Star Wars: KotOR II Restored Content Mod Interview

Star Wars: KotOR II Restored Content mod team member “Lord of Hunger” answers quite a few questions about the ambitious project in a new four-page interview on Hooked Gamers.

Hooked Gamers: Several teams have attempted to do what your team has actually succeeded in accomplishing, none the least of which is Team Gizka, which has been working on restoring the cut content since 2005. How would you compare your work to theirs?

Lord of Hunger: I can’t speak for Team Gizka as they are a separate entity but I will say they’ve proven inspirational to us. Let’s be honest – many people in the fan base would have never even heard of all that content on the discs. We’ve emphasized that we are not out to outdo TSLRP. We both restore most of the content, but TSLRCM restores more content than TSLRP. The TSLRCM has been more focused on game breaking bugs than minor fixes. The solo contributions of our team leaders – Zbyl and Stoney – helped to speed up our progress as well. (Of course, Jinger’s contributions for Dantooine have been noted already.) There are so many in the KotOR modding world that I’d like to thank for their own modding tools which have helped us throughout the restoration process: Fred Tetra creator of KotorTool Stoffe creator of the TSLpatcher and tk102 creator of the KGF-editor and DLGeditor.

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Hooked Gamers: Mods and total conversions have sometimes met premature endings due to developer/publisher cease-and-desist letters and the like but LucasArts seems just about as friendly to the modding community as Valve is. Have you been contacted by Obsidian or LucasArts regarding the project?

Lord of Hunger: I don’t think we have. If that were to have happened, I think it would have already occurred with Team Gizka, who made their project very well known. Personally, I think LucasArts appreciates having our community still around because it both maintains and expands the amount of interest the public has in these games. Recently this year, a major expansion mod for the first KOTOR called Brotherhood of Shadow: Solomon’s Revenge was released and I’m sure there were at least a few people who bought KOTOR just so they could try out that mod because they heard about it from their friends or learned about it on YouTube.