Is light side boring?

[CHUD Josie]

Just finished my dark side 1st playthrough and I have no clue how a light side one could be as fun, especially if you're lacking on credits from having to sacrifice them for good boy points. I essentially did a min maxed speed/flurry build but I'm wondering if I should go full evil from the start next time while also focusing more on offensive force abilities and lightsaber usage, thoughts?

[Zack the Legendary Super Saiyan]

Quite easy make sure you get dominate mind put points into persuasion to back it up so that if by chance dominate mind fails which will be rare your silver tongue can backup your force powers. Now heres how you make sure your never hurting for credits always ask Hutts for more or to in the case of the track always make sure you get 1st swoop race free of charge, never pay docking fees when asked you the force to make them say you don't need to or if the force fails you use thy silver tongue to get a discount. When ever you do a quest never refuse a reward & so long as you don't ask for more then that's offered you don't get any dark side points you also won't get dark side points for the other things I mentioned either. & if you say bring HK-47 with you all the time you could enjoy always disappointing him by never unless totally necessary never killing anyone even though he prefers to go straight to murder for everything. You can also act like a smarta.s.s towards your crew to some degree without getting dark side points & so long as a good portion of your actions fall within the either neutral or light side category you can still get enough light points to get high up on the light side spectrum. I played like that as a light side Soldier Jedi Guardian str/con tank build & plenty of fun using dominate mind whenever I wanted so long as it wasn't out right obviously causing harm or negatively effecting anyone I used to make everyone do as I say. Oh on another note I suggest using these mods as they make robes worth wearing & if for your main you want to wear armor you can without worrying about not using force powers but either way your Jedi allies get boosted stats for wearing robes now.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kotor/mods/1267
https://deadlystream.com/files/file/20-remove-restrictions-for-force-powers-by-armors/

[Xaphnir]

Every time I try doing a light side playthrough I stick with it until you can bully that old man on Taris out of 50 credits.

[LukanGamer]

I mean you clearly a irl darkside person so might be Very difficult to see the good points of light side.

(I mean a huge purpose is RolePlay not mechanic fact by sounds of it you even brushed off killing both directly and a worse one indirectly person yaa....;
as far as min-max idk there maybe a couple times you get bonus xp that tallies more or a couple side quests that give small bit more, but I would have 0 idea which and a lot come down likely more to timing).

[TimTheToolmanTaylor]

I have a hard time playing Dark Side, and I've not done it yet in my life. Call it intense immersion, but I just like being the good guy, and following a path from a franchise and concept that I'm way too into.

Is it boring though? Well this is my all-time favourite RPG, and probably the only non-JRPG up that list. No, it's not boring. I wouldn't even say it's more challenging, or all that different really build-wise. You may lose some credits here and there, but it never seemed to matter a ton. Most of the times, turning down rewards just results in the people insisting that you take the money anyways. That or possibly other loot is given, or exp. I haven't noticed those specifics.

If you've avoided light side powers. Don't. My god they're broken sometimes. Speed ends up getting you a few extra attack roles that really pack a punch, and most of the other stuff just buffs this or that for you, or your entire party. Definitely not weak!

Overall though, the game is one of the early "Choose your path" kind of games. Not a lot is really different until that last planet let's you stray one way or the other. Builds of dark side characters can contain as many light side powers as you wish, and vice versa, or a mix-mash.

You play you. I have no desire to try the other path, and maybe you don't either. Still a fantastic game. Canon is Light side though. Dark side in the sequel I believe?

Edit: One thing to try for sure though, is the "not leveling up until dantooine" trick. You'll be forced to do the first level up, but you can ignore level ups until this point for the main-character. Why? If you wait to level up until you are technically a jedi, each level you then do from the start affords you extra level ups as a jedi. I'm doing it now, and sure enough I got to level 2 soldier/level 6 jedi immediately on Dantooine once I was a jedi. It was just brutal on Taris. My party had to carry the main character at times lol. Naturally.

Cheers!

Cam

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by SlamJamMcCam:

If you've avoided light side powers. Don't. My god they're broken sometimes. Speed ends up getting you a few extra attack roles that really pack a punch, and most of the other stuff just buffs this or that for you, or your entire party. Definitely not weak!

Speed is a universal power, not a light side one. But yeah, it's OP as ♥♥♥♥. Equip a double-bladed lightsaber, use force speed, attack Malak, he instantly phases. "Hm, wonder if I should raise the - oh, it's on the hardest difficulty already, ok."

Heal is a really good light side power, though. And stasis is great for CC.

[Propane Salesman]

Light Side is a much more believable Star Wars story.

[Squirtle]

For me, that's half of what makes this game so awesome in it's constant temptations of the dark side.
I remember once when I was a kid playin this, I tried doing a light side run, but got to Korriban and fell to the dark side naturally, just a few times of 'just this once' mentality ended up snowballing and before I knew it, I was in the red.

[clop1000]

Btw is there a big difference between light/dark side in terms of story and quests?

Is it even possible to be a dark side character? I mean usually in all RPG bad guys quests are half cooked - fallout 1,2 are good examples of this. There are ways to be a bad guy, but theses options are obviously worse than options available for a good guy/hero


What about kotor 2?
Is it better in that regard.

[LukanGamer]

Originally posted by clop1000:

Btw is there a big difference between light/dark side in terms of story and quests?

Is it even possible to be a dark side character? I mean usually in all RPG bad guys quests are half cooked - fallout 1,2 are good examples of this. There are ways to be a bad guy, but theses options are obviously worse than options available for a good guy/hero


What about kotor 2?
Is it better in that regard.

Yes only games these days are mostly trash, these came from a great time period of gaming.

DS in this game is especially painful and near impossible for someone that cares / immersed because you going to have to do a couple really bad things at end (1 famously "hated" because it was such a hard DS thing which is a ""good"" thing obvious).

Kotor 2 pushes hard on Grey Jedi style mentality along with things about war you did and where Revan went etc... soo DS vs. LS would say boils more on if you want a waifu or a evil furball in it (where most that even want to do a DS play will just grab her 1st with "1pt" LS then go DS) BUT
will have a massive impact on companions as you make them either opposite of you from hating you or same as you by twisting them / making them feel peaceful .

[Dragon Master]

I don't think lightside is boring. I'm roleplaying a scout/sentinel who started off gray in morality. I was helping people if I didn't go out of my way to do so but I also killed everyone who had a bounty on their heads because I needed money.

I feel the role play of starting relatively dark or gray and becoming more and more light can be enjoyable.

[Jonseon]

I was in the gray most of the time, I didn't kill people needlessly, but mind tricks are so much fun but they give you dark side points most of the time. Mind tricks aside I was playing light side on both playthroughs and I had fun.

[Goblin949]

This whole thread is confirmation that LS is boring.

[delta]

I've always played a light-side character, but on my latest playthrough I've been saving right before each conversation to see what all the dark side options are, and I'm laughing my head off at my character being a total ****, before reloading the save and going back to my "default" light-side options. Unfortunately all the save-scumming has slowed my progress down to a crawl, and I'm still stuck on Taris.

On another note, doesn't this game reward you for going full light side or full dark side, and nothing in between? I mean, if I've built my character as a light-sider, but then I do a bunch of evil stuff or I choose the dark ending...that makes me much weaker doesn't it?

[WhitePhantom]

Dark is much more fun you get to ruin lives and you don't really face many consequences.

Originally posted by delta:

On another note, doesn't this game reward you for going full light side or full dark side, and nothing in between? I mean, if I've built my character as a light-sider, but then I do a bunch of evil stuff or I choose the dark ending...that makes me much weaker doesn't it?

Yes there's never any point in staying in the middle. Go full light or dark, anything in between is just putting yourself at a disadvantage. Same problem that games like Fallout 3, Fable and Mass Effect had. Once you make your first good/evil decision you're essentially locked into that path for the rest of the game.

[Water Snail]

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

Every time I try doing a light side playthrough I stick with it until you can bully that old man on Taris out of 50 credits.

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