and only game to date to incorporate such amazing swordplay polished from Outcast. I guess Unleashed managed to do it many years later but never got into it.

I know I’m way late, but just wanna say - an hour in - that I’m SO looking forward to this LP. A blind KOTOR LP is great, a blind LP by a Star Wars fan who loves learning the lore, experiencing the world-building - can’t wait. (I hope the twist wasn’t spoiled for you by comments etc. before you got to it…)

DUUUUUDDDEEEE. These 2 games were absolute favorites from my childhood. So damn good. I hope the remake is faithful and they show the love that it so deserves

Holy cow, dude. KOTOR? This is probably the best game I've played when I was younger. Completed it probably more than 20 times. And I actually love the atmosphere and story of KOTOR 1 & 2 even more than the original movies. They are quite deep, creative, dark and gritty, have such interesting characters and are epic as hell. And still work in the Star Wars universe without destroying anything the movies created. (Yes, looking at you Disney.) I'm super excited for you to play this. Weird to hear the english version to this though, I've always played that in german (since I'm german). And Bastila was actually pronounced Basteela in german. :D I hope you'll enjoy those games!

This build is terrible and I'm here for it

I am so hyped for this!!!

oh man that "favourite shop on Taris" joke cracked me up

I like how little people pick up on the fact that after you kill the two bounty hunters who’re detaining the old man, you find 100 credits on their bodies, paying back the 100 that you would give him, making it free

I hope you enjoy this one! It's a fantastic game, and I hope you play KOTOR 2 afterward! And be very careful of plot spoilers on this one.

Love this game. I'll be really interested what you think of some of the stuff in this game as you're a big Star Wars fan but dont know KOTOR yet. Since Disney took over a ton of KOTOR references/easter eggs have snuck into the movies, tv shows and animated series' like the Hammerhead Corvette style ship in Rogue One looking like the KOTOR old republic ships so I'm sure you'll be unravelling a lot of references backwards based on your existing knowledge.

2:29:04 Before the Shepard shuffle, there was the infamous Revan shuffle! 😂😂🤣🤣☠☠

I am so so excited

The Mass Effect theme coming in was a really nice touch lmao

This popped up on my feed and got so fucking excited. I'm such a huge KOTOR nerd.

OYOYOYOYO My fav let's player started a game which interests me too, this gave me such unexpected joy, what the hell. :D I hope you enjoy the game and the story without spoilers hopefully. Cheers.

How funny that you start KOTOR 1 as I recently restarted KOTOR 2. Small world man.

Your opening music reminded me that I miss watching Yu Gi Oh and will be watching it soon lmao

OH MAN, I've been waiting for this! This game and it's sequel were my childhood! I remember running to my tiny little 10 inch wide CRT tv in my bedroom after school, gunning to be the first one on the X-Box so that I could play this! This game is the reason why I nearly repeated the fifth grade. I played this game and the sequel over and over again so many countless times even late into high school that I can't even begin to count and have memorized practically everything! Yeah, in this era Sith doesn't exclusively refer to dark side Force adepts. Anyone part of Darth Malak's army is considered 'sith' but most are not force sensitive but rather simple soldiers. Word of advice: If you're serious about using dual blades you need to take the two weapon fighting feat, otherwise you're gonna get hit with a huge penalty. Yeah, Taris is an extremely racist place and human-centric. It's been around long before the Sith occupation.

Something gives me the sense that you have played this before lol. Either way can’t wait to watch

I waited for this, yes-s. Here comes some good star wars and golden age of bioware, also lore, characters, story.

I'm soo looking forward to this, I'm new to your channel. What other games do you play ( if I like this playthrough I'll definitely be checking more out

"there's no such thing as a bad droid" made me burst out laughing! This game tries extremely hard to prove that wrong, by providing the best counter-example to that claim in Star wars lore.

Man this game is a legend! So glad that you found it! The ancestor of Mass Effect - with less action, but with much more RPG, with real choices rather than illusions, and original story. A best games made by really talented people (of that time) from BioWare (first game) and Obsidian Entertainment (second game).

Nice touch with the normandy theme music on start :)

One thing you can do with combat, is press the 'X' button to queue up your attacks or even using medpacks or other equipment

The music alone is getting me so hyped and nostalgic, I am way too emotionally attached to these games

You are in for a treat my man if you like story. One of my top 3 best game stories that I have ever seen.

This is in my top 2 favorite games of all time but it's such an old game that I wonder how people will feel about it today. It will still be enjoyable but I'm really excited about the remake because it can basically be the same game with 10 times the complexity.

pretty sure i remember just using the healing items straight from the menu, without taking a "turn" to do it. so much easier and faster. or maybe it's been patched out of the game or something. it's been around 15 years since i played last time.

literally had to stop what i was doing when i saw this was happening!!

Hey, about the language thing, Im totally cool with it. I often put your non souls game playthroughs in the background so that works for me!

Little advice you can chain attacks the little bar next to your character during combat you can chain at least 5 actions

“I really wish I could play as another species” *whispers* Dragon Age

This is quite possibly the most legendary and epic game BioWare has ever developed.

It’s basically Star Wars dungeons and dragons but in the old Republic setting excuse me,”the knights of the old Republic” setting

I really like the swordplay mixed in with blasters in a sci-fi setting; it's very Flash Gordon.

you made the right call with the xbox version. the pc version is very very broken. to be clear, it wasnt a bad port, back in its day. it was fantastic when i played it on windows vista, but compatibility hasnt held up, and even with the modern steam version its very difficult and complicated to get it running ok on modern systems. impossible altogether (as far as i can tell) on a modern AMD system. I did manage to get it working ok on my media center computer with its older nvidia card.

The play/combat/turn-based dynamics were so unfamiliar to me (I've never played a real RPG) I could barely get anywhere in the game. I was thinking this would be similar to The Old Republic MMO, which I've been playing for years. But this was something else. That's why I'm watching someone else play, and explain it. Thanks so much!

I’ve played these games back in the days, I remember it being very hard lol

Happy first play through!!! ❤️ also I go curious: will you play Mass Effect Andromeda? I loved your play through of ME original games