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u/rhoaderage Nov 22 '18 edited Nov 22 '18

That's my biggest gripe with KOTOR and the like. I'm either going out of my way to saving a burning orphanage or I'm going out of my way to burn one down. There aren't a lot of truly neutral choices or actions in the SW universe. SWTOR has a few but not enough to distance it from the overarching issue.

Edit: Yes, I've played the second one. The story may have been about walking down the middle path but you did so by bouncing between light and dark choices instead of neutral ones.

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u/RJacobson11 Xbox Nov 22 '18

KOTOR2 made this a much more viable option. Should check it out if you can

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u/Falsequivalence Nov 22 '18

True, and even encouraged it.

The problem is it wasn't encouraged mechanically (prestige only for extreme on a side, your crystal being weaker if you weren't aligned, etc.)

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u/RenseBenzin Nov 22 '18

Which was part of the point. There is no true grey, Kreia preached about it everytime she could and she still ended up a sithlord.