I was a Star Wars fan when I was in 5th grade. Then Phantom Menace came out and I was like..okay, well, maybe the second one will be better. And it wasn't, so I fell out of love with the series. My fiance always liked Star Wars (and Star Trek, equally, like someone mentioned above) and he thought this game looked great. I told him it would suck since it's Star Wars. And now I pay more attention to the storyline than he does. This game rekindled my love for the SW universe and will probably make me buy the original KOTOR games and probably some of the books. We're Empire right now, his choice, but we will level on the Republic side for our next chars and see where we want to stay.