Hooray! I just finished Knights of the Old Republic for the Xbox earlier, using my first Light Side character. It's the first time I'd ever played through with a Light Side character, so I was really looking forward to a) making time with Bastila Shan and b) repairing HK-47 to his full operational status.
However, as the game developed, it was more beneficial to draw from a pool of Bastila Shan, Jolee Bindo, or Juhani as opposed to HK-47 or my other two blaster users, Canderous Ordo and Carth Onasi. (Although, I did wind up using Onasi eventually while trying to trigger a certain side quest.) I've still never really used Mission Vao---bloody worthless, in my opinion---and I'm having more fun running around with T3-M4, because it's fun to watch it chuck grenades and the like. Plus, cheap Force powers don't affect either him or HK-47.
Bioware did a really good job in differentiating the game play experiences for the Dark Side and Light Side campaigns. Me, I did like everyone else and played through the game the first two times as a Dark Jedi. My last Dark Jedi was basically capable of walking into anywhere and laying waste to darned near anything, only finding trouble on the later levels of the Star Forge.
My Light Side character, a male scout, had a fit dealing with enemies. I must've messed up something in the build---it's been months since I started that particular game---because I usually needed a lot more help, no thanks to those weak Light Side powers. One misses Vader-style remote kills, Force lightning, and other things that make the leveled-up Dark Jedi darned near invincible.
At any rate. Now this means I can eagerly await the release of The Sith Lords, shortly before Christmas. Heh heh heh.
UPDATE, 07 December 2004: This post gets traffic on the basis of repairing HK-47. You need a Repair skill of 17 to fully repair him, and it may take you a try or two even then. I'm told that the various Valor Force powers can help here. In the meantime, I'll be picking up my copy of The Sith Lords later today. Dark Saaiiiiiiiiiiiiide!
Posted by Country Pundit at November 18, 2004 01:08 AM