BloatedGuppy said:
I chose half-done romances as it's the thing on the poll list that has genuinely irritated me the most often (and most recently), although I've carped about almost everything on that list at one time or another.
Really though, had it been a poll option, I'd have gone for binary morality. It absolutely KILLED Knights of the Old Republic for me, which is a game most people cannot stop fellating. I found it agonizingly juvenile in its approach to morality and the force. Want to go to the Dark Side? Better wax up that mustache, Snidely, because you're going to be twirling it.
To be fair, you don't have to metagame and pick the asshole option every time. My first playthrough I didn't know anything about games like this (it was the first video game I'd played since Atari in the '80s, thankfully it got me back into computer gaming) so I picked the option that I thought made the most sense to me in the given situation. I ended up with a mostly-neutral-with-a-bit-more-to-the-Dark character in the end, which unfortunately for me made the endgame much more difficult.
My problem with the first KOTOR was the damn *ending*. I chose to destroy the Star Forge, and I was coming at it from a Sith point of view. For one thing, ancient artifacts are rarely ever *not* trouble, and this one completely toppled a Dark Side civilization much more advanced than the Sith by driving the people who used it bonkers. Neo-Sith have chronic backstabbing disorder as it is, why in the world would I want an alien artifact encouraging it? If the Rakata couldn't master the thing, why would I be so foolish to think my Revan could? Destroying it just seemed like the pragmatic thing to do. So I was more than a little irritated that I was suddenly hailed as the hero of the Jedi for doing so, and my (admittedly rather slight) Dark-Sidedness was completely wiped away.
So I'm not really disagreeing with you, the lack of nuance bothered me too. I wanted to play a Sith, not a Dark Jedi. Bullying peasants is beneath me.
