Bring Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to PS4, Aspyr!
/The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the greatest role-playing games ever made. I can’t even count how many times I have completed this game. I beat it on the original Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and currently playing it on the Nintendo Switch. There’s just one problem… I haven’t played it on my PlayStation 4 yet! Aspyr released the game on the Nintendo Switch and said nothing about it coming to PlayStation 4, and I can’t help but cry. Let’s inspect my despair.
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Over the last few years, Aspyr has released several classic Star Wars games on the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. Even Microsoft released a few of them on the backwards compatibility list for the Xbox One back in April 2016—and I was more excited to play Battlefront (2004) than the new God of War. A few titles that have made their way to PlayStation 4 include Star Wars: Republic Commando, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy 1 & 2, Bounty Hunter, Jedi Star Fighter, Racer Revenge, and Episode I: Racer. The games have upgraded frame rates, graphical enhancements, and PlayStation Trophies. Aspyr has released so many! So, why the delay, Aspyr? Release Knights of the Old Republic already. This is outrageous! It’s unfair!
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
I want this game on PlayStation 4 for an obvious reason: it gives me another chance to play the game on a different console. But there’s also another reason: I want to platinum the game. I want trophies, damn it! The only reason I haven’t completed Knights of the Old Republic on the hardest difficulty on the original Xbox is because there was nothing I got out of it except bragging rights. If Aspyr released the game on PlayStation 4 and included a hard difficulty trophy, then it would be worth my time. I just want trophies. Trophies, trophies, trophies. When Republic Commando released on PS4 earlier this year, I was excited when I saw the Marshal Commander Trophy. Beat the game on hard difficulty, you say? No problem!
I have a bad feeling about this…
Will KOTOR come to PlayStation 4? I have a feeling it will… eventually. Unfortunately, the dark side clouds everything—impossible to see the future is. Aspyr announced Star Wars: Republic Commando’s release for Nintendo Switch back in January, and it took another month before they revealed the PlayStation 4 release date. When they announced the Knights of the Old Republic release for Nintendo Switch in September, I figured they would do the same thing… but they didn’t. November 11 came along, and they said nothing about the game being on PlayStation 4… and to this day, still nothing. It’s a strange situation because Star Wars: Jedi Academy 1 & 2 were released for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on the same dates—September 24th, 2019, and March 26th, 2020. So, why the hold up for Republic Commando and Knights of the Old Republic? Maybe it takes more effort to port bigger games? The situation isn’t very clear, and I don’t have the answer. It just makes me so mad. Why, Aspyr? Why?! I must remain calm, for anger is a path to the dark side. I can only hope this beloved title will come to PlayStation 4 and reunite with its Star Wars brethren soon. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.
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