User blog comment:MEffect Fan/The better KOTOR./@comment-1878196-20100915230138

Kotor has a great emotional story, great gameplay and great characters. Kotor2 did have the sucky ending, true, but also gave that Old Republic setting a new dimension. It expanded Kotor's story a lot, gave it a lot of depth and complexity, made Revan the great character that he is today, and made the Exile an almost equally great Jedi. They did a great job improving the gameplay where it mattered (i.e. lightsaber upgrades, force powers, character levelling overall, the making-of Jedi companions, etc,). It had really great complex companions, even better than Kotor I would say. Last time I played it with the Restored Content Mod, which makes it even better. A nice ending, and I would have considered it a total masterpiece. I can't quite understand why it is so underrated. Still, Kotor is the basis of all of this. So I'm not going to give a distinction to either of them. I prefer to look at them as a whole.