Nevertheless, those expansions were four years ago and I haven't played since. In some respects they're really good, a lot like playing independent games in their own right. I wrote more about both Knights of the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Throne when they came out.

He's nuanced, incredibly powerful and he takes the story to places much deeper than simply evil you need to cauterise with your lightsaber. Valkorion remains one of the best Star Wars baddies I've come across and I'm saying this as someone who's plunged into a few of the books as well as the games and films. They told a combined story of an immortal Sith Lord called Valkorion, and his lackeys, who inevitably needed stopping. They really took off in recent expansions Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015) and Knights of the Eternal Throne (2016). They were impressive at launch in 2011 and are even more so now. And these single-player segments are voiced, have cutscenes and dialogue choices, companions and romances. Single-player story experiences within a massively multiplayer world - a kind of dual-aspect game. That is why SWTOR has always included long, winding storylines for each character class right from the beginning of the game. SWTOR has always understood a good chunk of people want to play it because they want a Knights of the Old Republic experience, not because they're mad keen on grouping up with a load of strangers.

Everyone else can chuff off, and I love that Star Wars: The Old Republic gets that.

It's not that I hate other people, or that I'm zealously role-playing a Sith Lord who hates people (though I am a Sith Lord who hates people), it's just I want to be the only hero in my Star Wars story, thank you.

I really enjoy not playing with anyone else in Star Wars: The Old Republic, which seems like a horrible thing to say given it's a massively-multiplayer online game, but it's what I've always done.

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