I understand that....my point is, his ambitions of becoming a true god and superseding the Star Wars Galaxy altogether to conquer all of reality and become a being we cannot even comprehend was axed immediately in favor of a "just another sith", albeit a very powerful and interesting one, but the scope of who he was supposed to be was infinitely diminished with no just explanation

First off, I LOVED the two "Knights" expansion packs and their stories. Thought they did an excellent job...the problem for me, on a personal level, was that this Valkorion, who is a GREAT character, they essentially doubled down on. YEARS of build-up from KOTOR over the Empire and the Emperor, Revan's entire legacy and his recognizing the threat the Emperor posed, and the ending of the JK story line, where the Emperor says things about how he plans on annihilating the entire galaxy to feed himself to become immortal, and live every life: the life of a boy, of a farmer, etc. until the universe dies and he will wait patiently until it is born again. This extremely BROAD character that had been built up to for YEARS to the audience, whos goals and ambitions supersede that of a mortal or anything we can really understand, utterly butchered by Bioware. They gave us almost no explanation as to why the Emperor goes from this god-like being whos ambitions are beyond us and who truly stands in the grey, to some crappy dad hell bent on his precious throne, eternal empire, and eternal fleet. Given his aforementioned ambitions, isnt the desire to rule the galaxy with such a mighty empire an ENORMOUS backtracking on his goals of becoming a true god and infinite being? He suddenly becomes little more than a very powerful Sith, vulnerable and lacking true ambition. In short, I am SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED with the direction they went with this character as they essentially demolished over a decade of build up and doubled down on the great story they had already built up for them. The story of Valkorion is told extremely well and I think its a great story....just, he should have been some separate story and entity....he is not the broad-minded and infinitely ambitious Emperor I prepared for for a decade and then witness first-hand in the JK story. I think they really screwed up what could-have been and demolished the legacy of one of the best EU characters

I'll skip straight to the point and say the obvious: Chapter 16 is a gross atrocity and infinitely irritating. Initially, I was part of the "choices dont matter" camp...and I still hold true to that, partially. Upon calming down and reflecting though, I aim to give a brief and cool-headed (ish) critique of the story as a whole. Honestly, were this a movie or series of some sort, it would be pretty solid...my problem is, as a player since launch...a subscriber since launch, that Bioware takes so much of our money and does very little with it. Seriously, as personally disappointed as I am with the latest chapter, I am overall somewhat pleased with KOTFE. I like the sections of the philosophical implications of the Force, etc, and I like the expansion of the Emperor's story (though I'm hoping this is all some sort of ruse since I disagree with the direction of the character, since I think hes become more "narrow-minded" than he was initially presented to us in main game). That said, my disappointment lies in this: normal people do stuff and one month is a long time. Seriously, your subs are paying 15 dollars a month and the best you can do is come out with ONE HOUR worth of content each month. Honestly, at the beginning of each new chapter, I've almost completely forgotten/lost emotional connection to whatever the previous chapter was. That said, I slowly get back into it during the course of the new chapter...only to be ultimately irritated again and again and AGAIN. Per the title of my post, its like a relationship partner that cheats on you/whatever is bad over and over and you always convince yourself things will get better better as they do certain little things right here and there...and then boom! Cheats on you again just when you were starting to get over it. It's difficult to critique heavily an incomplete story, and as I said were it something I were watching as a show with weekly episodes I think it would be okay...but the fact that its a full month between each "episode" and your only memory is that your character is supposed to be a ******....makes it hard to keep playing as, I, a casual gamer, havent felt happy about the strength of my character nor the general direction of the story since the chapter where we re-met Satele. In short, its a good chunk of change for such little, non-satisfying content. I mean really, my character is suppose to be the best sith EVER, basically, and I have to use a soldier's shield to even fight Arcann? Soooo lame.

This is more of a useless whiny rant than anything: Ive been trying to fight the 2 mando bossses in the center ring for an hour or so now (have died 5+ times) and am finding it impossible as every time im about to win they just knock me off the ring and i die. i have no problem with knockbacks from bosses that are giant monsters but considering these are normal 6' tall human beings i think its stupid they can punch you 80 feet through the air. at least make that attack something that has an activation time so we can see it coming and take proper defensive measures, instead of being an insta-kill move with no warning. thats all