Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

For me it's the definitive Star Wars game. Solve puzzles and murders, race swoop bikes, define your own moral compass with the force and reap different rewards based on that, shoot blasters, fight in arena, and visit exotic planets. It's great.

I still remember some scenes years later

"Commentary : You are going to trust this organic meetbag master ? Very dicey decision."

You can be a sith lord and choke people if you have enough of their blabbering (sadly not nearly as often as would be appropriate). It's the (star wars) experience i've always dreamed of.

a genre defining game for me personally. it wasn't until I recently revisited it that I realized the true depth of world, story, and progression that make this game a gem

The model for the approach to character-driven writing that would come to define a "Bioware RPG" (and their imitators) for many years to come. A fine use of the setting and its conventions all round. As far as gameplay, it's a post-Inifinity Engine quasi-turnbased pseudo-DnD with stat rolls aplenty. Funnily enough, that setup feels a bit less odd in a game like this where you don't need to pause so often. (Also, for better or ill, a prominent popularizer of big obvious alignment meters.)

This was amazing at the time.

Very satisfying exploration RPG. Quite enjoyed it.

2. Replayed 18 years later (in 2021) - still great. An awesome story with some great side quests too. The best part of this is the incredible side characters written and enacted for this (apart from Carth, the annoying ever complaining wanker). The stars of the show are Canderous and HK-47 - phenomenal. The story and the plot-twist are great too, and the game itself doesn't get in the way of the good story, hehe. I only wish there was more of Mission. /completed twice

This is the best Star Wars game ever made. It combines the brilliance of the Star Wars universe but tells its own story without being too derivative of the original films. Like all BioWare games, it has some of the best characters in the history of games. It also uses its Star Wars license to great effect, bolstering its gameplay with all the weapons, sounds, and powers we already know and love. If all this wasn't enough it also has a very resonant theme which is developed throughout the game.