I have to agree with KOTOR 2 being the better story in and of itself. I'm mixed emotion when it comes to the two however. KOTOR 1 has some of the better companions (Such as Mission and her wookie, and the Cathar and Bastilla, I also like Canderous better here) but I like Mira and Visas and the Handmaiden from KOTOR 2. HK is better in the first game as well. But something KOTOR 1 does that annoys me is makes you start as a non jedi and then multiclass, I always hated that. I did hate that in Kotor 1 the ls/ds choice was so absolute, but at the same time when you get the jedi masters together in KOTOR 2 the game does what I condider to be an rpg sin and muddles the two endings, in that LS/DS suddenly stop mattering and Treia chastises you regardless and you have the same ending. I always felt in an rpg that if you have two different "alighnment" choices then they shpuld have different endings. (Granted I hear that the ending of the game was cut and thats why but still)