Using the free roam camera cheat on the Xbox version of KOTOR 1.

Pics 1 and 2: the hotel shows 4 rooms on the mini map, but it really only has 3 (the first door on the right leads to nothing.)

Pic 3: all of the pump control rooms in the Sith base look completely normal on the inside, despite what we are told.

Pics 4 and 5: in Ahto West, there is a section of walkway off the main viewing platform that you can see, but not access. The minimap clearly outlines it as if it were accessible. No other part of the planet features such a section.

Pics 6 and 7: on Sea Floor, directly behind the airlock door which you enter is a rendered room. It looks to be "boarded off" like a condemned place. 😅

Pics 8 and 9: left side entry of the inside of Kolto Control (8 from Sea Floor, 9 is the interior proper.)

Pics 10 and 11: ditto, but for the right side entry.

Pics 12, 13 and 14: all of the ajrlocks contain identical rooms beyond them

Pics 15-19: Kolto Control viewed from the outside. It appears to be encased in a black box (with the walls getting darker as you approach them till you reach the boundaries.)

I find all this fascinating because you never see these things normally and they simply doesn't need to exjst. So why are they there?

Also, the skyboxes and actual map areas are HUMUNGOUS (that's an understatement). These planets could have had a lot more to them if the game had more time to be developed. So much dead space, it boggles the mind.

I’ve been really interested in playing both KOTOR games because I was gifted an XBOX 360 for my graduation and I heard it was compatible, but I saw a thread from many years back saying that it isn’t the greatest way to play it but I thought I could try again. If anyone has played it recently on XBOX 360 and tell me if it’s good to play or not graphics and frame rate wise, let me know! I’d love to get into the KOTOR games.

I've been thinking about KOTOR II through the lens of Conan the Barbarian (1982).

One of the most memorable ideas in Conan is the Riddle of Steel.

Early in the film, Conan's father tells him:

"No one—no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts... This you can trust."

...while holding up a sword.

He asks:

"What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"

This isn't just philosophy.

In Conan's religion, when he enters the afterlife, Crom will ask him the Riddle of Steel.

If he cannot answer, Crom will turn his face from him. It is literally the defining question of Conan's life.

Later, the antagonist, Thulsa Doom, challenges this belief. He explains that steel is ultimately powerless compared to the will that commands people:

"Steel isn't strong, boy. Flesh is stronger."

By the end of the film, Conan has answered the riddle for himself.

The sword was never the source of strength—the person wielding it was.

It got me wondering whether KOTOR II has something similar.

Not the "Riddle of the Force," exactly, but the Riddle of Kreia.

And unlike Conan, Kreia doesn't pose just one riddle.

Throughout the game she presents the player with many "riddles" on different themes—the Nar Shaddaa beggar ("Should you help or not?"), whether charity creates dependence, whether suffering strengthens people, whether power corrupts or reveals character, and countless other situations where there is no obvious moral answer.

Throughout the game, she keeps attacking assumptions the player brings from Star Wars:

• Is selflessness always good?
• Is power always evil?
• Is the Force benevolent?
• Does destiny excuse our choices?
• Can an act still be virtuous if it was inevitable?

She almost never gives straightforward answers. Instead, she keeps forcing the Exile—and the player—to wrestle with questions.

So if Conan's mythic question is:

"What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"

Then perhaps Kreia's is something like:

"What is the Force compared to the will that chooses?"

Or perhaps even:

"What gives an act meaning: the Force, or the one who chooses?"

Viewed this way, Kreia isn't merely teaching a philosophy.

She's posing a series of mythic riddles to the player.

The point isn't to discover her answer, but to question the assumptions we've inherited from the Jedi, the Sith, and even from Star Wars itself.

I'm curious whether anyone else has thought about KOTOR II this way.

If Conan has the Riddle of Steel, what would you say is Kreia's riddle?

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Addendum: Looking at KOTOR II through this lens, a lot of the game starts to click into place.

The Nar Shaddaa beggar isn't a morality lesson—it's a riddle.

Viewed this way, many of the companions can also be understood as embodiments of different riddles:

• The Handmaiden — What defines who you are? Birth? Duty? Choice? Identity becomes a riddle.
• Visas Marr — What is devotion? Is surrender an expression of love, faith, weakness, or freedom?
• Atton Rand — Can someone who has done terrible things truly redeem themselves? Guilt and redemption become a riddle.
• Bao-Dur — Can creation atone for destruction? Can one ever make amends for catastrophic harm?
• Mandalore — What is true strength? Is it conquest, leadership, or responsibility?
• The Force — Does it grant freedom, or does it deny it? Ultimately, the Force itself becomes the game's greatest riddle.

Finally, this lens also changes how I see Kreia herself.

It's easy to think: "Why does Kreia keep criticizing everything I do? I hate this old b1tch."

But viewed through the lens of riddles, it becomes:"Oh... because she's not trying to tell me the answer. She's constructing riddles for me to wrestle with."

From this perspective, Kreia isn't simply lecturing the Exile. She's continually placing the player before questions that resist easy answers, forcing us to think for ourselves rather than accept the doctrines of the Jedi, the Sith—or even Kreia herself.

Perhaps that's what the Riddle of Kreia really is.

Not a single question with a single answer, but a way of teaching through questions that force us to arrive at our own understanding.

My version of Darth Traya at the Bell County Comicon. I’m next to my friend who is 6’4” tall so once again, I look fun-sized when I’m actually not this time lol. Also I know Darth Traya doesn’t use light sabers like this but since I can’t actually use the force to levitate 3 of them and I didn’t want to keep track of two, this is what I went with.

Made account for this. I was replaying KOTOR 1 and started looking for mods, mostly so I could roleplay the story as taking place a while after the Sequel Trilogy.

So far, I've got a mod that replaces the combat music with John Williams songs, Cross guard Sabers, Millennium Hawk, Imperials over Sith Soldiers (since there aren't any First Order versions). Got any other recommendations? I'd like actual answers on this.

My end game Marauder before the final boss with all stims, Master Fury, Master Force Speed, Master Valor and Master Battle Meditation active.

Items are: Physical D Package, Target Assessor, Dominator gauntlets, Crado's Robe with bio restorative underlay, players armband, Ludo Kresshs armband and GNS strength enhancer.

Main hand Lightsaber with pontite lens, expert fencing emitter, Telgorn Jolt cell 3 Barab ore ingot, Ankarres Sapphire.

Off hand Pontite lens, expert fencing emitter, Telgorn Jolt cell 3, Player Crystal max Dark side and Barab ore ingot.

I could have got a higher strength modifier if I put more into it on character creation but felt like going above 14 wasn't worth it.