Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 Vs. Joseph Campbell

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  @ZeroBitsCboehme · 2 years ago

  "Campbell writes—though I wish he wouldn't" is an all-timer.

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• K.

  @k.ebartlett1830 · 4 years ago

  &quot;campbell writes, though I wish he wouldn&apos;t&quot; <br><br>how it feels to read campbell most of the time

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  @noahp67890 · 5 years ago (edited)

  “With Mission, you get an impressionable street urchin who helps remind the player that this is still a family friendly adventure. You won’t encounter anything so upsetting, that a teenaged twi’lek couldn’t handle it.”<br><br><b>teenage twi’lek gets brutally murdered by her best friend</b>

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  @m.edwardmcnally6802 · 5 years ago

  Almost 20 years later, what I mainly remember of my final, operatic confrontation against Malak is proving my superior virtue and righteousness by kiting him over frag mine, after frag mine, after frag mine...<br><br>Like a Hero. ;-)

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  @bossgoji · 5 years ago (edited)

  I think part of Canderous&apos; role as Mandalore in KOTOR2 is itself the game&apos;s own internal commentary on the lasting legacy of the first game&apos;s worldview; it&apos;s not a &apos;regression&apos; so much as an individual representation of KOTOR1&apos;s perspective on symbology. Canderous, whether he learns at the feet of a Light Side Revan or a Dark Side Revan, doesn&apos;t really learn any actual particular morality from it; he learns of his own mortal, human exhaustion. Your intention for the player character, in naming them, giving them a face, perhaps even building up your own identity for them, is annihilated by the plot mandate that you&apos;re ACTUALLY Revan, and so Revan is who you become. In witnessing Revan, whose supernatural destiny as an ego-obliterating savior or villain kind of just destroys their individual selfhood, what Canderous actually LEARNS is that symbols endure things that individual, fragile people cannot. He becomes Mandalore, is HANDED that mantle by a Revan now completely outside your control, to make him something both more and less than a man. <br><br>The tragedy inherent to him is that this was a flawed lesson to learn; you can see that in his conversations with Bao-Dur. Freed from the &apos;limitations&apos; of a genuinely human identity in the way the monomyth imagines a mythic figure, he also becomes an alienating, offputting living totem of an ideology that is discomforting and unsettling in the way a complete submission of the self into a destined role, an avatar of a belief system, naturally is. He&apos;s there to provide a counterpoint by dint of negative example of what happens when you wear the mask so long, so intently, that it becomes your own face, a theme repeated again with Darth Nihlus.

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  @user-db2vx8fd4c · 5 years ago

  &quot;Hoooney, come to bed already, I&apos;m not wearing anything...&quot;<br>&quot;I cant, Noah is talking about Video Games again.&quot;

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• H3

  @H3Vtux · 5 years ago

  Last week I asked him to review KOTOR and now hedid, just because I asked. 100% not a coincidence at all he saw my comment and made this in a week.

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  @jurgenronaaz4695 · 5 years ago

  The phrase &quot;Darth Plagueis the Wise was a fuckin&apos; wannabe nerd&quot; may just be the funniest thing I&apos;ve heard all month, and I thank you for it.

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• SM

  @smartalec2001 · 5 years ago (edited)

  The end fight against Kreia is really simple for why it happens. She’s your teacher, you’re her prize pupil. As a Sith, she knows that the only way for you to finish your lessons under her is to kill her. As a Jedi, she knows you have to break the master-student bond between you and her to be self-complete. And as an Echani, she believes that people find definition and resolution in conflict.<br><br>So, after having manipulated all these foes to stand in your way - Sion, Nihilus, Atris - she sets herself up as the final villain, your last challenge. It’s the only way she knows to finalise your graduation from her schooling. That’s all there is to it; it’s all for you, to help you be the best you that she can.

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  @beachpuppy2025 · 5 years ago

  &quot;She doesn&apos;t have to live up to a reasonable person&apos;s standards, however; she has to live up to Cambell&apos;s.&quot;<br><br>Sick burn.

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• TH

  @theengine · 5 years ago

  Oh thank God. About every three months, I look for Noah&apos;s Kotor 2 video that I remember he made, and then I reremember that he didn&apos;t. <br><br>I&apos;m now free of this cycle. Thank you, Noah.

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  @thorforsell1300 · 3 years ago

  Here&apos;s an anecdote I felt symbolically relevant:<br>During the Kotor 1 final fight, or rather the dialogue before it, you go through the motions of telling Malak that he can still be saved etc etc. It is a drawn out affair with an obvious end. In the last exchange malak will exclaim, as a response to your insistance that you will redeem him, &quot;Over my dead body&quot;.<br>Me seeing the obvious light side answer that looked like it would prolong this bickering, decided that enough is enough, if he is so determined, how could I dissuade him?! So I chose the, mind you still passive&quot; option to say:<br>&quot;That can be arranged&quot;<br>Which deducted a single light side point making me fail to live up to the insanely stringent ideals... of my lightsaber.<br>I was playing a knight. No force powers, no guns. I now faced, not having saved for hours, the hardest fistfight you could imagine. <br>I tried for 3 grueling hours before giving up and replaying a large portion of the game. I chose the slightly nicer, chattier option. Never before has the heroes path seemed so narrow nor deviation from it felt so punishing.<br>I loved this video, watching it again years later. Thank you for your massive and astounding work and insights.

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