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- [Claire] So there is a possible remake.

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- [Kenneth] Allegedly.

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- [Claire] Of Knights of the Old Republic.

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It was announced in 2021.

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By the time we got to 2022,

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we had heard that there was, you know,

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some trickiness going
on behind the scenes.

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Which you can read all about at Kotaku.

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For all of our coverage on that.

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By now, it has changed
hands from developer ASPYR,

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who did the Nintendo Switch port,

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to now Saber Interactive.

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Where that is, we don't know.

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But it presents a really
interesting question, which is,

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is it worth playing Star Wars:
Knights of the Old Republic

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in 2023?

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- [Kenneth] In all honestly,
I think mechanically the game

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is a bit rough these days.

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And I think visually, as
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your graphics now or not,
it does look 20 years old.

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- [Claire] It doesn't have
that turn based polish

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that Baldur's Gate 3 is
able to do really well

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and make that kind of enjoyable.

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This tucks a lot of the D&D
math way behind the scenes.

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- [Kenneth] Right.

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- And what you're left
with is, at least in 2023,

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somewhat of, kind of rigid feeling.

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- So I think it's like
always worth going back

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and playing older games.

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I do think if this remake does happen,

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I think it's going to be
interesting to see how they,

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what they think is like the
core lifeblood of that game.

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What can be changed,
what can be modernized.

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Cause I think something what
I was looking forward to

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is like hypothetically a
version of KOTOR that had like

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more inclusive same-sex romance.

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Cause you know you go back now and

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there's like one lesbian option.

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- [Claire] Yeah, that's basically it.

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- Basically it.

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But you know there's like
different pillars of that game

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that I think can be changed
and explored and re-examined.

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But I also think it's going
to be probably more beholden

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to things that Star Wars is
probably beholden to these days.

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Being part of the Disney machine.

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It is still a significant game.

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Like for all of the other things

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that mire Star Wars right now.

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KOTOR kind of transcends
Star Wars in a lot of ways.